File NLW MS 12437E. - Letters to Mrs Hephzibah Williams, etc.,

Forty-seven holograph letters, 1769-1816 and undated, written to Mrs. [? Hephzibah] Williams [?wife of William Williams, king's attorney for North Wales] at Conway, etc. The writers include Hill. Collicott, Bristol, 1775 ( a request for a copy of a deed), ?T. Goodman, Llanidan, 1779 (financial matters), B[?arbara] Howard [? mother of the Reverend Richard Howard, the recipient of the letters contained in NLW MSS 12428-12430 above], [1797]- 1801 and undated (11) (personal and family news, news of acquaintances, financial matters, the health of bishop [John Warren of Bangor] and persecution suffered by him, hopes that the bishop would give the living of Cairun to Mr. Griffith [? the Reverend Hugh Davies Griffith who was instituted to Llanbedr with Caerhun in February 1798], the French landing in Pembrokeshire, fears of a similar landing in North Wales, criticism of the navy, the unprepared state of North Wales should there be an invasion) (some of these letters are incomplete and one contains a copy of a letter sent by Mrs. Howard to [John Warren, bishop of Bangor] requesting his support in obtaining financial aid from Dr. Lewis's charity [? the charitable trust set up under the terms of the will of Dr. William Lewis, D.D., rector of Allhallows the Wall, London, dated 25 August 1681. See Bangor diocesan records in NLW] in order to send her son Richard to Oxford University), Rich[ar]d Howard [brother of recipient], Carnarvon, 1788-1789 (2) (personal, business transactions), Am. Lewis, Ystymllyn, 1777 ( 2) (payment of a mortgage), Edward Mason, Stroud, 1816 (enclosing a draft to discharge legacies), Row[ ] Williams, Carnarvon and Beaumaris, [17] 93-1801 (3) (efforts to obtain financial aid in order to secure a commission for Mr. Thomas Howard in the army (1793), enquiries concerning houses in Conway in Mrs. [Barbara] Howard's jointure), and Tho[mas] Williams, Llanidan, Ruthland, etc., 1769-1777 (26) (legal and financial business transacted on behalf of recipient). Also a copy of the account of [Mrs.] Hephzibah Williams, widow, as administratrix of the goods of her husband, William Williams, deceased, and of the account of Tho[mas] Williams with Mrs. Hephzibah Williams as administratrix aforesaid, 1774.