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Letters to Ralph Griffith(s),

Holograph and other letters, 1756-1767 and undated, addressed to Ralph GriffIth(s), attorney at law, at Chester, London, Mold, and Ruthin. 12438E. Sixty letters from Tho[mas] Boydell, Chester, Hawarden, Trevellin, etc., 1761-1763 (6), 'Busybody', undated, Thomas Ellis, Avon Wen, Flintshire, 1761, H. Hall, London, 1761, Edw[ar]d Hughes, Mold, 1762-1763 (2), Tho[ma]s Hughes, Mold, 1763, Eliz. Johnson, Mold, 1762, W. Jones, Mo[1]d Mountain, 1763, Rob[er]t Lewis, Mold, 1761 and undated (2), E. Lloyd, Wrexham, 1761-1763 (3), C. Owen, Toke's Court [London], 1761-1764 (39), Marg[are]t Owen, Mold, 1763, and Cha[rles] Owens, 1762. 12439E. Eighty-three letters from Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn [London], Ludlow, Oxford, Salop, and Worcester, 1761-1767 (24), H. Price, 1763, [ ] Price, London, 1763, Anth[ony] Pye, London, 1761, Dan[ie]l Seaman, Flint, 1761, Henry Swymmer, Bristol, London, and Mold, 1756-1766 (42), Arabella Vincent, London, 1761, J. Williams, Brecon, 1761, John Williams, Mold, [17]61, W. Wynne, Tower, undated (4), and Will[iam] Wynne, Mold, 1762-1763 and undated (6). These letters deal almost exclusively with points of procedure, financial matters, etc., in connection with law suits in which the recipient appears to have been engaged in a professional capacity. The majority of the letters seem to refer to the suit between [Sir Richard] Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, in 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor in 1784, plaintiff] and [Anthony Langley] Swymmer [and others, defendants, concerning lead mines on Mold mountain involving the defining of the boundary between the lordship of Mold and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale], and [the continuation of the suit, after the death of Mr. Swymmer, between Lord] Grosvenor [as plaintiff] and [Sir Francis] Vincent [7th bart., and Dame Arabella Vincent, his wife, widow of Anthony Swymmer, and others, defendants.

Letters to the Reverend Benjamin Conway and other miscellaneous letters,

Forty-one holograph and other letters, 1722-1835 and undated, in two groups. (a) Fifteen letters, 1722-1745 and undated, to the Reverend Benjamin Conway [vicar of Northop, 1717-1748, and warden of Ruthin hospital, ?1713-1748] at Soughton and Northop, from Edward Edwards, Carnarvon, 17[ ] (the academic exercises to be undertaken to obtain a degree ?at Oxford), Hen[ry] Fane, 1744/5-1745 (2) (the death of the writer's wife [Mary or Anne, daughter of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, 1715-1727, and of Bath and Wells, 1727-1743] and arrangements for the burial [at Northop]), Edward Griffiths, Mould, 1727 (a request for a warrant against Edward Jones of Mould who had taken the writer's horse) (endorsed with a recipe for a 'drink for Cattell'), Fr[ancis Hare, bishop of St.] Asaph, 1729 (bishop Goodman's charity), Tho[mas] Lewis, St. Asaph, 1722 (legal matters), Tho[mas] Lloyd, Chester, 1734/5 (financial matters), J. Meres, London, 1735 (transactions relating to the sale of an estate), John Tamberlain, Ruthyn, 1731 and undated (2) (a request by recipient's mother for medicine, the writer's duties? as tutor, an earthquake at Dolgelley, the coming parliamentary elections in [Merionethshire and ? Flintshire]), A[nne] Wynne [widow of bishop John Wynne, the writer of the three following letters], 1744/5 (the death of the writer's daughter Fane [Mary or Anne Fane. See letter from Henry Fane above] and arrangements for the burial [at Northop]), J[ohn Wynne, bishop of St.] Asaph [1715-1727] and of Bath and Wells [1727-1743], St. Asaph and Wells, 1726-1740 (3) (Mr. [ ] Myddelton's tenure of the cure of Flint (1726), the valuation of an estate the writer proposed to buy ? from the recipient (1734), a lease ? of minerals), and Robert Wynne, Ruthin, 1730/1 (the writer's ? financial misfortunes). (b) Twenty-six miscellaneous letters, 1743-1835 and undated:- G[eorge] F[rederick] Beltz, Lanc[aster Herald], Herald's College, to the Rev[eren]d B[ enjamin] C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northope, 1825 (to accompany a royal licence authorising Mr. and Mrs. [John Conway] Potter and the issue of their marriage to take the surname of Conway) (endorsed with genealogical notes on Catherine of Beren and her descendants); James Conway, Flint, to the Rev[eren]d C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northop, 1835 (personal); J[ohn] Conway Conway, Soughton, to the Rev[eren]d Francis Owen, Rectory House, Efenechtyd, 1835 (proposals relating to buildings and lands lately held by recipient's predecessor Mr. [Edward] Thelwall); Marg[are]t Conway, Cotton Hall, to Mrs. Hughes, Sughton Ucha, near Northop, undated (a recipe for an ointment); Price Davies, York River, Virginia, and York River at the Glebe in Blisland, to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway at Soughton, near Northop, 1763- 1765 (2) (the writer's arrival in America, his acceptance of the ministry of the parish of Blisland, the method of appointing ministers, a description of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants, a request for a copy of the scheme setting forth the subscriptions raised for clergymen's widows in the diocese of St. Asaph (1763), the writer's activities, his health, marriage, house and glebe lands, salary of '16000 pounds of Tobacco', etc., the arrival of John Pugh, curate of Llandoget, in America and his acceptance of a parish called St. James in the county of Mecklenburg [North Carolina]); Edward Potter Griffith to his wife Dorothea, undated (to accompany a parcel of pens); [Richard Grosvenor, 1st baron] Grosvenor [of Eaton, co. Chester, later 1st viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and 1st earl Grosvenor], Eaton, to the Rev[eren]d W[illia]m Conway, 1765 (a gift of a mare with information as to her pedigree); Tho[mas] Hughes, [rector of] Llanfwrog, to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1771 (an application for a right of way ?for the writer's cattle through recipient's field); C. Lloyd, Gay St[reet, ], to Miss [Benedicta] Conway, Soughton, Northop, 1831 (2) (a tenant for the writer's property at Upper Soughton and the state of the property, news of acquaintances); B[enjamin] C[onway] Potter [Oxford], to his mother, Mrs. Potter, Soughton Grove, Northop [1810] (? a degree ceremony at Oxford when degrees were conferred upon [George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st] marquess of Buckingham, [Montagu Bertie, 5th earl of] Abingdon, and Mr. [ ] Tierney, a concert [held at Oxford] in which [? John] Braham, [? Samuel] Harrison, Mrs. [ ] Dickenson and [? Angelica] Catalini [sic] had taken part); Cath[erine] Potter to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1771 (the death of the writer's husband [the Reverend John Potter, rector of Badgworth, co. Somerset]); John Potter, Shepton Malet, to . . ., 1754 (a proposed marriage between the writer and Miss Kitty); John Potter [as in the previous letter], Frome, to . . ., 1767 (personal, an abstract of the will of Mrs. Wickham which required that the Upper Soughton estates be sold, proposals concerning the said estates); J[ohn] C[onway] Potter, Soughton, to. . ., 1822 (legal matters) (copy); E. Roberts, Inglefield Green, to Mrs. Conway, Upper Soughton, near Northop, [17]67 (personal, news of acquaintances); E. Spencer, Horsington, to Mrs. Conway, Soughton, near Northope, 1768 (news of the writer's family and of acquaintances); Hugh Totty to [Mr. Conway], undated (legal matters); Ant[ ] Wickham, Doulting [co. Somerset], to . . ., undated (the death of recipient's father, recipient's application for the vicarage of Northope, moves and suggested moves in support of the application); Ja[me]s Wickham, Frome, to Miss Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1767 (2) (a deed empowering recipient's 'Cosen Wickham to dispose of the Estate' [? the Upper Soughton estate. See under John Potter above], Mr. [John] Potter's intention of coming to view the property, the valuation of and title to the estate, news of the writer's family and of acquaintances), to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1770 (legal matters), and to Mrs. Potter, Chester, 1772 (financial matters, the taking by the commissioners of the Frome turnpike roads of part of the court in front of recipient's house); Mary Wickham to Mrs. Conway near Northorp [sic], undated (personal); and A[nne] Wynne [widow of bishop John Wynne. See above in section (a)] to Mrs. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1743 (personal, references to the writer's 'Tryal' and 'Affliction', probably the death of her husband which had taken place in the previous month).

Miscellaneous correspondence,

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).

Miscellaneous letters,

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).