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Manuscripts comprising drafts of the hitherto-unpublished portions of Edward Owen's Catalogue of manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, with draft indexes; reports prepared by Edward Owen on Liverpool Town Dues and related papers, 1931; essays written by him for the London Eisteddfod, 1887, and the National Eisteddfod at Caernarfon, 1894; notes, pedigrees, transcripts and letters relating to Welsh history, antiquities, county history, families and individuals such as John Edwards of Chirk, and historical figures including Owain Glyndwr [some items published 1893-1935]; transcripts and extracts relating to the history of Wales taken from public records by Edward Owen, E.A. Lewis and others, including several land surveys, at least one of which was used as evidence before the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, 1895; transcripts of papers by or relating to Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1885-1922; facsimiles and original documents including Privy Purse Accounts of Queen Anne, 1702-1710, and a holograph letter from Queen Anne to Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, 1710; letters mainly addressed to William Edwards of Chirk Hall, 1675-1677; autograph letters, mostly addressed to Edward Owen, 1886-1943; and deeds, 1463-1769, the majority of which relate to the estates of the families of Edwards of Plas Newydd and Puleston of Emrall in cos. Denbigh and Flint.

A group of miscellaneous receipts mainly to Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk for the payment of half-yearly rents in respect of lands in Kyssyllie and Pennyclawth.

1 John Painter of Choldnondeley [sic], co. Chester, yeoman;. 2 Thomas Smith of Malpas, co. Chester, maltster;. 3 Thomas Barker of Edge and Randle Barker of Stretton, both of co. Chester, farmers, executors of the will of John Barker, late of Stretton aforesaid, yeoman, dec.;. 4 John Puleston of Emrall, co. Flint, esq.;. 5 Thomas Hayman of Wrexham, co. Denb., gent. Lease for 1,000 years, to await the inheritance, of a parcel of land, being part of a field called Parson's Croft, in Shocklach in the said Cheshire.

1 Thomas Puleston of Emral, co. Flint, esq.;. 2 Samuel Evans of Worthenbury, yeoman. Lease for 21 years of a water corn mill and a close of land called the Canary-Banks in p. Worthenbury, co. Flint. Affected by damp.

Final Concord in a fine levied between John Orange, plaintiff, and Roger Maddock, Thomas Jellico, Thomas Hickson, William Spence, Thomas Wright, William Adshead, Sefton Carter, John Jones the elder, James Fletcher, Thomas Crane, William Brown the elder, Francis Cope, Joseph Carter, John Jones the younger, Thomas Linney, Charles Whittle, William Boyle, George Prince, Robert Jones, William Brown the younger, Joseph Crosbye, William Revington, Thomas Maddock, Edward Repington, John Bennion, Timothy Jones, William Rathbone, John Shannon, Robert Fletcher, William Harrison and John Saunders, deforciants, when the deforciants acknowledged one m., Chapel, and Meeting-house on the South side of the Churchyard of St John Baptist in p. St John Baptist in the city and Cheshire to be the right of the plaintiff.

Warrant to Thomas Boycott and Thomas Puleston, esq's, and to Thomas Hayman, Thomas Jones and Thomas Parry, gent's, to take the oaths of Philips Lloyd Fletcher, esq., one of the Justices of the Peace in co. Flint; with two forms of oath.

1 Thomas Kingsbury of the city of Dublin, Doctor in Physick;. 2 Thomas Gleadowe of the same city, merchant. Lease for 36 years of a house belonging to the Cathedral Church of St Patrick's, Dublin, and situated within, the precincts of the said Cathedral Church.

1 William Banister of Quoisley, Cheshire, gent., executor of the will of Margarett Banister, late of Quoisley aforesaid, widow, dec.;. 2 Richard Palin of Shocklach, yeoman;. 3 John Lewis of Aldersey, gent., and Thomas Rowland of Cawarden, yeoman;. Assignment of a bond for the payment of the sum of £100 secured upon a parcel of land called Kair marred, otherwise Kai morres, in p. Worthenbury, co. Flint.

1 John Robinson of Gwersillt, co. Denb., esq.;. 2 Edward Wynne, Doctor of Laws, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford;. 3 William Lloyd of Kefn, co. Denb., clerk, and Thomas Davies of Iffton, Shropshire, gent. Mortgage, to secure the payment of the tithes of p. Bodewryd, co. Ang., of parcels of land called ? y Cay cam, y Claye and Erwr wrach in t. Lay in p. Gresford., co. Denb. Mutilated.

1 Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn, co. Flint, bart, and George Shakerley of Gwersillt, co. Denb., esq.;. 2 Roger Davies of Dungrey and Peter Williams of Emrall, both of co. Flint, gent's. Lease for 1 year of a capital m. called Chirk Hall, otherwise Plas Newydd, and m's and lands in p's and t's Chirk, Pen y Clawdd, Higher Chirke, Kysyllte, Lower Chirke, Trevor ucha, Trevor issa, Llangollen, Hendregeginen, Gwernospin, Derwen, Llanvair Dyffryn Clwyd, Lianrhaiader yn Kinmerch, Llanroost, Bryn Eglwys, Llandegla, Llanarmon in Yale, Evenechtid, Llanrhydd, Llanvoorog, and Ruthin, all in co. Denb. [Names mentioned: Kernenyfed, Skeybion, Carreg y Gath, Bryn Llyarth, Brymbagle, Bryn y Pervedd, Pentre Piogod, Havod Snion, Cae Trisarne, Tal y Bidwell, Hir varrig, Tavern Dowyrch, Tir yr Aer Bach, Kefn Coch, Nanmore ucha, Nanmore issa, Gwerne Velis and Frith y Gored.]. Mutilated.

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Tables (2) of lands in Gwernospyn, Hendregeginam and Mannattyn in p. Chirk, co. Denb., with lists of deeds in which those lands are specified.

Probate of the will of Arthur Painter late of Cawarded in p. Tilston, Cheshire, yeoman, dec. Will dated Aug. 16, 1694. [Reference to Quakers at Holt].

Final Concord in a fine levied between Francis Leicester, bart, and Francis Cholmondeley, esq., plaintiffs, and Thomas Holford, esq., and Mary, his wife, deforciants, when the deforciants acknowledged thirty m's, etc., and 1,150 a. of land in Plumbley, Plumbley cum Holford, Lostock Gralam, Neyther Peover and Shoelach Oviat, all in Cheshire, to be the right of the plaintiffs. Latin.

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1 Katherine Edwards of Chirke Hall. otherwise Place Newydd, co. Denb., only daughter and heir of [William Edwards] esq., dec.;. 2 Sir Roger Puleston of Emrall, co. Flint, kt;. 3 Sir John Trevor of Brynkinalt, co. Denb., kt, Edward Vaughan of Lloydyarth, co. Mont., esq., John Broughton of Broughton, co. Flint, esq., and John Whitehall, Junior, of Whitchurch, Shropshire, gent. Lease for 1 year of a capital m. called Chirke Hall otherwise Place Newydd in Gwernospin, a park called the Parke lying between the said capital m. and the Castle of Chirke, and man's, m's and lands in p's and t's Chirke, Upper Chirke, tower Chirke, Gwernospin, Penyclawdd veha, Penyclawdd Issa, Kysylle otherwise Kysyllte, Wayne veha, Wayne issa, Wayne ar verdre, Trevor veha, Trevor issa, Llangollen, Llangollen vechan, Hendregygynan, Manatton, Crogen Gladys, Crogen Ython, Glyn, Glyn vawer, and Havod Gynvor, all in co. Denb. Draft. Mutilated.