Title:
Account and memoranda book mainly relating to Audley End, kept by Latimer Neville after succeeding as 6th Lord Braybrooke
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
AUDLEY END ESTATE, SAFFRON WALDEN
Level: Sub-Fonds
FAMILY
Scope and Content:
Indexed, and cross-referenced to letter book kept by 6th Lord Braybrooke [D/DBy C44].

Main contents: (p. 1) death of 5th Lord Braybrooke, 7 June 1902, and departure of Lady Braybrooke from Audley End, 14 May 1903; (pp. 15-44) Audley End, Heydon and Berkshire estate accounts, 1901-1902; (pp. 200-203) proposed letting of Audley End, 1902-1903; (p. 170) regulations for showing house, 1903; (p. 250) maintenance of clocks; (pp. 237, 240) Christmas gifts of bread and meat; (pp. 63-67, 233) salaries and servants' wages; (pp. 183-184) garden expenses, 1901-1902; (pp. 73, 76, 130-134) lease of shooting rights; games sold or given away; (pp. 91-92) description of jewellery and other heirlooms including items associated with Tippo Sahib; (pp.219-222) valuation of pictures; (pp. 229-231) Cornwallis psalter deposited in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; (pp. 121-122, 141-142) list of tenants on Audley End and Berkshire estates (acreages given, but rents only in case of arrears); (p.51) Saffron Walden sewerage scheme; (p.208) Audley End drainage scheme; (p.232) visit of Princess of Wales, 27 November 1903; (pp. 245, 247) Littlebury and Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, schools; (pp.249-250) Lord Howard's charity; (p.194) almshouse inmates (5 widows), October 1902; (pp. 217, 225-226, 255-256) historical notes and extracts.
Loose: solicitors memorandum of matters arising for consideration and instructions consequent on Lord Braybrooke's succession to the family estates, 18 June 1902 (summarized, pp. 3-5); summary valuation of Audley End, Heydon and Berkshire estates by Nockolds and Sons, February 1903; copy letter to son, Hon. Henry Neville, 20 December 1903, advocating sale of Billingbear estate to pay death duties and increase income.
Dates of Creation:
1902-1903
Extent:
1 volume