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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 114
Title
Volume containing lists of applications for various honours and offices, apparently made to W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; 1807-08
Date
1807-1808
Extent
90 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Volume divided into different sections with headings indicating honours and offices applied for in the following areas; peerage f 1; church appointments f 6; baronetage f 19; treasury appointments f 21; legal appointments f 30; appointments within Ireland f 38; military appointments f 46; appointments as lottery officers f 52; commissariat f 58; customs appointments f 63; miscellaneous f 68.
Many folios left blank for further entries.
Volume possibly in the hand of 3rd Duke of Portland.
Language
English
Term
patronage
applications, peerage
applications, for positions
ReprodnNote
Volumes from Pw V cannot be photographed by readers with their own camera or device, but reprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only.
Physical Description
Folio volume
Condition
Good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Britannia holding laurel branch within crowned, triple rimmed circle, approx. 126 x 77 mm.
Countermark: W TURNER and date 1802 below the name, approx. 34 x 102 mm
Similar binding characteristics to Pw V 115; tobacco brown suede on pasteboards, blind tooled around outer borders with a single fillet line, a wave roll facing the centre of covers, all three ornaments stamped close together as a unit; central field is left blank; same decoration on both upper and lower covers; spine is divided into 6 panels by means of a double fillet line blind stamped 7 times along the spine; front and back pastedowns are similar to marble paper in Pw V 115.
Watermark
Britannia
Related Material
University of Nottingham Library:
University of Nottingham Library:
Papers of the 3rd Duke of Portland (Pw F)
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA905
Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762
1738-1809
NA905
Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762
1738-1809
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