File P 1/92 - Octavius Morgan's antiquarian papers

Loose personal and estate papers, mostly of antiquarian interest, including an incomplete nineteenth century copy of a appointment by Henry VIII of Robert Morgan of Comberton as escheator, coroner etc. in Worcestershire, 1522; nineteenth century copies of Royalist Composition Papers relating to William, Mary and Edward Morgan of Llantarnam, 1653; Charles Gould's personal accounts [at school/university?], 1743-1744; copy of notes on Morgan tombs in Machen church, 1779; repairs required to Basaleg church, 1785; instructions for a lease for 21 years by Thomas Jones of Whitfield in the parish of Peterstow, Herefordshire, clerk, and Elizabeth his wife, and William Edwards of Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Monmouthshire, clerk, to Thomas Addis of the parish of Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire, yeoman, of the farms called [Porch?], Lowerhouse, Waygate and Whitfield, excepting the capital messuage of Whitfield, 1786 (a sketch map of Brilstone Farm has been drawn on the back); agreement of the St Weonards vestry (ten names) that Sir Charles Gould should pay the £700 bequeathed by Mrs Mary Morgan into some fund, and the interest disbursed in keeping the monument to her first husband clean, and clothes and fuel for the poor of the parish, 1787 (see also AHA 1/1); counsel's opinion and other papers relating to Sir Thomas Clarke's will (dated 1754) and his niece Jane Morgan's inheritance of his Hertfordshire and London estates, 1791; John Morgan's executor's accounts, 1792-1794; an indenture between Charles Morgan of Ruperra and Anthony Montonnier Hawkins of Friars, Monmouthshire, doctor of physic, securing an annuity for £300 in return for the surrender of a quay, wharf and other premises at Newport, 1802; the bond of John Crisp father and son, both of East Dereham, Norfolk, to Sir Charles Morgan for the rents of the manors of Wymondham otherwise Windham and East Dereham, 1807; counsel's opinion on John Morgan's will, 1813; an agreement relating to the party wall between Sir Charles Morgan and Messrs Hammersley's houses in Pall Mall, 1819; a note on the descendants of Thomas Morgan of Ruperra, [watermark 1822]; a note on Ewias Lacy and Ewias Harold, [post 1835]; extract from the case for counsel's opinion relating to the Monmouthshire Canal Company's Acts relating to the Park Mile, 1851; a poem, 'Caerleon: lines suggested on visiting it, by Richard Hooper French, a native of Newport', [1860s?]; a report on necessary repairs to the chancels of Basaleg, Bedwellte, Coedcernyw, Henllys, Mynyddislwyn, Risca and St Brides churches, held on lease by Lord Tredegar, 1877; a schedule of the documents in the iron chest at the Upper Machen rectory belonging to the churches of Machen and St John's Upper Machen, 1901; and London County Council's registration of Lord Tredegar's 14 horse-power Delage motor car number LY 4890, 1919.