Crewe Muniments

CM

Crewe Muniments

1402 - 1904

CM/1-2396

Crewe-Milnes of Fryston Hall and Crewe Hall (Crewe Muniments)

The deeds here relate to the Milnes estates, inherited from Lord Houghton.

Parish etc. records

Hatfield enclosure: minutes, measurement of land, 1800

Hunslet: (copy) township assessment, 1770

Penistone Free Grammar School: survey and (copy) rental of lands, 1630

Thurlstone: assessment, 1673

Manorial records

Great Hucklow: interrogatories concerning the manor and Hucklow burrows, [mid 17th century]

Water Fryston: jury lists and presentments, call books, 1764-1796

Title deeds

Derbyshire: Great Hucklow, Tideswell and Monyash (Bagshaw), 1423-1807; Wirksworth (Wingfield), 1526-1795; Eyam and Brimington (Richard Milnes), 1684-1795

Lincolnshire: Timberland and West Fen (Lucas), 1739-1837

Yorkshire: Horbury, Chickenley and Almondbury (Wadsworth and Busk), 1527-1804; Hunslet and Holbeck (Busk), 1625-1863; Leeds - 1/9 part of manor (Dixon), 1654-1758; Great and Little Houghton (Rodes), 1382-1900; Penistone and Thurlstone (Wordsworth and Rich), 1311-1869; Long Drax, 1704-1794; Sykehouse and Fishlake (Poole, Payne, Blanshard), 1612-1875; Ferryfryston, Ferrybridge and Pontefract (Crowle), 1652-1844; Bawtry and Austerfield (Dyon), 1539-1904

Estate records

Bullhouse (Thurlstone) estate: surveys, 1777 and 1802; particulars of sale in lots, 1858

Darfield tithes: accounts for the moiety of Darfield rectory, 1732-1762; letters concerning renewal of lease, 1759-1788

Drax estate: letters relating to purchase, 1794

Fryston estate: surveys and valuations, 1728-1828; rentals, 1828-1885; particulars of sale, and sale papers, 1813-1844; canals and railways, 1825-1847; general estate correspondence, 1847-1908; plan of burgage tenures in Pontefract, 1767

Great Houghton: particulars of the manor and rental, early 17th century

Hunslet estate: rental 1811-1829

Timberland estate: rentals, valuations and survey, 1783-1836; correspondence and accounts concerning embankment and drainage, 1784-1792; plan and book of reference, 1876-1877

Public office and personal papers

Papers of Edward Rodes: appointments as Colonel of Horse, Guardian of the County of York, etc, 1648-1656; Freedom of the Borough of Musselburgh (Scotland) and return as M.P. for Perthshire, 1656; quietus roll as Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1650-1651

Papers of William Rich: claims for payment and schedules of expenses for his army service, 1644; appointment of John Woodhouse as quartermaster of his troop of horse, 1644

Richard Slater Milnes: appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding, 1779

John Bagshaw: quietus roll, Derbyshire, 1695-1696

Richard Rodes Milnes: bond and quietus as Receiver General of Pontefract, 1833

Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton: correspondence concerning manuscripts, books and works of art, and on his elevation to the peerage, 1837-1885; photostat copies of letters to Bishop Thirlwall, 1838-1839; appointment as Captain in West Riding militia, 1840

<p>The deeds relating to the Crewe estates are in the estate office at Crewe. The important series of 19th century letters is at Argyll House, London.</p>

English

• <famname>Milnes family of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire</famname>
• <famname>Crewe-Milnes family, Barons Houghton</famname>

56 series

A written application form to use the collection must be completed. This includes an undertaking concerning the use of the documents in any published work.

CM/1-1674 deposited 1951

CM/1675-1678 deposited 1965

CM/1679-2395 deposited 1971 and 1972

CM/2396 acquisition 1991/12

The Milnes family lived at Fryston Hall. Richard Monckton Milnes was created Lord Houghton in 1863 and his son and heir became Earl of Crewe in 1895.