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Z. Chambers, Deputy Surveyor General, Surveyor General's Office, Berkley Square, [London, to John Paynter, esq,

Requests him, taking to-his assistance Mr. John Griffiths or any other experienced miner, to view the lead mines at Esgayrymwyn, co. Cardigan, and certify the Surveyor General on the points raised by the Earl of Powis in a memorial praying for a new lease at a reservation of a tenth (instead a fifth) of the profits. Copy.

[Thomas] Dungan to John Allen Pesey, esq,

Gives an account of an escape from drowning when a barge in which he and Capt. Owen Philipps of the Grantham were in sunk opposite Blackwall. Accounts of Mr. Ball in respect of the lead mines. Describes the affair of young Captain Baugh with Mrs. Webb, relict of Ned Webb late of Grays Inn.

Powis Castle Estate Records,

  • GB 0210 POWIS
  • Fonds
  • 13-20 cent.

Records of the Herbert family of Montgomery, Chirbury and Powis Castle, later earls of Powis, 13-20 cent., including records of the Powis Castle estate, including title deeds, mainly in Montgomeryshire and adjacent counties, notably Shropshire, 13-20 cent.; records of lead and silver mining in Cardiganshire, 18-19 cent.; records of the Castle Island estate, County Kerry, Ireland, 16-19 cent.; manorial records for the barony of Powis from 1549, the lordship of Oswestry from 1577, the manors of Cydewain, Halcetor and Montgomery from 1525, Chirbury from 1373, Pool from 1653, the borough of Llanfyllin from 1653, and many others; records of the borough of Llanfyllin, 1674-1820 including records of the Court of Record (borough court), 1674-1721, 1761-1763; estate rentals, 1712-1941; rentals of chief rents, 1676, 1745-1897 (mainly 1745-1817); correspondence, mainly 17-19 cent.; Montgomeryshire Chartist riots papers, and papers relating to the campaign against the proposed union of the dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor. Manuscripts and papers of Edward Herbert, 1st baron Herbert of Chirbury (1583-1648); Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (1725-1774) and Brigadier-General John Carnac (c.1716-1800) have been removed from the archive and catalogued as separate collections.

Herbert family, Earls of Powis

S. Eaton, Welch Pool Bank, Lord Clive, Edmund Edye, Montgomery, George Thomas, clerk of the Montgomery and Pool House of ...,

S. Eaton, Welch Pool Bank, Lord Clive, Edmund Edye, Montgomery, George Thomas, clerk of the Montgomery and Pool House of Industry, Thomas Smout, Forden, Edward Davies, Montgomery, Richard Baxter, Montgomery, Thomas Morgan, Rhiwbank, Robert Bright, Oldfields, Charles Evans, Coed, Robert Williams, Worthin, John Smout, Chirbury, Mary Cowdal, Coed y Weeg, Joseph Loxdale, Salop, Messrs Goslings and Sharpe, W. Owen, Glan Severn, John Jones, Montgomery, W. Davies, Rhydgwimmon, Capt. Edward Farmer, Bacheldre, J. V. Jefferson, Montgomery, George Harper, Whitchurch, Messrs Brookes and Lee, Whitchurch, to Charles Wilding, Powis Castle, and Viscount Clive. The House of Industry of the Montgomery and Pool United District: business of the Commissioners for applying the monies raised to discharge the debt on the House of Industry, repayment of mortgage debts, reports of meetings of Guardians, threatened dismissal of George Thomas, the clerk, (No. 7025). With draft letters by Wilding.

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