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Bute Estate Records, Sub-sub-fonds
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Yearly accounts,

A7/1-5 are volumes into which the estate's copy of the annual settled account has been copied, while A7/6-8 are gatherings of annual booklets similar to the agent's copy in class A6. The early volumes, A7/1-4 and 8, were also known as ledgers. The post-1842 accounts, A 7/9-14, are for the Glamorgan Estate only, and run from 10 July to 10 July; the equivalent accounts for the Cardiff District will be found in class A6.

Worcestershire,

For an appointment of attorney to take possession of Pauntley Court Estate, 1734, see M 69/3.

Shropshire,

For ministers' accounts including for the hundred of Chirbury, 1525-1531, see M 64/1.

Personal correspondence and papers of John, second marquis of Bute,

Letters mainly to John, Lord Dumfries, and, from 1814 second marquis of Bute, mainly from family, friends and political and ecclesiastical figures, letters relating to the management of family accounts and annuities, and letters relating to his English estates, including interests at Banbury and Wroxton, both in Oxfordshire, and at Luton, Bedfordshire. Originally bundled as 'Miscellaneous', the correspondence also includes petitions for assistance and applications for subscriptions, often including printed enclosures.

North estate correspondence,

Letters relating to the estates of the North family in which John, marquis of Bute, had a life interest by virtue of his first wife, Maria, daughter and co-heiress of George North, earl of Guilford. Her share of her father's property comprised the 2,945 acre Kirtling estate in Cambridgeshire and the 350 acre Harlow estate in Essex. Maria died childless in 1841, and the estates reverted to the North family on the death of the Marquis of Bute in 1848.

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