Charity in Newcastle-under-Lyme
This bundle of documents contains a number of deeds which were made between the Leveson-Gower family and the Corporation of Newcastle-under-Lyme between 1715 and 1898. The deeds include terms which secure ...
Concerns about the Condition of the Alms Houses
Elliot’s report was commissioned by the Duke of Sutherland to investigate the condition of the Alms Houses in Newcastle. The Duke was evidently concerned that the buildings were kept in a good state and ...
Newcastle Alms Houses
The Sutherland Papers Collection contains a wealth of documents which provide an insight into life in Newcastle-under-Lyme during the nineteenth century. Amongst these are a number of papers relating ...
Newcastle Broadsheets about Bribery and Corruption
The Sutherland Collection contains a wide range documents relating to the role of bribery and corruption in the electoral system of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of these documents ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Sutherland Collection
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge variety of documents relating to the local history and local politics of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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Property in Newcastle: Houses and a Smithy, 1734
Throughout the eighteenth century the Leveson-Gowers purchased property in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Sutherland Collection contains many deeds and leases telling us about the type of property which was ...
Property in Newcastle: The Will of Randall Podmore, 1652
Many of the property deeds in the Sutherland Collection contain the wills and copies of wills made by the original owners of land which the Leveson-Gowers had acquired in Staffordshire. Amongst property ...
Rioting in Newcastle
A number of letters were found amongst the papers of Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754) relating to the family’s estates and associates in Staffordshire and Shropshire written during the ...
The Will of Randall’s youngest son, Randall Podmore of Namptwich
The Sutherland Collection also contains copies of the will of Randall Podmore’s youngest son, ‘Randle Podmore of Namptwich’ who was a ‘feltmaker’. Randle’s will reveals that he left the property he owned ...