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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

1 - Maudlin Charity, Wilton, (The Hospital of St Mary Magdelene) See VCH volume 3 pp367-368, which cites these documents.

1 - Deeds property in Wilton involving the Isembard family: Grant by H[awise], abbess of Wilton of a mill and land called Berham, c1170; Final concord of the same property, 1198; Letter of attorney to deliver seisin for an unspecified property, 1324. The connection of these deeds with the charity is unclear.

2 - Deeds of rents on properties and leases of properties in Wilton for the use of the hospital. Including a copy of a grant to John Michell, chantry chaplain of the altar of the Virgin Mary called ‘Req[ui]em’ in Wilton abbey where he honours the memory of Julian Gifford, a former abbess, of a newly built house within the site of the hospital for 20 years, 1428. (9 documents)

3 - Leases for years an lives of tenements in the Maudlins, Maudlin mead, a hop garden in Kingsbury, all in Wilton (17 documents) Lease of 1645 has a leaf impressed on it.

4 - Leases of the properties of Maudlins in the Market place, Wilton; described as ruinous in 1770 lease, which is called a building lease.

5 - A report on the charity, with extracts from account books of stewards of the Wilton House estate (no longer extant) relating to the charity, 1717-1809.

6 - Correspondence, mainly appointment of trustees, also Charity Commission General Enquiry 1902.

7 - Account book with Annual meeting minutes from 1929, and list of applicants with details of their service on the Wilton House Estate.

8 - Account book.

2 - Little Langford Almshouses

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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