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Seven vellum documents, 1736-1758, comprising accounts for land revenues to Sir Henry Fox, Lord Holland and Richard Bateman, Receivers General of the King’s Revenues in South Wales. Each multi-page document lists the annual land revenues from the counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Brecon, Radnor, Glamorgan and Monmouth in South Wales. Signed by Lt Gen. Thomas Farrington MP of Chislehurst, Auditor of the Land Revenues for Wales, 1739-1750, and subsequently Thomas Wynn, 1761. Declared before successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, Robert Walpole, Henry Pelham and William Barrington.

1. Mary Davies of Dongray, p. Bangor [Is-coed] co. Flint, spinster
2. Thomas Jones of Dongray, yeoman
   Draft lease of properties belonging to the Dungrey estate

1. Edmund Probyn of Newland, co. Glos, esq. grandson and devisee named in the will of John Howell, previously of Lincolns inn, co. Middx, since of Green Street, Enfield, and late of Newland, esq. dec. and John Probyn of Newland, second son of E.P. by Sophia his wife, another devisee named in the same will
2. David Rees of the county of the borough of Carmarthen, gent.
3. William Owen Brigstocke of Llangattock Court, co. Brec., esq.
   Deed (release) by 1 to make 2 a tenant to the precipe for suffering a recovery of the impropriate rectory of Llansteffan, co. Carm. comprising the churches or chapelries of Llansteffan, Llangynog and Marble Church [Llanybri], tithes, glebe lands, manors, impropriations, messuages, lands, etc., various fields (named), the site of an old house Llanwhibre in Llanybri, p. Llansteffan, a barn called Scyborwenn and the adjoining field (named) in Llanybri, a cap. m. called Maesllydan and several fields (named), parcels of land in a close called Penpark, and wild grounds in the mountain (40 kivers or acres) in p. Llanelli and all other impropriate rectories, tithes, cap. m’s, etc. of 1 in p’s Llansteffan and Llanelli, together with all other houses, buildings, orchards, gardens, lands, etc.

1. John Probyn of Newland, co. Glos., clerk (late John Probyn esq.)
2. Edmund Probyn of the same place, father of 1
3. Roynon Jones of Hay Hill, co. Glos., esq. and Edmund Probyn the younger, esq., a lieutenant in his Majesty’s Fourth Regiment of Dragoons, the eldest son and heir of 2.
   Lease and release by 1 to 3 of the impropriate rectory of Llansteffan, co. Carm. comprising the churches or chapelries of Llansteffan, Llangynog and Marble Church [Llanybri], tithes, glebe lands, manors, impropriations, messuages, lands, etc., various fields (named), the site of an old house Llanwhibre in Llanybri, p. Llansteffan, a barn called Scyborwenn and the adjoining field (named) in Llanybri, a cap. m. called Maesllydan and several fields (named), parcels of land in a close called Penpark and wild grounds in the mountain (40 kivers or acres) all in p. Llanelli, and all other impropriate rectories, tithes, cap. m’s, etc. of 1 in p’s Llansteffan and Llanelli, together with all other houses, buildings, orchards, gardens, lands, etc. in trust to sell the same, to pay the consideration money for Maesllydan to 1, to apply the remainder as 1 and 2 shall appoint and in trust until such sale to the use of 1 and 2 jointly for life and after the latter’s death to 1. Various provisos applicable to purchasers and the trustees for the sale (3)

Articles of agreement (copy) between William Knox (Slebech), John Simpson and John Tunno, September 1785, for the purchase of one hundred negroes, mulattoes or other slaves at a price of £54 10s, sometime since in the State of Georgia, but lately removed to the Island of Jamaica, to be delivered to the agents of the purchasers in Charles Town, South Carolina by 1 May 1786.

Deeds relating to lands in south Wales belonging to members of the Probyn family of Newland, Gloucestershire, including Sir Edmund Probyn, his nephew John Hopkins, son of his sister Sarah, who was E.P.’s heir and took the name Probyn after his uncle’s death, and Edward Probyn the younger, 1719-1785.

Abstract of title to an undivided moiety of ]Dungrey] estate in the parish of Bangor [Is-coed] co. Flint belonging to John Knight, esq, 1722-1808

1. Sarah Inchbold of Sheerness, co. Kent, widow, cousin and heir at law of William Leigh late of Oswestry, co. Salop, gent., dec, the devisee in trust of all the real estate of Mary Davies of Dungray, p. Bangor [Is-coed] co. Flint, spinster, dec., named in the will of the said Mary Davies
2. William Fowler Jones late of King Street, Snow Hill, London, distiller, but now of Cavendish Square inp. St George Hanover Square, co. Middx., esq. and John Knight of Dodington in p. Whitchurch, co. Salop, gent.
   Lease and release of the cap. m. [of Dungray] and other messuages, lands and tenements in p. Bangor [Is-coed] co. Flint to 2 as tenants in common, subject to an annuity of £40 devised to Amy Downward [her servant] for life and to the powers for recovering and compelling payment thereof under the said will.
   Recites the will of Mary Davies dated 10 November 1794
   Attested copy 5 April 1808

Deeds relating to the Dungrey estate in the parishes of Bangor Is-coed and Worthenbury, Flintshire, 1687-1811.

1. William Fowler Jones late of King Street, Snow Hill, London, distiller, but now of Cavendish Square in p. Marylebone, co. Middx., esq. and Jane his wife, and John Knight of Dodington in p. Whitchurch, co. Salop, esq. and Mary his wife, which W.F.J. and J.K. were devisees (in remainder expectant on the decease of several persons now dec.) of the capital and other messuages under the will of Mary Davies late of Dongray, p. Bangor [Is-coed], co. Flint, spinster dec.
2. John Brookes of Whitchurch, co. Salop, linen draper
   Deed of covenant to levy a fine and lead uses of a fine on the cap. m. of Dongray and its demesne lands in in p’s. Bangor [is-coed] and Worthenbury, co. Flint, which include the Hempyard, Hafod-y-Forwyn, Capervath, etc. (other fields named) formerly in the holding of Roger Davies, father of Mary Davies (other former holders named), a m. erected on and enclosed from part of the Stannerth or Stanielth, a m. now called the Sign of the Star and lands (named) under known meres and bounds in Maes y groes, which last mentioned m., buildings and land were previously called Bangor tenement (successive occupants named), a m. and parcels of land called Higher Gilfach Vechan, Lower Gilfach Vechanand Gilfach Vawr, which m. and lands are now called Highgate tenement formerly in the holding of Roger Davies (successive holders named), a m. called the Groig (sic) and a m. with buildings, yard and garden upon part of which stood an old dwelling house occupied by George Brougher but since taken down by William Fowler Jones and John Knight, adjoining to the churchyard (former occupants named) now in the holding of Amy Downwar, and all other lands in p’s Bangor [Is-coed] and Worthenbury devised by the will of Mary Davies; one moiety of the cap. m. and other premises to the use of 2 in trust for W.F.J. for life, barring dower, and after his decease to the heirs of W.F.J; the other moiety to 2 in trust for J.K. for life. barring dower, and after his decease to the heirs of J.K.

1. Henry Duke of Beaufort, K.G.
2. Morgan Rees of Bryn-mawr, p. Llangatwg, co. Brec., miner
   Lease for 99 years determinable on three lives of a piece of land in King Street, Bryn-mawr, p. Llangatwg, co. Brec., with several cottages erected thereon by 2, with gardens adjoining (coloured plan in margin) reserving mineral rights to 1. Covenants relating to repairs and prohibitions on use of the premises as a public house or liquor shop or assignment of the lease without licence of 1. Counterpart.
   Annual rent: £3
   Heriot: £2 10s
   Alienation fine: £2 10s

1. Henry Duke of Beaufort, Knight of the Order of the Garter
2. Richard Phillips of Bryn-mawr, p. Llangatwg, co. Brec., shopkeeper
   Lease for 99 years determinable on three lives of a piece of land in King Street, Bryn-mawr, p. Llangatwg, co. Brec., with a cottage erected thereon by 2, with a garden adjoining (coloured plan in margin) reserving mineral rights to 1. Covenants relating to repairs and prohibitions on use of the premises as a public house or liquor shop or assignment of the lease without licence of 1. Counterpart.
   Annual rent: £2 4s
   Heriot: £2 10s
   Alienation fine: £2 10s

1. Henry Duke of Beaufort, K.G.
2. William While of t. Bryn-mawr, co. Brec., brickman
   Lease for 99 years determinable on three lives of several pieces of land in Glamorgan Street and Orchard Street, Bryn-mawr, co. Brec., with houses erected thereon by 2 (coloured plan in margin) reserving mineral rights to 1. Covenants relating to repairs and prohibitions on use of the premises as a public house or liquor shop or assignment of the lease without licence of 1. Counterpart.
   Annual rent: £8 10s
   Heriot: £2 2s
   Alienation fine: £2 2s

1. John While of Merthyr Tydfil, co. Glam., brickmaker
2. David Lewis [of Dowlais], co. Glam., chemist
   Mortgage (assignment of lease) for £350 (5%) of several pieces of land in Glamorgan Street and Orchard Street, Bryn-mawr, co. Brec., described in no. 402 above.
   Recites: the lease of 30 July 1849 (no. 402 above); the appointment of 1 as executor of the will of William While, made 30 March 1853, proved 23 October 1854; and that 1 has applied to 2 for the loan.

1. John While of Merthyr Tydfil, co. Glam., brickmaker
2. David Lewis of Dowlais, co. Glam., chemist
   Further mortgage (assignment of lease) for £100 (5%) of several pieces of land in Glamorgan Street and Orchard Street, Bryn-mawr, co. Brec., described in no. 402 above.
   Recites: the lease of 30 July 1849 (no. 402 above); the appointment of 1 as executor of the will of William While, made 30 March 1853, proved 23 October 1854; and no. 403 above.

1. Henry Charles FitzRoy Duke of Beaufort
2. John Jones of Glamorgan Street, Bryn-mawr, p. Llanelli, co. Brec.
   Lease for 99 years determinable on three lives of a piece of land in Glamorgan Street, Bryn-mawr in p. Llanelli, co. Brec. with three houses erected thereon (coloured plan in margin) reserving mineral rights to 1. Covenants relating to repairs and prohibitions on use of the premises as a public house or liquor shop or assignment of the lease without licence of 1. Counterpart.
   Annual rent: £1 2s
   Heriot: £2 2s
   Alienation fine: £2 2s