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RefNoKMAN1/A/49/7/16
AltRefNoM49/7/16
TitleLetter to the Duke of Manchester from the Earl of Fauconberg, Newborough [Yorks]
DescriptionHe has settled a design for rebuilding the "consumed rooms" and a hot house, based on his own, and will send them, along with two pineapples, on the stagecoach. Advice on constructing a suitable hot house. People here are alarmed by the militia proceedings. Bad weather and damage to the corn harvest. Postscript mentions ruiting in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
Date28 Aug 1757
CreatorNameThe Montagu family of Kimbolton Castle: estate and family papers
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives

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P/0073Montagu; Sir; Robert (c.1710-1762); 3rd Duke of Manchester (1739-1762); of Kimbolton Castlec.1710-1762
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