HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. DCCCXCVI., DCCCXCVII. Accompts of receipts and disbursements of the bailiff of Ralph Freeman, of Aspeden (ob. 1665); 1634-1645. Two volumes. Paper. Folio.
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Yorke family; Earls of Hardwicke: Business and Estate papers: 17th-19th centt.
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCCXCVIII. Diary of petty disbursements of Ralph Freeman, of Aspeden, jun. (ob.1714); 1647- 1650. Included also (ff. 2 b, 3, 33 b, 34, 40 b, 41 b-91) is the catalogue of a library, perhaps that of Ralph Freeman, D.D., rector of Aspeden (ob. 1772), and a few literary exerc...
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCCXCIX. " Expences at [the] Ca[s]tle of Sandowne," being the accompt-book of Maj. William Freeman, Governor of Sandown Castle, co. Kent, showing the pay received by each officer and gunner; 1663-1695. Included are:- (a) "The Accompt of ye whole pay of all ye Castles of...
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCCC. Genealogical notes relating to various branches of the Yorke family, including (f. 1) some autobiographical memoranda of the 1st Earl of Hardwicke, and (f. 9) a pedigree in the hand of Edward Gibbon, the historian, showing his relationship to the Yorke family. Paper...
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCCCI. Journals of two tours made by William Freeman, maternal grandfather of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, viz., in Flanders, 1726, and (f. 17) in France, Switzerland, and Italy, 1727-1729. The latter is in Italian, and is followed (f. 132) by another Journal of the same to...
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol. DCCCCII. Private Diary of Captain Joseph Yorke (Baron Dover 1788) as aide-de-camp to Field- Marshal Wade, commander-in-chief of the English Army in Flanders; 13 May-20 Oct. 1744. Paper; ff. 80. 7 ½ X 5 in. Joseph Yorke, Baron Dover: Diary and narrative of the campaign in ...
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vol DCCCCIII. "An Authentic Narrative of the Campaign in Flanders" in 1744. At the end (f. 51) are the printed "Articles of Accusation [against Field-Marshal Wade], with the Answers to them." Paper; ff. 56. With the name of J[oseph] Yorke (v. Add. 36,250), 1744, on f. 1. 9 ¼ X ...