Catalogue description Sir Henry Neville and Richard Neville Aldworth: Papers

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Reference: PRO 30/50
Title: Sir Henry Neville and Richard Neville Aldworth: Papers
Description:

This series includes letters and papers of Sir Henry Neville while he was Ambassador at Paris (1599 to 1600), accounts and papers (1611 to 1705) connected with the various offices held by Richard Aldworth and William Aldworth (Auditors of Land Revenue), and letters and papers of Richard Neville Aldworth (afterwards Richard Neville Aldworth Neville) as Under Secretary of State (1748 to 1752) and Secretary to the Embassy to Paris (1762 to 1763).

There are also numerous legal papers, deeds and accounts concerning the interest of the Neville family in the office of Provost Marshal General in Jamaica (1758 to 1834) and a small amount of private correspondence.
Date: 1476-1834
Related material:

Other Neville and Aldworth papers are held by Berkshire Record Office.
Separated material:

For Cornwallis papers, see PRO 30/11

Originals and copies of some of these papers, see SP 78
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Creator:

Richard Neville Aldworth Neville, 1717-1793

Sir Henry Neville, Knight, 1564-1615
Physical description: 70 bundle(s)
Immediate source of acquisition:

in March 1957 Essex Record Office

Henry Seymour Neville, 9th Baron Braybrooke, 1897-1990
Custodial history: These papers were formerly kept as part of the Braybrooke family's archives at Audley End. They were deposited by the 9th Lord Braybrooke at Essex Record Office and Cambridge University Library (PRO 30/50/44-49, 51, 56, 59) on permanent loan in 1947, but after a few months were transferred to the Public Record Office on the same terms. PRO 30/57/1 (in part), 22 and 70 were transferred from Essex Record Office to the Public Record Office in March 1957.
Administrative / biographical background:

The courtier and politician Sir Henry Neville (d 1615) briefly served as English Ambassador to France in 1599-1600.

Richard Aldworth (c 1614-1680) and his son William Aldworth (c 1655-1700) each held several financial posts in government, including as Auditors of the Land Revenue.

Sir Henry Neville's great-great-granddaughter, Catherine, married into the Aldworth family. Her son, Richard Neville Aldworth (1717-1793), inherited property from the Neville family in 1762 and assumed the name Richard Neville Aldworth Neville. He was later known as Richard Neville Neville.

Richard's son Richard Aldworth Neville (1750-1825) became known as Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke, after inheriting this peerage from his third cousin, John Griffin Griffin, in 1797.

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