[RADCLYFFE (3rd Earl of Derwentwater, 1689-1716, Jacobite, Executed for Treason)

Inventory of Household Goods for James Radclyffe headed "An Inventory of the Household Goods of the late Lord Derwentwater at Dilston House" and listing "At the Garretts - 7 plain Bedsteads, 3 with Blew & 4 with green coarse Kidderminster Curtains one side of the Rooms being hung with the same ... In the Servts Room ... 3 old Bedsteads with Ordinary beding to one ... On the same floor - 1 small Bedstead with Coarse Curtains ... 1 peer Glass Cracked ... On the same floor - A pr of small Bay Trees, 5 orange trees, 2 laurentines, 3 small Myrtles, 1 Spanish brome. In the Nursery - 2 Nunns Pictures, 1 old Chair, Old Bedstead. In the Dining Room - 1 Oval Table, 1 Card Table, 12 Carve Chairs, 2 prs of Window Curtains of White knotted Dimmety ... large Iron Stove. In the Passage - A Napkin press with drawers. In the Steward's Room - A small Bedstead with Curtains of Scotch Pladd with Hangings ... Bed Blanketts & Quilt ... a small Desk, an Easy Chair, 4 Carve Chairs, 2 little tables, 9 Old Pictures ... An Iron Stove, Tongs, fire Shovel, Poker and fender ... In the Maid's room - An Old Bedstead .. Chest of Drawers 7 broken Chairs ... In the Servts Hall - 2 long Tables ... Old brewing Tubbs. In the Cellars - 9 Empty Casks, 2 Thralls ... In the Kitchen - 4 Small Pewter Dishes, 10 plates, 3 old brass panns ... In the Scullery & Bakehouse - 1 Piggin, 3 Dough Tubbs, 2 Dripping panns ... In the Wash House - 8 Washing Tubbs ... In the Brew House - 2 Mashing Tubbs ..." the appraisal by Matthew Llewelin and Nicholas Tooke valued the contents, excluding the Earl's personal possesions at £22.19s and 742 deal boards added a further £45, the property was sold the same day - "The Goods before mentioned sold to Mr Ralph Wood of Needless Hall in the Parish of Harburn in the County of Northumberland the 17th Day of Aprill 1717 for the Sume of Sixty Eight pounds by me. Henry Gibbs ...", with a further receipt signed by Lewis Elstobb Receiver of the Exchequer for the money received from Ralph Woods on 14th August 1717, 2 sides folio, Dilston Hall, 17th April

Radclyffe was brought up at the exiled court of St Germain as a companion to the young prince, James Francis Edward Stuart (the 'Old Pretender' after his father James II died), and remained there at the wish of Queen Mary of Modena, until his father's death in 1705. He joined the conspiracy of 1715 attempting to regain the throne for James Stuart. Radclyffe was suspected by the government, and on the eve of the insurrection the secretary of state, Stanhope, signed a warrant for his arrest. A messenger was sent to Durham to secure him, but Radclyffe went into hiding. He heard that Thomas Forster had raised the standard of the Pretender, and Radclyffe joined him at Greenrigg, at the head of a company of gentlemen and armed servants from Dilston Hall. His following, at most 70, was under the immediate command of his brother, Charles Radclyffe. When the rebels occupied Preston, Derwentwater encouraged the men to throw up trenches. The Jacobite army was defeated at the Battle of Preston. Radclyffe acquiesced in Forster's decision to capitulate to the inferior force of General Charles Wills. He was escorted with the other prisoners to London and lodged in the Devereux tower of the Tower of London, along with the Earls of Nithsdale and of Carnwath, and Lords Widdrington, Kenmure, and Nairne. He was examined before the Privy Council on 10th January 1716, and impeached with the other lords on 19th January. Derwentwater pleaded guilty, urging in extenuation his inexperience, and his advice to those who were about him to throw themselves upon the royal clemency. He was attainted and beheaded.

Item Date:  1717

Stock No:  41664     

                


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