Showing 7 results

Twenty-two miscellaneous holograph and autograph letters. The writers include Sidney Brickdall, Penloyn, to Owen Wynne, Cheapside, London, 1688 (the abatement of legacies left by Win. Lloyd, Llanfair, a nephew of the writer's husband) (together with a separate letter on the same sheet from Margaret Salusbury, Plas Issa, to Owen Wynne, 1688, touching an offer of David Symon's mortgage); Ed'd Crue, Wrexham, to Owen Wynn, Gwydder, 1626/7 (the rent of the rectory of [Eglwys-fach] church and the state of the ' flannen') (together with a memorandum touching demand notes for rent, and another memorandum, 1627, by Edward Lloyd touching the demand for rents at the church porch of Eglwysvache); Ralph Griffith to Wm. Wynne, Mold, undated (a request for nine subpoenas, a possible visit to Dr. Wynne at Tower); Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd (in the third person) to Doctor [William] Wynne, [1786] (a request for an opinion on the title to plate and furniture lent to Mrs. Mary Lloyd, Plascock, from Wickwer by her late brothers John and Howel Lloyd) (together with the recipient's opinion subscribed, 14 October 1786); George Monck, 1st duke of Albemarle, T[homas] Clifford, aft. 1st baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and [Sir] J[ohn] Duncombe, Whitehall Treasury Chamber, to Maurice Wynn, Receiver-General for North Wales, at Gwidder, 1668 (the appointment of a collector of Crown revenue); Thos. and Fras. Smedley, Bagilt, to John Wynne, Coed Coch, near Bettws Abergeley, 1777 (2) (a dispute concerning the quality of lead ore sold to the writers by Edward Evans, news of the mine at Llansannen); John Vaughan, Hengwrt, to Owen Wynne, near Wrexham, [17]22 (an examination of the accounts of the earldom of Chester for references to Mold, personal); M. Went, London, to Mrs. [Margaret] Wynne, Bodysgallen, near Conway, 1745 (desires her son [Robert] to be sent to London) (together with an incomplete reply); Bl. Williams to Lady Wynn, Gwydder,?[16]76 (the purchase of lace, meat, fruit, etc., for the recipient in London); Humfrey Wynn to Thomas Gruffith, Henllan, 1679 (the title to lands late of John Hughes in Wickwer); John Wynn, Gwyder, to Win. Lloyd, Lyncols In [sic], 1609 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2852); John Wynn, Gwyder, to his son Sir Richard Wynn, 1618 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2855); Maurice Wynn [Gwydir] to Hugh Morris, Royall Oak, Cursitors Alley, London, 1666 (business and money matters in connection with the College and the collection of Crown rents); Rich. Wynn, White hall, to his brother Maurice Wynn, Gwidder, 1640 (the recipient's desire for Dolwithelan Castle, the knightship of the shire [Caernarvonshire]); Owen Wynne, Llwyn, to [Edward? Lloyd], 1712 (a balance of £28/7/6 to be paid to Robert Evans, tobacconist, in Grubstreet, London) (together with a postscript to the same effect from the writer's brother John Wynne, and a receipt for the same); Owen Wynne, Brinyorkin, to [-Wynn(e)], undated (2) (Lady Wynn's indisposition, the death of Aunt Lloyd of Tythin, negotiations for a marriage proposal); Robert Wynne to cousin John Wynne, Mayley, [16]61 (a request to pay the demands of Thomas Williams of Ruthin) (together with a letter subscribed from John Wynne to cousin Morris Lloyd, touching upon the same and with reference to the writer's duties as one of the overseers of the will of his uncle Harry Lloyd of Havodynnos); Rob. Wynne [?Bodysgallen], London, to 'Robin', 1758 (the writer's health, the recipient's chicken-hearted way of writing, requests news of Sir Roger Mostyn's success in [the parliamentary election for] Flintshire, greetings to friends); Robert Wynne, Garthmeilio, to [ ], undated (criticism by Denbigh folks of Mrs. Wynne's arrangements for the funeral of her friend Mrs. Hugh Owens); and Sarah Wynne, Gwidder, to her husband Sir Richard Wynne, at Chester, 1666 (anxiety over the recipient's safety, family news). Also bound in the volume is a power of attorney from Sir John Wynne, Gwydder, 1618 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2856); and a receipt, 1695/6, from Jo. Tolson to Owen Wynne, by the hand of Edward Lloyd, of a half-year's annuity due to Mrs. Elizabeth Templer.

Welsh poetry relating for the most part to the families of Nannau and Cors y Gedol, together with a history of the Gwydir family, etc. Pages 1-184 and 197-213 were transcribed, [c. 1690], by 'John Davies, commonly called John David Laes, a family poet at Nannau' (pp. iii, 497); pp. 217-232 and 289-295 are in the autograph of the Rev. William Wynn (p. 295); and pp. i-vii, 497-498 are in the hand of Lewis Morris of Anglesey. The remainder of the manuscript seems to belong to the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

Transcripts, begun in 1683, of Sir John Wynn, History of the Gwydir Family taken from 'a Coppy belonging to Sr Morris Parry of Llan Elian Clerk, in the year 1674 and afterwards compar'd with & corrected by two Coppys, the one Belonging to the Reverend Dr Humphreys Dean of Bangor, the other found among the Evidences att Gwedir, which last was in many places corrected & interlin'd, & much of it writt with the hand of Sr John Wynn himselfe the author'; 'Ystoria Gruffudd ap Cynan ...' copied for Thomas Mostyn, Gloddaeth, 1683, from 'Llyfr Plas-y-ward'; 'a chronicle supos'd to be collected by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt ...'; charters, indentures, petitions, etc.

A dialogue on the death of Mrs Anne Humphries/Humphreys, 1698; a history of the family of Robert and Ieuan ap Maredudd of Cesailgyfarch and Cefnyfan; a pedigree of the Wynns of Gwydir and Berthddu, and the Lloyds of Rhiwaedog; a copy of a history of Owain Glyn Dŵr, attributed to Richard Davies (d. 1581), bishop of St Davids; copies of letters of Lord Charles Cornwallis (d. 1805) appointing John Jennings as his attorney to receive estate accounts at Broome Park, Suffolk, 1673, and his instructions, together with a copy of a letter appointing Charles Pigeon as steward; and copies of letters of Sir Stephen Fox appointing Charles Pigeon as steward at Naburne, Norfolk [?recte Yorkshire], 1673.

Deeds, copies of deeds and drafts of deeds concerning land and other property in the county of Denbigh (including the lordship and manor of Chirk and Chirkland and their constituent townships, etc., the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, the manor of Ysbyty Dolgynwal, the manor of Ruthin or Dyffryn Clwyd, the hundreds of Isaled and Is Dulas, and the parishes, townships, etc., of Abergele, Abenbury, Banhadla, Barrog, Bersham, Bodlith, Bodrychwyn, Borras Hwfa, Borras Riffri, Bodrual, Brymbo, Burton, Ceunant, Cilan, Cilmediw, Clocaenog, Coed Cristionydd, Cornwall, Creigiog Uwch Glan, Cristionydd Cynrig, Cristionydd Fechan, Crogen Wladys, Cynllaith, Chwibren, Chwibren Uchaf, Chwileiriog, Denbigh, Disgarth, Dutton-y-Brain, Eryrys, Esclusham, Faenol, Gartheryr, Garthgynan, Gwernosbyn, Gwersyllt, Gwytherin, Hafodgynfor, Hafodybwch, Henfachau, Henllan, Higher Chirk, Holt, Llanarmon yn Ial, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Llanfair Talhaearn, Llanfihangel, Llangadwaladr, Llangedwyn, Llangollen Fechan, Llangwm, Llanrhaiadr yng Nghinmeirch, Llanrhudd, Llansannan, Llansilin, Llanynys, Lledrod, Lleweni, Lower Chirk, Marchwiail, Melai, Minera, Moelfre, Morton Anglicorum, Morton Wallicorum, Nantyr, Peniarth, Penyclawdd, Penyfed, Rhan-hir, Rhiwlas, Rhydeidion, Ruabon, Ruthin, Sutton, Sycharth, Talhaearn, Tregeiriog, Trewern, Wrexham, Wrexham Abbott, Wrexham Regis, Y Ddwyfan and Ystrad Cynon), together with associated memoranda, articles of agreement, marriage settlements made by members of the Myddelton family, bonds of obligation made by persons resident in the county, and notes. A few of the deeds relating to Denbighshire also concern land in Montgomeryshire, Cheshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire and Shropshire.

A volume containing a copy in a mid-seventeenth century hand of 'History of the Gwydir Family' by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, Caernarvonshire (ff. 8-73 verso). It is an early copy of a recension of the work represented by thirteen other copies (see below).
The text is here followed by pedigrees of and memoranda relating to the Wynn family of Gwydir and its collateral branches in several late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century hands including that of Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor, afterwards of Hereford (ff. 75 verso-6, 79 verso-80); he has also added a marginal note on f. 63. Inserted later are a receipt, 1551, and a letter, 1599/1600, in the hand of Sir John Wynn (ff. 83a, 84a-b); and two notes, 1878 and [n.d.], relating to the volume, in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth (ff. 86a, 87a).