Papers of Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

  • Reference
    • GB 2495 CS1/120
  • Dates of Creation
    • 4 October 1707-25 December 1707
  • Physical Description
    • 4 items

Scope and Content

This small group of material includes one letter and three receipts. In the letter the author invites the 2nd Duke of Devonshire to name a place he might meet him for hunting and he will bring his beagles. He adds that Cornwall's dogs are near Barton Bushes. He requests Lord Devonshire to dine with him at Rookley afterwards and mentions that he would have met His Grace at Stratton if able.

The receipts include the following:

-Receipt of £1,400 received by Lord Carleton for a house, 27 May 1711;

-Receipt for £200, paid by Lord Carleton, an account of overpaid dividend on the East India Co. to Elias Paz, September 1721;

-Receipt for £1,000, paid to the South Sea Company in accordance with the Act passed in 1721 to restore public credit, 25 December 1721.