Althorp Papers. Vols. mmdclxxxi-mmdclxxxv. Letters, bills, etc., relating to alterations at Spencer House, St. James's, 1791-1942. For Chancery proceedings concerning the purchase of Spencer House, see Add. MS 75418 above. Five volumes.
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London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Letters and bills rel. to alterations at Spencer House: 1791-1942.
Althorp Papers. Vols. mmdccxxxiv a-f. Six copies of the Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp, [compiled by David Morton], privately printed; 1851. The first three copies have the Catalogue of the China at Althorp (1857) bound in. All have MS notes and the first includes photographs of some of the portraits.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. VII, VIII. Accounts of the Merchant Adventurers trading to Barbary; 1585-1589. Fair copies, partly imperfect. Letters patent were issued on 5 July 1585 (PRO, C66/1266/1-3) for the charter of the Barbary Company, which was to run for twelve years. Leicester was a leading member, along with his secretary (later Sir) Arthur Attye, Richard Staper, a Levant merchant, and Alexander Avenon, who acted as agent in London. Henry Roberts, agent in Morocco, returned from Marrak...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. IX, X. Inventories of goods in Leicester’s houses; circa 1579-1582. Included are lists of the contents of Leicester House, in London, Kenilworth Castle, co. Warwick, Wanstead, co. Essex, Grafton Court, co. Northants., and Stoke Newington, co. Middx. Some eight separate inventories of Leicester’s goods, dated between 18 July 1580 and 21 Nov. 1590, are listed among the papers of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat in H.M.C., 58th Report, V, 1980, pp. 202-224. Another, of f...