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Chirk Castle Estate Records File
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Legal Precedents,

Large volume bound in parchment with clasp, pp. 305-1398. Several gatherings at the beginning have been torn out. It is a dictionary of legal precedents in the making, and there are no entries under some subjects. The volume as it stands begins with Baron and Fame and ends with Justification.

Welsh Poetry And Prose,

Cywyddau and englynion by Thomas Price, Edward Maelor, Morys ap Edwart, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Edward ap Raff, Mrs Powell o Ruddallt, Tudyr Penllyn, Robert Kildro and others. The cywyddau of Edward ap raff are dated 1593. Also Talm o bethe Kyfrinachol rhai a roedd fyrgil ag eraill or poets Kyfarwydd yn i dangos yn rhyfeddod i lawer; and y wybod pa fath hinwedd a fydd drwy y flwyddyn wrth y prifav ar diwrnodiau a syrth y prif ... arnynt. Twenty nine narrow folios, being sheets previously used for a draft of a legal document, sewn together. Most of the text was written by Richard Eyton in 1637. Fragments only remain of the first two folios which are in another hand.

Catalogue of the Books of John Myddelton, esq., 1735,

2769 Books are noted. At the other end of the volume (inverted) are copies of the records of the dissent of certain Lords to amendments in the Bill for Suspending Habeas Corpus, 11 Oct. 1722, and to motion for the detention of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk on suspicion of High Treason, 26 Oct. Bound in parchment.

Hymns,

A manuscript containing twenty eight English Hymns. No author given. Paper; sewn in stiff paper.

Treatise On Estate Management (copy),

The work is based on a book by Edward Laurence in 1727- The Duty And Office Of A Land Steward. This manuscript appears to be a copy of a work compiled by Thomas Lovett, about 1770, and is illustrated by examples of accounts taken out of the books of the Chirk Castle Estate. Bound in parchment. Autograph of Arthur Lovett 1885.

"The Accompt of the Money received, towards the Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen, who ...,

"The Accompt of the Money received, towards the Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen, who officiated in the Diocese of St., Asaph, ...; together with the Names of the Benefactors and Annual Subscribers, thereunto, and of the several Persons relieved thereout by Order of the Trustees of the said Charity on Wednesday the 30th Day of July 1766 ..." Printed 4 pp. With MS sheet containing minutes of meetings held in 1776 in connection with a similar fund for the diocese of Bangor, rules and list of subscribers.

Welsh Poetry And English Poetry And Prose,

Welsh verses in free metre, including carolau by Mr Morgan Lloyde, Hugh Morus, Rich. Abram and Morus Richard; English verses made to the City of London in 1665; Morgan Lloyd's lamentations in the ninth month of 1655, etc. Prose items include arguments against Common-Prayer and against attendance in parish assemblies by Members of Congregational churches. Part of the manuscript was written by John Wynne in 1665. Thirty four unnumbered folios; sewn; 4to.

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