Portland of Welbeck (3rd Deposit) : Estate Papers

157 DD/3P

Portland of Welbeck (3rd Deposit) : Estate Papers

1494 - 1831

This collection of estate records largely consists of 17th and 18th century documents relating to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, with a few items from other counties. They are additional to those in the Portland of Welbeck 2nd Deposit (DD/2P) in Nottinghamshire Archives and arranged under similar headings. The contents reflect those of the earlier deposits, DD/P and DD/2P, and also include 17th century records of the provision of timber for the iron and lead industries of north east Derbyshire (DD/3P/7) and 18th century records of coal mining in the same area (DD/3P/6). Taxation returns survive for the Hearth Tax for Bassetlaw Hundred in Nottinghamshire (DD/3P/18) and the 'Free and Voluntary Present' for the Scarsdale and High Peak Hundreds of Derbyshire (DD/3P/2), both for 1661. Further copies of mediaeval manorial customaries can be found at DD/3P/9.

Note that items with reference numbers in square brackets have been transferred and recatalogued with related documents in later deposits, chiefly DD/4P, and will no longer be located with their DD/3P references.

Content Summary:

Title Deeds

DD/3P/1 Nottinghamshire : Clipstone 1672-73

Civil War and Aftermath

DD/3P2 Derbyshire: Scarsdale and High Peak Hundreds 1661

Documents relating to Title

DD/3P/3 Various counties 1606-early 19th C

Enclosure

DD/3P/4 Nottinghamshire : East Leake 1781

Sherwood Forest

DD/3P/5 Nottinghamshire 1660-1707

Minerals

DD/3P/6 Derbyshire : Bolsover, Staveley, Brampton, etc. c. 1700-1784

Timber

DD/3P/7 Nottinghamshire: Sherwood Forest, Mansfield, Kirkby, etc. 1663-1771

Manorial & General Administration

DD/3P/8 [All transferred to DD/4P deposit in Nottinghamshire Archives]

Customaries

DD/3P/9 Nottinghamshire : Edwinstowe; Derbyshire : Oxcroft , etc. c.1600-c.1700

Accounts and Rentals

DD/3P/10/1-12 Bank accounts 1701-1711

DD/3P/10/13-27 Rentals : Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire 1707-c.1800

Tithe Rentals

DD/3P/11 Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire c.1600-1780

Accounts and Vouchers

DD/3P/12 Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, etc. 1605-1772

Surveys, Valuations and Terriers

DD/3P/13 Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire 1561-1831

Estate Correspondence

DD/3P/14 Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, etc. 1597-1812

Estates: Miscellaneous

DD/3P/15 Lincolnshire: Kirton; Nottinghamshire: Edwinstowe; Cheshire:Halton, etc. 1494-c.1800

Local Affairs : Turnpikes

DD/3P/16 Nottinghamshire: Sutton-in-Ashfield to Mansfield c.1805-11

Local Affairs : Lieutenancy

DD/3P/17 Nottinghamshire 1627-1687

Hearth Tax

DD/3P/18 Nottinghamshire: Bassetlaw Hundred 1661

Personal and Political Appointments, etc.

DD/3P/19 Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire c.1640-c.1786

Miscellaneous

DD/3P/20 Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, etc. c.1579-1829

<span class="wrapper"><p>Related Collections also in Nottinghamshire Archives :</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/2P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/4P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/5P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/6P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/7P)</p> <p>Portland of Welbeck (DD/P/CD)</p> <p>Related Collections elsewhere :</p> <p>Further records of the Dukes of Portland can be found in the University of Nottingham Library, the British Library, and other repositories listed in the National Register of Archives.</p></span>

English

• <famname>Cavendish family, Dukes of Newcastle upon Tyne</famname>
• <famname>Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland</famname>
• <famname>Bentinck, Cavendish-, family, Dukes of Portland</famname>

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These documents relate to estates developed from the nucleus originally built up by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury ('Bess of Hardwick') in the late 16th century, and subsequently passed down to Sir Charles Cavendish (her son by her third husband) and then to his son Sir William Cavendish, subsequently Earl and 1st Duke of Newcastle. The estates were further augmented by marriages into the Holles family (Earls of Clare) and the Harley family (Earls of Oxford), and eventually inherited by the Dukes of Portland. The records were held in the Estate Office at Welbeck Abbey until their deposit in the Nottinghamshire Records Office (now Nottinghamshire Archives) in 1950 and 1953 (Accessions 12 and 147).