| Description | CR 136: Estate and manorial records.
CR 136A: 140 deeds, 1646-1904; maps 1817, 1850.
CR 136B: correspondence, family and estate papers
Marriage settlement 1586/7 [CR 136/C339] and exemplification of fine and recovery of Astley manor, rectory and tithes, 1657 [CR 136/C190, C195].
CR 270: 3 letters patent, grant of arms, pedigree, 3 plans, 2 account books.
CR 319: Plans of parts of Arbury, Astley, Bedworth common fields, Chilvers Coton, Griff and Harefield, (Middlesex), n.d. (early 18th c.). Section of the Lower Arbury canal, 1819. Plan of Chilvers Coton, House of Industry, n.d. (18th c.). Copies of 2 private acts, appointment of gamekeeper for the manor of Bedworth, 1842.
CR 320: estate account book of Sir Roger Newdigate, 1757-1763.
CR 389: Arms of Fitzroy Newdegate (framed); pedigree by Gregory King, 1692; design for stable doorway, probably by Wren.
CR 440: Griff and Coton, Chilvers Coton: manorial records, accounts of the coalpits, etc., 1498-1786.
CR 764: Estate records.
CR 764A: Elevation of the east front of Arbury Hall, dated 28th July 1785 [added to CR 764/217].
CR 1022: Contemporary copies of addresses to Elizabeth I and James I and other papers of the early seventeenth century; public notices by the Mayor of Coventry relating to a food riot in April 1795 and to the Assize of Bread, 1800-1806, and other printed papers, 18th & 19th centuries.
CR 1199: Architectural drawings of Arbury & elsewhere; designs for gardens, furniture, carriages, etc; estate maps; misc mss & printed material, all 18th-19th centuries.
CR 1199A: Map of the parish of Kirk Hallam with lands etc in West Hallam and Ilkeston, Co Derbys.
CR 1199B: Plan of the Arbury estate, including a bird's eye view of the house by [Deeley], c1680-1700, prospect of Arbury Hall, probably made by Henry Beighton in 1708.
CR 1203: Letters received by F.A. Newdegate esq M.P., including letters of Austen Chamberlaine, Balfour etc.
CR 1256: George IV's reply to an address by the House of Commons asking him to confer a mark of his favour on the speaker, Captain The Right Hon. E.A. Fitzroy and accompanying papers.
CR 1841: Volumes of estate records and personal papers 17-20th centuries.
CR 2003: Plan of the Byrkley Lodge Estate, the property of Colonel Newdigate, surveyed by Philip Oakden, of Tutbury Castle.
CR 2551: Deeds (many of them drafts) respecting the Leicestershire & Middlesex estates, 1701/2-1705, 1759.
CR 2788: Cardboard holders for coins and fragments of music and writings in Italian from the original box cabinets of coins collected by Sir Roger Newdigate in Italy.
CR 2865: Letters patent creating Muriel Fitzroy a Viscountess in her own right, 1943. Writ of Summons to Parliament addressed to Robert Oliver, Viscount Daventry, 1962. Appointment of Viscount Daventry as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, 1990.
CR 2986: Lease by Frances A Newdigate to the Nuneaton Conservative Club Buildings Co. Ltd. of a piece of land on north and east sides of New Bridge Street and Bond Gate containing 400 square yards as the site for the Club.
CR 3458: Grant of arms by Garter King of Arms to Viscount Daventry, 20 June 1997 [not catalogued].
CR 4070: Estate records 19th - 20th cent. [not catalogued].
CR 4508: Documents relating to family and to Arbury retrieved from the office of the late Francis FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry, 19th cent. - 20th cent. [not catalogued].
CR4987: Copy article appearing in Visual Culture in Britain featuring a painting in the Arbury Hall collections and a letter addressed to the estate manager providing a note of the inscription on the Duke of Suffolk Monument and a brief history. |
| AdminHistory | The bulk of the Newdegate collection was listed and arranged by J. Harvey Bloom at Arbury about 1905-6. The main deposit (CR 136) was received in the County Record Office in 1950: it arrived in flat boxes covered in blue cloth, much affected by damp. Some items with Bloom reference numbers were deposited with later deposits (e.g. CR 440, CR 764 and CR 1841).
Bloom's original arrangement was in the following general classes:
A: volumes of all kinds, large and small.
B: correspondence, family and estate papers.
C: deeds and manorial records.
D: printed material.
E: maps and plans.
This arrangement was subsequently altered in the following ways:
Class A: now contains only small volumes, the larger volumes having been put into a new V class, so that the present A class is quite small, and the numbering has many gaps. At the end, from A[500] onwards are small volumes which were found to have lost their old adhesive numbers or never to have had a reference.
Class B: these remained unaltered.
Class C: these remained unaltered.
Class D: Bloom's original D series contained printed items numbered D1-95. These were at some later point renumbered D1/1-95 (and a few printed items added), and much additional material not catalogued by Bloom (including manorial records, deeds and other papers) was added as D2 to D8.
Class E: has been abolished.
Class M: now contains maps and plans.
Class V: contains larger volumes, chiefly estate accounts.
Bloom created an index to the items he listed (in two black-bound volumes, available on the catalogue shelves), but no catalogue survives. This index gives quite full descriptions of items but cannot be regarded as comprehensive and has many errors which includes, for instance, giving the same number to two different documents. A new brief finding list was compiled by J.H. Hodson in 1950. Between 2012 and 2014 the catalogue was considerably expanded by adding entries from Bloom's index for the B and C series.
The B series, consisting mostly of personal papers, is now catalogued as a single series (using the entries in Bloom's index as its basis) in the section for 'Family and personal records'. Previously unlisted items have been added, and numbering errors and some descriptions corrected. The page references to the index are given, to allow cross-reference to it.
The C series, mainly consisting deeds and other parchment documents, were originally numbered C1-3783 by Bloom, and are now mostly in the CR 136/C series. They have been supplemented by the contents of later deposits, principally CR 136A, CR 440 and CR 764 (apart from a small part of the last, which is associated with the B-series and has been listed with it). In contrast to the B-series, these have been listed in a structured order, broadly according to the Record Office's Landed Estates classification scheme.
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