File NLW MS 11462D. - Hanmer family papers,

Papers of the family of Hanmer of the Fenns, Flintshire, and Morton Sea, Salop, relating mainly to the delinquency of William Hanmer. They include a holograph letters from Tho. Hanmer, London, to William Kirkham, Iscoide, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, [16]90 (instructions concerning stock and estate matters); a holograph letter from William Hanmer, Fenns, to William Lloyd, Halghton, 1712/13 (sureties of Davies nad Cliffe's wife); an order by the Committee of Parliament in Shrewsbury for the release of William Hanmer upon payment of part of his composition money, 1645; a receipt by James Hatton, minister of God's Word at Whitewell Chappell, to Robert Wyn, servitor to William Hanmer, for 10s. as a stipend or wages given from the manor house of Fennes to the said chapel for half a year, 1647; a certificate by the Commissioners for Compounding with Delinquents that William Hanmer of Fens-hall had compounded and that he ought not to be molested, 1648; an order by Oliver Cromwell to all officers and soldiers, giving protection to William Hanmere of Fenns, 1648/9; an order by the Committee for Advance of Money for the discharge of William Hanmere of Fenns hall on payment of £200 more than the £150 paid by him in Salop, 1649; a receipt, 1655, by Roger Sontley to William Hanmer for £16.1s.6d., being the moiety of one year's charge upon his estate; an order, 1656, by H. Mackworth, Rob. Hutton, and Charles Langford to William Hanmer to bring in a more perfect particular of the true value of his estate; an order, 1646, by the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to forbear to proceed upon the sequestration of the estate of William Hanmer, together with a particular of the estate; a certificate, 1655/6?, that William Hanmer of Morton Sea is well affected towards the government (unsigned); an order, 1656, by the Council at Whitehall that William Hanmer of the Fennes has licence to come up to London for attending to some private affairs of his own (signed by W. Jessop, clerk); an order, 1658, by Thomas Croxton to all commanders, etc., in the counties of Chester, Denbigh, and Flint to allow William Hanmere, a prisoner at Shrewsbury, to return to his house at Fenns for the space of fourteen days; a petition, undated, of William Hanmer of Morton Sea to His Most Excellent Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, etc., to be allowed the charges upon his estate in his tenths; two versions, undated, of the charge of delinquency against William Hanmer of the Fenns; a note taken out of the register book of Hanmer recording the christening, on 19 September, 1622, of William, son of Thomas Hanmer and Katherine, his wife; and two undated schedules of debts charged upon the estate [of William Hanmer?].