PRIMARY SOURCES
- NA Nottinghamshire Archives
- Letter George Savile, 7th Baronet to Sir Bryan Broughton DD/SR/212/34
- Letter George Savile, 8th Baronet to Gertrude Savile DD/SR/212/15/56
- Memorandum, George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/218/9/1
- Personal Accounts, George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/A4/35,36; DD/SR/211/319; DD/SR/211/193/1
- ‘Plan of Sluces – Flood Gutters – Catarack – Aquaduct, &c from Wilderness=Canal’, George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/215/13/1
- Rufford Estate Accounts DD/SR/26,27,29,30; DD/SR/235/1
- Rufford Estate Correspondence
- George Burden to George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/211/435
- George Holt to George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/211/24/50,73,74,80,85,86
- William Matthew to George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/211/58/3,29
- Thomas Smith to George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/211/227/6,31,45,67,68,69,114,115,117,120, 122,133,139,152a,169,171,173
- Rufford Estate Day-Labourers’ Fortnightly Accounts DD/SR/A4/39/1
- Rufford Estate Papers: Poaching DD/SR/218/1/35
- Rufford Estate Surveys DD/SR/227/130; DD/SR/202/47; RF3L; RF5L
- Thornhill Estate Correspondence
- William Elmsall to George Savile, 7th Baronet DD/SR/211/2,6
- Natl Archives National Archives
- Parliamentary Survey of the Manors of Rufford within Sherwood Forest, 17 September 1656 E317/Notts/22
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