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A note of the fines and recoveries passed in the Great Sessions for Flintshire, held at Flint, 31 March 1651.

A note of the fines and recoveries passed in the Great Sessions for Flintshire, held at Hawarden, 22 April 1650.

A note of the fines and recoveries passed in the Great Sessions for Flintshire held at Flint, 20 Oct. 1651.

A note of the fines and recoveries passed in the Great Sessions for Flintshire, held at Hawarden, 16 Sept. 1650.

Copy of signet letter for the apprehension of Sir John Wynn and for the levy of a fine of 1,000 marks imposed upon him by the Council in the matter of John ap Evan Conway. If he refuse to make payment, let him be bound in the sum of 2,000 marks to appear before the Council to answer for the fine, and in default of payment let distraint be made on his lands.

'After our right hearty commendations to your good Lordship. Your Lordship had received more speedy answer to your last letters of the 29th of August, but that Her Majesty's pleasure was first to be known touching some part of them; which being now understood we can better satisfy your Lordship in the particular points of the same. And first for the respite your Lordship desireth for return of the certificates out of the counties of Wales; though the service be such as requireth all possible speed, yet in regard of the delay of this answer to your Lordship and because we doubt not your Lordship will see the service performed with as much speed as you can, we hope it shall be in no ways inconvenient that we enlarge the time to your Lordship until the 20th of October, by which day we doubt not but you will take order that all may be in readiness. Secondly, touching the Deputy Lieutenants; your Lordship shall understand that Her Majesty reposeth so great trust in you and thinketh so well of your Lordship's judgment in the service, as it pleaseth her to allow of your own choice of the gentlemen for the several counties set down in your own schedule (adding for Worcestershire, Sir Henry Bromley, kt) and for Pembrokeshire, because your Lordship hath named none of that county, we have thought good to mention these four unto your Lordship, namely, Sir John Wogan, kt, George Owen, Thomas Revell and Francis Merick, esquires, and to request your Lordship's opinion of them, that if these also be to your Lordship's liking, Her Majesty may take knowledge of them. The third point of your Lordship's letter is concerning armour and powder of store; one of the which may be so well provided by the means of a gentleman, one Mr Grovenor, that cometh down into that country and will of purpose attend on your Lordship, as we suppose no better means can be taken than by the partitions of armour and all sorts of furniture that he hath in store; and for the other, we must request your Lordship to take order with the shires severally, that at the charge of the country there may be a convenient quantity of powder layed up in store (as is ordered in all other counties of Her Majesty's realm). And for the places where the store shall remain, and the proportion to be layed upon every county, we must refer it to your Lordship's own discretion. The course that your Lordship wisheth to be taken, rather for a certain sum to be imposed upon the shires for entertainment of the muster masters, than for a voluntary collection, we do well approve; but as we like the manner of it, so it seemeth to us that £25 is somewhat too small a sum, and therefore do wish your Lordship to advance it to £30. For the last point of your letters touching the City of Bristol, we do also allow of your Lordship's motion; and therefore the Mayor of that city, being your Lordship's Deputy Lieutenant, we do require your Lordship to give order that a view also may be taken of the trained soldiers of the city, and all defects supplied according to the direction and order given to all other counties in that behalf. And so we bid your Lordship heartily well to fare. From the court at Nonesuche'. Signed: John Puckering, C.S.; W. Burghley; Essex; Howard; Hunsdon; T. Heneage; Robt. Cecil; J. Wolley; J. Fortescue.

Copy of instructions for levying the Aid for knighting Prince Henry. Let them proceed by composition rather than by inquisition. Dated at Whitehall.

Genealogical problem by John Puleston, being a copy of the epitaph upon Eve, daughter of Meredydd ap Rees ap Howell of Bodowyr, with part of her pedigree.

Manuscript copy of General Monck's letter to the lord mayor and corporation of the city of London, printed in 1650.

Abstract of a deed of grant to certain trusts and charitable uses, between:. (1) William Wynn of Llangoed, Anglesey; (2) Edward Thelwall of Plasyward, William Owen of Llanddyn, and William Lloyd of Bacherrig (3) William Griffith of Cichley, Anglesey, of the rents of lands in Llwynllinor, in the parish of Beddgelert, Caernarfonshire; for the purchase of six penny white loaves of wheaten bread, to be divided and distributed among six of the poor of the parishes, in perpetuum, after divine service, in the parish churches of Llangoed and Beddgelert. The said William Griffith and his heirs also to provide six white cloth coats, each to be of the true value of four shillings and sixpence, to be distributed every Christmas Day before divine service, in the parish churches of Llangoed and Beddgelert, to six poor men, the said coats to have the two letters W.W., in black cloth, in memory of the said William Wynn. The said William Griffith and heirs to pay to two young scholars bred in the Free School of Beaumaris the sum of £6 yearly, to be divided between them so long as they shall continue in the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge; the kindred of the said William Wynn to be preferred before others. Also 10s. to be paid yearly to two able and orthodox ministers, approved by the Bishop of Bangor, to preach in the churches aforesaid on the first Sunday in Lent. And to one poor child out of each of the parishes of Llangoed and Penmon, the sum of £3 13s. yearly towards binding them apprentices.

Grievances in the Bishop of Lincoln's causes, in the Star Chamber, High Commission Courts of the Exchequer, Courts of Common Law, Council Table, Commissions of References, which reflect in danger upon all other the subjects of England, as also in the Court of Arches and High Court of Parliament. Incomplete.

Sir John Wynn's household account from 4 Nov. 1610 to 4 Nov. 1611. Subscribed: Edw. Lloyd; Robert Peake; John Pigott.

Sir John Wynn's household accounts; subscribed by Edward Lloyd and John Pigot.

Account of Sir John Wynn's household expenses for 1615-1616. Subscribed: Edw. Lloyd; John Pigott.

Receipts into the larder at Gwydir during the time of Sir John Wynn's daughter Elizabeth's marriage, when the bishop of Bangor and others were at Gwydir.

Heads of the case against Thomas Wynn, Owen Wynn, Thomas Owen, Piers Salisbury, gents, Mores Thomas Lewes, William David and others, indicted for the murder of the constable during an 'affray' at Llanrwst Fair upon John ap Res Lloyd. In the autograph of John Wynn of Gwydir.

It is well-known that Sir John is a good governor of his country; God bless him long, for there will be 'a miss of him' whenever he is gone. There is, in his limits, an honest old gentleman named Robert ap Hugh Lloyd, who is recommended as high constable of the hundred. He has many times held the office, but has now grown heavy and sickly, and has had great losses by fire. Desires Sir John to pass Lloyd over and to appoint some other, as he can doubtless make his choice. Though Sir John stands by the most efficient, yet every man must serve his turn. The poor gentleman is kinsman to the bishop, who writes this at the solicitation of the brother, who is in the bishop's house. Thanks Sir John for enquiring after his health, and cites the proverb senectus ipsa morbus est.

Account of household provisions used at the house in the Strand, whereof Mr Harry Wynn is to pay part.

'I dined with my Lord's Grace [John Williams, archbishop of York] this day sennight, and, finding good opportunity after dinner, I moved his Lordship according to your directions, which I conceive requisite herein to express, that you may see that I endeavoured not to forget particulars, as near as my memory gave me leave, and if you find that I am any way defective of your instructions, be pleased to put me in mind and I will move his Grace further, as soon as I find opportunity. Amongst general discourses at Gwydir, I told his Lordship that I heard that his Lordship had lately had a shrewd fit of the stone, which he confessed. Then I told him that I had heard that his father died of that malady ... hereupon I presumed, under correction, to put him in mind of his years ... three-score and eight'. A detailed description of the writer's efforts to induce the Archbishop to settle his estates by deed and not by will follows. 'His answer to me was that he was then well, and in health, and that he hoped to have time for that purpose, whereof he was not unmindful, and thanked me heartily for my love, yet he did believe that he knew well enough whence this discourse did proceed, and, therefore, to satisfy me and others in this particular he said that there was somewhat done in England and Wales for my kinsman Owen Wynn already, and that by deed and not by will'. Particulars of this settlement follow. Underneath is a certificate, signed by the said Hugh Robinson and Robert Hughes and dated 13 Oct. 1653, stating that the letter is in the handwriting of the said Hugh Robinson and that the contents thereof are true. Endorsed, in the autograph of Owen Wynn: 'Parson Robinson's letter, 1647.'.

Imprecation of Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, upon his marriage with Mary Wick, in which he forswears all manner of debauchery upon pain of eternal punishment. Printed in Pennant, 'Tours in Wales' (1883 ed.), vol. 3, pp. 286-288. There is a note on the Wick family endorsed on the manuscript in the autograph of Paul Panton. Note. Edward Broughton married the daughter of Wick, keeper of the gatehouse in Westminster, where he had been confined for some time during the Civil War.