| Located At | Staffordshire Record Office |
| Level | Section |
| Alt Ref No | D4038 |
| Title | Estate records: title deeds from 13th cent., manorial court papers and accounts, mainly 16th-17th cent., estate accounts, rentals, surveys and valuations, estate memoranda, personal estate, legal case papers, personal papers, public office, miscellaneous, primarily Staffordshire |
| Date | mainly 16th-18th century |
| Description | This collection forms part of the documents removed from Blithfield to the National Library of Wales, during the Second World War for safe preservation. Most were returned to Blithfield and now form part of the main Bagot Collection (1721) but these were obviously overlooked. These papers therefore complement 1721 and other Bagot deposits (D3259, D3260), filling in several gaps in the series. The manor court papers are the principal constituent but other items such as the 17th century papers relating to Sir Walter Bagot as a J.P., the papers on the 1681 and 1698 county elections, and the small number of papers relating to the glass-house in Bagots Park are significant. The presence of a series of Chartley manorial records can only be explained by the close connection between the Bagot and Ferrers families and a possible short period of joint estate administration in the 16th century. The presence of papers relating to the administration of the estate of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury (d.1615) is totally inexplicable however. The whole collection was in total disorder and in very poor condition and some of the descriptions of individual items are necessarily tentative. |