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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)

3 - Wood Accounts See also A1 inter al.

4 - Executor, probate and guardianship accounts

5 - Personal accounts

1 - Thomas, 8th earl of Pembroke

2 - Henry, 9th earl of Pembroke

3 - Henry, 10th earl of Pembroke

1 - Volume containing various accounts of Henry, earl of Pembroke: with Anthony Sawyer, Esq., for personal expenses, 1756 – 1760; personal expenses, 1760 – 1772; as colonel of the Royal Dragoons, 1764 – 1771; personal expenses, including the Dragoons, 1772 – 1773; clothing account, 1764 – 1783; camp necessities, 1778 – 1780; personal expenses, including the Dragoons, 1773 – 1783.

2 - Bills of exchange, bankers’ orders, receipts for travelling expenses abroad and personal allowances for Henry 10th earl of Pembroke and his wife Elizabeth.

3 - Gaming or betting book, with a list of sums won or lost but no details of how. At the back is a list of names, arranged by initial letter, apparently personal acquaintances (many are titled)

4 - Accounts for education of master Herbert and others, 1759-1762. 1769.

5 - Accounts for education of Lord Herbert, 1770, 1771, 1775.

6 - Accounts for payments to Elizabeth Catherina Hunter, later Mrs. Alured Clarke (an illegitimate child of lord Pembroke)

7 - Accounts for education and an annuity for Caroline Medkalf (Anglicised from the anagram Mebkoper for Pembroke), later Mrs. John Williams (an illegitimate child of Lord Pembroke)

7A - Seven bills of exchange of Charles Williams, an officer in the Royal Navy, 1787-1790, and a begging letter from him to the earl of Pembroke written from the Marshalsea prison, 1792.

8 - Accounts of payments for Augustus Reebkomp (anagram of Pembroke), later Captain Montgomery (an illegitimate child of Lord Pembroke)

9 - Disbursements on Lord Pembroke’s personal account

10 - Two travel accounts of Lord Pembroke’s valet

11 - Analysis of the cost of keeping the dogs.

12 - Account for the funeral of Lady Mary St. John at Lydiard Tregoze; to be paid by Lord Herbert

13 - Account for the funeral of Lady Herbert; Lord Herbert to John Linnell.

14 - Account for the funeral of Honourable John Herbert; (a child aged five); Lord Pembroke to John Linnell.

15 - Vouchers to Lord Pembroke’s personal accounts, including the fees for swearing him as Lord lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1794.

4 - George, 11th earl of Pembroke

5 - Catherine, Lady Pembroke

6 - Robert Henry, 12th earl of Pembroke

7 - Sidney, Lord Herbert of Lea

8 - Sidney, 16th earl of Pembroke

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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