Documents, [1660x1685]-[1748x1750], relating to political matters. They include accounts of Parliamentary proceedings, foreign affairs and taxation, together with petitions, political satire, and records of the Band of Gentleman Pensioners.

Papers, 1644-1691, accumulated by members of the Herbert family of Cherbury during the course of their political activities. They include records and correspondence, 1644-1658, relating to the family’s role in the civil war throughout Wales, and their subsequent dispossession and rehabilitation; records and correspondence, 1660-1689, concerning the Montgomeryshire militia and the suppression of disaffected persons in the Welsh marches; and records and correspondence, 1660-1691, relating to the family’s support of Charles II and James II, including military service in France.

Records and correspondence, 1646-1698, accumulated by members of the Herbert family of Powis Castle during the course of their political activities. Most of the papers relate to the sequestration of their estates after the civil war, while others arise from the Herberts’ commitment to the Jacobite cause during and after the ‘Glorious Revolution’.