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Indentures of lease and release, being a grant from John Heath Barber, gent., and Samuel Read, wheelwright, both of Hawarden, co. Flint, (executors of James Pemberton, deceased,) and Honoratus Leigh Thomas of Pwllycrochan, near Mochdrai, co. Denbigh, esq., by the direction of William Pemberton of Hawarden, yeoman, to Peter Dummert of Hawarden, butler of Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, bart., of a parcel of land (2r. 3p.) in the township of Broughton in the parish of Hawarden, co. Flint, formerly allotted out of waste land in the said township to Honoratus Leigh Thomas, and by him conveyed to the said James Pemberton, deceased; together with two cottages, etc., erected thereon. Consideration, £120. Witnesses: William Garner, clerk to Mr. Barker, solicitor, Chester; Edward Evans, Rhiw Bach, Llandrillo.

Valuation by John Davies of Mollington of a piece of land near Bretton in the township of Saltney, co. Flint, belonging to the trustees of the Chester and Northop Turnpike Road.

Declaration by Henry Potts of Chester, gent., clerk to the trustees of the turnpike road called The Chester and Northop District, that the parcel of land called Bretton Lake in the township of Bretton in the; parish of Hawarden, co. Flint, belonged to the said trustees; Witness: H. Kelsall, Master in Chancery.

Grant from George Fellowes of Pentrobin, co. Flint, pig merchant, to Sir Stephen Richard Glynne of Hawarden Castle, co. Flint, bart., of a piece of land (20r.) formerly part of a field called Long Meadow in the township of Pentrobin, co. Flint, together with a house and buildings erected thereon. Consideration, £250. Witnesses: Rich. Barker, solicitor, Chester; W. Worrall, his clerk.

Appointment by the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone of Carlton Gardens, co. Middlesex, and Catherine his wife, that the principal trust sums of £6666 13s. 4d., £2000, and £15000 mentioned in their prenuptial settlement, dated 18 July, 1839, should, after the death of the survivor of them, begin trust for the absolute benefit of their eldest surviving son who should be born more than four years before the death of his surviving parent, the said appointment being subject to a pow of revocation. Witnesses: Rich. Barker, solicitor, Chester; Gregory Burnett, agent, Hawarden.

Appointment by the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone of Hawarden Castle, co. Flint, one of H.M. Most Honourable Privy Council, and Catherine Gladstone his wife, of William Henry Gladstone of Hawarden, co. Flint, esq., and the Rev. Stephen Edward Gladstone of Hawarden Rectory, clerk, to be trustees of their marriage settlement dated 18 July, 1839, in the place of Sir Charles Alexander Wood, who was resigning his trusteeship. Witnesses: J. W, Spencer Lyttelton, 49 Hill St, London, gent.; Robert Smith butler, 16 James Buckingham Gate; Jno. Williams, solicitor: 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields; J. Currie Hanson, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, solicitor; Edward Hughes, Hawarden House, nr. Chester, butler; Harry Drew, Hawarden, clerk in Holy Orders.

Includes eight pieces of paper including (1) an announcement of an excursion on 23 June 1843 in aid of Whitefield Chapel Building Fund; (2) an announcement of sailings between Ipswich and London.

Includes a press cutting concerning the laying of the first stone of the parish church of Ramoan.

The date of the book itself is 1838 and it would seem as though one of the Glynne sisters had begun keeping it in that year, but most of the entries are notes written by Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, the 9th bart, between the years 1848 and 1851.

Includes a timetable of the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway.

Includes incidental references to W. E. Gladstone.

Comments are chiefly of historical and architectural interest. Included are three coloured prints, two of them continental churches.