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A calendar written by John Lloyd, Wigfair of cases heard at the Courts of Great Sessions for Flintshire and Denbighshire, 1668-1696.

Five holograph letters from H[ugh] R[obert] Hughes from Kinmel Park, Abergele, to Henry Howard [? Colonel Henry Richard Lloyd Howard], [18]92-1909 (notes, in reply to queries, on John Vaughan of Caergai, his wife Margaret, dr. of Hedd Lloyd of Hafodunos, whom he married in 1698, the arms and some of the descendants of the said John and Margaret, Rowland Vaughan of Caergai 'a Welsh Poet of some eminence . . . born in 1560', Edward Lloyd of Tyddyn born in 1650 and his two wives, Sir George Wynne [1st bart. of Leeswood, co. Flint] and his wife Margaret Lloyd, an ? inscription at Penucha grin, the Jones family of Penucha grin, David Lloyd of Tyddyn, brother of John Lloyd of Wygfair, [mid 17th cent.], and the Coytmore family of Coytmore; and comments on the 1909 budget).

Sixty-two holograph and autograph letters addressed to Maurice (Morris) Wynne (Winn), one of the Grooms of H. M. Privy Council in Ordinary. The writers include David Beavan, Tir Llello, 1668/9 (rents paid, and arrears due for, Tir Lello and the Mill), Roger Burges, Killkenney and Dublin, 1667-1668 (3) (money matters), Roger Burgis, 1670-1671 and undated (4) (personal, the sale of silver cups to Mr. Haymar Dather of Pentre Pant, the writer's visit to London, the writer's departure from the country, money matters), Da. Gwynne, Parke, [16]78 (thanks for the recipient's beneficent care and favour), Sarah Gwynne, Parke, [16]70/1 (the writer's debts, the sufferings of the writer's family on behalf of the 'Loyall partie'), Ri. Jeffreys, [16]78 (the writer's 'Concern of next Moneth' and his intercession on behalf of an injured servant), Hen. Jones, undated (the 'brisk and amorous' behaviour of 'Our Young Executor upon the knowledge of his fortune', the writer's command of a company and a fort in Munster called the Bantry, greetings to Sir Rich. Wynne and others named) (addressed to Pen y Brin, Caernarvonshire), Anne Lewys, Pengwern, also from Caire Melour and Leaweny , [16]75-1679 and undated (6) (acknowledges two letters sent to Llwyn, assistance to the writer by gentlemen nominated by the recipient, references to cousin Ed'd Williams and uncle John Lloyd, the health of the recipient and of the writer's mother, a book to be sent by the writer's mother to the recipient, the recipient's affairs at Penybryn, cousin Edward Williams ill with quotidian ague, unable to leave Caire Melour because Bulch Cared a Urane is impassable until May), John Lewys, Pengwern, also from Penybryn, 1671-1679 (12) (details of the management of the recipient's concerns at Penybryn and Penmachno, Anne Lewys and Lewys Anwill ill with small pox and sister Lewys with yellow jaundice, thanks for a Welsh Bible), Katherine Lewys, Pengwern, 1669-1670 (2) (an account of the recipient's affairs at Penmachno, encloses a lock of her daughter Katherine's hair to be put in six inscribed rings), Dorothy Lloyd, Tythin, 1670/1 (a reference to the burial of Thomas Lloyd of Gwickwer, letters of administration on behalf of cousin Betty Hope, moneymatters), John Lloyd, from Chester, on the way to London, [16]64 (the death of Mr. Thomas Edwards, son of Baron Edwards, urging the recipient to secure the reversion of the office of Baronship of the Exchequer of Chester and an office belonging to the Custom house at Chester), John Moris, Disserth, 1661-1662 (2) (the rent of Cumgooren, a claim to right of common on Rose oddjar Lechreed), William Moris, Disserth, 1666 (an offer for the grain, hay, and grass growing upon Tyr llello and the Common), Hugh Pennant, undated (obligations to Lord Rochester for his interest in cousin Tom's education), Andrew Philips, Llandewi [16]64 (the recipient's affairs in these parts, with mention of tenant John Moris), Jo. Phillipps, Brecon, [16]66 (a criticism of the recipient's new bailiff), John Phillips, [rector of] Disserth, [16]67 (the receipt of recipient's rents, the burning of the Mill and the house at Tyr llello, Mr. David's very bad success at the Assizes at Brecon for the Parke), Jo. Phillipps, Charles Lewes, David Evans (by mark), and Rees Lloyd, Disserth, [16]63 (a resolution to contribute towards the maintenance of a suit in Chancery to protect the recipient's and their own right to Rhose Lechreed, Gwerne y feene, y Graig Cogh, and Crybin dee) (witnessed by John Moris), Evan Price, 1666-1677 (2) ( personal, discussions and relations with the recipient's tenants, the receipt of recipient's rents, a slight increase in the price of cattle), Ro. Pugh, Dublin, 1663 (a petition for a proportion of the money designed for the relief of loyal and indigent officers), Ed. Thelwall, Dôl in Edeirneon, 1661 (a request for the recipient's charitable consideration towards the writer's nephew, a poor orphan, son to the writer's brother Maurice), Lymley Thellwell, Dublin, [16]73 (a violent flux of rheum falling upon the writer's eyes, a suit against the writer by Lord Ranelagh' s father countenanced by the writer's brother Roberte in order to recover debts due to the writer in England and Ireland and arrears of rent from Glantanad in Wales, the writer's intention to turn over a new leaf), Margarett Vaughan, undated (the death of the writer's brother, a caveat in the Prerogative Court in connection with the administration of her husband's estate), Thomas Vaughan, Coed y(e) Cra, [1662]-1664 (5) (a request for employment in a proposed standing army, cousin Moris Wynn's settlement in London, a request to Col. Whittley for a share of the money to be distributed to indigent officers, a request for assistance to a bearer John Johns who seeks to become one of the King's Scholars at Westminster, news of relatives and friends, references to 'country disease' and small pox), Edward Williams, Pont y Gwyddell, undated (the recipient's cause in the Caernarvonshire Sessions touching the title to parcels of lands), J. Williams, Caruedvynydd, 1662/3-1669 (2) (a request to speak to Dr. Doulben at Westminster on behalf of the writer's brother, the troubles of John Hughes and his relations with the daughter of Aunt Williams, the falsehoods of Mr. Meredith Lloyd in connection with the return of the second view of the duty of hearth monies, the recipient's affairs here), William Williams, Baronhill, 1671 (thanks for favours at Westminster and for the recipient's care in the settlement of the writer's nephew William Williams), Maurice Wynn, Gwed[ir], 1662 (desires the recipient's help to settle the bearer David Lloyd, son of cousin Jo. Lloyd of Gwickware, in the service of the Court), Edw. Wynne, Whitehall, 1668 (acknowledging the receipt of two notes to receive an order for Board wages from the Cofferer and to receive the recipient's and Col. Burge's New Year gifts from the Jewell house, cloth and materials for a 'shute' for cousin Ed. Lloyd, the writer to be sworn as Serjeant of the Ewry) (addressed to Penybryn, Carnarvonshire), Jo. Wynne, Fort of Plymo[uth], 1667 (an account of Dutch attacks on this coast), Maurice Wynne, Metchlepatam [India], 1674 (craves the recipient's acceptance of a parcel of pictures of the King of Golcundah, a request for the assistance of brother Edward in his interest), and Robert Wynne, Llewessog, [16]64/5 (discussions with Mr. Peeter Whitley and Mr. Raph Whitley concerning proposals by the former, the recipient's tenants). At the end is a draft of a letter from Maurice Wynne to his cousin, [16]76 (a possible lawsuit with the recipient touching a claim to rent).

Ninety-nine miscellaneous holograph and other letters:- Daines Barrington, London, to John Strange in Venice [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Lloyd of Hafodunos, F.R.S., stones at Towen and on top of Caderydris, Lloyd's knowledge of North Wales as a fossilist); Godfrey Bingley to Lady Jackson, London, undated (two bonds for £50 apiece); [George Booth, 2nd earl of] Warrington, Dunham [Massey, co. Chester], to . . ., 1700-1708/9 (2) (a request for certain deeds, comments relating to the king of France, a deed relating to the advowson of [the church of] Thornton [co. ]); R. [Byerley] to Lady Jackson, London, undated (financial and legal matters); John Calvert, London, to ? Tho[ma]s Kyffin, 1774 (instruments ordered by squire Jones, an account for the same, a request for specimens of ? moths from the Snowdon area, recipient's possible election to ? the Aurelian Society); Walt[er] Clopton, [ ]nant, to . . ., 1686/7 (points concerning a lease); Joseph Duke, Chester, to John Lloyd, Havedunos [sic], 1767 (an account for goods bought) (endorsed with receipts); Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, to Hugh Roberts, Mold, [18]22 (legal matters) (copy); R. Edwards, London, to . . ., 1748-1750 (3) (business and financial transactions, mention of ships from India and of the African Company); Samuel Edwards, Newport, to Mr. Warne, 1682 (financial matters); [Sir] G[eorge] Shuckburgh Evelyn [6th bart.], Shuckburgh Park [co. Warwick], to Nath[anie]l Jones, Wygfair, 1795 (enquiries about J[ohn] Lloyd of Wygfair who had gone to Ireland to see newly discovered gold mines); J[oh]n Foulkes, Wrexham, to the Rev[eren]d B. C. Conway, Lower Soughton, Northop, 1832 (enclosing a copy of an opinion by John Jervis of the Middle Temple dated 1832, and of a letter by the present writer to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard relating to a case ?concerning an obstruction on Soughton highway); T[homas] Gaisford, [dean of] Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford], to the Rev[eren]d Archdeacon Jones, 1832 (the examination of Mr. Howard ? for admission to Christ Church) (addressed to Reverend Dr. Howard, Mold); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, to Miss Gwynne [the writer's grand-daughter] at Havodunos, 1780 ( personal); Rob[er]t F[ ] Greville, Great Cumberland Street [ ], to . . ., 1803 (the work being done by Sir R[ichar]d [Colt] Hoare [2nd bart.] on a translation of Giraldus Cambrensis [The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales . . . by Giraldus de Barri. Trans . . . by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, London, 1806], attempts to identify places such as Hilcuria, Castrum Isabelis, etc., mentioned by Giraldus, queries re copper works near the summit of Snowdon, news of acquaintances); Ralph Griffith, Chester, to Charles Owen, Toke's Court, London, 1760-1762 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above]), and to Mr. Pardoe, 1767 (bills relating to the Mold cause) (draft); Will[ ia]m Griffith to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Rich[ar]d Griffith, Carnarvon, 1751-1752 (3) (financial matters in connection with a legacy to the writer from his mother); J. Haggersten, Berwick, to Edward Burdet, Holborne, London, [ ] 82 (personal and financial matters); Mr. Hay, St. Asaph, to Mr. Lloyd [ early 19th cent.] (a list of tokens the writer wished to collect) (in third person); J. Holland to . . ., 1810 (recommending a tenant for Havodynnos); R. W. Howard, Eton College, to his mother, undated (the writer's activities at Eton); Richard Howard, Llanrhaiadr, to Arthur Roberts, Mold, solicitor, 1847 (legal matters) (copy); Ow[en] Hughes, Bewmares, to Dr. Andrew Birch at Gwyder, 1679 (purchasers for lands in Merionythshire, Penmachno and Treflan); John Humffreys to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergay at Havodynnos, 1706/7 (financial matters); John Humffreys, Llanvyllin, to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergai at Eyarth, near Llanver, 1737/8 (an interview with Mr. Mainwaring concerning Caergai); Dauid Jones, Sallop, to . . ., 1637/8 (personal); Jos. Jones, Mold, to Mr. Griffiths, 1761 ( losses suffered owing to the [Mold mountain] dispute) (copy); Richard Jones, Carnarvon, to . . ., 1758 (business affairs); S[amuel] Jones, Kilken, to Watkin Williams, Penbedw, 1770 (a protest concerning the toll gate at the west end of the town of Mold) (endorsed with a reply from Will[iam] Lloyd, Maesmynan) (?both copies); W[illia]m Jones, Llan-fihangel, to Mr. Goodman, attorney, Anglesea, 1779-1784 (2) (a dispute with Mr. Howard concerning lands and rents, land at Trefriw); J[oh]n Langley, junior, London, to Jns. Williams, attorney, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning the estate of Sir Richard Langley, deceased, in Mould), and to Thomas Williams, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning ?the same estate as in the previous letter ); C. Lloyd, Wellow [near Bath], to the Rev[eren]d Ben[jamin] Conway Potter, Soughton, Northop, 1819 (the death of Dr. Griffith, news of acquaintances, activities in Frome); Dauid Lloyd, Southwark, to John Lloyd of Wickwer, 1673 (a journey by Sir Euan Lloyd, the captain of the writer's company, into Wales, to recruit forty men, a projected crossing into Holland with 15,000 foot men) (endorsed with a note by J. Ll. who had opened the letter by mistake); Eliza. Lloyd, Rhu . . ., to . . ., undated (enquiries concerning the Vaughan family); Ellis Lloyd, Pen Lan, to. . ., 1687/8 (legal affairs); Robert Lloyd to [Richard Nanney], 1609 (arrangements for a meeting and the delivery of a letter from Captain Salisbury) (endorsed with recipient's reply); M. Lockhart to . . ., undated (recommending Mr. Pauling); Geo[rge] Lowe, Chester, to Mr. Howard, 1756 (legal matters); H. M., to . . ., 1737 (personal); [Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st earl of] Seaforth [Ireland], Calais, to [Daniel Charles Solander], 1777 (a request that Mr. Lloyd should have any of the writer's books which were in recipient's custody); Edw[ard] Mainwaring, Wrexham, to John Edwards at Pen y Lan, 1680/1 (financial matters); M. Mainwaring, Whitmore, to Mrs. Vaughan at Eyarth, 1737 (the ? secret marriage of recipient's daughter); W. Manley, Temple, to Messrs. Phillips and Ellis, attorneys, Ruthin, 1796 (legal matters); T. Trevor Mather, Pentreholn [? Pentre-hobin ], to Mr. Richards, Holywell, 1803 (the fencing of an allotment on Mold mountain) (continued)

J. Montagu to . . ., 1706 (the taxing of vaults taken out of streets); Arth[ur] Newcomen to Tho[mas] Williams, Bronkoed, near Mould, [16]99 and undated (2) (dilapidations at Argitt, orders from Lord Derby [? William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl of Derby] re letting Argit, a request for a rent roll); C. Owen, Took's (Toke's) Court [London], to Tho[ma]s Owen, attorney, Mold, 1754 (legal matters), to Ralp[h] Griffith, attorney, Chester, 1756 (enclosing a copy of an order for viewing the area in dispute in the Grosvenor v. Swymmer suit [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above ]), to Mrs. Trevor in Berkeley Square [ ], 1761 (arranging a meeting, non-payment of a bill by Ralph Griffith), and to . . ., 1762 (legal matters relating ?to the Grosvenor v. Vincent suit) (copy); Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn, to Mr. Boydell, 1763 (the expenses in the [Grosvenor v. Vincent suit]); Tho[ma]s W. Partington to Mr. Griffith, 1756 (notification that the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case would be tried in Michaelmas term ); [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, to . . ., 1744 (the death of Cad[walad]r W[ illia]ms, who had served on board the ships Shrewsbury and Suffolk, in 1743, and pay due to him); Thomas Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], to the Hon. Daines Barrington, 1773 (the measuring ? of mountains in Snowdonia by ? [Jean André] De Luc, whom Pennant had met in Geneva, a request for goatskins, a letter from [ ] Forster, Pennant's intention of writing to [Charles] Linnaeus, a proposed journey) (endorsed with a note from D[aines] Barrington forwarding the letter to ?John Lloyd with a request for the Gwyder pedigree); Henry Perkins, Chester, to Mrs. Eliz. Jones at Trecastell, 1750 (financial); Prof[essor] M[arc] A[uguste] Pictet, professor of nat[ural] phil[osophy] at Geneva, to [Sir Joseph Banks], 1805 (the application of [John] Hadley's sextant for observing the meridian transit of the celestial bodies); W[illiam] Pitt, Downing Street [London], to. . ., 1799 (the decision to assemble parliament in order to propose a bill re the militia volunteers); John Price to . . ., undated (personal); M. Price, London, to Mr. Ing . . .y, senior, at Fearn, near Holywell, to . . ., and to Mr. Jones of Mold Mountain, 1763 (requests for payment of bills due in respect of the Mold cause); J[oh]n Roberts, Denbigh, to . . ., undated (legal matters); Domingos Rodrigues, Tellichery [India], to . . ., 1743 (commercial matters); Robert Roper to Robert Foulks, Chester, [1]703 (the letting of ? Argoed on behalf of the representatives of the late earl of Derby [William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl]); [Hew Sempill, 12th baron] Sempill, Lyons, to Mons[ieu]r Vaughan at Montpellier, 1736/7 (personal); Rob[er]t Sherbrooke to Lady Jackson, Lincoln Inn feilds, London , [16]93 (personal); Rich[ar]d R. Short, Lichf[iel]d, to Mrs. Margarett Griffith of Caraglwydd, at Carnarvon, 1774 (personal); Arch[ibald] Spark, London, to Mrs. Kathrine Lewys at her house near Northop, 1683/4 (personal ); John Tho[ma]s Stanley, Penrhos, to . . ., 1816 (the death of the writer's mother, Lady Stanley); Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Mrs. Margit Owen, Mold, 1761 (arrangements in connection with a court leet); Henry Swymmer and Edw[ ar]d Lloyd, Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor, 1784] at Eaton, 1756 (informing recipient that Mr. Swymmer (not the writer) would not take advantage of his privilege if the case [Grosvenor v. Swymmer] proceeded to trial); H. T. to . . ., 1683/4 (personal); Rob[er]t Tamberlain, Flint, to John Williams, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1763 (? legal matters); Maurice Trygarn, London, to . . ., 1669 (legal points relating to the outlawry of John Foulkes and others); H. Ussher to the Rev[eren]d Dr. W. Richardson, Portrush, near Coleraine [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Loyd of the Royal Society who was 'going to the Causeway in pursuit of natural history, thence to Ila and Staffa'); A. Vaughan to Miss Vaughan at Kensington, 1736 (personal); Evan Vaughan to John Vaughan, high sheriff of the county of Merioneth, 1670 ( legal); [? M.] Vaughan to [? Lady Mainwaring], undated (? the secret marriage of the writer's daughter); L. W., to Henry Lloyd near Bedford Row, London, 1745/6 (personal, soldiers quartered in the village and at Bromley ); W. Wake and John Spencer, Bombay [India], to Richard Edwards and Robert Nanny, 1747 (2) (the death of Hugh Howard and matters relating to the settling of his estate in India); John Wilkin, Office of Woods and Forests [London], to T. T. Mathew [? Mather], Pentrehobbin, Mold, 1830 (the purchase by Mr. Conway of encroachments on Soughton common, the sale of the tolls of Northop and the crown rents on the Wigfair estate); E. Bulk[ eley] Will[ia]ms, Baronhill [Anglesey], to Miss Griffiths at Carnarvon, undated (personal); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [3rd bart. after 1740], Downing Street [ ], to Hedd Lloyd at Havod ynos, 1738 (the loan of a chair to recipient who was suffering from gout), and to John Lloyd at Havodynos, 1743/4 (an approach to [Peregrine Bertie, 3rd] duke of Ancaster , ? on behalf of recipient, strained relations between the writer and the Ancaster family owing to his having inherited Wynnstay, concern about recipient's brother How[ar]d, the possibility of purchasing a commission ? for Howard, the writer's lack of influence with people in power since the success of the Denbigh petition, the advisability of deferring [the question of the commission] until they saw which of the competitors Lord [John] Carteret [2nd baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford, and later 2nd viscount Carteret and earl Granville] or Mr. [Henry] Pelham prevailed); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [4th bart.], Wynnstay, to . . ., 1774 (the writer's inability to visit the Vale owing to the dissolution of parliament, the decision of Sir Lynch [Salusbury] Cotton [4th bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh] not to offer himself for election [as member of parliament for the county of Denbigh] in the forthcoming election, the writer's hopes of securing 'the voice of this county', a request for support on election day 19 October); [Sir] W[atkin] W[illia]ms Wynn [? 5th bart.], to . . ., undated (2) (news of acquaintances, expectations of an heir at Coed Coch, hopes that Garthewin would follow suit, visits with Lord Darnley [? John Bligh, 4th earl of Darnley, co. Meath] to the tower on Cyrn y Brain, angles taken and observations made by ? Col[onel] [ ] Madge from the site of the tower, mention of Sir J[oseph] Banks, a report of a water spout above Rhiwedog); and Robert] Wynne, St. Asaph, to Hedd Lloyd at Havodunos [late 17th cent.] (enclosing a copy of the will of Catherine Vaughan of Hirdrevaig, co. Anglisey, dated 23 November 1691).

Fifty holograph and autograph letters written mainly to various members of the Lloyd family. They include letters from [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, afterwards Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd duke of] Portland, Whitehall [London], to J[ohn] Lloyd, Wygfair, 1795 (notifying recipient that orders had been issued in accordance with his request that troops should be quartered at Ruthyn), Tho[mas] Carter, Kinmell, to Hedd Lloyd, undated, (personal), Kath[erine] Conway, Denbigh, to Howell Lloyd at Wickwer, 1716/17 (financial matters), Richard Davies, Ruabon, to Mrs. Lloyd of Wickwar at her house in Wrexham, 1728/9 (enclosing an extract from the will of Evan Lloyd of Pengwern showing how recipient's sons were 'in the Entail'), Rob[er]t Evans to John Lloyd, [16]73 (financial matters), E[lizabeth] Griffith, Carreglwyd, to Mrs. [Mary] Potter, Soughton, Chester [?wife of the Rev. J. C. Potter, who later changed his surname to Conway, brother of the writer], 1808 (personal, news of acquaintances, local activities), Holl[and] Griffith, Adelphi Hotel [London], to Benj[ami]n Lloyd, Upper Soughton, Flintshire, undated (personal, legal matters), John Heaton to John Lloyd at Pengwerne, 1709-1709/10 (2) (arrangements for meetings with John Williams at Denbigh), Ed[ward] Hughes, butcher, Mold, to Edward Lloyd in Chester, 1763 (2) (a request for money due), John Hughes, Penucharoe, to the Misses Lloyd and Colonel Howard, Soughton House, Northop, 1837 (a dispute with Colonel Wynne ?of Garthewin concerning an allotment of an inclosed common, a proposal for inclosing and allotting the whole of the common in the parish of Llangerniew and for compounding for the tithes), Tho[mas] Jeynson, Rolles, to Evan Lloyd at Hampsted, 1712 (a request for recipient's influence on behalf of Mr. R. Gary who was desirous of obtaining the post of clerk to the commissioners of taxes for the Kensington [London] division), Jos. Jones, Mold, to Edward Lloyd of Tyddyn at Chester, 1762 (a request for money due in respect of a commission at Ruthin), Matthew Jones to Owen Lloyd at Wickwern, 1675 (acknowledging receipt of the interest due to Sir John Wynne of Watstay on a bond, the carriage of three millstones), [ ] Lloyd, Froster, to Howel Lloyd, Soughton, Northop [writer's father], 1775 (a journey by the writer and his mother to fetch home a sick aunt), Bell Lloyd to [ ], undated (personal), Catha[rine] Lloyd, Carreglwyd, to Mrs. [Mary] Potter, Soughton, Northop, [17]94 (personal, news of acquaintances), Catha[rine] Lloyd, Bath, to Mrs. [Mary] Potter, Soughton [probably the same parties as in the previous letter], 1804 (personal, social activities at Bath, news of acquaintances, etc.), David Lloyd to his brother John Lloyd at Wickwer, 1638 (legal matters), Dorothea Lloyd, Lower Grosvenor Street, to her brother Benjamin Lloyd at Soughton near Northop, 1771 (personal), Edw[ar]d Lloyd and Henry Swym[mer], Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor, bart., at Eaton, 1756 (copy of a letter informing Sir Richard that Mr. Swymmer would not take advantage of his privilege should matters proceed to trial [?the trial between Sir Richard Grosvenor as plaintiff, and Anthony Langley Swymmer and others, defendants, concerning lead mines on Mold mountain involving the defining of the boundary line between the lordship of Mold and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale. See the Schedule of Wigfair deeds and documents in the National Library of Wales]), Ed[ward] Lloyd, Cefn, to J[ohn] Lloyd, M.P., Garden Court, Temple, London, 1797 (personal, Lloyd's support of the war, a complaint as to the inequality of the financial burden of the war 'neither King, princes ... nor ministers ... nor monied men ... contribute anything to the Exigency of the times', suggestions that silk stockings and gloves should be taxed and people prevented from 'shurking their Taxes'), Evan Lloyd, Rolls, to Edward Lloyd, 1710 (financial matters), Frances Lloyd to Miss [Dorothea] Clough, Mold, undated (personal, [endorsed with ?recipient's draft reply referring to the loss incurred through the death of her grandmother]), How[e]l Lloyd, [on board the] Surprize at Woolwich, to his cousin, undated (the writer's appointment as lieutenant to the Surprize, his task of raising men and fitting the ship for sea, difficulty with raising men 'ye Tars haveing taken a very Great Disgust to takeing a trip to Boston', the possibility of their joining the expedition that was being fitted out [against the American colonies], the ministry's difficulty in knowing how 'to Proceed in the Business with the Rebellious Americans, Lord Bulkley's patronage of the writer), Howell Lloyd, Croise Yockin, to Owen Wynne at Meley, 1669 (questions in connection with ?proposals to be made on behalf of the writer's cousin Heath Lloyd to a certain young lady), Howell Lloyd to his son Evan Lloyd, 1677 (the granting of the tithe of Penybryn), John Lloyd, London, to his cousin Miss Su[sanna] Lloyd, Mold, 1802 (legal advice), Rob[er]t Lloyd to his nephew John Lloyde at Wickwayre, 1626 (financial matters ), T. Lloyd, Vicarage, to the Hafodunos family, 1782 (a gift of hatbands and gloves on the occasion of his mother's death), Trevor Lloyd, Durham, to [ ], [16]89 (personal, some reflections on the writer's experience ?in his regiment), Will[iam] Lloyd, Flint, to Thomas W[illia]ms at Bron Coed, 1680/1 (land transaction), Rich[ar]d Llwyd [Bard of Snowdon], Chester, to [ ], undated (2) (queries addressed to a person with the name Hedd concerning his family, etc.), Mr. Napier to Mr. Lloyde, 1759 (forwarding two chronicles and a book, the latter on loan from the Rev. Fowler), ?C. Owen, Toke's Court [London], to Edw[ar]d Lloyd at the Assembly House at Chester, 1761 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor versus Swymmer lawsuit [see above under Edward Lloyd and Henry Swymmer]), John Parry, Comb, to Owen Lloyd at Wickwer, [16]78 (reasons for not having completed certain business), Phillip Pue, Bettus, to John Lloyd at Wikwer, 1637 (his need of a horse and/or money for a trip to London, mention of the ferry of Conwey), M. Roberts, Llanruth, to [ ], [17]78 (family and local new, J. Ll. Salusbury, Galltfaynan, to Edw[ar]d Lloyd, junior, of Cefn, 1812 (an exchange of land at Galltfaynan issa and land at Dolgau, a lease of Dolgau, the inclosure of Ffynnon fair common), W[illiam] D[avies] Shipley [dean of St. Asaph] to Ed[ward] Lloyd, Wigfair, 1801 (arranging a meeting at St. Asaph, Jones's case), W. D. Shipley [as in the previous letter] to Ed[ward] Lloyd, Cefn, 180[?1] (negotiations with Mr. Kirk for certain leases), John Sparrow, Chester, to Maddam [sic] Lloyd of Havodinnose, 1707 (arranging a meeting at the Red Lyon, Wrixham, to settle certain business), Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Edward Lloyd at Chester, 1763 (arrangements for Mr. Griffith and Mr. Pardoe to meet at Mold [?in connection with the suit between Sir Richard Grosvenor, plaintiff, and Sir Francis Vincent and others, defendants, concerning the mines on Mold mountain, being a continuation of the suit noted above. See under Edward Lloyd and Henry Swymmer]), J. Williams, Lincolns Inn, to Edward Lloyd at Chester, 1763 (instructions for examining witnesses, preparing briefs, etc ., ?in connection with the suit referred to in the previous letter), Watkin Williams, Penbedw, to ?Mr. Potter, [17]89 (questions relating to coursing and hunting game and to sheepwalks on the writer's lands, mention of the manor of Penbedw in the parish of Nannerch), John Wynn, Conway, to John Lloyd of Gwyguher, 1637 (a horse and money for Phillip Pue to go to London ?on legal business. See above under Phillip Pue), and Dr. Wynne to Mrs. Lloyd, undated (an opinion [not enclosed] on a case).