| Throckmorton of Coughton Court |
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The Throckmorton family, minor gentry from Throckmorton and Fladbury in Worcestershire, acquired property in Coughton, near Alcester, in the early fifteenth century. Thomas Throckmorton (d. 1471) also acquired by marriage estates at Weston Underwood, in Berkshire. The next marriage to bring additions to the family estates was Sir Robert's (died 1720), whose wife was heir to the Yate lands at Buckland, in Berkshire, and to Pakington lands in Belbroughton, Chaddesley Corbett and elsewhere in Worcestershire. His grandson, George, married the heiress to a substantial estate in Devon, centred on Molland, but which also included property in Somerset. The papers deposited by the family at the Trust, and since acquired in lieu of Inheritance Tax, bear the reference DR 5 and are made up almost exclusively of deeds (including leases) and court rolls relating to the above estates. Of the former there are some 1,900. The earliest (from 1317) tend to relate to the family's ancestral estates in Worcestershire, though the great majority (nearly 500) are of sixteenth-century date and later. Warwickshire material (another 500 items) dates mainly from the middle of the sixteenth century. The largest section (over 800 items) relate to the West Country estate acquired in the mid eighteenth century, falling mainly in the date range, 1528-1887. Of the 1,500 court rolls, the most notable runs are for Coughton itself, 1484-1731 (53 documents), Sambourne, 1472-1849 (56 documents), Spernall, 1619-1731 (45 documents), Buckland, in Berkshire, 1245-1757 (80 documents), Weston Underwood, in Buckinghamshire, 1295-1754 (62 documents), and, the finest, Chaddesley Corbett, in Worcestershire, 1338-1829 (125 documents). There are also a few (less than forty) estate papers, but these do include some rentals. A detailed list of the items in this collection can be viewed on our Online catalogue The family's personal papers are deposited at Warwickshire County Record Office. |
