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Deeds concerning a m. called Cwm Gwillim, p's Gladestry, co. Rad. and Kington, Herefordshire (C 46 a.) including the pre-nuptial settlement of William Tristram of p. Gladestry, gent., and Joyce Clement of p. Cregrina, 1743 (C 60/1-4); copy wills of Richard Pugh of The Hill, p. Presteign, gent., 1814 (C 60/25) and James Lloyd Harris of The Moor, p. Lyonshall, Herefordshire, esq., 1822 (C 60/27) and limited administration of Edward Hall Green of Kington, Herefordshire, gent., 1830 (C 60/34). Purchased by Sir John Walsh from Thomas Stephen Roger of Kington, Herefordshire, gent., and his mortgagees for £999 on 3 May 1838. Original bundle labelled 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 1 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5'.

Deeds concerning a m. called The Lane House, p. Colfa, including probate of will with inventory annexed of William Price of the said p., 1791 (will dated 1785) (C 63/2) [cf. C 64]. Purchased by Sir John Walsh from Edward Hall of the Parsonage, p. Eardisley, Herefordshire, farmer, for £250 on 1 May 1839. Original bundle labelled 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 7 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5 ...'.

Deeds, mainly bonds and receipts, relating to a m. called Cwm yd Walley, p's Old Radnor and Llanfihangel Nantmelan (63 a.) and to parcels of land in p's Pembridge and Eardisland, Herefordshire, including the will of Thomas Lyde of the Lake, p. Old Radnor, yeoman, 1629 (C 65/1) (bequeathes 12d. to the poor of Old Radnor), and the post-nuptial settlement of John Price of Pembridge aforesaid, and Anne his wife, daughter of Hugh Lloyd of Hantor, p. Old Radnor, gent., 1669 (C 65/2).

Deeds concerning a m. called Pantevor, p. Llanfihangel Nantmelan, including the post-nuptial settlement of Thomas Lewis of the same, gent., and Susanna his wife, daughter of Henry Parry of p. Llanbedr Paincastle, 1695 (C 65/25). Original bundle labelled 'Old Deeds 9 Tin Deed Box 5 ... of little importance'. Wrapper of C 65/25-29 marked 'Old useless papers relating to Cwmgwalley'.

Deeds relating to m's called Brunant and New House, afterwards called The Bank, p. Llanddewi Ystradenni, (27a), including probate of the will, together with inventory annexed, of John Lloyd of the said p., yeoman, 1790 (C 68/8). Purchased by Sir John Walsh from James Price of Brunant, carpenter, for £332 on 25 Mar. 1841. Original bundle labelled 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 11. Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5 ....'.

Abstract Of Title to the farm specified in C 73, 1757-1843.

Conveyance as in C 78 of a parcel of land called The Frolic, otherwise Gwrechinhail, p. Llanddewi Ystradenni (5 a.) for £5. Original bundle labelled 'Conveyance No. 24 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5'.

Label of a bundle of deeds now missing marked 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 26 of Maes y gelly in p's Llandeny & Llanbister & of Brookhouse in Llandeny by R[ichar]d Warner & his mortgagee to Sir John Walsh. Quantity Maes y gelly 6 a. Brookhouse 9 a. Price £250. 31 Dec. 1845. Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5'.

Conveyance of 63 a. of common or waste land adjoining a m. called The Bailey, p. Llangynllo, to Sir John Walsh by Henry Evans of Bailey House, p. Llangynllo, farmer, and William Eyton of Gonsalls, p. Condover, Shropshire, commissioner appointed under the 'Act for enclosing lands in p's Bleddfa and Llangunllo'. Original bundle labelled 'Conveyance No. 6'.

Deeds concerning parcels of land called the ffaladis, p. Llanfihangel Nantmelan (10 a.). Purchased by Sir John Walsh from John Lewis of Pentre, p. Llanfihangel Nantmelan, farmer and bachelor, for £215 on 25 on 1848. Original bundle labelled 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 9 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 6 ...'.

Abstracts Of Title and schedule of title deeds, 1722-1850, relating to freehold and leasehold premises called The Upper Pentre, p's Llanddewi Ystradenni and Llanbister, to be purchased by Sir John Walsh. Original bundle labelled 'Abstracts of Title Tin Deed Box Abstracts of Title'.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh by the co-heirs of the late John Miles of Weythill, labr, of a m. in t. Weythill, p. Old Radnor, for £60.

Letters to John Benn Walsh including letters from Lady Clive (Fd 5/1); Francis Fowke, 1806 (containing a tirade against Napoleon (Fd 5/2) and 1817 (opposition to paper currency and the extension of income tax and his plans for his Boughrood estate, co. Rad.) (Fd 5/7) [these two letters are strays; virtually all the extant correspondence between them is in the India Office Library in the Fowke MSS and MSS Euro. D 546], and James Casamajor, Madras, asking John Benn Walsh to use his influence with the Court of Directors [of the East India Co.] to secure him the post of chief judge of the Sudden Court, 1810 (Fd 5/4).

Misc. Papers including a list of fees charged by the Herald's Office to John Benn Walsh on assuming the name Walsh, 1795 (Fd 6/1) [cf. I 1/2]; particulars and conditions of sale of No. 5 Upper Harley Street and related correspondence, 1802 (Fd 6/2-4) and case and opinion of counsel whether purchased waste ground planted with trees in p. Warfield, Berkshire, is liable to be assessed for poor rates, 1821 (Fd 6/6).

Frequent visits to see her son at Eton; a tour from Warfield to Oakley Park, Shropshire, including a description of the poet [William] Shenstone's house and gardens at Halesowen, Staffordshire (ff. 46-7), a description of Lady Clive (ff. 49-50); a description of Downton Castle, Shropshire (ff. 51v-2); references to the ironworks at Coalbrookdale (f. 56) and to Lucien Bonaparte then living near Worcester (ff. 57v-8); a description of the ruins of Evesham Abbey (ff. 58v-9); a reference to a riot by students at Hertford College, Oxford on 5 Nov. (f. 75) and an account of an outbreak of scarlet fever at Eton (ff. 75v-7).

References to the Rev. David Davies, 1815 (f.4v); to Napoleon's landing in France and regaining the French throne and recording her astonishment that the French had allowed him to do so, 1815 (ff. 13-15); account of a tour from Warfield, Berkshire, to Oakley Park, Shropshire, 1815, including brief descriptions of Worcester (f.34v), Abberley (f. 36r-v), Leominster (ff. 39v-40), Maeslough (ff. 41-2) and Eastnor Castle then undergoing construction (f. 45); an account related to her of the influence of the 'sectaries', especially the preacher Rowland Hill who overcame people's prejudice against inoculation by preaching a sermon in its favour and who used his influence to secure the return of Sir William Guise as M.P. [for Gloucestershire in a by-election in 1811], 1815 (f. 43); references to enclosing land in p. Warfield, 1815-16 (ff. 52, 55v-6, 70v-1); to an affray at Hertford College and the expulsion of 14 students, 1816 (f. 63), [cf. G 10], to pecuniary distress, unpaid rents and to the country banks stopping payment, 1816 (f.69v) and a lengthy account of her daughter Elizabeth's illness who thought she was going mad, 1816 (ff. 73-86).

Continuation of Fe 4/10 but with no entries from 1 Jan. to 17 Feb. by which time the family is in Paris until their hasty return in March on account of her husband's severe illness (ff. 7v-18); press cuttings relating to Louis XVIII of France's proposed change to the law of elections together with her comments (ff. 56-9), and press cuttings relating to, and her comments on, the Queen Caroline affair (ff. 70v-9, 84v-5, 99-102, 108-9) and references to insurrection in Portugal (ff. 86-8).

Continuation of his stay in Brussels, 1-17 Oct. 1823 (pp. 1-12) and of his review of his present situation (pp. 20-9, 40-80, 110-30) wherein he attributes his failure to ascend the social ladder to the growing exclusiveness of the aristocracy after the end of the Napoleonic war, the closing off of paths of advancement with the end of the war, the agricultural depression after 1815 which brought to an end the custom of holding great balls to be replaced by subscription balls, called almacks, and to his lack of the basic prerequisites to social advancement, namely; a compact landed estate with electioneering interests, a seat in the House of Commons, especially an independent one, military rank and, most important, an advantageous connexion by marriage; a description of another vain pursuit of Lady Charlotte Charteris in London (pp. 107-201 passim) and a brief account of readings by Sarah Siddons, 5 Nov. 1823 (p. 30).