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Letter book containing letters and invoices relating to linen shipped from Dundee to merchants in London to sell on behalf of John Guthrie, 1768-1774. Spine inscribed 'Lett'r book no. II', although one 'I' has been erased to create 'no. I'. Enclosed loose, (i) a certificate from Theodore Charles Mozard, resident French consul at Boston for New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, that Samuel Barrett is a notary public at Boston, 5 Germinal 6 [=25 March 1798]; and (ii) a printed 'Summary view of statistical returns for the year ending June 30, 1896. Diocese of Brechin', of numbers for the congregations, baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations, school attendances etc. for each parish.

Volume containing memoranda relating to gardening (gooseberries, vines, strawberries, fruit trees, melons etc.), building (exterior wash, rough cast, slates), workmen's wages, destroying vermin, gout, diseases in cattle, horses, dogs, sheep, fishing, poultry, surveying, charcoal, oxen etc. etc. The few dates mentioned in the text cover 1794-1814. At the rear of the volume is a family memorandum, 1794 (pp. [176-8]). Includes many inserted items, the few dated items covering 1774-1850.

Loose maps, plans and prints, including three coloured prints, of 'Guardia nobile', 'Ufficiale della Guardia Svizzera', and 'Soldato Svizzero in gran tenuta' by Guis'e Mochetti, [19 cent.]; a copy of Speed's map of Shropshire, extracted from a volume, [19 cent.]; plans 1-2 from the Plas Yolyn estate sale, 1920; OS 6-inch 2nd ed. Shropshire sheet V NE, 1902, marked with the lands referred to in a lease of 1920; and OS 6-inch map [?showing the lands to be sold (blue) and (retained)].

An estate map-book intitled "Several messuages & lands within the manor or lordship of Trayan in the several townships of Dudleston parish of Ellesmere, Ifton Rhyn Weston Rhyn & Bronygarth in the parish of Saint Martin's in the county of Salop, the property of Edward Morrall esq're, copied from a survey made in 1820, by O. D. Owen in 1823".

Diary, 28 May 1827-24 Feb. 1828, of a tour of the USA, commencing "Landed from the Hannibal and breakfasted at Niblo's" [in New York], and including Philadelphia, Schenectady, Canandaigua, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Prescott, Cornwall, Montreal, Quebec, Cap Tourmente ['Cape Tourmont'], Salem, Savannah, Charleston, Montgomery, the Creek Nation, Mobile, and New Orleans. Includes several references to buying cotton; also references to the treatment of slaves and Indians. The writer is not identified, but writes "I am this day 20 years of age - hope that another year will find me increased in wisdom & virtue" (27 Aug. 1827). Inside front cover initialled in pencil, 'J. C. M.'

Volume containing a copy of the Burlesque Oxford Prize Poem, subject 'Pompeii', by James White of Pembroke College, Jan. 1828, and other poems, pictures and extracts, the last dated item being March 1867. Flypage inscribed 'Cyrus Morrall, Brasenose College, Oxford, Jan'y 21st 1828'.

Precis of the capital arrangements of Adam Lodge, Cyrus Morrall and Robert Greaves, in partnership as Robert Greaves & Co. of Liverpool, ropemakers, Aug. 1829 (Greaves contributing ropemaking machinery valued at £500, and Lodge and Morrall each contributing £500 in money) (pp. 1-2), and day book or journal, Sept. 1829-June 1830 (pp. 3-24). Followed by an account intitled 'Robert Morrall's cash account', Jan. 1858-Sept. 1870, plus a few entries, Oct. 1870-Aug. 1871. Spine labelled 'Day book'.

Volume of food, household and medicinal recipes. Title page inscribed ' Mrs Lingard's recipe book, Heaton Lodge, June 1840'. Includes a few inserted recipes, including one dated Nov. 1892.

Printed volume: 'Erinnerung an Hamburg, 20 hamburg Volkstrachten [Memory of Hamburg: 20 Hamburg costumes], Herausgegeben und verlegt von [ed. & pub. by] B. S. Berendsohn, Hamburg, Alsterarcaden No. 14'. Title page, index page and plates 1-19 [of 20] with interleaved tissues.

Receipt and expenditure accounts, including returns on investments, personal accounts paid, executors' accounts, and rents received. Spine labelled 'Day book'.

Rental of half-yearly rentals, Lady Day 1878-Lady Day 1881. Inserted items include rent-day receipt accounts, Lady Day 1878-Dec. 1885.

Plas Yolyn household, tax, tithe, succession and rent accounts, 1887-1908. Inserted items include an undated memorandum from J. Wilson, gamekeeper, to C. Morrall, esq., that he had given a warning to James Rice, labourer, Edward Jones, wheelwright, and George Richards and Thomas Morris of Ifton Heath, colliers, their dogs having chased a rabbit on Plas Warren land; and a poem, the 1909 defeat of England against Australia at cricket having been attributed to their senility, the team having had an average of thirty-four.

Volume containing typescript copies of auctioneers' descriptions (some with plans) of sixteen properties sold, Jan. 1920-May 1921. Cover inscribed 'The trustes of the Reverend Cyrus Morrall deceased. Plas Yolyn estate. Details of the conveyances of the various portions of the estate which have been sold, both privately and by auction. Stow Preston & Lyttelton, 12 Lincolns Inn Fields, W.C.2'.

Original folder of family history notes, including a typescript transcript of the complaint of Richard Price, one of the clerks of John Morrall of Dudleston, dec., employed as his clerk in 'this' [unnamed] court, c.1690; and extensive typescript extracts (62 pp.) from a manuscript volume of parish register entries (27 parishes) and other references to Morrall, compiled by Michael Thomas Morrall, copied by John Alphonsus Morrall (1904), and then (2002) held by Warwickshire County Record Office (probably their ref. Z0428/1(SM)).

The former contents have been dispersed.

Manuscripts, estate records and family papers of the Edwards and Morrall families of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn in Dudleston, Shropshire, including the manuscripts and papers of Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659); Colonel John Jones 'the regicide' of Maesgarnedd (?1597-1660); correspondence of the Edwards and Morrall families; papers of the Jones family of Cilhendre, descendants of Colonel John Jones; a small group of papers relating to the Hanmer family (including documents relating to the part played by William Hanmer of Fennes in the Civil War and a travel journal of Thomas Hanmer, 1728); and deeds, 1282-1869 relating to properties mainly in Denbighshire, Flint, Merionethshire and Shropshire, but also in London, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.

A holograph copy of a letter from Mor[gan] Llwyd to H[enry] Jessey, 1656 (lessons and observations from Jac[ob] Behmen, John Goodwin's answer, converse with Mr. Hartlib); holograph copies and one draft of letters (3) from [Morgan Llwyd] to unknown correspondents, 1658/1659, and undated (the recipient's change of doctrine, kindness to David Hughes's son, the recipient's action in Tho. Tillams and the writer's in breaking bread at Chester, the writer's wish to reside in the country); a holograph letter from Hen[ry] Jones, from Dublin, to [?Morgan Llwyd], 1655 (the writer's former course in writing, references to Robin, dear Daniell Lloyd, Capt. Prichard, Sontley, Kathrin, Lowrey Williams, and Eliz. Powell) (together with a draft reply in the hand of Morgan Llwyd); a sheet marked 'fourth' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, concerning the diversity of thoughts in the human heart, together with notes, dated 1655/1656-1656/1657, on apparitions; and 'The heads of the bill for Gouernment' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, 1656.

Holograph letters, etc.:- from Jo. Jones, Dublin, to Mrs. Anne Lloyd [wife of Morgan Llwyd], Wrexham, 1652 (the recipient's care for his son, the 'melancholines' of the recipient's husband); from Jo. Jones, 'Dulyn' [Dublin], to his brother Richard Jones, 1653/4 (religious experiences, the death of sister Jonett, greetings); from Hugh Price, Rich. Price, Edw. Price, Roger Sontley, Edw. Allen, and Will. Wynne (for widow Marris), Wrexham, to Colonel John Joanes, 1654 (the rents of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale) (together with a sheet entitled 'The desiers of the purchasers of the Lordshippes of Bromfield and Yale'); from Jo. Jones, London, to [?Mrs. Lloyd], 1656 (a settlement upon the recipient's husband); and an extract [after 1827] from Phenix Britannicus, vol. I, p. 145, relating to Colonel John Jones.

Fifteen holograph letters from G. Grimaldi [from Liverpool] to Edward Morrall [at Liverpool], 1834-1835 and undated (arrangements for lessons in Italian, visits to the opera, invitations to dinner); and drafts of letters by Edward Morrall to G. Grimaldi, [ ] Venzano, and [ ] Marchese (recommending Dr. Harrington as a member of the orchestra, etc.), together with jottings and vocabularies.

A contemporary copy [c. December, 1718] of 'The Genuine Speech of the Ld. L--ne [George Granville, baron Lansdowne] against repealing the Occasional and Schism Bills' (8 pp.); and a news letter, 6 June, 1719, containing an account of Mr. [Gilbert] Burnet, incumbent of East Barnet, the imprisonment of the late Earl of Mar [John Erskine, 6th or 11th earl] at Geneva, twelve porpoises at Greenwich, and the case of the heir of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls (mutilated).