{"id":246,"date":"2023-05-01T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/lost-in-transcription\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2023-05-03T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:06:10","slug":"places","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/lost-in-transcription\/solving-the-mystery\/places\/","title":{"rendered":"Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having transcribed and translated, we began to learn from the documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where?<\/strong>  Places of many scales make their appearance in both the will and sasine, which mention counties, cities, private property including farms, houses and businesses, and some natural features, like moors and hills.  Where were all these places?  We turned to modern and historic maps to find out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An English manor was easy to find.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sir George\u2019s home, Wentworth Woodhouse manor, for example, is in York. The current Wentworth-Woodhouse manor is one of the largest privately owned houses in Europe and a major tourist attraction today. We found the manor on both seventeenth-century English maps and GoogleMaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detail, \u201cThe Rest Ridinge of Yorkeshyre,\u201d in John Speed,The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine<\/em>. …London. Printed for Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell. 1676. David Rumsey Collection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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However, the house itself is Georgian, built starting in the early eighteenth century. Only one gate<\/a> remains from the original building. However wo prints published in the nineteenth-century from earlier originals suggest what the house and grounds likely looked like in Sir George’s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This engraving of Thomas Wentworth and Margaret Gascoigne, grandparents to Thomas and Sir George, shows a depiction of a home , likely Wentworth (rt).\u00a0 Published in A. Gatty, \u201cWentworth Woodhouse and its owners,\u201d Yorkshire archaeological journal<\/em>, 1881, 343.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The house Sir George lived in? This etching, said to derive from a painting at Wentworth, shows a Tudor or Elizabethan stone building with a main residence, stables, kitchen, kitchen gardens, towers, orangery, and summer houses. Today\u2019s Wentworth Woodhouse manor dates to the 1700s. Printed, Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire<\/em>, 1831, 2:95.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n