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Will (probate) of Thomas Glynne of Lincolnes Inne, co. Middlesex, esq. Testator devised as follows:- "To my god-daughter, Frances Glynne, and her issue my houses called Lightwood in co. Flint, and my realty in co. Caern, with remainder to my heirs; to my nephew, John Glynne, and his issue my realty in co. Anglesey, a house in Figgetts Feilds or Little Lincolnes Inn Feilds, and a leasehold house in Lincolnes Inn Feilds; to my brother and executor, Sir William Glynne, bart., £1900 he owes me, £220, and plate; to my nephew, William Glynne esq., my diamond ring." Witnesses: Thomas Seywell; John Bromhall; William Crachley. Proved in London on 19 June, 1685, by the executor.

Will (probate) of Thomas Littlehales of. Stourbridge, co. Worcester, apothecary, who devised as follows :- "To my wife, Elizabeth Littlehales, and my brother, Samuel Littlehales, my house and shop in Stourbridge for. 99 years, on trust to pay to my daughter, Anne, £250, with remainder to my said wife for life, with remainder to my son, Thomas; to my said wife and daughter, Anne, a house in Stourbridge for 99 years on trust to pay my daughter, Jane, £250, with remainder to my said wife for life, with remainder to my son, Samuel; to my said wife a house and a garden in Stourbridge for her life, with remainder to my son, Thomas, he to pay my son, Samuel, and my daughters, Anne and, Jane, £80 apiece." Witnesses: Thomas Hill; Jone Elick; Mary Raby. Proved in London on 8 Sept., 1742.

Writ by Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons, commanding all churchwardens, etc., in Flint and in the boroughs of Overton, Caerwis, Caergurley, and Rhudland, co. Flint, to attend at the House of Commons on 4 March next, with such rate books, etc., as Sir John Glynne after inspection of the same should require to be produced at the hearing of his petition against an undue election and return for the borough of Flint.

Writ of execution of an order to John Blashefield and William Brett to return within ten days the answer of John Harris, defendant to a bill of complaint by Samuel Hellier, an infant. Seal.

Writ to John Harris, a solicitor of the Court of Chancery, who had taken away from the free school at Birmingham Samuel Hellier, the infant son of Sarah Hellier, the daughter of Sarah Huntbatch, widow, and petitioner in the suit, to deliver the said infant to the petitioner until a guardian had been appointed by the Court.

Writ to Richard Onions, Thomas Cox, Edward Wilkes, and a number of others to carry out an order made in the High Court of Chancery on 19 Feb., 1754, in a suit between Samuel Hellier, esq., an infant, by his next friend, the Rev. Doctor Littleton, Dean of Exeter, plaintiff, and John Harris, Sarah Huntbatch, widow, William Brotherton (executor of Dame Elizabeth Cooks Winford alias Hellier, widow), and Thomas Lee Dummer, esq., defendants, under which, and on the report of a master, Rupert Dovey of Stourbridge, co. Worcester, gent., was appointed receiver of the estate of Samuel Hellier, the deceased father of the plaintiff.

Writ to Thomas Longueville Longueville, junior, James Boydell, junior, and others to take the oaths and recognizance of Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, bart-, to whom the King had committed the office of sheriff of co. Flint. Attached are the oaths of allegiance and the recognizance for due execution of the office of sheriff by Sir Stephen Richard Glynne.

Writ to Thomas Ravenscroft, esq., late sheriff of co. Flint, to deliver to Thomas Hanmer, esq., who had been granted the custody of the said county, all the documents belonging to the office of sheriff. Latin.