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Copy of the archbishop of Canterbury's speech in Parliament concerning the Spanish marriage and the Palatinate, sent to the king at Theobalds.

(1) Receiving bribes in his office of Justice of the Peace. (2) At his ecclesiastical court held about Nov. 1611, he ordered that Kadwaleder ap Thomas Wyn, gent., a man of great wealth, who had for a long time forsaken his lawful wife and children and led a dissolute life, should pay his wife 6s. 8d. weekly for her maintenance, and be imprisoned, except recognizance be found. By a later court, however, the Bishop discharged the said Kadwalader of the said sum, as well as of the imprisonment and recognizance. (3) He paid £600 as a bribe to receive his see and raised the money by imposing double benevolences on his clergy, threatening those unable to pay, and suspended Gruffin Williams, Bachelor of Divinity, upon his refusal to pay, whereby the parish of Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, was for long without divine service. (4) One Rowland Owen being summoned to appear in the ecclesiastical court of Bangor for having married his wife without her parent's consent, was discharged on payment of a bribe by the said Rowland. (5) The Bishop eats flesh meat in Lent, contrary to law. (6) He discharged John Trevor, John David, John ap Hugh ap Robert, Robert ap John Wyn, John ap Robert ap John Wyn, John Edmund, Richard ap John Edmund, and Lazarus ap William ap Edmund, all under warrant and recognizance of William Williams, from arrest or imprisonment, and refused to make certificate of the recognizances to Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, then and still Custos Rotulorum of the county. (7) He suppressed and failed to certify the recognizance entered against Rees ap Jevan of Aber, on 29 March 1611, and the following recognizances as well: Richard ap Evan; William Wyn and John ap William Prichard, 14 Aug. 1618; Thomas ap Robert and John ap Ellys, 13 Dec. 1618. (8) He discharged Elizabeth Humfrey who stole money from her master, Richard Jones of Bangor. (9) He rejected the suit of a stranger named Joel Wharton, who was grievously assaulted and wounded by John Mothey; as well as the case of William Wyn, charged of murdering Robert Williams and Evan Lloid and of marrying the wife of the said Evan. (10) He openly slandered his fellow justices and others by accusing them of dissolute living.

Mathew Thomlinson contracted for the purchase of Dindathwy, Anglesey, heretofore parcel of the revenue of the Prince of Wales. The survey presents:. (1) Two yearly fairs in Beaumaris, with a memorandum that the profits of fairs, markets, and courts are claimed by the burgesses of the said town to be held by charter, but nothing was produced to make the same appear. The writer now finds by a charter of 4 Eliz., that all the said premises were granted to the said corporation, as claimed. (2) All profits of courts, etc., held in the manors of Rosevawre and Vrondeg, Anglesey, are claimed by Lewis Owen, who refused, though summoned, to make good his claim. The writer finds that the late King Charles, by letters patent dated 9 Sept., in the fourth year of his reign, granted to Edward Ditchfield and others intrusted by the city of London, all lands, houses etc., with profits of courts etc., in Rosevawre and Vrondeg, who by deed inrolled, dated 18 Dec., 5 Charles, granted the same to the said Lewis Owen in fee, he paying the King the yearly fee-farm rent of £20 16s. 01/2d. (3) The townships of Darronwy and Bottan, in the tenure of Robert and John Bulkeley and others, are escheated lands. The writer finds that King Charles, by letters patent dated 1 June, 3 Charles, granted the said escheated lands to Richard P[r]ythergh, esq., Thomas Wynne, and Charles Horsley. Also finds that Sir Henry Hobert and others, being possessed, by letters patent dated 14 James, of divers escheated lands in Darronway for 99 years, demised the same by indenture dated 29 June, 19 James, to Robert Bulkeley John Lewis, William Bulkeley, and Thomas Bulkeley for divers periods of years. (4) That lands called Castle Meadow, near Beaumaris Castle, Kingswood, Coyd Cadowe etc., are in the possession of Lord Bulkeley. Finds that these are claimed by the Corporation of Beaumaris, and that Thomas, Lord Bulkeley, claims the same in fee-farm from the Corporation, and that in an affidavit of one Richard Thomas, dated 2 Feb. 1653, it is attested that the premises for 40 years past have been in the possession of the Bulkeleys, and that neither the late King, Queen, nor Prince was ever in possession thereof. The writer finds that the Corporation of Beaumaris, by their said charter, are enabled to grant and alien any of the lands granted to them, and that the yearly rent of £42 12s. 9d. is and has been payable by the said Corporation to the late King and his predecessors.

Demise (in the autograph of Sir Owen Wynn of Gwydir) for 21 years of moiety of Kilkemeys by the late Queen Elizabeth to Gruffith Wynn (about 1 Eliz.), who assigned it to David ap William ap Madock. About 6 Eliz. the lordship was granted to Robert Dudley, late Earl of Leicester. Detailed relation of the attempts of the said Gruffith Wynn to recover the lease by matching the infant son of the said David ap William to his daughter and by obtaining a renewal of the lease for the lives of his three sons. The Earl of Leicester mortgaged the lordship to the aldermen of London and died before it was demortgaged. The tenants of the lordship agreed to raise £6,000 to pay off the mortgage, on condition that their leases were renewed. The rent of Kilkemeys being enhanced by the fraudulent dealings of John Gruffith Bannor, from 30s. to £4 yearly, the said John David ap William could not pay his share of the mortgage money, and was unable to renew his lease. Thereupon Moris ap John Gruffith, eldest son of the said John Gruffith Bannor, having lately married a wife with a 'consideration' portion, went up and paid the fine and obtained a lease in reversion dated 19 March 37 Eliz. The said three sons of the said David ap William dying, and the said Moris ap John Gruffith, that took the reversion of the lease, dying also, his son William Moris, being a minor, lived with his uncle and guardian Thomas ap John Gruffith, who, during the absence in London of the said William Moris, 'brought open' the chest containing the writings and evidences, and detains the same, and the said William, being now 21 years of age, can never obtain them.

Certificate that the Treasurers at War received a letter from the commissioners for the assessments in Caernarfonshire, signifying that Mr Parry, receiver-general for the said county, has not satisfied their acquittances, amounting to one thousand and eighty-six pounds and one shilling, part of the six months' assessment on the said county, from 24 June to 25 Dec. 1654, payable to Major Goodricke; and they mention, moreover, Mr Parry's allegation that he was with the Treasurer; rendering and perfecting his accounts, and they desire to know what further sums of assessment are due from the said county. These are, therefore, to acquaint Williams that the said Mr Parry has neither been at the Treasury before he received the Treasurers' orders for payment of the said sum to Major Goodricke, nor, since he received the orders, to perfect his account. The Treasurers conceive all moneys due from the said county by assessment have been charged on the said Mr Parry, either by warrants from the Committee of the Army or by acquittances signed by the Treasurers; but how much more than the said sum remains unsatisfied by the said Parry they cannot possibly certify, but must refer to their acquittances to be produced by Mr Parry. Endorsed: 'John Parry's business.'.

Order to meet the Trustees at Wimbledon House at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, the 23rd instant, to give an account of and to deliver up such goods of the late King as they have there in their custody. Signed: Thomas Maylard, Clerk to the Committee.

Copy of a letter of thanks for the assignment of moneys levied from other counties for disbanding the forces in Caernarfonshire. Their proportion of £1,200 could not be levied from that county as the garrisons are in arrears owing to the £504 raised for two months' provisioning of the troops, whereof six weeks are already expired. Desires that the money assigned be paid within the remaining fortnight, and this poor county eased from the insufferable burden it groans under. There are no soldiers to be disbanded within the county save the troops which have had the provision money. Signed: Thos. Williams, Sheriff of Caernarfonshire; William Williams; Thos. Madrin; Edward Williams. Underneath: 1647/8, Feb. 28. Sir Thomas Fairfax to Capt. Edmund Glynne, commanding the forces in Caernarfonshire. Copy of a warrant for disbanding the forces in Caernarfon town and castle.

Windsor Castle. Copy of signet letter to William, earl of Northampton, President of the Council of the Marches, authorizing him to take a general muster of trained bands in the several counties of Wales.

Reciting the instructions sent to the lord lieutenant. They have been advertised that Edward Williams, captain of cannon, is not ready with his 'ancient' and drum, and that William Williams of Cochwillan has made no show of horse and foot. Others besides are backward in the service in Caernarfonshire, which is not to be suffered at this time of danger. Let the offenders be bound for appearance before the Council or else suffer imprisonment.

Paper: 24 pp. (12 blank) 151 by 61 inches. Title in the autograph of Owen Wynn of Gwydir. His brother's name appears among the freeholders of Nantconwy as 'Richardus Wynne de Gwydder, miles et baronet.'.

See NLW MS 9065E/2211.

Has received the 10s. and Sir Owen's note desiring to have some cod and wildfowl. As for cod, there came but four to town and those to some particular persons; hopes to procure some as soon as they are taken. Has employed fowlers to get some fowl as soon as possible. A Dutch vessel laden with Spanish wines, bound for Dublin, came in on Friday last; from which the writer has bought Sir Owen two dozen lemons and two dozen Seville oranges at one shilling per dozen, and two pomegranates at 6d. apiece, and two pomecitrons at 9d. apiece.

Statement in the matter of Thomas Price v. John Wynn of Gwydir, in the Star Chamber, with the opinions of Sir William Jones and Thomas Harris as to whether an action upon the case will lie against Thomas Price.

Desiring him to meet Sir Francis Darcy in order to confer about a match proposed between Sir John's son [Richard] and Sir Francis's daughter.

Attorneys' bills of costs, in the autographs of Thomas Martyn and Sir William Jones, in the matters of John Wynn v. Thomas Price, and the same v. Sharpe and Merrick.

Copies of three letters in Sir Richard Wynn's autograph:. (A) To [the chief justice of Chester?], 21 March 1666/7. Begging that the next Quarter Sessions may be kept at Denbigh. Dated at Gwydir. (B) To [--], no date. On the same subject. (C) To [--], no date. In answer to complaints concerning his deputy alderman, who was not to be blamed in the accusation brought against him.

The Commissioners of the Treasury to Robert, Viscount Bulkeley, Thomas Bulkeley, Sir Griffith Williams, Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., Sir Richard Lloyd, John Glynne, William Wynne, Griffith Jones, Hugh Wynne, and the rest of the commissioners for the Royal Aid and eleven months' assessments in Caernarfonshire. Instructions for the recovery of certain arrears set upon divers head collectors for Caernarfonshire, by Roger Whitley, late receiver-general. It is desired that the money may, according to the Act for granting the Royal Aid, 16 and 17 Car. II, be levied upon the estates of the said collectors, by sale of their goods and lands. Underneath:. (A) A list of collectors for the several hundreds in Caernarfonshire, together with the sums due. (B) Copy of the Order in the Court of Exchequer, (dated 29 Nov., 22 Car. II), for the award of a process of distringas, against the Commissioners of the several counties to render an account of the said sums set upon the head collectors.

'A note of William Probert his cattle and what they are worth ... by William Maurice his valuation'.

Copy of a warrant under the hand and seal of John Robinson, vice-admiral of north Wales, appointing a press-master [not named] for the county of [--].