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1. Charles Shaw of Besthorpe, Norfolk, esq., son of Elizabeth Shaw, late of Bloomsbury, widow of Charles Shaw of Besthorpe. 2. King Gould of Westminster, esq., son-in-law of the said Elizabeth Shaw. Release, in pursuance of the will of Elizabeth Shaw, of the payment of £600 due to the administrators of Henry Branthwayt, dec., in trust for Elizabeth Shaw, also of the sum of £200, which King Gould borrowed from John Spelman, esq., and which Elizabeth Shaw paid on his account.

1. Rev. Francis Humphreys of Hamstead, Middlesex, clerk, Hanbury Humphreys of Monmouth, gent., and Mary Humphreys of p. St Ebbs in the city of Oxford, spinster. 2. John Morgan of Llantillio Pertholey, co. Mon., yeoman. Lease (draft) for 21 years, determinable on the lives of the said Francis Hanbury and Mary Humphreys, of a dwelling house and farm lands belonging in Llantillio Perthley, but reserving timber and minerals.

Act to extend the powers of an Act passed in 27 George II intituled 'An Act for the better securing to Constables and others the expences of conveying offenders to Gaol, and for allowing the charges of poor persons bound to give evidence against felons', and for allowing to High Constables in that part of the United Kingdom called England, their charges in certain cases. Printed.

1 Jeffrey Williams of Brinllis, co. Brec., gent. to. 2 Mauld Whitney of Glasbury, co. Rad., widow. Indenture, being a lease for 99 years of that m. and lands in p's Glasbury and Bouchrood called Dolehure, lately occupied by Phillip Evan of Glasbury, and now in the occupation of Mauld Whitney at a yearly rent of £8 Consideration, £50. Witnesses: Hen. Havard, Richard Herbert of Llandevalley, Thomas Prichard of Glasbury, Hugh Whitney.

Opinion concerning a claim to certain funds forming part of the marriage settlement of the Rev. Richard Lloyd and Bridget, his wife [née Gwynne], both deceased.

The following undated material has been transferred to NLW MS 1444F: photograph of the pedigree of the Broughtons of Marchwiel, near Wrexham, bringing it down to about 1650 (formerly no. 395); transcript from "The life of George Fox" by Samuel M. Tauney, describing the Quaker's experiences in Tenby in 1657 (396); excerpt from a hearth tax roll, 1661, in the Public Record Office, in the hand of Mr Laws, giving the names of the more important inhabitants of Pembrokeshire (397); an account of a jollification on board the "Blast", commanded by Captain Stephen Martin, R.N., at Tenby, 5 Nov. 1696, in the autograph of Mr Laws (398); extract from the diary of Erasmus (afterwards Sir Erasmus) Philipps, uncle of the first Lord Milford, giving a description of the election of a member of Parliament for Haverfordwest, 5 Sept. 1727, in the hand of Mr. Egerton Allen (399); extract made by Mr Laws describing the call of two adventurers at Tenby, 1777 (400); fragment of a list of horses, giving sire and dam, bought by John Philipps Laugharne (401); poem in the autograph of L.E. L[andon] (402); an anecdote about R. Fenton, the historian of Pembrokeshire, in the hand of Jacob Richards (403); recipes for the cure of snake-bite, toothache, piles and rats, by John Philipps Laugharne of Orlandon, in the hands of Charles Hassell and Jacob Richards (404); account of the history of Sion House, Tenby, built by John Nash of Carmarthen who was called "The Apostle of Stucco", in the hand of Mr Laws (405); copy of a broadsheet, in the hand of Mr Laws, concerning the quarrel between William and Henry Richards of Tenby and the Rev. James Cousins, rector of Gumfreston, 1832 (406); photograph of a scurrilous placard published at Tenby in 1836, with notes by Mr Laws (407); copy of an Act of Parliament for the regulation of traffic in High Street and Market Street, Tenby, 1837, in the hand of Mr Laws (408); copy of a public notice, dated 2 Nov. [c.1839], for a Chartist meeting on Castle Hill, Tenby (409); extract from a case in the King's Bench, April 1820, between Dr Howell JP, captain in the Carm. Yeo. Cav., and Mr. Pawlett Williams, copied by Mr Laws (411); poem composed and written by G. D. Manby, the historian of St Davids, with a note by Mr Laws (412); note by Mr Laws on Agnes daughter of Griffith ap Rhys, son of Sir Rice ap Thomas (413); note on Mrs Shears' Recollections of Tenby in the first half of the 19th century, in the hand of Mr Laws (414); copy, in the hand of Mr Laws, of a ballad on the French invasion of Pembrokeshire (1797), which was taken down by the daughter of Mrs Ollin, landlady of the Pear Tree Inn, "from the lips of an old man living in the neighbourhood" and sent to Mrs John Leach (415); notes by Mr Laws on the Scourfield and Lost families, and an extract from Lurgard's history of England (416); genealogical notes on the Gower family of Glandovan (417); memorandum of what money was disbursed in re-building St Julians Chappel beginning 10 July 1699, copied by Charles Francis Egerton Allen from "the fly leaf at the end of a copy of Norris' 'Etchings of Tenby' lent to me by Reginald Ll. Allen" (419); notes on a lecture on geology (418); printed translation of the grant of lands to the mayor and corporation of Haverfordwest by Sir John Perrot of Haroldston, with many corrections and notes by Dr Henry Owen, [20 cent.] (420); newspaper cutting giving a list of the goods and chattels left in Haverfordwest by Richard II, with notes in the hand of Mr Laws (421); and genealogical notes on the Wogans, and Stokes of Hean Castle, and the devolution of that property to the present family of Lord Merthyr, [20 cent.] (422).

Undated drafts, fragments and copies.

These letters were written after the appointment of H. Hussey Vivian as trustee to the marriage settlement of his sister-in-law, on the death of a previous trustee, Lord Middleton. Count Gurowski de Wazele's family history is outlined in letter C2030-2. Most of the early letters (C2035-44) refer to the depositing of stock certificates with Coutts and Co., while later, the Count requests permission in letters C2048-2066, to sell his East India Railway Stock before it loses its value, and to transfer the money to other stock, for which a price guarantee (C2060) is received. Investment of legacies is discussed in letters C2034 and C2070.