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‘A thinge yet kept secret’: Sir Richard Leveson and political intrigue
In many of Sir Richard’s private letters to Sir John he comments on his secret knowledge of political affai...
‘God send us merry meetinge’: Sir Richard Leveson at Home
exhibition Many of the letters written by Sir Richard to his cousin Sir John Leveson of Halling (1555-1615) refer to m...
‘I am no land man’: Sir Richard Leveson and War with Spain
The letters written by Sir Richard to his cousin and colleague Sir John include many intriguing accounts of...
Battle Accounts in the Sutherland Collection
Many of the battle accounts featured in the Sutherland Papers are written from the Royalist perspective, su...
Civil War Celebrities in the Sutherland Collection
The Sutherland Collection contains many letters and accounts which refer to important figures from the Engl...
Lichfield and the Civil War
exhibition Lichfield was strategically important in the Civil War. A Royalist garrison at the start of the conflict, t...
Money and Marriage: Sir Thomas Gower and the Leveson Family
Sir Thomas Gower married Frances Leveson, the grandaughter of Sir John Leveson of Halling (1555-1615) in 16...
More about Sir Richard and War with Spain
Richard Wisker writes that following the Spanish invasion of Kinsale in 1601 Sir Richard and his cousin Sir...
Perton Survey, 1648
exhibition The document above is entitled ‘A Survey and vewe of the Towneship of perton in the County of Stafford’. Th...
Rachel's Letters: More News from Town
Rachel’s letters also refer to wider social and world affairs. In a further letter she comments on proposed...
Scandal in Perton: John Lougher and Perton Manor House
exhibition The Sutherland Papers contain many legal papers concerning land and property in Staffordshire. Amongst the...
Seventeenth Century Shops in Wolverhampton
The Sutherland Papers contain many documents relating to land and property acquisition from as early as the...



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