| Content Description | Bundle of deeds relating to the Duke of Newcastle's estates collectively, with particular reference to the estates of the Holles family, indicating how they have been settled and conveyed following purchase or other acquisition; bundle relates specifically to the marriage settlement of Gilbert, Lord Haughton [later 3rd Earl of Clare] and subsequent transactions relating to the Holles estates; concerns properties in Nottinghamshire, Middlesex, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire; includes copy act of parliament, wills of Edward, Earl of Lincoln and Gilbert, Earl of Clare, leases and releases, demise, recovery, discharges and so on. |