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Llwyn Estate Records Ffeil = File English
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Bencliff Hall, p. Eccles, co. Lancs

Original bundle of mainly attested copies of papers relating to the descent of the Bencliff Hall estate, including attested copies of the wills of Rev. Thomas Valentine of Frankfort, co. Sligo (dated 1763, proved 1766), Samuel Valentine of Freetown, co. Bristol, Massachusetts, yeoman, 1781, and John Partington of Bencliff House, p. Eccles, co. Lancs, gent., 1813; conversion of the reversionary interest of premises in Bencliffe otherwise Bentcliffe Hall, p. Eccles and in Pendleton, co. Lancs, between Thomas Valentine of the said Freetown, mariner, and John Partington of Garratt, Manchester, co. Lancs, dyer and printer, 1794; and other deeds, 1796-1814.

Deeds and papers

Original bundle of deeds and papers, including affadavits and certified copies of baptisms, marriages and burials relating to the title of Llwyn, 1826-1832; surveyor's account for the Irwell Bank estate, Pendleton, 1863-1864; vestry minutes and letters relating to the new road from Llanfyllin to Penllwyn Bridge, 1889-1921; a faculty to erect a lych gate at Llanfyllin parish church, 1925.

John Marshall Dugdale

Personal papers of John Marshall Dugdale (1851-1918), comprising university certificates that Johannes Marshall Dugdale satisfied the requirements of the examiners in various subjects, 1870-1873, marriage service of J.M.D. to I.H., 1876, and newspaper obituaries, 1918.

Game book

Presentation inscription 'J. Marshall Dugdale, from Arthur Hargreaves, Xmas 1899'. Loose papers inclosed relating to the disposal of game, 1929-1930. [Hargreaves was Dugdale's wife's maiden name].

Llwyn account book

John Marshall Dugdale of Llwyn's profit and loss accounts, 1907-1918. Also draft accounts, shares bought and sold, surtax computations, and supertax, property, timber, corn etc. accounts, 1919-1944.

John Dugdale letter book

(i) Volume of copies of letters written by John Dugdale, several with the additional note 'original in safe at Llwyn'), 1874-1881, with an additional letter at the rear of the volume,1885. Includes an index of recipients at the front of the volume. (ii) Letters found loose in the volume, 1876-1894, many marked 'copy'. Also letters, 1874 and 1882, relating to the sale of chief rents to the Manchester & County Bank.

Letters to John Dugdale

Includes a letter from Stuart Rendel, including '... Dilke also derides the idea of any Briton Whig or Tory proving short of pluck. So I am not outside my party (even the extreme section of it) when I laugh off the fear of Liberals ever showing the white feather to the foreigner. On the contrary I think we are as a nation about the most pugnacious people on earth. That is why I regard it as the duty of a Ruler to restrain rather than excite [the lower orders; crossed out] us'.

Letters to John Dugdale

Includes an application by the vicar of Llanwddyn for a donation or subscription towards the cost of a curate to minister to the 'workmen, wives and families, about 3,000 brought together into this parish by the Corporation of Liverpool' to build the Vyrnwy dam and aquaduct.

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