Introduction to the Hervey/Bruce Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Hervy/Bruce archive (D2798, D1514 and T2960) held in PRONI.
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The Hervey/Bruce papers include 1,250 original and copied documents (mainly the former), around 1750 to around 1950, relating mainly to Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (and Bishop of Derry from 1768 to his death in 1803), and to his cousins and successors in his Co. Londonderry estate, the Bruce family, baronets of Downhill, Castlerock, Co. Londonderry.