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A schedule of deeds relating to the Vaughan estates; abstracts from deeds at Hengwrt; and an imperfect copy of answers in a suit in Chancery by Elizabeth Lloyd and Blanch Lloyd, 1713.
The first part of the manuscript is mainly fragmentary.

The Book marked 'F' referred to in the affidavit of Evan Morris in the matter of The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, and The Railway Commissioners, in the Chancery Division, 8 July 1881. It contains the amended Application of the Buckley Traders' Society, 1880; the Answer of the Railway Company, 9 July 1880; a transcript of the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 13 August 1880; and the Order of the Commissioners on the same date.

The book marked 'A' referred to in the affidavit of Evan Morris in the matter of The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company and The Railway Commissioners in the Chancery Division, 8 July 1881. It contains an analysis of the evidence; the Application of the Buckley Traders' Society to the Railway Commissioners; the Answer of the Railway Company, 1876; Correspondence between the parties; Minutes of Evidence, 12, 13, 15 December 1876; the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 20 January 1877; a transcript of the Order of the same date; the Judgment of the Railway Commissioners, 31 January 1877; and a notice of appeal by the Railway Company, 3 February 1877.

Transcripts by Robert Vaughan of tracts and documents relating to the Council in the Marches of Wales, including 'The Inconveniences of exemptinge English sheires [Gloucester, Worcester, Monmouth, and Salop], shewed to Queen Elizabeth'; propositions concerning the jurisdiction of the King's Bench in the Marches; precedents for installing plaintiffs in possession; 'The effecte of the King's speech ... 3 November 1608'; 'A Treatise of Wales and the Marches thereof'; an abstract of records in the Tower concerning the Marches; 'A discourse or relation of the ancient and moderne estate of the Principalitie ... by Serieant Dodderidge'; instructions to the Council of the North, 1595/6; a survey of lands in Tal y Bont, Merioneth; a note on the lordship of Glasbury; and 'A description of the Councell and Court established in the Principality and Marches of Wales', and 'An exemplification touching proceedings in Chancery at the request of ye right honorable Ralphe Lo: Eure'.

A group of thirty documents of, or relating to, George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem, Lord Chancellor. They include acquittances and releases, 1667/8-77, for the payment of money, partly by the hand, or for the use, of Sir Robert Clayton and Mr. [John] Morris; dockets, 16886-8, from the Treasury Chambers, of the creations of titles (e.g. marquis of Powis, 1686/7), grants of offices and licences, and leases of fines in the Court of King's Bench and of the profits of the Alienation Office, with the counter-signatures of John Belasyse, baron Belasyse, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of Godolphin, [Sir] John Ernle, Henry Jermyn, 1st baron Dover, and [Sir] Stephen Fox; an undated petition by Leonard Bryar, gent., to Lord Jeffreys to be one of the Masters Extraordinary for taking affidavits in Chancery, together with a recommendation by Rich[ard] Allibon; recommendations [1688] by Rich. Allibon for the offices of Masters in Chancery in Stratford, Herefordshire, and near Settle, Yorkshire; case, and opinion of [Sir] J[ohn] Holt, 1686, in an action before the Lord Chancellor; and a petition [1689] by Thomas Burdet and the rest of the farmers of the markets of the city of London to Lord Jeffreys for the reimbursement by the city of losses incurred as a result of the reduction of duty payable by tanners at Leadenhall market.

Holograph letters and miscellaneous papers of the family of Morrall of Cilhendre, etc. The writers include John Morrall to 'Dear Subtle', 1681 (personal, references to coz. Bowker and Wm. Rider), to 'Neddy', 1686 (Mr. Edisbury at Erthigge), to cousin Basnett, 1687 (bill in Chancery), and from Mould to Edward Morrall, Dudlyston, 1688 (a request for diet drink, etc.); Rich[ard] Murhall, Whitchurch, to Edward Morrall, 1703/4 (the payment of a bill); Tho[mas] Morral, C[astle] Br[omwich], to Frances Edwards, 1718 (money matters, an eye mixture, personal); and Tho[ma]s Knight, Whitchurch, to William Challnor, 1748 (a bond). The miscellaneous papers include receipts to John Murrell of Kil-Henery, 1678-1685, Edward Murrell, 1689, and Edward Morrall, 1832; a note of the debt due from Frances Morrall to Mrs. Morrall, widow, 1746; and a late seventeenth century note of the value of the Plas Yollin estate.

Copies of The Order of the Court of Chancery for regulating the Free Grammar School, Swansea ... (Swansea, 1850) and of George Grant Francis: The Free Grammar School, Swansea, with Brief Memoirs of its Founder and Masters ... (Swansea, 1849), interleaved, with manuscript notes.

Further papers in the same Chancery action:- Summons to confirm an agreement, 1 August 1900; a copy of summons and minutes of a proposed order, 8 February 1902; queries on the receiver's account, May 1902; lists of the proprietors and debenture holders of the company on 25 April 1903; a brief on a petition to confirm the scheme of arrangement, 16 January 1904; the accounts of Frank Williams, receiver and manager, January to June1904; and a case for counsel to advise on the outstanding claim of the receiver against the Cambrian Railways Company, 27 November 1905.

Papers relating to the action in the Chancery Division concerning the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company and The Railway Companies Act of 1867:- judgment, 16 December 1898; bill of costs of Frank Williams, receiver and manager of the Company, November 1898-March 1899; a brief for the Piercy Trustees, March 1899; orders and certificates as to cost in the matter of the Mersey Railway, 24 April 1899; judgment, 9 May 1899; order of summons as to cost, 16 May 1899; brief on adjourned summons for leave to enforce the Hawarden Loop Line Award, 19 June 1899; instructions to counsel to settle an affidavit in support of an application for leave to retake possession of lands upon which unauthorised railways had been constructed, 26 January 1900; summons as to the payment of costs, 17 February 1900; and the accounts of Frank Williams, receiver and manager, January - June 1900.