Cinque Ports: Lord Warden, admiralty court and Dover Castle

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Date:	1496-2000
Places:	Dover, Kent
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Cinque ports
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C8729 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O43655 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1496-20th cent: records (major collection)	Kent History and Library Centre	CPW	NRA 7737 Cinque Ports courts
2	collections rel to Cinque Ports and Dover Castle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 34147-51
3	1629-37: letter books of Sir Edward Dering and Earl of Suffolk as governors of Dover Castle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 52798, 47787-88
4	1632-48: register book of causes in the Chancery of the Cinque Ports	University of Chicago: Joseph Regenstein Library	MS f286	See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 219
5	1829-53: Duke of Wellington, Lord Warden, corrsp and papers	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085
6	1562-1651: Lord Warden corresp 1562-1634	Kent History and Library Centre	Fa	NRA 7241 Faversham
7	1657: MS book	Kent History and Library Centre	EK/U123	See Annual Return 2003
8	1741, 1817-34, 1934-46: Dover Castle accounts for poor prisoners 1817-34	Kent History and Library Centre	Fo	NRA 20713
9	1918-1933: papers of 7th Earl Beauchamp as Lord Warden	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	Acc 3375, 3464, 5497, 5540	NRA 8108 Lygon See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [67b]