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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

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

1 - Case about the appointment of the deputy mayor, and deputy recorder for Wilton, with a copy of the 1685 borough charter.

2 - Lists of burgesses of Wilton and correspondence about their appointment.

3 - Accounts of general election expenses of lord Herbert and others at Wilton. Includes list of bread distributed to the poor; street, head of family, and number of children stated.

4 - Correspondence and memoranda about the appointment of burgesses and other officials at Wilton.

5 - Correspondence and memoranda about the appointment of burgesses and other officials at Wilton.

6 - Papers about lord Herbert's clandestine marriage.

7 - Papers about a dispute between lord Rivers (owner of Cobley) and lord Pembroke (owner of Venditch) over the right to kill deer on Bower Chalke cow down.

8 - Papers relating to a dispute (Knight v Lawes) over recently enclosed land in Ebbesborne Wake. Includes a sketch plan of the land in question.

9 - Bond by Henry, earl of Pembroke for the maintenance of miss Elizabeth Catharina Hunter and her expected child.

10 - Act to empower the guardians of Henry earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, an infant, to make leases of his real estates during his minority.

11 - Act for the Kennet and Avon Canal, 1794, with two letters, 1804; and Wilton Turnpike Roads, 1815

12 - Report of the Commissioners under a writ of partition in the Chancery cause Pembroke v Thorp, about a property in Fugglestone in Bemerton with detailed description of the buildings and land.

13 - Translations, made c1900, of inquisitions post mortem of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke, d 1469, and of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke of the second creation, d 1570.

14 - Papers relating to lord Fitzwilliam's claim to the barony of Vaux.

15 - Depositions about the theft of lead taken from Wilton house during alterations.

16 - Papers about the debts of lord Herbert.

17 - Printed case of the trustees and creditors of the Fisherton turnpike trust.

18 - Correspondence about the tolls imposed on wagons on the Fisherton and other turnpikes.

19 - Miscellaneous legal papers

20 - Bound volume of legal papers, Herbert v Herbert and Pembroke v Herbert, about the Wilton estates.

21 - Bound volume of legal papers concerning a Chancery cause about tithes in Ebbesbourne Wake. Vol 1

22 - Bound volume of legal papers concerning a Chancery cause about tithes in Ebbesbourne Wake. Vol 2. Includes a 'note of everymans wood in the heath according to the measurers map', 1653; and a true survey of 'how many sheep everyman can keep on their livings' in Barford St Martin, 1685

23 - Unbound papers in a Chancery cause about tithes in Ebbesbourne Wake

24 - Bound series of papers 'Legal papers, Glamorgan and Monmouth'. Includes documents back to 1486 relating to a legal dispute between Thomas 8th earl of Pembroke and his niece, Charlotte Jefferies, over her title to the Welsh estates on which her father, Philip 7th earl of Pembroke, had levied a fine and suffered recoveries. Includes a survey, 1552. Three loose documents interleaved.

25 - Legal opinions about the will of Henry 9th earl of Pembroke, and receipts for legacies and other payments by the executors and guardians of the 10th earl during his minority; and some related correspondence.

26 - Copy case of the earl of Cromarty, a rebel.

27 - Bond by George 11th earl of Pembroke for payment of an annuity to Giovanni Zanerine, commonly called Baccelli, of Kensington, with a release from a previous bond.

28 - Case arising from the marriage settlement of Henry 8th earl of Pembroke, with legal opinion.

29 - Papers relating to the hon David Herbert's entitlement to the income of the maintenance fund after he had sold the Boyton manor estate.

30 - Papers in a case, Croft v Fitzwilliam about the estate of sir Matthew Decker, with release of leagcy.

31 - Papers in a case about the Fitzwilliam family financial estate.

32 - Decree between Philip 5th earl of Pembroke and William earl of Salisbury about the estate of Philip 4th earl of Pembroke, 1653. Assignment of the office of keeper of writs to the earl of Pembroke by the executors, 1655.

33 - Papers in a case, White v Wilson, about the estates of lord Chedworth, lots 1 and 2 of which George 11th earl of Pembroke had purchased.

34 - Papers in a Chancery cause Dixon v Wyatt, about the dispute between the earl of Pembroke and James Wyatt, architect, over his work on Wilton House, c1810. With detailed schedule of works, 1809-1810.

35 - Bond by George earl of Pembroke to pay an annuity to Matthew Davies, Warminster, gent, for life.

36 - A bound collection of papers, some original, relating to the title to estates in Barford St Martin, Berwick St John, Winterbourne Bassett, West Harnham Broyles wood, Great Bedwyn and Wilton; the advowson of Hayes, Middlesex, with instituitons, 1545-1698; Baynards Castle, London; property late of the dean and chapter of St Pauls, London and the dean and chapter of Bristol in those cities respectively, 1659; copies of perambulation of Savernake forest, mid 14th cent and inquisitions into Cranborne Chase, early 17th cent. Copy of abstract accounts of the estate of the earl of Pembroke, 1633. Papers in the case about the esates in Glamorgan, 1692-1705 (see also 2057/L/23)

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