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Items numbered L 111-128, 538, 1034-1035, 1255-1256, 1258, 1261, 1270-1271, 1273, 1276, 1278, 1286a, 1288, 1301, 1311-1313, 1318, and M 1665, 1765.

Items numbered L1279-L1282, L1284, and M1283.

Household account books of Wynnstay and the London town houses occupied by the Williams Wynn family, eleven in total. Nine of them contain accounts compiled by Samuel Sidebotham, steward to the fourth baronet, 1768-1777; the tenth appears in a different hand, 1779-1781, and the eleventh is of later date, 1843-1857. The first volume records the expenses of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn’s grand tour through France and Italy, 1768-1769; the second includes the expenses of Sir Watkin Williams’ Wynn’s coming of age party, 1770; the next seven volumes contain general household accounts, systematically organised into sections for sundry disbursements, pictures, Master Williams Wynn, charities, music, house rent, taxes and repairs, cellar, stable, servants’ livery, servants’ bills and travelling expenses, servant’s wages, housekeeper, kitchens, cash receipts and balance. From 1775, the house in St James’s Square is added and there are other variations in the tenth volume; the eleventh volume has a different layout. These account books reveal the fourth baronet’s interests and lavish lifestyle, listing payments to artists, craftsmen, entertainments, musicians, societies, and charities. The sundry disbursements include monuments and a font for Ruabon church. Recurrent payments to individuals include the artist Paul Sandby, 1770-1773, sculptor Joseph Nollekens, 1772-1774, various music sellers, the musicians Charles Linton, 1771-1773, David Parry, 1770-1777, [Richard] Hay, 1773-1780, and [Stephen] Paxton, 1770-1777, Jeremiah and William Parkinson, 1774-1780, theatre scene painter George Wilkinson, 1774-1777, potters Wedgwood and Bentley, 1771-1775, and others.

Fines and Amercements for the Hundred of Machynlleth, 1659-1735, with accounts of the like for the entire County of Montgomery for the years 1554/5, 1715/6, 1734/5.

Items numbered L791 and L1231-2.

Items numbered L1204, 1206-1210, 1219.

Arranged into 1741 election, 1822-1833 election papers, and 1732-1857 elections miscellaneous papers. Items numbered L854, 858, 868-916, 920-922, 924-1018, 1020-1022, 1028-1031, 1036, 1040-1042, 1046-1093, 1298, 1321-1322.

Arranged into the 1734 election, the 1741 election, and miscellaneous, 1727-1861. Items numbered L711-748, 750-752, 753-790, 792-853, 855-857, 859-867, 1023, 1026.

Items numbered L413-414, 1094-1173, 1175-1200, 1233, 1243, 1245-1249, 1315-1316, 1320, 1323, 1325.

Items numbered L749, 1019, 1024, 1027, 1039, 1174, 1201-1203, 1205, 1211-1218, 1220-1230, 1234-1242, 1244, 1314, 1335-1336.

Letters and papers relating to Sir William Williams, kt and bart, recorder of Chester, solicitor general, speaker of the House of Commons. Items numbered C 11-12, 14-64, L 388-404, 407-415, 416 (x2), 417-442, 444-534, 537, 539-559, 562-585, 696-706, 1233. Arranged into letters, 1675-1689 (C 11-12, 14-33), legal papers, 1626-1699 (C 34, 36-39, 41-42, 44-47, 51-64, L 388-404, 407-415, 456-460, 522, 539-540, 551-556, 562-585, 696-706, 1233), parliamentary papers, 1670-1689 (L 416 (x2), 417-428, 430-436, 440-442, 453-455, 465-521, 523-524), miscellaneous papers, 1572-1698 (C 35, 40, 43, 48-50, L 444-445, 461-464, 525-534, 537, 541-550, 557-559), and papers relating to Crown revenue, 1597-1689 (L 429, 437-439, 446-452).

Literary, legal and historical manuscripts, together with volumes of pedigrees and account books, including the account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer of Queen Henrietta Maria.