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Catalogue description SUDELEY Manuscripts
This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives
| Reference: | D2153 |
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| Title: | SUDELEY Manuscripts |
| Description: |
Manorial - Appointments Court papers Muniments of title - Abstracts of title Deeds: Anglesey Glamorgan Gloucestershire Lincolnshire Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Radnorshire Shropshire Somerset Sussex Warwickshire Worcestershire Yorkshire Bonds separated from indentures Correspondence Inquisitions post mortem Marriage settlements (other than those included with Deeds) Wills and Administrations Estate Management - Accounts and vouchers Building accounts Correspondence Plans Rentals Sale catalogues Surveys Estate Acts of Parliament Miscellaneous Household Management - Garden accounts Family History - Histories of family and estate Correspondence Genealogical notes Grants of arms, and associated papers Monumental inscriptions Patents of nobility Pedigrees Miscellaneous Legal Papers - Personal Papers - Appointments and associated papers Certificates of burial Commissions Diaries Miscellaneous Business Papers - Ecclesiastical Papers - Presentations and institutions to benefices Correspondence Queen Anne's Bounty Tithes and papers relating to incumbent's right of common Miscellaneous |
| Date: | 14th-20th centuries |
| Held by: | Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 1128 Files |
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Originally deposited by the Rt Hon Lord Sudeley, 27 May 1965, 5 October 1976 and 17 March 1983; the records were catalogued by the National Register of Archives in 1961. Purchased from Lord Sudeley in November 2007 for Gloucestershire Archives thanks to the generous support of the MLA/V& A Purchase Grant Fund, The Friends of the National Libraries, The Friends of Gloucestershire Archives, Powys and Shropshire Archives Services, Gloucestershire Archives staff and many private donors |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Lords Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire are the heirs of two ancient families, those of Hanbury and of Tracy, and the Tracy association with Toddington is of great antiquity. Domesday Book records that Toddington was formerly held by Goda, the youngest of the 4 daughters of Ethelred the Unready and sister of Edward the Confessor; and her greatgrandson, John "de Suthlega" in the 12th century married Grace, daughter of Henry de Tracy, lord of Barnstaple. William, the younger son of this marriage, took his mother's name of Tracy, and is sometimes identified as one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket. Toddington remained in the Tracy, later Hanbury Tracy, family until it was sold in c. 1900. This accumulation contains very little material on the Gloucestershire property despite the long association of the family with the Toddington estate. The bulk of the muniments of title refer to land in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, which came into the family in the 18th century. The Bridgnorth and Morville lands came to the Blayneys through the marriage of John Blayney and Ann Weaver in 1707, and the Blayney and Weaver properties were united by the marriage of Henry, 8th Viscount Tracy and Susannah Weaver. When Arthur Blayney died without issue in 1795, he devised his Welsh estates to Lord Tracy, whose daughter, Henrietta Susanna, wife of Charles Hanbury, later created 1st Baron Sudeley, was his sole heir. Many of the legal papers refer to the Tracy peerage case in the mid nineteenth century. There were three branches of the Tracy family, the Tracys of Toddington, of Stanway and of Coscomb. The claimant asserted his descent from the Coscomb branch, but the case broke down because proof depended on a tombstone in Ireland which was no longer legible. |
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