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Epitaphs and memorials for members of the Myddelton and Lloyd families, including extensive accounts of the Myddelton genealogy (some tracing their origins back into the early medieval period), together with a list of 'coffins in the vault at Chirk', an account of Thomas Myddelton's activities during the Civil War, an 'inscription for Mrs Lloyd's thatched seat', and an account of a memorial inscription at Valle Crucis Abbey.

Copies of an agreement between Mary Myddelton and Robert Wynne, statuary, Ruthin, concerning a marble monument to be erected in the church at Chirk in memory of her parents and siblings, together with a plan of the memorial and a copy of the inscription to be placed upon it.

Notes on the genealogy of the Myddelton family of Chirk, including epitaphs.

A treatise on the conjugation of French verbs.

A notebook of tables and examples.

Papers relating to the history of the Myddelton family, and also matters of wider antiquarian interest, together with material used for academic and technical instruction.

Notes relating to moneys at Chirk Castle belonging to Sir Richard Myddelton, and the settlement of his affairs (possibly after his death).

Copies of Sir Thomas Myddelton's will, which was revised on a number of occasions, together with a memorandum of his wife's jointure.

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'.

Personal and private papers of the Myddelton, Lloyd and FitzHugh families and their households, together with papers accumulated by them in the course of their public activities.

Lawyers' opinions concerning legal questions arising out of property and financial transactions between members of the Myddelton family and their tenants, and also the Salusbury and Thelwall families, including conditions of tenure, family settlements and the execution of wills.

Memoranda relating to a wide variety of estate business, particularly relating to agreements, tenancies, rents, legacies and debts, and also including agricultural and maintenance accounts and tenants' petitions; the context in which these documents were found suggests that many of them were originally created for estate purposes and subsequently brought together as a consequence of being used for the purposes of evidence and record during numerous legal proceedings, while others were drawn up by lawyers during cases.

Documents relating to court cases concerning the Myddelton and Lloyd families and their estates and tenants in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Shropshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, including copies of deeds, bills, bonds, charges, orders, examinations, depositions, proposals, demands, abstracts of title, legal opinions, correspondence, summaries, presentments, valuations, administrations of wills, accounts, receipts, particulars of taxes and of acts of Parliament, writs to constables and bailiffs, and memoranda.

Papers relating to legal suits involving the Myddelton and Lloyd families and their estates. The cases were heard in a variety of courts, including Chancery, Great Sessions, Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessions, manorial courts baron and leet, and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Copies of letters and title deeds relating to the Plas Power estate.