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List of irrecoverable arrears relating to the County Mayo estate, containing approximately 180 entries. There are columns for the number in the ledger; the tenant's name; name of the holding; arrears due; period when due and observations. The observations' column is filled in for most entries and gives the reason why the arrears was irrecoverable, for example expiration of the lease, death of the tenant, insolvency and emigration. Many of the tenants were ejected. An arrear of £4.17.9, due in Nov 1829 for Bridge House, Castlebar, was allowed to Pat Murphy when he surrendered the plot for the improvement of the bridge. Includes pencil annotation 'Wills of Lord Lucan' in the cover sheet.

Printed copy of a letter, dated 6 Mar 1847, from George Charles, 3rd Earl, Laleham, Chestsey, to Rt. Hon. Sir George Cary, Bart., [Home Secretary], '(presented in pursuance of an Address dated 22 March 1847)' [to the House of Lords?]. The Earl repudiates Mr Otway's [Caesar George Grey, Inspector of the Poor Law Commissioners] testamony relating to government assistance for Poor Law Unions and 'Seven hundred occupations improperly charged to me in the Westport Union' through faulty rate books. Instead of pressing him to pay the Poor Law Commissioners, Otway should be demanding a 'legislative remedy' to the problem of immediate lessors [torn and fragile]

Letter from George Charles, 3rd Earl to the Vice-Guardians, Castlebar Union, relating to a lease for nine acres of ground on which they wish to construct temporary buildings. He wishes to protect his family and the inhabitants of Castlebar from having a colony of paupers there in the future.

Letter from George Charles, 3rd Earl, Hanover Sq., to E[dward T. B.] Twistleton esq., [Poor Law Chief Commissioner} relating to the Poor Law Commissioners inadequate answer to his letters. He writes that 'if the state of law relating to immediated lessors or mis-called lessors was not as I state, I should have been so informed'. He refers to the 'gross and absolutely monsterous injustice of the act' [Poor Law Extension Act, June 1847] and that the Home Secretary would never have allowed it leave the House of Commons if he had been made aware of its injustice by the Poor Law Commissioners.

This section covers some aspects of the affairs of the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Lucan in Ireland during the nineteenth century, mainly consisting of letters, but also including newspaper cuttings, legal opinions, legal costs, a report and a pamphlet. The material concerns such subjects as elections, the Act of Union, financial matters, the establishment of a police force on Innisturk, a court case with James Simson of Cloonagashel, Ballinrobe and local affairts in Castlebar. Letters from the agent in Castlebar document the build up to the 1826 election, when [George Charles] Lord Bingham, was returned as one of the two MPs for Co. Mayo. Two disputes of George Charles, who became third Earl, is also recorded. The first dispute was with his former agent St Clair O'Malley, which resulted in the dismissal of them both as magistrates in 1842. The second dispute, during the Famine years, was with the Poor Law Commissioners over the payment of poor rate and the failure of the Commissioners over the payment of poor rate and the failure of the Castlebar Board of Guardians to collect the rate. Copies of George Charles, 3rd Earl's lettersto his agent Mr. Young of Castlebar in the 1860s are to be found in P38/32/1, which also contains other letters relating to the militia, elections and other matters in Co. Mayo.

Papers relating to an altercation between George Charles 3rd Earl and St Clair O'Malley in the Petty Sessions Court, Castlebar on 22 Oct 1842, which resulted in both of them forfeiting their positions as magistrates. The Earl took the case to the House of Lords in August 1843, where it created quite an amount of debate. The Duke of Wellington eventually settled the matter and both parties were subsequently restored to the magistracy in October 1843. The printed copies of correspondence were produced for the Houses of Parliament and contain copies of letters, newspaper extracts and plans of the courthouse. They also include documents relating to St Clair O'Malley at the time of the 1832 election in Castlebar.