£220
The Chaplins of Blankney Hall, Lincolsnhire. A rental 'roll' of their 'lordships', n.d. [late 18th/early 19th century], [30], 221pp of ink manuscript, prefixed by an index of the tenants, the contents list the tenantry of each south-east Lincolnshire property owned by the Chaplins, arranged alphabetically on a parish-parish or town-town basis, including extensive property in Boston and Spalding, occasional remarks on the tenants, e.g. Charles Butler of Whickham "a Roman Catholic", contemporary calf over boards, blind-rolled fillet borders, the upper-cover blocked in gilt Holland, 4to.
Provenance: Charles Chaplin (1786-1859), of Blankney Hall, landowner and politician, his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. Chaplin sat in the House of Commons twice, for Stamford (1809-12) and later for one of the county seats of Lincolnshire (1818-31), as MP for the latter he voted against the Catholic Relief Act of 1827, thus casting his identification of Butler as a Roman Catholic in an altogether different light.
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