GB 0074 Q/CML
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Collection
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1632-1877
Records relating to the family of Boyle, Earls of Burlington and Cork, and of the family of Fairfax, Barons Fairfax of Cameron. Papers include notes by Sir Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, on the rise of his family (copy of a document of 1632); commissions of Henry, Lord Fairfax as Colonel of the Regiment of Foot, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1679 and 1685; appointment of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, as Deputy Lieutenant for West Riding and York, 1700; papers of Richard, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, including records of the management of his estates in Ireland and Burlington Gardens, London, legal papers, and correspondence, 1724-25.
Boyle , Richard , 1566-1643 , 1st Earl of Cork Boyle , Richard , 1694-1753 , 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork , architect and patron of the arts Boyle , family , of Ireland and England