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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

1 - Papers relating to house alterations and restoration

2 - Papers relating to park improvements

3 - Plans and drawings

4 - Engravings and prints, etc.

5 - Inventories

6 - Sale catalogues

7 - Household management

1 - Notebook, “Medicines prepared from prescriptions of Dr. Heles late of Salisbury for Lord Herbert in the year 1763 by his apothecary William Whitmarsh at Wilton”.

2 - Medical prescriptions for Lord Herbert.

3 - List of Lord Pembroke’s trades people

4 - Lord Herbert’s instructions for running his London establishment, and (from 1794 when he succeeded to the title) for running Wilton House. Detailed statements of the duties of each servant, responsibility for keys, admission to the park, management of stables, whereabouts of stopcocks and water pipes, etc. Some items are in the hand of the housekeeper, Isabella Lawrence, and there are some letters about the household from John Smith.

5 - Volume of notes by Isabella Lawrence, the housekeeper abut the management and day-to-day maintenance of Wilton House, with a few additional items (? by her successor) at the end.

6 - Miscellaneous letters and memorandums by the family, the housekeeper, etc., about the house furnishings and content

7 - Cellar book: a weekly inventory of wine added or taken away.

8 - Cellar book

9 - Cellar book. Inserted are three permits, 1791, for Lord Herbert to receive foreign wine and brandy, and a list by Francis Delapierre of East India Madeira sent.

10 - Cellar book

11 - Medicinal and cookery recipe book; interleaved a copy of the will of Lady Margaret Herbert, daughter of Thomas, earl of Pembroke, 1751. At back, a pouch made with a piece of wallpaper.

12 - Letter of reference from the countess of Pembroke for Dorothy Morley, head housemaid, on leaving Wilton House.

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

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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