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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters and Muniments of the Lyttleton Family in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire: With Introduction, Notes, and Index
The Lyttelton charters now preserved at Hagley Hall have received at various times much more attention than many similar collections' of family muniments can boast of. They bear every appearance of having been, of late years, at any rate, well cared for; and it is chie?y to the interest that Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle from 1762 to 1768, brother of the first Lord Lyttelton, took in the evidences of his family that such a satisfactory state of things may be attributed. As President of the Society of Antiquaries1 he would, as a matter of course, set great store on ancient records, of whatever character and that he was well acquainted with and valued those of his own family is evidenced by his autograph endorsements upon them. He seems, however, to have made but little effort to put them in any systematic order, although signs are not wanting that he made some attempt to arrange them locally. He doubtless soon found out, what others have done, that a local classification of deeds, such as those under notice, must, sooner or later, fail. Such a plan would be practicable if each deed concerned one place alone; but when, as is so often the case, three or four, or even more places form the subject of one grant, the plan at once breaks down.
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