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Official papers deriving from administrative procedures of central government, county officials and institutions. The government papers include speeches and other communications, Acts of Parliament, petitions, and various other parliamentary and political papers, 1581-1887. At county level the papers concern the functions of county officials, taxation and subsidies, town corporations, elections and the militia in North Wales, Shropshire and Ireland, 1518-1904. The last group of papers derives from the administration of churches, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904].

Private letters of the families of Maurice, Owen and Ormsby-Gore of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, 1587-1950, the Godolphin family of Abertanat, 1698-1764 and other individuals who were connected with them by marriage, friendship or official business, 1582-1933, frequently accompanied by copies, drafts or originals of outgoing correspondence and relevant letters from third parties. The range of subjects includes personal and social matters; local government; political news; contemporary national and local events; lawsuits; questions of title and inheritance; trusts; debts, mortgages and other financial matters; family history; the education and careers of individuals; property purchases and estate business in North Wales, Shropshire and Ireland, where this is inseparable from other topics.