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Lists of books purchased by Thomas Hanmer at Florence, and of medals bought at Man[n]heim.

A holograph copy of a letter from Mor[gan] Llwyd to H[enry] Jessey, 1656 (lessons and observations from Jac[ob] Behmen, John Goodwin's answer, converse with Mr. Hartlib); holograph copies and one draft of letters (3) from [Morgan Llwyd] to unknown correspondents, 1658/1659, and undated (the recipient's change of doctrine, kindness to David Hughes's son, the recipient's action in Tho. Tillams and the writer's in breaking bread at Chester, the writer's wish to reside in the country); a holograph letter from Hen[ry] Jones, from Dublin, to [?Morgan Llwyd], 1655 (the writer's former course in writing, references to Robin, dear Daniell Lloyd, Capt. Prichard, Sontley, Kathrin, Lowrey Williams, and Eliz. Powell) (together with a draft reply in the hand of Morgan Llwyd); a sheet marked 'fourth' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, concerning the diversity of thoughts in the human heart, together with notes, dated 1655/1656-1656/1657, on apparitions; and 'The heads of the bill for Gouernment' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, 1656.

Holograph letters, etc.:- from Jo. Jones, Dublin, to Mrs. Anne Lloyd [wife of Morgan Llwyd], Wrexham, 1652 (the recipient's care for his son, the 'melancholines' of the recipient's husband); from Jo. Jones, 'Dulyn' [Dublin], to his brother Richard Jones, 1653/4 (religious experiences, the death of sister Jonett, greetings); from Hugh Price, Rich. Price, Edw. Price, Roger Sontley, Edw. Allen, and Will. Wynne (for widow Marris), Wrexham, to Colonel John Joanes, 1654 (the rents of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale) (together with a sheet entitled 'The desiers of the purchasers of the Lordshippes of Bromfield and Yale'); from Jo. Jones, London, to [?Mrs. Lloyd], 1656 (a settlement upon the recipient's husband); and an extract [after 1827] from Phenix Britannicus, vol. I, p. 145, relating to Colonel John Jones.

Holograph letters addressed mainly to Morgan Llwyd. The correspondents include Esther Jones, Dol[ ], 1655 (2) (Coll. Jones's letter to Ellis Hughes, spiritual experiences); E. Herbert to his dear sister [?the wife of Morgan Llwyd], 1658/9 (the recipient's health); Hugh Prichard, Wrexham, etc., 1651-1654 (7) (the reason why Mr. Cradocke and Mr. Powell went out of town, references to Mr. Rice Vaughan, Capt. Strange, Jo[h]n Lilburne, M[ajor] G[eneral] Lambert, and Col. Barrow, the recipient's visits to Merioneth and Carnarvon shires, feelings against M[ajor] G[eneral] H[arrison], union and peace in the church at Wrexham, etc.); Phill[ip] Rogers, Beaumaris, etc., 1653/4-1654/5 (3) (impressions of 'this darke Countrey', books sent to the recipient, the death of Mrs. Courtney, W. Erbery's publication of 'some papers'); Peter Sterry, Whitehall, 1651-1656 and undated (5) (opinions on free will, the godhead of Christ, the writings of Beaumont, etc.); Hugh Courtney, 1649 (Mr. Cradocke's congregation, the Moderate Petition, news of Inchequin's forces in Ireland, etc.); John Trevor, Symon Thelwall, Stephen Marshall, Joseph Caryll, John Glynn, and Henry Herbert to [Sir Thomas Myddelton] [not before 1645] (Mr. Ambrose Mostyn and Mr. Morgan Floyd to be sent to the recipient to help reduce that country to due obedience) ('true copy'); H. J. [from London], 1656 (Mr. Jo. Goodwin's answer); Robert Hughes, Westminster, 1658/9 (Parliamentary business, the illness of two successive speakers, Major-General Overton sent ... to Jersey) (mutilated); Va[vasor] Powell, 1657-1659 (2) (comments on the recipient's beliefs and on their personal relationships); ?Phil. Eyton, London, 1656 (the election of an arbitrator, the war with the Spaniards, the Act for Registers); Samuel Hughes, Swansea, 1656 (personal, references to Mr. Ambrasse Mosten, John Robert, Edward Cynricke, etc.); Will. Rider and Wal. Thimelton, Hollborne, etc., 1652/3-1653/4 (3) (Mr. Erbury's publications and his trial by the Committee for plundered m[inisters], references to Strange and Spencer, etc., and to books); and W. T. Chapellizzard, 1653 (landing in Ireland, a report that the recipient has given over all meetings, etc.). Also included in the volume are a despatch, 1648, giving an account of the engagement (endorsed 'fight') at Maidstone; an order, [c. 1649], by the common knaves of England for the destruction of all gallows or gibbets, and the burning of all halters, ropes, etc., in the county of Montgomery, illustrated with rough sketches of gallows prepared for Powel, Mosten, Capt. Wil'n, the knight of the shire, E[dward] V[aughan], the committees, sequestrators, and all rebels, signed 'Amicus sculpit' [sic]; queries, undated, by James Parke 'To all the professors in Wrexham that deny the light of christ to bee in every man ...'; and an epistle signed by H. Jessey, Will Crees, and Tho. Teobald, in the name of the Church at Colman Street, London, to Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Minister of the Gospel at Wrexham, 1656. Bound at the beginning of the volume is a fragment of 'A perfect account of all the Horses that I receaved the sixth of May 1651', being an imperfect list which appears to have been used as a wrapper for a bundle of Morgan Llwyd's letters and which is endorsed: 'Bundle of letters to Mr. Morgan Lloyd of which perhaps some profitable use may be made if I should have leisure to peruse ym. so as to make some sober remarks & reflections uppon them, if not burn them. May 29th 1706'.

Letters Patent granting to Thomasine Swinarton, widow, and Thomas Swinarton, esq., closes of land in Dudleston late in the occupation of William Groome, Robert Groome, Thomas Groome, John ap Ieu'n, Katerine verch John and Howell ap John, parcels in maes bryn y perveth, maes lloyn Colhigion and Maes Kad mawr in Porkington, parcel of man. Whittington, so that they could grant the same to Thomas Kinaston.

1 Matilda Say, formerly wife of William clerc of Neuport, in her pure widowhood;. 2 Thomas Jurdan. Letters Of Attorney to deliver seisin of lands and tmt's formerly property of Thomas Say her brother, to Robert Say, Lord of Merton.

Miscellaneous documents including three holograph letters to Thomas Jenyns (Jennings), Dodleston, from Edward ap Ellis, 1630 (sureties), T. Vaughan, Hengwrt, 1631/2 (the apprehension of a barker for a debt of £200), and Rich. Vaughan, Corsygedol, 1632/3 (the release of a poor prisoner); two holograph letters from J[ohn] Pardoe, London, to Madam [ ], 1762 (the receipt of letters), and to Mrs. Anne Bee, Salop, 1773 (the payment of a dividend); a holograph letter from Edw. Lewis, Dolgelley, to Richard Whittacres, Cottone, 1634 (Edward ap Ellis's writ); a holograph letter from [ ] Lucking?, London, to [ ], 1703 (the affairs of the family of Mr. Abbott); a holograph letter from Sinah Mathews, C[astle] B[romwich], to her nephew John Williams, Chester, 1734 (begging the acceptance of two cheeses); a holograph letter from [ ] to the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs [1688?] (the writers' determination not to sit upon a case) (transcript; mutilated); a receipt, 1710, by Mary Hieron to Mrs. Susannah Hulton, Dudliston, for a guinea; a receipt, 1762, by B. Hatchett to the Reverend George Hodges and William Prichard, trustees in the will of William Morrall, deceased, for £62.6s. received upon a bond; an undated [eighteenth century] poem entitled 'The Ghost'; a memorandum, 1633, concerning the apprehending of Edd. ap Elice otherwise Edd. Wynne; a copy of an inscription upon a memorial tablet to Ellis Lloyd of Penylan [Ruabon], who died in 1712; an abstract of the will [13 September, 1663] of Sir Griffith Williams [of Pen'rallt, Conway] (mutilated); an account (1 page) of Dudliston, said to have been written by W. Challner, senior; a draft of a letter [nineteenth century] relating to a road to be constructed in order to avoid the Oswestry Trust; and a pen drawing of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

Miscellaneous documents including instructions, 1666/7, by Richard Wynn for the payment of money to him; meditations on sufferings, 1667/8; a form of warrant, 1678, to levy the forfeiture of £5 imposed by the Act for burying in woollen upon persons who neglected to produce the required cerificate; particulars of rents received by Sir Hugh Williams for Penrallt [Conway] lands, 1683 (mutilated); an acknowledgement, 1720, by Jno. Bee and Eliz. Bee of the receipt of their annuity of £50 and of the sale of lottery annuities, together with a statement of account by James Harrison [of Red Lion Square, Middlesex]; holograph letters from Bart. Jones, Greenwich, to his grandfather, 1736/7 (Mr. Podmore's note for £20), from G. Wentnor to Mr. Prichard, [17]66 (the draft of a mortgage), from Ann Carkman, Sackville Street [London], to her uncle Mr. Prichard at Shrewsbury, 1766 (the writer's marriage), from C. Leigh (aft. Cooke), Balliol [College, Oxford], etc., to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1767-1774 (5) (the writer's financial affairs, Sir Edwd. Turner's legacies, the writer's proposed marriage, news from Oxford, impressions of Bookham in Surrey, etc.), and from M. L., Oxford, to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1772 (personal); a statement of account, 1782, for cockspurs and other items bought of Richard Singleton at the Fighting Cocks on Corkhill, Dublin; case, with the opinion of John Leach, 1816, concerning an application by John Smith for a fellowship founded in Brasenose College, Oxford, by John Williamson, clerk, parson of St. George's, Canterbury, in 1521; a fragment of a lease [late seventeenth century] from Samuell Burrowes to Samuell Smith; two sheets containing accounts of miracles and of Catholic persecution, and an unsigned poem; a poem, c. 1680, in the form of a dialogue between Britannia and Raleigh on the state of England under King Charles II; and undated [eighteenth century] poem in Russian and an English-Russian vocabulary.

A letter from John Browne, Hugh Prich., Vau. Powell, Rich. Robts., Jn. Meredith, and Jn. Rbts., to their 'ancient honourd & beloued friend' [Walter Cradock] [1656], commenting on the matter and style of a late paper called 'an addresse &c.', that is, The Humble Representation and Address to His Highnesse of several Churches and Christians in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 1656, being a reply by Cradock and others to A Word for God published in the previous year by Vavasor Powell and his followers. Also included in the volume, being originally pinned to the letter, are three sheets in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, one containing 'Marginall Notes on the preface of the Word of God. so called to my deare V.P.', written '11m. 11d. 55 or 56', and the others containing a rough draft, partly cancelled, of a statement of the writer's attitude towards Cromwell's government, written '12m. 15d. 55'.

A letter book of Colonel John Jones, Maesygarnedd, for the period 3 September, 1651- 17 April, 1654, and 27 October, 1659 - 4 April, 1660. The volume contains holograph copies of ninety-seven letters, and the addressees include Leift. genll. [Edmund] Ludlow (4), Agitant genll. [William] Allen, [Dr.] Henry Jones, Scout mr. genll., Sir Theoph[ilus] Jones, Thomas Scott (15), Mr. Morgan Lloyd (9), Dr. Wm. Stare, Mr. Wm. Rowe (2), L'd Comissioner [Bulstrode] Whittlock, Major Genll. Tho[mas] Harrison (2), the Treasurer at War (2) (signed by Miles Corbett and John Jones), Sir Henry Vane, his brother Mr. Humphrey Jones (4), Major [Richard] Sallway, Mr. Vauasor Powell, Capt. Rich. Price, Capt. Lowe, governor of Carlingford, Mr. Mathyas Valentyne, Henry Cromwell (3), Mr. William Jones, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Power, his brother Richard [Jones] and his sister Lowri [Jones] (an English translation by John Hughes is attached), his cousin Lowrie Gwyn, his cousin Ellis Hughes, Coll. [Robert] Phayer (2) (together with a postscript), Lady Salusbury, Mr. Peasley, Capt. Sontley, Mr. [Peter] Sterry (2), Mr. Poore (2), the Governors of the respective precincts (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C., and J. J.), John Jones (from Peter Sterry, Whitehall), Mr. Standish, Mr. Daniell Lloyd, Wrexham (together with a postscript), Coll. Philip Jones (3), Coll. Marke Trauor, Christian friends in the respective precincts (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C. and J. J.), dearly beloved friends in the Lord Jesus (signed by C. ff., E. L., M. C. and J. J.). His Highness [?Oliver Cromwell], Lord Genll. [Charles] Fleetwood (4) (including one signed by Har[dress] Waller, Tho. Cooper, Peter Wallis, Alex. Brafield, John Nellson, Will. Arnop, Jos. Deane, Richard Lawrence, Daniel Abbott, Henry Pritty, Thomas Sadleir, Henry Jones, Will. Moore, Edward Warren, and Thomas Davies, in the name and by the consent of the Council of Officers of the Army in Ireland), Coll. Robert Barrowe (2), General George Moncke (2) (including one signed by John Jones, Harr. Haller, Thomas Cooper, Rich. Lawrence, Robt. Phaire, Nich. Kempston, and Hen. Jones), Major John Barrett, Coll. Daniel Axtell, Coll. Thomas Lord Cooper, Roger Lord Broghill, Sr. Hardres Waller (2), Sr. Mathew Tomlinson, Ld. Richard Cromwell, Her Highness Dowager [Elizabeth, widow of Oliver Cromwell], etc. All the letters have been written from Ireland (largely from Dublin, but with a few from Kilkenny, Corke, and Drogedah), and the majority relate to the writer's duties as Commissioner to assist the Lord Deputy. Many of the letters were published in Joseph Mayer: 'Inedited Letters of Cromwell, Colonel Jones, Bradshaw and other regicides', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, New Series, vol. I, 1860-1861, pp. 177-300. On pp. 9, 15 and 87 of the volume are lists and summaries of letters sent by Colonel John Jones into England respectively on 18 September and 9 October, 1651, and on 24 August, 1652. The original parchment cover is inscribed in a nineteenth century hand: 'The Private Letters-Book of Colonel John Jones, the Regicide, from 1651 to 1660'. There are numerous marginal and other annotations in pencil in the hand of 'E. M.' [see note to 561].

Transcripts of warrants and deeds, partly made by Tho. Edwardes (1624), and English translations from Horace in an eighteenth century hand.

Transcripts of deeds and legal instruments relating to persons and properties mainly in the counties of Chester and Flint.

Lease for 21 years by John Bee of Shrewsbury, esq., to Samuel Haile of Silverston, co. Northants, laceman, of four parcels of inclosed land (12a.) and several parcels of land (60a.) dispersed in the open and common fields, all in p. or t. Silverston, co. Southampton [recte Northampton], 1722; lease for 21 years ('from the first of may new style next ensuing') by Charles Morrall of Chester, surgeon, to Thomas Jones of Dudleston, yeoman, of a m. and tmt lately occ. by the said Thomas Jones and which is hereby surrendered, and a m. or tmt called Kyah, both t. Dudleston, and several parcels of ground (named) belonging therewith, 1786 (schedule of Kyah and Jones's tenements (76a.) inscribed on the back of the lease); lease for 21 years by the dean and chapter of Bristol to Ellen Sutton of Shrewsbury, widow, of the tithes of h. Hill in p. Bakeley, co. Glos., 1842; lease for 10 years by Robert Morrall, esq., and Rev. Cyrus Morrall to William Davies, John Davies and Edward Davies, all of the Flanog, t. St Martins, p. Ellesmere, miners, of coal mines at the Flanog, 1870; agreement between Elizabeth Dora Morrall of Plas Warren, spinster, and Cyrus Morrall of Plas Yolyn, esq., for letting Plas Warren, 1885; leases of coal seams under various parts of the Plas Yolyn estate to the Black Rock Colliery Co., 1904-1930; and leases of sporting rights over the Plas Yolyn estate, and over Sodylt Farm (62a.), 1920.

1 The Rt Hon. William, Lord Craven, Baron of Hampsted Marshall in Berkshire;. 2 Watkyn Kyffin of Glascoyd, co. Denb., esq. Lease of the tithes of Pentregayre and Canonion, Shropshire, for 21 years.

1 Frances Edwards of Kelehendrey, Dudleston, Shropshire, spinster, one of the dau's and coheirs of Thomas Edwards late of Kelehendrey, esq., dec.;. 2 John Powell of Dudleston, yeoman. Lease of the Great Farm in Dudleston. Copy. Damaged.

1 Mathewe Bee of New Sarum, Wiltshire, gent.;. 2 John Jones of New Sarum, joyner, Margaret his wife, John Jones and Mary Jones children of the said John Jones the father and Margaret his wife. Lease of premises in New Sarum.

1 Thomas Bee of Windelbury, Oxfordshire, gent., and Mathewe Bee, his son and heir;. 2 Lawrence Tippett of New Sarum, Wiltshire, shoemaker. Lease of premises in New Sarum.

1 John Bee of Greenwich, Kent, esq.;. 2 John Coward of New Sarum, Wiltshire, innholder. Lease of premises in New Sarum.