Solicitors and landed estate papers often include the following types of material; various types of deeds such as leases, mortgages, charters, marriage settlements and wills, as well as court/case documents and legal minutae, financial and business records such as rental ledgers and wages books, business correspondence, and sometimes personal and family correspondence.
Major collections include:A number of documents from our estate papers were digitised as part of a pilot digitisation project in 2003/4.