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BROOME : CO. KENT

Catalogue reference: KEN 17

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Reference
KEN 17
Title
BROOME : CO. KENT
Date
1662-1665
Description

Account book of Sir Basil Dixwell

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Dixwell, Sir, Basil, 1665-1750, 1st Baronet</persname>
Physical description
1 document
Immediate source of acquisition

Presented 1966 June on permanent loan by Rothamsted Experimental Station (Acc no 502)

Administrative / biographical background

Sir Basil DIXWELL (d.1641) inherited considerable estates at Folkestone and other parts of co. Kent (including 149 acres in Romney Marsh) from his maternal uncle, John Herdson in the early 17th century. Having built a mansion house at Broome, co. Kent he moved there in 1622. The estates later devolved upon his nephew's son, also named Basil, who was created a baronet on 1660 June 18. It is to this member of the family that the records described below relate. He married Dorothy, daughter and co.-heir of Sir Thomas Peyton of Knowlton, co. Kent. The estate was sold in 1697 to Jacob Desbouverie and the baronetcy became extinct on the death of his grandson on 1750 March 25.

Publication note(s)
<p>For additional information about the Dixwell family, see BURKE, John and BURKE, John Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. 2nd ed. London : John Russell Smith, 1884, p.161-162; CHALKLIN, C.W. Seventeenth-century Kent : a social and economic history. London : Longmans, 1965; Everitt, Alan. The community of Kent and the great rebellion 1640-1660. Leicester : Leicester University press, 1966; and the Dictionary of National biography, v.15, p.130</p>
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