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Small bundle of family settlements, the deeds of 1868 being a sequel to the 3rd Earl’s marriage settlement of 1836 [see E/39], the deeds of 1870 together constituting the settlement made on the marriage of the 4th Earl to the Hon. Frances Cassandra Hawke [see H/114].

Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr: the Castle – his youthful recollections of it, extensions to it 1867-72 [see also M/25], a magazine portrait of his way of life there, 1898, and magazine obituaries of him, 1908; an incident which took place on the road between Banagher and Parsonstown and in which the 4th Earl and his party were stopped and temporarily put in gaol by a drunken R.I.C. man, 1868; the Parsonstown Barracks, 1869, 1899 and N.D.; the Parsonstown Town Commission and Commissioners, 1870 and 1885; admissions to the demesne of privileged locals, 1876-1910; and one of the bridges in the Birr Castle demesne, and the Rivers Brosna and Camcor, 1880 and 1896. The correspondents include Gladstone, W.E. Forster and Lords Strathnairn and Roberts. The sub-section also includes a small account book recording local subscriptions to the Parsonstown Defence Association, the Property Defence Association, the legal fund of the Irish Land Committee, and the Field and Rossmore Testimonials, c.1882.

Box containing six miscellaneous letters and papers of or about junior branches of the Parsons family, [all of them probably the children of the Hon. Laurence Parsons, youngest brother of the 3rd Earl – see J/29], including an epitome of the settlement made on the marriage of one of the Hon. Laurence Parsons’s daughters, 1878; together with numerous case papers and court orders concerning the lunacy of the Hon. Laurence Parson’s eldest son, Capt. Laurence Hardress Hector Parsons (d. 1924), 1897-1924.

Letters and papers, mainly of the 4th and 5th Earls, concerning the marriage settlement (1906) of Lady Muriel Parsons/Grenfell, daughter of the 4th Earl, with subsequent, related papers. [Not in chronological order. See also H/114.]