Royal notification of jurisdictions and authority granted to the Lord President or Vice-president and the Council in the Marches of Wales to investigate fraud by county officials, perjury, libel and private legal actions [c. 1620]; a list of general grants of official positions and crown lands in North Wales and Montgomeryshire, [1660x1670]; and reasons for appointing customs officers in the ports of Cardigan Bay, [post-1662].
Manuscript London newsletters from John Gadbury and others, 1676-1710, addressed mainly to Sir Robert Owen, which strongly reflect the government, politics and society of the Stuart period. Recurrent topics are the relations between the Stuart monarchs and Parliament; proceedings of Parliament and government departments; English election results; events at the royal court; the establishment of Protestantism; antipathy towards Catholics and Protestant dissenters; political conspiracies; foreign affairs in Europe; British overseas trade and colonisation; local government in London; City gossip and Oxford University news. Items of specific interest include the murder of Sir Edmund Berry [Godfrey], 1679; rebellion of the Scottish Covenanters, 1679; the Titus Oates plot and its repercussions, 1679-1685; the trial of Lord Stafford, 1680; the Rye House Plot, 1683; the formation of a mounted bodyguard for Charles II, 1683; effects of Quo Warranto, 1683, and subsequent restoration of London and other corporation charters, 1688; the Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1691; the controversial electorship of Cologne, 1688; a protest by seven bishops against the Declaration of Indulgence, 1688; the abdication of James II and accession of William and Mary, 1688-1689; reviews of revenue and excise, 1688-1689; abolition of the Council of the Marches of Wales, 1688-1689; Jacobite rebellions in Ireland and Scotland, 1688-1691; War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-1697; the papal successsion, 1689; government of the Scottish Church, 1689; the suicide of Lord Teviot, 1694; the War of Spanish Succession, 1710; and activities of Dr Sacheverell, 1710.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.
Petitions and cases, dated between 1660 and 1781, presented to the monarch, the House of Commons, the House of Lords, parliamentary committees or individual politicians by prominent public figures, town corporations, local officials, private landowners and tradesmen. Most are in connection with political crimes, religious abuses, government legislation, taxation on trades, borough election rights, navigation and drainage, personal hardship and private bills for establishing titles or implementing family settlements. Items relating to Wales concern the abolition of the Court of the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1689, the Rectory of Llandinam [c. 1695] and revenue from crown lands, 1779. Petitioners or appellants include Major General Harrison and the other Regicides [1660], Lord Bristol, 1663, the Duke of Grafton [c. 1674], Edward Larkin [c. 1688?], Titus Oates, 1689, Thomas Price [of Plas Iolyn] 1690, a door-keeper of the House of Commons [1695?], 'One of Queen Elizabeth 's Shillings', 1696, the Covenanters to the Earl of Essex [18th cent. copy], Henry Earl of Lincoln [c. 1767], and the Duke of Ancaster, 1781.