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Charles Watkin Williams Wynn,

Remarks by A. W. Williams Wynn, 1935, on a dissertation on 'Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1775-1850' submitted in 1934 by Gwyneth Evans, Holyhead, in candidature for the degree of Master of Arts of the University of Wales.

Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn.

Correspondence,

Transcripts of nine letters, 18 July - 6 August, 1803, and undated, being correspondence between Henry Addington (aft. 1st viscount Sidmouth), Chancellor of the Exchequer, and George, Prince of Wales (aft. King George IV), and between the latter and his father King George III, touching the Prince's application, in view of the threat of invasion, for a military command. Endorsed: 'Letters delivered to the Revd. Henry Glasse by Coll. Macmahon at the command of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales'.

Correspondence,

A group of sixteen letter books of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1807-1813, 1825-1831, containing carbon copies of private and professional letters, the correspondents including his brothers Watkin Williams Wynn and Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, Robert Southey, Edward Herbert, 1st earl of Powis, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, Sir Charles Grey, Lord Chief Justice of Bengal, Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, and Daniel Corrie, bishop of Madras. Among the subjects of Welsh interest discussed are the parliamentary elections for Montgomeryshire and Flint, 1807, and the Montgomeryshire Local Militia.

Correspondence,

A group of nineteen letters, 1797-1840, written by Fanny Williams Wynn, mainly to her brother Charles Watkin Williams Wynn.

Fanny Williams Wynn.

Description of Wales, etc.,

A transcript of the 'Description of Wales' (1602) by George Owen, Henllys, Pembrokeshire; with insets containing particulars of the divisions of Gwynedd, Powys, and Dinefwr, and of reserved rents of the cathedral church of St Davids, 1773, and the collegiate church of Brecon.

Ireland,

Transcripts by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn of the King's minute to his Cabinet, 17 March, 1807, with a covering letter, and of the Cabinet's reply, touching legislation for the Catholics of Ireland.

Miscellanea,

A pedigree of the family of Lloyd of Blaen-y-ddol and of Llwyn-y-maen, parish of Oswestry, found in the pedigree book of Plas-y-ward in the custody of Mr Simon Lloyd of Plas-yn-dre at Bala; a declaration (unsigned) from Salop Gaol, 24 August, 1716, disclaiming an accusation of over-charging made by one Bevan, the undertaker's boy, in connection with the burial at Canterbury of young [Edward] Vaughan of Llangedwyn, who died at Paris on 12 January, 1699/1700; and articles of agreement, 10 November, 1719, between Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay, esq., and Robert Wynne of Ruthin, statuary, for the erection, for a sum of £450, of three marble monuments in the chancel of Ruabon church in memory of Henry Wynne, esq., of Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, and of the Lady Jane Wynn.