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Copy of a letter of thanks for the assignment of moneys levied from other counties for disbanding the forces in Caernarfonshire. Their proportion of £1,200 could not be levied from that county as the garrisons are in arrears owing to the £504 raised for two months' provisioning of the troops, whereof six weeks are already expired. Desires that the money assigned be paid within the remaining fortnight, and this poor county eased from the insufferable burden it groans under. There are no soldiers to be disbanded within the county save the troops which have had the provision money. Signed: Thos. Williams, Sheriff of Caernarfonshire; William Williams; Thos. Madrin; Edward Williams. Underneath: 1647/8, Feb. 28. Sir Thomas Fairfax to Capt. Edmund Glynne, commanding the forces in Caernarfonshire. Copy of a warrant for disbanding the forces in Caernarfon town and castle.

Order to meet the Trustees at Wimbledon House at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, the 23rd instant, to give an account of and to deliver up such goods of the late King as they have there in their custody. Signed: Thomas Maylard, Clerk to the Committee.

Certificate that the Treasurers at War received a letter from the commissioners for the assessments in Caernarfonshire, signifying that Mr Parry, receiver-general for the said county, has not satisfied their acquittances, amounting to one thousand and eighty-six pounds and one shilling, part of the six months' assessment on the said county, from 24 June to 25 Dec. 1654, payable to Major Goodricke; and they mention, moreover, Mr Parry's allegation that he was with the Treasurer; rendering and perfecting his accounts, and they desire to know what further sums of assessment are due from the said county. These are, therefore, to acquaint Williams that the said Mr Parry has neither been at the Treasury before he received the Treasurers' orders for payment of the said sum to Major Goodricke, nor, since he received the orders, to perfect his account. The Treasurers conceive all moneys due from the said county by assessment have been charged on the said Mr Parry, either by warrants from the Committee of the Army or by acquittances signed by the Treasurers; but how much more than the said sum remains unsatisfied by the said Parry they cannot possibly certify, but must refer to their acquittances to be produced by Mr Parry. Endorsed: 'John Parry's business.'.

Demise (in the autograph of Sir Owen Wynn of Gwydir) for 21 years of moiety of Kilkemeys by the late Queen Elizabeth to Gruffith Wynn (about 1 Eliz.), who assigned it to David ap William ap Madock. About 6 Eliz. the lordship was granted to Robert Dudley, late Earl of Leicester. Detailed relation of the attempts of the said Gruffith Wynn to recover the lease by matching the infant son of the said David ap William to his daughter and by obtaining a renewal of the lease for the lives of his three sons. The Earl of Leicester mortgaged the lordship to the aldermen of London and died before it was demortgaged. The tenants of the lordship agreed to raise £6,000 to pay off the mortgage, on condition that their leases were renewed. The rent of Kilkemeys being enhanced by the fraudulent dealings of John Gruffith Bannor, from 30s. to £4 yearly, the said John David ap William could not pay his share of the mortgage money, and was unable to renew his lease. Thereupon Moris ap John Gruffith, eldest son of the said John Gruffith Bannor, having lately married a wife with a 'consideration' portion, went up and paid the fine and obtained a lease in reversion dated 19 March 37 Eliz. The said three sons of the said David ap William dying, and the said Moris ap John Gruffith, that took the reversion of the lease, dying also, his son William Moris, being a minor, lived with his uncle and guardian Thomas ap John Gruffith, who, during the absence in London of the said William Moris, 'brought open' the chest containing the writings and evidences, and detains the same, and the said William, being now 21 years of age, can never obtain them.

Mathew Thomlinson contracted for the purchase of Dindathwy, Anglesey, heretofore parcel of the revenue of the Prince of Wales. The survey presents:. (1) Two yearly fairs in Beaumaris, with a memorandum that the profits of fairs, markets, and courts are claimed by the burgesses of the said town to be held by charter, but nothing was produced to make the same appear. The writer now finds by a charter of 4 Eliz., that all the said premises were granted to the said corporation, as claimed. (2) All profits of courts, etc., held in the manors of Rosevawre and Vrondeg, Anglesey, are claimed by Lewis Owen, who refused, though summoned, to make good his claim. The writer finds that the late King Charles, by letters patent dated 9 Sept., in the fourth year of his reign, granted to Edward Ditchfield and others intrusted by the city of London, all lands, houses etc., with profits of courts etc., in Rosevawre and Vrondeg, who by deed inrolled, dated 18 Dec., 5 Charles, granted the same to the said Lewis Owen in fee, he paying the King the yearly fee-farm rent of £20 16s. 01/2d. (3) The townships of Darronwy and Bottan, in the tenure of Robert and John Bulkeley and others, are escheated lands. The writer finds that King Charles, by letters patent dated 1 June, 3 Charles, granted the said escheated lands to Richard P[r]ythergh, esq., Thomas Wynne, and Charles Horsley. Also finds that Sir Henry Hobert and others, being possessed, by letters patent dated 14 James, of divers escheated lands in Darronway for 99 years, demised the same by indenture dated 29 June, 19 James, to Robert Bulkeley John Lewis, William Bulkeley, and Thomas Bulkeley for divers periods of years. (4) That lands called Castle Meadow, near Beaumaris Castle, Kingswood, Coyd Cadowe etc., are in the possession of Lord Bulkeley. Finds that these are claimed by the Corporation of Beaumaris, and that Thomas, Lord Bulkeley, claims the same in fee-farm from the Corporation, and that in an affidavit of one Richard Thomas, dated 2 Feb. 1653, it is attested that the premises for 40 years past have been in the possession of the Bulkeleys, and that neither the late King, Queen, nor Prince was ever in possession thereof. The writer finds that the Corporation of Beaumaris, by their said charter, are enabled to grant and alien any of the lands granted to them, and that the yearly rent of £42 12s. 9d. is and has been payable by the said Corporation to the late King and his predecessors.

(1) Receiving bribes in his office of Justice of the Peace. (2) At his ecclesiastical court held about Nov. 1611, he ordered that Kadwaleder ap Thomas Wyn, gent., a man of great wealth, who had for a long time forsaken his lawful wife and children and led a dissolute life, should pay his wife 6s. 8d. weekly for her maintenance, and be imprisoned, except recognizance be found. By a later court, however, the Bishop discharged the said Kadwalader of the said sum, as well as of the imprisonment and recognizance. (3) He paid £600 as a bribe to receive his see and raised the money by imposing double benevolences on his clergy, threatening those unable to pay, and suspended Gruffin Williams, Bachelor of Divinity, upon his refusal to pay, whereby the parish of Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, was for long without divine service. (4) One Rowland Owen being summoned to appear in the ecclesiastical court of Bangor for having married his wife without her parent's consent, was discharged on payment of a bribe by the said Rowland. (5) The Bishop eats flesh meat in Lent, contrary to law. (6) He discharged John Trevor, John David, John ap Hugh ap Robert, Robert ap John Wyn, John ap Robert ap John Wyn, John Edmund, Richard ap John Edmund, and Lazarus ap William ap Edmund, all under warrant and recognizance of William Williams, from arrest or imprisonment, and refused to make certificate of the recognizances to Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, then and still Custos Rotulorum of the county. (7) He suppressed and failed to certify the recognizance entered against Rees ap Jevan of Aber, on 29 March 1611, and the following recognizances as well: Richard ap Evan; William Wyn and John ap William Prichard, 14 Aug. 1618; Thomas ap Robert and John ap Ellys, 13 Dec. 1618. (8) He discharged Elizabeth Humfrey who stole money from her master, Richard Jones of Bangor. (9) He rejected the suit of a stranger named Joel Wharton, who was grievously assaulted and wounded by John Mothey; as well as the case of William Wyn, charged of murdering Robert Williams and Evan Lloid and of marrying the wife of the said Evan. (10) He openly slandered his fellow justices and others by accusing them of dissolute living.

Copy of the archbishop of Canterbury's speech in Parliament concerning the Spanish marriage and the Palatinate, sent to the king at Theobalds.

Copy of a licence to erect a sepulchral monument in the chancel of the church of Llanrwst to his father and mother, Gruffith Wyn and Gwen Salusbury; to be suspended on the north side, with the arms of the said Gruffith and Gwen, and an epitaph setting forth the names and lives of the defunct. The keys of the said church to be delivered to the said Hugh Gwyn when he shall require them. Subscribed: Tho. Rydley. Latin.

Terrier by William Lloyd of the lands wherein he entered, in the names of John Gruffith of Caernarfon, esquire, and William Gruffith his son, and upon which he executed and delivered livery and seisin to Thomas Wyn ap Edmond and Rees David Lloyd, gents, attorneys to John Wynn of Gwydir, esquire. Which lands are situate within the townships of Llanfair and Dwygyfylchi, within the commote of Uchaph and county of Caernarfon. In defining the boundaries mention is made of 'criavolen' tree [mountain ash] and a 'polled round oak.'.

Survey of the demesne lands of Ber[th]ddu; valued by Richard ap John ap Jevan.

A survey of lands in Ruthin before any part thereof was sold. 'Query: what remaineth thereof to the farmers in fee'.

The true survey [in the autograph of John Wynn of Gwydir] of cousin John Wynn Owen's land in the parish of Llanrwst: Brynsyllty, now in mortgage, yields me £21 6s. 8d. per annum. At the decease of 'my' uncle Owen Wynn, in 1599, the tenant paid but £15 yearly. This tenement has growing on it a pretty holt or grove of young oaks, which is the whole grace of the said tenement, for it lies very high and cold, ill-fenced with wooden hedges of great length, the soil barren, bearing rye and oats forced with burning and compost. The pith and soil is also burned and consumed with oft batting and burning the land. The like particulars of Bedw Gwenllian, Tuthin John ap Meredith Lloyd called yr hên blace in Mathebrud and tuthin yr stowlwyth, tuthin Cae tuder, Gwern y Ryske, Tuthin y ty kerrigg (late in Katherine Lloyd's tenure); Cae'r knave (the moiety mortgaged to William Lewes), tuthin Mores ap Hugh saer, being but a house in Llanrwst, with five acres of land, the river has eaten away the bank; Cae Jevan vawr my uncle Owen left to one of his base sons. Other lands named.

John Williams, archbishop of York, at Caernarfon, to Sir William Williams, Owen Wynn, Morris Wynn, Henry Williams, Gruffith Williams, William Hook, Edward Williams and Thomas Pue, commissioners of peace and array for Caernarfonshire. Summons to attend a meeting to consider certain resolutions of high concernment to be sent to Lord Byron, the King's general, at Conwy. Subscribed: Jo. Eborac.; Robert Jones; W. Thomas; Ow. Griffith; Humffrey Jones; Griffith Thomas; Tho. Madrin. Underneath: Note, by Owen Wynn, acknowledging the receipt of the summons.

Particulars of a mise towards the providing of ships, with the names of those who subscribed and the sums levied in each case. Ten sheets.

(A) Statement of the case between Sir William Morris, plt., and Sir Richard Bulkeley, deft., in regard to the rights in certain mill-stone and slate quarries in Anglesey. The plaintiff claims all quarries of mill- stones, slates, and other stones as well in the King's, as in the subjects' lands, within the Principality, and complains against Sir Richard Bulkeley by his servants and workmen, diggers and workers in the quarries of Penmon and Wedowvawr. The defendant, Sir Richard, justifies the digging and taking up of mill-stones in his own freehold. (1) The common right in all quarries of stones belongs to the owner thereof. (2) The King's prerogative in stone quarries on a subject's freehold is not warranted by any law or usage, for there is no proof that the King's patentee had his prerogative in a subject's freehold. (3) It appears by record, 7 Henry V, that the King only had the prerogative of pre-emption to buy stones for his money. There are Ministers' Accounts, temp. Hen. VII and Hen. VIII, mentioning the King's prerogative in the stone quarries on the subjects' freehold. But Ministers' Accounts bind no man's inheritance, and the Ministers' Accounts of the reigns of Hen. V, Hen. VI, and Edw. IV make no mention of such prerogative. By a lease made to Edward Herbert, temp. Hen. VI, it appears from the words omnes quarrias nostras that the King had quarries of his own on his own lands, and has, at the present day, twenty quarries of stones and more in his own wastes in Anglesey. The cause of Sir Richard Bulkeley's trouble is that Richard Gwynn, gent., the Auditor's clerk for North Wales, finding an entry made temp. Hen. VII and Hen. VIII, never took possession thereof. (B) Another statement of the case, in a different hand. (C) Statement of the above case, reciting divers leases temp. Hen. VIII and Elizabeth.

Statement [by the Lady Grace Wynn] with regard to a dispute between her husband and Griffith Williams. Wishes a reconciliation could be effected before lawsuits get afoot. The lands in Huntingdonshire are on sale to pay my Lord's debts. Her husband claims a more peculiar interest therein than in any other part of the Archbishop's estate. Suggestions for the sale thereof.

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.