Description | Lease of Fewsom Grange (late owned by the abbey of Meux), Yorkshire by Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669) to Dame Jane Bacon of Culford, Suffolk. Sign manual and finely engraved portrait of the Queen in initial letter. This document probably came to the family by way of Sir Joseph Ashe (1618-1686) who had been lord of the manor of Wawne, in which Fewsome falls; Sir Joseph was also lord of Downton manor and many of his papers passed to the Earls of Radnor by way of Anthony Duncombe, Lord Feversham |