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Records of the Herbert family of Montgomery, Chirbury and Powis Castle, later earls of Powis, 13-20 cent., including records of the Powis Castle estate, including title deeds, mainly in Montgomeryshire and adjacent counties, notably Shropshire, 13-20 cent.; records of lead and silver mining in Cardiganshire, 18-19 cent.; records of the Castle Island estate, County Kerry, Ireland, 16-19 cent.; manorial records for the barony of Powis from 1549, the lordship of Oswestry from 1577, the manors of Cydewain, Halcetor and Montgomery from 1525, Chirbury from 1373, Pool from 1653, the borough of Llanfyllin from 1653, and many others; records of the borough of Llanfyllin, 1674-1820 including records of the Court of Record (borough court), 1674-1721, 1761-1763; estate rentals, 1712-1941; rentals of chief rents, 1676, 1745-1897 (mainly 1745-1817); correspondence, mainly 17-19 cent.; Montgomeryshire Chartist riots papers, and papers relating to the campaign against the proposed union of the dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor. Manuscripts and papers of Edward Herbert, 1st baron Herbert of Chirbury (1583-1648); Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (1725-1774) and Brigadier-General John Carnac (c.1716-1800) have been removed from the archive and catalogued as separate collections.

Accounts of oats delivered to Anne Steenun, Ann Humpheres, wagoner, Morgan, John Davies, John Jeffries, etc., wheat for 'ye Gent' and 'ye livery', ale and bread received and used in the kitchen, the dairy and the Castle, etc. Torn.

Schedule of documents relating to the sum of £300 borrowed by the Duke of Powis, Lord Montgomery, and Lady Mary Herbert of Dr Hugh Chamberlain, 20 Sept. 1720, and the assignment of the bond thereon to Oliver Marton.

Accounts of the financial transactions of William Herbert, Duke and Marquis of Powis, including notes of bonds made in conjunction with Thomas Budd (steward) of p. St Andrews Holborn, Middlesex, gent., letter from J. Eyre to Guy Vane, esq., Lincolns Inn (30 June 1720), copy lease by the Marquis to Thomas Budd of Mapes, Middlesex, of lands in Heyford, Northamptonshire (7 March 1724/5), letter from Thomas Budd to Edward Webb, Long Court in Grays Inn, London (13 Jan. 1730/1), account between Mrs Budd and the Duke of Powis (1738-40), letter from George Hall, Salop, to [Thomas] Budd (25 Sept. 1737), receipt from Thomas Budd to John Griffiths (11 Sept. 1741), and an affidavit of Elizabeth Devall, formerly wife of Thomas Budd, dec., concerning books and papers of the late Marquis of Powis and his son, both dec. (11 July 1752).

Petition of Martin Twiss, farmer, to the Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert concerning the lease and rent of his farm of Killeentierna and Rathnalogh in the seigniory of Castle Island, an agreement for which dated 1716 Mr [Robert] Lloyd tore up and demanded an increased rent. Petitioner's grand-father, Richard Twiss, had settled in Kerry at the request of Edward, Lord Herbert, after the rebellion of 1641.

Petition of the tenants of Castle Island Town to the Commissioners empowered to set the estate of Castle Island for acres at the farm of Cahirnanard (like other farms now set to strangers) to help to support their families.

Legal papers including Mathafarn forge; Castle Island legal papers and accounts; Sutton estate deeds, 1720-1813; Lady Mary Herbert's debts and subsequent legal proceedings and her mines in Spain.

Answer of Mary Herbert, spinster, commonly called Lady Mary Herbert, one of the defendants to the amended bill of complaint of William Herbert the elder, esq., commonly called Duke of Powis, and others, complainants, touching financial transactions in France in 1720.

1 Richard Meredith of Castle Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and another, trustees. 2 Francis Hollys, Edmund Hallys, and John Davies, all of Clounagh, Co. Kerry, Ireland, yeomen. Memorandum of an agreement for the lands of Knockanahaglissey and Clounagh.

1 Francis Hollis, Edmond Hollis and John Davies, all of Knockanehagulsy, Co. Kerry, Ireland. 2 Rowland Baughs, Richard Salwey, esq's, Samuel Dunster, DD, John Greenly, esq., and Richard Davies, gent. Bond for the payment of £22.7.4.

Affidavit of Denish Marphy and Michaell Davane of Kilbanavane as to ditches, walls and buildings made on farms in the seigniory of Castle Island in Ireland.

Deeds (copies) of the Sutton estate, co. Mont., comprising the manor of Subton otherwise Sutton, the capital m. called Sutton, lands called Clandier, Errow ap Say, lands in the Longfield, and land called Grinsley in p's Montgomery and Llandyssell, m's and lands called Heanvron, Dode Tenement, Austin's Tenement, Tuy y heeme, Coed y Weeg, and other m's in Llandyssell, a m. and lands called Tuy y Diggam otherwise Tuthy y Diggam otherwise Dy Gwyn in Mothtrey Lan Estergilio otherwise Ethergilio, a m. and lands in p. Kerry, m's in Montgomery, and a m. called James Ford in p. Montgomery, all in co. Mont., including mortgages of the estate by Humphrey Walcot of Ludlow, Shropshire, esq., and assignments thereof, copy of the will of William Thomas of Bishops Castle, Shropshire (dated 11 June 1784, proved 21 May 1792), and a copy of the will of James Bromfield the younger of Dodington, p. Whitchurch, Shropshire, cheese factor (dated 20 July 1808, codicil 22 Feb. 1813).

1 Mary Herbert, commonly called Lady Mary Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, esq., commonly called Duke of Powis. 2 Tristham Huddleston of p. St Paul, Covent Garden, Middlesex, silk mercer. Bond for the payment of £93.8s., with a memorandum that Lady Mary, if she bought 1,000 yards of Mohair from Huddleston, should be allowed £52.10s. out of the said sum. Copy.

Case of James Donnelly touching his lease of the farm of Glansherune [Castle Island, Co. Kerry, Ireland] and his ejectment by Robert Lloyd, with comments on the case.