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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

1 - Leases and deeds, Wiltshire estates

2 - Registers of deeds

3 - Settlement, trust and mortgage deeds

4 - Deeds under great seals, and other royal appointments

5 - Wills and probate records

1 - Will of William 1st earl of Pembroke, with wrapper in the hand of Catherine wife of 11th earl of Pembroke. With typescript transcript.

2 - Transcripts of the wills of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th earls of Pembroke, made c1900.

3 - Volume containing a certified copy of the will of Philip 4th earl of Pembroke, 1649, proved 1650; original will of William 6th earl of Pembroke, 1674; copy treasury memorandum about Philip 4th earl of Pembroke's succession to the title and estates, c1635; copy lease for a year to uses of the Wilton estate, 1680.

4 - Probate of the will of Thomas 8th earl of Pembroke.

5 - Original will of Col Thomas Herbert, St Anns, Westminster, Middlesex.

6 - Probate of the will of Henry earl of Pembroke.

7 - Will of Mary Countess Dowager of Pembroke (copy).

8 - Probate of the will of Henry, earl of Pembroke.

9 - Probate of the will of Captain Augustus Montgomery, RN. captain of HMS Theseus, 1797. Copy of codicil to the will of George Augustus Montgomery, 1837.

10 - Probate of the will of George Augustus earl of Pembroke. Two grants of probate.

11 - Probate of the will of Elizabeth countess dowager of Pembroke.

12 - Probate of the will of Catherine countess dowager of Pembroke. With list of articles bequeathed to her son, Sidney, written by her, and executor's accounts.

13 - Probate of the will of Sidney, lord Herbert. Original will, 1832. Inventory of his effects, 1861.

14 - Probate of the will of Robert Henry, 12th earl of Pembroke, 1862. With associated deeds and papers, including (all French) an inventory and birth certificates of his children with Mary Catherine Schoeffer, 1844-1855, and her marriage certificate, 1864, 1844-1877. Typescript copy of a royal decree that the children of Robert 12th earl of Pembroke and Alexina Sophia Gallot may bear the arms of Herbert with proper distinctions, 1889.

15 - Copy of the will of George earl of Pembroke, 1893, with executor's accounts, 1895-1896.

16 - Copies of the wills of Gertrude countess of Pembroke, 1902-1905, proved 1906; Reginald earl of Pembroke, 1933; Sidney lord Herbert, 1948-1949; and Sidney earl of Pembroke, 1966. Death certificate of Sir Sidney Herbert, 1939.

17 - Copy of the will of Sidney earl of Pembroke, with associated papers, including his death certificate.

18 - Copies of the wills of Thomas viscount Fitzwilliam, 1704, Richard viscount Fitzwilliam, 1742, and probate of the will of Richard viscount Fitzwilliam, 1816

19 - Probates of the wills of three people of St James, Middlesex associated with hon. William Fitzwilliam; Robert Thomas, apothecary, 1763; Ann Mathew, 1770; and his servant Paul Adams, 1776, with inventory and excutors' accounts, including funeral.

6 - Letting arrangements, Wiltshire estates.

14 - Legal

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