Althorp Papers. Vols. xxxvi a, b. Entry books of money paid over to servants for buying household provisions, with notes of the dates of settling accounts; 1605-1616. Signed by Robert, 1st Baron Spencer, and William, afterwards 2nd Baron Spencer. 200 x 150 mm. Contemporary vellum binding with leather ties.
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Brington, Northant: Accounts, etc., of the Spencer family rel. to Brington and Althorp: 1329-1688. Northamptonshire: Estate papers and accounts of the Spencer family rel. to Northamptonshire: 1329-1706.
Althorp Papers. Vol. dcxlviii, dcxlix. Letters to Spencer from his son, Frederick, (1798-1857), who succeeded his eldest brother as 4th Earl Spencer in 1845; 1805-1834. He was educated at Eton, followed his brother Robert into the navy in 1811, also serving under Rear-Admiral Hallowell in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic wars. He married his cousin Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of Wiliam Stephen Poyntz in 1830, and served as M.P. for Worcestershire (1831-32) and Midhurst (1832-37, 183...
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Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer: Letters to his father: 1805-1834.
Althorp Papers. Vols. lxxxii a, b. An account of the life of Elizabeth, wife of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury; late 18th cent. Consisting chiefly of copies of their correspondence with each other, with Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Sir Francis Walsingham, and others; and of letters from and relating to Lady Arabella Stuart and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, chiefly to Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cdxlv. Laurence Sterne, 'Le Fever's Story': a manuscript version of most of chapters V-XIII of the sixth volume of Tristram Shandy, endorsed by Lady Spencer, 'The Story of Le Fever sent me by Sterne before it was published'; [1761-1762?]. The title, the first page, headed `T...