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Pl - The Portland (London) Collection, being Legal, Financial and Estate Papers of the Dukes of Portland, 1304-1940
E - Estate Papers in the Portland (London) Collection; 1304-1933
F - Family and Financial Papers in the Portland (London) Collection; 1583-1940
1 - Material relating to the public and private affairs of the Dukes of Portland and occasional others; c.1622-1908
2 - Settlements, wills, mortgages, financial papers and litigation relating to the 'paternal' estates of the Dukes of Portland; 1690-1751
1 - Material relating to the 1st Earl of Portland and to his second marriage; 1690-1751
2 - Marriage settlement and related material, 1st Duke of Portland; 1704-1741
3 - Deeds and related papers concerning the mortgage of the Bulstrode estate, Buckinghamshire by the 1st Duke of Portland; 1719-1724
4 - Marriage settlement of 2nd Duke of Portland, related material, annuities and borrowing (2 bundles); 1734-1743
1 - Conveyance for suffering recoveries of estates in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Hampshire; 6-7 June 1734
2 - Exemplification of a common recovery of the Duke of Portland's Buckinghamshire estates; 3 July 1734
3 - Exemplification of a common recovery of the Duke of Portland's Middlesex estates; 3 July 1734
4 - Marriage settlement of the Duke of Portland and Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley; 10 July 1734
5 - Attested copy marriage settlement of the Duke of Portland and Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley; 10 July 1734
6 - Opinion of counsel concerning the marriage settlement of the Duke of Portland and Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley etc.; n.d. [post 1754]
7 - Grant of an annuity by the Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 16 Nov. 1734
8 - Grant of an annuity by the Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 27 Nov. 1735
9 - Release of an annuity by Mr de Thoms; 3 Dec. 1735
10 - Conveyance for suffering recoveries of the Duke of Portland's Cheshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk estates; 7 Feb. 1735/36
11 - Common recovery of the manor of Dracklow and Rudheath, Cheshire; 21 Apr. 1736.
12 - Exemplification of a common recovery of the Duke of Portland's Norfolk estates; 7 June 1736
13 - Release and quit claim from Mr de Thoms to the 2nd Duke of Portland; 3 June 1736
14 - Grant of an annuity by the 2nd Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 4 June 1736
15 - Surrender by Mr de Thoms of an annuity granted by the 2nd Duke of Portland; 20 Sept. 1742
16 - Sale by the 2nd Duke of Portland of various estate to his trustees; 4 Feb. 1742/43. Attached act of Parliament, 1740-1741
17 - Grant of an annuity by the 2nd Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 26 Mar. 1735
18 - Grant of an annuity by the 2nd Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 23 Feb. 1735/36
19-20 - Warrants of attorney to confess judgment regarding debts to Mr de Thoms; 26 Mar. and 27 Nov. 1735
21 - Memorials of the registration of conveyance and grant of an annuity at the East Riding Registry of Deeds; 29 Dec. 1735-9 June 1736
22-25 - Judgments (copy) and warrants of attorney to acknowledge satisfaction regarding the Duke of Portland's debts to Mr de Thoms; 20 Sept. 1742
26 - General release and quit claim from Frederick de Thoms to the Duke of Portland; 20 Sept. 1742
27-30 - Memorials of registration of surrenders of annuities by Mr de Thoms to the Duke of Portland; 20 Sept.-6 Oct. 1742
31 - Draft surrender from Frederick de Thoms to the Duke of Portland of his annuity; 1742
32 - Draft surrender from Frederick de Thoms to the Duke of Portland of his annuity; 1742
33 - Instructions to be observed relating to the due execution of deeds by Mr de Thoms; n.d. [1742]
34 - Account of sales of various manors by the Duke of Portland (May 1734-June 1736); n.d. [c.1736]
35 - Account of payments made to Mr de Thoms and details of annuities granted by the Duke of Portland (June 1734-June 1736); n.d. [c.1736]
36-40 - Miscellaneous memoranda etc. regarding the annuities granted by the Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms, with related financial calculations; June 1734-June 1736
41-52 - Letters from the 2nd Duke of Portland to John Lucas, King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, London, with one reply; 2 Dec. 1736-24 July 1737 and n.d. [c.1736-1737]
53 - Letter from Thomas Barnard, Lincoln's Inne to the Duke of Portland; 15 Apr. 1737.
54 - Letter from the Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms; 2 July 1737
55-58 - Letters from Robert Atkinson, Lincoln's Inn to John Lucas, King's Bench Walk, with enclosed bill of costs; 8 Oct. 1737-6 Oct. 1738
59 - Letter from Mr de Thoms, Naples to [Peter Walter]; 8 July 1738
60-61 - Copy letters from John Lucas to John Bance, Challow, Wantage, Berks; 10-14 Aug. 1742
62 - Letter from the Duke of Portland to Mr de Thoms at Leyden; 11 Oct. 1742
63 - Letter from Henry Waterland, Hull to John Lucas, King's Bench Walk, Temple with memorials of the registration of annuities; 12 Sept. 1742
64 - List of deeds and writings seen in the custody of John Bance, Esq. in St Mary Axe; 25 Jan. 1736/37
65 - Rough memorandum relating to the de Thoms/Bance business; 1737
66-67 - Rental of Cheshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire properties subject to annuities to Mr de Thoms; 1738
68 - Rough memorandum relating to the de Thoms/Bance business; 1742
5 - Deeds and related papers concerning the portions of the 2nd Duke of Portland's brother and sisters (2 bundles); 1735-1751
6 - Portland trust accounts and litigation relating to the South Sea Bubble; c.1704-1742
7 - Papers relating to the financial and testamentary affairs of the 1st Duke of Portland; 1719-1741
3 - Settlements, mortgages, litigation, Acts of Parliament etc. relating to the 'maternal' estates of the Dukes of Portland; 1583-1790
4 - Marriage settlements and related material for daughters of the Earls and Dukes of Portland, and other kinswomen; 1673-1824
5 - Trust deeds and settlements, mortgages and litigation relating to the estates and finances of the 3rd Duke of Portland; 1747-1865
6 - Material relating to the trusts, settlements, will trusts etc. of the 4th Duke and Duchess of Portland and the 5th Duke of Portland; 1795-1910
7 - Papers relating to Lord Richard Cavendish's trusts and to the purchase and sale of Thomas Brand's Nottinghamshire estates by the 3rd Duke of Portland; 1616-1820
8 - Papers relating to the Norfolk estate, trust and testamentary affairs of Lord and Lady William Bentinck, related litigation, and to the other younger children of the 3rd Duke of Portland; 1795-1894
9 - Papers concerning the financial, trust and testamentary affairs of the children of the 4th Duke of Portland (except his successor), chiefly those of Lady Harriet Bentinck; 1816-1907
10 - Material relating to the investments, financial affairs and settlements etc. of the 6th and 7th Dukes of Portland, the Duke of Portland's Advisory Board and the Welbeck Estates Co., Ltd; 1889-1939
11 - Material concerning the Dukes of Portland as trustees for other families and for the cadet branch of the Bentincks (at Terrington, Norfolk), and material of related and connected families; 1744-1914
L - Legal Papers in the Portland (London) Collection; 1647-1927
X - Miscellaneous papers relating to the Dukes of Portland and their predecessors, and other papers intermixed with them; 1347-1915
Y - Copy out-letters and other papers of the solicitors Messrs Baileys, Shaw and Gillett; July 1939-Dec. 1940
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