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Estate administration papers of the Wynnstay and Vale of Clwyd estates, and occasionally Flintshire, comprising Wynnstay audit minutes and agency accounts, 1848-1896; expired tenancy agreements and associated papers, 1845-1932; employee records, 1848-1930; estate correspondence, 1709, 1853-1917; tithe apportionments and other tithe papers, [pre-1719], 1841-1890; and miscellaneous estate administration papers, [?1541], 1573-1865, 1920.

Original envelope containing receipts for and authorities by Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams Wynn, as to certain sums under the trusts of the will of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1915-1933.

Accounts relating to sales of estates devised by the will of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn [fifth] Baronet to trustees to uses in tail general, 1844-1885, and in tail male, 1853-1885.

Arranging an appointment.

Volume entitled "Wynnstay papers: Stone Tower Catalogue", recording wills, family settlements, and title deeds, 1185-1817, under various headings for Merioneth, Maenan lordship, Ruabon, Much Wenlock, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Llanforda [incorporates Glascoed], Wrexham, Vale of Clwyd, Shropshire, Llwydiarth and Llangedwyn [includes Ystrad Marchell], Eglwysegl, Dinbren and Cynllaith Owain, "Wynnstay new series" and "W.W.W. papers", mortgages, papers relating to boundaries, and observations on the Vaughan pedigree.

Documents mainly concerned with mortgages on the Wynnstay estates, 1845-1859, to fulfil the trusts in the will of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (d. 1840) together with some earlier family deeds, 1770-1843. The file includes evidence of recoveries of the Wynnstay estates in 1770 and the manor of Pennant-lliw, Merioneth, in 1817; a release by Victoria Kynaston (widow of Edward Kynaston), Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and others to trustees, of estates comprised in the will of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (d. 1749), 1772; a release by Lady Frances Williams Wynn of a legacy and annuity left by the will of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn dec., 1775; an abstract of title to the [?]Crwyni estate in the parish of Llanfor (Gwyddelwern deleted) Merioneth, 1827; the marriage settlement of Hugh Williams and Henrietta Charlotte Williams Wynn, 1843; an assignment of bond debts owing by the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn as part security for a loan, 1845; a copy assignment by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and the trustees to James Tulloch, John Loch, John Martin and Sir Walter Rockliff Farquhar of estates in Salop, Montgomeryshire, Flintshire, Merioneth and Denbighshire for the residue of a term of 300 years for securing £77,000 and further advances, 1845, followed by a declaration of further advance, 1846, and another mortgage, 1848; a list of farms in Montgomeryshire secured by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in exchange with his trustees, 1846; a release and reconveyance by Edwin Lascelles and others of hereditaments in the parish of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr, Denbighshire, discharged from a mortgage for £15,000, but to be substituted by other hereditaments, 1857; and a release and reconveyances by James Tulloch and the other mortgagees, James Morris, Hart Dyke and others to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and the trustees of the will of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, on discharge of the mortgage debts of £77,000 and £4540, 1859.

Title deeds for the Wynnstay (previously Watstay) estate, mainly lying in the vicinity of Ruabon and Wrexham, Denbighshire. As well as the main Wynnstay estate, this group of deeds incorporates Valle Crucis, Llwynedd and Wrexham Abbot, describing properties in Boiston, Bromfield and Ial, and Bryneglwys, 1348-1494, 1584-1594, 1657-1792; Erbistock, Marchwiail and Overton, 1448-1555, 1637-1792; Gresford and Holt, [1509x1547], 1653-1792; Llanarmon-yn-Ial, 1515-1584; Llandysilio-yn-Ial and Llanferres, 1347-1348, 1547-1614; Llangollen, 1555-1734, 1856; Ruabon, 1435-1859; Wrexham, 1293, 1394, 1617-1848; and miscellaneous Denbighshire deeds, [?1563x1565]-1680.

The Wynnstay (Longueville) group consists of papers which were identified as Wynnstay material within the several supplementary groups of Longueville papers deposited at NLW between 1942 and 1992. They comprise family settlements, trusts and probate records, 1710-[1948]; title deeds and other documents mainly relating to land sales and purchases, 1582-1945, including the purchases by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn in Montgomeryshire in the early nineteenth century; financial papers, 1770-1921; estate administration records, 1814-1928; estate letters, 1777-1957; legal papers, 1782-1925; election papers, 1813-1877, which include poll books and check books from the Denbighshire election of 1868; and miscellaneous files assembled by the Longueville and Co. office, 1717-1909.

Miscellaneous papers relating to Owen Wynne of Overton, Flintshire, 1773-1823. The connection with Wynnstay is not entirely clear although Watkin Williams Wynne (sic) is named as a trustee of the marriage settlement of Maurice Wynne and Elizabeth Edwards in 1723 (see schedule of deeds, 1779). The file includes a release by Owen Wynne of Wrexham to his eldest son and heir Watkin Edwards Wynne of Sion Hill, St Dunstan in the East, London, of the Eagles Inn, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, and Tyddyn Issa in the parish of Llanddaniel, Anglesey, 1773; a schedule of deeds and writings (1718-1779) delivered to Arabella Rawdon, a mortgagee, 1779; renunciation by Susannah Wynne of the letters of administration of Owen Wynne, 1780, and a certified copy (made 1823) of the parish register of Overton recording Meyrick and Wynne burials, 1770-1805. A case states the claim by Owen Wynne against Anna Maria Wynne of Llewesog, on the personal estate of Watkin Edwards Wynne (d. 1796), settled in 1800. Other items include an abstract of Owen Wynne’s title to properties in Caernarfonshire, 1723-1796; conditions of sale and particulars of his estates in Penmachno and Llandecwyn, and in the township of Huyton, Lancashire, 1798-1802; an assignment of mortgage from Charles Potts to Robert Aldersey of Chester, of the Plas yn y Coed estate in Overton, Flintshire, and the Llwyn estate, Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, Denbighshire, 1799; particulars and an agreement by Owen Wynne to purchase part of the estate of Phillip Lloyd Fletcher in Overton and Bangor Is-coed, Flintshire, 1800; and accounts of solicitors’ costs to Rev. Maurice Wynne, D.D., administrator of the goods of Owen M. Wynne, deceased, 1800-1804.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 13 June 1949-30 Dec. 1950. Spine labelled 'Letter book' and inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 9’. Discusses the position and valuation of the Wynnstay heirlooms; the picture of the Blind Harpist was sold to Brigadier Eric Skaife, 1 February 1950 (p. 533)

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 11 May 1948-13 June 1949. Spine labelled 'Letter book', and front cover inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 8'. Describes the sale of Glan-llyn and parts of the Montgomeryshire estates, 28 December 1948 (p. 597); and the cleaning of Hoppner portraits, 25 April 1949 (p. 867)

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 31 May 1947-11 May 1948. Spine labelled 'Letter book', and front cover inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 7.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 11 July 1946-31 May 1947. Spine labelled 'Letter book', and front cover inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 6'. Index (unused) at the front of the volume.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 5 Dec. 1944-11 July 1946. Spine labelled 'Letter book' and inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 5'. Discusses the deposit of Wynnstay mediaeval deeds at the National Library of Wales, 1945, the inspection of the family portraits by John Steegman of the National Portrait Gallery, 1945, and the exhibition of pictures by the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1946. Includes information about the manorial rights of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in Valle Crucis (Eglwysegl), 1945

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 19 June 1940-4 Dec. 1944. Spine labelled 'Wynnstay 4'. Includes information about the manorial rights of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in Arwystli and Cyfeiliog (Llanbryn-mair estate), 1940-1941.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 6 Aug. 1936-18 June 1940. Spine labelled 'Wynnstay 3'. Includes a letter to R.O. Reynolds discussing the legal implications of an escaped tiger in Birkenhead, Liverpool, 16 August 1939 (p. 799); deleted, probably not relevant to Wynnstay.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 23 Dec. 1930-6 Aug. 1936. Spine stamped 'Letter book, Wynnstay 2'

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, mainly letters addressed to the Wynnstay estate office, or relating to Wynnstay estate business, 8 Nov.-30 Dec. 1957. Spine labelled 'Letter book'. Index (unused) at the front of the volume.

Volume of typescript copies on flimsy paper of letters out, 25 June 1956-8 Nov. 1957. Spine labelled 'Letter book' and inscribed 'Wynnstay no. 14'. Discusses the future of the picture ‘The Blind Harpist’ following the death of Sir Eric Skaife, 30 October 1956 (p. 203), 24 Sept. 1957 (p. 861)