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The files comprise papers relating to the causes in Chancery of (until 27 Sept. 1788) William Edwards, clerk, plaintiff, and John Scudamore, esq., and Mary Watkins, defendants, and counter-cause, and (after 29 Sept. 1788) of John Morgan, esq., devisee and sole executor of the will of the said William Edwards, dec., plaintiff, and John Scudamore, esq., and John Donne, an infant, by Mary Donne, widow, his mother and guardian, defendants, and counter-cause. -- The papers include letters, briefs, affadavits, depositions and orders; the judgement of the House of Lords in the case of Lord Buckingham v. Drury, 1762, including "NB. This settlement was a Con! by Sir Tho's Drury for himself his Heirs &c to pay £600 to Lady Drury for Life in lieu of the Jointure"; a copy of the alleged lease, 1781; a copy of the will (1782) and codicil (1785) of Rev. William Edwards; and a copy of the will of William Donne, 1783. The papers also include a number of presumably misfiled papers, including an attested copy of the marriage settlement of William Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Lady Rachel Cavendish, 1723; a statement of the fortune of Miss Louise Burt, 1788; and drafts of the marriage settlement of John Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Louise Burt, daughter of Charles Burt of the parish of Westminster St James, 1788.