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Estate accounts and vouchers; deeds of settlement and settlement of estate incumbrances and insufficiency of funds to clear the same; and including proceedings for a riot in Llanfair Caereinion.

Assignments of sums of £1,000 and £3000 dated 23 June 1740, 29 April 1741 and 29June 1742, an assignment of Lord Edward Herbert's debt of £400 charged on the barony of Powis, 13 Aug. 1741,a lease for 99 years of the manor of Strata Marcella, 1747, deeds to recover the barony of Powis, 1747, a deed of appointment of annuities, legacies, and charities made by James Travers, pursuant to a fourth codicil to the will of the late duke and marquis of Powis and charged upon the real estate of the said late duke, dated 22 Oct. 1748, all listed as being part of this parcel in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1)are no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.

An Act for dividing, inclosing, and allotting Pool Common, 1761 (D6/22/3); an assignment by Viscount Folkestone and another to the Dowager Lady Folkestone, an assignment of bond from John Balthen to Rev. Thomas Edwards, 1761 (D6/22/6); allotment to the earl of Powis pursuant thereto, 1761 (D6/22/7); a mortgage from the Bailiffs, Aldermen and Burgesses of Poole to the Earl of Powis of that part of the common or waste ground specified in D6/22/9 which was not allotted to 2, now containing 8 inclosures for securing to 2 two sums of £224.2.7 which he had already paid and £15.15.8 which he was to pay, totalling £239.18.3, being the share of the expenses which the commissioners awarded to be paid by 1 and what 1 agreed to pay towards procuring the Act of Parliament and Award and preparing executing this deed, 1766 (D6/22/10) and an Act for vesting Albemarle House in trustees to be sold, 1766 (D6/22/11) all listed as being part of this parcel, in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1)are no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.

Undated early 19 cent. papers, including particulars of farms in Montgomeryshire, Oswestry and the Vaynor estate, alphabetical list of gentlemen in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, maps, and a survey of the bor. of Llanfyllin.

Particulars of lands with observations in the lordship and town of Oswestry; cases for/and opinion of counsel including for slander against the late earl of Powis; estate accounts and vouchers.

Settlement of Powis Castle and Oakley Park estates; Trefnant and Domgay and Leaton Knolls estate papers; prosecution of poachers in Buttington, Welshpool and Guilsfield.

Legal papers re settlement of Powis Castle and Oakley Park estates; Domgay and Leaton Knolls estate papers; cases and opinions of counsel.

Montgomeryshire election papers including canvass returns and lists of freeholders; Trefnant estate papers, 1774-1803, including sale of Sylvan estate; settlements and annuities of Barbara, Countess Dowager of Powis; 1774-1786; list, 1775-1824, of Llanfyllin burgesses.

Estate correspondence, including letters re. Esgair Mwyn and other Cardiganshire lead mines, the purchase of the Rockley estate from Lord Powis, and the Montgomeryshire election.

Estate and family correspondence including letters re Esgair Mwyn, letters from Henrietta Herbert to her mother Barbara, Countess of Powis, and poaching in Llanerfyl.