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Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates
Catalogue reference: U1644
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This record is about the Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates dating from 1600 - 1899.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- U1644
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Title (The name of the record)
- Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1600 - 1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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The great majority of documents in this collection relate to the Earls of Romney [cr. 1801] and also to their direct ancestors in the male line. There is a considerable mass of documents associated with mortgages of estates centred on the Mote, Maidstone, by the first Earl in the first years of the nineteenth century, and to sales of land in Maidstone and parishes nearby by the fourth Earl, in the 1880's.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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For the sake of brevity the following short names are employed throughout this catalogue: "Romney" to denote the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Romney or Baron Romney for the time being, "Lord Marsham" to denote the Rt. Hon. the Viscount Marsham, eldest son of the Earl of Romney for the time being, "the Mote" to denote Mote Park or Mote House, Maidstone.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>For related collections in the Kent Archives Office see especially U1515, which includes a short note on the Marsham family, also U1121 and U1300. The present collection includes a printed History of the Marshams of Kent, by Robert Marsham-Townshend, 1907 U1644/F7.</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Kent History and Library Centre
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <famname>Marsham family, Earls of Romney</famname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- C. 7500 items
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Deposited by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Romney per Gregory Rowcliffe & Co., W.C.1, per the Law Society, 1 March 1972.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/590a2c57-7747-4c60-8280-603be18a962d/
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Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates