Foljambe of Osberton (additional deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers

Part of this additional collection (DD/FJ/11/1/8) relates to the estates described in the introduction to the main deposit. Of the remainder, a major group of legal papers concerns disputes over common land in and around Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, in the 17th and 18th centuries (DD/FJ/12-13). Another group is the collection of bound correspondence, mainly 18th century in date, of Sir George Savile, 8th baronet, (1726-1784), a highly respected M.P. for Yorkshire (commemorated by a statue in York Minster), and his relative John (Thornhagh) Hewitt (DD/FJ/11/1/1-7). This is of major importance for the history of Parliamentary and local politics, bearing on such subjects as Parliamentary Reform and the Yorkshire Association, American and Irish affairs, and various local issues such as canal schemes, the commercial trade of York and Hull and the campaign for the Spurn Point lighthouse at the mouth of the River Humber. Included are occasional letters of Christopher Wyvill, Joseph Priestley, Major John Cartwright, Lord Rockingham, and Edmund Burke. This correspondence, together with many estate papers of Sir George Savile, passed into the Foljambe family archives by marriage.

CORRESPONDENCE

Foljambe, Thornhagh, Hewett, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/1 (pt I) Parliamentary and national affairs. 1554-1804

Sir George Savile (8th Bart)

DD/FJ/11/1/1(pt II) Miscellaneous affairs and posthumous records 1770-1790

Foljambe, Thornhagh, Hewett, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/2 Estate and local affairs 1613-1778

DD/FJ/11/1/3 Miscellaneous affairs. 1715-1786

John Hewett:

DD/FJ/11/1/4-5 Miscellaneous affairs. 1779-1794

Rev. William Mason

DD/FJ/11/1/6 Correspondence to F.F.Foljambe 1771-1774

Sir George Savile (8th Bart)

DD/FJ/11/1/7 Parliamentary and national affairs. 1756-1785

VARIOUS ESTATE RECORDS

Accounts, Rentals, Etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/8/1-8 Derbyshire: Various 1518-1635

DD/FJ/11/1/8/9-11 Nottinghamshire: Various 1613, 1776

DD/FJ/11/1/8/12-21 Yorkshire: Various 1518-c.1759

DD/FJ/11/1/8/22 Gloucestershire: Bristol 1635

Subsidies and Assessments, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/8/23-24 Derbyshire: Hundred of Scarsdale 1559-1563/4

DD/FJ/11/1/8/25-44 Nottinghamshire: Various 1592-1787

DD/FJ/11/1/8/45-49 Yorkshire: Various 1657-1729

Coal Mining

DD/FJ/11/1/8/50-51 Birkwood (Yorkshire W.R.) 1630-1632

Wool Trade

DD/FJ/11/1/8/52 Yorkshire 1752

Political and National Affairs, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/8/53 Parliament 1640

DD/FJ/11/1/8/54-58 Rebellion of 1745, etc. 18th c.

Shrievalty, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/8/59-61 Lincolnshire 1610-c.1640

DD/FJ/11/1/8/62-65 Nottinghamshire 1677-1746

Tithes

DD/FJ/11/1/8/66 Yorkshire: Hutton (N.R.) 18th c.

Turnpikes

DD/FJ/11/1/8/67-71 Nottinghamshire 1755-1776

Miscellaneous Literary Papers, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/9/1-14 County of Nottinghamshire 1679-1740(?)

DD/FJ/11/1/9/15-16 Borough of Nottingham. 1727-c.1747

DD/FJ/11/1/9/17-27 Borough of East Retford. 1705(?)-1774

Crown Offices and Fees.

DD/FJ/11/1/10 List of Crown Offices and fees. (vol.) Temp. Eliz.

King's Speeches, etc.

DD/FJ/11/1/11 Collection of King's speeches, etc. 1707-1789

Newspapers.

DD/FJ/11/1/12 Miscellaneous newspapers. 1708-1805

Commons Disputes

DD/FJ/12/1-43 Yorkshire: Rawmarsh & Swinton commons (W.R.): Legal Disputes (c.1699-c.1721) 1538-1792

DD/FJ/13/1-10 Yorkshire: Rawmarsh & Kilnhurst commons (W.R.): Legal Disputes (c.1625-1648) 1304-1777

Miscellaneous Records

DD/FJ/14/1 Calendar of Foljambe archives (cards) 1887

DD/FJ/14/2/7 Stray documents and seal fragments 13th c.-1843

<span class="wrapper"><p>Related Collections also in Nottinghamshire Archives:</p> <p>Foljambe of Osberton (DD/FJ)</p> <p>Foljambe of Osberton (second series) (DD/FJ/15)</p> <p>Foljambe of Osberton (Irish estates) (DD/FJ/IR)</p> <p>Savile of Rufford (DD/SR)</p> <p>Related Collections elsewhere:</p> <p>Further records can be found in possession of the depositor, in the Berkshire Record office (D/EX 183), in Sheffield Archives (MD 2693), and in other repositories listed in the National Register of Archives.</p></span>

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These documents are additional to the main deposit of family archives in Nottinghamshire Archives (DD/FJ/1-10) and were held in the Estate Office at Osberton Hall near Worksop prior to their deposit in the Nottinghamshire Records Office (now Nottinghamshire Archives) in 1962 and 1971.