Summary & Detailed Calendar

Villiers-Stuart Collection

NLI MSS

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Villiers-Stuart Papers (NLI): Summary List

NLI MSS 24600-24606 p.2 Fitzgerald and Grandison Estate and Financial Papers; c. 1607-1796 NLI MSS 24607-24641 p.4 th th 19 and 20 century Villiers-Stuart Estate and Financial Correspondence NLI MSS 24642-24681 Miscellaneous 19th century estate papers

p.8

NLI MSS 24682-24700 p.11 Political and personal papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart, Lord Stuart de Decies, and of his son and grandson, Henry Windsor and Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart; 1825-1902 NLI MSS 24701-24719 p.14 Title deeds and leases (1720, 1740-96), and Title deeds (1800-1881) NLI MSS 24720-24774 19th and 20th century leases

p.17

NLI MSS 24775-24779 Miscellaneous 19th century legal papers; 1820s-1880s

p.22

Detailed Descriptive Entry NLI MSS 24608 NLI MSS 24609

p.23

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FitzGerald and Grandison estate and financial papers c.1607-1796 NLI MSS/24600-24606 MS 24600

c.1607 - 1687

see also A, passim

Non-contemporary copies of four title deeds and leases present in the original, and in multiple copy in the Villiers-Stuart archive. MS 24601

1677

see also A/15

Fidelity bond from Edward May to Edward FitzGerald Villiers in connection with May’s appointment as agent and receiver for the estate of Edward FitzGerald Villiers’s wife, Katherine FitzGerald of the Decies. MS 24602

1740 – 1751

see also C/7

Three miscellaneous estate and business letters and the 1st Earl of Grandison, relating to the settlement of all his estates on the daughter of the late Viscount Villiers, the affairs of his property in and near Youghal, and his sale of the manor of Templemichael to Alderman Richard Dawson. MS 24603

1748

see also C/14

Letter to the 1st Earl of Grandison from his agent, Christopher Musgrave. MS 24604

1787

see also F/1

Map of part of the Mason estate in John Street, Waterford City. MS 24605

1764 – 1787

see also F/4

Three rentals: of the Grandison estate, the Grandison and Mason estates, and the Dromana estate, respectively.

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MS 24606

NLI MSS

1796

see also F/14

Bill of costs to the 2nd Earl Grandison.

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NLI MSS

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19th and early 20th century Villiers-Stuart estate and financial Correspondence NLI MSS 24607-24641 MS 24607

1802-1803

see also G/1

Two letters to Lord Henry Stuart from Coutts Trotter. MS 24608 – 24613

1803 – 1822

see also G/2; P/11

Business letters to Sir William Homan and others. (See detailed description at end of this document). MS 24608

1803 – 1809

Letters to Lord Henry Stuart from sundry London lawyers, the ex-Irish agent, Pierse Barron, etc. (see detailed description at end of this document). MS 24609

1806 – 1809

Letters to Sir William Homan from Lord Henry Stuart (see detailed listing at end of this document). MS 24610

1808 – 1810

Letters to Homan from Samuel Coopers of Killenure Castle, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and Ring, Dungarvan. MS 24611

1809 – 1810

Letters to Homan from Shapland Graves of Brookvale, Cappoquin, who appears to have been a sub-agent or local attorney, and one of whose letters mentions the possible appointment of Homan as agent to the Duke of Devonshire.

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MS 24612

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1809 – 1822

Letters to Homan from miscellaneous correspondents, mainly about bond and other debts of the Grandison/Villiers-Stuart family. MS 24613

1813 – 1829

see also P/57

Letters and papers of Homan about his own personal finances, including a conveyance concerning his property in the barony of Barretts, Co. Cork, 1813, letters to him from Farrers (his London solicitors), about the payment of the fortune of his wife, Lady Charlotte Homan (initially £8,500, plus a further £3,500 by testamentary bequest), 1818-1819, and papers about a power of attorney granted to Homan in connection with the affairs of the late [Countess] Macartney (Lady Charlotte Homan’s aunt), 1829. MS 24614/1-2

1809 – 1827

see also G/4; P/12

Two folders of letters to and from George Greene, together with three legal searchers against the 2nd Earl Grandison in which Greene was the attorney, and one bill of costs for £508 from Greene to the trustees of Henry Villiers-Stuart, a minor, “…as taxed between solicitor and client by Thomas Ball, Esq., one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery in Ireland”, starting in 1812. MS 24615

1829 – 1830

see also G/6; P/13

Letters to Henry Denehy from Patrick Smith, together with a rental of Coorue and Lyre. MS 24616

1825 – 1846

see also G/7; P/14

Papers concerning Lord Stuart’s Lawsuit with Sir H.W. Barron. MS 24617

1824 – 1826

see also G/8; P/15

Papers concerning Stuart’s lawsuit with P.G. Barron.

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MS 24618

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Blank in sequence

MS 24619-24625

1829 – 1850

see also G/9

Letters to Henry Denehy from Lord Stuart. MS 24626

1829 – 1831

see also G/11

Letters to Henry Denehy from Sir William Homan. MS 24627

1845 – 1848

see also G/12

Three papers concerning the purchase of Currahroche [in 1835], together with subsequent petitions and proposals from the tenants. MS 24628

1850 – 1854

see also G/13; P/16

Letters to Thomas Keane from miscellaneous correspondents. MS 24629

1822 – 1853

see also G/14; P/17

Miscellaneous letters and papers of Henry Denehy and Lord Stuart, including some letters to Lord Stuart from Messrs. Coutts. MS 24630

1847

see also G/16

Attested copy of a fill in Lord Stuart-v-Major W. L. Peard. MS 24631-24635

1847 – 1850

see also G/19

Letters to Henry Denehy from Sir Charles Shaw, notices and counternotices concerning Shaw’s defalcation, 1850, and legal case papers in Lord Stuart-v- Shaw.

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MS 24636

NLI MSS

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1834

see also G/20

Letter to Henry Denehy from William Villiers-Stuart. MS 24637

1842 – 1861

see also G/21

Papers of Henry Denehy and Lord Stuart about Mrs. Quinlan of Clonkerdin. MS 24638

1855 – 1886

see also G/22; P/19

Letters and papers of Laurence Denehy, including a few of Lord Stuart. MS 24639

1867 – 1893

see also G/23; P/20

Business letters and papers of Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart. MS 24640

1894 – 1908

see also G/24; P/21-22

Business letters and papers of Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart (and his agent, John Armit), including a large original bundle of letters to them from the local attorney/solicitor for the estate, John Verlin of Youghal. MS 24641

1894 – 1896

see also G/25; P/21

Letters to Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart from Messrs Barrington.

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Miscellaneous 19th century estate Papers NLI MSS 24642-24681 MS 24642-24649

1803 – 1878

Miscellaneous accounts, receipts, vouchers, etc., mostly to Sir William Homan and Thomas Keane. Includes four folders of receipts (mainly in letter form) to Homan from Messrs Coutts for remittances of rent on Lord Henry Stuart’s account, and subsequently on the account of the trustees of Henry Villiers-Stuart, a minor (24642/1-4); receipts and accounts of Homan from George Giles & Co. of Youghal, mainly in connection with the remitting of rent (24643); and vouchers mostly endorsed in the handwriting of Thomas Keane (24649). MS 24650/1-2

1808 – 1859

see also H/2; P/28

Two folders of tenants’ proposals, memorials, etc., mainly addressed to Sir William Homan. MS 24651-24657

1804-1816

Material relating to the Manseragh St. George estate. These papers are no longer with the Villiers-Stuart Collection. MS 24658

1818 - 1863

see also P/30

Miscellaneous legal and other papers – bonds, gamekeeper’s deputations, etc. – relating to the Villiers-Stuart estate. MS 24659

[1823] – 1849

see also H/5; N/3; P/73

Tithe applotments for the parishes of Ardmore and Clashmore, and one other later and unrelated list of tenants’ names. MS 24660

1861

see also H/7

Release concerning the payment for [Labouchere] drainage on sundry townlands of the Dromana estate. 8


MS 24661 – 24672

NLI MSS

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1802 – 1902

see also H/8/1; P/33; P35

Rentals and rent accounts of Dromana estate, including Grillaghs, Villierstown, Ballymolalla (MS 24664); Slievegrine (MS 24666); Killalan and the Waterford city property (MS 24671); and Kilcoran, Youghal (MS 24672). MS 24673

1850

see also H/8/3; P/34

Dromana workmen’s account book kept by one Alexander Wilson, and recording the cost of work on fences, the bridge, a coffin, the Pheasantry, etc. MS 24674

1885 – 1893

see also H/8/3; P/34

Dromana labourers’ accounts. MS 24675

[1820s-1880s]

see also H/9

Schedule of deeds MS 24676

1828 – 1890

see also H/10-11; P/37

Nine maps and surveys, some of parts of Slievegrine, some of other parts of the Co. Waterford estate of the Villiers-Stuart family, including a small booklet of 1888 containing survey tracings of the estate on one Major Chearnley (Kilcoony, Co. Waterford, etc.) MS 24677

1833 – 1876

see also H/13

Mss catalogue of books at Dromana, 1833, in the hand of [William VilliersStuart], and insurance policy on the contents of the house, 1876.

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MS 24678

NLI MSS

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1887 – c.1910

see also H/16; P/39

Miscellaneous Irish Land Commission sale papers. MS 24679

1908 – 1921

see also H/18; P/23

Accounts, receipts papers, and correspondence of the trustees who managed the estate during the minority of the late Ion H.F. Villers-Stuart, and of the then Dromana agent, Colonel S.F. Kirkwood. MS 24680

1923 – 1924

see also H/19

Miscellaneous estate papers of the late Ion H.F. Villiers-Stuart. MS 24681

1840s-1860s

Printed matter, principally a run of The Money Market Review, 1868-1869, but including other booklets and pamphlets, notably multiple copies of Instructions for the Small Farmers of Ireland on the Cropping and Culture of their Farms by James Clapperton, Agriculturish…(Dublin 1847).

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Political and personal papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart, Lord Stuart de Decies, and of his son and grandson, Henry Windsor and Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart, 1825-1902 NLI MSS 24682-246700 MS 24682-24689

1825-1833

see also I/1; P/40

Letters and papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart, Sir William Homan and Henry Denehy about the Co. Waterford election of 1826, mainly arising out of the subsequent litigation between Villiers-Stuart and Mrs. Rebecca Greene (widow of his attorney at the time of the election, George Greene, d.1828), over allegedly unpaid costs in connection with the election and with the drawing up of Slievegrine leases and the registering of Slievegrine and other freeholders before and after it; as follows: MS 24682

1825

Letters and papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart and Sir William Homan about the work-up to the election. MS 24683

1826

Letters and papers of Villiers-Stuart and Homan about the election. MS 24684

1826

Bill of costs submitted in 1829 by the executors of George Greene for expenses “…attendant upon the election of Henry V. Stuart Esq.” MS 24685

1826

Two lists of 633 Slievegrine tenants to whom leases were granted – some of them subsequent to the election, and therefore not all for electioneering purposes. MS 24686

1826-1831

Papers concerning the expenses incurred by George Greene before and during the election, including lists of leases, a schedule of the cost of stamps, and an affidavit of 1831 by Patrick Smith of the part taken by Greene in the actual election campaign; these papers all derive from the litigation between Villiers-Stuart and Greene’s executors.

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MS 24687

NLI MSS

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1828-1834

Letter to Henry Denehy (who succeeded Greene as Villiers-Stuart’s attorney) from Gabriel Stokes, Mrs. Rebecca Greene’s attorney in connection with Villiers-Stuart -v- Greene. MS 24688/1-4

1831-1834

Four folders of legal case papers in Villiers-Stuart –v- Greene. MS 24689/1-3

1825-1833

Bills of costs and copies of bills of costs from Greene to VilliersStuart; it was these which constituted the basis for the litigation. MS 24690-24692

1826-1866

Letters and papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart, Lord Stuart de Decies, concerning Co. Waterford local polities and administration, as follows: MS 24690

1826-[1830s]

Letters and papers of Henry Villiers-Stuart about local disturbances and law and order. MS 24691

1832

see also I/1; P/40

Bill of costs to Villiers-Stuart from Henry Denehy for registering freeholders since 1828. MS 24692

1859-1866

see also I/3; P/41

Printed electoral registers for the baronies of Decies within and without Drum, and copy of a letter from Lord Stuart to Sir John Keane, 1866. MS 24693

1872

see also I/4

Two letters to Lord Stuart from William Villiers-Stuart.

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MS 24694/1-2

NLI MSS

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1859-1868

see also I/5; P/44

Two folders of devotional exercises of Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, relating to the period when he was in orders. MS 24695

1872-1903

see also I/5; P/44

Personal correspondence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, and of their son, Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart. MS 24696

[nd]

see also I/8; P/46

Three fragmentary papers of Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, relating to his travels in Egypt. MS 24697

[1880s]

see also I/8; P/47

Two draft political addresses of Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, one of them justifying to the electors of East Cork his decision to stand for the constituency after his rejection by West Waterford. MS 24698

[1880s]

see also I/8; P/47

Newspaper cuttings, sent to Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart by an agency, concerning himself and Irish political matters in which he was interested. MS 24699

[1880]

see also I/; P/47

Political printed matter of Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, including a published defence of his political consistency. MS 24700

1903

Commission of Henry Charles Villiers-Stuart in the South of Ireland Yeomanry.

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Title deeds and leases, 1720 & 1740-1796, and title deeds, 18801881 NLI MSS 24701-24719 MS 24701

Aug.-Sep. 1787

see also J/27

Bonds, warrants of attorney and letters, concerning title to the Grandison and Mason estates, and in particular concerning the winding up of the Dawson indemnity term. MS 24702

1720

see also K/5

Lease from General William Stuart and Katherine, Viscountess Grandison, of Grange, Co. Waterford. MS 24703

1740-1742

see also K/8

Leases from the 1st Earl of Grandison of parts of the Grandison estate in Co. Waterford. MS 24704

1746

see also K/9


1750-1751

see also K/11; P/54


1778

see also K/15; P/56

Lease from the Countess Grandison of Ardsallagh, Co. Waterford.

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MS 24707

NLI MSS

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1790-1796

see also K/18

Leases from the 2nd Earl of Grandison of parts of his Co. Waterford estate. MS 24708

1802

see also L/2

Two non-contemporary copies of the settlement on the marriage of Lady Gertrude Amelia Villiers and Lord Henry Stuart. MS 24709

1824

see also L/8

Copy of a deed of bargain and sale in connection with a recovery of Henry Villiers-Stuart’s estates. MS 24710

1824-1825

see also L/9

Letters and papers of Sir William Homan concerning the purchase of Ballymulalla, mainly letters to Homan from the vendor, Edward Lee. MS 24711

1819-1824

see also L/810; P/58

Papers about the purchase of the Grillaghs. MSS 24712

1828

see also L/12

Papers and deeds about the exchange of property between Henry VilliersStuart and Col. Richard Trench. MS 24713

1828

see also L/14

Copy deeds and a legal opinion concerning the winding up of a trust term relating to the Villiers-Stuart estate.

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MS 24714

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1869-1881

see also L/16

Deeds and correspondence concerning the lands of Ballingown and the endowment of William Villiers-Stuart’s cadet line. MS 24715

1833

see also L/17

Copy of William Villiers-Stuart’s marriage settlement, and abstract of Henry Villiers-Stuart’s title. MS 24716

1826-1827

see also L/19

Re-settlement papers concerning the winding up of another trust term. MS 24717

1860s

see also L/22; P/60

Deeds and correspondence concerning the marriage settlement of the Hon. Pauline Villiers-Stuart and Sir Charles Wheeler Cuffe. MS 24718

1869-1872

see also L/23; P61

Copy of the settlement made on the marriage of Miss Le Poer [Henry Villiers-Stuart’s sister-in-law] and Colonel Gough, 1869, and deed of rentcharge from Lord Stuart de Decies, to Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, 1872. MS 24719

1849

see also L/24

Assignment of judgement from Hans Henry Hamilton to Charles VilliersStuart.

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19th and 20th century leases NLI MSS 24720-24774 MS 24720

1818-1873

see also M/3

Leases, with associated papers, of the Villiers-Stuart lands of Collinstown and Coolrake, Co. Kildare. MS 24721

1847

see also M/6

Conveyances of Villiers-Stuart property in Waterford City. MS 24722

1860

see also M/7

Correspondence and map in connection with the lawsuit between Lord Stuart de Decies and Alcock and Kennedy – also relating to property in Waterford City. MS 24723

1847-1899

see also M/9

Papers about Helvick fish-curing plant and coastguard station, 1847 and 1859 respectively, and a Helvick lease, 1899. MS 24724

1825

see also M/13

Slievegrine lease. MS 24725

1826

see also M/14

Slievegrine lease. MS 24726

1828

see also M/15

Two Slievegrine leases.

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MS 24727

NLI MSS

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1835

see also M/18

Two Slievegrine leases. MSS 24728-24774

1811-1910

Leases of Villiers-Stuart lands elsewhere in Co. Waterford, alphabetically arranged by townland or by froup of townlands, in bundles containing anything from 1 to 20 documents, and also including correspondence and other related papers as well as the leases, as follows: MS 24728

1906-1907

Aglish.

1903

Ardsallagh.

MS 24730

1895-1903

Aughnacurraveel

MS 24731

1910

Ballinamuck

MS 24732

1825

Ballinamult

MS 24733

1873-1895

Ballyinagoulmore

MS 24734

1886

Ballycrompane

MS 24735

1824-1828

Ballycullane

1825-1906

Ballycurrane/Ballycrane

MS 24737

1824

Ballyguiry

MS 24738

1823

Ballygunnermore

MS 24739

1844-1852

Ballyheeny

1825

Ballyillinane

see also M/22; P/65

MS 24729 see also M/23

see also M/25

MS 24736 see also M/26; P66

see also M/29

MS 24740

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MS 24741

1824-1850

Ballyleane

MS 24742

1847

Canty

MS 24743

1825

Carrigeen

1824-1825

Coolbagh

1846

Corrigantaggart

1888

Cotteen

1825

Craggs

1903

Currahroche

MS 24749

1909-1910

Curramoneen

MS 24750

1864

Curriheen

MS 24751

1825

Farnane

MS 24752

1827-1843

Glanwillima (and Tontigue)

MS 24753

1825

Grillagh

MS 24754

1897

Graigue

MS 24755

1848

Gurrane

1825

Gurtnadihy

see also M/52




MS 24747 see also G/3

MS 24748 see also M/36; G/12

see also M/37; P/67

see also L/10

see also M/41

MS 24756

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NLI MSS

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MS 24757

1888

Kerreen

MS 24758

1825-1866

Killmagabogue

MS 24759

1839-1858

Kilmurry

1854-1855

Knockane

MS 24761

1906

Knocknamoona

MS 24762

1824-1825

Knocknegerah

MS 24763

1841-1850

Lackensillagh

MS 24764

1825

Lickey

MS 24765

1828-1861

Lisarrow

1825-1893

Meelaharna

MS 24767

1902

Monameen

MS 24768

1886

Moneyvroe (and Scart)

MS 24769

1831-1832

Rathwhelan

MS 24770

1842-1844

Rusheen (and Kilcoleman)

MS 24771

1825-1895

Tinnock

MS 24772

1866

Twigg Island

MS 24773

1811-1905

Villierstown and Ballingown

see also M/44


see also M/26

see also M/27


see also M/250; P/68

see also M/54

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MS 24774

NLI MSS

Strand 2

1893-1896

see also M/60

Original bundle of grazing agreements. This has been left intact, although it could be broken down townland by townland.

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NLI MSS

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Miscellaneous 19th century legal papers, 1820s-1880s NLI MSS 24775-24779 MS 24775

1820s-1830s

see also N/1; P/71

Lawyers’ bills of cost, in connection with lawsuits which are not the subject of a separate section. MS 24776

1827

see also N/2; P/72

Legal case papers in Abraham Coates –v- Henry Villiers-Stuart. MS 24777

c.1823-1830s

see also N/3; P/73

Legal case papers concerning disputes over tithe composition on Slievegrine; the disputes can be reduced to three distinct lawsuits waged by Henry Villiers-Stuart against the Rev. Theobald Bourke, the Rev. Henry F. Williams, and the executors of the Rev. Ponsonby M. Carew. MS 24778

1822-1827

see also N/4

Legal case papers in the various lawsuits which Villiers-Stuart took in order to establish his title to Slievegrine. MS 24779

1841

see also N/7

Papers about the Youghal Harbour Bill.

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NLI MSS

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Detailed Description Entry MS 24608

1803-1809

Letters to Lord Henry Stuart from sundry London lawyers, the ex-Irish agent, Pierse Barron, etc, including; 27 Feb. 1809 Pierse Barron, Fahagh, to Lord Henry Stuart, re-directed to Foremark, Derby (Stuart’s house, leased from Sir Francis Burdett, a connection of Coutts Trotter, in succession to The Grange, Alresford); “I was very much surprised some time back on being served with proceedings to recover arrears alleged to be due by the late Mr. Dalton and me out of Coolrue mountain. I believe your Lordship is acquainted with the motive that influenced me to become tenant to the premises, viz. a wish on my part to make a commencement in letting a large and then unprofitable mountain, by which means in time a considerable increase would be made to my Lord Grandison’s and his heirs’ rentroll. You must also be acquainted with the subsequent attacks that were made on the occupying tenants, which were repeated at different times, and terminated in the complete destruction of their houses and improvements, the place having become a commonage for the last three or four years, and no rent paid out of it. All this occurred without any attempt on the part of your Lordship and those acting for you to keep me and my tenants in peaceable and quiet possession. Under these circumstances, I cannot believe that the proceedings alluded to war with your Lordship’s knowledge. Therefore, [I] request to hear on the subject without delay, as I understand, if a stop is not put to the proceedings, it will terminate in a record at our next assizes.”

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MS 24609

NLI MSS

Strand 2

1806-1809

Letters to Sir William Homan from Lord Henry Stuart, including: 6 May 1806 Lord Henry Stuart, Grange, Alresford, to [Sir William Homan]. “…With respect to the mountains, I do not know what we can do. The papers we have hitherto found respecting them seem rather to entitle us to eject others than settle it ourselves. The first act towards cultivating any part, quietly perhaps, should be, to prove we can prevent others from doing it. The country, by your account, seems in a very barbarous state… Nobody can feel, my dear Sir William, more concern than myself at your present position, having been turned out without recompense after your services and all the promises that had been made. Lord Hardwicke has treated you most infamously. I wish my father’s interference may obtain you something, but he is a disappointed man, and from having kept aloof so long, has been passed over with pointed neglect. I have not seen him or heard from him for many months, but have this from some of the friends of his party…” 6 July 1806 Lord Henry Stuart, Grange, Alresford, to Homan, Baggot Street, Dublin. “…I have not heard from you relative to the account in March last. Being particularly desirous of knowing what we have to expect, I beg you will let me know how it stands. I have not heard from Messrs Coutts that you have remitted more than £2,000, a circumstance of inconvenience and disappointment to us. Pray inform me of the causes of this unusual delay, with the state of the arrears, and when they will be paid. After [William] Baron’s ungemtlemanlike conduct, I shall always be averse to his keeping the Rock house on any terms. I forgot to send you a copy of his letter to me, which I now enclose. I am still of opinion, however, that it would be better to get rid of him by allowing some of his unreasonable charges than having recourse to the law. I wish I could hear of the prospect brightening up for yourself, and that you had a positive promised of some lucrative situation. Have you any further hopes on this subject? I am afraid, when my sister wrote to me the other day, you were in the same horrible uncertainty.”

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NLI MSS

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29 Sep 1807 Lord Henry Stuart, Grange, Alresford, to Homan, Dromana. “…[His two last letters] contained a request that you would not remit any of the rents till such time as you heard from me, as I expect that, in consequence of the sale of some lands, we shall have to pay immediately £4,000 to Barron. On being assured of the payment here, which I shall know positively in a few days, you will be written to either by me or Mr. Peacock, to pay the amount of what you collect to Barron. But I earnestly request you to lose not a moment in getting the rents in, as in case of this not being punctually done, they may be instantly remitted, as I have much overdrawn at Coutts, supposing that the money I expect to [sic – would] be paid to the day. It being raised by the trustees for a particular purpose, to pay debts, it cannot be carried to our account till your receipts from Barron stand in Coutt’s books in lieu of remittances. When this is settled, I mentioned to hope that you would draw upon me for £50, and that as we have taken this place on for another year, you would come with my sister and stay some months with us…” 31 Oct 1808 Stuart, Foremark, Derby, to Homan, Dromana. “…I feel myself happy and ready to be your security to any amount you wish. I wish I could manifest my opinion of your kindness and attention, and my entire confidence in you, by some more solid mark…”

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