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DCH - Cholmondeley family of Cholmondeley estate - 12th century-20th century

1 - Cholmondeley

2 - Chorley

3 - Ridley

4 - Egerton

5 - Bickley

6 - Norbury

7 - Wrenbury

8 - Bradley

9 - Coddington

10 - Edge

11 - Hampton

12 - Larkton

13 - Malpas

14 - Overton

15 - Tushingham

16 - Wigland

17 - Capenhurst

18 - Bickerton & Bulkeley

19 - Edleston & Sound

20 - Frodsham

21 - Overton

22 - Netherton

23 - Bradley

24 - Woodhouses

25 - Kingsley

26 - Alvanley

27 - Runcorn

28 - Halton

29 - Widnes

30 - Rocksavage & Clifton

31 - Helsby

32 - Norley

33 - Barrow

34 - Runcorn and Frodsham - Late 18th century-late 19th century

35 - Helsby, Frodsham, Halton and Rocksavage - 18th century-19th century

36 - Delamere and Kingswood

37 - Nantwich - 13th century-19th century

38 - Deeds and papers relating to Henhull - 14th century-18th century

39 - Miscellaneous Cheshire and Flintshire

40 - Deeds relating to various townships - 12th century-18th century

41 - Tenancies in West and South Cheshire

42 - Miscellaneous west Cheshire and north Wales estates

43 - Various counties (mostly non-Cheshire) - 13th century-18th century

44 - Deeds Relating to Other Counties

45 - Flintshire and Wales

46 - Properties in London, Kent, Suffolk and Surrey - 1730-1816

47 - Bonds, Grants, Warrants, Presentations, etc.

48 - Records relating to estates previously owned by or connected with Savage family

50 - Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley estate

51 - Household, Personal and Estate

52 - Earl Rivers' Rocksavage Estate

53 - Lord Cholmondeley's South Cheshire estate

54 - 'Miscellaneous deeds and papers'

55 - Miscellaneous Personal and Estate

56 - Estate management

57 - Estate & Miscellaneous

58 - Letters relating to estate administration

1 - Sir Hugh Cholmondeley sr and jr - 1555-1601

2 - Basil Brooke, Hugh Starkey and Richard Grosvenor to Lady Mary Cholmondeley - 1611-1622

3 - Letters - 1623-1655

4 - Letters - 1666-1669

5 - Letters - 1672-1679

6 - Reference to Jesuits - 1680

7 - Letters - 1681

8 - Letters - 1683

9 - Letters - 1684

10 - Letters - 1685-1687

11 - Letters - 1688

12 - Letters - 1690-1693

13 - Letters - 1694

14 - Letters - 1695-1697

15 - Letters - 1698-1699

16 - Letters - 1700-1701

17 - Includes references to poultry, dogs, election, war in Flanders and Mantua - 1702

18 - Letters - 1704

19 - Letters - 1704

20 - Letters - 1705

21 - Letters - 1705

22 - Includes reference to brandy smuggling - 1706

23 - Letters - 1707

24 - Letters - 1708

25 - Letters - 1708

26 - Letters - 1709

27 - Letters - 1710

28 - Letters - 1711

29 - Letters - 1712

30 - Letters - 1713

31 - Includes references to rents, Malpas fair tolls and Chester garrison supplies - 1714

32 - Includes references to purchase of sheep and geese, post of searcher at port of Chester and garrison muster rolls - 1716

33 - Includes references to Nantwich barony court order on salt works - 1717

34 - Includes references to Chester garrison costs - 1718

35 - Letters - 1719

36 - Letters - 1719

37 - Letters - 1720

38 - Letters - 1722-1742

39 - Letters - 1771-1791

40 - Letters - 1804-1857

41 - Letters - Late 17th century-1758

42 - Letters - c 1700

43 - Includes references to timber, election, legal matters and choice of funishing material (with 3 samples) - 1700

44 - Includes references to household, election, militia, ale and wine, greenhouse, the birdcage, tree-planting, leases, window installation and Cholmondeley moss - 1700

45 - Includes references to "the Birdcage", sash windows, greenhouse, garden fountain and a water-tower at Nantwich - 1702

46 - Includes references to wine, wood, alehouse closure, flood deaths, frocks, saltworks at Dirtwich, Lord Cholmondeley's debts, post of sheriff and commission of the peace - 1703

47 - Includes references to gout, fox-breeding, petition to Queen and bill of fare - 1704

48 - Includes references to beef supply, election and shipwreck - 1705

49 - Includes references to writing materials, furnishings, gunsmith and fall of Lille - 1708

50 - Includes references to patronage, customs officer, post of land waiter and tobacco - 1708-1710

51 - Includes references to Peak District guide and Royal Society transactions volume/mathematical puzzle - 1709

52 - Wood and timber

53 - Cholmondeley Hall, garden and chapel

54 - Miscellanea

1 - Horses - 1679-1696

2 - Racing at Chester, Farn(don) and Bridgenorth; horse "Malencolly" - 1702

3 - Transcript (17c) of letter of 1591 by Roger Puleston relating to illegal marriage of Hugh Brett and daughter of Hugh Probyn - nd

4 - Absconding of "Little Tom", loss of ships and carving commission - 1682-1695

5 - Legal disputes - 1675-1695

6 - Tithe, organ and sermons - 1705

7 - Tobacco shipment - 1705

8 - Saltworks at Dirtwich - 1708

9 - Appointment of schoolmaster in Malpas - 1712-1720

10 - New-built house on Chorley waste, Malpas - 1712

11 - Petition for Reinhold Higgins, pauper, to build a cott on Chorley waste - 1713

12 - Saltworks and supply of cheese and timber - 1713

13 - Recommendation for deputy clerkship of the peace - 1713

14 - Waterlevels at Chester and Parkgate - 1713

15 - Tithes - 1718

16 - Army mutiny, Nantwich court rolls and provision of horse and aloes - 1718

17 - Furnishings, plumber's bills, canvas stockings (in French) and removal of cannon - 1719

18 - Apothecaries' drugs - 1720

19 - Italian statues and book collection - 1720

20 - Garrison at Chester, black servant - 1720

21 - George Cholmondeley in Nancy to uncle Hugh, Viscount Malpas, well-wisher's note, dinner service note - 1722

22 - Charlotte Georgiana Seymour (nee Cholmondeley) to father, first marquess - 1825

23 - The prince's music and fireworks, post of receiver of revenues, gout - c 1700

24 - Letter to Sir John Holford from Leonard Osburne relating to deed of sale of land, Richard Leftwich and Usburne's father in law and "ghostly father" - c 1520

25 - Letter from R Leyester referrring to grants by bishops and deans - 1575

26 - Letter from ?Christopher Palke to Raffe of Brerton regarding Flintshire fairs - Mid 16th century

27 - Letters including references to locks and catches, surveying instruments, arrest of felon with female co-habitant and fall of Douai - 1710

28 - Letters from Peter Weber to William Adams - 1682

29 - Letters from Jaspar Hellier to William Adams - 1683-1690

30 - Letters from Edward Penney to William Adams - 1684-1690

31 - Letters from Samuel Orchard to William Adams - 1693-1698

32 - Letters from M La Roche to William Adams - 1699

33 - Letters from Mary Bridgeman to William Adams - 1686-1694

34 - Papers relating to tenants, tenancies, heriots etc - c 1700

35 - Statement of Thomas Buckley relating to Thomas Bressey's suit regarding the title and issue of chief lord of Buckley [? Bulkeley] - 1595

36 - Copy licence by bishop of Chester to authorise reseating and removal of organ loft at Malpas church and appointing named commissioners, with request for Lord Cholmondeley's support - 1680

37 - Note of turbary at Bickley Moss, claimed by Lady Wilbraham for Woodhey, with transcript of 1333 grant by John of Peckforton to David of Egerton - 1705

38 - Note of deer in Lord Cholmondeley's park - 1713

39 - Petition from Samuel Burrows of Cholmondeley who, having sold ale illegally, requests to be reinstated as Lord Cholmondeley's gardener - 1713

40 - Agreement of Samuel Hill of Waldasea [? Wallasey], blacksmith - 1716

41 - Agreement for Hugh Webster, carpenter, for rebuilding of Cholmondeley chapel - 1717

42 - Petition by Thomas Floyd, cooper of Bickerton who, unable to maintain himself, requests money due from Lord Cholmondeley - [1700]

43 - Note relating to measurement of land by statute and customary measure - c 1700

44 - Note of rates for boring - [18th century]

45 - Comprises note of horses (with owners) that have raced, 1631; inventory of books, 1679-80; letter relating to prospective candidates in next parliamentary election, 1685; opinion on Malpas school deed, 1722; inventory of statuary, nd (c1700); ms verse on killing and cooking of a pig, nd (c1700); letter on points of canon law, nd (c1700); note of legal status of flotsam, jetsam, tobacco and East India goods, nd (c1700) - 1631-1722

46 - Comprises note of false oath by James Beckett, beggar, of Tushingham common, relating to cutting of turves at Willey Moor, with note of deathdate of Sir William Brereton in 1559 and names of Malpas churchwardens in 1610; note of evidence regarding a well and Steeven and Bradshaw families, 1670; copy will of Robert Cholmondeley, Viscount Kells, 1681; note on use of timber to make River Dee navigable, 1700; letter with advice on curtain material purchase, 1708; note on Morpeth estate and sale of farms, nd (post-1783) - 1610-1708

47 - Copy injunction regarding lands in Flintshire to John Morton, Bishop of Ely, Lord Chancellor - [1487-1504]

48 - Petition of William Alcock to Viscount Wallingford, Master of Court of Wards and Liveries, relating to lands in Lancashire - c 1617

49 - Extract from undated deed relating to Knight's Grange, Larton et al - 1709

50 - Comprises letter from Randle Holme to Lord Robert Cholmondeley relating to latter's pedigree, Steward Leech, £10 debt and purchase of ox, 1672; note of coroner's inquest and manslaughter, 1673; letter regarding Lady Dudley's estate and children's health, Lord Cholmondeley's gout and Brereton family, 1677; note of debt repayment (Captain Basnett), 1679; letter regarding conviction of Burd sr and jr for treason (sr a papist), 1679; letter regarding imprisonment of Lord Danby, Lord Cholmondeley's horses in London [written by Ro(bert) Werden at La Haye near Brussels, 1679]; letter regarding royal game on Hounslow Heath and Hampton Court and Lord Cholmondeley's 'poaching', 1680; letter regarding Breretons and lease of pew, Malpas church, 1680; letter from George Cholmondeley to his mother regarding gout and fits, 1680; letters regarding Ro(bert) Werden's gout, reception of the 'Duke' and a ball in Edinburgh, 1681; note regarding presentation to a living of Mr Barlow, 1683 - 1672-1683

51 - Comprises letter of distress from ex-seaman; letter relating to cost and design of vane and compass, from George Graham; verse of six stanzas in praise of ale, anon - c 1700

52 - Comprises letter from Elizabeth Brereton relating to fruit grown at Cholmondeley Hall, 1682; relating to Monmouthites and 'the old gentleman at Rome', 1682; letter regarding locks, from Philip Harris, 1692; letters relating to war in Flanders, 1692 - 1682-1692

53 - Comprises draft petition by George Bonniman, clerk, for vicarage of Tilston [He 'intruded during the Usurpation': Ormerod], 1654; letter citing troop movements of Montrose and Marr in Scotland and 'the storm from the west', nd [1715]; letter [in French] from Paris regarding political and military events, 1787; letter from Joseph Sutton regarding building of causeway and prospective Association of Prosecution of Felons, 1788; letter from Sarah Lleydall regarding care of her daughter, nd [c1700]; letter from W Newton regarding rebel prisoners ('seven sad wretches') and request for venison, nd [?1715]; letter from 'Dolphus' at Tachbrook, Warks, regarding expected visit of Lord Cholmondeley (with strangely satirical terminology), nd [18c] - 1720

54 - Comprises letter from R Lowe desiring not to be made JP; letter from J Breval in Geneva regarding his being chosen as companion to [George], eldest son of Lord Cholmondeley - 1720

55 - Letters to Lord Cholmondeley from R[oger] Comberbach relating to post of controller of the customs of the port of Chester - 1720

59 - Estate Correspondence, mostly from Lord Cholmondeley - 1814-1827

60 - Nantwich & Manorial - 16th century-19th century

62 - Personal and estate papers

63 - Cholmondeley Cattle Club - 1857-1873

64 - City of Chester - 14th century-18th century

65 - Frodsham Lordship and Estate - 19th century

66 - Creation of Titles and Grants of Arms and Supporters

67 - Specifications and plans relating to premises in south and west Cheshire, Wales and Sussex - 19th century-20th century

68 - Papers relating to 1910-1915 Valuation Office survey

69 - Translations and surrogates

131 - Schools

132 - Cholmondeley Fire Brigade

133 - Household and Estate

134 - Miscellaneous

135 - Acts of Parliament

136 - Tarporley-Whitchurch Turnpike Trust

137 - Records of Joseph Hill, surveyor - 1800-1814