Estate letters from the time of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, 1709-39
By: transcribed by Alan Toseland ; edited and annotated by P.H. McKay and D.N. Hall
Contributors: Toseland, Alan; McKay, Peter H.; Hall, David, 1938-; Northamptonshire Record Society
Series: Northampton Record Society -- v. 46; Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society -- v. 46.; Northampton Record Society -- v. 46.
Publisher: Northamptonshire Record Society
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780901275707
Subjects: Estate; Correspondence; Landowners; Real property; Sources; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: General introduction: The documents ; The life of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu ; The estates (Inheritance ; Purchase and sales) ; The administration ; The personnel ; The postal service ; Dating of the letters ; Language and format of the letters; title: Boughton House gardens; title: Letters from Charles Lamotte, 1714-1739; title: Letters from George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan, 1707-1732; title: Letters from Elias Walter and Charles Norgrave, 1721-1724; title: Letters from John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, c. 1720-1734; title: Letters relating to the Gloucester Fee, and the Hundreds of Huxlow, Polebrook and Navisford, 1715-1736; title: Dinner and supper at Boughton House, 1730; title: Family trees: Montagu family ; The family of Elizabeth, Dutches of Albemarle and Dutches of Montagu ; The Southampton inheritance ; Pickering/Creed family tree; title: Glossary.