Catalogue description GRETTON (SHERARD) MANUSCRIPTS
This record is held by Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for
Reference: | DE1431 |
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Title: | GRETTON (SHERARD) MANUSCRIPTS |
Description: |
The bulk of the collection consists of deeds, mainly of the medieval period, relating to properties held by the Sherards in Leicestershire and Rutland and elsewhere, including an agreement (DE1431/442) made in 1637/8 by Sir William Sherard with the Governor of the province of New Albion, North Virginia to settle a hundred men in the province as resident planters. Estate records include a detailed survey of the manor of Teigh made in 1597 (DE1431/457) and an estate and household account book, 1704-23 (DE1431/449). There are also a number of papers relating to the Irish nobility and Parliamentary attendance at Dublin, 1629-40, including writs to William Lord Sherard to attend the Irish Parliaments summoned in 1634 and 1640. TITLE DEEDS Leicestershire: Stapleford manor etc. 1-50 Stapleford (Basse family) 51-70 Branston by Belvoir 71-73 Burton, Prestwold, Cotes and Wymeswold (Skipwith family) 74-86 Harby 87-112 Saxby 113-172 Scalford 173-195 Sewstern 196-197 Sproxton 198-201 Stathern 202-205 Wymondham and Edmondthorpe 206-212 Various 213-225 Rutland: Barrow 226-228 Empingham 229-251 Market Overton 252-262 South Luffenham etc. 263-268 Teigh 269-295 Whissendine etc. 296-330 Whitwell 331-336 Various 337-342 Lincolnshire: Gunby etc. 343-389 Stainby 390-401 Various 402-411 Other Counties North America 412-441; 442 ESTATE PAPERS 443-459 TAXATION PAPERS 460-480 SHERARD FAMILY WILLS AND SETTLEMENTS 481-517 APPOINTMENTS, WRITS AND ORDERS 518-543 IRISH NOBILITY, AND PARLIAMENTARY ATTENDANCE 544-594 MISCELLANEA 595-638 |
Date: | late 12th c. -1941 |
Held by: | Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 638 Files |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
deposited by the Rt. Hon. Lord Gretton, Stapleford Park, Melton Mowbray |
Custodial history: |
According to a letter written on the 23rd March 1941 at Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, by Lord Ullswater to Lord Gretton (DE1431/624 in the collection) the documents here-listed were discovered by Lord Ullswater "whilst rummaging about amongst my old papers and records recently". Lord Ullstwater presented them to Lord Gretton and they were transferred presumably from Capsea Ashe to Stapleford Park. As Lord Ullswater remarks in his letter the papers probably came into his family's possession through his grandmother, Lucy Eleanor Sherard, the eldest daughter of Philip, 5th Earl of Harborough, who married in 1817 Henry Cecil Lowther of Barleythorpe, Rutland, second son of the First Earl of Lonsdale. |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray was for almost five hundred years the home of the Sherard family. There were originally two manors in Stapleford known as Hauberk's manor and Nether Wall manor respectively. Hauberk's manor passed to the Sherards at the end of the fourteenth century on the marriage of Robert Sherard, a descendant of the Sherards of Cheshire, to Agnes Hauberk, daughter and co-heir of Lawrence Hauberk. Before the middle of the sixteenth century the Sherards had come into possession of the Nether Hall manor and they had also acquired through the marriage of Thomas Sherard, the aforesaid Robert's grandson, to Margaret, daughter and heir of John Helwell, the manor of Teigh and Whissendine, Rutland. The earliest part of the house now standing was built in 1500 by the aforesaid Thomas. William Sherard, 1588 - 1640, was knighted in 1622 and created Baron of Leitrym in Ireland in 1627. Bennet Sherard, the third Baron of Leitrymwas created Baron Harborough in 1714 and Earl of Harborough in 1719. Perhaps the most memorable member of the family was the last of the Sherards, Robert, sixth Earl of Harborough, who became notorious for his attitude to the local hunts, to the railway and indeed, to anything which was deemed to encroach upon his estate. He died in 1859 and his widow in 1886. The estate was sold up in 1885 being eventually purchased in 1894 by the grandfather of the present owner, Lord Gretton. |
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