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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

1 - Estate; General accounts

2 - Estate Particular Accounts (Wilton unless otherwise stated)

1 - A small bundle of vouchers to accounts for A. Steward’s collection of quit rents, including payments to Wilton workhouse, the Magdalen hospital, and various individuals.

2 - Account of cash in the hands of Lord Pembroke’s agent, with an account for an enclosure made in Grovely: fencing, making a pond and building a stable.

3 - Stable account, one bundle, 1756.1786, 1790, 1822, 1825.

4 - Account for paviour’s work done, apparently at the house in Privy Gardens, Whitehall.

5 - Accounts for work done by various craftsmen at Lord Pembroke’s house in Whitehall.

6 - Six vouchers 1764-1773, 1791, 1792 and two accounts, 1790-1791, from Messrs. Chippendale and Co., for furnishings at Richmond Park.

7 - Accounts for work done at Pembroke House, Privy Gardens, Whitehall. One bundle.

8 - Agent’s expense account, 1760-1764.

9 - Fourteen weekly accounts of garden labourers’ wages, 1791, 1814, 1815, 1817, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1830.

10 - Accounts for making the flower garden.

11 - Five accounts for extra garden labour.

12 - Building accounts for repairs and alterations at Wilton House.

13 - Estimate and account for gilding in the cube rooms.

14 - Game accounts and a game duty certificate

15 - Miscellaneous estate accounts

16 - Three miscellaneous accounts

17 - Account book for management of Lady Herbert’s property.

18 - Account book for management of Lady Herbert’s property

19 - Estate accounts, Lady Herbert’s property

20 - Three accounts of Lady Herbert’s expenses

21 - Cash account book for Wilton property belonging to Lady Herbert of Lea

22 - Farm account book (place not identified; perhaps the Home farm?). Fortnightly accounts; details of work not give. There is a list of stock sold and seed, etc., bought.

23 - Farm account book (place not identified; perhaps the Home farm?). Includes a daily note of each man’s work and lists of crops and stock, etc., bought and sold.

24 - Account book of tithe rent charge payable on estate properties; half-yearly accounts arranged by parishes.

25 - Account book for Dinton brick and tile works

26 - Account book of timber sent from the sawmills. Gives details of properties for which timber was supplied, with a separate account for each month.

27 - Account book of repairs to estate property, arranged by individual properties for the whole year. There is an index at the front.

28 - Ledger book of repairs to estate property. Accounts.

29 - Ledger book of repairs to estate property. Accounts.

30 - Ledger book of repairs to estate property. Accounts.

31 - Ledger book of repairs to estate property. Accounts.

32 - Account book of capital expenditure on estate buildings

33 - Summary account for building the Michael Herbert memorial hall in Wilton. Apparently kept by Lady Pembroke.

3 - Wood Accounts See also A1 inter al.

4 - Executor, probate and guardianship accounts

5 - Personal 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

14 - Legal

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