Record

PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries

Document Reference	Pw V 115
Title	Volume containing lists of applications for various honours and offices apparently made to W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; n.d. [1807-08]
Date	1807-1808 (c)
Extent	87 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Volume divided alphabetically by name of applicant into lists of applications for honours and offices; details include posts and sometimes salaries; volume has alphabetical index; many folios left blank. Volume possibly in the hand of 3rd Duke of Portland.
Language	English
Term	patronage
	applications, for positions
	applications, peerage
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 book Also has 2 front flyleaves.
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 114; 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)