| Description | Mainly a record of Court ceremonial, balls, dinners, military parades, obituary notices of distinguished soldiers. More noteworthy to the ordinary reader are :
(i) A list of "decorations on the road from Audlem to Combermere on the arrival of Lord and Lady Combermere after their marriage-Oct. 1838". This was the third Lady Combermere (Mary Woolley, only child of Robert Gibbings Grove, co. Limerick)
(ii) The Duke of Wellington's last invitation to a ball (14 May 1852)
(iii) "Fire on the other side of the River Thomas and the Sparks are falling on the Tower" 22 June 1861. Lord Combermere was Constable of the Tower
(iv) "Programme of the State opening of the exhibition of the works of industry of all nations" [The Great Exhibition] 1 May 1851
(v) Appeal of Thomas Waghorn, 26 January 1848
(vi) Aspects of the theory of mesmerism and a loud interruption by the Duke of Wellington, 1847
(vii) Interesting songs in honour of Lord Combermere
(viii) A communication from the Ladies of Llangollen
(ix) Letter from William Pitt the Younger, 24 October 1792
(x) Abstract of the Bills paid by Yeoman Porter Hughes charged to Lord Combermere's account, 30 June 1861. Total £64 10. 6.. Examined and found "all in accordance with the old Custom of the Tower"
(xi) Letters from Annie D. Griffin to Lord Combermere re. dark doings at Stoneleigh Church and Bridge in 1814 - claim to the Lordship of Leigh |