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Contact seller5-star sellerFour Generations of Records from a Recusant Estate Attained after the 1717 Jacobite Rising [Manuscript]. [Tempest, Sir Francis, 5th Baronet (1678-1698)]. [Widdrington, Jane Tempest (c.1679-1714)]. [Widdrington, William, 4th Baron Widdrington (1678-1743)]. [Widdrington, Henry Francis (d.1774)]. Silvertop, Albert [1667-1738], Stew…ard & Compiler. [Stella Hall Ledger and Account Book]. Blaydon-on-Thyne, County Durham, 1692-1750. [x], 69 [i.e. 68], [71], [4 blank], [21], [5 blank] ff. Folio (12-1/4" x 7-3/4"; 31 x 20 cm). Contemporary reverse calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, blind tooling to board edges, cotton twill ties to fore-edges, edges of text block rouged. Rubbing, early lettering (ownership markings made largely illegible by rubbing) to boards, a few nicks to rear board, front joint cracked, rear joint starting, corners bumped, hinges cracked, annotations to front pastedown. Text in single neat hand with 10-ff. thumb-tabbed index at front. Moderate toning, negligible light foxing or soiling in places, internally very good. $3,500. * This ledger details accounts for the English manor Stella Hall, kept primarily by the estate's steward Albert Silvertop. (The earliest records may have been kept by a member of the Dunn family.) Originally a seat of the Tempest baronets, the estate passed into the Widdrington family upon the marriage of Jane Tempest to William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington in 1700. Both families were staunch Catholic recusants and many of their members were Northumbrian Jacobites. Along with several of his neighbors and family members, Widdrington participated in the 1715 Jacobite rising, an ill-fated attempt to restore James Edward Stuart to the throne. He was convicted of high treason after the Battle of Preston. He managed to escape with his life (thanks largely to the intervention of his second wife, Catherine Graham), but his title and estates were attained. His son reclaimed the title and land after his death, but they passed out of the family when the son died without an heir. This is reflected in the account book, which ceases abruptly in 1715 and resumes with an inventory of the estate as claimed by Henry Widdrington in 1750. The ledger provides interesting insights into the close-knit, largely Catholic community s.
