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Legal papers re maintenance of Henrietta Beard, widow of Lord Edward Herbert, and her daughter Henrietta Herbert and re financial transactions with Cantillon & Hughes,Paris, bankers,;Bradley Green estate papers, Montgomeryshire; manorial rentals.

Legal papers re Powis Trust and Montgomeryshire lead mines and boundaries of the manors of Mochtre and Llandinam; estate vouchers and accounts; marriage settlement of Lord Edward Herbert; Heyford estate, Northamptonshire, rentals.

Legal papers re settlement of Powis Castle and Oakley Park estates; Domgay and Leaton Knolls estate papers; cases and opinions of counsel.

Legal papers relating to annuities, land in Blodwell, Shropshire, irregularities of aldermen of Welshpool; papers re Esgair Mwyn lead mine and to mines in Mefenydd, Cardiganshire.

Legal papers, mainly a confederacy by Sir Thomas Middleton and others to obtain a Crown grant of the manors of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog at less than their value and about encroachments and enclosures; Castle Island estate and legal pepers.

Undated papers including legal papers, rentals, surveys relating to Mounteagle Loyal, Oswestry burgages, and petition from tenants to the Countess of Powis.

Legal papers;leases of Powis demesne and elsewhere in Montgomeryshire; legal papers and leases re Castle Island estate including claims to the same by Edward, baron Chirbury.

Libel against the Powis family prior to election; lease of Mathrafal forge and sale of timberon Mathrafal ffridd; Domgay estate papers; purchase by Viscount Clive of lands of James Harries, Welshpool, timber merchant.

The Court of Record or Borough Sessions was held every fortnight before the bailiffs of Llanfyllin. A series of documents of considerable social and legal interest with particulars of attorneys practicing in the local court from time to time comprising of writs, bonds for appearance, declarations, pleadings and depositions mainly in pleas of debt (some referred from the Council of the Marches), with occasional slander suits. There do not appear to be any surviving proceedings of the Small court, or Baron Court, of the borough though it continued to be held after the grant of the Governing Charter. The reference MA 677 was not used.

A fine levied in pursuance of D10/35/10, 1624 (D10/35/9) listed as being part of this parcel, in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1)is no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.

An exchange of Roger's Tenement from Robert Lloyd to Henry Arthur, earl of Powis 1for a seat in Oswestry Church and a fee farm rent of £5.5.0 from the said earl to the said Robert, dated 25 March 1762, and deed to make a tenant to the precipe for suffering a recovery of Shropshire estates, Oswestry and Chirbury, dated 23 Jan. 1777, both listed as being part of this parcel, in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1)are no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.

A revocation by William, marquis of Powis, of the uses specified in D10/39/1-2, (23-4 March 1723/4) and creation of a new settlement of the estate, dated 27 Oct. 1726, listed as being part of this parcel, in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1)is no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.

A release of equity of redemption in Roger's Tenement in t. Treflach, [p. Oswestry] Shropshire, dated 11 Feb. 1758, listed as being part of this parcel in 'Powis Castle Estate Register of Muniments of Title'(now DA1) is no longer extant, at least not in the present parcel.