Catalogue description Muniments of the Duke of Devonshire relating to Somerset estates

This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

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Reference: DD\DEV
Title: Muniments of the Duke of Devonshire relating to Somerset estates
Description:

Sarveys, volumes etc relating to the Duke of Devonshire's Somerset estates

Date: 1671-1839
Arrangement:

Introductory note

 

Manorial and Estate Administration

 

1-17 Manor of Long Sutton, 1671-1805

 

18-34 Manor of Pitney and Wearne, 1690-1815

Related material:

[See DD/X/BB for cognate documents.]

Held by: Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 3 boxes
Immediate source of acquisition:

C/2031

Custodial history:

These documents were sent to Chatsworth in 1938 from the office of R.M.P. Parsons, Misterton, presumably the local agent for the estate. As the manors remained in the possession of the Dukes of Devonshire after the date of the latest document here deposited, there are, presumably, further records in the general estate muniments at Chatsworth.

Subjects:
  • Long Sutton Manor, Long Sutton, Somerset
  • Pitney and Wearne Manor, Pitney and Huish Episcopi, Somerset
  • Pitney, Somerset
  • Huish Episcopi, Somerset
  • Long Sutton, Somerset
Administrative / biographical background:

From 1674 the manor of Long Sutton and the manor of Pitney and Wearne were part of the estate of the Compton Earls of Northampton until, in 1782, they passed by the marriage of Elizabeth Compton (daughter and sole heir of Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton) with George Augustus Henry Cavendish (3rd son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire) into the possession of the Cavendish family (see Burke's Peerage under the Marquess of Northampton and the Duke of Devonshire).

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