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Estate and family records, 1183-1957, of the Wynn and Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, Denbighshire. The archive includes a group of architectural drawings, c. 1770, by James Byres; a group of early charters and deeds, 1183-1676, from the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Marcella (Ystrad Marchell) near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, and elsewhere; antiquarian, legal and literary manuscripts; account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, Treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1627-1649; manorial records relating to manors and boroughs in Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1364-1895 (1934-40 and 1952 deposits); parliamentary election papers for Anglesey, Cardigan (county and borough), Denbighshire, Flintshire and Montgomeryshire, 1621-1883; family and estate correspondence, including part of that of Sir William Williams (1634-1700), Speaker of the House of Commons; rentals and account books, 1300-1925 (preserved in an almost unbroken series from the time of Sir William Williams); over 5000 title deeds and documents, [pre-1290]-[c. 1910], mainly relating to properties in the six North Wales counties and Shropshire, including records for Glascoed and Llanforda, Llwydiarth, Llangedwyn and Glanllyn, Plas-y-Ward, Rhiwgoch and Mathafarn, estates acquired either by marriage or purchase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; together with papers relating to administration of the estates, 1573-1946; family papers, 1499-1913, county and central government administration papers, 1608-1880; two discrete groups of Much Wenlock estate records, 1534-1860, and Nantcriba estate records, 1381-1680; and various maps. There is an additional group of papers relating to the Wynnstay estate which came from the office of Longueville Gittins solicitors, Oswestry, dated 1582-1957.

A collection of precedents partly taken from North Wales cases, e.g. at Anglesey Sessions, 1618-1620; legal notes; notes on the Old Testament; tables of assessments upon the several commotes of Merioneth; a table of French kings, 420-1589; a copy of the charter of North Wales; pedigrees of the commote of Menai; notes on geography; pedigrees of the Rhiwgoch, Nannau and Corsygedol families written, apparently, by Ellis Lloyd of Rhiwgoch, who may have written the greater part of the volume. Ellis Lloyd was the father-in-law of Henry Evan whose name is written on the fly-leaf.

A notebook kept by Evan Lloyd between 1626 and 1628, containing entries relating to the service of writs; memoranda; notes of leases granted by Edward Vaughan; memoranda of receipts and disbursements made for the writer's brother, Hugh Lloyd, and others; a list of bills of debt left with Mrs Vaughan of Glanyllyn, 14 March 1626/7; a note of cattle left by John Cadd' ap Evan Vaughan at Lloydiarth in the charge of Hugh ap Rees the Lady Vaughan's bailiff, 1625. A loose slip of paper contains a certificate by Gruff: Kyffin concerning an agreement between him and Rees ap Morgan and William ap William.

A composite volume (containing items (a)-(h) and (i) a-o) comprising:
(a) Accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the issues of North Wales by Simon Thelwall, 1553-1554 (see also Wynnstay MSS 92 and 93) (ff. 2-64);
(b) Rental of Richard, duke of York, of his lordship of Rhos, Rhufoniog and Ceinmeirch, for the year ending Michaelmas 1437. The following place-names are included: Commote of Ceinmeirch. Property in Segrwyd, Cefn Main, Garthennwch, Oakwood/Oakenwood, Prion, Cader, Brynbagl, Cerenyfed, Havod lom, Postyn, Sgeibion, Bachymbyd, Llewesog, Caeserwyd, 'Glyfferowe', Cilcedig, Kilford, manor of Kilford, and manor of Ystrad, all in p's Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch and Llanynys, co. Denb. Commote of Is Aled. Property in 'Alba Firma', 'Campus iuxta vivarium', Denbigh Fforensis, Graba, Lleweni, 'Newburgh', 'Poleflatte', Ystrad Cynon, Bodeiliog, Galltfaenan, Brynysgub, Gwenynog Wyntus, Gwenynog Canon, Nantglyn sanctorum, Nantglyn Canon, Erifiad, Taldrach, Twysog, Penporchell, Llechryd, Berain, Talybryn, Bodysgawen, Maes-y-cae, Dincadfel, Carwedfynydd, and Prys, in parishes Cerrigydrudion, Denbigh, Henllan, Llanefydd, Nantglyn, Pentrefoelas and Tir Ifan, co. Denb. Commote of Uwch Aled. Incomplete, but including property in Deunant, Grugor, Chwilbren, Pennantaled, Penglogor, and Petrual in p's Llansannan and Llanfair Talhaearn, co. Denb (ff. 66-89);
(c) Rental of the properties of Eubule Thelwall in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, 1495-1496 (ff. 92-96);
(d) Rental of the estate of Eubule Thelwall, 1491-1492, in the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd (ff. 98-100);
(e) Rental of lands in the lordship of Denbigh, let to farm by Walter Blount, surveyor there, to diverse persons whose terms were to begin at Michaelmas 1538 (ff. 103-105);
(f) Rental of the demesne lands of Edward Thelwall, dated 25 March 1589, and a rental of tenements and houses in Ruthin, co. Denb., belonging to [Jane Thelwall, wife of Edward Thelwall] and Gabriel Goodman, her son, dated 22 Nov. 1593. Note. This document, while it agrees well with Dean Goodman's will, does not entirely substantiate the particulars given by J. E. Griffith in Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire Families, pp. 204, 274. and Richard Newcome in A Memoir of Gabriel Goodman, Appendix S (ff. 108-112);
(g) Rental of the commote of Collion, including property in t's Dyfanner and Ysgeifiog in p. Derwen, p. Clocaenog, t's Maesmaencymro, Trefechan and Bryncaredig in p. Llanynys, t's Bodangharad and Cilgroeslwyd in p. Llanfwrog, p's Efenchtid and Gyffylliog, all in co. Denb., n.d. [?1551x1600];
(h) Account roll of William de Melton, chamberlain of Chester, from 7 Feb. 1300/1 (when the counties of Chester and Flint were granted to Prince Edward [II]) to Michaelmas 1301, including receipts and payments for Cheshire and co. Flint. Payments in Cheshire include those to Chester Abbey, the nuns and the Dominican friars of Chester, the Hospital of St John, the lepers at Boughton, Stanlow Abbey, Chester Castle, and a mark to William of Northampton for painting a picture of the murder of Thomas a Becket by the four Knights, for the smaller chapel near the great hall in Chester Castle. Places mentioned in the receipts for Cheshire include the city of Chester, the demesne manors of Macclesfield and Overton, the towns of Northwich and Middlewich, and lands in Handbridge. Receipts from the county of Flint include: revenues from the three commotes of Englefield (Coleshill, Prestatyn and Rhuddlan); the towns of Flint, Rhuddlan, Caerwys, Ewloe, Coleshill and Vaynol [in p. Bodelwyddan]; the inhabitants in the pass of Bach-y-Graig [p. Tremeirchion]; income from escheated lands in Englefield, the miners of Holywell, the mills of Trelanwyd and Picton [p. Llanasa]; the common pleas of the county court of Flint held before the justiciar of Chester; and the payment of 'ebediw', 'tolcester' and other payments, services, customs, etc. Payments in co. Flint include accounts of the expenses in making crossbows for the castles, and small works at Flint and Rhuddlan castles are also stated in detail. Endorsed: 'Compotus Camerarie Cestrie De Anno Primo' in a contemporary hand and 'Chamberlains Acct Chester' in a modern hand; commission of the new justiciar, dated 12 April 1301; appointment of Melton as a chamberlain, dated 17 April 1301; the auditors' commission; dated 1 May 1303; and acquaintance of Melton, dated 21 Aug. 1303. For notes on, and transcript of the account-roll, see the appendix to Cheshire in the Pipe Rolls, vol. 92 (1938) of the publications of the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire;
(i) Rentals: i(a) The rent of Eubule Thelwall for lands, burgages etc., in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(b) The rent of Edward Thelwall in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, late of Symon Thelwall, his grandfather, and Eubule Thelwall, his father, as it appears in a rental made in 1475; i(c) Note of allowances in Eubele Thelwall's rental, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(d) Eubule Thelwall's rental, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(e) The chief rent of the burgage lands and tenements of Eubule Thelwall in Ruthin and Dyffryn Clwyd, 1493; i(f) Edward Thelwall's rental, 1541; i(g) Rental of the same, April 1561. Two copies. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(h) Rental of the same, 1562. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(i) Rental of the same, 1564. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(j) Rental of the same, 1565. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(k) Rental, [?1570], including tenants who pay the Queen's Rent; i(l) Two sheets (one incomplete) of rentals written by Simwnt Fychan, 1575-6, in the commotes of Colion, Dogfeiling, and Llannerch, and in Ruthin and Llanfwrog, co. Denb; i(m) A mutilated rental, date missing, [?1501x1600], but it seems to fall here; i(n) Eight sheets containing rentals of the Thelwall property from 1580 to 1585. Simwnt Fychan became a tenant in Ruthin in 1581, in place of one Harry Jones who held the tenement when Simwnt Fychan wrote the rentals of 1575-6; and i(o) Two fragments of a rental, [?1501x1600].

Particulars of the third part of Lloydiarth House allotted to Lady Palmer by the Court of Wards and Liverios, with a rental of the demesnes; rental of the third part of the lands and tenements in wardship during the minority of Herbert Vaughan, son and heir of Sir Robert Vaughan, deceased; particulars of Lady Palmor's third part of Egluseg House and a rental of the demesnes; particular of the first and second parts of Lloydiarth House and the demesnes thereof, allotted to the Right Hon. William Lord Powys, and a rental of the first and second parts of the lands and tenements in wardship as aforesaid.

Rentals of the estate of Edward Vaughan in Llangerniew, Llanfair, Llanerfyl, Llangadfan, Garthbeibio, Mallwyd and Carno, co. Mont., 1702-1710, with accounts of arrears, disbursements and allowances, 1701-1709.

'Payments and disbursements made by Abraham Ellis on account of the Joynt Housekeeping of Both Ladyes at Llangedwyn from 1st Aug. 1724 to 7th January 1725'; account of wages paid, carting done and of horses at nights at Llangedwyn.

Accounts of the disbursements made by Samuel Sidebotham for Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart, during the years 1771 and 1772. The Music Accounts and the Sundry Disbursements are particularly interesting, e.g., the following entry for 19 Oct. 1771 may refer to Ieuan Brydydd Hir [See also Wynnstay 115/7 p. 32]: 'Gave the Revd Mr Evan Evans by Sr Watkins Order as per Receipt ... £5.5.0'. Some transcripts made by Ieuan Brydydd Hir from Wynnstay MSS are preserved among the Panton MSS at the National Library, e.g. Panton MS 8 (NLW MS 1977B) is a copy by him of the Cambropapismus Enervatus of William Maurice of Llansilin, the original of which is preserved in Wynnstay MS 12.

Accounts of payments made on account of Trefarclawdd and Overly Hall collieries, summaries of the amount of coal raised, and extracts of arrears of Brickwork accounts, 1807-1808.

Account of receipts and disbursements at the exchequer of North Wales, 3 & 4 Philip & Mary, 1556-1557; and arrears pending in the account of Sir John Salesbury, Michaelmas 1557.

A transcript of an 'account of the rebellion in North and South Wales in Oliver Cromwell's time'. Loose in the manuscript are eight leaves containing a poem in Welsh beginning 'Pob cristion sy yn klowed', and memoranda.

A continuation of the register of documents relating to the lordship of Caurs.

A continuation of the register of documents relating to the lordship of Caurs. On pp. 36-37 there is an account of the division of the hundreds of Montgomery, 27 Henry VIII.

Correspondence, 1768-1776, of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and his agents, Francis Chambre, Samuel Sidebotham, and Jona: Barff, about estate matters and the Montgomery election of 1774. With letters also from John Cotes, E. Cotes and John Madocks.
This and the seven succeeding volumes consist of the letter files of Francis Chambre containing original letters received by him and drafts of his own letters.

Correspondence, 1776-1779, of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and his agents, Francis Chambre and Jona: Barff, about estate matters. There are also letters from J. Boycott and J. Cotes. There are references to Christmas plays at Wynnstay on pp. 131-143.

Correspondence, 1779-1781, of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and F. Chambre and Jona: Barff, mainly relating to estate affairs and to Montgomeryshire politics. There are letters also from John Madocks and Sam: Sidebotham.

Continuation of the estate correspondence, 1784-1787.

Fragments of a manuscript description of arms, with coloured shields of some of the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales and other founders of families.

Miscellaneous pedigrees, mainly of south Wales families, with some genealogical material extracted from Hengwrt manuscripts.

A record of fees received by Henry Wynn, Easter 12-Trinity 18 Charles I, fees received from the Marshalsey, 1637-1643, and notes of legal cases.