Vols. DLXXIX C, D. Account books of the 6th Duke at Eton, with receipts annexed; 1805-1808. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Eton College; Berkshire: Account-books of 6th Duke of Marlborough at: 1805-1808. George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough: Accounts, etc., at Eton: 1805-1810. Accounts: 4th, 5th and 6th Dukes of Marlborough; personal and household accounts, etc.: 1762-1821, n.d.
Vol. DLXXIX D (ff. 29). The Gentleman's Washing Book, an account-book for laundry; 2 Apr. 1807-28 Feb. 1808. Partly printed. includes: f. 20 Elizabeth Willis, washerwoman, of Eton: Receipt by: 1808.
Vol. DLXXX (ff. 123). (1) Receipts to the 4th Duke from the Westminster Fire Office for the insurance of Marlborough House, his house at Sion Hill, and unstated buildings, followed by the terms and conditions (ff. 32-41) and related papers (ff. 42b-47); 1782-1806, n.d. Printed, mostly with MS....
Vol. DLXXXI (ff. 189). (1) Family papers, etc.; [1602?]-bef. 1668. Partly Latin. ff. 1-8b. (2) Papers concerning the collection of ship money in Hertfordshire; 1636, 1637. Contemporary copies, presumably used as precedents by Boteler. ff. 9-18. (3) Assessments, etc., of ship money in Bedfo...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vols. DLXXXI, DLXXXII. Papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham, co. Bedf., mostly official papers of Sir William Boteler IV (b. 1608, d. 1658), as sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1637-1638, and as leading member of the Bedfordshire committee for 1644. The present papers were apparently acquired with the Boteler estates in Biddenham by Robert Trevor, 4th Baron Trevor, in 1712. They are substantially those calendared in H.M.C. 8th Report, pt. 1, pp. 2-11. Further Boteler papers, in...
Vol. DLXXXII (ff. 194). Papers of the Bedfordshire committee, comprising mostly letters to the Bedfordshire committee from the Eastern Association committee, committee for both Kingdoms, etc.; 1645-1652, n.d. Bedfordshire: Papers of Parliamentary Committee: 1644-1652, n.d. Sir William Boteler,...
BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DLXXXIII (ff. 93). Political, literary and family papers; [1601?]-1659, n.d. The position of some of these papers in the list in H.M.C. 8th Report, pt. 1, pp. 2-12, suggests that they may be associated with Add. MSS. 61681 and 61682 above. F. 82 derives from the Boteler fam...