| Summary: | Description: Letters addressed to Strafford on estate and related matters from Richard Marris, his household steward, R Rockley, the Revd C Grenewoode and R Burrows (one; also several from R Gascoigne on general matters, 1627-1639. Also contains the following miscellaneous estate and official papers: (1) Kimberworth rents, 1632 (with Marris's letter of 16/9/1634); (2) Thornton Risebrough: rental and accounts, 1628-30; (3) Copy of records out of the tower which proves Thornton to have been a manor since the time of Edward II; (4) Signed petition form the townsmen of Harwood for holding the market and fair on Monday, 14/2/1630/1 (with Marris's letter of 17/2/1630/1); (5) Petition concerning the excessive tolls of Castleford, Ferrebrigge and Abberford, date of publication not identified; (6) Memorandum concerning a recusant's composition ie Sir Henry Merrie of Barton, Derbyshire, 1632; (7) Exception taken by Lionell Farrington against certain compositions in the Northern counties - a list of 30 names and comments; (8) Mr Tempest's claim in Secroft [Seacroft] as Lord of the manor of Roundhay; (9) Notes of Mr Shillito's claim of a manor in Seacroft; (10) A particular of the manor of Roundhay, 1633; (11) List of bailiffs of Wentworth's estates and their debts, 1636. (Used as a wrapper.) and Nine letters from Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, to Sir William Wentworth, 1596/7 - 1602/3, and other papers, apparently collected to prove some case concerning Sir William's services to the Earl; and other papers relating to the Talbot family. Also several papers concerning the rights of Wentworth's Savile nephew, grandson of Sir George Savile, against his grandfather and his 2nd wife, 1616-19 [99 letters].
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