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DOVER (LORD)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0313

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DOVER (LORD)

Date(s): 1708-1736

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Jermyn | Henry | 1636-1708 | 3rd Baron of Dover

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Dover (1636-1708), was a prominent figure at the Restoration Court. He was a Roman Catholic in the household of James Duke of York and, on James' accession, began to take part in public affairs. In 1685 was raised to the peerage as Baron Dover of Dover and in 1636 became a member of the Privy Council. He followed James into exile in France and was given "Jacobite peerages". After the Battle of the Boyne, where he commanded a troop, Dover was eventually pardoned by William III and spent the rest of his life quietly at his home in Albermarle Buildings near St. James's Park or at his country seat at Cheveley near Newmarket. In 1703 he succeeded his brother as 3rd Baron Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury. He died at Cheveley on 6 April 1708 and his body was taken to Bruges to be buried in the church of the Carmelites. His wife, whom he married in 1675, was Judith daughter of Sir Edmund Poley of Badley, Suffolk.

Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 4th baronet, of Flamstead, Herts., was born 11 May 1692 and died 12 April 1736. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1702, and was M.P. for Hertfordshire from 1715 until his death.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to the estate of Lord Dover, 1708-1715, and inventory of the goods of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 1736.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in August 1949.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Accounts ledgers | Accounts | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Family accounts | Accounts | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Funerals | Civil ceremonies | Ceremonies
Inventories | Secondary documents

Personal names
Jermyn | Henry | 1636-1708 | 3rd Baron of Dover

Corporate names

Places