Granville, Earl Gower and National Politics: William Pitt the Younger and the post of Lord Privy Seal
Owing to Gower’s long and diverse political career, the Sutherland Papers includes many letters from various men in high political office, including letters from Prime ministers Henry Addington and William ...
Granville, Lord Lieutenant and Prisoners in Stafford County Gaol
As Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, Granville, Earl Gower was responsible for overseeing the maintenance of law and order in the County.
A notable document amongst the papers relating to Earl Gower’s ...
Henry Hazlehurst Brick Making Agreement, Meirheath Colliery, 1796
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Mearheath colliery Dec 14th 1796
Henry Hazlehurst agrees with T Heath to make one hundred thousand bricks at Poole Dole for the Marquis ...
Hill Chorlton, 1791
Amongst the estate documents relating to Eccleshall is a list of ‘Freeholders and Incroachments at Hill Chorlton’ made in 1791. The document lists tenants of Sir Thomas Broughton and George Granville ...
Incomes Tax and Riots in Leek, 1797
On 10th September 1797 Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), the Marquis of Stafford, received a letter from the Duke of Portland, reporting that there had been riots in Leek against taxation.
In 1797 ...
Industry in Longton
J. H. Y. Briggs suggests that mining was important in Longton from the late seventeenth century onwards. By the 1720s the Leveson-Gower family were exploiting the mineral resources on their lands in Priorsfield.
By ...
Instructions for Managing the Colliers
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Instructions
Take care of the sale of coals, visit all the pits twice a day, examine the brick bank and see as none are stolen or disposed of without ...
Interesting Details in the Colliery Accounts, 1766
This document provides a list of trials of Lead Mines of Grindon including the cost of working. Richard Annables was paid for 19 days at one shilling a day for gun powder.
Mr. Adams was paid Expenses ...
James Brindley Canal Plans
The Leveson-Gower family were instrumental in the development of navigable waterways in Britain. In the middle of the nineteenth century Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford (1721-1803)invested ...
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 Stokes Wage Agreement with Thomas Heath, 1797
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Oct 10th 1797.
T. Heath agreed to give James Stokes Three shillings and three pence a stack getting the coals so long as ...
James Stokes Wages Agreement, 1798
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Jan 12th 1798
Agreed to give James Stokes 3/6 per yard heading and ten shillings ...
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 ...
Jonathan Shaw Tabbeners Mine Agreement, 1799
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Meirheath colliery Dec. 3rd 1799.
Jonathon Shaw agrees with Thomas Heath to get and draw and sell all the coals which ...
Joseph Lockett & John Brown Mining Agreement, 1791
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Mearheath colliery.
Thomas Heath agreed with Joseph Lockett and John Brown to get all the coals beyond the distance ...
Knowles Colliery Mining Agreement, 1796
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We whose names are hereunto subscribed do agree with Thomas Heath to sink an engine pit and a bye pit at Knowles colliery for the proprietor thereof ...
Lichfield Elections 1748, 1753 and 1754: Lawyers Costs
During the eighteenth century the Gower-Anson interest made extensive purchases of property in Lichfield in order to secure the voting rights which were attached to certain properties. Tenants who were ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Building Work and Repairs, 1777
Amongst papers relating to life of the Trentham Estate in the eighteenth century are accounts describing building work undertaken on the Estate in 1777. The ‘Scheme of Building at Trentham in 1777’ describes ...