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Miscellaneous printed and manuscript material, 1888-1895, relating to Montgomeryshire County Council. Most of the items relate to the election held in January 1889 [to elect the first County Council to be elected for the county, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888], and include printed notices, November 1888, addressed to the electors of the electoral divisions of the borough of Welshpool, by [Edward James Herbert, 8th earl of] Powis, Powis Castle, A[braham] Howell, Rhiewport [Berriew], D[evereux] H[erbert] Mytton, Garth [Guilsfield], and David Richards, Royal Oak, Welshpool, individually, announcing their intention of offering themselves as candidates; five holograph or autograph letters, November 1888 - January 1889, from A[braham] Howell to the chairman [of...] (apologising for his inability to attend a meeting at which candidates were to explain the working of the [Local Government] Act, suggestions as to how this could be done) (carbon copy), Charles E[dward] Howell to Messrs. Woodall & Venables, Oswestry Advertizer, Oswestry (requesting recipients to discontinue inserting his father [Abraham Howell]' s election address in their paper) (carbon copy), T. Hughes, Buttington, to [Abraham] Howell (enclosing a sketch map of the Buttington district, with locations of houses and a list of occupiers, promising support at the election) (dated January 1888, recte 1889), John Lloyd, chairman of Buttington Cons[ervative] Working Men's Club, to A[braham] Howell, Rhiewport [Berriew] (enclosing a copy of a resolution passed at a meeting of the club, whereby members pledged support for Lord Powis, Capt. Mytton, A. Howell, and D. Richards, at the election), and [Messrs.] Woodall, Minshall, & Co., Office of the Oswestry Advertizer, Oswestry, to A[braham] Howell, Rhiewport, Welshpool (requesting the favour of instructions to insert recipient's [election] address in their paper); a copy (printed) of the return submitted, 21 January 1889, by William Corbett-Winder, the returning officer, of the councillors elected for each division of the county at the election, which had been held on 17 January, with manuscript addenda at the end, listing the names of fourteen persons who had been elected as aldermen, 31 January 1889; and a receipt, 11 February 1889, from J. H. Bickerton Jones, to Abraham Howell, for £10/15/8, 'being expenses of County Council Election, 17 Jany. 1889'. Also included are a list of councillors serving on Montgomeryshire County Council, March 1892, giving the electoral divisions they represented, and, in some instances, the majorities they had won at their election, and a list of councillors and aldermen serving on the said council, March 1895, the former being listed in two groups, headed Conservative and Liberal respectively.

Extracts, [c. 1935], in typescript and manuscript, from minutes of the Montgomeryshire Court of Quarter Sessions for 1707-1719, copied by A. Stanley Davies, Welshpool, from the original order book (now Llandrindod, Powys Record Office, M/Q/SO/1).
The extracts relate mostly to bridges in the county (ff. 2-3, 4, 5-8) and to nonconformist and Quaker meeting houses (ff. 9-11).

Printed material, manuscript and typescript notes, and correspondence, relating mainly to navigation and trade on the river Severn, including two sets of pages (fourteen and eleven respectively) extracted from Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire . . . (i.e., Vol. XLIII, pp. 33-46 and Vol. XLIV, pp. 46-56), the first fourteen pages containing the first part of an article by A. Stanley Davies on 'The River Trade of Montgomeryshire and Its Borders', and the remaining eleven pages a continuation of the same article, under the slightly different title 'The River Trade and Craft of Montgomeryshire and its Borders'; cuttings [from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, 23, 30 March 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', read by A. Stanley Davies at a meeting of the Caradoc [and Severn Valley] Field Club, 8 March [1934], [from the same newspaper, 20, 27 April 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by Dr. W. Watkins- Pitchford [at a meeting of the same club], 13 April [1934], and from the Timber Trades Journal & Saw Mill Advertiser, January 7, 1933, the [Daily Sketch, 20 April 1932], and the [Birmingham Evening Despatch, 4 February 1933], all relating to the river Severn; typescript lists, ?compiled in 1934, of 'Severn Trows still rigged and trading', 'Severn Trows still afloat as barges, houseboats, etc.', and 'Severn Trows still afloat'; eleven holograph or autograph letters and one holograph postcard to A[rthur] Stanley Davies at Welshpool, from Frank G[eorge] G[riffith] Carr, House of Lords Library, 1936 (a reply to a query regarding photographs of trows), Grahame E[dgar] Farr, Redland, Bristol, 1934-1936 (5 + 1 postcard) (information relating to Severn and other trows, barges, etc.), E[dwyn] Jervoise, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, 1934 (3) (bridges in which the writer was interested in connection with the preparation of his book [The Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England (London, 1936)]), Griff. Phillips, Kinnerley, Oswestry, [19]36 (thanks for a book received), and Fred C. Poyser, Nautical Photo Agency, London, 1934 (forwarding photographs of Severn trows); and miscellaneous notes consisting mainly of extracts from, and references to, printed and manuscript sources relating to the Severn. The papers on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', and 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by A. Stanley Davies and Dr. W. Watkins-Pitchford, were also published in the Transactions of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, Vol. IX, pp. 198-211, and pp. 216-33.

Two pedigree charts tracing descendants of Thomas Wolley of Woodhall [co. Salop] (d. 1725), and Eliz[abe]th, his wife (d. 1682), the first having been produced in a suit at Salop Assizes, March 1825, and the second, ?in the same suit, at [Salop] summer Assizes, 1827; and a third chart tracing three generations of the descendants of Edward Dyas of Aston, near Worthen [co. Salop] (d. 1789), and Martha, his wife (d. c. 1807-1808).

A copy (?incomplete) of a report, published in April 1865, entitled Borough and Local Government District of Welch-Pool. A statement of the result of an examination and enquiry by the Mayor and Council, respecting the books, documents, property, rules, regulations, and other matters relating to the borough and district. Also their accounts for 1864; together with descriptive and historical notes from nineteenth and ? early twentieth century sources, relating to the borough of Welshpool and the vicinity.