Temple family addenda, Approximately 1600-Approximately 1697

Summary

Abstract:

Correspondence and documents relating to Lady Hester (Sandys) Temple and her husband Sir Thomas Temple and the management of their estates.

Extent:

187 items in three boxes

Language:

The records are in English .

Background

Scope and content:

Three boxes of correspondence and documents (>1600-1670); the subject matter in this collection: the Temple family, mainly during the period preceding and including the Civil War: family affairs (domestic quarrels, lawsuits, marriage arrangements); the management of the household and estates, chiefly at Stowe, Burton Dassett, Padbury and Finmere; relations with servants, tenants, and tradesmen regarding rents, the procuring of provisions, clothing and materials, and the landscaping of Stowe; and occasional reports on the current political situation.

Biographical / historical:

The Temple Family Addenda, which is separate from the Stowe Collection, deals chiefly with the affairs of Lady Hester (Sandys) Temple (1569-1656) and her husband Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Bart. of Stowe (1567-1637). Sir Thomas, the son of John Temple, studied at Lincoln’s Inn, served as a Member of Parliament (1588-89), succeeded to his father’s estates in 1603, and was knighted in the same year. He purchased a baronetcy and served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire (1606-07), Buckinghamshire (1616-17), and Warwickshire (1620-21). About 1595, Sir Thomas married Hester, the daughter of Miles Sandys of Buckinghamshire. She was active in the management of the Temple estates, in numerous lawsuits, and in the care of their fifteen children.

Acquisition information:

Purchased through Maggs Brothers from Sotheby’s, Lots 453, 79 and 80, October 9 - November 20, 1973.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Note:

Cataloger's notes

During the final cataloging process staff made some changes to names and dates on selected folders to correct preliminary cataloging decisions.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Administration of estates –- Great Britain –- History -- 17th century
Country life – Great Britain –- History –- 17th century
Families –- Great Britain -– History -– 17th century
Gentry – Great Britain –- History -– 17th century
Household employees –- Great Britain -– History -– 17th century
Manors –- Great Britain –- Buckingham
Documents -– Great Britain -– 17th century
Letters (correspondence) -– Great Britain –- 17th century

Location of this collection:

Huntington Library, Manuscript Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US

Contact:

(626) 405-2191

reference@huntington.org

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