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Letters to Col. William Owen and his wife Mary, 1634-1670. Correspondents of note include Richard Anwyl discussing, among the more common topics, the post of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, other royal appointments and the union of Scotland 1669; George [Griffith], bishop of St Asaph, on appointing a suitable vicar and schoolmaster at Oswestry, 1664; Owen Griffith on hostility to the Dutch, seizure of commodities and a frigate accident in London, 1667; and Robert [Morgan], bishop of Bangor, on a preferment to the living of Llanegan in Llyn, 1669. Other correspondents include Thomas Mackworth, 1663, John Mordaunt, 1655, and Penelope Owen, 1634, and further, general topics are: events in parliament; estate business in Shropshire, Penychen and Hitchin, 1655-1669; sequestration of the estate of Sir John Owen, 1659; the taking of stone from the demolished town walls of Oswestry, 1668; and obtaining a college place for William Owen the younger.

Notes on geometry, mathematics, etc.; and a list, with a brief note of their subjects, of letters written to the author's father between 1665 and 1672 (ff. 14 verso-18) and to himself between 1680 and 1709 (ff. 18 verso-60).
There is reason to believe that the writer was Robert Morgan, D.D., head master of Ruthin Grammar School from 1695 to 1705. He was the son of Robert Morgan, D.D., bishop of Bangor from 1667 to 1673. Robert Morgan the younger was afterwards rector of Ross and a canon of Hereford, and his sister Margaret was the mother of Chancellor Wynne.