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Vouchers of Sir James Hamlyn Williams Williams-Drummond, bart., and Lady Madeline Diana Elizabeth Drummond of Edwinsford, Llandilo, and of Hawthornden, Midlothian, in respect of food and clothes; wines; household requirements; seeds and seedlings; jewellery and gold and silver ware; china and glass ware; painting and decorating; new water supply at Edwinsford (£133.12.; 1902); clock repairing and cleaning; coal; medical attendance; furniture; books (from the Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland, the British and Foreign Bible Society, etc.); newspapers and periodicals; bookbinding; stationery; hotel accommodation; ornamental garden gates, etc; inspecting and reporting on garden; subscription to the Pure Literature Society; hire of brougham for Coronation (£3 3s.); Wellington House School Uniform; etching of Hawthornden by D. Law; Sanatorium Bazaar expenses; portraits of the Rt. Hon. the late Earl of stair, K.T., the Rt. Hon the late Earl of Southesk, K.T., and the late St. Vincent Peel, sq., D.L., J.P.; tuition to cook by the chef of the Travellers' Club, Pall Mall; sundial; dressed gray granite cross; etc., etc.

Vouchers of James Hamlyn Williams, esq., in respect of ironmongery, purchase of garden seeds, newspapers, building of houses at Masetilo and Llansawel, wages, money laid out for 'Mr Williams Harper', wheat and clover seeds, solicitor's fees, ditching and hedging, travelling expenses (to Devonshire, Swansea, and Carmarthen), chief rent on the Edwinsford demesne, turnpike tolls (Fairfach, etc.), poor rate, land tax, printing (by J. Ross, Carmarthen), roadmaking, freight and wharfage at Carmarthen, malt duty, Carmarthenshire parliamentary election expenses, work done by smith, mason, glazier, tiler, sawyer, saddler.

Vouchers of James Hamlyn Williams, by the payment of Daniel Price, in respect of wages, repairs at Black Lion, Llansawel, and at Melinywaen, carriage of goods, killing pigs and cows, barking timber for repair of Garth, food, household requirement, chief rent, church and poor rates, lime sawing at Edwinsford, carrying millstone from Carmarthen, forming new road on Lletherllwyd and Bank, harp strings (from Tho. Morgan, Llangadock), measuring and mapping the Edwinsford demesne, etc., etc.

Vouchers in the hand of David Thomas, Edwinsford, largely in respect of the payments of interest. Nos. 4099-101 refer to ditching on Weyn Cwmlyog, 1800-01, and No. 4102 to the sale of blankets, feather bed, and rug.

Vouchers and accounts (with accompanying letters) of Sir James Williams Drummond, bart., in respect of building and repairs at Hawthornden, Midlothian, and Midfield House (references to a new addition to Hawthornden, and expenditure on garden walls and on dykes). The correspondents include Sir James William Drummond; W. Robertson, Loanhead; David Notman, Edinburgh (to David Rhind, Edinburgh), and Preston Porteous, Lasswade.

Voucher of James Hamlyn Williams, by the hands of James Bowen and others, in connection with expenses of the parliamentary election for co. Carmarthen (James Hamlyn Williams v. William Paxton), e.g. dinners, ale, bread and cheese, journeys to Llandilo, etc., summoning of voters to dinners, bread distributed among the poor at voters' dinner at Llanboidy, replacement of a great coat and of a saddle and bridle lost at Llandilo. No. 3675, preserved in the same bundle, is a receipt to James Bowen from John Edwards, 20 June, 1802, for £5.5s., being a subscription by James Hamlyn Williams, esq., towards building the chapel at Llanboidy village.

Voucher and accounts of Robert Banks Hodgkinson in respect of church rate, land tax, poor and County Stock rate, mortuaries on the death of Thomas Williams esq., painting work on Mrs. Shanklen's house, charges in going about the boundaries of the lordship of Penrhyn, expenses about Edwinsford weirs, rent to the corporation of Carmarthen for properties at Clynsue and Llannllwch, money to be distributed among specified persons in Talley and Llansawell, butter, coal carriage, dressed feathers, making feather beds and bolsters, rent allowance, sawying, smith's work, carpenter's work, glazier's work, wages and hire of labourers, purchase of Gloucester Journal, paper, tallow, turpentine, pats, wheat, peas, linseed oil, etc., etc.

Valuation (£23.6s.8d.) examined by Thomas Hanbury, auditor, of the farm of the moiety of the rectory of Conwelgayo and the chapel of Llansawell, with houses, buildings, tithes, etc., in Conwelgaio and Llansawell, parcel of the possessions of the late monastery of Talley. [References to lease, 13 Sept., 1563, to Robert Purcell for 21 years from the Annunciation of the Blesses Virgin Mary, 1571; an indenture, 28 Nov., 1568, between David ap Rice ad William Wightman; and a lease for the lives of David Price, Jane Price, his wife, and Rice David Price, their son.]. Latin.

Valuation (with detailed observations on tenants) by Daniel Price, Talley, of farms on the Edwinsford and Court Derllys estates in the parish of Llansawel, Talley, Conwil Gaio, Llansadwrn, Pencarreg, Llanybyther, Llangathen, Kily cwm, Merthyr, and Llangunog, and the borough of Carmarthen.

Valuation by [Charles] Hassell, with particulars of acreage, old rent, and new rent, of specified properties in the parishes of Lansawel, Talley, and Cayo.

1. John Davies of Talley, co. Carmarthen, gent., and Jane, his wife, and William Jones of the name, gent., and Mary, his wife;. 2. William Price of Talley aforesaid, gent. Transfer, to secure £33.10s., of the mortgage of the properties in the parish of Cunwill Gayo specified in No. 2594 of 10 May, 1700.

1. William Jones of Talley, co. Carmarthen, gent., and Mary, his wife;. 2. Jane Davies of Dole Gwrthon, parish of Llampeeter Pont Stephen, co. Cardigan, widow. Transfer of a mortgage, to secure £50, of the properties in the parish of Cayo, co. Carmarthen, specified in No. 2589 of 20 Sept., 1714.

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Toll Books of St. Barnabas fair, Llandilo. (references also to payments to watchmen at Rhosemane Street, White House Street, Nant yr Rhybo (Heybo, Ybo), Bridge Street, and Hewlscyborabad (Hewllyscyborabad, Howyscoborabad), and for toll house, leather, ale, etc.).

Toll Account of Lansawel fair. (References also to payments to watchmen at Lampeter Road, Baily Vicar Road, Clunmarch, Edwinsford, Pont ar Dremis, and Cayo Road, and for ale and dinners.).