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Letters to Lady Margaret Owen, [c. 1682]-1727. Correspondents and subjects not previously mentioned are James Brynker, 1718-1727, Margaret Godolphin, 1718, Hugh Williams of Coedmawr, 1713, Edward Wynn(e) at Oxford, Griffith Wynne, 1699, family members [1683x1702] and others about a land exchange and disputes mainly affecting the Caernarfonshire and Glyn estates; condolences on the deaths of her father, Owen Wynn [c. 1682] and her husband, Sir Robert Owen, 1698; college life at Oxford; petition procedure and expenses following William Owen 's defeat in the Caernarfon borough elections, 1713; and non-family trusts. Further correspondents are Edmund [Gibson], Bishop of Lincoln, on his family and recommendation of Mr Lewis [Owen] for an academic fellowship, 1716-1718; and Ellis Wynne, vicar of Llandanwg, requesting permission to build a chapel on the site of the old Shire Hall at Harlech, 1706. The file also contains three letters by Margaret Owen to Richard Mostyn of Penbedw concerning trusts in the will of Sir Robert Owen, 1698-1699.

Letters of various individuals connected to the families of Maurice, Owen, Ormsby-Gore and Godolphin through marriage, friendship or business and a small number of items where neither the author nor the recipient can be identified, 1582-1933.
They comprise letters to, from or about the Wynn family of Glyn, 1596-1690 (whose correspondents include Hugh Pennant, [c. 1663]), Anne Jones of Clenennau, 1679-1695, Rowlands of Nant, [1680s], Glynne of Eleirnion, [1680s]-1703, Humphrey Humphreys, 1700, Waller [of Castletown], 1706-1710, James Brynker, 1724, John Egerton, 1756, Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, 1680, the Seymour family, 1831-1868, Frank Weston, 1914, and others, 1582-1933. Topics include threats of invasions by the Spanish 1596, and the French, 1743; genealogies of Glynne of Glynllifon, [1605] and Gore, 1912; collection of the ship mise in Merionethshire, 1618; Sir Robert Owen 's dispute with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over land in Gest, 1679-[c. 1694]; estate business of Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1729; claims on the estates of Richard Clayton, 1735, and of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1793; church administration in Llanyblodwel and elsewhere, [1730s?], 1756, 1868, 1914; parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire, 1774 and Leitrim, 1874; the compulsory purchase of Oswestry Corporation property for improving access to London Bridge, 1831; complaints about the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, 1854; the Crimean War, 1855; First World War action against the Turks, 1918; and other items of national and international news. - - - The Stuart correspondence (mainly copies) includes James I to Sir George Calvert on the priveleges of the House of Commons, 1621; the Covenanters to the Earl of Essex, 1639; Sir William Temple to the Countess of Essex on the death of her daughter, [pre-1699]; and others, on the Oath of Allegiance, [1606], the rebellion and conquest of Ireland, 1649-1652, and the character of Sir George Jeffreys, 1680.