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Answer of commissioners appointed to enquire into a house in Clunbury proposed to be given as a double benefaction for the residence of the minister.

Instructions by Edward, Lord Clive, Baron Clive of Walcot, Shropshire, and Baron Clive of Plassey in the kingdom of Ireland concerning his sons' education and the management of his estate, household, and accounts by his attorneys and John Probert, his agent.

Case concerning the power to raise jointures for wives and portions for younger children on the Powis Castle and Oakley Park estates.

Order in the Chancery suit between Edward, Earl of Powis, and John Probert, esq., plaintiffs, and Mary Hopkins, widow, Isaac Hughes, and Richard Hopkins, defendants, concerning the tithes of hay in t's Hisland, Wrothen, and Aston in p. Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recovery suffered between William Jones, gent., plaintiff, and Thomas Barry of the city of Dublin, gent., tenant, of m's and lands in Co. Clare, Ireland. Copy.

Act for vesting the estate late of William, Marquis of Powis, dec., in Northamptonshire, in trustees, to enable them to convey the same to the respective purchasers thereof; and for impowering the present Earl and Countess of Powis to make leases of the estate in co. Mont. .... Printed.

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Account of the estates purchased in 1768-9 by Lord Clive in co. Mon. since the purchase of the lordships of Usk and Trelech, including estates in Penalt and the lordships of Gwornernesney and Treduon and an estate in Kilgorwck.

Interrogatories administered in a cause in the Court of Exchequer between William, Earl of Rochford, complainant, and John Noell, esq., defendant, concerning the manor lordship of Strata Marcella and lands and tmt's belonging thereto in the towns, fields and p's of Street Marshall, Poole and Guilsfield, co. Mont., in mortgage to defendant, the yearly value of the manor and lands, etc., the attornment of tenants to defendant, tenants' rents, repairs, taxes assessed doubly as if it had been a Roman Catholic estate, etc., with depositions of witnesses.

Answer of James Baker, one of the defendants to the bill of revivor and amended supplemental bill of complaint of John Beard, gent., Henrietta, his wife, called the Lady Henrietta Beard, and Barbara Herbert, an infant, touching claims on the Powis estate.

1 Richard Bannister of Dent, Yorkshire, surgeon and apothecary, administrator of the goods and chattels of Edward Bannister, late of the Inner Temple, London, gent., dec., who survived Charles Scales, late of London, goldsmith, also dec. 2 Dame Teresa Mostyn of Greenfield, co. Flint, widow, relict of Sir George Mostyn, late of Talacre, co. Flint, bart, dec. 3 Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis. 4 John Allen Pusey of Pusey, Berkshire, esq., and William Goostrey of p. St Martin, Ludgate, London, gent., trustees of William, last Marquess of Powis, dec. 5 Jacob, Lord Viscount Folkstone, committee of the estate of Anne Des Bouverie, spinster, a lunatic. Assignment of a lease of commons and waste lands in lordship or the manor of Mochnant, co. Mont., wherein are contained several names of lead and the mines there. Draft.

1 Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis. 2 John Allen Pusey of Pusey, Berkshire, esq., and William Goostrey of p. St Martin, Ludgate, London, gent., the only surviving acting trustees of the will of William, the last Marquess of Powis, dec. 3 Jacob, Lord Viscount Folkestone, Baron of Longford, committee of the estate of Anne ?Bonveice, spinster, a lunatic. Mortgage for £29,000 of the Powis estate. Draft.

Commission (copy) out of the Exchequer to examine witnesses upon interrogatories touching the demesne land called Beander lands near Newtowne, co. Mont., within the lordship of Kedewyn, late in the tenure of John Price, esq., the water mill of Beander, fences, woods and encroachments in the demesnes, and the dispute between Thomas Powell, esq., farmer of the demesne, plaintiff, and John Price, esq., defendant, and the return thereof. See Emyr Gwynne Jones (ed.) Exchequer Proceedings concerning Wales, p. 289.

Answer of Arthur Wever, esq., and Thomas Blayney, gent., two of the defendants to the bill of complaint of William, Lord Powis, touching the courts and tourns which the defendant Wever held in co. Mont. during his office as sheriff, 1666-7. Partly faded. Incomplete.

Answer of Percy, Lord Powys, and William Herbert, esq., two of the defendants to the bill of complaint of Sir Mathew Price, bart, touching Beander lands in the lordships lordships Kerry and Kedewen, co. Mont. See Nos 9359-81 dated c. 1661-75.

Answer of Sir Mathewe Price, bart, one of the defendants to the information of the Attorney General by the relation of Percy, Lord Powis, and Sir Phillip Palmer, kt, touching the dispute between John Williams, lessee for Percie, Lord Powys, and Sir Mathew Price of Newtowne Hall, co. Mont., relating to title and rent of land in co. Mont.

Account of the arrival to Montgomery on 24 March 1768 of Sir Richard Perrot (accompanied by Commodore Glinn), formerly member for Penrin, Cornwall, to offer himself as candidate to oppose Mr Clive in the election on 25 March, his welcome by the burgesses and ringers, his treating of them with drink and a roasted sheep, and his sudden disappearance two hours or thereabouts before the 'night of their mistaken election'.

See Nos 9375-81 dated c. 1661-75.

Bill Of Complaint in the Court of Chancery of James Travers, John Allen Pusey, and William Goostrey, the only acting executors and trustees appointed by the will of William, late Marquis of Powis, son of William, late Marquis of Powis, dec., against Francis Herbert, Corbyn Morris, Lady Mary Herbert, Barbara Herbert, John Beard, and Lady Henrietta Beard, his wife, concerning the wills, estate, and debts of William, Marquis of Powis and his son.