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Papers in a dispute, which finally ended up in Chancery, between the parishioners of Paddington and John Adam Frederick Hesse, esq., over the title to the almshouse and an adjoining garden including a copy of a memorial sent to the bishop of London as lord of man. Paddington, 1775 (B 6/6), interrogatories for examination of witnesses, 1777 (B 6/20), and a schedule of a rate assessed on the said parishioners to defray legal expenses, 1781 (B 6/32-3).

Account Book of fees paid for burials in the vault of the new church of Paddington and receipts for payments, 1753-65, together with receipts for payments of rents, interest, etc., 1760-74 (B 4/1), and rates of fees to be paid to the curate for burials in the churchyard (B 4/2).

Land Tax Assessments, 1758, 1774-91 (B 3/1-9), and statement of facts relating to an appeal for the reduction of payment of land tax [c. 1783] (B 3/10). No. B 3/7 (land tax assessments 1783) also contains the poor rate assessments for 1773 and 1783 and no. B 3/8 (land tax assessments 1786) contains the poor rate assessments for 1775.

Papers relating to a lodge in Hyde Park near Bayswater purchased by the King in 1727 comprising a copy warrant under the privy seal to pay £2,500 for the same (B 1/1) an account of unpaid taxes due to p. Paddington for the same from the King, 1728-40, 1740 (B 1/2), and a petition to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for payment of the same, 1740 (B 1/3).

Papers of the trustees and executors of Hannah (otherwise Anna) Jones of Pengelly Issa, p. Troed-yr-aur, co. Card., including draft deeds conveying her estate in p's Llanfihangel Ystrad, Betws Bledrws and Nancwnlle, co. Card., to Edward Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams in trust to bar entail and remainders, 1832 (T 6/1-2), copy of her will, 1852 (T 6/2), wherein she appoints Eclf as her executor, together with related correspondence and legacy succession duty papers, 1853-79 (T 6/4-24).

Papers inherited and acquired by Benjamin Crompton while serving as churchwarden and overseer of the poor of p. Paddington.

Executorship Papers of John St John Long of Harley Street, Middlesex, esq., including a copy of his will and codicils, 1834 (T 4/1), whereby he appoints Edward Crompton Lloyd Hall as one of his executors and in which he bequeaths a painting by Titian; executors' accounts, 1834-6 (T 4/2-9); particulars of sale of his residence in Harley Street, 1835 (T 4/11), a catalogue of the sale of his effects together with prices added including a painting entitled 'The Woman accused of Adultery' by Rubens, 1835 (T 4/14); inventory of his wearing apparel, 1836 (T 4/29); copy will of William Long of t. Whitby and Pickering, Yorkshire, Ontario and Peel, Canada, 1853, (T 4/50), and papers in a cause in Chancery between Edward Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams and James Harwick Oughton, plaintiffs, executors of the will of the said John St John Long, and John Long, brother of the said William Long, defendant, 1853-64 (T 4/53-71).

Executorship Papers of Anna Maria Jenkin of ?, including cases and opinions of counsel relating to a charitable trust secured on man. Hampstead by Anne Bucknor AMJ's great aunt, 1839, 1851 (T 5/1-2); executors' accounts, 1852-6 (T 5/4) (one of the executors being Edward Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams), and estimate of her personal effects for probate, 1852 (T 5/5).

Papers relating to the trusts of the marriage settlement of Charles Lees of Edinburgh, gent., and Elizabeth Christie of Baberton, Midlothian, Scotland, mainly comprising correspondence but including a copy of the said settlement, 1832 (T 3/1), wherein Edward Crompton Lloyd Hall is appointed one of the trustees and a rental of an estate in Wiltshire held by the trustees, 1833 (T 3/3).

Papers relating to a charity established by George Abourn of Fulham, Middlesex, including probate of his will, 1771 (T 1/12), in which he appoints Benjamin Crompton as his executor; an account of his funeral expenses, 1771 (T 1/13); probate of the will of Mary Abourn of Paddington, widow, 1773 (T 1/39), in which she appoints the said Benjamin Crompton as her executor, an account of her funeral expenses, 1773 (T 1/40); accounts of her executors together with related receipts, 1773-5 (T 1/41-58); applications for the bread and cheese bequeathed by the said George Abourn, 1820 (T 1/65); account books of the said charity, 1846-55 (T 1/83-4), and lists of persons to whom the charity was distributed, 1849-55 (T 1/93-6).

Executorship Papers of William Campbell of Middlesex Place, New Road, p. St Mary Le Bone, Middlesex, who in turn was the executor of his uncle John Campbell, including copy marriage settlement of Duncan Campbell late of Great Queen St, Lincolns Inn Fields, but at present residing in Covent Garden, Middlesex, esq. [brother of the said John Campbell], and Harriet Mylne of New River Head, p. St James Clerkenwell, Middlesex, spinster, 1803 (T 2/3); papers of and relating to William Peete of Keston Heath, Kent, surgeon and apothecary, an insolvent debtor whose bond debt of £700 was assigned to the said William Campbell, 1833-4 (T 2/5-28); copy will of the said John Campbell of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, esq., 1840 (T 5/29), and accounts of his executors, 1841-9 (T 2/32), and of his personal estate, 1849 (T 2/33); copy will of the said William Campbell, 1844 (T 2/34), wherein he appoints Edward Crompton Lloyd Hall as one of his executors.

Miscellaneous Papers including a letter from Charles Home Lloyd Fitzwilliams stating that he had been sitting at a Special Petty Sessions to try the tithe rioters and had the 'pleasure of dismissing 20 charges against my neighbours in the parish of Penbryn for riot, unlawful assembly and conspiracy', 1895; correspondence relating to a proposed courthouse at Llandysul, 1929, and a statement of accounts of the Tivyside Hunt Club, 1939.

Papers concerning a protest by the South Cardiganshire Presbytery against Edward Crawford Lloyd Fitzwilliams, and forwarded to the Lord Chancellor, about his role as a magistrate at the Brewster Sessions of cos Card. and Carm.

Papers relating to the National Library of Wales including minutes of the Cardiganshire County Committee (southern section) to consider an appeal on behalf of the NLW Building Fund, 1927, together with a circular from Lord Lisburne referring to the impossibility to raise money in Cardiganshire in 1926 because of the 'disturbed state of the country due to the dispute in the coal trade'; memorandum of NLW's extension requirement for buildings together with a list of subscribers, 1928 and letters from the Librarian, Sir William Llewelyn Davies, concerning the deposit of Cilgwyn estate papers at NLW, 1934 [i.e. now Cilgwyn Estate Papers Group I].

Correspondence about a proposal by Edward Crawford Lloyd Fitzwilliams to erect the royal coat of arms in the courthouse of Newcastle Emlyn. (The proposal was turned down by the King.).