Althorp Papers. Vol. cxli. Further depositions of the defendants' witnesses, followed by the defendants' interrogatories; 1750. Paper. Unbound. 420 x 335 mm.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cxlii. Brief; petition for judgement; minutes of the decree; calculations for the settlement of the debt; 1750-1751. Paper. Unbound. 420 x 330 mm.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cxliii. Answer of the defendant to the original bill; amended bill of the plaintiffs; 1747-1748. Paper. Unbound. 397 x 243 mm. average size.
Althorp Papers. Vols. cxliii-cxlvi. Spencer's executors v. Henry Furnese (amended to Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and Furnese): Chancery proceedings concerning a debt contracted by Spencer on a post. obit. bond, as heir of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; 1747-1751. Partly drafts and copies. Four volumes.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cxliv. Answers of the defendants to the amended bills, brief; calculations, etc., for the payment of the loan with interest; 1748. Paper. Unbound. 390 x 255 mm. average size.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cxlv. Bill in a cross cause; proceedings for the adjournment of the original cause; 1749. Paper. Unbound. 390 x 245 mm. average size.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cxlvi. Answer of the defendants in the cross cause; order for dismissing both causes; calculations for the settlement of the debt; 1750-1751. Paper. Unbound. 410 x 335 mm.
Althorp Papers. Vols. cxlvii-cxlix. Letters from Stephen Poyntz as envoy to Stockholm and the Congress of Soissons, to ministers in England, chiefly to the Secretaries of State, Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend, and Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle; 1726-1730. See also his correspondence with Newcastle in Add. MSS. 32755-32769, passim, and with Townshend in Add. MSS. 48981-48982. Partly French, Italian and Spanish. Drafts and copies. Three volumes.
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Stephen Poyntz, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1721-1750.
Stephen Poyntz Althorp Papers. Vols. cxlvii-clxi. Correspondence and papers of Stephen Poyntz, father of Georgiana, Countess Spencer, envoy to Stockholm (1724-1727), and to the Congress of Soissons (1728-1730), governor and Comptroller of the Household to William, Duke of Cumberland (1730-1750); and of his wife Anna Maria, née Mordaunt; 1680-1771. Fifteen volumes.