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Title:
Estate papers of the Earls of Hardwicke relating to Wimpole and other properties
Scope & Content:
Estate papers of the second and third Earls of Hardwicke relating to Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, and other properties owned by the family. The collection consists chiefly of accounts, bills and receipts (mostly for the Wimpole estate and other properties for the years 1785-1790). It also includes pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1870
Extent:

18 files

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Title:
Legal and property papers
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1507-1816
Extent:
2 files

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Title:
Papers relating to property matters
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to legal advice, surveys, valuation, sales and purchases of property chiefly in Cambridgeshire, with some papers relating to property in Surrey, Kent, and Gloucestershire. Contents: Letter from John Vernon to Charles De Laet, 18 Dec. 1770. Seeks opinion about planned widening o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1507-1816
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Lease of Bowmans Green Farm to James Topham, Mr Horne and Mrs Horne
Scope & Content:
A bundle of papers concerning legal disputes over the lease of Bowmans Green Farm, Tyttenhanger, between Philip Yorke and lease holders James Topham, Mr Horne and his widow Mrs Horne. Contents: Paper wrapper inscribed ‘Papers relating to Bowmans Green Farm at Tyttenhanger & a troublesome T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1789-1793
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Plans and designs
Scope & Content:
‘Design of Tittenhanger & Pondside’. Pen and ink plan of gardens and pond, with part of house and moat. Half the folio is missing. 18th century? Design for dog kennels. Recto: front elevation (pen and ink and watercolour) and plan, with measurements for dog house, yards and storage areas. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
5 items

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Title:
Letters to the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and notes on an apprenticeship
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1. Letters to the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke as patrons: Letter from Dr Clark, Emanuel Close Cambridge, 25 March 1812. Regarding the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke’s patronage of an edition of the vocal works of Handel. Letter from William Cooke, 11 December 1815, regarding his new plough, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1817
Extent:
9 items

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Title:
Accounts, bills and receipts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1765-1870
Extent:
12 files

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Title:
Agent Generals’ accounts
Scope & Content:
Itemised statements of payments by Earl of Hardwicke to John Vernon, 26 August 1775-1778. John Vernon’s account for one year to 12 July 1775 John Vernon’s account for one year to the 12th [of July] 1776 John Vernon’s account … for one year to the 12th of July 1777 John Vernon’s account for one y...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1775-1783
Extent:
6 items

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Title:
William Parker’s account book
Scope & Content:
William Parker’s ledger for timber, carpentry, joinery, and jobbing, 1783-1793, at Hamels (Hertfordshire) and Wimpole (Cambridgeshire). Ledger contents: Accounts for building supplies delivered to Gatesbury Mill (undated), Mently (2 March 1784), and unspecified (undated). Account for felling,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1793
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Bills and receipts 1770-1794
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Contents: Receipt for iron work at Sayes Park (Sawbridgeworth), by Edward Camps, 1770, paid 1771. Bill for bricklayers’ work done at Plaisterers Farm, by order of Mr Hirions Decd., from Thomas Chambers, 17 May 1773. Docket title ‘Charles Delate Esqr. Unsatisfied Bill of Chambers’. Bill and r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1770-1794
Extent:

8 items