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Statement by Sir Richard Wynn entitled 'The true relation of the estate of the business of the Greenwax for North Wales and how it stands at this present.' Since the King's grant to the Prince of Wales, about eight years ago, of the profits of the Greenwax, the Prince's Revenue has not been greatly increased owing to the neglect and dishonesty of the bailiffs, against whose oppression the people complain. Sir Richard Wynn, a Gentleman in Ordinary of the Prince's Privy Chamber, moved the Commissioners of the Prince's Revenue to suppress the bailiffs and to grant him a lease of the Greenwax for seven years, to which great objections were made which were fully answered by Sir Richard. After a whole year's agitation, the Prince's Chancellor and Commissioners granted him a lease of the profits of the Greenwax for seven years. Before sealing the lease, certain gentlemen petitioned the Prince against it; who thereupon referred the consideration thereof to his Commissioners, and they called the parties before them, and commanded that the Bill of Complaint and Answer thereto should be in writing. The Commissioners were satisfied with Sir Richard's answer. Begs that his suit may be prosecuted on account of the loss of £150, as well as the loss of the profits of a year and a half. Sir Richard offered to discover £300, part of the Prince's Revenues which had been concealed by some of the complainants, and asked for a warrant to search the rooms of the Exchequer at Caernarfon, but this was refused.

Copies of speeches by the king, the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Keeper, at the opening of Parliament. See NLW MS 9059E/1194. See Rushworth, 'Historical collections', vol. 1, p. 119 seq.

The commission for the prince's mise cannot possibly be ready to be engrossed between this and Christmas. Settlements on their grandchildren. Prays that Wynn may have joy in the sheriffwick. Note. Sir Thomas Mostyn addressed John Wynn as brother as Mostyn's son Roger had married Wynn's daughter Mary.

Mr Meredith, son-in-law of my Lord Chancellor of Ireland [Adam Loftus, afterwards Viscount Loftus of Ely], reports that the Prince, having set out on his return journey, was recalled by the Spaniards, and is now back again in Madrid. Mr Justice has written to my Lord of Bangor in the matter of the renewal of the writer's lease.

Has received a loving letter from my Lord of Lincoln. Sir Roger's son John is to set out for Bugden before the New Year. Suggests that he shall travel with Sir John's son Owen, who has an office in Chancery, which is profitable by reason of the Coronation pardons. Now that he is to be with the Bishop, Owen Wynn must have a care either not to be cheated out of the profits or to convey them to another at a good price.

The justices of the peace for Flint and Denbigh are to meet at Denbigh on Tuesday next, to confer with the justices from Anglesey respecting the furnishing of a bark for the King's service, which is to go out of a port town. These two counties have none; Anglesey must therefore hire one, and the other two counties contribute. If they can neither hire nor buy one, they must certify as much. Does not think much will be done regarding the latter subsidy, but they have resolved to pay the one granted 7 James I, notwithstanding that according to the Act they were not to pay the same till the Prince's mise should be out. They are three payments in arrears.

Family affairs and settlements. Desires him to tell brother Owen that an answer is come from Sir Richard Wynn touching his place in Chester, who has written to the writer's son-in-law, Grosvenor, to pray him to go with it to my Lord of Derby and my Lord Strange. It must be done forthwith for the auditor is to be at Chester the 10th day of this month. Grosvenor is this day gone to London, but the writer has sent Robert Mostyn to his kinsman, George Ravenscroft, to entreat him to deliver it to both lords and to take their answers.

The funeral [of James I] is to be solemnized on May 10th; the Coronation on the 15th; and the opening of Parliament on the 17th. Sir John Trevor [of Trevalyn] is to stand for Flintshire and Sir Sackville Trevor for Anglesey in the forthcoming elections. Neither the writer nor his son John will stand, because to fail would be a great disgrace. My Lord Keeper would have Sir Peter Mutton stand for Denbigh, although both be and Mr Edward Littleton are resolved to stand for Caernarfonshire.

Would have Sir John's sons Elis and Harry postpone their journey to London till the end of the summer, that the writer's son Thomas may go up with them. Surely they will be much readier then for any school. Complains that he has been suffering from his old disease, the stone.

Sir Richard Wynn's relation of the whole state and proceedings in the business of the Greenwax and how it stands at this present in court, which is necessary to be understood before any answer be made to the petitioners' objections.

Draft of Sir Richard Wynn's answer to the objections made to his having a lease of the Greenwax.

Memoranda, by Sir Owen Wynn, for his answer to the Committee for Sequestrations, should he be summoned to appear before them at Conwy on Jan. 16. Amongst other things he pleads that he was never in arms against the Parliament, nor in the Commission of Array, nor was his estate sequestered. Complains that Sir John Owen's forces at Conwy took away 200 head of his cattle, and that Captain Gruffith, acting under Sir John Owen, came to Gwydir and would have taken Sir Owen and his brother prisoner, had not Captain Vyner rescued them. As sheriff, in 1653, Sir Owen proclaimed the Lord Protector, as well as the dissolution of the Long Parliament and the assembly of the Short Parliament, proving thereby his loyalty to the present government.

Draft of Sir Owen Wynn's answer to a bill in Chancery concerning the estate of which Archbishop William died possessed. Believes the Archbishop had a library of books in Westminster which were to go, after his decease, to St John's College in Westminster [sic], and which are now in the plaintiff's keeping, with about thirty books belonging to the defendant and not yet restored to him, except a Latin book and a MS book of the Archbishop's notes of sermons, which the defendant keeps until his books are returned. The Archbishop promised Wynn that he would perfect his book of sermons, twelve in number, and give them to Wynn to be printed. Denies, moreover, that the Archbishop brought with him, during his sojourn at Gwydir, three years before his death, any of his books, writings, deeds, or manuscripts of great value, as is alleged in the bill of complaint.

Sir John Wynn's description of his symptoms, with Sir Thomas ap Williams's opinion thereon.

Statement by Sir John Wynn with regard to proceedings against him in the Court of the Marches, which were largely at the instance of his enemy Sir Richard Lewkenor, with particulars of the charges brought by that justice against him; concluding with a bitter invective against Lewkenor. Endorsed: 'A catalogue of my life and conversation to my Lord Gerard.'.

Sir John is a farmer of the King's escheat lands in Llysvaen, and Sir John Salusbury, Robert Owen, Owen ap Robert and others held freehold land amongst the escheat lands, which they claim as the King's ancient tenants. Upon their petition, the matter came to the Exchequer Chamber in Hilary Term, 1613, by a reference from Lord Treasurer Salisbury. Sentence was given in favour of the King's farmer. After Sir John Salusbury's death, his son and heir Henry Salusbury and others were sued by the farmer [Sir John Wynn], and, the defendants refusing to appear, his bailiff was commanded to enter two cottages occupied by two poor undertenants of Henry Salusbury, who thereupon set on one of these cottagers, named Conway, to proceed against Sir John in the Court of the Marches for forcible entry and riot. In June 1610, Commission was taken for levying 100 men for Ireland from Caernarfonshire, when Sir John committed Evan ap Robert Owen until he should find sureties to appear at the next musters. This is construed by the Court of the Marches as an act of malice on account of the part played by Owen's father in the matter of the escheat lands, and Sir John has been fined 1,000 marks, and ordered to be put out of the Council of the Marches where he had served 13 years, from the deputy-lieutenancy in which he had served 29 years, and from the commission of the peace in which he had served almost 30 years.

The informants against him are:. (1) John Hughes (a deponent of Henry Salusbury) whose son committed a murder, and, though nothing was at first done in the business for fear of Henry Salusbury, he was afterwards indicted and fled. (2) William Williams who, because he was oppressed by John Salusbury, was preferred by Sir Roger Mostyn, his kinsman, to Sir Richard Lewkenor. He is now turned Turk and has joined Henry Salusbury with his master the justice. Sir John Wynn was called before the Council on 7 Nov., but begged to have the hearing postponed until the next term, having taken cold on a late journey to Mostyn. He was refused and the matter was proceeded with. The witnesses on the defendant's side (being illiterate, simple people not having the English tongue) were examined by the common examiner who, being an Englishman, was fain to use an interpreter, and it is to be doubted whether the same did interpret rightly. In the end Sir John was condemned, heavily fined and pronounced degraded of his places. Sir Thomas Myddelton, after Sir John Musbury's death, wishing to end the breach between Sir John Wynn and Henry Salusbury (in the matter of lands in Llysvayne), sold Sir John all the freehold lands in Llysvayne and this by authority of Henry Salusbury. William Wynn was set on by the said Henry Salusbury, his cousin, to make Sir John believe he would procure his bargain, from which he fell into this inconvenience and dilemma.

Says that having lived some 37 years after his father in the commission of the peace, and being deputy-lieutenant for Caernarfonshire since 1587, he studied the peace and good government of the country. In all this time he has had but one trial in Caernarfonshire, and that about 24 years since, for a house which William Williams bought and the writer recovered; and no trials in Denbighshire or Merioneth, though he has lands in both. He was neither plaintiff nor defendant in the Court of the Marches save for two causes: one for giving William Williams a box on the ear, and the other, some fourteen years agone, for a small lease; and his solicitor, Evan Lloyd, attorney of common pleas, will testify to the truth thereof. Confesses, however, that he had a suit some eight years since in the Exchequer Chamber, wherein he was plaintiff and defendant for a matter of £500, which was ended some four years agone. Says that he was branded with the malicious eye of Sir Richard Lewknor, because he gave him no presents, and withdrew his suits from the Court of the Marches to London. Lewknor therefore caused a Bill to be framed against Sir John in the Council of the Marches. Gives particulars of the same. His enemies, moreover, wrote to the Lord Chancellor desiring that the writer should be deprived of all his offices, who answered that they must sue the King in order to displace him from the lieutenancy and the Council of the Marches. The Lord Chancellor and Lord President were married to two sisters. The former was most careful to maintain the reputation of the Court of the Marches. Sir Richard Lewknor was his tenant and dependant. Treasurer Salisbury and Northampton being dead, and Somerset committed to the Tower, and the Lord Treasurer, by reason of melancholy, not to be troubled with business, Lewknor was heartened to take advantage thereof, and, in order to levy the fine, sent out sequestrations against the writer's goods and lands, with two sheriffs to execute the same and a pursuivant as witness (never before seen), whose fee Sir John was forced to pay.

Five drafts of Sir John Wynn's petition to the King for a rehearing of his cause and for stay of execution of sentence in the meantime. One of the drafts is drawn up for Sir John by Sergeant Moore.

Copy of Sir John Wynn's instructions to Edward Lloyd in London. He is, among other things, to get a copy of the Privy Council's letters to Piers Lloyd of Edernyon. To see how Ellis [Wynn] does; what 'my' children at St Albans want. Appends drafts of the following letters:. (A) To Sir William Slingsby. Supposed that the suits between himself and his daughter-in-law [Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave and widow of Sir John's eldest son] were at an end, for he pays her rent as promised. The Lady Cave has a bond made by Sir John which the death of his son's child has made void. (B) Two letters in which Sir John complains that his enemy, Sir Richard Lewkenor, has been made judge in that circuit. Refers to his son Robert Wynn at Gwydir, who is the 'furthest gone creature', although Sir John still hopes he will live.