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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 affairs. The letters tell us his private opinion of events which occurred in the late sixteenth and ...

‘God send us merry meetinge’: Sir Richard Leveson at Home

Many of the letters written by Sir Richard to his cousin Sir John Leveson of Halling (1555-1615) refer to members of the Leveson family and tell us about relationships within this family in the early ...

‘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 military adventure whilst serving in the English Navy. These accounts relate to significant ...

Battle Accounts in the Sutherland Collection

Many of the battle accounts featured in the Sutherland Papers are written from the Royalist perspective, supporting the King. They include accounts of the Battle of Edgehill, the opening battle of the ...

Civil War Celebrities in the Sutherland Collection

The Sutherland Collection contains many letters and accounts which refer to important figures from the English Civil War. Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) was a Staffordshire ...

Lichfield and the Civil War

Lichfield was strategically important in the Civil War. A Royalist garrison at the start of the conflict, the Parliamentarians overthrew the City in 1643 for a short period before it was regained by the ...

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 1631. By this time Frances Leveson's Father Sir John Leveson, the eldest son of Sir John Leveson ...

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 John Leveson of Halling (1555-1615) were instrumental in co-ordinating English naval defence ...

Perton Survey, 1648

The document above is entitled ‘A Survey and vewe of the Towneship of perton in the County of Stafford’. The document provides a list of people living in Perton during 1648 and tells us about the lands ...

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 marriage arrangements concerning Lord Shrewsbury, who was closely associated with Sir Richard’s ...

Scandal in Perton: John Lougher and Perton Manor House

The Sutherland Papers contain many legal papers concerning land and property in Staffordshire. Amongst these are papers relating to a case between the Leveson family and a man named John Lougher of Perton. ...

Seventeenth Century Shops in Wolverhampton

The Sutherland Papers contain many documents relating to land and property acquisition from as early as the fourteenth century. Amongst these is an intriguing document from 1615 relating to a butcher's ...

Sir John Leveson and Court Security

Sir John Leveson’s papers include a letter addressed to him from Hampton Court dated August 1603 concerning ‘one John Stockwell of lewd and most villainous mouth’. Richard Wisker notes that Sir John Leveson ...

Sir John Leveson of Halling at Home

The Sutherland Papers include many wills and inventories detailing the property owned by the Leveson family during the sixteenth century. The inventories relating to Sir John Leveson (1555-1615) provide ...

Sir John Leveson: Coronation of James I

As Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, Sir John Leveson was given the responsibility of raising volunteers to provide security at the coronation of King James I in 1603. The documents relating to Sir John’s professional ...

Sir Richard Leveson & Katherine Duddeley: Courtship and Marriage in the Seventeenth Century

The Sutherland Papers include a number of letters written to Sir Richard Leveson by his wife Katherine Duddeley. The letters were evidently written during their courtship and after their marriage. The ...

Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661)

Sir Richard Leveson of Halling, Trentham and Lilleshall was the second son of Sir John Leveson of Halling and his second wife Christian Mildmay. He had one elder brother, John Leveson who died in 1612. ...

Sir Richard Leveson, William Dugdale and John Langley: Letters in the Sutherland Papers from William Dugdale

Amongst the Sutherland Papers are a number of letters written by the famous antiquarian William Dugdale. The letters are addressed to Sir Richard Leveson and John Langley who was Sir Richard’s Steward. ...

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