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Copy of commission of array issued to Thomas Chedle, sheriff of Caernarfonshire, William Williams, Thomas Bulkeley, Gruffith Jones, John Gruffith, John Owen and the other commissioners of array for the county of Caernarfon, with the instructions issued to the said commissioners. Dated at York.

Commission from Oliver Cromwell to Robert Williams, Thomas Wynne, Morris Wynn and John Wynne, gents, to examine witnesses in the matter of Robert ap William ap Rees, plt., and Robert Pugh, deft., at the house of Hugh Williams in Biarth, Caernarfonshire, at 9 a.m., on the 27th inst., and to send the interrogatories for the first day of the Great Sessions at Carnarvon. Attorneys' signatures appended: Peter Morris for the plt., and Jo. Holland for the deft. Subscribed: Bulstrode [Chief justice of N. Wales]. Judicial seal missing.

Copy of a commission under the Privy Seal, dated at Westminster, and addressed to Ffoulk Vaughan, Maurice Jones, Rice ap Hugh and Richard Boulton, gentn., enclosing document NLW MS 466E/675, and desiring them to put the same into execution. Signed: Hu. Alington [clerk of the Privy Seal].

Copy of certificate by Foulk Vaughan and Maurice Johnes at Llanrwst to the King, that they called the defendant, Sir John Wynn, before them, to be examined according to their commission, but could not proceed to examine him, although he attended there the whole day, because the complainant, Sir Richard Bulkeley, vouch-safed not to exhibit any articles or interrogatories, although they sent mention and notice thereof in writing to the said complainant; which commission or contempt they do hereby certify.

Lady Grace Wynn, widow, Sir John Salisbury, John Wynn, Roger Mostyn, and Mary Wynn, plts. v. Sir John Wynn, deft. Confirmation of an order of 29 Nov. 1675, for delivering the will of Sir Richard Wynn the elder out of this court to the plaintiffs. The defendant to proceed to trial upon one of the ejectments brought by him, in the name of his lessee, in the Exchequer of Pleas, against the said Lady Grace. The validity of the counterpart made by Henry Wynn, defendant's father, to be tried in the next term, as well as defendant's title to the premises in dispute.

Signed: Hugh Davies and John Owen, Constables of Issaph.

The mineral which lies in his land consists of earth and dry substance, far more rich than any water can be, whereof he has sent as much as the bearer can carry, less than he wished for a perfect trial. The place is rich in this stuff, for in heat of summer copperas grows in the chinks of the rocks which cover the mineral. There is in the mine great store of brimstone. It may be digged at a small charge and lies within two bow shots of a navigable river which, within 7 miles empties itself into the sea, and will bear a bottom of 20 tons. Turf and 'pett' [peat] is to be had for boiling, within half a mile of the mine. Divers perfect trials have been made out of alum and copperas, both in the country and in London . The copperas would not quit cost. Skill is wanted to destroy the copperas and to make a greater quantity of alum. If there can be found a man of skill, no doubt the thing is infinitely rich, being a commodity that England so much uses in the dyeing of clothes, and which they are fain to procure out of Italy, and is commonly worth 40 marks or more the ton. For Sir John's part, finding such uncertainty in alchemy, he never durst adventure so great a work himself, and was not willing to part with his commodity without a part, though divers times offered a great rent. Hopes his Lordship will use him honourably and he shall not find Sir John difficult to come to any reason if it pleases God to reveal the knowledge and secret to the trier. It seems that Sir John is the first finder thereof. Porphyry and speckled marble of white and red are in that hill not far from the mine, but there are none here who have skill to polish the same. The rest of this letter, which concerns the transmutation of iron into copper by a process which Sir John professes to have forgotten, is printed in History of the Gwydir Family (1878 ed.), p. ix, no. 2. Overleaf is a rough draft of Sir John's letter (see no. 471 in the printed Calendar of Wynn(of Gwydir) Papers (NLW, 1926)) also printed in the same work. See also no. 470 in the printed Calendar of Wynn(of Gwydir) Papers (NLW, 1926).

(A) To Sir Richard Lewkenor. Is persuaded he has heard of Tho. Wynn's marriage while a prisoner in Denbigh gaol on a charge of murder. Does not know what authority the gaoler or Sheriff had to grant him such liberty. The gaoler is of little worth; the Sheriff is likelier to bear the weight of the offence and the writer is ready to prosecute both Sheriff and gaoler in the Star Chamber, or Court of the Marches, or before Lewkenor at the Assizes, as he shall think fit. The gentlewoman who was seduced to marry him was a near kinswoman of the writer's wife. (B) To Roderick Powell. Respecting a conveyance of lands in Stremlyn, Merionethshire.

Accuses the Bishop of ingratitude. Commences: 'Hominibus ingratis loquimini, lapides.'. Present location of the original unknown. The letter is printed in History of the Gwydir Family (1878 ed. p.x) and in Yorke, Royal Tribes, p. 136.

Copy of a letter respecting the copper mines in Parys Mountain, Anglesey. See also no. 471 in the printed Calendar of Wynn(of Gwydir) Papers (NLW, 1926), printed in History of the Gwydir Family (1878 ed.) p. ix, no. 1.

Hears that he has taken order for the gathering of the tithe of Llangustenyn and desires him to send the money. Knows it is worth twice as much. Desires him also to have the tithe of Bodescallan gathered in kind, for Wynn's cousin, Hugh Gwynne Gruffith, has written that he will tithe it in specie this year. An incomplete transcript of the original letter in Cardiff MS 4.57 (Phillipps MS 16063), printed in facsimile in "Letters of William Morgan ... and Richard Parry ..." (1905). The letter is also printed in Yorke, Royal Tribes of Wales, p. 142.

Answers to Wynn's nine reasons for desiring a lease of the rectory of Llanrwst. The original is in the Library of St Asaph Cathedral. See "Letters of William Morgan, bishop of Llandaff and afterwards of St Asaph, translator of the first Welsh Bible, 1588, and Richard Parry, bishop of St Asaph, editor of the second Welsh Bible, 1620: reproduced in facsimile from the originals in the library of St Asaph Cathedral and in the Cardiff Public Library" (privately printed, 1905). Printed in Yorke, Royal Tribes of Wales, 134-135.

Respecting John Wynn's request for a lease for three lives on the rectory of Llanrwst. The original of this letter is in St Asaph Cathedral Library. Reproduced in facsimile in Letters of William Morgan and Richard Parry, 1905. Printed in Yorke, Royal Tribes of Wales, pp. 139-41.

Upon reading an Order of the Trustees for the sale of the fee-farm rents, March 1, 1652, whereby it appears that Auditor Hugh Powell did, upon March 13, 1650, contract with the said Trustees for the fee-farm rent of All- Angels' Chapel near Braynford in Isleworth and Heston, Middlesex, of £16 0s 6d. per annum, which contract is since assigned to Edward Price, and the whole purchase money paid into the Treasury, March 24, 1650; it is therefore ordered that such part of the said rent under sequestration be forthwith discharged, and the said Edward Price be permitted to receive and enjoy the same without interruption, and that he be paid the half year's rent due March 25, 1651, and the Commissioners of Sequestrations are to deduct a due proportion of taxes out of such fee-farm rent and repay the purchaser, taking care that the Commonwealth does not pay a greater part than what is due. If the party out of whose estates the said rent is issuing be a recusant, then the Commonwealth is to pay only two- thirds and the recusant the other third. And if the party be a delinquent or Papist delinquent, the Commonwealth is to bear four parts of the said rent and the delinquent a fifth, deduction in taxes being made as above.

Contemporary copy from the Public Intelligencer, No. 35, Monday, May 26-Monday, June 2, 1656.

Printed in Somers, 'Tracts', vol. 2, pp. 53-55.

Edmund Williams and wife v. Henry Williams. Order of the Court for retaining a Bill in Chancery, and thereby discharging the costs granted upon the dismission. Signed: Jo. Carpenter.

Copy of Order in the Court of Requests for the examination of the defendant in the matter of Sir Richard Bulkeley, kt, complt., and Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, deft. Signed: Daniel Dun, [master of Requests]. Latin.