At SURREY HISTORY CENTRE, The Loseley Archives
An extensive archive relating to the More-Molyneux family of Loseley Park important both in relation to the history of Surrey but also of a family and its local and national office holding, social networks and parliamentary participation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also of significance are the papers of those to whom the family acted as executors, particulary papers accumulated by Sir Thomas Cawarden (d 1559) who served as Master of the Tents and Revels to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.
Access
Monday Closed, Tuesday 9.30am - 5pm, Wednesday 10.15am - 5pm, Thursday 9.30am - 7.30pm, Friday 9.30am - 5pm, Friday 9.30am - 5pm, Saturday 9.30am - 4pm.
- Right to view without prior appointment
The owner's binding undertakings
To undertake with respect to the archives, that during my lifetime or until they are disposed of whether by sale or gift or otherwise: (a) to keep the archives associated with Loseley House and permanently in the United Kingdom and not to remove them temporarily except for a purpose and a period approved by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC); (b) to take reasonable steps for their maintenance repair and preservation which will include with immediate effect funding a rolling programme of conservation of the archives, as described on the Second Schedule, until all documents currently unfit for production to researchers are in a state to be produced. (i) the priorities for restoration, the rate at which restoration takes place and the level of funding shall be agreed from time to time between the Surrey History Centre and me (or in such manner as HMRC shall from time to time approve of) and fo…