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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Robert Bennet

 Collection
Identifier: B46763
Abstract Contains mostly Bennet's official papers and reflect the shifting fortunes of the Parliamentarians and Royalists. Many of the official papers concern or are from both houses of Parliament, and the Council of State. Among the personal papers are several concerning law-suits and other business matters, a few deeds, Hannibal Vyvyan's directions to Colonel Bennet when he was sick in 1649 (155), and letters to and from fellow Anabaptists at Looe, 1656. A few miscellaneous documents seem to have...
Dates: 1603-1678 (bulk 1642-1663); Majority of material found within 1642 - 1663
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of Robert Bennet

Papers of the Cavendish-Talbot family

 Collection
Identifier: C38835
Abstract

Mostly consists of correspondence, as well as various financial documents, warrants, petitions, orders, physician instructions and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Cavendish, Talbot, Wentworth, and Slingsby families as well as to Sir Humphrey Style, and Stanley and Sarah Gower.

Dates: 1333-1705 (bulk 1548-1676); Majority of material found within 1548 - 1676
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of the Cavendish-Talbot family

Papers of the Dering family

 Collection
Identifier: D44756
Abstract Papers principally of Sir Edward Dering, 1st bart., and of his son, Sir Edward Dering, 2nd bart. Contains: Family and business papers, 1606-1638, including a copy of a letter from the archbishop of Canterbury to Sir Daniel Donne about certain seats in Pluckley church, September 11, 1606, and a copy of a letter from the Privy Council concerning the laxness of the Commissioners for the loans in collecting the loans, June 3, 1627 (1-7); Genealogical papers and notes from the public records, ca....
Dates: approximately 1450-1680
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of the Dering family

Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle

 Collection
Identifier: F47836
Abstract

Family and official papers of the Ferrers family of Tamworth Castle dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (mostly mid-sixteenth century to mid-seventeenth century) concerning the family's political, legal, financial, personal, and manorial affairs mostly in Derbyshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.

Dates: 1371-1806 (bulk 16th - 17th century); Majority of material found within 1500 - 1600
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle

Papers of the Rich family

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Identifier: R53443
Abstract Contains family and estate papers of the Rich family of Mulbarton, Norfolk, and of Roos Hall and Ashman's Hall, Suffolk, principally of: Sir Edwin Rich (1594-1675); Sir Charles Rich (ca. 1619-1677); Sir Robert Rich (1648-1699); as well as of: Sir Edwin Rich (d. 1640); Richard Rich (1597-1676); Lady Elizabeth Rich (ca. 1623-1694); Lady Mary Rich (d. 1714); Civel Rich (d. 1716); Sir Robert Rich (1685-1768); and Charles Rich (ca. 1731-1808). The papers primarily consist of correspondence,...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1649-1715; 1485-ca. 1820
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / Papers of the Rich family

E. Williams watermark collection, including the papers of the Hale family of King's Walden and other papers

 Collection
Identifier: W55553
Abstract

A collection of paper from sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed books, broadsides, and pamphlets, gathered and arranged according to watermark type by E. Williams of Hove, Sussex, in the early twentieth century. Many of the manuscripts relate to the legal, financial, and manorial affairs of the Hale family of King's Walden, Hertfordshire.

Dates: Majority of material found within ca. 1570-1699
Found in: Folger Shakespeare Library / E. Williams watermark collection, including the papers of the Hale family of King's Walden and other papers

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