Samuel Sandars: Transcripts of original papers concerning the English Civil Wars

Scope and Content

Transcripts of original papers then in the possession of Robert Green of Scalby Hall, Yorkshire, and formerly belonging to Col. Thomas Sanders of Ireton and Caldwell, Derbyshire. Copies of correspondence between: Col. Thomas Sanders, Henry Archbold, Daniell Watson, Sir John Gell, Mr Fletcher, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, Sir John Curzon, Joseph Swetman, Nathaniel Barton, Oliver Cromwell, Major Edward Smithe, Gervase Bennett, Edward Pri[t]chard, Robert Cachett, Col. Robert Swallowe, Quartermaster Francis Moore, C. Needham, Thomas Jeodd, J. W. Dalton, John Sheirman, Mrs Elizabeth Sanders, and Richard Hill. Also including pedigrees of: Sanders of Lullington, Derbyshire; Carew of Beddington, Surrey; Mohun of Devon; Armyn of Osgodby, Lincolnshire; Sleigh of Ireton, Derbyshire. p. 2: portrait of Thomas Sanders 'copied from the rare print by Loggan'.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Samuel Sandars MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1870.

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