Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [273] 590. ff. 32-37. Copies of correspondence between the earl of Pembroke, lord viscount Mountstuart, lord North and lord Camden concerning the grant of the barony of Cardiff of Cardiff Castle ; 1776. The point that arose upon the grant of the barony of Cardiff of Cardiff Castle to viscount Mountstuart in 1776 cannot be better stated than by an extract from the first letter in this collection. The earl of Pembroke writes “ I am sorry to be under the neces- sity of interfering with your Lordship in the choice you have made of the barony by which I hear you are to take your seat in the house of peers; but as I am in possession of that barony, the king cannot, I am assured, grant it to another person, nor could I resign it, was I inclined to do so. If, therefore, your lordship claims to sit by that barony, I flatter myself that you cannot blame me, if, in justice to myself and family, I protest against it; and I beg leave to submit it to your consideration whether, in case your present patent is not altered, you may not be forced to have a new one of later date than the present creation.” The title remained with viscount Mountstuart, whose descendant the present marquess of Bute is also baron Cardiff of castle Cardiff.