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Letters to John Owen, Penrhos, and Mrs Margaret Wynne, Bodewryd

Letters addressed to John Owen (d. 1712) of Penrhos, 1649-1710 (Nos 96-135), and to Mrs Margaret Wynne (d. 1723) of Bodewryd, 1679-1723 (Nos 136-219).
The correspondents include [Sir] William Williams [baronet], 1657-1698 (Nos 113-135) and Margaret Wynne's son Edward Wynne [Chancellor of Hereford], 1709-1723 (Nos 182-212).

Owen, John, 1627 or 1628-1712

Correspondence of William Owen of Brogyntyn,

Letters received by William Owen, [c. 1705]-1767, together with a number of copies or drafts of his replies. Some of the letters are from members of the Godolphin and Owen families, [c. 1705]-1758, and others are from solicitors, bankers, national figures and local gentry, including several from Edward Wynn(e) of Bodewryd. General topics include charitable bequests and legacies by Anne Jones of Clenennau, [c. 1705]-1716; William Owen 's role in local government; elections in Shropshire and North Wales, particularly corrupt practices in the Caernarfon Borough elections for 1713 and 1722; improvements to Brogyntyn (Porkington) Hall, 1734; the appointment of Dr Hutton as bishop of Bangor, 1743; the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746; the purchase of Dolbenmaen, 1735; litigation relating to the estates of Richard Clayton and Arthur Owen, 1740-1760, boundary disputes in Gest and Penyfed, and quarrels with Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1741. The last file contains correspondence between William Owen, Edward Wynn(e), a Flemish lawyer and others, in an attempt to prove his claim to £500 out of the Bodysgallen estate, following the death of a distant kinsman John Francis Ouwens, 1710-1711, 1785.

Wynne, Edward, 1681-1755