Brydges family papers, 1382-1910, (bulk 1600-1800).

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Brydges family papers, 1382-1910, (bulk 1600-1800).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122369271

Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court, rental, and compotus rolls, household books, diaries, journals, commonplace books, and correspondence (including letterbooks) relating to family estates, including the 1st Duke's famous mansion of Canons (Middlesex), family residence at Avington (Hampshire), properties in Somerset, Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Radnorshire, as well as plantations in the West Indies; family's personal and business affairs, politics of the Restoration and Hannoverian Britain, including the War of Spanish Succession, colonial politics, and local elections and militias.

Approx. 15,800 pieces.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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