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Letters to 1st Earl from various members of the Cowper and Clavering families [total...
Catalogue reference: DE/P/F58
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- DE/P/F58
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Title (The name of the record)
- Letters to 1st Earl from various members of the Cowper and Clavering families [total 44]
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1690-1723
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Sir William, his father, two letters, dated 17 March, 1690/1 and 14 July, 1698 [the former contains proposals for sharing the "housekeeping" with his son]
Dame Sarah, his mother [including draft reply from 1st Earl, undated]. 16 items, 1692-1714
Judith, his first wife, two letters, dated 14 June, 1691, and undated.
Spencer, his brother, [mainly while on circuit in North Wales, but including also an undated (early) draft from 1st Earl relating to someone who has offended the Southwark Commissioners for the taking of oaths]. 14 items, 1711;1717-21
Lady Sarah, elder daughter [one letter also signed by son Spencer]. 7 items, before 1718; 1720; 1723
William, elder son [later 2nd Earl], [single letter and draft of same in mother's hand]. 2 items, before 1718
John and Margaret Clavering, half brother and sister of Mary, Countess Cowper [to summon Ld C urgently on account of the Countess being ill] 1 item, May 1720
William Cowper, Clerk of Parliaments [son of brother Spencer]. 6 items, 1707-1719
William Cowper, later Knight Harbinger to George II. 1 item, 21 April 1722
Thomas Cowper, ? brother of the Knight Harbinger [begging letter]. 1 item, 22 April 1721
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- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- 52 items
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/82cc82bb-1a9b-4d5c-9cbb-e52ae3a9b707/
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Letters to 1st Earl from various members of the Cowper and Clavering families [total 44]