SUDELEY Manuscripts

Manorial - Appointments

Court papers

Muniments of title - Abstracts of title

Deeds: Anglesey

Glamorgan

Gloucestershire

Lincolnshire

Monmouthshire

Montgomeryshire

Radnorshire

Shropshire

Somerset

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

Bonds separated from indentures

Correspondence

Inquisitions post mortem

Marriage settlements (other than those included with Deeds)

Wills and Administrations

Estate Management - Accounts and vouchers

Building accounts

Correspondence

Plans

Rentals

Sale catalogues

Surveys

Estate Acts of Parliament

Miscellaneous

Household Management - Garden accounts

Family History - Histories of family and estate

Correspondence

Genealogical notes

Grants of arms, and associated papers

Monumental inscriptions

Patents of nobility

Pedigrees

Miscellaneous

Legal Papers -

Personal Papers - Appointments and associated papers

Certificates of burial

Commissions

Diaries

Miscellaneous

Business Papers -

Ecclesiastical Papers - Presentations and institutions to benefices

Correspondence

Queen Anne's Bounty

Tithes and papers relating to incumbent's right of common

Miscellaneous

• <famname>Hanbury-Tracy family, Barons Sudeley, of Gloucestershire</famname>
• <famname>Tracy, Hanbury-, family, Barons Sudeley, of Gloucestershire</famname>

Originally deposited by the Rt Hon Lord Sudeley, 27 May 1965, 5 October 1976 and 17 March 1983; the records were catalogued by the National Register of Archives in 1961. Purchased from Lord Sudeley in November 2007 for Gloucestershire Archives thanks to the generous support of the MLA/V& A Purchase Grant Fund, The Friends of the National Libraries, The Friends of Gloucestershire Archives, Powys and Shropshire Archives Services, Gloucestershire Archives staff and many private donors

The Lords Sudeley of Toddington in Gloucestershire are the heirs of two ancient families, those of Hanbury and of Tracy, and the Tracy association with Toddington is of great antiquity. Domesday Book records that Toddington was formerly held by Goda, the youngest of the 4 daughters of Ethelred the Unready and sister of Edward the Confessor; and her greatgrandson, John "de Suthlega" in the 12th century married Grace, daughter of Henry de Tracy, lord of Barnstaple. William, the younger son of this marriage, took his mother's name of Tracy, and is sometimes identified as one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket. Toddington remained in the Tracy, later Hanbury Tracy, family until it was sold in c. 1900.

This accumulation contains very little material on the Gloucestershire property despite the long association of the family with the Toddington estate. The bulk of the muniments of title refer to land in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, which came into the family in the 18th century. The Bridgnorth and Morville lands came to the Blayneys through the marriage of John Blayney and Ann Weaver in 1707, and the Blayney and Weaver properties were united by the marriage of Henry, 8th Viscount Tracy and Susannah Weaver. When Arthur Blayney died without issue in 1795, he devised his Welsh estates to Lord Tracy, whose daughter, Henrietta Susanna, wife of Charles Hanbury, later created 1st Baron Sudeley, was his sole heir.

Many of the legal papers refer to the Tracy peerage case in the mid nineteenth century. There were three branches of the Tracy family, the Tracys of Toddington, of Stanway and of Coscomb. The claimant asserted his descent from the Coscomb branch, but the case broke down because proof depended on a tombstone in Ireland which was no longer legible.