Catalogue description Bills of Edmund Estcourt and Robert Penny, and vouchers, for legal business for the 5th...

Bills of Edmund Estcourt and Robert Penny, and vouchers, for legal business for the 5th and 6th Dukes

Including purchase and sale of estates, inclosure, commissions of the peace, mortgages, settlements, elections, militia business, Parliamentary business, appointment of Badminton agents (firms of Peart and Estcourt; Estcourt & Co; Estcourt, Whittard, Penny and Ody)

Also includes Earldom of Glamorgan, 1793; report on experiments with 'mineral black', Kingswood, 1793-6; attending Miss Gainsborough on the death of her mother, 1798; Botetourt Barony title, 1799-1801; Harriette Wilson's annuity and destruction of Worcester's letters, 1813-14; Worcester's debts to Beau Brummell, 1815-1821 [see FAMILY: 6th Duke's accounts]; Worcester's 'private' marriage to 'Miss E. Smith', 1822; Worcester's debts, 1832-3

[304.101.4; 304.102.1]