Plas Power Estate Records and Papers
Estate, financial, legal, personal, domestic, industrial and commercial papers of the several families who held the Plas Power estate, notably the Myddeltons, Lloyds and FitzHughs, including some papers relating to the Myddelton family of Chirk and their estates.
Plas Power Estate (Wales and England).
Rent receipts in Wrexham and Ruthin.
Letters to other identified recipients,
Letters to other identified recipients, predominantly members of the Fownes, Myddelton and FitzHugh families and households, and their representatives and associates, together with those of the Lloyd family after Rev. Thomas Lloyd moved to Plas Power in 1720; included are letters from William Fownes, Richard Myddelton, Mary Myddelton and Roger Mostyn; as well as a letter from [Philip, duke of] Wharton, to his sister Lady Jane Holt, 1726, expressing his concern for his family in the light of his appointment as Jacobite ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire; a letter from John Yorke with military news from 'camp between Balaklava and Sebastopol', October 1854, and a copy of his letter from 'Balaklava Harbour'; and two letters from E.J. Stracey from Balaclava, October [1854], and 'camp before Sebastopol', December 1854, concerning military affairs and the condition of the army.
Wrexham Agricultural Society accounts,
Will of Sir Richard Myddelton, and Frances Whitmore's money
An account, 1716, of the opening of the will of Sir Richard Myddelton after his death, and a memorandum, 1698, relating to his wife's money, together with a copy, 1649-1653, of the will of 'Richard Middelton the elder [?1631-1700] of London'.
Papers relating to the administration of the Plas Power estate and household, including some properties belonging to the Chirk estate, some but not all of which became part of the Plas Power estate; also included are some records from other properties in England that were owned by the Myddelton family.
Anglesey naval aid assessments,
Assessments of royal aid for defraying the expense of the Navy, to be levied in the hundreds of Llifon, Talybolion, Menai, Twrcelyn, Malltraeth and Dindaethwy.
Denbighshire Quarter Sessions,
Court records including constables' and juries' returns, presentments, recognizances, summonses, pleas, petitions, nomina ministrorum, and a pro forma for appointing attorneys.
Great Britain. Courts of Quarter Sessions (Denbighshire).
Oaths sworn by William Myddelton,
'Certificate of Sr W. Myddelton's having taken the Oaths [of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Abjuration Oath]'.
Correspondence, circulars, accounts, forms, inventories, instructions and orders relating to the activities and administration of "D" Company, 6th Battalion Denbighshire Home Guard, which was established in October 1940.
Great Britain. Army. Home Guard. Denbighshire Regiment, 6th Battalion.
Records of the Denbighshire Court of Quarter Sessions, together with the legal record of oaths sworn by William Myddelton.
Papers relating to a difference of opinion concerning whether the poor in the parish of Wrexham should be cared for by parish or by township.
Deputy Lieutenants for Denbighshire,
Appointments of William Lloyd, 1758 and 1762, and of William Lloyd Junior, 1765, as Deputy Lieutenants, together with lists of Deputy Lieutenants and militia officers for the county, 1714.
Instruction to the keeper of Chelmsford gaol,
Instruction to the keeper of the gaol at Chelmsford in the county of Essex to receive and detain Henry Doubleday in custody for the illegal taking and detaining of one Evan Jones.
A proposal, 1662, to establish a joint stock company for a fishery on the coast of Wales, together with a bill, 1730, concerning a cargo of French wine bound from Dublin to Chester. (Sir Richard Myddelton served as Collector and Surveyor of His Majesty's Customs from 1660 until 1686.)
Letters patent authorising the issue of briefs for a collection to relieve the inhabitants of Newport, Shropshire, after the town was ravaged by fire.
Wills and associated inventories and grants of probate, together with copies, relating to members of the Myddelton and Lloyd families, as well as Powells, Corbets and others, especially tenants of the Plas Power and Chirk estates.
Ninety four bonds relating to monies, services and other dues owed to and by Mary Myddelton, William Lloyd, John Wynne and many others, including endorsements and notes of receipt.
Papers relating to the activities of the Myddelton, Lloyd and FitzHugh families in public office. Several members of the Myddelton family held office as Deputy Lieutenants of Denbighshire.