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| Title | Finding aid for Hastings Family Papers, ca. 1100-1892 (bulk 1560-1830). |
| Creator | Hastings family. |
| Extent | Approximately 50,000 items. |
| Biographical Note | For over four hundred years the Hastings family (variously barons Hastings, Botreaux, Hungerford, Loughborogh and Moleyns, earls of Huntingdon, Pembroke, and Moira, and marquesses of Hastings) played a major role in English political life and exercised wide local influence in Leicestershire and other English counties. The Hastings family members were active in Parliament and at Court, and acted as Lords Lieutenant of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire. Among the most notable members of the family are William Hastings, 1st Baron of Hastings (1430?-1483), a Yorkist executed for treason by Richard III, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (ca. 1536-1595) and Sir Francis Hastings, active Puritan statesman, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon (1650-1701), a staunch Tory and Royalist, Theophilus Hastings, the 9th Earl of Huntingdon, a noted Whig and his wife Selina, founder of a Methodist group known as "The Countess of Huntingdon Connection" and Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquis of Hastings, a British officer during the American Revolution and Governor General of Bengal in 1813-1822. |
| Scope and Content | Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the materials deal with national and local politics during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I and the Civil War (1641-1649), Protectorate, Restoration, and the American Revolution. |
| Notes | All inquiries about this collection should be directed to Curator, British Historical Manuscripts. This finding aid is not complete and is a work in progress. |
| Date | 1100-1892. |
| Provenance | Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London, 1927. The collection had been sold to Maggs Bros. by Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun. |
| Subject |
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826 -- Archives. Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610 -- Archives. Hastings, William Hastings, Lord, 1430?-1483 -- Archives. Huntingdon, Theophilus Hastings, Earl of, 1696-1745 -- Archives. Huntingdon, Theophilus Hastings, Earl of, 1650-1701 -- Archives. Hastings family -- Archives. Nobility -- Great Britain -- Archives. Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Sources. Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources. Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Sources. Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. |
| Form/Genre | Family papers Great Britain. (aat) |
| Department | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Department. |
| Call Number | mssHA |
| Physical Collection | Hastings Family Papers. |
| Digital Collection | Finding Aids, Huntington Digital Library |
| Physical Description | 588 p. |
| Digitization Specifications | Original finding aid converted into PDF document by B. Black, 2012-01-19. |
| Date Digital | 2012-01-19. |
| DCMI Type | text |
| Digital Format | |
| Original Finding Aid | Finding aids prepared by Kim Watson, 1980, and Mary L. Robertson, 2012. |
| Citation Information | Finding aid for Hastings Family Papers, Huntington Digital Library, San Marino, California. |
| Restrictions | Images in this collection are for scholarly research; please review the Huntington Library's copyright information: http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about. For purchasing images for publication please review our permission to publish policy: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=590. |
| Cataloging Notes | Arranged in the following series: 1. Accounts and financial papers; 2.Correspondence; 3. Deeds; 4. Inventories and Lists; 5. Legal papers; 6. Manorial and local affairs papers; 7. Maps and plans; 8. Personal and family papers; 9. Irish papers (including Irish concealed lands papers); 10. Special subjects (Americana; Gentlemen pensioners; Indentured retainers; Literature; Military affairs; Parliamentary affairs, Religious and ecclesiastical affairs; Repton Charity School and Etwall Hospital, School exercises and education; Ship money; Transportation; Miscellaneous manuscripts). |