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) |
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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 |