Saunders and Sebright family papers, 1628-1852Saunders (Family)engCollection of correspondence, financial records, and documents relating to members of the Saunders and Sebright family. Material relating to Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) includes correspondence discussing personal debts, agriculture, and legal matters; minutes from the Privy Council meeting held on April 7, 1636; and documents relating to the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, 1644-1646. Material relating to members of the Sebright family includes a 17th century manuscript almanac, in an unidentified hand; a manuscript notebook containing notes about wine and decanting wine; inventories listing groceries and household goods purchased for Beechwood Park, one taken at the time of Sir Thomas Sebright's death; and domestic and medical recipes. Also includes autograph manuscript letters addressed to Baron Charles Lyttelton; treatises on law, in an unidentified hand; and a manuscript document titled "The Government of the Thoughts".Thomas Saunders (approximately 1600-1667) studied law in London and served as agent for the Committee for Sequestration in the 1640s. He inherited Beechwood Park, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, in 1628. His son was Thomas Saunders (1631-1698) and his granddaughter Anne Saunders (1670-1719) married Sir Edward Sebright (1668-1702) in 1688. Anne and Edward's eldest son, Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright (1692-1736), matriculated at Oxford and was M.P. for Herefordshire from 1715 until his death.