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Mortgage 1805 for £300 by John Jones James, esq. 'of the city of London and Mate of the Ganges East India Man, eldest son named in the will of the late John James of Rhayader, gent., ... which John James was nephew and heir of James Jones, late R.N. gent.', of Bailey Bevan and Gwern vap Eynion, parish of Llanfihangel Helygen, co. Radnor. A bond of JJJ to John Williams; Surrender of the property 1817 to JJJ for repayment of capital with interest; Mortgage 1827 by JJJ of his lands in Llanfair Helygen for one year to Misses Catherine and Sarah James.

Papers, 1827-40, relating to the affairs of JJJ; includes a letter, 1827, from him to his mother; also an account of his funeral expenses when interred at the county church, St Helena, 22 Feb. 1837; notes that he died at sea in passage from Calcutta; gives his trading accounts with Messrs William Shand, and a list of articles at Rhaeadr belonging to JJJ, 1827-post 1837.

Letter from Catherine Jane James at Lee to her mother and father. She says she likes school very much and that Aunt Jane has been to see her.

Born 9 March 1789, at Rhaeadr, the son of Lt John James and Mrs Jane James, he was little more than a year old when his father died. Educated perhaps at a naval school (Woolwich?), the navy became his life, marrying his wife, Sarah Margaretta Symonds at St James's Church (now the Cathedral), Bury St Edmunds, on 28 Feb. 1833, while on shore leave. Horatio served as a midshipman on the Jason (1804-1808); as a master mate on the Ethalion (1808-1810), Marlborough (in 1810), Donegal (1810-1811), Poictiers (in 1811), Foudroyant (1811-1812); as a lieutenant on the Royal Sovereign (1813-1814), as first lieutenant on the Saracen (1814-1815), as lieutenant on the Antelope (1815-1819), as first lieutenant on the Eden (1822-1823), and the Surinam (1823-1825), as lieutenant on the Hyperion (1828-1830); then, as lieutenant-commander took command of the Surly cutter (1830-1831), the Viper schooner (1831-1834), and the Tartarus steam vessel (1834-1837). In 1841, he was given a sinecure, command of the sloop Blossom, enabling him to be promoted to the rank of commander. Praised for bravery in 1830, HJ was an accomplished artist and had a keen interest in politics. He died in London on 9 October 1850, and was buried at Rhaeadr on 14 October. (For a detailed account of the life and career of Horatio James, see no. 165). Mrs Sarah Margaretta James (1802-1889) was born in Bury St Edmunds on 16 April 1802, baptised 6 Sept. 1803 (at St James's Church). She was the daughter of John Symonds 'the younger' and Margaretta, née Twight (who married 30 April 1786, also at St James's). Sarah married HJ on 28 Feb. 1833, and died at Penralley on 29 Sept. 1889, aged 87. She was buried in Rhaeadr churchyard. (See also no. 1081). Arranged into papers relating to his naval service, 1795-c.1862 (166-504), family matters and personal affairs, 1790-1888 (505-530b), local affairs, 1758-1849 (531-559), the Gloucester, Aberystwyth & Central Wales Railway Co., 1845-1846 (560-570), political matters, 1758-1846 (570a-611), and Mrs Sarah James, 1757-1878 (612-625).

The Holy Bible (printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, for the Naval & Military Bible Society, 1834), the personal copy of HJ, bearing his signature in several places with the dates. (Presented to Dr Williams to place in the Library by Mr Bryan Lawrence).

Two copies.