Sir Richard Leveson: Letters from Francis Newport
One of Sir Richard Leveson’s nephews was the politician Francis Newport, first earl of Bradford (1619–1708). Francis was the son of Sir Richard's sister Rachel (d. 1661) and her husband Richard Newport, ...
Sir Richard Leveson: Parliamentarian Prisoner
Sir Richard’s papers indicate that he had been a prominent Royalist activist throughout the Civil War 1642-1645. This is reflected in his delinquency fine and imprisonment by the Parliamentarians in 1645. ...
Sir Richard Leveson: Rachel Newport's Letters from Town
Amongst Sir Richard Leveson’s personal papers are a collection of letters written to him by his sister Rachel. Rachel Leveson married Richard Newport, first Baron Newport of High Ercall (1587-1651) by ...
Sir Thomas Gower (1605-1672)
The name Leveson-Gower originated with the marriage of Frances Leveson, the grandaughter of Sir John Leveson of Halling (1555-1615), and Sir Thomas Gower in 1631.
The Leveson family were extremely ...
Sir Thomas Gower and the Siege of Hull, 1642
A number of Sir Thomas Gower’s letters are addressed to his wife’s uncle Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) and John Langley, Sir Richard’s steward at Trentham. Many of these letters discuss military and ...
Sir Thomas Gower’s Letters: Anecdotes and Observations
Sir Thomas’s letters also include amusing anecdotes about family relations, and observations of his own health as an aging man. These comments tell us about Sir Thomas and his family’s perceptions of ...
Sir Walter Leveson (1550-1602)
Sir Walter Leveson of Lilleshall(1550-1602) was the son of Richard Leveson and his wife Mary Fretton. He married Anne Corbett and was the father of the famous Vice Admiral Sir Richard Leveson.
Sir ...
Sir Walter Leveson: Prisoner of Fleet Prison
Fleet Prison in London was a notorious debtors prison which housed hundred of debtors and their families during the early seventeenth century. Sir Walter Leveson died in this prison in 1602.
Prisoners ...
Sir William Leveson Gower (1636-1691)
Sir William Leveson-Gower was the son of Sir Thomas Gower (1605-1672). Following the death of his nephew Thomas, Sir William inherited the Gower family's Stittenham estates in Yorkshire which had been ...
The Battle of Hopton Heath, Staffordshire
Amongst the correspondence of Sir Richard Leveson is an account of the famous battle of Hopton Heath which took place on 19th March 1643. This battle was extremely important for Staffordshire’s Royalist ...
The John Lougher Case & People Living in Perton
Amongst the legal papers concerning the Leveson versus Lougher case are a number of ‘Depositions’ which were given by people living in Perton during the 1630s. These depositions tell us more about the ...
The New House at Trentham, 1630-1639
Trentham Hall was passed down through generations of the Leveson family to Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) who built a new house at Trentham in 1630. Work on this new property took just under nine years ...
The Sutherland Papers and Civil War Politics
The Sutherland Papers include a copy of the Petition sent by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to the King on 8th September 1642.
Written just after the outbreak of war, the Petition featured ...
The Sutherland Papers and Royalist Propaganda
When reading documents in the Sutherland Papers as sources reporting events from the Civil War, it is important to examine the way in which they are written.
Accounts in the collection are primarily ...
The Sutherland Papers and the Outbreak of War
The opening stages of the Civil War produced many documents providing an insight into military preparations. The Sutherland Papers include examples of these documents including letters from King Charles ...
Trentham Gardens
The Sutherland Papers contain an enormous wealth of documents relating to Trentham Gardens. Accounts, correspondence, maps, plans and advertisements provide a fascinating insight into this famous local ...
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Leveson (c.1570-1605)
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Leveson was the son of Sir Walter Leveson (1550-1602) of Lilleshall, Shropshire, and his wife Anne Corbet, daughter of Sir Andrew Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Salop.
After his ...