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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William De Courcy papers, 1754-1871</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>De Courcy, William</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1703-1769</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>11</extent>
    <extent>1</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, legal testimonies, wills, and petitions advanced in support of De Courcy's claim (1763) to the earldom of Kinsale and the barony of De Courcy in Ireland.  Includes military resignation (1778 August 5) of Edward Coursey signed by Tench Tilghman and newspaper clipping (1871) concerning the true identity of Sir Roger Tichborne and his right to an inheritance of property in England.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,472.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.</note>
  <note>Landowner.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coursey, Edward</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tilghman, Tench</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1744-1786</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Doughty-Tichborne, Roger Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1854</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Estates (Law)</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Titles of honor and nobility</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Wills</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ireland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1558-1603</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kinsale (Ireland)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Wye River (Md.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Landowners</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 75018143</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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