Deeds of the Earls of Shrewsbury

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. D.D. Shrewsbury c. 1-5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1239-1860
  • Language of Material
    • Latin, and English.
  • Physical Description
    • 5 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

164 deeds relating to property of the Earls of Shrewsbury at the following places:

  • Buckinghamshire: Hughenden, 1651
  • Oxfordshire: Bampton, 1239, 1623, 1654-1860; Heythrop, 1664, 1695-7, 1788; Dunthrop and Shewell, 1570, 1616, 1645, 1650-1839; Middle Aston, 1635, 1654; Rotherfield Peppard, 1656, 1694
  • Staffordshire: Alton, 1658
  • Surrey: Kingston, 1651, 1663, 1701
  • Yorkshire: Bolsterton Heyfield, 1658

Administrative / Biographical History

The Earls of Shrewsbury had property in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and Yorkshire.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

The deeds were deposited in the Library by the Earl of Shrewsbury, through Berkshire Record Office, 1950.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

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