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Transcripts of deeds and legal instruments relating to persons and properties mainly in the counties of Chester and Flint.

Holograph letters addressed mainly to Morgan Llwyd. The correspondents include Esther Jones, Dol[ ], 1655 (2) (Coll. Jones's letter to Ellis Hughes, spiritual experiences); E. Herbert to his dear sister [?the wife of Morgan Llwyd], 1658/9 (the recipient's health); Hugh Prichard, Wrexham, etc., 1651-1654 (7) (the reason why Mr. Cradocke and Mr. Powell went out of town, references to Mr. Rice Vaughan, Capt. Strange, Jo[h]n Lilburne, M[ajor] G[eneral] Lambert, and Col. Barrow, the recipient's visits to Merioneth and Carnarvon shires, feelings against M[ajor] G[eneral] H[arrison], union and peace in the church at Wrexham, etc.); Phill[ip] Rogers, Beaumaris, etc., 1653/4-1654/5 (3) (impressions of 'this darke Countrey', books sent to the recipient, the death of Mrs. Courtney, W. Erbery's publication of 'some papers'); Peter Sterry, Whitehall, 1651-1656 and undated (5) (opinions on free will, the godhead of Christ, the writings of Beaumont, etc.); Hugh Courtney, 1649 (Mr. Cradocke's congregation, the Moderate Petition, news of Inchequin's forces in Ireland, etc.); John Trevor, Symon Thelwall, Stephen Marshall, Joseph Caryll, John Glynn, and Henry Herbert to [Sir Thomas Myddelton] [not before 1645] (Mr. Ambrose Mostyn and Mr. Morgan Floyd to be sent to the recipient to help reduce that country to due obedience) ('true copy'); H. J. [from London], 1656 (Mr. Jo. Goodwin's answer); Robert Hughes, Westminster, 1658/9 (Parliamentary business, the illness of two successive speakers, Major-General Overton sent ... to Jersey) (mutilated); Va[vasor] Powell, 1657-1659 (2) (comments on the recipient's beliefs and on their personal relationships); ?Phil. Eyton, London, 1656 (the election of an arbitrator, the war with the Spaniards, the Act for Registers); Samuel Hughes, Swansea, 1656 (personal, references to Mr. Ambrasse Mosten, John Robert, Edward Cynricke, etc.); Will. Rider and Wal. Thimelton, Hollborne, etc., 1652/3-1653/4 (3) (Mr. Erbury's publications and his trial by the Committee for plundered m[inisters], references to Strange and Spencer, etc., and to books); and W. T. Chapellizzard, 1653 (landing in Ireland, a report that the recipient has given over all meetings, etc.). Also included in the volume are a despatch, 1648, giving an account of the engagement (endorsed 'fight') at Maidstone; an order, [c. 1649], by the common knaves of England for the destruction of all gallows or gibbets, and the burning of all halters, ropes, etc., in the county of Montgomery, illustrated with rough sketches of gallows prepared for Powel, Mosten, Capt. Wil'n, the knight of the shire, E[dward] V[aughan], the committees, sequestrators, and all rebels, signed 'Amicus sculpit' [sic]; queries, undated, by James Parke 'To all the professors in Wrexham that deny the light of christ to bee in every man ...'; and an epistle signed by H. Jessey, Will Crees, and Tho. Teobald, in the name of the Church at Colman Street, London, to Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Minister of the Gospel at Wrexham, 1656. Bound at the beginning of the volume is a fragment of 'A perfect account of all the Horses that I receaved the sixth of May 1651', being an imperfect list which appears to have been used as a wrapper for a bundle of Morgan Llwyd's letters and which is endorsed: 'Bundle of letters to Mr. Morgan Lloyd of which perhaps some profitable use may be made if I should have leisure to peruse ym. so as to make some sober remarks & reflections uppon them, if not burn them. May 29th 1706'.

Papers of the family of Hanmer of the Fenns, Flintshire, and Morton Sea, Salop, relating mainly to the delinquency of William Hanmer. They include a holograph letters from Tho. Hanmer, London, to William Kirkham, Iscoide, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, [16]90 (instructions concerning stock and estate matters); a holograph letter from William Hanmer, Fenns, to William Lloyd, Halghton, 1712/13 (sureties of Davies nad Cliffe's wife); an order by the Committee of Parliament in Shrewsbury for the release of William Hanmer upon payment of part of his composition money, 1645; a receipt by James Hatton, minister of God's Word at Whitewell Chappell, to Robert Wyn, servitor to William Hanmer, for 10s. as a stipend or wages given from the manor house of Fennes to the said chapel for half a year, 1647; a certificate by the Commissioners for Compounding with Delinquents that William Hanmer of Fens-hall had compounded and that he ought not to be molested, 1648; an order by Oliver Cromwell to all officers and soldiers, giving protection to William Hanmere of Fenns, 1648/9; an order by the Committee for Advance of Money for the discharge of William Hanmere of Fenns hall on payment of £200 more than the £150 paid by him in Salop, 1649; a receipt, 1655, by Roger Sontley to William Hanmer for £16.1s.6d., being the moiety of one year's charge upon his estate; an order, 1656, by H. Mackworth, Rob. Hutton, and Charles Langford to William Hanmer to bring in a more perfect particular of the true value of his estate; an order, 1646, by the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to forbear to proceed upon the sequestration of the estate of William Hanmer, together with a particular of the estate; a certificate, 1655/6?, that William Hanmer of Morton Sea is well affected towards the government (unsigned); an order, 1656, by the Council at Whitehall that William Hanmer of the Fennes has licence to come up to London for attending to some private affairs of his own (signed by W. Jessop, clerk); an order, 1658, by Thomas Croxton to all commanders, etc., in the counties of Chester, Denbigh, and Flint to allow William Hanmere, a prisoner at Shrewsbury, to return to his house at Fenns for the space of fourteen days; a petition, undated, of William Hanmer of Morton Sea to His Most Excellent Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, etc., to be allowed the charges upon his estate in his tenths; two versions, undated, of the charge of delinquency against William Hanmer of the Fenns; a note taken out of the register book of Hanmer recording the christening, on 19 September, 1622, of William, son of Thomas Hanmer and Katherine, his wife; and two undated schedules of debts charged upon the estate [of William Hanmer?].

Holograph letters mainly addressed to John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc., together with a few miscellaneous papers. The writers include Ka. Jones, his step-mother, [16]66-67/8 (2) (a journey to London, the return to St. Albons, the meaning of the recipient's and his wife's letters, personal, the writer's spinning wheel) (together with a Biblical commentary written in the blank spaces of one letter); H[ugh] C[ourtney] [16]66 (spiritual experiences); Tho. Jones, London, 1668-1684 (2) (the arrest of the drover John Rouland at Epping fair, cousin Robert Wynne in Ireland) (the one endorsed with sermon notes, the other mutilated); Humfrey (Humphrey) Jones to his step-son John Jones and to his step-daughter Mrs. Mary Jones, Bryn y ffynnon house in Wrexham, [16]83-1684 (2) (the health of Mary Jones, the trial of Collonell Sydney, personal, news of friends); Tho. Major, London, to his sister [? Mary Jones], 1684 (family news; Mora Abbott, the Camp at Dundalke, to Humphrey Jones, London, 1689 (military actions in Ireland); J. Humphrey to [ ], 1689 (the appointment of cousin John Jones to the shrievalty of [Merioneth]); Jo. Jones, from Glascoed, to his wife Mary Jones in Cheapside, 1689/90 (3), and from Chester to Mrs. Anne Edwards, Keelhendrey, 1708/9 (the shrievalty of Merioneth, the Assize sermon, etc., the Pretender's attempted invasion of Scotland); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Hugh Jones, St. John Street, [16]92 (the payment of 'brin y ffynnon' rent) (together with a receipt); Richard Jones, nephew of John Jones, [16]95 (desiring his interest with cousin John Maddackes); Hugh Pyers, Mertyn-ysglan, 1695 (a copy of the Duke of York's conveyances); Cad. Wynne, Dublin, [16]97 (the sale of the writer's patent for the office of 'Cheefe seriant at Armes' in Ireland); Richd. Simpson, Poulton, near Lanc[aste]r, 1697 (money due upon a bond); John Billingsley, London, [16]97 (the election of the Elector of Saxony to be King of Poland, military preparations and actions at Namur and Barcelona, the escape of the English E[ast] India ship 'The Tavistock'); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin and Cors-y-gedol, [16]97/8-1699 (2) (personal, the completion of designs) (the earlier letter endorsed with a note of moeny left in a bag brought from Chester by Owen Prichard, and a note of washing left at Mallwyd 1697/8); Jo'n Davies [1700] (money matters, the recipient's father's quondam concerns in Ireland) (fragment); Jonath. Edwards, Jes[us] Coll[ege], Oxford, 1706/7 (the writer's book - 'a preseruatiue against Socinianisme', references to Dr. King of Merton College); Jonathan Jones, Wrexh[am], 1712 (the duel between the Duke of 'Hambelton' [Hamilton] and Lord Mohun, news of the war between Sweden and Denmark); [?Isaac] Manley, Dublin, 1712/13 (Mr. Davis's answer); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], niece of John Jones, undated (thanks for wine, personal); and F[rances] E[dwards], niece of John Jones, undated (news of the writer's sister). Also bound in the volume are a bond, 1675/6, from Joseph Mould, distiller, and John Jones, gentleman, both of Wrexham, to William Jones of the same, gentleman, for the payment of £10; a list of persons to be offered for sheriff of Merioneth, 1683; and an undated list, in the hand of John Jones, Junior, of family title-deeds and papers, 1659-1696 and undated.

Holograph letters mainly addressed to John Jones of Wrexham, etc., only child of John Jones of Maesygarnedd, together with some miscellaneous papers. The writers include Vincent Corbett, [16]97 (the writer's inability to act as J.P.); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart., of Glascoed], Gr[ays] Inn, [16]95 (complaints from Mr. Fowle of the recipient's ill dealing); John Jones, Llansilin, to Lady [Margaret] Williams, Glascoed, [16]98 (the vacant living of Llangollen); Edward Kyffin, [16]99 (the recipient's home journey); J. Morgan, Wrexham, 1700 (money against the fair, etc.) (together with a copy of the recipient's reply); J. V., Lond[on], 1703 (the rejection of the Conformity Bill by the House of Lords) (mutilated); Jo. Jones to his cousin, 1706 (money matters); John Williams (endorsed: 'ancestor of Bodelwyddan'), Wrexham, 1713 (an action against the recipient's cousin); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [2nd bart.], 1719/20 (a loan of £300); and ?John Jones to his uncle Humphrey Jones, undated (the recipient's concerns at Machynlleth, etc.) (fragment). Also bound in the volume are a list of four title-deeds, 1689-1696, left with Owen Prichard, 1697; a list, 1698/9, of deeds which Simon Lloyd took to show [Richard] Vaughan of Cors a Gedol [Corsygedol] and were not returned; a receipt, [16]99, from [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.] to cousin John Jones for £40, being arrears of rent for his part of Bryn y Fynnon [Wrexham]; a news letter, 20 October, 1716, addressed to Mr. Jones at Keel-hendre; a notice, 13 May [ ], from [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.] to [ ], to pay £30 for two and a half years' rent for Bryn y Fynnon; a second bill for £100 drawn by Hen. Jones upon Mr. Humph. Jones to Clemt. Ireton, 1670; and an imperfect sheet, c. 1684, containing particulars of securities on lands.

Holograph letters and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc. The writers include Anne Vaughan, Corsygedol, to her brother Collonell Hugh Wynne, Bodscallan near Conway, [16]72 (a dispute with Mr. Jones of Wrexam over a right of way); Humphrey Jones to John Jones, 1673-1681 (4), and to [his step-daughter] Mary Jones, [16]86 (James Payne's portion, a debt due from Tho. Humphreys, and other money matters, a tenant for the ferry at Conway; the receipt of the writer's rent, the troubles of 'poor Dicke' [Richard Jones of Llanenddwyn]); J[onathan] Edwardes [archdeacon of Londonderry], Newtown Limavady, to his nephew [John] Jones, [16]79 (news of the writer's family); Charles Price, Machynlleth, to [John Jones] 1683 (Humffrey Jones's estate) (endorsed with a letter from Thomas Griffith, Llanciling, [16]83); Ann Major, London, to her aunt Mrs. Mary Jones, Brynnyfunon in Wrexham, 1684 (news of the writer's family); Jo. Jones to [his father-in-law Humphrey Jones], [16]84, and from Wrexham, etc., to his wife Mary Jones, Brin y ffynnon, etc., 1686-1690 (9) (an account of the possession of Penamnen, the likely ruin of the Taltreithin estate, personal, concerns in Mallwyd, Sir Richard Middleton's death, hangings in the Wrexham area, news of friends, money matters, the writer's term of office as sheriff [of Denbighshire], elections of 1690, Merioneth sessions); Roger Sontley, Wrexham, to Mr. 'Debity' Jones, Aldermanbury, London, 1689 (legal, news of actions in Ireland); Mary (Marry) Jones to her [step-]father Humphrey Jones, Aldermanbury, London, [16]86, and to [her husband John Jones], undated (2) (the recipient's concerns, losses caused by Tho. Jones, a visit to Sir W[illiam] W[illiams]); Wm. Williams to [ ] Jones, 1688 (arrears of rent) (fragment); F[ranics] Prichard, Jesus Coll[ege, Oxford], to John Jones, [16]88 (Oxford University news); Vrsula Mathewes, Blodwell, to her aunt Mary Jones, Cheapside, London [1689/90] (personal, the elections) (together with a postscript by the recipient's niece F[rances] Edwards); Thomas ?Speed, London, to John Jones, 169[ ] (the passing of Sir J. Fenwick's Act, Hugh Nanny's appointment as Vice-Admiral of North Wales, the negotiation of a treaty, a proclamation concerning hammered money) (mutilated); E. Wynne to John Jones, [16]92 (a transaction with the recipient's uncle) (endorsed with a note by John Jones); O[wen] P[richard] to John Jones, 1693 (money matters, alms money belonging to Beaumaris School, Dyffryn [Ardudwy] and Mallwyd rents, the employment of a miner); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Mr. Sergeant Rutland, [16]95 (the sealing of cousin Jones's deed); George Wooller, Chester, to John Jones, [16]95 (Mrs. Anne Jones's poor and low condition); Jo. Nicholas, Hook Norton, etc., to John Jones, 1696-1709 (2) (an invitation, family news); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin, [16]99 (the writings belonging to Vchlawrcoed, etc., the recipient's rights to Talwrn); Charles King, Oxon., to John Jones, 1705 (the sale of the recipient's books, life in Oxford); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], to her uncle John Jones, 1710 (legal); and John Williams, London, to John Jones, 1714/15 (lottery tickets). The miscellaneous papers include the certificate, 1663, by John Taylor, clerk of the parish of Woolwich, of the marriage of John Jones and Mary Paine on 9 February, 1662/3 (mutilated); rentals and memoranda, 1665-1696 and undated, relating to estates in Mallwyd, Montgomeryshire, and in Dyffryn [Ardudwy], Merioneth; the instrument, 17 April, 1696, of the appointment of John Jones, esquire, to be deputy lieutenant of the county of Merioneth (seal wanting); a sheet containing particulars of the location and measurements of parcels of land, 1701; lists of title-deeds, temp. Edward VI-1695 and undated, relating to land in Ardidwy, Merioneth; the will of John Jones of the township of Dudliston, co. Salop, esquire, 24 February, 1714/15 (cancelled 17 April, 1717); a poem, undated, by John Carless entitled 'To His Ever Honoured Patron Mr. Humphry Jones of Aldermanbury. And one of the Common Counsell of this Great Matropolis'; instructions, undated, to Owen Prichard concerning deeds and writings [of John Jones]; a list of manors in the lordshp of Bromfield and Yale, with an estimate of the profits of their courts, 11-14 Charles [II] (1659-1662); an account of the reprises due to the purchasers of Bromfield and Yale [after 1653]; and a list, undated, of the hundreds, parishes, and parts of parishes in the lordship of Englefeild.

Two inventories of furniture and linen at Keel-Hendrey, 1719.

A contemporary copy [c. December, 1718] of 'The Genuine Speech of the Ld. L--ne [George Granville, baron Lansdowne] against repealing the Occasional and Schism Bills' (8 pp.); and a news letter, 6 June, 1719, containing an account of Mr. [Gilbert] Burnet, incumbent of East Barnet, the imprisonment of the late Earl of Mar [John Erskine, 6th or 11th earl] at Geneva, twelve porpoises at Greenwich, and the case of the heir of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls (mutilated).

An incomplete volume containing extracts from the Scriptures and from early Christian writers, and notes on theological and religious subjects. Also included in the volume (ff. 253-254) are accounts of disbursements on behalf of Mr. Trevor, 1718.

A fragment of an account of an adventure at sea, dated 1727. It is probably the work of a child.

An account of travels in France by Thomas Hanmer [of Fenns Hall], c. 1728, together with some draft and holograph letters, miscellaneous notes, etc., 1725/6-1731 and undated. The correspondents include M. Bernége, Turin, Jean Escher, Zurich, T[homas] Stephens, C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege], C[ambridge], and A. Bosatty, Bologna.

Lists of books purchased by Thomas Hanmer at Florence, and of medals bought at Man[n]heim.

Holograph letters and a few miscellaneous papers of the family of Edwards of Cilhendre. The writers include Marga[ret] Williams to Anne Edwardes [the elder], 1689 (herb water, recipe); Roger Bridgeman, Oxon., to his aunt, 1720 (college news); M. Bridgeman, C[astle] B[romwich], to her aunt [ ] Edwards, Chester, 1734 (aunt Frances Edwards's tombstone); [Sir] Edward Lloyd, London, to Mr. Challnor, Kilhendre, 1747/8 (repairs at Plas Yollin); F[rances] Edw[ards] to her mother Anne Edwards [the elder] and to her sister Anne Edwards [the younger], undated (3) (alterations at Keelehendry, the christening); Tho. Hanmer, Fens, to cousin [ ] Edwards, 1682/3 (a bond); V[rsula] M[athews], Llangedwin and Blod[well], to Anne Edwards [the elder] and Frances Edwards, both at Glascoyd, [16]92-1693 (2) (personal, interment of uncle Kynaston); T. Aldersey, Spurstow, to cousin Mrs. [Anne] Edwards [the elder], Kilhendrey, [16]96/7 (the writer's offer on behalf of his son); John Davise, Bettus, to Anne Edwards the elder, Keelhendre, 1700 (the writer's distress); Ur[sula] Bridgeman, Blodwell, to Anne Edwards [the elder], Keelhendrey, [17]05-1717/18 and undated (5) (family news, the rectory of Wigan); P. Logan, London, to Mr. Jones, Killhendry, 1706 (personal); John Williams, Chester, to Frances Edwards, Castle Bromwich, 1719 (cousin Bridgeman's health); E[lizabeth] M[arkham] to [Anne?] Edwards [the younger], 1730 (the payment of money); Sarah Bordman, undated (Madam Edwards's estate); Mary Bassnet to Mrs. Edwards at Keelhendry, undated (money matters); F. Edwardes, Ellesmere, undated (an answer to a letter); M. Edwards to her cousin, undated (cousin Price of Gunley's estate); Deb. Basnett, Bor[ ], to Ann Edwards, Kelhendry, undated (personal); etc. Also bound in the volume are a copy of the memorandum of account, 1730, contained in NLW MS 11451B; and a receipt, 1752, for a legacy bequeathed by the will of Ann Edwards [the younger].

Holograph letters addressed to, and papers of, Ann Edwards [the elder] of Cilhendre. The writers include Griffith Kyffin, 1704 (the gift of beef, personal); Ja. Bridgeman, Blod[well], 1718 (the exchange of books, the wedding of Sr. Charles Lloyd); cousin E. Morrall, 1719/20 (Mr. Trevor's case before the House of Lords); Eliz. Markham, 1730 (a bond and a loan); niece Kath. William[s], Chester, undated (2) (personal); niece V. Mathewes, Blodwell, undated (the return of the writer's cousin); daughter F[rances] E[dwards], undated (cousin John's visit to Glascoyd, godmother to cousin Richard Kyffin's daughter); etc. The miscellaneous papers include a note by Edward Podmore for sums of money received from Madam Edwards's servant; a memorandum of account between Edward Morrall and Ann Edwards, 1730 (see also NLW MS 11452C); receipts, 1752-1753, for legacies bequeathed by Mrs. Frances Edwards; etc.

Holograph letters, etc. of the family of Edwards of Cilhendre. The writers include Jo. Leche, Carden, to cousin Thomas Edwards [the elder], Starchamber office in Greas Inne, 1631/2 (the apprenticeship of children, a hearing in Easter term, a debt, personal); [ ] to [ ] [1692] (aunt's legacy to the chapel, a promise of the Anatomy Professor's place, Granvel's trial) (fragment); John Bridgeman to his son (addressed to Mrs. Anne Edwards at John Bridgeman's at Blodwell), 1697 (free leave to travel the world) (mutilated); Tho. Harry, Glascoed, to Anne Edwards [the elder], Keelhendre, 1698/9 (the attornment of tenants); F[rances] E[dwards], Castle Bromwich, etc., to her mother Anne Edwards [the elder], Killhendre, and others, 1701-1716 and undated (6) (personal); Tho. Morrall, Sheldon, to Anne Edwards, junior, Keilheindrey, 1706/7 (personal); Robert Totty, Holywell, to Mr. Challnor, Keelhendre, 1752 (probate of the will of Anne Edwards the younger); F[rances] E[dwards], Blod[well], to her mother, 1756? (a visit to Llangedwine) (together with a note by Sinah Mathews) (mutilated); U[rsula] B[ridgeman] to Anne Edwards [the elder], undated (the recipient's health, sermons by Mr. Morrall); and Thomas Edwardes [the younger] to his father Thom[as] Ed[war]ds [the elder], 'Kilhendrum', undated (personal). Also bound in the volume is a rent roll of Keelhendrey in the time of Frances Edwards and Ann Edwards [early eighteenth century].

Accounts of the family of Morrall of Cilhendre, etc., including an inventory of the goods and chattels of Allice Morehull of Blakemeare parke, parish of Whitchurch, Salop, 11 September, 1638; a bill for legal service from Cha. Walsoll to Mr. Edward Murall of Dudleston [1724]; an account of the disbursements of Edward Morrall for the use of Madam Frances Edwards, 1729-1730; a statement of account from William Turton to Mr. Challnor for professional duties in connection with a recovery of two fields, 1762-1763; and a list of Mr. [Josiah] Morrall's debts [c. 1747].

Miscellaneous documents including three holograph letters to Thomas Jenyns (Jennings), Dodleston, from Edward ap Ellis, 1630 (sureties), T. Vaughan, Hengwrt, 1631/2 (the apprehension of a barker for a debt of £200), and Rich. Vaughan, Corsygedol, 1632/3 (the release of a poor prisoner); two holograph letters from J[ohn] Pardoe, London, to Madam [ ], 1762 (the receipt of letters), and to Mrs. Anne Bee, Salop, 1773 (the payment of a dividend); a holograph letter from Edw. Lewis, Dolgelley, to Richard Whittacres, Cottone, 1634 (Edward ap Ellis's writ); a holograph letter from [ ] Lucking?, London, to [ ], 1703 (the affairs of the family of Mr. Abbott); a holograph letter from Sinah Mathews, C[astle] B[romwich], to her nephew John Williams, Chester, 1734 (begging the acceptance of two cheeses); a holograph letter from [ ] to the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs [1688?] (the writers' determination not to sit upon a case) (transcript; mutilated); a receipt, 1710, by Mary Hieron to Mrs. Susannah Hulton, Dudliston, for a guinea; a receipt, 1762, by B. Hatchett to the Reverend George Hodges and William Prichard, trustees in the will of William Morrall, deceased, for £62.6s. received upon a bond; an undated [eighteenth century] poem entitled 'The Ghost'; a memorandum, 1633, concerning the apprehending of Edd. ap Elice otherwise Edd. Wynne; a copy of an inscription upon a memorial tablet to Ellis Lloyd of Penylan [Ruabon], who died in 1712; an abstract of the will [13 September, 1663] of Sir Griffith Williams [of Pen'rallt, Conway] (mutilated); an account (1 page) of Dudliston, said to have been written by W. Challner, senior; a draft of a letter [nineteenth century] relating to a road to be constructed in order to avoid the Oswestry Trust; and a pen drawing of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

Miscellaneous documents including instructions, 1666/7, by Richard Wynn for the payment of money to him; meditations on sufferings, 1667/8; a form of warrant, 1678, to levy the forfeiture of £5 imposed by the Act for burying in woollen upon persons who neglected to produce the required cerificate; particulars of rents received by Sir Hugh Williams for Penrallt [Conway] lands, 1683 (mutilated); an acknowledgement, 1720, by Jno. Bee and Eliz. Bee of the receipt of their annuity of £50 and of the sale of lottery annuities, together with a statement of account by James Harrison [of Red Lion Square, Middlesex]; holograph letters from Bart. Jones, Greenwich, to his grandfather, 1736/7 (Mr. Podmore's note for £20), from G. Wentnor to Mr. Prichard, [17]66 (the draft of a mortgage), from Ann Carkman, Sackville Street [London], to her uncle Mr. Prichard at Shrewsbury, 1766 (the writer's marriage), from C. Leigh (aft. Cooke), Balliol [College, Oxford], etc., to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1767-1774 (5) (the writer's financial affairs, Sir Edwd. Turner's legacies, the writer's proposed marriage, news from Oxford, impressions of Bookham in Surrey, etc.), and from M. L., Oxford, to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1772 (personal); a statement of account, 1782, for cockspurs and other items bought of Richard Singleton at the Fighting Cocks on Corkhill, Dublin; case, with the opinion of John Leach, 1816, concerning an application by John Smith for a fellowship founded in Brasenose College, Oxford, by John Williamson, clerk, parson of St. George's, Canterbury, in 1521; a fragment of a lease [late seventeenth century] from Samuell Burrowes to Samuell Smith; two sheets containing accounts of miracles and of Catholic persecution, and an unsigned poem; a poem, c. 1680, in the form of a dialogue between Britannia and Raleigh on the state of England under King Charles II; and undated [eighteenth century] poem in Russian and an English-Russian vocabulary.

Transcripts of warrants and deeds, partly made by Tho. Edwardes (1624), and English translations from Horace in an eighteenth century hand.

Holograph letters and miscellaneous papers of the families of Morrall of Cilhendre, etc., and Challnor of Plas Yolyn, etc. The writers include Dan. Morhall to his son John Morhall, Holborne Court [London], [16]59 (three houses in Hodnet, personal) (together with a note by John Beeston); E. Parry to John Morrall, 1687 (together with the latter's petition to the King for a grant of the reversion of the office of examiner in the Court of Exchequer in the County Palatine of Chester); D[aniel] Morrall, Portsmouth, to his brother Edward Morrall, Royal Oak in Elsmere, [16]97 (the writer's capture by the French and his enforced enlistment in the Duke of Bolton's regiment); John Aldersey to Edward Morrall, the New Hall at Penley, 1699 (financial transactions with Mr. Dymock and Mr. Jones); Jno. Morrall, London, Rochester, etc., to his brother Edward Morrall, Keelhendrey, 1733-1739 (8) (the writer's deputy purser, the purchase of S[outh] Sea Stock, brother Andrew's maintenance, the writer's illhealth, etc.); John Whitehall, Lincolns Inn, to Edward Morrall, Kilhenry, 1739 (comments on the recipient's arrears and his proposal to purchase a field); Thos. Knight, Whitchurch, to William Challnor, Keelhendrey, 1747-1747/8 (3) (the recipient's purchase of the Plas Yollin estate); Margt. Morrall, Hollywell, etc., to her brother William Challner, Keelhendre, 1747 (2), and to Mr. [Thomas] Knight, attorney at law, Whitchurch, 1748 (3) (the valuation of the Plas Yollin estate); [Sir] Edwd. Lloyd, London, to Thomas Knight, Whitchurch, 1748 (Plas Yollin estate deeds); Edwd. Jennings, Plas Warren, to William Challner, Iscoyd, 1748-1771 (3), and to Mr. [Thomas] Knight, Whitchurch, 1748 (Plas Yollin estate deeds, the conveyance of Mascynnycod); Wm. Challnor to Mr. [Thomas] Knight, Whitchurch, 1748 (2) (the title to Plas Yollin); Jos. Lee, Redbrook, to Chas. Morrall, Plas Yollen, 1812 (a sketch of allotments on Dudleston Heath, and the proportion due to the recipient for his leaseholds); and D[eborah] Morrall to her father [Edward Morrall], undated (personal). The miscellaneous papers include a bill of complaint of Richd. Pryce, gent., one of the clerks in the office of the pleas of the Court of Exchequer, against Edward Morrall and Thomas Aldersey for the payment of a debt due from John Morrall, deceased, 1698/9; particulars of miscellaneous disbursements, 1739-1741; a computation of the value of the late Mr. Murhall's estate in Dudliston, 1747; and an undated [eighteenth century] notice to beggars that no relief will be given at the door at Plas Yollen, but that any family recommended by creditable neighbours will be relieved, etc.