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mssHM 46350-46536
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Title: Temple family addenda
Dates: Approximately 1600-Approximately 1697
Collection Number: mssHM 46350-46536
Extent:
187 items in three boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Correspondence and documents relating to Lady Hester (Sandys) Temple and her husband Sir Thomas Temple and the management
of their estates.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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[Identification of item], Temple family addenda, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased through Maggs Brothers from Sotheby’s, Lots 453, 79 and 80, October 9 - November 20, 1973.
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.
The collection is arranged chronologically.
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.
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.
Chaplyn, William, active 1612-1633
Laud, William, 1573-1645
Penyston, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1644
Temple, Hester, -1656
Temple, Katherine, 1590-1657
Temple, Thomas, 1567-1637
Tyrrill, Thomas, active 1643-1675
Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England)
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
Great Britain -– History -– Civil War, 1642-1649
Great Britain -– Politics and government -- 17th century
Great Britain -– Social life and customs -– 17th century
Documents -– Great Britain -– 17th century
Letters (correspondence) -– Great Britain –- 17th century