Record

Document Reference	Ne C 8653/2
Title	Letter from John W. Ponsonby, Baron Duncannon of Bessborough [later 4th Earl of Bessborough], Bessborough House, County Kilkenny, Ireland, to H. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; 26 Oct. 1836
Date	26 October 1836
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Says he cannot send anything that will be satisfactory to the Duke of Newcastle [regarding mineral rights over the Hafod estate]; gives assurances that he is above political influence; refers to a report made by a surveyor in 1831 in which the Crown's mineral rights were stated to be most valuable and that there was no possibility of putting a value on the property; thinks 'no public Board could be justified in alienating such a property'. Enclosed in Ne C 8653/1.
Term	estate business, Hafod estate
	mineral rights
	Crown rights

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA900	Clinton; Henry P.F. Pelham- (1785-1851); 4th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne	1785-1851
NA9717	Ponsonby; John W. (1781-1847); 4th Earl of Bessborough; Viscount Duncannon Home secretary 1834-5	1781-1847
NA6068	Lamb; H. William (1779-1848); 2nd Viscount Melbourne; M.P., Home Secretary 1830-4, P.M. 1834 and 1835-41	1779-1848