• Reference
    SJ1-57
  • Title
    Bolingbroke (Melchbourne) Records
  • Date free text
    1567 - 1725
  • Production date
    From: 1567 To: 1725
  • Scope and Content
    Oliver St John of Bletso was created a Baron by Queen Elizabeth in 1559; in 1602 his grandson the 4th Baron married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of William Paulet of Wallop, Hampshire, a cousin of the Paulets, Marquesses of Winchester; he was created Earl of Bolingbroke in 1624. The Earldom became extinct on the death of the 3rd Earl in 1711.
  • Level of description
    sub-fonds