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Documents relating to court cases concerning the Myddelton and Lloyd families and their estates and tenants in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Shropshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, including copies of deeds, bills, bonds, charges, orders, examinations, depositions, proposals, demands, abstracts of title, legal opinions, correspondence, summaries, presentments, valuations, administrations of wills, accounts, receipts, particulars of taxes and of acts of Parliament, writs to constables and bailiffs, and memoranda.

Letters to Mary Myddelton, mostly relating to household, estate, personal and social matters, and also including a number of letters, 1719-1723, from [Judge] Ro[bert] Price, London, containing references to notable events, amongst which are: the Peerage Bill, 1719; the publication of Bishop [Thomas] Ken's works, 1721; Spanish demands for Gibraltar, 1721; the burning of the Pretender's declaration to the king, 1722; Sir Richard Steele's new play 'The Cautious Lover', 1722; the suspension of Habeas Corpus; 1722, the condemnation of the bishop of Rochester, 1723; the stopping by the government of the publication and distribution by the Duchess of Buckingham of the late Duke's works, 1722; and the passing of various Acts of Parliament. Mary Myddelton rented Croes Newydd, in the parish of Broughton, near Wrexham, from Robert Ellis in 1719, and she remained there for the rest of her life.

Letters addressed to Mary Hale, Mary Myddelton's ward, at Croes Newydd, including some addressed to both ladies; Mary Hale lived at Croes Newydd until she married William Lloyd (then tenant of Plas Power) in 1746. The Hale and Myddelton families seem to have become involved with each other through a common interest in the East India Company.

Letters, copies and drafts of letters to members of Mary Myddelton's family, including her brother William and her father Richard; as well as members of the Lloyd family before they moved to Plas Power; and their representatives and associates, including officers, agents, tenants, and visitors to Chirk.

An epitaph for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd bart, together with genealogical tables showing the descent of: the Powell family of Broughton; the Blewart family; and Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester and baron of Denbigh (d.1588).

A manuscript copy of George Owen's 'Treatise of Lordshipps Marchers in Wales', missing one or two folios at the end.

Notes on ancient and contemporary geography and history, together with literary notes and an account of the Quakers.

Plans, diagrams, drawings, treatises, instructions, prescriptions and notes relating to a variety of subjects including botany, medicine, geometry, philosophy, boatbuilding, art, mathematics and Latin.

Two transcripts, [1714x?c.1720], of a letter from Charles Leslie to a Member of Parliament, 1714, concerning the character and religious views of James Stuart, and his probable religious policies if crowned.

Typescript and manuscript drafts of 'Fifth Form Rivals', 'Jane', 'An heroic ride', 'The dormy house girls' and other fictional stories for girls about school life, many of them set in north Wales, by Nancy Delves, who married G. E. FitzHugh in 1931, together with letters from prospective publishers, some drawings, and a number of Nancy Delves's personal photographs, mostly taken while she was unmarried and living at Deganwy.

Thomas Lloyd's letters of ordination as a deacon, issued by the bishop of Coventry in 1696, and as a priest, issued by the bishop of Oxford in 1697.

Papers relating to ecclesiastical and charitable organisations, particularly their financial administration. The church papers relate primarily to the parishes of Minera, St Andrew (Marylebone), St George (Hanover Square) and a nonconformist chapel [?in London or Chester], and the charities include the Plas Power Clothing Club and the Chester General Infirmary. Also included are orders of service from St Andrews, and an appeal for subscriptions to a new Welsh Bible.

Personal papers of members of the Myddelton, Lloyd and FitzHugh families, including material created by them and accumulated by them that is not of a legal, antiquarian, genealogical, academic, political, literary, or ecclesiastical nature.

A list of persons, together with dates, arranged daily and in chronological order from May to August.

A note of Richard Myddelton's expenditure on a ring for Mary Myddelton, 1709, together with verses addressed to her on her birthday, 1729.

Agreement between John Myddelton and his mother concerning sharing profits in a shop.

Miscellaneous papers including: pen trials; extracts from, notes relating to, and fragments of printed works; an account of a speech at the Sheldon theatre in Oxford, 1733; an essay on morality; a printed petition [to queen ?Anne] by Edward Trevor; a letter from the sister of the lawyer [Charles] Talbot to his newly born child; a list of members of the Warwickshire Hunt Club; and a wrapper containing 'ye key of ye little box with all ye childrens things'.