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Miscellaneous Wynnstay estate records comprising an abstract of the Caereinion Uwch Coed Enclosure Act and award, 1858, a form of agreement to let estrays, 1871, and tax assessment certificates, 1886.

Drafts and final accounts of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, sixth Baronet Wynnstay, and the trustees under the will of his father the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (d. 1840), 1844-1885; Longueville and Co.’s accounts with Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and the trustees, 1853-1869; and the succession account of the sixth Baronet, 1885-1886. Most of the accounts list properties which were sold by the Wynnstay estate, their locations and the names of the purchasers, or properties valued for the succession acccount.

Papers relating to the mining of lead, coal and slate on parts of the Wynnstay estate, at Plas Issa Colliery, Denbighshire, 1814-1827, Cafartha, Van, Snowbrook, etc. lead mines, Montgomeryshire, (Watermark 1853)-1886, Trefonnen Colliery, Oswestry, 1873-1883, and various quarries in Montgomeryshire and Caernarfonshire, 1882-1886.

Particulars and rentals of parts of the Wynnstay estate, the first watermarked 1857 and the last tentatively dated post-1882, listing estates in Denbighshire purchased by the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn [fifth Baronet] subsequent to his marriage settlement of 1817 and devised by his will to trustees to uses, other entailed estates, and chief, fee farm and other rents.

Abstracts, schedules, requisitions on title, etc. found with the conveyances and assembled by Longueville and Co., probably for the purpose of land purchases and sales by the Wynnstay estate between 1771 and 1881.

Papers relating to other estates and families for whom the Williams Wynn family acted as trustees, namely the Wynne family of Peniarth, Merioneth, 1846-1881, the Rug estate, 1868-1874, and the Cornwallis West family, 1870.

Two bundles of papers relating to elections in Montgomeryshire, 1863-1877. The first comprises legal papers in a lawsuit of 1863 relating to the Montgomeryshire parliamentary election of 1862; and the second contains an electoral register, vouchers and letters dating from the Montgomeryshire Boroughs election, 1877.

Papers from various elections in which the Williams Wynn family stood for Parliament or otherwise had an interest, comprising miscellaneous papers from Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Merioneth, 1813-1874, and from Merioneth, 1868.

Literary, legal and historical manuscripts, together with volumes of pedigrees and account books, including the account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer of Queen Henrietta Maria.

Poll books from the Denbighshire election of 1868, recording the polling district, parishes and townships, names and addresses of the voters in numerical order, the votes and remarks.

Check books of the clerks from the Denbighshire election of 1868, showing the booth number, the number on the register, electors’ names, location of property for qualification, the votes for each candidate and observations.

Miscellaneous draft conveyances to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and his trustees, Edward James Earl of Powis and Hugh Williams, of houses and lands purchased, exchanged or mortgaged, mainly in the parish and townships of Ruabon but also including properties in Llangedwyn, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Wrexham and elsewhere in Denbighshire, Llangurig in Montgomeryshire, and Llanuwchllyn and other parishes in Merioneth, 1842-1865. There is also an abstract of title to the Llwyn-y-maen and Horseley estates in Salop and Flintshire respectively, 1752-1782.

Title deeds relating to farms and lands purchased by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, situated mainly in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, 1582-1837. The properties include the Rhosfawr and Dyffryn estates, purchased in 1803, Pentrego, Maes-y-wern, Pen-y-coed, Main, Ceunant, etc., purchased 1806, Tyddyn y Cae Du in the township of Peniarth, purchased 1810, Allt Fawr purchased 1811, Peniarth Farm purchased 1812, Mathrafal or New Bridges in Llangynyw, and Gelly in the township of Peniarth, purchased 1813-1814. Among the former owners of the properties were Evan Meredith and his son David Evans of Mathrafal, the Phillips family of Pentrego, Humffreys (Humphreys) of Llwyn, Parry of Main and Penyvoil, Williams and Davies of Peniarth, Montgomeryshire, Richard Rocke of Trefnannu and Shrewsbury, Ann Jodrell of Ankerwyke, Buckinghamshire, William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse and Thomas Owen Jones of Bishopsgate Street, London.
Many of the deeds are extremely complex and it may be necessary to search more than one file in the chronological sequence below, in order to trace all of the deeds relating to a single property.
Found with the deeds is the original schedule compiled in 1849, and a deed not listed in the schedule, 1853.

Items numbered L1204, 1206-1210, 1219.

Two mediaeval deeds concerning lands in Wick, Carswell and Wroxhale [Wraxhall] in Somerset. The first [late 12 x early 13 cent] is a grant by the Beket family pertaining to land at Wick, containing specific boundary clauses and details of the payment made partly in money and partly in high-status goods. The second, a quitclaim dated 1307, may be part of a settlement involving families located ‘atte Wike’ and Clopton, relating to lands at Carswell and Wroxhale [Wraxhall].

Six mediaeval deeds concerning lands mainly situated in Wrockwardine, Shropshire, [1289x1324]-1336. The grantors include Fulk Lestrange, lord of Wrockwardine and William, Abbot of Shrewsbury. Other parties and witnesses named are Adam le Despenser and members of the Lochard family of Wrockwardine. Two of the deeds refer to a piece of field called Vedelye, which appears to be the subject of a family settlement between Walter, rector of Culmington, his sister, Godithe and Adam Lochard, her son, 1327 and 1336.

Fourteen charters, 1340-1549, by several of the lords of Powys, namely John de Charleton, Edward de Charleton, Henry Gray, Edward Sutton and Edward Gray, issued at [Welsh]pool (Powys) Castle or Mathrafal Manor. They include five pardons by Edward de Charleton to individuals who had taken part in the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr and whose lands were restored to them, 1408-1420. The lands to which they refer lay mainly in the lordships of Mechain Is Coed, Mechain Uwch Coed and Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. The recipient of the pardon of 1420 was Gruffith ap Jankyn ap Llewelyn ap Eignon ap Kelynnyn, an ancestor of the Vaughans of Llwydiarth and former squire to Charleton. Two deeds of 1418 and 1420/1 show that he benefited from further gifts of land and privileges. The gift of 1420/1 is the subject of a deed to settle a dispute between Edward Gray, lord of Powys and John ap Howell Vaughan in 1549. The charters of Henry Gray, 1446, and Edward Sutton, 1508/9, refer to lands in Caereinion and Deuddwr, granted to retainers for faithful service. Two other deeds, of Edward Gray, 1524 and 1540, concern previously forfeited lands in Trefedryd and Moel y Cornorion in Mochnant.