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Letters, mainly addressed to William Herbert of Cogan Pill, 1609-38, including letters from Thomas Thomas of Newport, 1615-16 (L2/19-26, 39), noting that Sir Walter Raleigh does not go away until after Christmas, 1615 (L2/19) and a report that the fleet does not sail until January, 1616 (L2/22) and from William Herbert at Rouen and Paris to his wife Elizabeth,. The correspondence includes reference to Sir Fulke Willoughby, Lord Willoughby, going shortly to Denmark with 2,000 men, 1613 (L2/15), references to Bristol merchants wanting to deal butter, 1619 (L2/35, cf. L3/66, 73, and D 77/3-5), petition relating to the goods of Ho'ell David, late of Llanhary, co. Glam., felon, 1620 (L2/45-6), mention of William Herbert's outlawry, 1624 (L2/57), news from court, 1625-37 (L2/59, 102, 130), including the the wedding of Charles 1 and Henrietta Maria, 1625 (L2/59), (L2/65, fragment), letters about the plague in London, including 'the sickness is well abated ... there dyed this last weecke but 458 of the plague', 1636-7 (L2/96, 102, 116) reference to falcon, goshawk, sparrow hawk, marlin, spaniels, and hounds for sport, 1637 (L2/116) and to the wainscoting in the house in Swansea being taken down and sent to Cogan Pill, 1637 (L2/120). Several of the letters are fragile.

Letters all undated, including many to William Herbert of Cogan Pill, relating for the most part to the private affairs of members of the Herbert family, including a letter from Walter Raleigh, [?1617] (L3/5-6, cf. 'A Sir Walter Ralegh letter', Nlwj, vol. XXII (1981-2), p. 349 and D 77/1), William Herbert (L3/9-16 et seq.), William Gamage of Llanedern (L3/7-8, 19, 29-30), Edmund Thomas of Wenvoe Castle (L3/53), Edward Morgan of Llanrhymney L3/4, 57) and Humfry Wyndham, (L3/62). The correspondence includes references to the army at Breda, Netherlands, [?1637] (L3/4), a detailed description of the enemy's 'enterprise uppon Reynbarke', and mention of the overthrow of a Spanish army besieging Lencate in Languedoc, France, Nov. (L3/57), a letter from Newgate Gaol, [?c.1625] (L3/34-5), a pirate and goods found at Briton Ferry [?1591] (L3/41-2 cf. L1/27), letters from William Herbert in Boys [?Bois-le-Roi, France], including unflattering sentiments about the locals and its renown for watches, (L3/61), and from Blois, France, 20 June, (L3/83), references to butter (L3/66, 73 cf. L2/35), reference to John Morgan Gamadge doing penance in a white sheet in Cardiff and other places (L3/66), letter from Edward Herbert relating to a duel (L3/77), letter from William Herbert stating that he received three wounds from the recipient's sword, and that Edward Carne is known to be a Catholic, (L3/81), news from court (L3/85) and reference to the fear of war due to the Marquis of Brandenburg building the town of Mulheim on the river Rhine, near Köln, Germany, and to Frederic, Elector Palatine's intention to marry Elizabeth, daughter of James I, [1612x1613] (L3/86). Several of the letters are fragile.

Letters mainly to and from Lady Maria Pinfold, relating mainly to a mortgage of £7,000, secured on the Simpson Estate, Buckinghamshire, 1829-39 (L10/1-65), and a journal of the health of her husband, Charles Pinfold, 1829-32 (L10/66).

Letters including letters from George Hamilton-Gordon, earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary (L11/5, 26), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce (L11/13, 28, 35 et seq.), Robert James Carr, bishop of Chichester (L11/27), Sir William Homan of Dromana, Co. Waterford, Ireland, being a letter of introduction of Father Sheehan, collecting subscriptions for a Roman Catholic chapel, expressing that the Catholics suffer in being compelled to support Protestant churches where they do not have their own places of worship, and that the wretched squalid appearance of their own chapels has a tendency to reconcile them to filth and misery, May (L11/31), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln, including the false rumour that he is to be preceptor to the Princess Victoria, May (L11/32), and Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Winchester (L11/40). The letters include a reference to the abolition of the Beer Duty, March (L11/21), the appointment of Frederick Grigg as Commissioner of Arbitration at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the United Commission established under the treaties for the prevention of illegal slave trade, April - Aug. (L11/26, 33, 42 et seq.), the return of George Thomas Beresford and Daniel O'Connell as MPs for Co. Waterford, Ireland, August (L11/47), the French royal family at Lulworth, Dorset, Sept. (L11/49), notice of a dinner at Banbury for Montague, Lord Norreys, on his return as MP for Oxfordshire, Sept. (L11/53) and the effects of the Beer Bill, and the adulteration of beer and cider, Oct. (L11/58).

Letters including letters from William Alberti at Brompton and Milan, Italy (L12/2, 10, 56), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L12/6, 88, 110 et seq.), George Fitz-Clarence, earl of Munster (L12/51), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L12/65), and Sir John Mortlake (L12/72, 77). The letters include a reference to Lady Bute's carriage being attacked by a mob in Rothsay, Bute, Scotland, Jan. (L12/6-7), a memorandum, A brief statement of the reasons why the religious Society of Friends object to the payment of Tithes, and other demands of an Ecclesiastical nature: issued by the Yearly Meeting of the said Society, held in London, May (L12/33), congratulations on the Isle of Bute being granted its own MP and on its separation from the district of Cowal, Argyll, Scotland, June (L12/34), the general election, the first after the passing of the Reform Act, including references to Carlisle, Kendal, Leeds, Lyme, Peterborough, Buckinghamshire, Bute, Scotland, and Northamptonshire, and Ireland, July - Dec. (L12/45, 51-2, 62 et seq.), including a draft of Charles Stuart's address to the electors of Bute, Scotland, July (L12/45), a rough sketch of the junction of the Banbury, Wroxton and Warwick roads, Sept. (L12/69), and two memoranda, Irish Church Reform Bill, 1833, and Outline of a plan for the commutation of tithes in Ireland, [c. 1833] (L12/122).

Letters And Papers including letters from Sir John Hall (L16/55, 113, 119 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw (L16/56, 141, 180), John Banks Jenkinson, bishop of St David's (L16/63), William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, relating to the Church Discipline Bill (L16/108), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L16/126, 218, 247 et seq.), Frederick Grigg from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (L16/136), Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Winchester (L16/139), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L16/168, 220, 250 et seq.), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L16/189, 219), Philip D Souper, secretary of the Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Co., relating to the surplus population on the Bute estates in Ireland, (L16/192, 217), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland (L16/200), Joseph Snow, former editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L16/237), James Walter, author of Spirit of the Metropolitan Conservative Press (L16/264), Sir Robert H. Inglis (L16/276) and Rev. Caleb Whitefoord (L16/279). The correspondence includes a letter in French from Lord George Stuart's doctor in Milan, Italy (L16/23 ), a Bill to bring a railway and depot to Fenchurch Street, London, June - July (L16/55, 113, 119 et seq.), papers showing the decline in sugar production following the abolition of slavery in Jamaica, July (L16/126), letter refuting the allegation contained in a letter from Dr William Cullen to Lord Glenely, laid before Parliament in 1838, that the English of the Mixed Commission had received slaves hired out by the Brazilian government, July (L16/136), appointment of Col Sir Charles Shaw as chief commissioner of police of the borough of Manchester, Lancashire, July - Sept. (L16/141, 180), application for a subscription towards the rebuilding or enlargement of the church of Llangattock-Juxta-Neath, Nov. (L16/234), accounts of 'a fainting fit' suffered by the Duke of Wellington, Nov. (L16/246, 249), Lord Bute's refusal to let land for the building of a Roman Catholic church, Cardiff, a decision attacked in the Morning Chronicle and by Daniel O'Connell, Dec. (L16/276, 279, see also L17/217), papers from the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principals of the Established Church, May - Sept. (L16/95, 182), resolutions for the formation of the South Wales Anthracite Association, July (L16/138), minutes of the first meeting and prospectus of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, July (L16/140), prospectus for the sale of shares in the proposed Plymouth, Pentrebach, and Dyffryn Iron Co., Merthyr Tydfil, and on the sale of the said ironworks by the proprietors, Richard and Anthony Hill, to the directors of the proposed company, Nov. (L16/262), prospectus of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society (L16/293), prospectus and subscription list of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Populous Places (L16/294) and a petition to the House of Commons relating to the great evil of the Bank of England and country banks issuing paper money without capital, and recommending the formation of a Bank of National Account to be the only bank of issue in England and Ireland (L16/295).

Letters And Papers including letters from Henry Stuart, relating to an invitation to stand in the Conservative interest for the borough of Bedford at the next election, Jan. (L17/1, 7), Alfred Mallalieu, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/14, 322, 386 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, Manchester police commissioner (L17/48, 211), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L17/84, 132), Mrs P. O. Rossi, widow of Charles Rossi, sculptor (L17/115), Edward Lockwood, secretary of the Bedfordshire Board of Education (L17/164), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L17/191, 250, 263 et seq.), Francis, seventh duke of Bedford (L17/215, 221), Samuel Gordon of Dublin, secretary of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society (L17/217), William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury (L17/254), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L17/340, 377), J[ames] Ingram, president of Trinity College (L17/348), Hugh Percy, third duke of Northumberland, applying for Lord Bute's vote in the election for Chancellor of Cambridge University, on the death of the Marquis of Camden (L17/354), Joseph Snow, former editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/392) and J. W. Poundley, agricultural advisor (L17/401). The letters include references to the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Nov. (L17/10, 14, 20 et seq.), including that the Penny Post is hurting all newspapers in that adverts that formerly went to the papers are being sent through the post as circulars, Nov. (L17/386), letter seeking Lord Bute's advice on improving the navigation of the river Mersey and getting bonded warehouses in Manchester, Lancashire, Feb. (L17/48), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March (L17/95), an offer to sell cabinet portraits of Lord Bute and his two brothers by [Allen] Lindsay, March (L17/106), report on the state of the Church of England's General Assembly's Foreign Missions to Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, India, May (L17/139), the state of the police in Bolton and Manchester, Lancashire, July (L17/211), the formation of the Bedfordshire Conservative Association, July - Sept. (L17/215, 221, 265 et seq.), an application in favour of the widow and children of John Williams, missionary, murdered in Erromanga in the South Seas, July (L17/216), a painting of Lady Mills by Sir James Reynolds stolen, Aug. (L17/260), the proposed London and Manchester Railway through Bedford, Aug. - Sept. (L17/275, 279, 293 et seq.), mention of a large legacy left by Mr Day, blacking manufacturer, left for the benefit of the indigent blind, Sept. (L17/301), an offer to sell letters relating to Lord Bute's family and allied families, Sept. (L17/305), the inauguration of the South Bedfordshire and North Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, Oct. - Dec. (L17/367, 380, 449), the military works at Dover Castle, Kent, shut up in consequence 'of the excited state of our neighbours and the signs of the times', Nov. (L17/376), and damage to Cardiff Docks, co. Glam., Nov. - Dec. (L17/385, 427). The papers include an appeal entitled Spiritual destitution of the parish of Bethnal Green, London, Jan. (L17/33), a circular from the Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland against the repeal of the Corn Laws, March (L17/79), Address to the labourers, farmers, and landlords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, calling for the formation of a League of Corn Law Associations, March (L17/107), Second report of the committee of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society, July (L17/217), notice of a public meeting relating to the Lock Hospital, Asylum and Chapel, London, July (L17/228), an application for a subscription towards a proposed Protestant Home for British students at Paris schools and colleges, Aug. (L17/283), a pamphlet calling for the repeal of that part of Lord Lyndhurst's Marriage Act (5 and 6 William IV, c.54) that prohibits marriage with a deceased's wife's sister, Oct. (L17/343), resolutions of the final meeting of the Joint-Stock Bank Association and of a meeting at the House of Commons in favour of the economist Thomas Joplin, Aug. (L17/292), papers from the National Society (L17/452), a copy of a letter to The Record relating to Roman Catholicism in the colonies (L17/453) and a catalogue of works published by the Society of Antiquaries of London (L17/454).

Letters And Papers including letters from J. E. Thomas, sculptor (L19/1, 8, 73 et seq.), George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary (L19/9, 71), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L19/11, 46, 72), Sir James Graham, Home Secretary (L19/38, 58), Carlo, prince of Capua, Italy, (L19/42), Alfred Mallalieu (L19/64), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L19/93), the secretary of the British-American Association for Emigration and Colonization, enclosing minutes of public meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow (L19/109) and John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, seventh duke of Argyll (L19/228). The letters include references to the establishment of a Consul General in Cuba, March - April (L19/71, 78), a circular from Rev. J. R. Wood, secretary of the sub-committee for the endowment of an intended Diocese of Gibraltar, April (L19/88), a statement of the trustees of Rhymney Church enclosing a subscription list and reporting their inability to complete the church without more funds, and that the 8,000 people that live about the Rhymney Iron Works, co. Mon., must either neglect all public worship or drift into 'heresy and schism', March (L19/71a, see also P 10/3) and an account of the death of Captain John Windsor Stuart at Cutch, Mandavie, India, in 1826 (L19/165, see also L31/66, 68).

Correspondence between the Pantechnicon, Belgrave Square, London, and the executors of the late Lord Bute, relating to the storage of books, pictures, picture frames, furniture, mahogany and other doors and marble chimney pieces.

Correspondence, originally bundled as 'Glamorganshire Letters', relating to routine estate administration, such as leases, rents, heriots, royalties and tithes, initially being for the most part letters from the steward of the estate, but increasingly also from bailiffs, gentry, ironmasters, clergy, mineral surveyors, officers of the militia, government ministers, applicants for various posts and other individuals. Most of the bundles of letters relate to the Glamorgan estate, although letters and bundles of letters relating to other estates are also present. The correspondence also contains reports on affairs in the county and boroughs of Glamorgan, including the Commission of the Peace and the Glamorgan Militia, and also comments on the local and national economy, politics, and events.

Letters including letters from Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll (L39/4, 17, 23 et seq.), the War Office, relating to the new recruiting Act (L39/20, 25), Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L39/62), Rev. Wyndham Lewis (L39/64, 71), and Whitlock Nicholl of the Ham (L39/78) together with a copy reply from John, Lord Mountstuart (L39/3). The correspondence includes references to the destruction of woods at Fforest Cefn y Coed, p. Eglwysilan (L39/1, 18, 34), the nomination of Barth Greenwood as sheriff for co. Glam., despite the Cardiff borough charters excempting the bailiffs, aldermen and burgesses from holding office out of the town (L39/13, 17, 21-3 et seq.), petition of the borough of Cardiff to the Justices of the Great Sessions for cos Glam., Brec. and Rad., that the town hall of Cowbridge is not in a fit state to receive them, and offering to host the next, and future, Great Sessions (L39/26-8), references to the Ogmore fishery (L39/38, 45-6), copy exchange of angry letters between Thomas Edwards, the former steward of the Glamorgan estate and Robert Stephenson, steward (L39/45), and Cardiff weights and measures (L39/51).

Vouchers of Robert Beaumont, mainly relating to stones, iron ore and coal raised from Castell Coch and Craig Allt quarries and Caerphilly colliery, including receipts for sinking a trial pit in search of coal on Tyr Esquiry, near Gwain Visken (M1/133) and opening a pit on the Forch coal vein on Caerphilly hill, (M1/139).

See also M 1/853-951. A number of sketch plans have been transferred to Department of Pictures and Maps.