Domestic Life: Supplies for the Poor
As Clerk to the Duke of Sutherland’s Accountant, Mr. Prentice was responsible for sending out cheques to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham, to pay for supplies and to pay the servant’s wages. On ...
Domestic Life: Visitors, Supplies and Staff
Many letters written to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, include details about the Sutherland family, household staff and the provision of supplies. In the letter above, Mr. Prentice, the ...
Early 13th Century Sale
Robert Hagerwas specifically wanted money to go to the Holy Land. Many thousands went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, St. James at Compostela in Spain or St. Peter at Rome. There was a sense of Christendom ...
Expenditure on Stafford House
The document above is a ‘Statement of Payments & Estimate for Stafford House’ which was made in November 1837. The document tells us about the people and money involved in the completion of Stafford House ...
Expenditure on the State Rooms at Stafford House
The document above is entitled ‘Statement of Payments on Account of the Estimate of £50,000 to finish Stafford House State Rooms from 1st January 1834 to August 1837’. The document provides details about ...
From Melrose Hall to West Hill, 1824
The Sutherland Collection includes the ‘particulars and conditions of sale’ for ‘that distinguished freehold estate’ called ‘Melrose Hall’. Melrose Hall was situated at West Hill, Wandsworth, ‘only six ...
From York to Stafford: Negotiating the Lease of York House
Work began on Stafford House in 1825 when the Duke of York commissioned a property which he intended to call York House. However, when the Duke of York died in 1827, the freehold lease of the property ...
George Devey (1820-1886)
George Devey is perhaps a less well-known architect when he is considered alongside men like Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860). However, Devey was an influential architect of domestic buildings during the ...
Grant in Frankalmoign
When founders or benefactors made gifts of land or manors to a religious house they were basically enfeoffing them to a tenant. In the feudal system this tenant, even if it were an abbey or priory, would ...
Grant of Indulgence
The system of granting indulgences gained popularity at the time of the First Crusade whereby repentant sinners who prayed for forgiveness and made a personal commitment were offered relief from their ...
Ground and Chamber Plan of Lilleshall Lodge, 1908
The image above shows a ground and chamber plan of Lilleshall Lodge made in April 1908. Pencil annotations on the plan show proposed alterations to the property made in the early twentieth century.
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Hill Chorlton, 1914
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge number of papers relating to the sale of lands on the Leveson-Gower family's estates in the early twentieth century. These papers, many from 1914, include a variety ...
Household Correspondence: Balls at Trentham
The letter above was written to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, by Mr. H. Prentice, the clerk of the Duke of Sutherland’s Accountant in June 1872. Prentice’s letter concerns preparations ...
Household Correspondence: Servants and Beer
The letter above was sent to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, concerning the provision of beer for servants. The letter instructs Mrs. Ingram to ‘kindly make arrangements for the servants ...
Inventory of books and other things in the parish church of North Molton, Devon
In 1313 Edward II granted Alan Charlton and his wife Ellen license to alienate to the abbot and convent of Lilleshall one acre of land in North Molton and the advowson of the church. (See Document 972/1/1/552 ...
James Loch (1780-1855): Chief Agent of the Sutherland Estates 1812-1855
James Loch’s name is synonymous with the Sutherland estates. Through his employment as Chief Agent to the Marquis of Stafford and later to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, James Loch would become, ...
James Trubshaw (1777-1853)
Local builder and engineer James Trubshaw was born in Colwich in 1777. Best known for his work on the Grosvenor Bridge over the River Dee in Chester, Trubshaw also worked on the Wolseley Bridge in Staffordshire.
Trubshaw ...
Lady Stafford’s Bedroom
Unlike the elaborately decorated reception rooms, Lady Stafford’s bedroom at West Hill was surprisingly modest. Her private chamber housed a stove, ‘an outside canvas sun shade’ and ‘four Japanned rosewood ...