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Correspondents include Robert Roberts (Long Island); George III; Lord Bruce; brothers John, Beaumont and George; Lord Buckinghamshire; Robert Knox (Montreal); N. Heywood (Castell Gondolfo); William Hall; Francis Boynton; Robert Hobart; brother William ('Preston', in New York River); Thomas de Grey; Henry Hamilton (Detroit). From England, America and Ireland. Numerous references to American and Irish affairs.

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Papers of the Hotham Family of Scorborough and South DaltonU DDHO

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet, and his familyU DDHO/1

Printed material relating to the Civil War and CommonwealthU DDHO/2

Sir Charles Hotham (5th Baronet)U DDHO/3

Sir Charles Hotham Thompson (8th Baronet)U DDHO/4

Letters to Sir Charles Hotham ThompsonU DDHO/4/1

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Letters to Sir Charles Hotham ThompsonU DDHO/4/24

Incomplete parts of letters to Sir Charles Hotham ThompsonU DDHO/4/25

Undated letters to Sir Charles Hotham ThompsonU DDHO/4/26

Drafts of letters from Sir Charles Hotham ThompsonU DDHO/4/27

Covers of lettersU DDHO/4/28

Letters to and from Lord AlbermarleU DDHO/4/29

Letters to and from the Duke of MarlboroughU DDHO/4/30

Letters to and from Lord George SackvilleU DDHO/4/31

Letters to and from the Marquis of GranbyU DDHO/4/32

Letters to Maj. Gen. WaldegraveU DDHO/4/33

Letters from Lieutenant LawlessU DDHO/4/34

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/35

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/36

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/37

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/38

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/39

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/40

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/41

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/42

Strength ReturnsU DDHO/4/43

Monthly totals of the British regiments in Germany commanded by the Marquis of GranbyU DDHO/4/44

Monthly totals of the British regiments in Germany commanded by the Marquis of GranbyU DDHO/4/45

Monthly totals of the British regiments in Germany commanded by the Marquis of GranbyU DDHO/4/46

Monthly strength returns of British forces in GermanyU DDHO/4/47

Monthly strength returns of British forces in GermanyU DDHO/4/48

Summary of strength returns of British forces in GermanyU DDHO/4/49

Returns. WoodU DDHO/4/50

Returns. OfficersU DDHO/4/51

Returns. DischargesU DDHO/4/52

Returns. Dead, invalids and convalescentsU DDHO/4/53

Returns. RecruitsU DDHO/4/54

Returns. DraftsU DDHO/4/55

Embarkation returnsU DDHO/4/56

Returns. Transport shipsU DDHO/4/57

Returns. Hay and forageU DDHO/4/58

Returns. RationsU DDHO/4/59

Returns. 'Wanting to complete'U DDHO/4/60

Returns. Killed, wounded and missingU DDHO/4/61

Returns. Companies of invalidsU DDHO/4/62

Returns. Stores and equipmentU DDHO/4/63

Returns. General staff in Germany, their pay and rationsU DDHO/4/64

Returns. DesertersU DDHO/4/65

Returns. Recovered menU DDHO/4/66

Returns. WagonsU DDHO/4/67

Returns. 'The Expedition (to St. Malo) while at sea and on our Return'U DDHO/4/68

Returns. HorsesU DDHO/4/69

Morning returnsU DDHO/4/70

Returns. DecreasesU DDHO/4/71

Forms of returnsU DDHO/4/72

Returns. IndependantsU DDHO/4/73

Returns. Sergeants and corporalsU DDHO/4/74

Returns. Debts and creditsU DDHO/4/75

Miscellaneous returnsU DDHO/4/76

War diaryU DDHO/4/77

War diaryU DDHO/4/78

War diaryU DDHO/4/79

War diaryU DDHO/4/80

War diaryU DDHO/4/81

War diaryU DDHO/4/82

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War diaryU DDHO/4/89

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War diaryU DDHO/4/91

War diaryU DDHO/4/92

War diaryU DDHO/4/93

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War diaryU DDHO/4/95

War diaryU DDHO/4/96

War diaryU DDHO/4/97

War diaryU DDHO/4/98

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War diaryU DDHO/4/100

War diaryU DDHO/4/101

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War diaryU DDHO/4/110

War diaryU DDHO/4/111

War diaryU DDHO/4/112

War diaryU DDHO/4/113

War diaryU DDHO/4/114

War diaryU DDHO/4/115

War diaryU DDHO/4/116

War diaryU DDHO/4/117

Order BookU DDHO/4/118

Order BookU DDHO/4/119

Order BookU DDHO/4/120

Order BookU DDHO/4/121

Order BookU DDHO/4/122

Subsistence Account Book of Col. Hotham's Company of the 1st Regt. of Foot Guards.U DDHO/4/123

Subsistence Account Book of Col. Hotham's Company of the 1st Regt. of Foot Guards.U DDHO/4/124

Commissions of Sir CharlesU DDHO/4/125

Petition of members of, or relating to, the British forces in Holland and Germany.U DDHO/4/126

March routesU DDHO/4/127

Accounts (military)U DDHO/4/128

Royal warrantsU DDHO/4/129

Dates of commissions of Lord Albermarle, Sir John Ligonier, Gen. Burmania and Gen. TripsU DDHO/4/130

Honours to be paid to general officers, admirals, field marshals, and the Master General of the Ordnance.U DDHO/4/131

Oration to Caesar (translated by Charles Hotham?)U DDHO/4/132

Memorandum of admission of Charles Hotham to the Middle Temple.U DDHO/4/133

State of promotion of general officers since 1742.U DDHO/4/134

Papers relating to Mrs. Cameron, wife of Dr. Archibald Cameron, and her family detained as Jacobites at Breda by Sir Edward Faulkener.U DDHO/4/135

Various receipts for money paid or received by Charles Hotham.U DDHO/4/136

French print depicting the plans and details of the siege of Maastricht by the Comte de Saxe.U DDHO/4/137

Account of firewood for the engineers.U DDHO/4/138

Instructions to Maj. Gen. Fowke from Lord Albermarle 'relating to the embarkation of the Regt. for Ireland.'U DDHO/4/139

Copy. Report by Lord Ligonier and Lord Albermarle on their inspection of the accounts of Lord John Murray's regimentU DDHO/4/140

Certificates discharging bread wagons.U DDHO/4/141

Lord Albermarle's orders relating to the accounts of the Guards.U DDHO/4/142

Account of warrants granted by the Duke of Marlborough for payment of staff officers under his command.U DDHO/4/143

Disposition of new cantonments for the British troops in Holland.U DDHO/4/144

'Mr. Wolter's bill' for a boat journey from Clandert to the Hague.U DDHO/4/145

Voltaire's account of the King of Prussia.U DDHO/4/146

King of Prussia's reply to VoltaireU DDHO/4/147

[Travel route?]U DDHO/4/148

Instructions and form for muster rolls.U DDHO/4/149

Note of a Welsh Fusilier confined for desertion.U DDHO/4/150

Disposition of the Infantry at home and abroad.U DDHO/4/151

'Disposition of troops in South Britain.'U DDHO/4/152

'Disposition of troops in South Britain.'U DDHO/4/153

Disposition of patrols in Essex, Kent and Sussex.U DDHO/4/154

Programme for a field day for troops at Chatham and Barham Downes.U DDHO/4/155

Standing signals by drum to battalions under arms.U DDHO/4/156

List of quarters of the 15 Second Battalions, for Sir John LigonierU DDHO/4/157

Memorandum of arrest of Lt. Wynne of the 25th Foot for neglect of duty.U DDHO/4/158

Memorandum relating to troops on Isle of Wight.U DDHO/4/159

Army estimatesU DDHO/4/160

'Proportions to be observed' in camps of a battalion of foot and a regiment of dragoons.U DDHO/4/161

Charge against Lt. Col. Lambert, brought by his commanding officer after the Battle of St. Cas.U DDHO/4/162

Fire insurance policy- goods at the Terrace in Spring Garden.U DDHO/4/163

List of camping equipment for a foot battalion.U DDHO/4/164

Proposed dispositions of the infantry.U DDHO/4/165

Orders of Lord Ligonier to dragoon regimentsU DDHO/4/166

Order of Lord Ligonier: officers' vacancies to be reported at onceU DDHO/4/167

Papers relating to seniority of Cornets Fellows and Kniggs.U DDHO/4/168

Details of guards at camp on Isle of Wight.U DDHO/4/169

List of regiments encamped on Isle of Wight.U DDHO/4/170

List of land officers and ships in which they were to embark.U DDHO/4/171

Charles Hotham's account of the expedition to St. MaloU DDHO/4/172

Returns of prisonersU DDHO/4/173

Report of court martial of Henry Lock of Col. Wolf's Regiment for striking a superior.U DDHO/4/174

Instructions for Commissar Tilmann: repair of roads and bridges, provision of carts etc.U DDHO/4/175

Cantonment and march routes of troops in Holland and Germany.U DDHO/4/176

Establishment return of hospital for troops in Germany.U DDHO/4/177

Report of the escort for the artillery and baggage.U DDHO/4/178

Rules for the cavalry in GermanyU DDHO/4/179

Pay regulations for dragoonsU DDHO/4/180

Instruction for Baggage Master GeneralU DDHO/4/181

Plan of a camp at MunsterU DDHO/4/182

Orders for marchU DDHO/4/183

State of rations for a dragoon regiment in FlandersU DDHO/4/184

Memoranda of forage arrangementsU DDHO/4/185

Copies of letters in German from German civil authorities and the Archbishop of CologneU DDHO/4/186

Memorandum of troop affairsU DDHO/4/187

Lord Granby's speech on Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick's installation as K.G.U DDHO/4/188

'Some remarks on the Non Effective Fund of the Guards'U DDHO/4/189

Return of vacancies in GermanyU DDHO/4/190

Political squib: 'Address... of the Society of Whites, Assembled at Gaming'U DDHO/4/191

'Method of brigading battalions in order of battle'U DDHO/4/192

Lord George Sackville's orders for mode of encampment of infantryU DDHO/4/193

Plan of the Reserve under Lord GranbyU DDHO/4/194

List of quarters for drafts for Blues and 5th DragoonsU DDHO/4/195

General Waldegrave's opinion that a given form of attestation was binding for the duration of the warU DDHO/4/196

'The agreement of Burgomeister of Emden with the Schipmasters': for transporting baggageU DDHO/4/197

Deposition of Lt. Peter Margarett, 24th Foot: refusal of the chief magistrate of Lear to provide transportU DDHO/4/198

List of four deserters from Colonel Brudenell's RegimentU DDHO/4/199

Returns of debts (20th and 37th Foot; Welch Fusiliers)U DDHO/4/200

Reports on a brawl in which three soldiers of the 12th Foot were attacked and wounded by Hanoverian GuardsU DDHO/4/201

Deposition (in German) of two Hanoverian officers of insubordination of two British soldiersU DDHO/4/202

Order of General Reden for a change in route of a march, Bielefeldt-Sassenburg, with Col. Robert Murray Keith's reportU DDHO/4/203

Orders of the day (Battle of Minden)U DDHO/4/204

Return of officer's vacancies in the 12th Foot and Welch FuziliersU DDHO/4/205

Note of address: Hector McNeill, Dromore, IrelandU DDHO/4/206

Fragment of rough list of officersU DDHO/4/207

Memorandum of contingent moneyU DDHO/4/208

Memorandum of forage, return of horses, wagons and creditU DDHO/4/209

Memorandum of forage from General ImhoffU DDHO/4/210

List of towns and distances from GermanyU DDHO/4/211

Details of manoeuvres for cavalry and Infantry at LudinchusenU DDHO/4/212

'Memoranda for Col. Hotham'U DDHO/4/213

Extract from orders of Treasury Commissioners to Mr Blakeney as Commissary GeneralU DDHO/4/214

Part of a catechismU DDHO/4/215

Col. Parker's receipt for 91 menU DDHO/4/216

MemorandumU DDHO/4/217

Report on horses of the 7th or Queen's Royal DragoonsU DDHO/4/218

Account of subsistence for drivers of convalescent wagonsU DDHO/4/219

Form of will (for field service?)U DDHO/4/220

Memorandum of service mattersU DDHO/4/221

Form of Letter of Attorney to collect payU DDHO/4/222

Memorial to Lord Granby from Richard OswaldU DDHO/4/223

Orders for a change in cantonmentsU DDHO/4/224

Agreement of the subalterns of the Carabiniers to do Lieutenant Mollefont's duty during his illnessU DDHO/4/225

Evidence against Andrew and John Bruce charged with death of Ensign FrankeU DDHO/4/226

Establishment of British hospitals in GermanyU DDHO/4/227

List of staff who served in the 1761 campaign in GermanyU DDHO/4/228

Quarters of British troopsU DDHO/4/229

Quarters of British troopsU DDHO/4/230

'Regiments proposed to be drafted'U DDHO/4/231

List of Lieutenant Colonels promoted to ColonelsU DDHO/4/232

'Lieutenant Geneneral Napier's Drafts for Germany'U DDHO/4/233

Dispositions for embarkationsU DDHO/4/234

Note of four German officersU DDHO/4/235

Note of British colonels and majors (1759 - 1763)U DDHO/4/236

Order for a detachment of Highlanders to paradeU DDHO/4/237

Report on enemy agentsU DDHO/4/238

Order of battle of the reserve under Lord GranbyU DDHO/4/239

Orders of Frederick, Duke of Brunswick, to Lieutenant Colonel Beckwith, on the heights before HombourgU DDHO/4/240

List of artillery at the parks in the camp at Nieder KleinU DDHO/4/241

Message of General WangenheimU DDHO/4/242

Cantonments of the cavalry of Lord Granby's reserveU DDHO/4/243

Order assigning villages from which Lord Granby's cavalry might take forageU DDHO/4/244

Warning of a trial of cannon to be carried out on the heights of LangensteinU DDHO/4/245

Report of a court of enquiry into shooting of a peasantU DDHO/4/246

List of artillery with Lord Granby's Reserve CorpsU DDHO/4/247

List of winter quarters for British troopsU DDHO/4/248

Papers relating to a riot at the bakery at GemundenU DDHO/4/249

Terms of an armisticeU DDHO/4/250

Papers relating to the arrangements for the route for the British Troops through the NetherlandsU DDHO/4/251

General Conway's declaration to the Brittannic Legion on its reductionU DDHO/4/252

Copy of Admission of Charles Hotham as Groom of the BedchamberU DDHO/4/253

Account of sergeant majors' and quarter master sergeants' allowancesU DDHO/4/254

Extracts from Acts relating to raising, paying and clothing the militiaU DDHO/4/255

Report on camp equipage; two contingent and invalids' accounts; sergeant majors' allowances; a recruiting party in England; and expenses of drafts from the 69th Regiment in respect of the 15th Regiment in AmericaU DDHO/4/256

'General View of the Facings etc. of the several Marching Regiments of Foot'U DDHO/4/257

Plan for a review of the 9th Dragoons, and the 11th, 30th, 32nd, and 66th Foot in Dublin.U DDHO/4/258

French translation of an address to the King from the House of Commons.U DDHO/4/259

'Answer to the House of Commons' (of Ireland?)U DDHO/4/260

Valedictory poem.U DDHO/4/261

Copy of a letter recounting the writer's disappointments in his two sons.U DDHO/4/262

Commission of John George Goldfrapp as Ensign in Colonel Hotham's regiment.U DDHO/4/263

Appointment of Sir Charles as a trustee of the Beverley-Kexby Bridge Turnpike.U DDHO/4/264

Copy of a leaflet inveighing against the injust court martial of a captain.U DDHO/4/265

Plan of a review of 15th Foot at Leeds.U DDHO/4/266

Summons of Sir Charles to his installation as K.B.U DDHO/4/267

Receipts for deeds handed by Sir Charles to John Kilvington.U DDHO/4/268

Copy of letter to Dean of York and of proposals for an exchange of land at Ebberston enclosure for erection of a new vicarage.U DDHO/4/269

Extract from 'The Wandering Patentee', a history of Yorkshire theatres, relating to an episode involving Sir Charles and an actor at Beverley.U DDHO/4/270

Account for post horses.U DDHO/4/271

Copy of a loyal motion passed by Beverley Corporation, relating to the American War of Independance.U DDHO/4/272

Copy of a notice calling for subscriptions for raising a regiment for defence of Cornwall, and a letter describing a volunteer force near Plymouth.U DDHO/4/273

Copy of an address at the conclusion of the Irish Parliament (by Lord Buckinghamshire?)U DDHO/4/274

'Thoughts on the State of France' in Sir Charles' writing.U DDHO/4/275

Drawing of Sir Charles' full armorial achievement.U DDHO/4/276

Miscellaneous military notebookU DDHO/4/277

Miscellaneous notebookU DDHO/4/278

Miscellaneous notebookU DDHO/4/279

Clothing and pocket money account books.U DDHO/4/280

Miscellaneous notebookU DDHO/4/281

Miscellaneous notebook- accounts, quotations, pencil sketches.U DDHO/4/282

Remarks from Folard's 'Polybus'.U DDHO/4/283

Extracts from Folard's 'Polybus'.U DDHO/4/284

Standing Orders from H.M. Forces in Ireland (pub. 1764.)U DDHO/4/285

Notebook of guards at Chatham camp.U DDHO/4/286

'Exercise for the Foot.'U DDHO/4/287

'New Regulations for the Prussian Infantry.'U DDHO/4/288

Notebook of standing orders.U DDHO/4/289

Army list.U DDHO/4/290

Notebook: lists of officers, dates of commissions and seniority.U DDHO/4/291

Notebook: disposition of troops.U DDHO/4/292

Ms. autobiography.U DDHO/4/293

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/294

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/295

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/296

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/297

Notebook: English, Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/298

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/299

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/300

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/301

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/302

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/303

Notebook: Greek and LatinU DDHO/4/304

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/305

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/306

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/307

Notebook: Greek and Latin exercises, extracts and quotations.U DDHO/4/308

Arithmetic Exercise Book.U DDHO/4/309

Personal account bookU DDHO/4/310

Personal account bookU DDHO/4/311

Letter Book. Letters received as Adjutant General to British Forces from Adjutant General of Allied ForcesU DDHO/4/312

Letter Book. Letters received as Adjutant General to British Forces from Adjutant General of Allied ForcesU DDHO/4/313

Copy book of Returns received as Adjutant GeneralU DDHO/4/314

Copy book of Returns received as Adjutant GeneralU DDHO/4/315

'Millan's Succession of Colonels to His Majestys Land Forces, General and Field Officers, with Dates, Uniforms etc.'U DDHO/4/316

'List of General and Field Officers (and) Officers in the Several Regiments.'U DDHO/4/317

William, 1st Lord HothamU DDHO/5

Beaumont HothamU DDHO/6

Admiral Sir Henry HothamU DDHO/7

Beaumont, 3rd Lord HothamU DDHO/8

Admiral George Frederick HothamU DDHO/9

Sir Charles HothamU DDHO/10

Henry Edward HothamU DDHO/11

William ThompsonU DDHO/12

CorrespondenceU DDHO/13

RentalsU DDHO/14

Accounts and VouchersU DDHO/15

Maps and PlansU DDHO/16

Pedigrees and Family HistoriesU DDHO/17

Pocket Books, Diaries and JournalsU DDHO/18

RecipesU DDHO/19

MiscellaneousU DDHO/20

AikeU DDHO/21

BattleburnU DDHO/22

Beswick and WilfholmeU DDHO/23

BeverleyU DDHO/24

BridlingtonU DDHO/25

Cherry BurtonU DDHO/26

CottinghamU DDHO/27

DanthorpeU DDHO/28

EastburnU DDHO/29

EttonU DDHO/30

GardhamU DDHO/31

HessleU DDHO/32

HollymU DDHO/33

Holme-on-the-WoldsU DDHO/34

HothamU DDHO/35

HumbletonU DDHO/36

Hutton CranswickU DDHO/37

KilhamU DDHO/38

KirkburnU DDHO/39

LeconfieldU DDHO/40

LellyU DDHO/41

LockingtonU DDHO/42

LundU DDHO/43

NortonU DDHO/44

NunkeelingU DDHO/45

RotseaU DDHO/46

ScorboroughU DDHO/47

South DaltonU DDHO/48

ThornthorpeU DDHO/49

WeltonU DDHO/50

YeddinghamU DDHO/51

EbberstonU DDHO/52

FylingdalesU DDHO/53

GoathlandU DDHO/54

NorthsteadU DDHO/55

PickeringU DDHO/56

Scarborough (including Falsgrave)U DDHO/57

SnaintonU DDHO/58

WiltonU DDHO/59

CambridgeshireU DDHO/60

Co. DurhamU DDHO/61

EssexU DDHO/62

GloucestershireU DDHO/63

HampshireU DDHO/64

LancashireU DDHO/65

LincolnshireU DDHO/66

MiddlesexU DDHO/67

SurreyU DDHO/68

WorcestershireU DDHO/69

Various TownshipsU DDHO/70

SettlementsU DDHO/71

BondsU DDHO/72

Various DocumentsU DDHO/73

WillsU DDHO/74

Second DepositU DDHO2

Third DepositU DDHO3