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Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Thomas Morgan as custos rotulorum of Breconshire. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from Cross-grove's News, January [1730], including an account of the death the previous 11 Dec. and burial of Jane Wenham of Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, the last woman in England to be condemned to death for witchcraft, although subsequently pardoned.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of William Morgan of Tredegar as custos rotulorum for Breconshire. Great seal attached. The box is lined with printed pages relating to rainy weather from signs in the clouds, rainbows and mists.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Edward Hughes, esq., as advocate general or judge martial. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from the Whitehall Evening Post for Tuesday-Thursday 6-8 Dec. [1726], and Thursday-Saturday 15-17 June 1727.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Edward Hughes, esq., as advocate general or judge martial. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from 'An act for explaining a clause in an act made at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the two and twentieth of November, in the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign lord king William the Third, intituled, an act for the better security of his majesties royal person and government.'

Appointments

The file comprises appointments of John Morgan of Tredegar, esq., as custos rotulorum of Monmouthshire, 16 July 1702, and of Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, baron Tredegar, as lord lieutenant of Breconshire in the place of George Charles, marquis Camden, deceased, 27 Sept. 1866. Great seal attached to both deeds.

Appointment

The file comprises appointments of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, viscount Tredegar, as lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Monmouthshire in the place of Ivor John Caradoc, baron Treowen, deceased, and a key to the box. Great seal attached to the appointment as lord lieutenant.

Letters patent

The file comprises letters patent granting to Godfrey Charles Morgan, baron Tredegar, of the title and honour of Viscount Tredegar of Tredegar; two copies: pro-forma and presentation. Great seal attached to the presentation copy.

Appointments

The file comprises appointments of Godfrey Charles Morgan, baron Tredegar, as custos rotulorum for Monmouthshire, 22 June 1899, and lord lieutenant of Monmouthshire, 23 June 1899. Great seal attached to both deeds.

Exemplification of letters patent

The file comprises an exemplification by James II, dated 30 Nov. 1687, of letters patent under the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster, 8 Dec. 1631, to William Collins and Edward Fenn of the farm of the manor of Brecon, as per contract under the great seal dated 7 May 1630 between the King and John Heydon, kt, William Russett, kt, Randolph Freeman, esq., alderman of the city of London, and Charles Harbord of London, esq., in consideration of £20,000. Great seal attached.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, baron Tredegar, as custos rotulorum for Breconshire, and a key to the box, which also locks box P 2/4. Great seal attached.

Morgan grant of arms

The file comprises a royal licence, 16 Nov. 1792, that Sir Charles Gould of Tredegar, Dame Jane his wife and their son Charles Gould of Ruperra, and the heirs male of Charles Gould the son may take the surname and arms of Morgan, pursuant to the will of John Morgan, esq., deceased, and a grant, 15 Dec. 1792, of the arms of Morgan from Garter and Clarenceux kings of arms to Sir Charles Morgan, bart, formerly Sir Charles Gould, and to Dame Jane Morgan his wife, formerly Dame Jane Gould. Armorial seals of Sir Isaac Heard, Garter king of arms, and Thomas Lock, Clarenceux king of arms, attached to the grant.

Letters patent

The file comprises letters patent creating a baronet of Sir Charles Gould of Tredegar, esq., advocate general and judge martial, a man eminent for family, inheritence, estate and integrity of manners, and who furnished a sufficient aid to supply thirty foot soldiers for three years for the security of the Ulster plantations. Broken great seal attached.

Mynors grant of arms

The file comprises a royal licence, 14 Sept. 1787, that Peter Rickards of Evanjobb, Herefordshire, esq., and his issue may take the surname and arms of Mynors, pursuant to the will of Mary Morgan, deceased, late wife of Charles Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and a grant, 6 Dec. 1787, of the arms of Mynors from Garter and Clarenceux kings of arms to Peter Rickards Mynors formerly Peter Rickards. Armorial seals of Sir Isaac Heard, Garter king of arms, and Thomas Lock, Clarenceux king of arms attached to the grant.

Grant

The file comprises a grant to Sir Charles Gould of the offices of chamberlain of the borough of Brecon and of the counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire and Glamorgan, steward of the lordships and manors of Malláen, Caeo and Mabelfyw, Mabudrud, Maenordeilo, Cetheiniog and the forests of Glyncothi and Pennant, steward of the possessions of the dissolved monastery of Talley in Carmarthenshire, steward of the manors of 'Mavon otherwise Mavonion' [?=Mebwynion], Gwynionydd Uwch Cerdin, Is Coed Is Cerdin, Genau'r-glyn, Blaenarian, Silian and Tal-y-sarn in Cardiganshire, and steward of the lordship of Brecon, in the place of the grant of 7 Sept. 1779. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from Natural history, vol. vi, pp. 153 and 160, relating to volcanoes and earthquakes in Italy and Indonesia.

Grant

The file comprises a grant to Sir Charles Gould of the offices of chamberlain of the borough of Brecon and of the counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire and Glamorgan, steward of the lordships and manors of Malláen, Caeo and Mabelfyw, Mabudrud, Maenordeilo, Cetheiniog and the forests of Glyncothi and Pennant, steward of the possessions of the dissolved monastery of Talley in Carmarthenshire, steward of the manors of 'Mavon otherwise Mavonion' [?=Mebwynion], Gwynionydd Uwch Cerdin, Is Coed Is Cerdin, Genau'r-glyn, Blaenarian, Silian and Tal-y-sarn in Cardiganshire, and steward of the lordship of Brecon, in the place of George Rice, deceased. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages 498, 511, 514 and 527 of a work on economic and military politics, referring to Great Britain, France, the Dutch and Gibraltar.

Gould grant of arms

The file comprises a grant of the arms from Garter and Clarenceux kings of arms to Charles Gould of Stretham, Cambridgeshire, judge advocate general and MP for Brecon, and the descendents of his father, King Gould, esq., deceased. Armorial seals of Thomas Browne, Garter king of arms, and Ralph Bigland, Clarenceux king of arms, attached.

Letters patent

The file comprises letters patent, being a demise to Charles Gould, esq., of the manors of Wymondham and East Dereham in Norfolk for a reversionary term of nine years from 5 March 1797, chargable with the annual payment of £30 for six old poor persons of the town of Thetford in Norfolk and Suffolk, and an undated memorandum, 'One sixth part of the interest in this lease is held by me, as executor in trust, under Mrs Shaw's will, for the benefit of Lady Byron &c'a - Charles Gould.' Royal seal attached.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Charles Morgan, esq., as custos rotulorum for Breconshire. Fragment of a great seal attached. The box is line with pages from The new universal magazine, Oct. 1752, pp. 549-50, and from an encyclopædia, Anglo-Saxons to Animal Spirit.

Appointment

The file comprises an appointment of Thomas Morgan, esq., as custos rotulorum for Breconshire. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from the Proceedings of the Political Club, Sept. 1754, pp. 391-9, and The London magazine, Aug. 1749, pp. 344-8.

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