James West FRS (1703– 1772). Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine...

James West FRS (1703– 1772). Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine (1693–1749) Correspondence and papers concerning Coleraine's family and estate, 1737–1762. Seven manuscript items, comprising three autograph letters signed by Coleraine to West, a later letter to West, two manuscripts concerning Coleraine's will and estate, and a signed receipt. Principally on folded sheets; the 1737 letters retain integral address panels with postal marks and seal remnants. The estate memorandum with four blank pages to the rear. Old folds, occasional staining and small losses, including losses at the seals; generally vg. Coleraine to West, 14 September 1737, offering him the management of his estate and house; Coleraine to West, 27 September 1737, urgently seeking someone to manage his affairs and alleging unauthorised sales of estate timber; a manuscript extract of Coleraine's will, docketed 17 September 1746, possibly in his hand; Coleraine to West, Tottenham, 31 March 1749, concerning a balance of approximately £62 which he says West owes him; a manuscript Brief State of Ld Coleraine's Will and Demise of his Estate, compiled after December 1751; a receipt signed by Briggs as attorney for Coleraine's executors, 12 January 1755, acknowledging £67 12s. 6d. from West; and M. Colborn to West, Walpole near Wisbech, 6 September 1762, asking West's help to remain rent-free in a house built by Coleraine. (7) The two manuscripts concerning the will record different stages of a prolonged family and estate dispute. The extract preserves Coleraine's account of his separation from Lady Anne, an unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation through James West in 1740, and his subsequent engagement to Rose Duplessis, whom he calls his "only true and Virtuous Wife." Its final sentence names their daughter, Henrietta Rosa Peregrina, born 12 September 1745. The later Brief State sets out the competing claims to Coleraine's estate after his death. The letters show West's involvement in Coleraine's affairs over more than two decades. In September 1737 Coleraine presses him to find an estate manager, declaring that he cannot endure "the care of an Estate or any thing relating to money." His letter of 1749 and the receipt of 1755 document later financial dealings, while Colborn's appeal shows West still being approached about Coleraine's property in 1762. The dispute continued beyond these papers. By a private Act of 1763, certain Irish estates devised in Coleraine's will were placed in trust for Henrietta Rosa Peregrina Hare and her heirs, subject to annuities for Rose Duplessis and payments to other claimants (Lord Coleraine's Estate Act 1763, 3 Geo. III, c. 45, private). Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine (10 May 1693–August 1749), was an antiquary, collector and Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society. (See David Boyd Haycock, 'Hare, Henry, third Baron Coleraine', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.)

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