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Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates

Catalogue reference: U1644

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Reference
U1644
Title
Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates
Date
1600 - 1899
Description

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.

Note

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

<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>

Held by
Kent History and Library Centre
Language
English
Creator(s)
<famname>Marsham family, Earls of Romney</famname>
Physical description
C. 7500 items
Immediate source of acquisition

Deposited by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Romney per Gregory Rowcliffe & Co., W.C.1, per the Law Society, 1 March 1972.

Record URL
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Documents of the Earls of Romney, settled estates