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The post-nuptial settlement of Charles Gould of Ealing, Middlesex, esq., and Jane his wife, daughter of Thomas Morgan of Ruperra, Monmouthshire, esq., comprising a moiety of the manor of Stretham and of several messuages and lands at Stretham in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. The said Thomas Morgan and Morgan Lewis of St. Pierre, Monmouthshire, esq., were the trustees.

Pre-nuptial settlement of John [Hume], bishop of Oxford, and Lady Mary Hay, one of the daughters of George, [7th] earl of Kinnoul, dec., with Thomas, duke of Leeds, and Charles Gould of Whitehall, Middlesex, esq., as the trustees.

Copies of Goldsmith. an almanack for the years 1756-1757, 1760, 1774 (2), 1775, 1776-1784 (2 each), 1785-1790.

A pen and wash drawing, signed John Christmas and Mathias Christmas.

Articles of agreement prior to the marriage of Robert Mynors Gouge of Treago, Herefordshire, esq., and Mary Parry, spinster, only child and heir apparent of Thomas Parry of Arkestone, Herefordshire, esq., and Mary his wife.

An original bundle of letters and accounts relating to monies due to Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar from the estate of Mrs E. Gwinnett. The letters include from Samuel Gwinnett of Cottrell,1767, Mrs E. Gwinnett of Penllwyn Castle, 1792-1803, and the Earl of Clarendon, 1807-1810. The papers include copies of Barbara Button's will, 1754; cases and counsels' opinions, 1755 and 1766, as to whether Emilia Button, Barbara Button's executrix and residual legacee, being a spinster with no heir of her body and unlikely to have any, was a tenant for life restrained by the entails in the will, or a tenant in tail with freedom to bar the entails; and a particular of Mrs Button's mortgaged estate, [?part] of the Cotterell estate, [post April 1766].

A list of the sheriffs of Pembrokeshire, 1540-1668. Stitch marks at the foot of the roll suggest that the list was once longer. There are also columns for their deputies and the recorders or county clerks, but these are empty.

Loose papers probably related to Octavius Morgan's antiquarian interests, including two share certificates, numbered 328 and 340, in the Monmouth Railway Company, in the names of Miss Mary Swinnerton of Wonastow and Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar respecively, 1812; an English translation of the [pre-1599] manifesto of Henry IV, king of Navarre, concerning his divorce from Queen Margaret, [?1820x?1850]; a copy of an inventory of the furniture etc. in the manor house of Beddington, Surrey, on the death and attainder of Sir Nicholas Carew, 1540, when his estates were seized to the use of Henry VIII, and Sir Henry Stanhope was appointed keeper of the manor house, [?1860x?1900]; a window tax assessment for the parish of St Woolloos, Monmouthshire, 1750; a letter from Lord Rodney at Purbeck Park to an unnamed recipient [?Mr Blackburn], 1783. A file of papers, including a case for counsel's opinion relating to the marriage settlement of Charles Van and Catherine Morgan, 1754, a disposition of his estate at Llanworney, Monmouthshire, 1778, a copy of the marriage settlement of Robert Salusbury of Cotton Hall, Denbighshire, esq., and Catherine Van of Llanwern, spinster, 1780, and other papers relating to Salusbury, 1805-1818, was apparently bought at an auction. A pocket book including a list of the gentlemen who dined at a general meeting to nominate a candidate as M.P. in place of "my father", 1759, lists of freeholders living in Brecon, 1769, the common men and burgesses of the borough of Brecon, 1771, and Breconshire voters living at Hay and Talgarth, 1780.

Original bundle of papers relating to the Gouge family of London and their relatives, the Mynor family of Treago in the parish of St Weonards, Herefordshire, including several unproved wills of Nicholas Gouge, rector of Gilling in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1749-1755, an unproved will of Edward Gouge of the parish of St Margaret Lothbury, London, gent., 1756, the receipt of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for £3,000, the bequest of Rev. Nicholas Gouge, dec., 1756, a draft of the will of King Gould, 1756, a copy probate will of Sarah Gouge of Hammersmith in Middlesex, widow, proved 1759, and a valuation of Mr Mynor's plate. -- Among Nicholas Gouge's property was the manor of Dartford in Kent, and Batson's Coffee House in Cornhill, London, and an estate in South Otterington in North Yorkshire. Bequests by Nicholas and Edward Gouge include to their sister, Mrs Thomisin Mynors, their nephew Robert Mynors, esq., and their neice Mrs Thomasin Mynors the younger, all of Treago. The will of King Gould appears to be unrelated to the rest of the bundle. According to Nicholas Gouge's will dated 11 Oct. 1755, Robert Mynors of Treago was to inherit the South Otterington estate on condition that he and his heirs took the surname Gouge.

A manuscript volume labelled 'Inglis poems', containing a poem entitled 'Anna and Edgar, or Love and Ambition, a tale by Mrs Richmond Inglis, daughter of Colonel James Gardiner who fell at the Battle of Preston'.

Three pocket books containing personal accounts, 27 Oct. 1745-1 April 1747, 1 Jan. 1748/9-22 April 1756, and 16 Sept. 1795-8 Jan. 1799.

Original bundle of deeds and papers relating to the pre-nuptial articles of agreement of Morgan Lewis of St Pierre, Monmouthshire, esq., and Rachel Van, only daughter of Charles Van the elder of Llanwern, Monmouthshire, esq., comprising deeds, 1743-1755, and related papers, mainly accounts and vouchers, 1751-1757.

Pocket notebooks and diaries (some unused), comprising Rider's British merlin, 1734, 1736-1737, 1740, 1743, 1747, 1749 (2), 1750 (2), 1755, 1759, 1761, 1763, 1767-1768, 1771, 1773-1774, 1776, 1777-1779 (2 each), 1780, 1786, 1787 (2), 1788, 1789-1790 (2 each), 1791-1794, 1796, 1798, The new memorandum book improv'd: or, the gentleman and tradesman's journal, 1753, The ladies complete pocket-book, 1761-1763, 1768, 1769 ('British ladies'), 1771-1773, 1784, The ladies new and polite pocket and memorandum-book, 1766, Peacock's polite repository or pocket companion, 1781, 1795, 1801, 1802 (2), 1803, 1813, 1814, The polite repository or pocket companion, 1784, 1787, The regent, or royal tablet of memory, 1825, Pettitt's annual diary, 1871, 1883, 1887-1888, and an unnamed diary for 1785. -- The 1743 diary is endorsed 'Jane Morgan's', and one of the 1777 diaries is endorsed 'Jane Gould of the Horse Guards'. -- The diaries include notes and personal and office accounts, including at Oxford. The 1734 diary includes a note that the writer's mother died 4 April 1734, and the 1750 diary includes notes of earthquakes on 8 Feb. and 8 March, and in Feb. that 'all this month Jupiter was so near ye Earth as to be very much magnify'd - even to 2'ce or 3'ce its usual appearance; some pretended to see his Satellites with naked eye'. Several of the diaries include loose notes, newspaper cuttings, scraps of material, a few contain leaves, and one of the 1787 diaries and one of the 1802 diaries both contain locks of hair. One of the 1788 diaires encloses five silhoettes, and the 1813 diary encloses a cutting describing the Tredegar [Christmas?] festivities.

An original bundle comprising a pedigree of the family descended from Richard Colchester (d. 1643) of Westbury Court, Gloucestershire, down to 25 Oct. 1773, and notes by Octavius Morgan on the pedigree, 1869. Jane (d. 1767), daughter of Maynard Colchester, married Thomas Morgan (1702-1769) of Ruperra. The notes suggest that the pedigree was probably drawn up by John Morgan. Also two letters, 1869, relating to Dorithea Colchester.

An original bundle of family and business deeds and papers relating to the Gouge family of London and the Mynors family of Treago, largely accounts, vouchers and bonds, with other papers including two certificates by British merchants in Smyrna relating to goods landed there, 1714-1720, a bastardy bond by William Winniatt, senior and junior, to the overseers of the poor and the churchwardens of Hentland, Herefordshire, concerning a female bastard born to Mary Williams, spinster, and of which William Winniatt is the reputed father, 1716, the apprenticeship indenture of William Edwards to Thomas Philps, both of St Weonards, Herefordshire, to learn the trade of a carpenter, 1717, three tickets for the Dutch one million guilder lottery, 1718, papers relating to William Crampton, formerly one of the overseers of the poor of St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, committed to Newgate gaol for failing to account for his office, 1727/8, the petition of John Ainsworth, legally settled in the parish of St Leonards Foster Lane and liberty of St Martins le Grand, that having moved to the parish of Christchurch, Surrey, and the parish officials there insisting on a settlement certificate or threatening to remove him and his family from the parish, and that having obtained a certificate signed by the overseers of the poor of the parish of St Leonards Foster Lane, George Scarlett, constable of St Martin le Grand, and Edmund Burke, clerk to Thomas Gouge, JP for the city of Westminster and Middlesex, refused to attest the signatures, 1731 -- Papers relating to Edward Gouge's interest in the Royal African Company of England, 1715-1752, including a transfer by Richard Eames of London, merchant, to Thomas Mundy of Chatham, Kent, mariner, of the bond of Samuell Ingram of London, mariner, to keep the instructions of Eames and the other owners of a ship, including power to Mundy to recover the £1,500 forfeited by Ingram, 1715, a case and counsel's opinion relating the company's bonds, 1748, a copy of one of the bonds, 1750, and notice of the amount due to Edward Gouge under the act of parliament for the African creditors, 1752 -- The receipt of E. Bronsdon for £1 1s. received from Mr Gouge, 1747, on condition that Bronsdon is to pay Gouge £52 10s. on the marriage day if he, Bronsdon, marries Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Folkard, minister of Clopton, Suffolk.

A paper pedigree of the Morgan family of Tredegar, mounted on linen. The original pedigree starts with Sir William Morgan (c.1560-1655), and is continued to the generation of Jane Morgan (1731-1797). The pedigree is then carried down in a 19th century hand to the generation of Godfrey Charles Morgan (1831-1913), although the last dated entry is the death of his grandfather, Sir Charles Morgan in 1846.

A paper pedigree mounted on linen of the descendants of Sir William Morgan (c.1560-1655) of Tredegar, to the fifth generation, William Morgan (d. 1763). The linen is endorsed "Sir W'm Morgan KB 1730", although dated pencil annotations to the pedigree continue to 1792.

The pre-nuptial settlement of William Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Lady Rachel Cavendish, one of the daughters of William, duke of Devonshire.

A display of the arms of Bridget and Ann, the daughters and coheirs of Sir William Drury. The 19 cent. notes include that Bridget married (2nd) Sir John Shaw of Eltham, Kent. Charles Shaw, their eldest son and heir (and godson of Charles II), married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Philip and Anne Harbord of Stanning Hall, Norfolk, and their daughter Elizabeth married King Gould, esq., whose son Charles Gould married Jane Morgan (1731-1797), heiress of Tredegar, and became Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar.

A pocket book containing an abstract of the value of foreign goods imported into and English goods exported from the port of London and from 'out ports', by country, 1700-1701.