Langham (Cottesbrooke) c.1275-1944, 2598 docs. & 1 box, ref. L(C)
John Langham (d.1671) came from Guilsborough but made a fortune in London as a merchant. He was made a baronet in 1660 and had been a Lord Mayor and M.P. for London. Sir John built up an estate in Northamptonshire and had purchased Cottesbrooke in 1635. The 2nd baronet Sir James and the 3rd baronet Sir William were M.P.s for either Northampton or the county. The 4th baronet Sir John began Cottesbrooke Hall in 1702. Sir James, the 7th baronet (d.1795) was M.P. for the county 1784-1790. Sir James, the 11th baronet (d.1893) was of unsound mind and the estate was run by his brother and successor Sir Herbert. The Hall was let to the Empress Elizabeth as a base for hunting the 1870s. Financial worries caused Sir Herbert to sell the estate in 1911. The Langhams moved to County Fermanagh. Cottesbrooke is now the home of the MacDonald Buchanans.
Baronets with estates in Cottesbrooke, Hollowell, Nortoft, Elkington, Sibbertoft, Walgrave, Winwick, Long Buckby, Faxton and Mawsley, Raunds, Hargrave and Stoke Doyle, Glyndebourne (Sussex) and Huntercombe (Oxfordshire), North Petherton (Somerset) and Teddington (London).
Charters and title deeds from c.1275 are mainly catalogued in manuscript.
Personal and estate correspondence, mainly 19th century including letters on Langham Place development (London) 1813, 1822/23, property and pier at Southend (Essex) 1828-1836 and tenants' unrest at Cottesbrooke and Ringmer (Sussex) 1830. Letters from Andrew Bell on education 1821-1831. Estate accounts 1752-59, 1771-1827, survey 1792, steward's letters 1816-1832, kitchen accounts 1767-1821. Accounts of Sir John Langham of Walgrave 1710-1714 (ML 783). Northants election papers 1806 and Taunton (Somerset) election accounts 1781. Inventories of 1811/12 and 1891, picture and library catalogues.
Late 18th/19th century personal accounts including Lady Langham 1774-1794, Lady Langham's medical accounts 1834-55, travelling accounts 1841-55 and clothing accounts 1845-55 and Herbert Langham at Cambridge and in Europe, 1821-1853. Lady Langham's journal of a tour in Belgium and Holland 1769. Diaries of Sir Herbert Langham 1863-1877 and his hunting journals (Pytchley) 1861-1904 and papers. Some late 18th/19th century sketches and poetry.
18th/19th century Cottesbrooke parish records. William Hay's parliamentary notebooks 1734- 1743. Papers of the Musgraves of Nettlecombe (Somerset) 18th century.
Little relates to the family before the 7th baronet.
Note: Certain catalogued items have been withdrawn by the family.
This catalogue is available on the National Archives "A2A" website (see related links).
(The NRO has a microfilm of a family history interleaved with related documents and pictures from 1591, ref. M 198.)
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Langton (Teeton) c.1200-1800, 545 docs., ref. LT
John Langton, a London merchant, purchased Teeton from the Breton family in 1718. The Bretons has been there since the 13th century. Teeton Hall was rebuilt in 1771. The executors of the late N.L. Langton Lockton, the nephew of the last Mrs Langton (d.1942) sold the Hall in 1954.
Mainly deeds and charters for Teeton, Ravensthorpe and Long Buckby. Survey by Ralph Treswell and inclosure agreement for Teeton in 1590/1. Sheriffs' papers 1734/5 and 1768/9.
(Some letters on the 19th century management of the estate are in the Bosworth (Highgate House) collection.)
Lantsbury (Ravensthorpe) 1609-1870, 168 docs., refs. YZ 2632-2800
The Lantsburys were farmers at Ravensthorpe and Spratton.
Mainly deeds for Ravensthorpe and Spratton
Law (Marston Trussell) 1627-1936, 267 docs., ref. L(MT)
Three successive generations of rectors of Marston Trussell. The Rev. William Law, from north Buckinghamshire, purchased the rectory in 1842 from the Rev. Bullivant. It passed to his son the Rev. John Knight Law in 1900 and then to his son the Rev. Percival John Knight Law. William Law was a pioneer photographer but there is only one reference to this interest in the collection.
Family papers including accounts for the building of a new rectory 1844-1845. Deeds for the Marston Trussell advowson and for properties in Preston Bissett and Steeple Claydon (Buckinghamshire).
Unsettled bills of the Rev. W.J. Law of Bramber (Sussex).
This catalogue is available on the National Archives 'A2A' website (see related links)
(Glass negatives and photographs by the Rev. Law are in the Marston Trussell parish archives.)
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Leete (Thrapston) 1623-1884, 10 boxes, ref. LEETE
The Leetes had been surgeons at Thrapston for several generations back to John Leete (d.1734). These are mainly the papers of Dr. John Griffith Leete (d.1868) who took over his father Henry Leete's practise in 1851.
Accounts, bills and correspondence for the household and practise from the 1830s. Dr. Leete's day books 1849-1860 and farm account books 1839-1868. Deeds and legal papers from 1623.
Loake (Desborough) 1317-1932, 94 docs., (uncatalogued)
Robert Lauk began buying property in Desborough in the 1370s. Samuel Hillyard Loake (d.1911) a descendant, married Ann, the daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hillyard, a nonconformist minister at Bedworth (Warwickshire).
Mainly the correspondence and papers of the Rev. Samuel Hillyard (d.1877). and family. Desborough terriers of the 1590s.
(Desborough charters of the Loakes c1230-1599 are catalogued as YZ 5494-YZ 5520.)
Loder (Maidwell) 1725-1902, 127 docs., ref YZ 6772-6899
John Peach Hungerford of Dingley Hall bought Maidwell from James Scawen in 1789. It passed to his godson Henry Hungerford Holdich (d.1872). Henry Vane Forester Holdich Hungerford sold Maidwell to Robert Loder M.P. in 1884. He was made a baronet in 1887. Maidwell Hall burnt down in 1894.
Deeds for Maidwell and Draughton manors. Papers and bills for Maidwell church including glass by Kempe 1890s. Estimates and bill for rebuilding Hall 1897-1901. Local history notes by R.B. Loder.
Lothian (Duston) 1561-1919, 23 boxes (uncatalogued)
The manor of Duston was acquired by the Coke family in 1639. The Lambs, Viscounts Melbourne inherited the Coke estates in 1751. The last Lord Melbourne's heiress married the 5th Earl Cowper and the 7th Earl's heiress married into the Kerr family, Marquis of Lothian.
Deeds and estate papers for the Duston estate of the Marquis of Lothian. Late 16th/17th century leases and estate correspondence 1698-1725. Mid-late 19th/early 20th century estate papers including on ironstone mining and stone quarrying.
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Lynne (Southwick) c.1300-1977, 400 docs., ref. Ly
John Lynne (d.1486), a London merchant, acquired Southwick through his marriage to Joan Knyvet. The Lynnes were a Cambridgeshire family and Southwick went to a younger son. George Lynne (d.1742) was a notable astronomer and antiquary whilst his brother Walter was a medical writer and inventor. George Lynne the younger (d.1758) was also an antiquary. All were prominent members of The Gentleman's Society at Spalding. Southwick descended to the Johnson family and was sold by them to George Capron in 1840.
Mainly deeds for properties in Southwick and Spalding (Lincolnshire). Yarwell manor customs, c.1550., Chancery decree about common rights at Fotheringhay and Southwick 1552 and sheriff's account 1695/6. Inventories of 1593 and 1609. Few family papers but some of Walter Lynne, medical writer, early 18th century, Charles Baker's log of his voyage from Calcutta 1807 and bills of Mrs May Lynne in Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) and Weston Super Mare (Somerset) 1890s. Exchequer teller's roll of 1578/9 and essay about women c.1825.
(See also Capron of Southwick collection)
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