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Promissory note in a debt of £5, by Rowland Meredith Lloyd of Towonham, Denbighshire, gent., to Ellis Lloyd of Llanverothen, Merionethshire, gent.

Dated at Oatlands.

(A) From the Privy Council to Pembroke. By the enclosed letters he shall understand what course has been taken to discover what sons of gentlemen are at this present beyond seas, sent over by their parents, tutors or patrons under colour of languages to be learned. For that it is daily by dangerous experience found that the duration of such in foreign parts doth breed much corruption in religion and manners amongst the better sort of her Majesty's subjects. Let him make choice among his deputy-lieutenants and other the justices of the peace, of meet and sufficient persons to execute the effect of her Majesty's commandments and to have certificates thereof returned. (B) 1593, Dec. 31. From the Privy Council at Hampton Court to Pembroke. Orders for discovering what sons of gentlemen are at this present beyond seas under colour of learning languages, whereby they are brought up in the Popish religion and many become seminary priests, Jesuits and unsound subjects. Let a catalogue of the names of fathers, parents or tutors, as well as of the children, be taken and sent over, and if any be found to be recusants or ill affected, let them be bound in good sums of money for their personal appearance; and let search be made in their houses for Jesuits, seminary priests and other suspected persons, and all closets, chests, desks, and coffers opened and searched for books, letters and writings against the State or established religion. See also 'Acts of the Privy Council', N.S., vol. 25, p. 515 (appendix). (C) Duplicate of above. (D) Duplicate of above.

The writer [in Owen Wynn's autograph] gives a brief account of the prerogative of the Welsh princes, which he says is described in full in Howell Dda's Laws, 'yet extant in Welsh and Latin, in divers manuscripts written in velamo, very fair, in an ancient hand, and now remaining in the libraries of several colleges of Cambridge and Oxford.' The Extent of 12 Edward I for Anglesey is yet entire, and to be seen in the Treasury at Westminster. That of Merioneth is not extant, though much search was made for it; Robert Lloyd conceives it was conveyed to an Exchequer then kept at Harlech, when that county was limited out for a jointure for one of the Queens of England. In the Black Prince's time the Extents of Anglesey and Caernarfon were conveyed to Westminster, and that of Merioneth left at Harlech. Part of the Extent for Caernarfonshire (being in several rolls for the several commotes), the forefront comprising the commotes of Issaph, Crythyn, and Nantconwey, remained of late in the Exchequer at Caernarfon, and was sewn to the rest of that Extent with blue silk. It now remains in the Treasury at Westminster. In this Extent are laid down all lands that belonged to Llewelyn the Prince, as well as the Customs of the Freeholders, and after a sort it agrees with Howell Dda's Laws. There is not one word of a Forest in North Wales. The commission for drawing up this extent is yet extant in Rotulo Wallie at the Tower. Discusses the sheriffs' accounts for those times. Sometimes the sheriffs impanelled juries and put them in charge of the statute named Extenta Manerii, printed in the last edition of the Statutes at Large. Describes other Extents, in none of which is mention made of the Forest of Snowdon. Delves' Extent (26 Edw. III) which is now remaining at the Exchequer at Caernarfon, and enrolled with Auditor Hill in his office in Wood Street, makes no mention of the Forest of Snowdon, or of any other Forest. The commission by which Delves made his Extent is not extant. It is necessary it should be sought out and copied. The copy of Delves' Extent, written by Foxwist, has other records inserted therein, which the copy in the Exchequer at Caernarfon has not. Delves' Extents were first written in rolls, and afterwards in a book by Sir William Gruffith, Chamberlain of North Wales, temp. Henry VII. A list of early and later records follows, which Owen Wynn considers useful to have copied in order to prove the case. Appended: An eighteenth century transcript of the above in the autograph of Paul Panton.

Copy of jurors' presentments as to lands in Llandyssilio and Bryneglwys in the lordship of Yale. Underneath: Names of jurors.

Copy of jurors' presentments as to the extent of waste lands in the Forest of Snowdon in Merionethshire, Anglesey and Caernarfonshire.

Jury panel and presentment concerning the functions and perquisites of the constable of Beaumaris Castle. The holder of that office has always been mayor of the town, customer of the haven, and has had the prisage of all cargoes of wine, as appertaining to his office. The yearly worth is unknown. The castle has two meadows and a wood called the King's Wood, lying in the town of Llanvays. Their value and contents is also unknown.

Copy of jurors' presentment at the General Sessions held at Ruthin before William Wynn, Symon Thelwall, Thomas Needham, Robert Wynn, Fulk Vaughan, and William Dolben, esquires, and John Baily, clerk, concerning the public and common bridge situated on the King's highway over the river Conwy in the parish of Llanrwst, in Denbighshire, commonly called Llanrwst Bridge, which is and for many years has been in the greatest decay, so that neither the King's subjects nor horses, carts, and carriages are able to come and go without great danger to life, to the common nuisance of all neighbours and other subjects of the King crossing there, and of fellow countrymen in the said county; the jury find that the inhabitants of that county must repair the half of the bridge abutting upon the said county.

Directions by Owen Wynn to his brother Maurice, for making preparations for his brother Sir Richard's coming to Gwydir. The windows in the lower house to be mended and glazed, especially those in sight of the upper house, as well as those in the cornloft in the upper loft of the hall. The court in the lower house to be weeded. Sir Richard intends to lie in the writer's chamber in the upper house, above the kitchen.

Pleadings in the Court of Wards and Liveries, in the matter of Ivan Powell, plt., and Edward Williams, deft., for trespass on 12 acres of ground called Mynyth-y-vedow, Rhos-y-maen-bras and Cunderwennith; claimed by reason of a lease from the Queen who granted it to the plaintiff for want of livery sued out by William Morgan, the heir of the land.

Draft of a petition to the King begging for protection to Welsh drovers and clothiers, on the score that cattle and Welsh cottons are the principal commodities in North Wales, the cotton being usually sold in Shrewsbury and the cattle driven into England and sold. Many thousands of families in the mountainous districts sow little or no corn, and trust merely to the sale of their cattle, wool, and Welsh cottons. The petitioners therefore beg for safe conduct through the King's armies and licence to trade fully in the said commodities. Subscribed: Hugh Nanney; John Morgan; Evan Evans; Wm. Wynne; Mau. Williams; Tho. Lloyd; Moris Lewis Anwi[ll]; Ellis Lewis.

Robert Lewis to Sir Julius Caesar, Chancellor of the Court of Exchequer. Copy of a petition concerning a lease of Penmayne and Llysmayne, in Caernarfonshire.

Petition to William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England, by David ap Jevan ap Meredith and Rinald ap Jevan ap Meredith against John Wynn, Deputy-Lieutenant of Caernarfon (now present in London) for trespass, with assault, upon a tenement called Tuthyn mawr, in the township of Gwydir. Overleaf: An abbreviate of the case, bearing Burghley's signature.

Sir John Wynn's petition to Lord Chancellor Bacon in the matter of Wynn v. Bayly, concerning the title to the lease of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. Gruffith Wynn, clerk, made a lease to Sir John of two-thirds of the tithes, the third part to belong to the vicar. Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor, collated his son to the living, who now seeks to disturb the petitioner's title to the same.

Petition, in the handwriting of John Wynn of Gwydir. Says that his great-grandfather Meredith ap Jevann ap Robert had the lease of a grange, in the lordship of Nanhoynen, called Havod Tandreg, from the Abbot of Conwy. Which lease he exchanged with a neighbour called Davyd ap Meredith ap Gruffith ap Yollyn, for the lease of another grange called Havod Riske [=Hafod Rhisgl?], which Meredith ap Jevann left to his son Cadwalader, with remainder to his eldest son John Wynn ap Meredith, the writer's grandfather. The Earl of Leicester bought the Lordship of Nantconwy (being Abbey lands) 26 years ago. The aforesaid lease expiring, petitioner was summoned, first before the Lords of the Council, and afterwards before my Lords Buckhurst and Grey, to answer for the alleged suppression of a lease. The verdict was passed in his favour. Afterwards the matter was brought into Chancery and petitioner won the case through default of the complainants. Whereupon William Williams, sheriff for that year, with whom petitioner was at some 'square', would not deliver seisin to the petitioner, and the matter was recalled into Chancery where an order was made for a new trial. Requests that the trial may consist of the best, principal and most indifferent of the county and from every hundred. 'Our country is wide and spacious, and therefore neighbours are most fit to try the cause.'.

Petition by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir with regard to the appropriation of the tithes of the rectory of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, by John Bayly, clerk, prebendary of the said rectory, who has the countenance of his father, [Lewis Bayly], bishop of Bangor, in whose diocese the said rectory is situated.

Petition of Robert Thelwall to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, that about 2 Years since he exhibited an information in the Star Chamber against Thomas Price, esquire, and others, for divers oppressions, extortions and misdemeanours, in connexion with the musters for Denbighshire. The Lord Keeper having issued a writ for stay of execution of the Commission in this cause, the petitioner prays for licence to proceed according to the ordinary course of the Court. Holograph note by the Lord Keeper: 'Let him moove yt in open Court and there he may have answer. Tho. Eg.'.

Copy of a petition by Francis Phillips on behalf of his brother Sir Robert Phillips, a prisoner in the Tower upon a charge of delinquency. See 'Cal. S. P. Dom. 1625-49', pp. 162-163.

'May it please your Lordship to be advertised - That whereas we, the parishioners and inhabitants of the parish of Bethkelert, whose names are hereunder subscribed, have, for the space of thirty or forty years last past, been edified by a preaching minister; and that in November last past, or thereabouts, upon the decease of one John Meredith, clerk and Master of Arts, late curate of the said parish, one Hugh Jenkin, clerk, was by your Lordship sent to supply the said cure. Now we make bold to certify your Lordship that the said Jenkins is neither a preaching minister, neither can he, by reason of his youngness of years, as yet attain to the distinct and perfect reading of the Welsh tongue; and do therefore humbly beseech your Lordship, out of your episcopal providence and care, to supply our said cure with a preaching minister, and that for God's love, unto whose sacred tuition we commit your Lordship.'. Subscribed: John Wynne Moris; John Lloyd; Gryffyth Thomas; John ap Robert; William Owen ap Robert; Rowland ap Wm. Jo.; Gr. ap Rees; Gruffyth ap Willm .; Peers David Nicholas; Thomas Lewes; Humphrey Evans; Thomas ap Howell. Endorsed: 'Copy of a certificate from ye parishioners of Bethkellett about ye curate not approved of. I copied this, 1636.'.

Petition by the late bailiffs and other officers of Conwy to the alderman for 1666, concerning the disorders occasioned by the refusal of bailiffs and other officers, elected last Michaelmas, to take their oaths. They beg him to appoint a day to come to Conwy and take his oath, and in so doing be the means of restoring order amongst them.