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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

1 - Correspondence

1 - A bound volume of family letters and related documents, with typed transcripts. Nearly all relate to state and official business of 1st-4th earls of Pembroke.

2 - Estate correspondence, chiefly about the repair of various property damaged by a high wind.

3 - Letter from John Gore, steward, to Henry 9th earl of Pembroke and others.

4 - Miscellaneous letters to and from Lord Pembroke on estate affairs

5 - Letters from Lord Pembroke, Lord Rivers, John Seagrim and others about shooting rights in Cranborne Chase and in particular at Bower Chalke and Ebbesbourne Wake, 1775-1777, 1806.

6 - Letter from Abraham Seward, steward. Three relate to Benjamin Pryce, with one letter to him from Lord Pembroke.

7 - Letters from John Lamb, accountant, on financial matters.

8 - Letters from Lord Pembroke’s steward, Benjamin Pryce, with one letter to him from Lord Pembroke.

9 - Letters to Lord Herbert from John J’Anson (sic) on estate and household matters, with related copy letters.

10 - Letter from Elbro Woodcock, lawyer, about the settlement of the estate.

11 - Letter from John Seagrim, steward. Some are about a proposed canal from Salisbury to Bristol via Warminster and Bath; and some are about keepers and deer poachers in Cranborne Chase.

12 - Letters from William Woodcock, steward.

13 - Letter book of John Seagrim, the steward, on estate business, 1809–1822, and of his successor William Woodcock, 1822-1827.

14 - Letter from John Forster, lawyer

15 - Letters to and from the Reverend Thomas Bromley about his building a new parsonage house at Bishopstone South Wilts.

16 - Four letters from John Legge about tree planting in the park and on the estate.

17 - Miscellaneous estate correspondence, estimates, etc, to do with new roads, the engine house, labourers’ pay and so on.

18 - A letter and list of queries on the employment of a Mr. Staples, and a letter about title to lands, from Henry Hoyle Oddie, lawyer.

19 - Letters from Henry Hoyle Oddie, lawyer.

20 - Letters from John Swayne about the making of a new road and bridges at Quidhampton.

21 - Two letters to Lady Pembroke and an account for building the new Magdalen charity houses at Fugglestone.

22 - Estate letter book “No. 11”

23 - Estate letter book “No. 12”

24 - Estate letter book “No. 13”

25 - Estate letter book “No. 14”

26 - Estate letter book “No. 15”

27 - Estate letter book “No. 16”

28 - Estate letter book “No. 17”

29 - Estate letter book “No. 18”

30 - Estate letter book “No. 19”

31 - Estate letter book “No. 20”

32 - Estate letter book “No. 21”

33 - Estate letter book “No. 22”

34 - Estate letter book “No. 23”

35 - Estate letter book “No. 24”

36 - Estate letter book “No. 25”

37 - Estate letter book “No. 26”

38 - Estate letter book “No. 27”

39 - Estate letter book “No. 28”

40 - Estate letter book “No. 29”

41 - Estate letter book “No. 30”

42 - Estate letter book “No. 31”

43 - Estate letter book “No. 32”

44 - Estate letter book “No. 33”

45 - Estate letter book “No. 34”

46 - Letters and memorandum from B.W. Parker, agent.

47 - Letters from Henry Vernon, agent, and others at the Irish estate office, and various memoranda.

48 - Letters from Charles Nicholl, of Nicholl, Manistry and Co., solicitors, on estate business, including the Irish estate.

49 - Correspondence about the compulsory purchase of land at Bulbridge for council housing and army officers’ quarters.

50 - Correspondence about valuation of the Crown estate.

51 - Financial papers relating to Richmond property of Lady Decker.

52 - Papers about property disputes at Richmond, mainly concerning a new porter’s lodge built by Lord Fitzwilliam. And a valuation of Lord Pembroke’s house and ground at Richmond Green, Surrey (land measurements only).

53 - Correspondence about the Cleverton estate, mainly from Henry Merewether of Calne. Includes ground plan and estimate for rebuilding Giles Godwin’s farmhouse.

54 - Correspondence about Lord Pembroke’s marriage settlement.

2 - Reports and memoranda

3 - Financial

4 - Inventories

5 - Sale particulars

6 - Miscellaneous

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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