| Description | This collection is generally very full for the period c.1760-1820. i.e. the time of Thomas, 4th Earl of Ailesbury, and is particularly rich in:
Early deeds, from the late 12th and 13th centuries, see especially: Sections 6 and 7, Burbage; Section 10, Collingbourne Kingston; Section 14, Crofton; Section 15, Easton; Section 16, Grafton; Section 21, Milton Lilborne; Section 27, Wilton in Great Bedwyn:
Estate and personal correspondence, especially c. 750 letters from Charles Bill, Agent, 1760-1806, and c. 700 from John Ward, Agent, 1783-1822 in Section 1, (9/1/442-470) and c. 2,000 personal letters, mostly c. 1760-1820, (9/35/82-328).
Section 34 includes some interesting papers on politics: two diaries of proceedings in parliament, 1621, 1624, 1654 and 1659 (9/34/2-3); correspondence on elections, 18th century, (9/34/7-17), also on public office: correspondence and accounts on the Royal Household, 1761-1821 (9/34/38-44), and on the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, 1794-1829, (9/34/62-106) and the Wiltshire Militia, 1758-1827 (9/34/107-152).
Other documents deserving mention are: legal treatises and year books, 14th-early 15th centuries, (9/32/1-5); liturgical fragments from two illuminated manuscripts, thought to have come from Easton Priory, 14th Century, 9/15/338; register of applicants and minutes of the Wiltshire Emigration Association, 1849-51, 9/35389-390; and recommendations to the Froxfield Almshouses, late 18th-early 19th centuries, 9/35/368.
The collection has the following arrangement: -
9/1 General Estate
9/2 Individual Manors: Barton, Manton and Preshute
9/3: Records of the Manor of Great Bedwyn Borough
9/4: Records of the Manor of Great Bedwyn Prebend
9/5: Little Bedwyn and Froxfield
9/6: Burbage Savage, Darrells and Esturmy
9/7: Burbage Rectory
9/8: Chisbury
9/9 Collingbourne Ducis
9/10 Collingbourne Kingston
9/11: Collingbourne Sunton
9/12: Collingbourne Brunton or Valence
9/13: Collingbourne Aughton
9/14: Crofton
9/15: Easton Bradenstoke, Warren and Priory
9/16: East and West Grafton
9:17: Hippenscombe and Chute
9/18: Kinwardstone Hundred
9/19: Marlborough
9/20: Mildenhall
9/21: Milton Lilborne and Wootton Rivers
9/22: Savernake Forest and Park
9/23: Selkley Hundred
9/24: Shalbourne
9/25: Stitchcombe
9/26: Stock and West Bedwyn
9/27: Wilton in Great Bedwyn
9/28: Bedfordshire Estates
9/29: Lincolnshire Estates
9/30: Other counties and Wales
9/30A: Berkshire
9/31: Probate
9/32: Legal
9/33: Business
9/34: Public Affairs
9/35: Personal and Family |