OSBORNE, DUKE OF LEEDS COLLECTION
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Type of record: Archive
Title: OSBORNE, DUKE OF LEEDS COLLECTION
Classmark: YAS/DD5
Date(s): 13th century - 1904
Language: English; Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Size and medium: 168 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/442046
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Papers of the Dukes of Leeds 13th-19th century relating mainly to estates in the North and West Ridings, but also to Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Denbighshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex, Montgomeryshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire and Scotland
Includes deeds and settlements 13th-19th century. (See YRS 83 (1932), 102 (1940) and 111 (1996))
Court rolls for Conisbrough 1340 - 1695, Hornby 1710 - 1819
Rentals and surveys, mainly 18 century, 17th-19th centuries.
Estate, domestic and building accounts and vouchers, notably for the building of Kiveton Hall 1697 - 1705, 17 - 19 century
Building and estate plans, notably for Kiveton Hall by Louis Laguerre nd [17 century] and Hornby Castle by A.W. Pugin 1847. DD 5/26-27
Estate, personal and some political correspondence 18th-19th century.
Diaries, notably a diary of the marquis of Carmarthen during the illness of George III 1788, 18 century, and foreign tour in Germany & Switzerland DD 5/12/16.
Inventories and valuations 18 - 19 century. DD 5/12, 5/20 & 5/23-37
Printed and manuscript volumes including Fasciculus Temporum, 1476.
Physical characteristics
Measurement details: YAHS Survey: Outsize measurements not taken as part of survey. REB 29.10.2018
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