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Inventory of the estate of Thomas West, 8th Baron West and 9th Baron De La Warr


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 11

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Inventory of the estate of Thomas West, 8th Baron West and 9th Baron De La Warr

Date(s): (1554), c1750-1800

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 17 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas West was born around 1472. He was a soldier and courtier during the reigns of King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. West was High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex from 1524, and succeeded to his father's baronetcies in 1526. During the power struggle in 1549 to control the minority government of King Edward VI, West supported John Dudley, Earl of Warwick against Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector. He was rewarded with a knighthood in 1549. He acted as joint Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex from 1551, and declared for Queen Mary I following the death of Edward VI in 1553. He died at Offington, Sussex, in 1554 and was buried at Broadwater.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing an 18th century transcript of an inventory of the estate of Thomas West, 8th Baron West and 9th Baron De La Warr, including his properties at Offington in Sussex, Ewhurst, and London, all valued at £1,800. The inventory takers were James Gage, John Shelley, Richard Lyne, and George Stoughton.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

This manuscript contains the bookplate of John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Land value | Land economics | Agricultural economics

Personal names
West | Thomas | ? 1472-1554 | 8th Baron West and 9th Baron De La Warr | politician x West | 8th Baron x De La Warr | 9th Baron

Corporate names

Places
Ewhurst | Sussex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Offington | Sussex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe