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Bodewryd (Sotheby) manuscripts and papers

  • GB 0210 BODEWRYD
  • Fonds
  • [13 cent.]-1864

Manuscripts, estate records and papers of the Wynne family of Bodewryd, Anglesey, including records of the Bodowyr estate (Bodedern), Anglesey, and Plas Einion estate, Denbighshire, and papers of the Owen family of Penrhos, Anglesey; important Welsh literary manuscripts, legal manuscripts relating to civil and ecclesiastical law; the antiquarian collections of Edward Wynne, chancellor of Hereford, relating to Wales and to the diocese of Hereford, and part of the collection of Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor and later of Hereford; letters to Humphrey Humphreys, 1691-1709 (mainly 1705-1709); Wynne family correspondence, 1613-1816; legal papers, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.], especially relating to a lengthy action between Chancellor Edward Wynne and the Mostyn estate following the purchase by Wynne of the Bodowyr estate, 1721-1746; estate, personal and household accounts, 1603-1753; and title deeds, [13 cent.]-1864.

Wynne family, of Bodewryd

Documents

Deeds and documents relating to, or collected by, the Wynne family of Bodewryd.

Agricultural notes

Extracts by Chancellor Wynne from R. Bradley, A Complete Body of Husbandry; Collected from the Practice and Experience of the Most Considerable Farmers in Britain... (London, 1727, ESTC T6450).

Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732

Bodewryd manuscripts

Manuscripts, many of which were written by or for Edward Wynne, LLD, DCL, Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford (d. 1755), and by several members of the important families with which he was connected.

Wynne, Edward, 1681-1755

Mona Antiqua Restaurata

An interleaved copy of Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (Dublin, 1723, ESTC T139797), with manuscript notes by two former owners, Lewis Morris, [1740s], and Sir J. T. Stanley (later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley), [1840s].
The notes are to be found on additional leaves inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. i-ii, pp. 1-84 passim), at the end (pp. 85, 166-168) and on the interleaves, with annotations on some of the original printed leaves by Lewis Morris. The volume also includes a number of pen and wash drawings by Lewis Morris of churches, houses and other objects, including churches at Rhospeirio, Llanrhuddlad (pencil draft), Amlwch, Holyhead, Llanddona, Penrhôs Lligwy, Llanelian (pencil draft), Llanerchmedd, Bodedern, Llanfechell, Llanynghenedl, Llanfflewyn, Llanvair yn Neubwll, Llanddausant, Aberffraw and Bodewryd, the village of Llanfechell, and the seats of Brynddu, Caerau, Bodowen, Bodorgan and Penrhos; these are mostly to be found on the additional leaves at the end of the volume (pp. 85-143 passim).

Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723

Letters

Letters, 1595-1864, addressed to John Wynn Edwards (d. 1614); John Wynne of Bodewryd and Chwaen Wen (1617-1669); John Owen of Penrhos (d. 1712); Mrs Margaret Wynne of Bodewryd (d. 1723); Humphrey Humphreys (1648-1712); Anne Wynne, wife of Edward Wynne; Edward Wynne, Chancellor of Hereford; and Margaret, Lady Stanley; letters relating to the marriage of Edward Wynne and Anne Lloyd (1714); and other miscellaneous letters.

Newspapers

Copies of Mist's Weekly Journal, 14 August 1728 (ff. 1-2), Gloucester Journal, 31 March 1731 (ff. 3-4), and The Globe, 25 January 1811 (ff. 5-6), 6 February 1811 (ff. 7-8), 21 February 1811 (ff. 9-10), 8 December 1814 (ff. 11-12), 12 January 1815 (ff. 13-14), 13 January 1815 (ff. 15-16), 21 January 1815 (ff. 17-18) and 24 January 1815 (ff. 19-20).

Accounts, &c.

Farm, household and other accounts of Dr Wynne for 1750-1751, with memoranda and notes of books. This seems to be a jotter from which Dr Wynne would enter the accounts into his ledger.
A bill for 1812 is also included (ff. 39-40).

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