Brayne of Stanford Accumulation (Cave, Lords Bay)

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Reference code(s): 23D57

Title: Brayne of Stanford Accumulation (Cave, Lords Bay)

Date(s): c 1250 - 1922

Level of description: Fonds

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 3561 documents

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Administrative/Biographical history: After the dissolution of the monasteries, Thomas Cave bought the Court of Augmentations for the manor, rectory, and advowson of the vicarage of Stanford Upon Avon. In 1838, the abeyance of the Baron of Brayne was terminated in favour of Sarah Cave, wife of Henry Otway of Castle Otway.

The 5th Baron, Sir Thomas Cave (died 1778) was an antiquarian of some note, and a friend of John Bridges (1666-1724) whose history about Northamptonshire was unfinished at the time of his death. Sir Cave was appointed Chairman of a committee formed in 1755 to complete the work, raise subscriptions, and see it through to press. Sir Thomas collected notes and transcripts for a history of Leicestershire, including the work of Francis Beck (1692 - 1743), but he did not live to write the intended work.

The marriage of Sir Thomas Cave and Sarah Edwards accounts for the large section of mercantile records of John Schoppens and John Edwards, connected by marriage and partners in business

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Scope and content: The collection is divided into two sections. The first section includes abstracts of title deeds to the lands of the Caves in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, and also title deeds to property inherited through marriage, especially the property of Sarah Edwards, daughter of a London merchant, who married Sir Thomas Cave, the 6th Baron, in 1755.

Other records include execution of wills, sermons, maps, plans, and business records.

The second section comprises political papers of the Cave and Otway Cave families. The collection relates principally to the Leicestershire elections of 1702, 1711, 1714/15, 1741, 1747, 1762, 1768, 1774, 1775, 1790 and 1818, and to the Leicester Borough elections of 1826 and 1830.

Also included in this section are seven letters on slavery written in January 1830 and one pamphlet entitled 'Emancipation of the Children of Slaves'. (Ref: 23D57/3513-3514). The letters are from T.Edwards to R.O. Cave about the Anti-Slavery question. This includes is a letter from Edwards to Cave advocating local petitions against slavery, discussing the mode of publication and distribution of pamphlets, reporting on the book 'History of the West Indies' by Bryan Edwards and advising Cave to get in touch with Sir Alex Johnston, formerly chief-justice in Ceylon, who is familiar with the difficulties associated with the abolition of slavery of children in Ceylon in 1816, and a letter from Edwards to Cave warning that Cave's motion may be side-tracked by the appointment of a committee on West Indian Slavery

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Conditions governing access: Open access.

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Caribbean

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Anti-slavery movements

Slave emancipation

Slavery

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Sri Lanka

Caribbean

Leicestershire, United Kingdom