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Plas Power Estate Records and Papers Series
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Industrial records,

Legal and financial records of lead, coal and other mineral workings on land belonging to the Plas Power estate, including land that at one time or another belonged to the Chirk estate.

Arranged in broad chronological order, and also by subject.

Legal cases,

Papers relating to legal suits involving the Myddelton and Lloyd families and their estates. The cases were heard in a variety of courts, including Chancery, Great Sessions, Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessions, manorial courts baron and leet, and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Local government,

Administrative records relating to the work of public bodies, including the Church of England but not including law courts, apparently accumulated by the Myddelton, Lloyd and FitzHugh families in the course of their public duties. Bonds and wills have been filed here because it has not been possible to separate those that concern the Plas Power estate from those that do not.

Rentals,

Rentals of the Plas Power estate, together with some from the Chirk estate and associated properties. Mary Myddelton's estates in Denbighshire were acquired with her purchase of Plas Power in 1732, by which time she was already in possession of the bulk of her estates in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire and Middlesex; other estates were added later.

Vouchers and accounts,

Bills, receipts, accounts and promissory notes relating to payments for: estate maintenance; domestic goods and services (notably food, clothing, medicine, etc.); agricultural equipment, produce and services, particularly work by craftsmen, tradesmen and labourers; rents; interest on loans; personal allowances; charities; loans and mortgages; legal fees; and industrial activities. Most of these records relate to the Plas Power estate, but the earlier ones are from Chirk, while some others derive from Mary Myddelton's household at Croes Newydd, and others from the Knebworth estate in Hertfordshire.

Tenants,

Records of tenants' duties and of communications with tenants, including matters concerning to whom rents should be paid, but not including the rents themselves or personal correspondence.

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