| Description | sixty family history documents guarded and bound into a volume, mostly letters including:
1. 1623 a sheet of credit and debit accounts of "English books kept in London" probably to do with the Levant Company
2. c1690 list of persons to whom Sir Edward des Bouverie (1621-1694) owes money for the purchase of the manor of St Andrews (Holborn?)
3. (loose) 1682 marriage certificate for Anthony Duncomb and Jane Cornwallis in Paris according to the rites of the Church of England by J Mandeville; among the witnesses was the Duke of Buccleuch i.e. Duke of Monmouth
4. 1682 letter to Sir Edward des Bouverie (1621-1694) from his sister-in-law Lady Jane Holman congratulating him on securing a good marriage for his son William and hoping for similar good news soon for his daughter Ann, and a letter from the same to William on the same subject; on verso short notes to the same people from her husband Sir John Holman
5. 1687 agreement for Sir Edward des Bouverie (1621-1694) to buy the manor of Coulsden, Surrey from Dame Anna Margaretta Mason, widow, for £6,200 and 50 guineas
6. 1689 Coulsden manorial court rolls, in English
7. 1690 receipt of marriage settlement between Sir Philip Boteler of Teston, Kent, and Anne, daughter of Sir Edward des Bouverie (1621-1694) of London, witnesses include John Boteler and Jacob Forterie
8. 1692 deed from James, Earl of Salisbury, for Sir Edward des Bouverie (1621-1694) to collect previous six months rents of the lands lately purchased by the Earl's late father from Sir Robert Daws; written on verso 'Manor of St Andrew's' [Holborn?]
9. 1704 bill from Robert Fletcher, coach maker, for Lady Jane Holman
10. 1707 articles of agreement for 5 year trading partnership between John Phillipps, Charles Mallett and William Bouverie (1656-1717), all trading in Galata, Constantinople
11. 1707 articles of agreement for 5 year trading partnership between John Williams of Aleppo, John Phillipps and Charles Mallett, both of Galata
12. 1712 articles of agreement for 4 year trading partnership between Nathaniel Harley [brother of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford] and Edward des Bouverie (1688-1736), both merchants of Aleppo, with a list of goods and the duty payable
13. c.1714 two printed Latin encomia entitled Pietas & Gratulatio Univ. Oxon and credited to Jac. Bouverie, Baronetti Fil. almost cetainly Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (1694-1761); these types of poems were normally produced at the death of a monarch and Jacob was at Oxford when Queen Anne died in 1714
14. 1708 certificate of dining at Middle Temple for Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761)
15. & 16. 1716 sale of the Manor [recte the Rectory Manor] of Cheshunt, Herts. together with Cheshunt Mills to William Martin by Edward des Bouverie (1686-1736) & receipt signed by Thomas Martin (sic) for the above sale
17. 1717 bond to perform covenants between Henry, Lord Coleraine and Sir Edward des Bouverie (1686-1736) to do with the purchase of Longford Castle
18. 1717 purchase of Longford Castle and its contents (including pictures) and the Manor of Longford, together with land in Britford from Henry, Lord Coleraine and Elizabeth, dowager Baronness Coleraine, to Sir Edward des Bouverie (1686-1736)
19. 1721 letter from Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761) to his brother Sir Edward des Bouverie (1686-1736) written at Angers in France, consoling him for the loss of his wife, Mary (nee Smith), and reporting his plans to travel to Flanders and Holland, as he had been requested by his brother to research the family origins in Flanders
20. 1722 particulars of the Will of Jacob des Bouverie (1659-1722), the first in the family to own Folkestone; probably written by Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761) as one of the executors; erroneously marked on verso as the Will of Freeman des Bouverie [1714-1734], with a later correction 'Jacob possessor of Folkestone'
21. 1723 agreement about household goods, timber, bricks etc. after the sale of [East] Coulston Manor by Sir Edward des Bouverie (1686-1736) to his brother Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761)
22. & 23. 1727 two letters from Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761) to his father in law Bartholomew Clarke about standing for parliament and the death of his daughter [Mary]
24. 1730 a list of household expenses, ranging from jewellery to servants wages, from opera tickets to gloves for the children
25. c.1734 an abstract of the Will of Freeman des Bouverie [1714-1734] probably written by Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761) as one of the executors (see 20. above)
26. 1737 a pastoral ode on Sir Jacob & Lady Bouverie leaving Kent by Mr Sacket?
27. 1737 letter from Jacob des Bouverie (1694-1761) to Hitch Young, his brother in law, about the changes and improvements he is making at the recently inherited Longford Castle (his brother, Sir Edward, had died the previous year)
28. 1746 letter from Bartholomew Clarke in Calcutta to Harry Gough describing the situation of the East India Company in the area in relation to the French, in that he rejoices in the elimination of them "from this part of the world" while bemoaning the state of trade while the country is unsettled
29. & 30. c.1755 "a short sketch of religion for my children", a verse tale and a dissertation on the inconstancy of man by Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (1694-1761)
31. c.1755 draft Will of William Bouverie, later 1st Earl of Radnor (1725-1776); written after 1751 (his first wife, Harriet, died in 1750) as he speaks of his 2nd wife Rebecca; Sir Mark Pleydell, father of his first wife, is specifically excluded from any influence in the education of Jacob, William's son, later 2nd Earl of Radnor
32. 1760 letter from the 10 year old Jacob Bouverie, later 2nd Earl, to his stepmother, Rebecca
33. 1760 memorandum from Rebecca, Viscountess Folkestone (1725-1764) to her stepson, Jacob, later 2nd Earl of Radnor, and her sons William Henry (1752-1806) and Bartholomew (1753-1835) on how to behave in their parents' absence
34. undated exegesis on a bible passage by Jacob Bouverie, later 2nd Earl
35. c.1758 poem to William, later 1st Earl of Radnor (1725-1776) from one of his sons
36. (loose), 37. & 38. 1761-1763 letter and poems from Jacob Bouverie, later 2nd Earl, to his parents
39. 1764 letter from Elizabeth, dowager Viscountess Folkestone (1711-1782) to her stepson, William, later 1st Earl of Radnor (1725-1776) consoling him on the death of his second wife, Rebecca (nee Alleyne)
40. 1769 homily against the constant search for novelty by Jacob, Viscount Folkestone, later 2nd Earl of Radnor
41. 1775 letter from Edward Bouverie (1738-1810) to his nephew Jacob, Viscount Folkestone, later 2nd Earl of Radnor about a recent visit of the latter to the former's home, Delapre Abbey
42. 1775 letter from Jacob, Viscount Folkestone, later 2nd Earl of Radnor, MP, to his father, William, 1st Earl of Radnor (1725-1776) about matters in the House of Commons, the Pewsey advowson, his brothers' going to see Garrick's Hamlet and the popularity of Sheridan's 'The Duenna' which had opened 8 days before the letter was written
43. 1787 memorandum by Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828) on the education of his son William, later 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869); talks about his "accidental residence in France"
44., 45. and 46. 1789 three passes from the Revolutionary authorities at Caen and Amiens for Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828), his Countess, two children, servants and travelling companions, with physical descriptions of the adults, all issued within a fortnight of the fall of the Bastille
47. pre 1747 letter of condolence to Anthony Duncombe (c.1695-1763) on the loss of a child from his mother, Jane Duncombe, nee Cornwallis; Anthony Duncombe was the maternal grandfather of William, 3rd Earl of Radnor
48. 1799 short note by Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor reporting that the Bishop of Salisbury had told him that he was popular amongst the stall holders (i.e. the voters) of the city
49. 1799 letter from Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828) to William, later 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) about the selection of a wife for the latter, recommending marriage as a way of increasing the family fortune, in particular as means of being able to finance younger children
50. 1805 letter written for Catherine Pleydell-Bouverie (1801-1875) by a cousin on her mother's side, Horatia Seymour (1797-1853), to her grandfather, Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor, thanking him for the gift of a pineapple
51. 1806 letter to Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor, probably from his stepmother, Anne, dowager Countess of Radnor, addressed from Hale House, home of the May family, into which the Earl's 2nd son, Duncombe, was to marry in 1809
52-56 1812 correspondence between William, later 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) and his father, Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828), in which the former seems to have decided to relinquish his seat in the House of Commons, a course of action of which the latter strongly disapproves
57. 1815 letter from Bartholomew Bouverie (1753-1835) to his half-brother Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828) on family matters
58. 1834 extracts from the diary for May and June of William, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) mainly about political matters including a reshuffle in Lord Grey's first government
59. dated 1821, but surely incorrectly, as the Bill "for relieving the Roman Catholics" was in 1829 and the following letter referred to in the note is discussing Earl Grey's Cabinet, which was formed in November 1830
60. & 61. 1834 letter from Lord Althorp, Leader of the House, to William, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) regretting that the current disagreements between Radnor and Earl Grey prevented the former from joining in the Whig government, and part of the reply
Probably companion volume to the Hungerford collection (1946/3J/2) as they are bound and decorated in the same manner and by the same firm, Leighton's of Brewer Street, although the contents of this one finish much earlier. |