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1. Add MS 40630

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Add MS 40630
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CASSIOBURY PAPERS. Vol. VI. Private and busines correspondence, accompts, etc., of the Morison and Capell families, viz.:- 1. Private and business correspondence, 2 Nov. 1584-18 May 1688. The names of the writers are given in the Index. For the Civil War period the papers (ff. 106-284) relate almost exclusively to the sequestration of the estates of Arthur, Lord Capell of Hadham (executed 1649), and include orders of the Committee for Sequestrations, Committee for Compounding, etc. At the ...
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Capell family: Papers of: 16th-19th centt. Watford, Hertfordshire: Papers rel. to the Capell estates at Cassiobury: 13th-19th centt. includes: f. 1 Watford, Hertfordshire: Letter to the electors: 1584.f. 1 Sir Henry Coningsby: Letter to W. Ewer and others: 1584.ff. 1-9 Elections Parliam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1577-1688
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 42153

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Add MS 42153
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THE KNYVETT LETTERS: eighty-eight letters from Thomas Knyvett, of Ashwellthorpe, co. Norf. (1596-1658), de jure 5th Lord Berners, addressed to his wife Katherine, daughter of Thomas Burgh, 5th Baron Burgh of Gainsborough; 18 Ma[rch] 162.0/[1]-11 July 1644 and n. d. Knyvett was taken prisoner during the Royalist rising at Lowestoft in March 1643, and most of the later letters refer, in addition to contemporary events, to his efforts to obtain the release of his estates from sequestration. Edi...
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County of Norfolk: Letters from T. Knyvett, of Ashwellthorpe, to his wife: 1620-1644. Katherine Knyvett, wife of T Knyvett, de jure 5th Lord Berners: Letters to, from her husband: 1620-1644. England General Chronicles and History: Letters of T. Knyvett, with references to political events of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1644
Extent:
1 item