File NLW MS 12451B. - The sufferings of John Wynne of Leeswood,

A narrative compiled ?circa 1730 and entitled 'Some Part of the Sufferings of John Wynne of Leeswood, Esqr. of the Parish of Mold in the County of Flint, Humbly Presented to the Consideration of their most Gracious Majesties the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and to the Consideration of all Magistrates, Clergy and Gentry and in more Particular manner to those of the Counties of Flint and Mountgomery, in both which he has very wrongfully suffered most tedious Imprisonments', in which the said John Wynne recounts what he had allegedly suffered through the imprisonment, vilification, poverty, etc., which he had experienced as a result of the efforts of his family, and more particularly of his son [Sir] George [Wynne, 1st bart. of Leeswood aforesaid], to deprive him of his estate, including a valuable [lead] mine [at Halkin in the county of Flint], which had been the subject of litigation between the parties; also a copy of a letter sent by the said John Wynne to his son [Sir George], 30 January 1731, in which he addresses him as 'You Graceless, Rebellious, Villain', and denounces him for his conduct with frequent quotations from Scripture to reinforce his denunciations.