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Original bundle re. mortgage (£29,300) by Sir Arthur Henry John Walsh to George James Drummond of life assurance policies assuring £27,700.

Miscellaneous Papers relating to the Hartstonge estate, including the man. of Busmore, a capital m. called Trewern, and some of the premises specified in C 3-4, C 6, C 11-12, including a copy order in Chancery for the payment by Sir Standish Hartstonge of £3,455.19.8 to Sir Herbert Croft, mortgagee of Griffith Jones, owner of Trewern, 1686 (C 9/9); abstracts of title of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1686-99, to various properties including his purchases from Griffith Jones and James Rodd [cf. C 1] (C 9/8, 13, 18-21); bill of complaint in Chancery of Dorcas Hergest of Kington, Herefordshire, widow, against Griffith Jones the younger of Trewern, Sir Standish Hartstonge et al concerning a judgement of £60 obtained against Griffith Jones the elder by her late husband, Ralph Hergest [late 1680s x early 1690s] (C 9/12); bill of complaint in Chancery of Gwyn Hartstonge, grandson and devisee of estates in co. Rad. of Sir Standish Hartstonge, against Sir Standish Hartstonge, grandson of testator, relating to the said premises and including copy will of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1699 [early 18C] (C 9/23) and copy will of Mary Davies of Knighton, co. Rad., widow, 1739 (C 9/29). Original bundle labelled 'Old Letters and Papers No. 23 relating to Mr Walsh's Radnorshire Purchases of little importance'.

Miscellaneous Papers relating mainly to the debts of Griffith Jones, previous owner of Trewern and other properties, and to lawsuits between Sir Standish Hartstonge and Mr John Weaver, clerk [possibly the Puritan minister of that name who was ejected from Old Radnor in 1660 and from Knill in 1662 and who ministered to a small congregation in Hereford from 1689 until his death in 1712. He was forced to sell part of his estate because of financial difficulties. See Thomas Rees's History of Nonconformity in Wales 2nd ed. (London 1883, p. 151)].

Miscellaneous Papers including a note and account of a 'motion' or 'moving' plant at Dr Hope's botanical gardens, 1776 (FC 19/1-2); a copy of the Vedam in the Sanskrit language obtained for John Walsh by his nephew Francis Fowke in Benares in 1777 (FC 18/3); two vols containing the Sanskrit alphabet and specimens of Sanskrit writing, [1770s] (FC 19/4-5) and a memorandum relating to the Queen's visit to Warfield, 1784 (FC 19/7).

Miscellaneous Papers comprising a letter from Sir Robert Clayton of Marsden, Surrey, to 'a friend' announcing his forthcoming marriage, 1775 (L 4/1); a table of expenses and earnings of six families by the week and by the year in Bedfordshire in 1795 with similar tables at various intervals from the mid 14c. to the late 18c. (L 4/2) and a letter from D. Lyon, Putney, to ?, relating to a 'statuary' to be placed in the church of St Mary Le Bone, 1828 (L 4/3).

Miscellaneous Letters to Margaret Walsh, mainly from close friends and servants (18 ff.) including a letter from D[avid] James relating to the sale of the Boughrood Castle estate (f. 9r-v) and a letter from Charlotte Wynch giving a lengthy account of the Swing riots near Battle, Sussex (ff. 13-16).

Misc. Papers relating to the Beaufort family and estate comprising two bound offprints of entries in A Complete English Peerage [1766] relating to Henry Somerset, 5th duke of Beaufort (L 1/1-2); a genealogical table of the Somersets [late 1760s] (L 1/3); a corrected catalogue of pictures at Badminton with notes and correspondence about the history of the Somersets, 1905-17 (L 1/4) and abstract of title of the trustees of the Llwynbarried estate in p's Nantmel, Llanyre and Llanfihangel Helygen, co. Rad., 1899-1910, 1917 together with a map, 1902 [Henry, 9th duke of Beaufort was mortgagee of the estate] (L 1/5-6) ]For the connection between the Somersets and the Walshes see B 1/11-12].

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).

Misc. Deeds relating to the co. Rad. estate comprising a bargain and sale of a tmt called Llwyn John Dorthy, p. Colfa, 1639 (E 1/1); probate of will with inventory annexed of Edward Morgan of p. Gladestry, yeoman, 1758 (E 1/2); probate of will with inventory annexed of Edward Evans of p. Cefnllys, 1782 (E 1/3); mortgage of m's called Upper Cwm-y-Nast and Middle Cwm-y-Nast, p's Gladestry and Colfa, 1831 (E 1/4); appointment by Sir John Walsh to George Owen, butler in the service of Dame Margaret Walsh, of a m. called Traws-tyr-bach, p. Cefnllys, in consideration of 'twenty six years of faithfull service ... in the family' of Sir John Benn Walsh bart, deceased', 1835 (E 1/5); insurance policy on farms called Brynthomas, Hengoed and Pentre, p. Cefnllys, 1843 (E 1/6); a schedule of deeds in the possession of William Stephens relating to properties mortgaged to Sir John Walsh, 1845 (E 1/7); award by way of partition of the Broken Bank estate, p. Gladestry, 1891 (E 1/8) [cf. C 112/1]; and altered apportionment of tithe rent charge for property in p. Llanfihangel Rhydieithon, [c. 1925] (E 1/9).

Memoir by Lady Jane Walsh of her daughter 'Minnie' (Catherine) commencing from her birth in 1835 until her eighteenth birthday. The memoir is in fact a compilation of all the entries relating to Minnie in the diaries of Lady Jane Walsh. The diaries are now missing.