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DCC - Crewe (Cowper) Collection - 1509-1908

1 - Original works by William Cowper, or items which are numbered ' C C ' in Cowper's hand

2 - Works evidently collected by William Cowper, or which formed part of the Condover (Cholmondeley) Collection listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission

3 - Works not included in the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the Condover (Cholmondeley) Collection, and probably collected by the Crewe family

1 - Bundle containing the following items - 1754-1893

1 - Plea Roll (extract). Chester Sessions. Before John Throckmorton - 2 Aug 1574

2 - Papers relating to the pedigrees of the Mainwaring and Ellerker families - n.d

3 - Letter from the Windsor Herald to Rev. Hugh Cholmondeley relating to the Egerton arms. Heralds College - 3 Aug 1805

4 - Letter from Anthony Clarkson to the same concerning the stalls in Nantwich Church. Nantwich - 15 Mar 1808

5 - Letter from T. Parker to the same concerning the Fallows family - 1 Mar 1809

6 - Letter from R. Churton to the same concerning the pedigree of the Lacon family. Middleton - 18 May 1809

7 - Letter from the Windsor Herald to the same asking for a description of the arms of one James Brodhurst of Chester who died 1798 - 16 Aug 1809

8 - Letter from H. M.Mainwaring to the same with information about his family. Peover - 5 Dec 1809

9 - Extracts from Over Peover Parish Registers relating to the Mainwaring family. 1670-1719 - 20 Mar 1810

10 - Letter from Thomas Heber to Rev. Hugh Cholmondeley regarding Townsend's attempt to prove his kinship to the Trapps family - n.d

11 - Letter from the same to the same concerning the Heber-vernon pedigree - n.d

12 - Letter from John Crewe, Lord Crewe, probably preserved for the autograph. Crewe Hall - 18 Dec -

13 - Letter from Lord Houghton concerning his father's career - n.d

14 - Letter from the same, declining an invitation - n.d

15 - Article (Reprint from the Congleton Mercury, 23.Dec., 1893), by Thomas Cooper concerning Antiquities at Biddulph near Congleton - 1893

16 - A manuscript of Heraldrye, probably by Thomas Chaloner of Chester, Vister King of Arms (d. 1598) - c 1590

17 - Rental for Hatherton, Walgherton, Shevington, Byrcher, Stapeley and Bridgefields, parcels of enclosed commons in Coppenhall, moss pits on Coppenhall Moss, turf licences, cotes in Church Coppenhall and land in Monks Coppenhall - 1605

18 - Pedigree of the Warrells of Cheshire. The descent is traced from Robert de Warihull, Temp. Henry III and is evidenced by transcripts of deeds - 1632

19 - Account Book recording payments made to the poor of Hospital Street, Nantwich under the will of Sir Thomas Crewe of Steane, Northants - 1656-1732

2 - Nixon's Predictus - 1700-1790

4 - Printed Works

5 - Condover (Cowper) Collection - 1569-1642