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Accounts of the overseers of the poor of Aberllunvey parish, co. Brec., and containing assessments, accounts of disbursements and records of meetings.

Includes agreement on the marriage of Sir Edward Williams and Mary Le Heup, 1748; draft releases from Samuel Vandevalle, 1750-2; agreement regarding timber at Middleton, Norfolk, 1753; copy conveyance of lands in Kethedine, 1755; abstract of title to an estate in Kathedyn and Llangorse, co. Brec., post 1745; abstract of title of farms in p. Llandevalley, co. Brec., called Maes y Coed, Lloyn Morris, and Kilvodig, 1792; schedule of deeds of the estates of Sir Edward Williams, 1792; agreement concerning Tyr Rickett and Tyr Rickett Mill, p's Llandevalley and Crickadarn, co. Brec., 1717; correspondence and other miscellaneous papers.

Includes letters to Mrs Elizabeth Montgomerie and George Montgomerie from: Thomas Stepney, Llanelly; Albany Wallis, Temple; William Lewes, Llanllear; Herbert Lewis, Peterwell; Henry Williams, Crickhowell; Thomas Yapp, Symonds Inn; Jeremiah Lloyd; J. Lewes; J. Cecil, Norfolk Street; Howell Gwynn, Garth; and Kedgwin Webley; dated 1764-7. Accounts and other papers relating to the estate of the family of Leheup of Gunthorp, Norfolk, 1676-1749, including letters and an undated rental of the estate of Mrs Leheup in Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

Bill of Complaint of Ann Llwyd, widow and executrix of Francis Llwyd late of Doctors Commons, London, gent., against Horatio Lord Walpole, John Adam, John Lloyd, Peter Leheup. Regarding claims on the Lloyd estate in Lampeter Pontstephan and elsewhere in co. Card.; conveyance of lands in p. Llandevalley, co. Brec., 1792; lease for a year of Gwernyfed estate, 1840; patent of the baronetcy of Sir Thomas Williams of Eltham, Kent, 1674.

Bills of costs in suits between John Macnamara v Sir Edward Williams, Thomas Wood, and others, 1797, Shelley v Lloyd and others, 1798-1808, Macnamara v Wood, 1818, and John Macnamara v Sir Edward Williams and others, 1821.

Including a declaration of trust by Isaac Leheup and his wife in properties in Hindringham, Norfolk, 1727; marriage settlements of Sir Edward Williams and Mary Leheup of Gunthorpe, Norfolk, 1748-50; partition of the Leheup estate, 1749; agreement for the purchase of the estate of Sir Edward Williams by John Macnamara for £47,000, 1796; accounts by Thomas Williams, clerk, in respect of the affairs of Sir Edward Williams, 1782-6, with copies of letters from Edward Allen, Lodge, 1787; and a case and opinion relating to the administration of the estate of Sir Edward Williams of Langoyd Castle, co. Brec., by his widow, 1810.

Elizabeth Montgomerie (formerly wife of John Lloyd of Peterwell), widow of George Montgomerie late of p. St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, gent., dec., v Crisp Molineux, esq., and Catherine his wife (daughter of the said George Montgomery by a former wife), touching plaintiff's demands on the estate of George Montgomerie, 1766-8; George Montgomerie, lately called George Molineux, eldest son of Crisp Molineux, and grandson of George Montgomerie of Chippenham Hall, Cambridgeshire, dec., and his sisters v Sir John Rouse, etc., touching the will and estate (in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Middlesex) of George Montgomery, dec., 1766-7; Horatio Lord Walpole, Peter Leheup and Phillip Case, executors of Elizabeth Montgomerie, v Crisp Molineux and his wife, administrators of Sir Herbert Lloyd and John Lloyd, touching the claims of Elizabeth Montgomerie under her marriage settlement, etc., 1770-1.

Copy Court rolls of the manors of Fakenham Lancastr', the rectory of Fakenham, Middleton Sharington (Holt Hale), Hindtingham and the rectory of Little Snoring, Norfolk, relating to the families of Dey, Godfrey and Le Heup; faculties for a seat for Isaac Leheup in Gunthorp church and the consolidation of the rectories of Bale and Gunthorpe, Norfolk, 1745-6; deed of Francil Lloyd of Millfield, co. Card., relating to lands called Tyr Howell ap Bevan, Tythin y Ty Hwane, Tyr y Pant, Tythin u Llwyn noeth, Tyr Gwalter ychan, Llayne y Clomendy, Tir Merched Llewelyn Goch, Tyr Guto ap Evan Clystin, Tyr Nant y Corr, Kae yrr Corr, Tyr Pant Gwynne, Tyr Coed Llwyn adda, Llwyn heer, Llaynay Phen yr ardd, and Clwtt Twlba alias Clwtt Twlpa, p. Llanvair Clouddoge, co. Card., and Maes Stroyddenvawe and -vach, Tyr y Rhyd Lydan, Kae Penvarch, p. Conuillgayo, co. Carm., 1731; and a letter from William Lake, Lincoln's Inn, to Thomas Wood at Littleton near Staines, 1828.

Papers and correspondence touching the said courts, chief rents, manorial boundaries, etc., 1711-1885.

Two deeds and nine documents relating to the conveyance from William Rickets of Court y Llaca to James Williams Morgan of Treblehill, co. Rad., of estates in Pipton, p. Glasbury, co. Brec. including 'the lands of Phillip Price' and Pipton farm.

Including a map of Drenewydd and Neuadd Lands, the property of John Jones 1794, copy will of John Vaughan of Glasbury 1818, abstract of title of William Probert to lands in Tregoyd, etc., 1836, and letters from Thomas Parry, Three Cocks, David Thomas, Brecon, John Iveson, Glasbury, and Thomas Wood, 1833-44. Letters mainly to Col Thomas Wood from Anne Shaw, Inglewood, J. W. J. Taylor, Bath, etc., relating to the deaths of Sir Edward and Lady Williams, 1804-12. Rentals of the estates of Sir Edward Williams, settled and not settled on his first wife (Miss Leheup) in cos Brec. and Rad., 1795; account of the receiver of the rents of the estates in cos Brec. and Rad. in dispute in Chancery between Walter Watkins, plaintiff, and Sir Edward Williams, bart, John Macnamara and William Hamilton, defendants, 1799.

The bond of Margaret Jones of Carmarthen, widow, in £600 to Henry Williams of Gwernyfed, co. Brec., esq., Thomas Williams of Middle Temple, London, esq., and Thomas Williams of Bradstreete, London, merchant, reciting that the parties are jointly and severally bound in £400 to Ellis Locker, gent., for the repayment on 12 Jan. next of £206, the proper debt of Margaret, 9 July 1655 (J 2); the bond of Sir Henry Williams of Gwernyfed in £500 to Richard Wigmore of Upton Court, esq., to pay £206 to Francis Trion of London, merchant, 12 May 1659 (J 3); the recognisance of Elizabeth Williams in £1000 to Anne Williams her daughter, a minor, for the payment of the sum of £500 when she comes of age or be married, and in the meantime to allow Anne the interest for her maintenance, according to a decree in Chancery dated 2 July 1669, 24 Oct. 1670 (J 4); a grant by John Essington of Slimbridge, co. Glos, gent., to his wife of £50 a year until her daughter reach 16 years of age, 25 Nov. 1672, reciting that David Williams of Corenden, esq., William Selwyn of the city of Gloucester, esq., John Gyse of Ableades Court, esq., and Edward Selwyn of Mattsdowne, gent., all co. Glos., are trustees of the principal and interest of £2000 declared in an agreement made between Elizabeth, now wife of the said John Essingham, then Elizabeth Williams of the city of Gloucester, widow of Thomas Williams, esq., dec., and the said John Essington, 13 March 1670/1 (J 16); and the pedigree of David Williams of Shrewsbury, MD, 'now living' aged 30, the third but eldest surviving son of David Williams of Cornedon, co. Glos., aged 70, the grandson of Sir David Williams of Guernyfed, co. Brec. (d. 1612), signed 'Da Williams', 1683 (torn along the seams, held together by tape) (P 14); and a later copy of the same pedigree brought down to 1730, with a few annotations to 1744 and an endorsement down to E. Penfold, Loose Court, co. Kent, 1821.

Deeds, including a lease of fisheries in the Wye and Llunvey, 1852; grants of land near Cefnywaun in Velindre, p. Glasbury, 1861, lands in p's Aberllunvey, Hay, Glasbury, Llanigan, 1866; land on Ffynongynyd Common in Glasbury for a school, 1875; cottages in Velindre, 1822-1914; Land Tax Redemption Certificate to Thomas Wood, 1904; Velindre School site, 1877; the pound in Llanelieu, 1914; letters of administration of the goods of Sir Edward Williams of Gwernevett, 1721.

Papers in the suit between Sir Humphrey Howorth of Maeslough and Mary his Wife, Late wife and Executrix of Henry Williams of Gwernevet, plaintiffs, and Thomas Johnson, Susanna his wife, Thomas Foley and others, defendants, and in the suit between Thomas Johnson and his wife, plaintiffs and Sir Edward Williams and Susannah Williams, infants, and others, 1741-4. Fines of parts of the Gwernyfed estate, 1687-1750; lease of property called Blayne Bach, the Groft adjoining Allt Dyrys and land in Rhoss Llanelieu, p. Glasbury and Llanelieu, 1718; valuation of the Lodge and Gwernevet farm, n.d.

Including copies of the marriage settlement of Henry Williams, son of Sir Henry Williams of Gwernevett, and Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Walter Pye, 1631, and the marriage settlement of Henry Williams and Mary his wife, 1722; deed relating to a school for poor children at Glasbury, co. Brec., 1822; papers relating to the enclosure of the common fields of Bronllys, co. Brec., 1860-8; schedule of the debts of Sir Humphrey Howarth, 1785; papers relating to fishing in the river Wye and the Wye Preservation Society, 1850-1.

Draft abstract of title (1667-71) of the Milfield estate (details given), co. Card., in mortgage to the late Mrs Elizabeth Montgomerie [late Lloyd], post 6 July 1771; documents relating to the Chancery suit between Ann Lloyd, widow and executrix of Francis Lloyd, gent., dec., complainant, and John Adams, John Lloyd, Jeremiah Lloyd, Horatio Lord Walpole, Peter Leheup, Philip Case, John Holman and Arabella his wife, and Joseph Platt, defendants, touching the estate of Elizabeth Montgomerie (dec. 30 Dec. 1769), formerly Elizabeth Lloyd, 1774; papers relating to the estate of John Lloyd, 1774; papers relating to the estate of John Lloyd of Peterwell, co. Card., 1746-66; documents relating to Isaac Leheup including copy court rolls of man. Birinmingham, Nolfolk, 1675-1747; notes on the suit of Abel Davies and Sarah Davies against Mariam Gloucester, 1709, touching the will of Rebecca Austin.

Including deeds of property in Penylan, p. Glasbury, Dinas, P. Talgarth, Gwerne Lloyd, Gwern Lloyd Bach and Penrhyd, p. Llanelieu, and Llangravon, p. Glasbury, co. Brec. 1747-1850; account book of Thomas Wood, Lodge, 1849-57; letters to Col Thomas Wood from John Prichard, W. Pugh, Hay, Charles Martin, Three Cocks, and William Lake, Lincolns Inn, 1821-41.