Manuscript estate and family papers of the Musgrave family of Edenhall

Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 12,000
Item date acquired: 1996
Item institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

A large collection of manorial records, complementing the Musgrave family archive already in the Cumbria Record Office. Perhaps the most intesting in the current collection are the papers of Sir Philip Musgrave, a prominent Royalist during the Civil War and captain of the garrison at Carlisle Castle immediately after the Restoration