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Letters mainly from W.W. Wynne of Wynne, Holme and Wynne, Lincolns Inn, to Rev. George Williams, with one reply from Longueville and Co., concerning financial issues over mortgaged property in Llanfair [?Caereinion], namely Pentre Farm, Brynglas and Erw Wenith, 1901.

Title deeds mainly relating to properties in the township of Mathrafal [parish of Llangynyw], Montgomeryshire, 1582-1697. Most of the deeds concern properties purchased by Evan Meredith, which descended to his son David Evans. They include the marriage settlements of David Deckyn and Jane vch Thomas ap Ieuan 1582, and of John Deacon the younger and Alice vch Robert Taylor, 1624; a deed of sale by John Deacon and family to Evan Meredith of messuages in Mathrafal and Cynhinfa, including a walk mill, 1640; a mortgage by David Evans to Thomas Richards of a ‘Meas-place’ or ancient tenement called Tomkis Tenement and lands (named) in the township of Mathrafal, 1690, which had been conveyed [c. 1650] by Thomas Benion and Sara his wife to Evan Meredith, dec.; a mortgage by Thomas Richards to John Edwards of ?Roxington, Salop, as security for the payment of arrears of rent on a capital messuage in Llannerchrochwel, 1695; an assignment of the mortgage of Tomkis Tenement and its lands by Thomas Richards, then of Moedog, to John Harris of Stretton, Salop, 1697; and a mortgage by John Harris (who had purchased the property from the heir of David Evans) as security for the payment of £150 due to Thomas Richards, 1697. Other evidence of the debts of David Evans comprise an assignment in 1677 of premises in Hirnant and Trefedryd which he had previously mortgaged to David Charles; and assignments of two judgements obtained against him, 1691 and 1694. The file also contains a conveyance by Henry Smith of Yockleton, Salop, to William Harries of Alberbury, of Whittiniacks Coppys and the Banckcroft, Yockleton, 1610.

Original bundle of vouchers labelled ‘Mr Wynn’s receipts’ recording the receipt of payments from Farr and Pickering on account of coal, by Ellis Wynne for Plas Issa Company, and for Farr, Wynne and Jones, 1814-1827.

Papers relating to the election of a member to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Montgomery, 1877, in which the candidates were Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest Viscount Castlereagh and Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy. The file contains a printed register of persons entitled to vote, listing the boroughs and polling districts of Llanfyllin, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Montgomery, Newtown and Welshpool, 1877, accompanied by vouchers and bills for election expenses, and letters mainly requesting and acknowledging payments, enclosed in an issue of the Mid-Wales Telegraph & Observer, and Cambrian General Advertiser, 21 July 1877, labelled ‘Election Expenses’

An address by William Robert Maurice Wynne of Peniarth to the electors in the Merioneth election, 1868.

Bundle in original wrapper labelled ‘Meifod leaseholds and conveyance to A.W. Wynn’ containing a conveyance by the trustees of the late Evan Ellis of Meifod to Thomas Owens of Frondeg of the Triangle Field near Meifod for the residue of a term of years created by the will of John Humphreys, 1836; successive assignments of the leasehold by Thomas Jones and David Davies to Rev. Levi Rees Jacob, vicar of Llanllugan, 1869, to William Evans, 1869, and to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn of Coedymaen, 1871, with a schedule of deeds, 1881; and a conveyance by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn of his estate for life to his son Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn in a messuage and lands called Penygraig or Tynygraig in the township of Peniarth and parish of Meifod, 1891.

Title deeds relating to the estate of Mathrafal in the parish of Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire, 1785-1814. The file includes an agreement between William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse, Salop, and Thomas Owen[s] of Gaer, Meifod, for the sale of Mathrafal, 1785; a copy release by William Mostyn Owen to John Humffreys Jones of Mathrafal and several other mortgaged premises mainly in the parish of Llanfechain, 1787; deeds for two purchases by Elizabeth Owens of Gaer, firstly from George Edward Henry Arthur Earl of Powis, of pieces of land in the tenancy of William Owen, 1786, and secondly from William Mostyn Owen, with the agreement and at the request of Thomas Owens, with John Humffreys Jones of Llanfyllin acting as trustee for the purchase, 1787; attested copy of the will of Elizabeth Owen, then of Meifod, devising Mathrafal to her grandson Thomas Owen Jones 1806; a printed ‘Act for inclosing lands in the manor of Caereinion Iscoed in the county of Montgomery’ [1810]; a release by John Whitticase of Guilsfield to Thomas Owen Jones of an annuity charged on Mathrafal, 1813; and a mortgage and bond by Thomas Owen Jones to Bruce, Simpson and Mackenzie, bankers of London, 1813, endorsed with an undertaking by the bankers to execute a reconveyance of the premises to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, the purchaser, upon repayment of the mortgage, 1814.

Title deeds relating to the Parry family of Main and Penyvoile, Montgomeryshire, 1697-1753. The deeds concern mainly messuages and lands situated in the township of Peniarth in the parish of Meifod, namely Tyddyn Pen y Voel, Tyddyn y Goetre-las, Maes y Kestill, Tire Nonio, Erw Forchog, Gweirglodd Dduddge and Gwerglodd Tir Nonio, and part of Cae tan y Lloyne (detailed boundary clauses) near Pentrego, also in the parish of Meifod. They include include a deed of partition between Alice Parry of Main, Mary Ellis of Garneddwen, Llanwddyn, and Margaret, wife of Methusalem Jones of Pant, all daughters and co-heiresses of William Lloyd of Pen y Voile, 1696/7; deeds of exchange between Methusalem Jones of Hunderdell (Underdale), Salop, and Robert Parry of Penyvoile, 1698, and between Alice Parry and her son Robert Parry, and Margaret Phillips of Shrewsbury and her son Robert Phillips, 1706/7; a settlement between Alice Parry and her son Robert, 1717; an appointment by Alice Parry to her grandson John Williams of £40, 1721; and a conveyance by Methusalem Jones to Robert Parry and his son Andrew Parry, to uses specified, 1723. The file also contains deeds of sale by John Bishop of Newtown to Robert Parry, of a messuage and a bakehouse converted into a dwelling in the township of Peniarth, 1741; a mortgage of the same to Elizabeth Thomas of Llannerchrochwel1, Guilsfield, 1741; and the copy probate of the will of Elizabeth Thomas, made 1743, proved 1750.

Title deeds labelled ‘Office copies of title deeds relating to Dyffryn farms and referred to in the covenant of Barbara C’ss of Powis dated 6th Septr 1773’. The deeds concern firstly Rhosfawr and Bysnant, and secondly Dyffryn Hall or Dyffryn Farm, the malthouse or barn called Tycoch on the road from Meifod to Newbridge, a small tenement on Allt yr Ancar Hill, and a wood called the Great Park in the parishes of Meifod and Guilsfield, 1765-1808. They include a mortgage by John Jones of Llanfyllin and his trustees, of property belonging to the Rhosfawr estate to Dorothy Rocke, 1765; the covenant by Barbara Countess of Powis to John Rocke of Trefnannau and his son Richard Rocke of Shrewsbury to produce title deeds, 1773; a conveyance by Ann Jodrell of Ankerwyke, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, widow of Gilbert Jodrell of Lincolns Inn, and Gilbert Jodrell’s daughters Sarah and Ann, to John Rocke and Richard Rocke, of the Dyffryn properties, 1773; a mortgage by Richard Rocke, 1787, which was assigned to Ann Acton of of Brockton, Salop, 1797, followed by a further mortgage to her in 1798; a lease to William Payne of Wilcott, Great Ness, 1792, and an assignment of the lease to Samuel Yale, 1800; an agreement between Richard Rocke and Charles Watkin Williams Wynn for the purchase, followed by the deeds of sale of the Rhosfawr and Dyffryn properties, with a schedule of deeds incorporated, and an assignment by the Ann Acton of the term of years in trust, 1803; a mortgage by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn to Richard Rocke, 1803, and a surrender (on dorse) by the latter’s executor, Rev. John Rocke of Shrewsbury, upon repayment of the mortgage, 1808.

Title deeds relating firstly to land under Allt Fawr Hill, and secondly to the messuages of Allt Fawr, Cae Glub and Rhos y Glascoed in the townships of Peniarth and Teirtref in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, purchased by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn from John Humffreys of Llwyn, son and executor of William Humffreys, 1773-1811. They include deeds of sale by Ann Jodrell of Ankerwyke, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, widow of Gilbert Jodrell, to William Humffreys of Llwyn, of parts of Dyffryn Hall Farm (described) and the land under Allt Fawr Hill 1773; a covenant by Barbara Countess of Powys to William Humffreys to produce deeds, 1773; a mortgage by William Humffreys to Richard Morgan of Shrewsbury, 1774 and the reconveyance by his son, Richard Morgan of West Bromwich, 1795. The deeds for Allt Fawr, Cae Glub and Rhos y Glascoed comprise a succession of assignments of mortgage at the direction of John Humffreys, in which the mortgagees include William Bray and William Clutton, and Pryce Davies, 1800, Catharine Jones, widow of Joshua Jones, late of Trefnannau but then of Oswestry, 1808, and John Phillips of Llwyn and Jeffrey Poole of Trefnannau, 1808. The file concludes with the conveyance by John Humffreys and his mortgagees to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn of all the properties described above, and assignment of the term of years created by the will of William Humffreys, dec., in trust, 1811.