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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.

He would like a copy of the new Bill presented by Lord Powis as soon as it is printed and desires to know whether there is any reason to believe that the Government will withdraw their opposition to the Bill this session. He would welcome an article on the subject.

He has sent to his lordship at the House of Lords a petition from this parish against the union of the sees. His lordship has probably rad in the newspapers that another Welsh clergyman, in addition to the son of Mr Lloyd of Rhaggat, seceded on Sunday last to the Church of Rome. The last convert, Mr Lewis, a fellow of Jesus College, is said to be a person of very considerable attainments and will probably be rendered very useful in the new Popish college which is to be erected near St Asaph. The Roman Catholics are making great efforts to convert the Welsh to 'the old religion'. This is the time which their Ministers have chosen for robbing them of their episcopate and weakening the influence of the Established Church in North Wales.

He encloses a blank proxy to enable his lordship to give his vote in favour of the maintenance of the Welsh bishoprics. It is to be used for this purpose only and is afterwards to be cancelled. Lord Hardwicke now holds his proxy and his lordship must take care that it is revoked before the enclosed proxy is used.

He desires Lord Clive to be informed that he will not forget the day fixed for the second reading of the Bill. He wishes it were in his power to support Lord Powis in person but he is obliged to leave England on Friday next. He hears very comfortable accounts of his wife and young ones.

The Marshall [Viscount Beresford] will be delighted to give Lord Powis his proxy.

Owing to serious indisposition he is personally unable to comply with his lordship's wishes but has forwarded his lordship's letter to his friend, the Rev. T. R. Bently. He is delighted to hear of his lordship's prospects of success. He encloses a note which he has just received from his friend. It will explain itself. The petition is in process and will, he hopes, be forwarded for presentation on Monday next.

He is unavoidably detained in this place and can consequently be of no service to the good cause before the question comes on in the Lords. Nor indeed does it seem to be necessary because it can be safely asserted in the House that there are not two opinions among either the clergy or the laity of this projected diocese on the importance of preserving the Welsh sees and of giving Manchester a bishopric without delay. The Bishop of Chester constantly complains that the increased labour of his diocese is far beyond his strength, and had not the Commissioners publicly declared that it was not a question of money and that the funds in hand were sufficient to endow the new see, he has no doubt that a subscription would already have been entered into in Manchester to aid, if not to complete, the endowment. He trusts Lord Powis will bring forward his motion with better success.

He will be happy to comply with Lord Powis's desire and hold any proxy, in addition to Lord Dynevor's, that Lord Powis may wish. He will be at the House of Lords on Monday.

He encloses his proxy for the St Asaph and Bangor question.

He returns the proxy. He is sorry about the Bishop of Winchester's proxy. He had understood that the Bill might be withdrawn this session. It will be quite out of his power to be present at the debate tomorrow.

In cae the Bishop of Lichfield should be unable to return in time for the debate he encloses his proxy. Diocesan duties today, the marriage of a son tomorrow, and a consecration at the east end of the island on Wednesday make it impossible for him to be present in the House.

The list is divided into classes entitled 'Content', 'Not Content', and 'Doubtful'.

Having just completed the declared age of man he uses his first opportunity to offer some suggestions 'respecting our child which I hope will be ushered into life in your House tomorrow'. The case of Gloucester and Bristol is not a parallel in the slightest degree for these two dioceses were united because they could not maintain a bishop from their own resources, whereas St Asaph and Bangor are laid hold of for the very sake of obtaining money from their possessions. The questions of bishops, deans, and chapters do not lie within the same category for bishops are essential but deans and chapters are creations of political expediency. The destruction of an old bishopric should be looked on really as an act not of Parliamentary right but only of power unjustly used. To begin a pretended act of expediency by robbery is not the way to succeed in establishing principles which, especially as connected with the Church, ought to be conscientiously pursued. If the need and wants of the Church of England may not from time to time be sanctioned out of its own property it is the only religious body so circumstanced. Every other religious body can add to its numbers and superiors as seems expedient to them, but not so the Church.

He congratulates his lordship on the success of his exertions but cannot pretend to do so except as any other personal friend might do, not having taken any part in the subject. He was very glad to receive his lordship's kind letter after the Roxburghe dinner. He has not been able to return to Dunrobin. He has been able to have much enjoyment in the country.

His lordship might have depended on his proxy, but it seems they were not called and his lordship had a triumphant division. He is entirely with his lordship but is a little disturbed to hear that the tractarians are at the bottom of all this stir for the national Welsh bishoprics. In his opinion, this would not have been a recommendation to the question.

He will be detained in London for some time. He feels very strongly upon the measure and nothing but illness would have kept him from the House of Commons whenever the measure was brought forward, but he is fetching his children to London next week. He would otherwise be glad to give his most cordial support to a measure which will not only be beneficial to the Principality but also be of great importance to the Church of England in general.

He thanks his lordship for an account of his interview with Lord John Russell. He is sorry to find that it was not satisfactory. The notion pretty generally current here is that the question is settled and that no further opposition will be offered to his lordship's Bill. He has endeavoured to moderate these expectations, which he well knew were far too sanguine. He will endeavour to recommend petitions to the House of Commons. He can only express a hope that the fight to which his lordship is looking forward with Lord John Russell on Thursday next may terminate successfully.

He thanks his lordship for his kind and very promising communication. That his lordship exercised a very sound discretion in not pressing the Bill in the present session is unquestionable. Lord John is not likely to have any feeling against the measure or to have in any way committed himself against it and he is very likely to avoid involving himself in a needless struggle. Lord John's phrase, 'the general question', gives him some hope that he will endeavour to please the Church by extending the episcopate. Lord Grey, one of the Cabinet, admitted not only that this was desirable but that there is no sufficient reason for not giving the additional bishops seats in the House of Lords. The most likely way of obtaining those seats is to testify indifference to that point, which he thinks is secondary in comparison with an increase of the number.

He encloses the paper which his lordship required. He acted for the whole diocese as their representative in convocation. There were only three dissentients in the whole diocese but about fifty declined to sign from an unwillingness to embarrass the Duke of Wellington. He forwarded copies of the circular of the clergy to the Duke and to the Bishop of London. Both of them in reply acknowledged their mistake and have not since alluded to the union in any way. He has signed a petition promoted by the Archdeacon, who has come forward for the first time in the matter in consequence of an alteration of opinion on this subject in the mind of their bishop, who was heretofore considered to be favourable to the union of the sees of Bristol and Gloucester. They are more of opinion that the union does not work well. One evil which is due to the increasing number of churches is a deviation from rubrical observance. He is able to show his lordship only a rough copy of his letter to the Duke. His lordship is at liberty to use this information and, if necessary, to give his name.