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After clothes had been washed in the wash house, they came to the Laundry, where the large fire and ‘Ironing Stove’ were used to dry and iron clothes. A sixteen foot ironing board was kept in the laundry, alongside a ‘Dressing Horse’ and a number of clothes horses. The laundry housed twenty four ...
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The Sutherland Papers contain a number of papers relating to various aspects of life at West Hill between 1825 and 1833. Amongst these papers is a document listing repairs which were needed at West Hill, produced ‘for Lord Staffords Aprobation’. The list includes annotations by George Granville L...
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Amongst the vouchers and accounts for expenditure at West Hill is a huge document issued to the second Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) by Charles Shillito who was a surgeon in Putney. The document forms a statement of provisions made to the household at West Hill by...
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The image above shows the Abstract of the cash account for the ‘National and Sunday Schools’ and also ‘the Clothing Club’ in the parish of Lilleshall, made in 1827.
The document tells us that the National and Sundays schools established in Lilleshall were maintained by public donations. Subsc...
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All lords of manors had the right to
hold a court for their tenants, sometimes known as a court baron or small court, which regulated the affairs of the manor by the custom of the manor, but only some lords were entitled to hold a court leet, a quite separate jurisdiction, in essence a franchise...
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As well as various granges on their more distant lands (see 972/1/1/489) Lilleshall Abbey had three granges close to the mother house – Cherswell, Watling Street and Wildmoor – and a farm actually at Lilleshall run as a grange.
There is no evidence that Augustinian canons ever had lay brothers...
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The image above shows a page from accounts made by Thomas Doody relating to agricultural work on the Trentham Estate in the late seventeenth century. Doody’s accounts describe payments made by the estate to men working in the gardens at Trentham Hall and in the fields on the Trentham estate. The ...
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The document above is an indenture involving land owned by the Duke of Sutherland and Caverswall School Board, made on 31st July 1877.
The document provides details about the ‘absolute sale’ of a piece of land owned by George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Du...
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Amongst papers relating to Stafford House are a large number of letters written to George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), the second Duke of Sutherland, by Benjamin Wyatt, the architect who had been employed by the Duke of York to work on York House. Wyatt was subsequently employ...
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The image above shows a document outlining the allowance made by the third Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to a lady called Emma Morris who occupied a cottage on the Lilleshall estate.
Emma had worked as a Charwoman at Lilleshall Hall but was now an unemployed widow. The allowance states that E...
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The charter says the grant is to the canons regular of Donnington showing that they had already moved from their original site at Lizard between Watling Street and Merdich which Philip de Belmeis had granted them. VCH Shropshire vol.2 thinks that the reference to ‘Donnington’ meant that they had ...
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Cliveden in Buckinghamshire was owned by the second Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) and his wife Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland (1806-1868) for almost twenty years, between 1849 and 1868.
In November 1849 a fire destroyed a large part of the house at ...
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