Catalogue description Muniments of the Duke of Devonshire relating to Somerset estates
This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Reference: | DD\DEV |
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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: |
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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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