Papers of the Cavendish Family, 1563-1707, in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection

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Papers of the Cavendish Family, 1563-1707, in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection

1563-1707

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The collection consists primarily of correspondence to, and occasionally between, Cavendish family members, but includes a significant number of incidental estate and official papers. The correspondents include the Cavendishes of Chatsworth, the daughters of the first Duke and their husbands, the children of the second Duke and the families into which they married, and the Pierrepont family of the second Duchess. There are a few estate papers and a number of letters to the first Duke's steward, Anthony Clayton. Some financial accounts are present, particularly of the 1st Duke, and documents relating to the various family households. Miscellaneous items include a pedigree of the Cavendishes in the hand of Sir William Dugdale. Apart from a translation into Latin of part of her 'Life of William Cavendish', there is little in the collection of or by Margaret Lucas.

4 boxes and part of 1 oversize box

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University of Nottingham. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676508

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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1623?-1673

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