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1. Ellis Wynne of Llanaber, co. Mer., gent.
2. Gruffyth ap Rees ap Ednyved of Llanaber, co. Mer., yeoman.
   Grant in consideration of £8 of the m. called Gwastad Agnes, Gwern y badi, with a garden in Gorllwr in t. Llanaber, co. Mer.
   Rent to the King: 2s. 2 annually.

Their vigilant friend and countryman, Kenyon, sent him a blank proxy, which he returned yesterday. He is anxious to be present at the discussion and to support his lordship by every means in his power for he considers the question to be one of vital importance. Moreover, he considers the Commission and its acts and its powers to be a national nuisance which has been and can only be productive of grievous injury to the Church and the State. What has been gained by the suppression of bishoprics in Ireland and England? 'Nothing but loss, and what must be thought in High Heaven of our proceedings here below, when on the altar of a worthless, senseless, and wicked expediency, we sacrifice even the cause of Religion itself.' His lordship, however, is fighting a good fight. He shrinks from appearing in the House of Lords. Besides, he has been by no means well. He ought to have reported to his lordship the exceedingly gratifying account of the examination of his lordship's son at Eton, particularly in Divinity.

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.