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A letter book of Colonel John Jones, Maesygarnedd, for the period 3 September, 1651- 17 April, 1654, and 27 October, 1659 - 4 April, 1660. The volume contains holograph copies of ninety-seven letters, and the addressees include Leift. genll. [Edmund] Ludlow (4), Agitant genll. [William] Allen, [Dr.] Henry Jones, Scout mr. genll., Sir Theoph[ilus] Jones, Thomas Scott (15), Mr. Morgan Lloyd (9), Dr. Wm. Stare, Mr. Wm. Rowe (2), L'd Comissioner [Bulstrode] Whittlock, Major Genll. Tho[mas] Harrison (2), the Treasurer at War (2) (signed by Miles Corbett and John Jones), Sir Henry Vane, his brother Mr. Humphrey Jones (4), Major [Richard] Sallway, Mr. Vauasor Powell, Capt. Rich. Price, Capt. Lowe, governor of Carlingford, Mr. Mathyas Valentyne, Henry Cromwell (3), Mr. William Jones, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Power, his brother Richard [Jones] and his sister Lowri [Jones] (an English translation by John Hughes is attached), his cousin Lowrie Gwyn, his cousin Ellis Hughes, Coll. [Robert] Phayer (2) (together with a postscript), Lady Salusbury, Mr. Peasley, Capt. Sontley, Mr. [Peter] Sterry (2), Mr. Poore (2), the Governors of the respective precincts (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C., and J. J.), John Jones (from Peter Sterry, Whitehall), Mr. Standish, Mr. Daniell Lloyd, Wrexham (together with a postscript), Coll. Philip Jones (3), Coll. Marke Trauor, Christian friends in the respective precincts (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C. and J. J.), dearly beloved friends in the Lord Jesus (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C. and J. J.). His Highness [?Oliver Cromwell], Lord Genll. [Charles] Fleetwood (4) (including one signed by Har[dress] Waller, Tho. Cooper, Peter Wallis, Alex. Brafield, John Nellson, Will. Arnop, Jos. Deane, Richard Lawrence, Daniel Abbott, Henry Pritty, Thomas Sadleir, Henry Jones, Will. Moore, Edward Warren, and Thomas Davies, in the name and by the consent of the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland), Coll. Robert Barrowe (2), General George Moncke (2) (including one signed by John Jones, Harr. Haller, Thomas Cooper, Rich. Lawrence, Robt. Phaire, Nich. Kempston, and Hen. Jones), Major John Barrett, Coll. Daniel Axtell, Coll. Thomas Lord Cooper, Roger Lord Broghill, Sr. Hardres Waller (2), Sr. Mathew Tomlinson, Ld. Richard Cromwell, Her Highness Dowager [Elizabeth, widow of Oliver Cromwell], etc. All the letters have been written from Ireland (largely from Dublin, but with a few from Kilkenny, Corke, and Drogedah), and the majority relate to the writer's duties as Commissioner to assist the Lord Deputy. Many of the letters were published in Joseph Mayer: 'Inedited Letters of Cromwell, Colonel Jones, Bradshaw and other regicides', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, New Series, vol. I, 1860-1861, pp. 177-300. On pp. 9, 15 and 87 of the volume are lists and summaries of letters sent by Colonel John Jones into England respectively on 18 September and 9 October, 1651, and on 24 August, 1652. The original parchment cover is inscribed in a nineteenth century hand: 'The Private Letters-Book of Colonel John Jones, the Regicide, from 1651 to 1660'. There are numerous marginal and other annotations in pencil in the hand of 'E. M.' [see note to 561].

A holograph copy of a letter from Mor[gan] Llwyd to H[enry] Jessey, 1656 (lessons and observations from Jac[ob] Behmen, John Goodwin's answer, converse with Mr. Hartlib); holograph copies and one draft of letters (3) from [Morgan Llwyd] to unknown correspondents, 1658/1659, and undated (the recipient's change of doctrine, kindness to David Hughes's son, the recipient's action in Tho. Tillams and the writer's in breaking bread at Chester, the writer's wish to reside in the country); a holograph letter from Hen[ry] Jones, from Dublin, to [?Morgan Llwyd], 1655 (the writer's former course in writing, references to Robin, dear Daniell Lloyd, Capt. Prichard, Sontley, Kathrin, Lowrey Williams, and Eliz. Powell) (together with a draft reply in the hand of Morgan Llwyd); a sheet marked 'fourth' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, concerning the diversity of thoughts in the human heart, together with notes, dated 1655/1656-1656/1657, on apparitions; and 'The heads of the bill for Gouernment' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, 1656.

Articles Concluded & Agreed on for the Surrender of Oxford & Farrington To His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, Upon Wednesday the 24th of this instant June: And Read in the Honourable House of Commons, June 23. 1646 (London: Printed for Edward Husband ... June 24, 1646); the petition, 29 April, 1651, of Willm. Lewis of Bryn y Voyle, Merioneth, to the Commissioners for Compounding, that the sequestration of Bryn y Voyle and his other messuages and tenements in Merioneth be discharged, as he had paid his proportion of the general fine imposed upon North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March [16]54/5; the oder, 29 April, 1651, of the Committee for Compounding to refer the petition of Willm. Lewis to the Committee of North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5; the report, 19 December, 1651, of Tho. Ball, sheriff [of Denbighshire], John Peck, and Daniell Loyd, from Wrexham, upon the case of Willm. Lewis (Colonel John Jones, M.P., had informed them that Lewis was a delinquent beyond the seas and therefore excepted from any benefit of the Act) (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5); the report, 20 September, 1653, of Jo. Reading upon the case of William Lewis, D.D. (copy, attested by T. Bayly, register at Haberdashers' Hall, 30 January, [16]54/5; the affidavit, 8 February, 1654/5, of Joseph Collier, sworn before Henry Pytt, that on 25 March, 1654, he received an annexed certificate of the discharge of the sequestration of the estate of William Lewis, D.D., upon the payment of £56.3s. (copy, examined by Edw. North) (according to an endorsement the document refers to the case of Col. Jones and Sir Maurice Williams); the plea, 14 February, 1654/5, of Humfrey Jones, plaintiff, before the Commissioners of Obstructions, in an action against Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, for the justification of his title to the lands of Dr. William Lewis (mutilated); the certificate, 24 March, 1654/5, of Tho. Browne, auditor, of an entry relating to the estate of Dr. William Lewis of Landony [sic], sequestered for delinquency, and to the payment of £40, being rent for the years 1650 and 1651, by Mr. Humfrie Jones, together with a certificate, 28 December, 1653, by T. Bayly that the did not find any confirmation of the contract made for the estate (according to an endorsement the document relates to the case of Jones and Williams) (mutilated); the petition [27 May, 1655] of Coll. John Jones to the Commissioners for Relief upon Articles of War (Dr. William Lewis declined the clemency of Parliament under the Articles of Oxford and did not compound for his lands in Llanethoyn and Llanddwywe within the time prefixed, but went to France; the trustees for forfeited lands sold these properties to Humfrey Jones, petitioner's brother; in 1653, Dr. Lewis, combining with Sir Maurice Williams, was admitted to compound upon the pretence that the properties descended to him from his mother in 1647; he petitions for the reversal of the order of 17 August, 1653), together with a draft of the same; the case, 2 November, 1655, of Dorety Lloyd, widow of Hunffrey John ap Ruddergh late of Bron y foel, parish of Llanenthoyn, deceased, concerning rent for Bronyfoel paid in 1649 by the said Humffrey by the hand of Caddr. ap Rees Gruff., drover, to Mr. Goslinge, steward of Dr. William Lewis of Bronyfoel (sequestrators demanded payment of rent for the same year, and Hunffrey John was ejected; soon after he died of consumption, the complainant being left helpless and forced to scatter her children among friends) (signed by Richard Jones, clerk, and Dorety Lloyd alias Jones, complainants); and an undated and imperfect account of the case between Humfrey Joens, plaintiff, and Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, before the Committee for Removing Obstructions in the Sale of Delinquents' Lands, touching the lands of Dr. William Lewis, a delinquent, in Llanthwywe and Llanenthoyn, Merioneth.