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Audit of Crown rents at the Talbalt at Chester. Account of sums paid by prominent Cheshire families.

Bill exhibited at the Court of Great Sessions for Wales by Robert ap Rees ap David Lloyd, concerning the title to lands in Llanrwst.

(A) An abstract of the Bill for the free trade of Welsh cloths. The Act. Preamble. The trade has continued long. Thousands are maintained thereby. The restraint made by the Board is grievous to the inhabitants of Wales. It has the general consent of the knights and burgesses of Wales. Sellers. Any person dwelling in Wales may sell to lawful purchasers. Buyers. Any person who may lawfully buy, shall buy. Non obstante. Nothwithstanding any charter or order to the contrary. Transportation. Any persons using merchandise may transport out of any port where officers attend to search, view, control and receive customs. Two provisos:. (1) For payment of customs. (2) For fulling, cottoning and shearing of cottons before exportation. Penalty. The transporter forfeits the value of the cloth transported contrary to this Statute. Probation.This Act to continue to the end of the next Session ensuing, 7 years. (B) Reasons for the maintenance of the Bill. A free market is best for place:. (1) A certain staple cannot be convenient for all. (2) It overthrows the rest of the towns in Wales. (3) It decays the Prince's tolls in Wales. A free market is best forperson:. (1) The engrossing of a commodity to a certain number is a wrong and loss to those restrained. (2) They may cause the market to rise and fall at pleasure. (3) They cannot and will not take the cloth off the clothier's hands. A free market is best for immediate exportation:. (1) Will increase the trade. (2) Will enhance the prices. (3) Will convert all the wool of Wales to cottons (where the third part is not now converted). (4) Will draw the manufacture of Irish wool to Wales now transported to Spain and the Low Countries. (5) Will make the exchange of cloth for commodities imported a treble benefit for the cloth-maker in the (a) sale of his cloth at first hand, (b) saving of imported commodities, (c) prevention of the exportation of gold and silver. (6) Will increase navigation and His Majesty's customs. (7) Will not harm the Salop drapers, for they will become merchants (as they were in the 9th of the King). (8) Will give carriers sufficient employment. (9) Will give dressers of cloth more and better employment. (10) Exportation was always free before the late restraint, as may appear by the Cockets in the Exchequer. (11) This Bill is in affirmance of the Common Law and many Statutes, and is a restitution of a former liberty and no diversion of the trade. See Bowen, 'Statutes of Wales' (1905), pp. 163-165.

Draft, in the autograph of Sir Owen Wynn of Gwydir, of a bill in Chancery, in a suit between Sir Owen, plt., and John and Gruffith Williams, defts., concerning the will of Archbishop Williams. Refers to a treaty of marriage between the plaintiff and Sir John Wynn, his father, on the one part, and the late Archbishop of York, then Bishop of Lincoln, on the other part, for a match between the said Sir Owen and Grace Williams, the Archbishop's niece. The Archbishop to give £3,500 portion as well as land for the benefit of the young couple, within two years of the marriage. Ellis Wynn, the plaintiff's uncle, gave £1,000 to the Archbishop to help on the match. According to this agreement a marriage was made and had between the plaintiff and the said Grace Williams, the Bishop's niece. The money paid into the Archbishop's hands, on the plaintiff's behalf, amounted to £7,000, who bought lands, worth £500 a year, in trust for the plaintiff and his wife, in the town of Huntingdon, to the use of the defendant, John Williams, and others, as well as lands in Wales from one Trafford. And the Archbishop made an entail of the said lands, to satisfy the plaintiff for all his wife's jointure, and for those moneys had from the said Ellis Wynn. His Lordship, desiring to know where the said entail lay, sent the plaintiff a note, a little before his death, saying there was an entail of those lands and that the defendant, John Williams, one of the trustees, knew where his writings should remain, in or about London; and his Lordship, being then sick, desired the plaintiff to perfect the setting up of his estate by deeds then drawn in paper books for charitable uses in England and Wales. The Archbishop died suddenly in Wales, within the compass of 11 hours, having intended to come within a fortnight to the plaintiff's house to seal those deeds, the most of his estate being intended for charitable uses, and specified under his own handwriting in his Lordship's Bible, wherein he studied most part of his abode in Wales, being about five years, and where at last his Lordship died. That, by reason of the extremity of his sickness, his Lordship was not then in case to be questioned where his testament and writings lay sealed by him already; but said (then at his dying hour), 'My kinsman, John Williams, knows I made a will and, being one of the trustees of my lands in Huntingdon, to him I fully expressed my mind two years ago when I scribbled out my will at Gwydir, especially touching my niece' (the plaintiff's wife). The defendant Gruffith Williams, heir at common law to the Archbishop, doth now pretend that he died intestate, and has seized upon all the Archbishop's real and personal estate, and upon his Lordship's last will, and upon all other writings which his Lordship had in Wales, and defrauds the plaintiff of all his just demands out of the Archbishop's estate, particularly of the lands in Huntingdon and Wales aforesaid.

Bill in the Council of the Marches by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir against Sir Richard Bulkeley and others, for the recovery of lands called Y Byrdir alias Y Byrriade, Erw Lancaster and Erw Grwppach in the township of Castell, Caernarfonshire, and lands called Cay Hamont, Dryll y Redyn Cochion, and Cay Howel Dew, in the parish of Llanfair, Caernarfonshire.

Acquittance by Richard Gyttyns, collector of king's chantries and free chapels in Caernarfonshire, in the sum of £3, due to the King from John Wyn ap Meredith, esquire, from the lands of Hugh ap Robert ap William.

Copy of the Bill of Complaint to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, bart., Lord Keeper, of John Cressett of the Inner Temple, gent., and of the answers of the Hon. Robert Robartes and Sarah his wife, and of Charles Bodvel Robartes, 2nd son of the said Robert and Sarah, an infant, and of Henry Wynne, defendants to the said Bill, in a dispute concerning the estates in N. Wales and 'Birdsey' Island of John Bodvel of Bodfel, dec, late father of the said Sarah.

(A) The joint and several answers of John Michel and Owen ap William Thomas to the bill of complaint of Hugh Davies and Elizabeth his wife, concerning lands called Kayr Myrches and Rhyd Nant, in the township of Brynberva, Anglesey, and referring to a feoffment dated 3 Nov., 13 Eliz. (B) Attested copy of answers to interrogatories put to witnesses in a matter concerning the said lands.

Bill of complaint of William Williams of Beaumaris concerning the recovery of monies laid out on behalf of his uncle, Hugh Williams of Ludgate Hill. Prays for a writ of subpoena to Elizabeth Williams and Benjamyn Jones. Mutilated.

Bill of complaint of John Wynn of Gwydir, Caernarfonshire, esquire, to Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper, concerning the title to lands in Dolwyddelan, Caernarfonshire. Incomplete, 6 pp. only.

Bill of complaint of David ap Evan ap Meredith, Moris ap John ap David and Margaret verch Ithell of the manor of Trefewinder, Caernarfonshire, to the Lord High Treasurer of England respecting the Order by the bishop of Bangor (in the matter at issue between the petitioner and Mr Wynn) for the continuance of the petitioner in possession of all such houses and lands as he has had possession of these 10 years.

Thomas Martyn's bill of costs, with a note appended of what is still due thereon, in the matters of Price v. Wynn and Sharpe v. Merrick.

Bill of various articles of apparel and books, March 1655/56-June 1656. Endorsed, in the autograph of Sir Owen Wynn: 'Mr John Walle's bill of parcels for my Sessions business at Wrexham'.

Attested copy of the Bishop of Bangor's certificate to the justices in the matter of William Williams of the Vaynoll, complt., and Robert Lewes, deft ., respecting the lease of Coytmor. On the reversion of the lease Sir John Wynn, to whom it reverted, entered and took Lewes's cattle in lieu of half the yearly rental for the winter term. Williams demanded three parts of the rent for the five months (May to Michaelmas) alleging that all the chief profits for the year, for pasture, hay, butter and cheese, were made at this time, which is against equity for the mountains are, for the most part, covered with snow in the winter, and are only fit for the foddering of beasts. The poor man is fallen between two 'grindstones.' Begs their Lordships not to suffer our great men to oppress the poor and exhorts them to imitate the example of holy Job.

'The names of all the Chymick Books of Doctor Gascoignes of Moore ffeilds, which were sold by his brother or kinsman Gouldsmyth of Coleharbart in London, the mercer, to a ... in Duck Lane, and sold by him to me; I mean as many as I have bought anno 1629.'. Endorsed: 'A note of my Chymick books at home to be sold, 1636.' This catalogue, which is in the autograph of Owen Wynn of Gwydir, contains 110 entries of manuscript and printed chemistry etc. books.

Evan ap John Conway, tenant to Harry Salusbury, relator, v. Sir John Wynn and others, defendants. Brief for the defendants, in a suit in the Court of the Marches, for riotous and forcible entry by the defendants upon the relator's lands in Penmaen and Llysvaen, Caernarfonshire.

Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, v. John Baylie and others. Brief in a suit concerning the lease of Llanfair parsonage, parcel of the prebend of Llanfair, which the prebendary Gruffith Wynne (a lay man) demised (6 Edw. VI) for 99 years to the plaintiff's father and grandfather. It is a vicarage, and the defendant, who is vicar, has £60 per annum, and is a learned preacher. He is a young man, Fellow of a college in Oxford and a bishop's son.

Brief in a suit between a Mr Herbert [chaplain?] to the late Bishop of St Asaph, and Sir Owen Wynn of Gwydir, for the rents and profits of the rectory of Llanrwst. The late Bishop, as sinecure rector, demised the profits of the said rectory, in August 1645, to the said Sir Owen, but after the estates were sequestered, Sir Owen became tenant to the State.

Brief in the matter of Dame Grace Wynn, widow, Sir John Salisbury, bart., John Wynn, and Roger Moyston [sic], esquires. Mary Wynn, an infant, the only daughter and heir of Sir Richard Wynn, the younger, bart., decd. (her grandmother prosecuting as her next friend), plts., and Sir John Wynn, kt. and bart., deft., concerning the will and deed of settlement of Sir Richard Wynn the elder.

The brief how the profits of the rectory of Llanrwst were disposed of since the decease of Dr Morgan Wynne, late incumbent there. 1644 Dr Morgan Wynne died about Michaelmas 1644, and before his death demised the rectory to Sir Richard Wynn. The bishop of St Asaph takes the said rectory into his commendam upon his decease. 1645. This bishop questions the lease and disturbs Owen Wynn in the possession thereof as agent to his brother Sir Richard. The business was referred to the archbishop of York and John, bishop of Chester, who judged the lease good. The bishop was ordered to write a note to the parishioners stating that Owen Wynn was to continue farmer. (Produce the bishop's note to this effect, under his own hand and written by himself, dated 14 August 1645). The rent was paid to the bishop. 1646. In May 1646, the warrant under the committees' hand was issued to all farmers of livings (sine cura) under the bishop, when the same sequestered. In July following, Owen Wynn was admitted by the committees to be the farmer, paying the rent to the use of Parliament. 1647. Has not got the acquittances to produce now. Until he can give better satisfaction of the payment thereof, he must refer himself to their Receiver's Book and to the relation of Mr Edward Davyes, the sequestrator. 1648. Produce Mr Edward Davyes's acquittance for the same. Notwithstanding true payment made as aforesaid upon this sequestration, the bishop calls on Owen Wynn to pay him his rent as though it were not sequestered.