Reference
AD1199-1589
Title
Robert, Lord Raymond Archive purhased from D.M.D.Thacker of Leigh-on-Sea [Essex]
Admin/biog history
Documents relating principally to the property of Robert Lord Raymond in Leagrave, Luton and district.
Robert first Lord Raymond, (Baron of Abbot's Langley, Herts). 1673-1733
He was the son of Sir Thomas Raymond (1627-83) of Bowers-Gifford, Essex, who also had a distinguished legal career (see D.N.B.). Sir Thomas married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Fishe of Southill, one of whose papers, concerning the marriage of another daughter, is included in the present collection (AD1580).
The documents enable us to trace Lord Raymond's remoter ancestry in Beds. AD1573 and 1574 give John Rayment of Broome in Southill, gent., whose eldest son robert married Anne Meredith of North Benfleet, Essex, in 1613, and apparently married again in 1620, Margaret, who seems to have been another member of the Fyshe family. In that year he is described as of Bowers, Essex, and it may be assumed that Sir Thomas Raymond was his son.
Robert Raymond was solicitor-general from 1710 to 1714 and was knighted in 1710. He was attorney-general from 1720 to 1724 and sat in Parliament for various constituencies at dates between 1710 and 1724. In 1724 he became a puisne judge of the King's Bench, in 1725 Lord Cheif Justice and was made a Baron in 1731.
He married in 1720 Anne, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Northey of Epsom, attorney-general to Queen Anne. (AD1581 is the will of Sir Edward's father.) His son Robert, the second Lord Raymond (1717-56), died without issue. Sir Edward was one of the executors of the first Lord Raymond, Beversham Filmer being the other
Sir Robert Raymond bought various properties in the Luton area between 1718 and 1731 and his executors continued to purchase after his death. Even after the death of the second Lord Raymond, Beversham Filmer
made a further purchase (AD1453-76) and it seems likely that he inherited some or all of the property.
Thacker, D.M.D
Scope and Content
Documents relating principally to the property of Robert lord Raymond in Leagrave, Luton and district, purchased from Mr. D.M.D. Thacker of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, August 1946.
System of arrangement
The deeds have been arranged in order of purchase by Raymond or his executors and in order of last purchaser where no conveyance to Raymond has been found.
Level of description
sub-fonds