| Content Description | Theobald's was the first property to be granted by William III to his follower, Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (in 1689) and the first to be sold by the 3rd Duke at the end of the 1760s (for about £75,000 to the banker George Prescott, the sitting tenant). The material here comprises estate accounts, correspondence and related papers for the period of Bentinck ownership. |