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Two sets of notes, comments, etc. (the one being a duplicate of the other) [by the Reverend Robert Potter] on translations into English of the Isthmian, Nemean, Olympic and Pythian odes of Pindar, which he had been requested to check and revise. With these notes is a copy of a letter sent by [the Reverend] R[obert] Potter from Scarning [co. Norfolk] to the Right Hon[ourable] Ch[arle]s Townshend, Stanhope Street, May Fair [London], 1 Feb[rua]ry 1779, in which the writer expresses his willingness to help the recipient's friend The Right H[onoura]ble Hans Stanley, by revising a translation of Pindar upon which he was working at the time. These notes, etc., are probably the result of the promise made in the letter. Stanley is known to have been preparing a translation of Pindar's odes when he died in 1780 [see D.N.B.].

A list of items appertaining to Wales to be found in the Harleian collection of manuscripts in the British Museum. Most of the items listed contain material of a genealogical or heraldic nature. Added comments such as 'seen it but not examined', 'examine it soon', 'copied all worth my while', seem to imply that it was being used as a working list by the compiler.

A copy of a poem entitled 'An Epistle to Sir Armine Wodehouse' [5th bart. of Kimberley, co. Norfolk]. The work is dated 1 March 1756, and is probably by and in the hand of the Reverend Robert Potter, whose poem in praise of the Wodehouse family entitled 'Kymber. A Monody to Sir Armine Wodehouse' was published in 1759.

Accounts rendered by Thomas Williams of Bronkoed, co. Flint, gent., in respect of the estates of Mr. [? John] Langley within the manor of Mold, co. Flint, for the years 1694-1695. The accounts were submitted to Mr. John Williams of the Old Bayly, London, one of the trustees for the said estate, and were allowed and approved of by him on behalf of Mr. Samuel Langley, 5 June 1696.

A letter written as a mock scriptural epistle and entitled 'The General Epistle of Obadiah to the Tribe of Benjamin wheresoever dispersed'.

Forty-seven holograph letters, etc., 1735-1775, addressed to Robert Howard, Collector of His Majesty's Customs at Conway, co. Carnarvon. The writers include Rob[er]t Carrey, Carn[arvo]n, 1753 (a request to recipient to prevail upon J. Ellis, who was incapacitated through illness, to allow someone to examine his books so that his account with Sir J[oh]n Wynn could be settled), John Cross, Chester, 1757 (the execution by Mr. Perkins of a bond which would secure recipient against claims by Mr. Lloyd on a certain estate), [ ] Davies, Caerhun, 1758 (enclosing interest due), Tho[mas] Edwards, Pwllheli, 1751 (a bill drawn by his brother on the writer to pay Howard £150 [endorsed with recipient's answer]), Thomas Evans, Llanrwst, 1735 (sending 'Silver Spurrs and Stockins' and an account of money due to the writer from Cadwallader Williams), W[illiam] Holland, Lincolns Inn, 1756 (5) (legal proceedings), John Hookes of Gaunts, co. Dorsett, 1741 (letters of attorney appointing Robert Howard collector of the rents of the grantor's estates in the county of Carnarvon), H[ugh] Howard [recipient's brother], Bombay, 1746 (the writer's indisposition and his wishes with regard to the disposing of Mr. Hoar's money), Sam[ue]l Jennions, Holywell, 1753 (a request that he be considered if the recipient decided to let certain lands which he had bought 'to Venture for Ore' [ endorsed with a copy of Howard's reply]), W[illia]m Jones, Llanfihangel, 1775 (a lease of lands in Trefriw), T. Kyffin, Maynan, 1756 (personal, legal), [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, 1744 (personal, information from the Admiralty re Cad[waladr] W[illia]ms who had 'entered on board the Shrewsbury' and died in 1742), Z[achar]y [Pearce, bishop of] Bangor, 1752 ( a proposed visit to Bangor and Conway), John Penkett, Ches[te]r, 1753-1756 (4 ) (financial and legal matters, mention of Flintshire miners and the finding of ore and the possibility of recipient becoming 'a Great Mine Adventurer'), Henry Perkins, Chester, 1750-1757 (5) (legal and financial matters, the Trecastell estate), Anne Prendergast, Dublin, 1757 (parcels and chairs carried in the Catherine of Conway and their liability for duty), Rich[ar]d R. Short, Newport, 1772 (personal), John Spencer and W. Wake, Bombay [India], 1746/7-1750 (3 + 1 dup.) (the death of recipient's brother, Hugh Howard, and arrangements for the disposal of his estate), J[ohn] Spencer, Bombay [India], 1752-1753 (3 + 1 dup.) (matters relating further to the estate of recipient's deceased brother Hugh Howard, the death of recipient's nephew Mr. [Robert] Went), M. Went [sister of recipient], London, 1744/5 (personal, a request that her son Robert should be sent to London immediately as she had hopes of a post for him, plans with regard to Robert), Cadwallader Williams on board H.M.S. Shrewsbury in the Downs, 1742 (personal, a request to recipient to collect money due to him), ?R. Williams, 1756 (a law suit in which recipient was involved), W[illia]m Williams, 1758 (personal, legal matters), J. Wynn [1742-1743] (2) (the intention of the recipient's brother [Hugh Howard] to go to India and the signing of a bond in connection therewith), J. Wynn [London], 1758 (legal matters), and Sidney Wynne, Glynn, 1744 and undated (3 and a fragment) ( personal, domestic and farm news).

Twenty-four holograph or autograph letters to and from Hugh Howard [brother of Robert Howard of Conway, the recipient of the letters contained in the previous manuscript, NLW MS 12426E]. (a) Six holograph letters, 1732-1737, bearing no addresses, from Hugh Howard in Tellicherry [India], 1. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard of Conway], 1732 (family affairs, the writer's troubles with his superior officers in India, the possibility of his buying Griffith Williams's estate), 2. to [? Mrs. Gifford], 1733/4 (congratulations ? on her marriage, a gift of a set of china ware), 3. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard as previously], 1733/4 (gifts sent to recipient and other persons named), 4. to his brother Rob[ert] Howard, 1737 (news of writer's acquaintances in India, recipient's intended purchase of land), 5. to Mrs. Gifford, 1737 (personal), 6. to Mrs. Howard [? his brother's wife], 1737 (personal). (b) Eighteen holograph or autograph letters to Hugh Howard, 1736-1746, most of them addressed to him in Bombay, from Ynyr Burges, East India House [London], 1746 (goods and a cask of arrack sent to England by Howard, news of events in Europe and in Britain including the crushing of the [Stuart] rebellion and the flight of the pretender's son to France, news of changes and rumoured changes affecting the personnel of the [East India] Company), Francesco Dias, Callicutt [India], 1743 (2) (personal, commercial transactions), Thomas Dorrill, Buss[orah, in the Persian Gulf], 1745 (1 + dup.) (commercial and financial), Rog[er] Kinsey, Surat [India], 1745/6 ( financial and commercial), Stephen Law, London, 1745/6 (financial), Tho[mas] Phillips, London, 1743 (military activity in Europe and the West Indies, the desertion of some two hundred soldiers of a Scotch regiment brought to London, news of friends and acquaintances), ?Domingos Rodrigues, Tellicherry [India], 1743-1746 (6 + 1 dup.) (financial and commercial [two of these letters are endorsed with English translations of the Portuguese originals]), Edward Ward, London, 1745 (personal, comments on the [Stuart] rebellion of 1745 a threatened invasion of England being prepared at Dunkirk), and M. Wynne, Bodysgallan, 1736-1737 (2) (family news, thanks for presents).

Two groups of correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1812-1858, relating mainly to mining matters. (a) Twenty-four holograph and autograph letters addressed to the Reverend Doctor [Richard] Howard at Northop, Beaumaris, Denbigh, Mould and Llanrhaidr, [co.] Denbigh. The writers include Rich[ard] Dawson, Liverpool, 1838 (notification of the formation of the United Gwernymyn[u]dd Lead Mine Company and suggestions as to the scale of royalties), David Hughes, Mold, 1838 (4) (acknowledging receipt of sums of money received on behalf of Mrs. Clough in respect of certain mines), John Jones, Oswestry, 1838-1839 (4) (enclosing the dividend due to the estate of John Lloyd, deceased, from the Snailbeach [lead] mines and copies of the accounts of the said mines company), Richard Jones, Wrexham, 1826 (mining activities undertaken by the writer at Trecastell near Conway), William Jones and Rob[er]t Thomas, Conway, 1812 (notification of the formation of a company to work the mine at Trecastell and a request for a tack note), H. Roberts, Temple [London] and Mold, 1826-1839 (4) (financial and legal matters relating to the Cemmaes estate and stock, a boundary dispute involving the lords of Mold, the Mold mining company, and Joshua Price's company), Cha[rle]s B[layney] Trevor Roper, Plas Teg [Mold], 1838 (2) (the appointment of a new agent to act for the lords of Mold), W. White, manager of the North and South Wales bank, Holywell, 1838 (acknowledging receipt of two hundred pounds to be credited to Howard's account), and Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, 1838-1845 (6) (the writer's appointment as mining agent in respect of royalties in the lordship of Mold, problems relating to the Fawnog mines and to the Fron Fawnog and Mold mines companies, comments on the progress made by the Gwern y mynudd company and at Coed Talwrn, comments on the price of [lead] ore and of iron (1838), notification of meetings of the lords of Mold (1838-1840), the refusal by Mr. Mostyn to sanction the use of the mineral raised in the lords' land in the Leeswood furnaces (1839), the winding up of the affairs of the Douglas Smalley & Co. Bank in 1840) (enclosed is a copy of a letter received from Edward Oakeley relating to the renewal of the Coed Talon lease in 1845). (b) Miscellaneous letters and papers including Edw[ar]d Jones's account with the lords of Mold in respect of lead ore and royalties from the Nantmawr colliery and the Coed Talon colliery and iron works in 1825; a letter from John Maughan, Birmingham, to [ ], 1830 (an agreement with the lords of Mold concerning minerals) (copy); proposals put by Mr. Oakeley and Mr. Wells to the lords of Mold with regard to a new lease of [ Coed Talwrn] coal and iron works (copy); a letter from J. Boydell, Trevallyn Hall, to [ ], 1829 (mineral matters in the manor of Mold) (copy); a letter from Edward Oakeley, Coed Talon, to Edward Jones, Spon Green, 1832 (enclosing an account of royalties due to the lords of Mold in respect of Coed Talon iron and coal works, 1830-1831); a letter from Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, to Col[onel] Howard, Brook Park, Northop, 1840 (the winding up of the affairs of the Douglas and Smalley [Bank]); proposals by Mr. Oakeley to the lords of Mold for extending or renewing the leases of the Coed Talon and Leeswood mining properties, 1844-1845; a letter from Cha[rle]s B[layney] Trevor Roper, Dudley, to Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, 1845 (a renewal of a lease to Mr. Oakley) (addressed to Rev[eren]d Doctor Howard, Llanrhaiadr, Denbigh) (copy); and accounts of royalties due in respect of minerals in the lordship of Mold in 1845 and 1858.

Forty-seven holograph letters, 1769-1816 and undated, written to Mrs. [? Hephzibah] Williams [?wife of William Williams, king's attorney for North Wales] at Conway, etc. The writers include Hill. Collicott, Bristol, 1775 ( a request for a copy of a deed), ?T. Goodman, Llanidan, 1779 (financial matters), B[?arbara] Howard [? mother of the Reverend Richard Howard, the recipient of the letters contained in NLW MSS 12428-12430 above], [1797]- 1801 and undated (11) (personal and family news, news of acquaintances, financial matters, the health of bishop [John Warren of Bangor] and persecution suffered by him, hopes that the bishop would give the living of Cairun to Mr. Griffith [? the Reverend Hugh Davies Griffith who was instituted to Llanbedr with Caerhun in February 1798], the French landing in Pembrokeshire, fears of a similar landing in North Wales, criticism of the navy, the unprepared state of North Wales should there be an invasion) (some of these letters are incomplete and one contains a copy of a letter sent by Mrs. Howard to [John Warren, bishop of Bangor] requesting his support in obtaining financial aid from Dr. Lewis's charity [? the charitable trust set up under the terms of the will of Dr. William Lewis, D.D., rector of Allhallows the Wall, London, dated 25 August 1681. See Bangor diocesan records in NLW] in order to send her son Richard to Oxford University), Rich[ar]d Howard [brother of recipient], Carnarvon, 1788-1789 (2) (personal, business transactions), Am. Lewis, Ystymllyn, 1777 ( 2) (payment of a mortgage), Edward Mason, Stroud, 1816 (enclosing a draft to discharge legacies), Row[ ] Williams, Carnarvon and Beaumaris, [17] 93-1801 (3) (efforts to obtain financial aid in order to secure a commission for Mr. Thomas Howard in the army (1793), enquiries concerning houses in Conway in Mrs. [Barbara] Howard's jointure), and Tho[mas] Williams, Llanidan, Ruthland, etc., 1769-1777 (26) (legal and financial business transacted on behalf of recipient). Also a copy of the account of [Mrs.] Hephzibah Williams, widow, as administratrix of the goods of her husband, William Williams, deceased, and of the account of Tho[mas] Williams with Mrs. Hephzibah Williams as administratrix aforesaid, 1774.

Holograph and other letters, 1756-1767 and undated, addressed to Ralph GriffIth(s), attorney at law, at Chester, London, Mold, and Ruthin. 12438E. Sixty letters from Tho[mas] Boydell, Chester, Hawarden, Trevellin, etc., 1761-1763 (6), 'Busybody', undated, Thomas Ellis, Avon Wen, Flintshire, 1761, H. Hall, London, 1761, Edw[ar]d Hughes, Mold, 1762-1763 (2), Tho[ma]s Hughes, Mold, 1763, Eliz. Johnson, Mold, 1762, W. Jones, Mo[1]d Mountain, 1763, Rob[er]t Lewis, Mold, 1761 and undated (2), E. Lloyd, Wrexham, 1761-1763 (3), C. Owen, Toke's Court [London], 1761-1764 (39), Marg[are]t Owen, Mold, 1763, and Cha[rles] Owens, 1762. 12439E. Eighty-three letters from Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn [London], Ludlow, Oxford, Salop, and Worcester, 1761-1767 (24), H. Price, 1763, [ ] Price, London, 1763, Anth[ony] Pye, London, 1761, Dan[ie]l Seaman, Flint, 1761, Henry Swymmer, Bristol, London, and Mold, 1756-1766 (42), Arabella Vincent, London, 1761, J. Williams, Brecon, 1761, John Williams, Mold, [17]61, W. Wynne, Tower, undated (4), and Will[iam] Wynne, Mold, 1762-1763 and undated (6). These letters deal almost exclusively with points of procedure, financial matters, etc., in connection with law suits in which the recipient appears to have been engaged in a professional capacity. The majority of the letters seem to refer to the suit between [Sir Richard] Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, in 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor in 1784, plaintiff] and [Anthony Langley] Swymmer [and others, defendants, concerning lead mines on Mold mountain involving the defining of the boundary between the lordship of Mold and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale], and [the continuation of the suit, after the death of Mr. Swymmer, between Lord] Grosvenor [as plaintiff] and [Sir Francis] Vincent [7th bart., and Dame Arabella Vincent, his wife, widow of Anthony Swymmer, and others, defendants.

Ninety-nine miscellaneous holograph and other letters:- Daines Barrington, London, to John Strange in Venice [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Lloyd of Hafodunos, F.R.S., stones at Towen and on top of Caderydris, Lloyd's knowledge of North Wales as a fossilist); Godfrey Bingley to Lady Jackson, London, undated (two bonds for £50 apiece); [George Booth, 2nd earl of] Warrington, Dunham [Massey, co. Chester], to . . ., 1700-1708/9 (2) (a request for certain deeds, comments relating to the king of France, a deed relating to the advowson of [the church of] Thornton [co. ]); R. [Byerley] to Lady Jackson, London, undated (financial and legal matters); John Calvert, London, to ? Tho[ma]s Kyffin, 1774 (instruments ordered by squire Jones, an account for the same, a request for specimens of ? moths from the Snowdon area, recipient's possible election to ? the Aurelian Society); Walt[er] Clopton, [ ]nant, to . . ., 1686/7 (points concerning a lease); Joseph Duke, Chester, to John Lloyd, Havedunos [sic], 1767 (an account for goods bought) (endorsed with receipts); Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, to Hugh Roberts, Mold, [18]22 (legal matters) (copy); R. Edwards, London, to . . ., 1748-1750 (3) (business and financial transactions, mention of ships from India and of the African Company); Samuel Edwards, Newport, to Mr. Warne, 1682 (financial matters); [Sir] G[eorge] Shuckburgh Evelyn [6th bart.], Shuckburgh Park [co. Warwick], to Nath[anie]l Jones, Wygfair, 1795 (enquiries about J[ohn] Lloyd of Wygfair who had gone to Ireland to see newly discovered gold mines); J[oh]n Foulkes, Wrexham, to the Rev[eren]d B. C. Conway, Lower Soughton, Northop, 1832 (enclosing a copy of an opinion by John Jervis of the Middle Temple dated 1832, and of a letter by the present writer to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard relating to a case ?concerning an obstruction on Soughton highway); T[homas] Gaisford, [dean of] Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford], to the Rev[eren]d Archdeacon Jones, 1832 (the examination of Mr. Howard ? for admission to Christ Church) (addressed to Reverend Dr. Howard, Mold); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, to Miss Gwynne [the writer's grand-daughter] at Havodunos, 1780 ( personal); Rob[er]t F[ ] Greville, Great Cumberland Street [ ], to . . ., 1803 (the work being done by Sir R[ichar]d [Colt] Hoare [2nd bart.] on a translation of Giraldus Cambrensis [The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales . . . by Giraldus de Barri. Trans . . . by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, London, 1806], attempts to identify places such as Hilcuria, Castrum Isabelis, etc., mentioned by Giraldus, queries re copper works near the summit of Snowdon, news of acquaintances); Ralph Griffith, Chester, to Charles Owen, Toke's Court, London, 1760-1762 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above]), and to Mr. Pardoe, 1767 (bills relating to the Mold cause) (draft); Will[ ia]m Griffith to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Rich[ar]d Griffith, Carnarvon, 1751-1752 (3) (financial matters in connection with a legacy to the writer from his mother); J. Haggersten, Berwick, to Edward Burdet, Holborne, London, [ ] 82 (personal and financial matters); Mr. Hay, St. Asaph, to Mr. Lloyd [ early 19th cent.] (a list of tokens the writer wished to collect) (in third person); J. Holland to . . ., 1810 (recommending a tenant for Havodynnos); R. W. Howard, Eton College, to his mother, undated (the writer's activities at Eton); Richard Howard, Llanrhaiadr, to Arthur Roberts, Mold, solicitor, 1847 (legal matters) (copy); Ow[en] Hughes, Bewmares, to Dr. Andrew Birch at Gwyder, 1679 (purchasers for lands in Merionythshire, Penmachno and Treflan); John Humffreys to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergay at Havodynnos, 1706/7 (financial matters); John Humffreys, Llanvyllin, to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergai at Eyarth, near Llanver, 1737/8 (an interview with Mr. Mainwaring concerning Caergai); Dauid Jones, Sallop, to . . ., 1637/8 (personal); Jos. Jones, Mold, to Mr. Griffiths, 1761 ( losses suffered owing to the [Mold mountain] dispute) (copy); Richard Jones, Carnarvon, to . . ., 1758 (business affairs); S[amuel] Jones, Kilken, to Watkin Williams, Penbedw, 1770 (a protest concerning the toll gate at the west end of the town of Mold) (endorsed with a reply from Will[iam] Lloyd, Maesmynan) (?both copies); W[illia]m Jones, Llan-fihangel, to Mr. Goodman, attorney, Anglesea, 1779-1784 (2) (a dispute with Mr. Howard concerning lands and rents, land at Trefriw); J[oh]n Langley, junior, London, to Jns. Williams, attorney, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning the estate of Sir Richard Langley, deceased, in Mould), and to Thomas Williams, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning ?the same estate as in the previous letter ); C. Lloyd, Wellow [near Bath], to the Rev[eren]d Ben[jamin] Conway Potter, Soughton, Northop, 1819 (the death of Dr. Griffith, news of acquaintances, activities in Frome); Dauid Lloyd, Southwark, to John Lloyd of Wickwer, 1673 (a journey by Sir Euan Lloyd, the captain of the writer's company, into Wales, to recruit forty men, a projected crossing into Holland with 15,000 foot men) (endorsed with a note by J. Ll. who had opened the letter by mistake); Eliza. Lloyd, Rhu . . ., to . . ., undated (enquiries concerning the Vaughan family); Ellis Lloyd, Pen Lan, to. . ., 1687/8 (legal affairs); Robert Lloyd to [Richard Nanney], 1609 (arrangements for a meeting and the delivery of a letter from Captain Salisbury) (endorsed with recipient's reply); M. Lockhart to . . ., undated (recommending Mr. Pauling); Geo[rge] Lowe, Chester, to Mr. Howard, 1756 (legal matters); H. M., to . . ., 1737 (personal); [Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st earl of] Seaforth [Ireland], Calais, to [Daniel Charles Solander], 1777 (a request that Mr. Lloyd should have any of the writer's books which were in recipient's custody); Edw[ard] Mainwaring, Wrexham, to John Edwards at Pen y Lan, 1680/1 (financial matters); M. Mainwaring, Whitmore, to Mrs. Vaughan at Eyarth, 1737 (the ? secret marriage of recipient's daughter); W. Manley, Temple, to Messrs. Phillips and Ellis, attorneys, Ruthin, 1796 (legal matters); T. Trevor Mather, Pentreholn [? Pentre-hobin ], to Mr. Richards, Holywell, 1803 (the fencing of an allotment on Mold mountain) (continued)

J. Montagu to . . ., 1706 (the taxing of vaults taken out of streets); Arth[ur] Newcomen to Tho[mas] Williams, Bronkoed, near Mould, [16]99 and undated (2) (dilapidations at Argitt, orders from Lord Derby [? William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl of Derby] re letting Argit, a request for a rent roll); C. Owen, Took's (Toke's) Court [London], to Tho[ma]s Owen, attorney, Mold, 1754 (legal matters), to Ralp[h] Griffith, attorney, Chester, 1756 (enclosing a copy of an order for viewing the area in dispute in the Grosvenor v. Swymmer suit [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above ]), to Mrs. Trevor in Berkeley Square [ ], 1761 (arranging a meeting, non-payment of a bill by Ralph Griffith), and to . . ., 1762 (legal matters relating ?to the Grosvenor v. Vincent suit) (copy); Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn, to Mr. Boydell, 1763 (the expenses in the [Grosvenor v. Vincent suit]); Tho[ma]s W. Partington to Mr. Griffith, 1756 (notification that the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case would be tried in Michaelmas term ); [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, to . . ., 1744 (the death of Cad[walad]r W[ illia]ms, who had served on board the ships Shrewsbury and Suffolk, in 1743, and pay due to him); Thomas Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], to the Hon. Daines Barrington, 1773 (the measuring ? of mountains in Snowdonia by ? [Jean André] De Luc, whom Pennant had met in Geneva, a request for goatskins, a letter from [ ] Forster, Pennant's intention of writing to [Charles] Linnaeus, a proposed journey) (endorsed with a note from D[aines] Barrington forwarding the letter to ?John Lloyd with a request for the Gwyder pedigree); Henry Perkins, Chester, to Mrs. Eliz. Jones at Trecastell, 1750 (financial); Prof[essor] M[arc] A[uguste] Pictet, professor of nat[ural] phil[osophy] at Geneva, to [Sir Joseph Banks], 1805 (the application of [John] Hadley's sextant for observing the meridian transit of the celestial bodies); W[illiam] Pitt, Downing Street [London], to. . ., 1799 (the decision to assemble parliament in order to propose a bill re the militia volunteers); John Price to . . ., undated (personal); M. Price, London, to Mr. Ing . . .y, senior, at Fearn, near Holywell, to . . ., and to Mr. Jones of Mold Mountain, 1763 (requests for payment of bills due in respect of the Mold cause); J[oh]n Roberts, Denbigh, to . . ., undated (legal matters); Domingos Rodrigues, Tellichery [India], to . . ., 1743 (commercial matters); Robert Roper to Robert Foulks, Chester, [1]703 (the letting of ? Argoed on behalf of the representatives of the late earl of Derby [William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl]); [Hew Sempill, 12th baron] Sempill, Lyons, to Mons[ieu]r Vaughan at Montpellier, 1736/7 (personal); Rob[er]t Sherbrooke to Lady Jackson, Lincoln Inn feilds, London , [16]93 (personal); Rich[ar]d R. Short, Lichf[iel]d, to Mrs. Margarett Griffith of Caraglwydd, at Carnarvon, 1774 (personal); Arch[ibald] Spark, London, to Mrs. Kathrine Lewys at her house near Northop, 1683/4 (personal ); John Tho[ma]s Stanley, Penrhos, to . . ., 1816 (the death of the writer's mother, Lady Stanley); Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Mrs. Margit Owen, Mold, 1761 (arrangements in connection with a court leet); Henry Swymmer and Edw[ ar]d Lloyd, Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor, 1784] at Eaton, 1756 (informing recipient that Mr. Swymmer (not the writer) would not take advantage of his privilege if the case [Grosvenor v. Swymmer] proceeded to trial); H. T. to . . ., 1683/4 (personal); Rob[er]t Tamberlain, Flint, to John Williams, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1763 (? legal matters); Maurice Trygarn, London, to . . ., 1669 (legal points relating to the outlawry of John Foulkes and others); H. Ussher to the Rev[eren]d Dr. W. Richardson, Portrush, near Coleraine [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Loyd of the Royal Society who was 'going to the Causeway in pursuit of natural history, thence to Ila and Staffa'); A. Vaughan to Miss Vaughan at Kensington, 1736 (personal); Evan Vaughan to John Vaughan, high sheriff of the county of Merioneth, 1670 ( legal); [? M.] Vaughan to [? Lady Mainwaring], undated (? the secret marriage of the writer's daughter); L. W., to Henry Lloyd near Bedford Row, London, 1745/6 (personal, soldiers quartered in the village and at Bromley ); W. Wake and John Spencer, Bombay [India], to Richard Edwards and Robert Nanny, 1747 (2) (the death of Hugh Howard and matters relating to the settling of his estate in India); John Wilkin, Office of Woods and Forests [London], to T. T. Mathew [? Mather], Pentrehobbin, Mold, 1830 (the purchase by Mr. Conway of encroachments on Soughton common, the sale of the tolls of Northop and the crown rents on the Wigfair estate); E. Bulk[ eley] Will[ia]ms, Baronhill [Anglesey], to Miss Griffiths at Carnarvon, undated (personal); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [3rd bart. after 1740], Downing Street [ ], to Hedd Lloyd at Havod ynos, 1738 (the loan of a chair to recipient who was suffering from gout), and to John Lloyd at Havodynos, 1743/4 (an approach to [Peregrine Bertie, 3rd] duke of Ancaster , ? on behalf of recipient, strained relations between the writer and the Ancaster family owing to his having inherited Wynnstay, concern about recipient's brother How[ar]d, the possibility of purchasing a commission ? for Howard, the writer's lack of influence with people in power since the success of the Denbigh petition, the advisability of deferring [the question of the commission] until they saw which of the competitors Lord [John] Carteret [2nd baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford, and later 2nd viscount Carteret and earl Granville] or Mr. [Henry] Pelham prevailed); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [4th bart.], Wynnstay, to . . ., 1774 (the writer's inability to visit the Vale owing to the dissolution of parliament, the decision of Sir Lynch [Salusbury] Cotton [4th bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh] not to offer himself for election [as member of parliament for the county of Denbigh] in the forthcoming election, the writer's hopes of securing 'the voice of this county', a request for support on election day 19 October); [Sir] W[atkin] W[illia]ms Wynn [? 5th bart.], to . . ., undated (2) (news of acquaintances, expectations of an heir at Coed Coch, hopes that Garthewin would follow suit, visits with Lord Darnley [? John Bligh, 4th earl of Darnley, co. Meath] to the tower on Cyrn y Brain, angles taken and observations made by ? Col[onel] [ ] Madge from the site of the tower, mention of Sir J[oseph] Banks, a report of a water spout above Rhiwedog); and Robert] Wynne, St. Asaph, to Hedd Lloyd at Havodunos [late 17th cent.] (enclosing a copy of the will of Catherine Vaughan of Hirdrevaig, co. Anglisey, dated 23 November 1691).

Five holograph letters from H[ugh] R[obert] Hughes from Kinmel Park, Abergele, to Henry Howard [? Colonel Henry Richard Lloyd Howard], [18]92-1909 (notes, in reply to queries, on John Vaughan of Caergai, his wife Margaret, dr. of Hedd Lloyd of Hafodunos, whom he married in 1698, the arms and some of the descendants of the said John and Margaret, Rowland Vaughan of Caergai 'a Welsh Poet of some eminence . . . born in 1560', Edward Lloyd of Tyddyn born in 1650 and his two wives, Sir George Wynne [1st bart. of Leeswood, co. Flint] and his wife Margaret Lloyd, an ? inscription at Penucha grin, the Jones family of Penucha grin, David Lloyd of Tyddyn, brother of John Lloyd of Wygfair, [mid 17th cent.], and the Coytmore family of Coytmore; and comments on the 1909 budget).

A volume containing a rental for the year 1661 of the demesne of Hauodynnos, and of lands in Llansanan [co. Denbigh] held by virtue of a lease granted by Mr. Rob[er]t Wynne of Dyffryn Aled to Mr. Henry Lloyd of Hauod ynnos, deceased; an account of rents received in respect of the demesne of Hauod ynnos and of lands in Llansanan aforesaid, and of rents received from Hauod ynnos tenants, May and Michaelmas 1661; accounts of money received [? from the sale of] horses, cattle, sheep, crops, etc., and of presents received, 1661; and a summary of accounts [? in respect of the Hafodunos estate] for the period 6 November 1661 to 9 May 1662 by Dauid Lewis.

A copy of The Gentleman's New Memorandum Book Improv'd or the Merchant's and Tradesman's Daily Pocket Journal for the year 1765, bearing the name of Howel Lloyd, Penbedw, on the outside upper cover. The manuscript entries, which were not made very regularly, refer to various payments made, to the covering of animals, etc.

A note book bearing on the outside upper cover the inscription 'Fees as Secretary to Chancelor of ye D[u]chy of Lancast[er]'. The contents include an account of fees received, 1706-1712, ?in connection with the office mentioned in the inscription, quotations from Seneca's two tragedies Medea and Hippolytus or Phaedra, and quotations from Juvenal's Satires, Nos. 1, 6, 8, 10 and 13.

A commonplace book containing prescriptions (mainly for ailments suffered by horses), recipes, accounts of wages received [?by a hired servant at Hafodunos], 1776-1805, a list of 'Mares coverd By Druggist in [17]87', and a few other miscellaneous memoranda.

Genealogical and biographical data relating to the Clough family of Plas Clough, co. Denbigh, and related families, including notes on Richard Clough [Elizabethan merchant, ob. 1570] extracted from Fuller's Worthies, with additional notes on his death, the burial of his heart and hand at Denbigh, and his coat of arms; a 'Pedigree of Clough of Lleweny Green in Com. Denbigh' stated to be 'From Harl[eian] Mss. folio 1971 entitled North Wales Pedigrees collected by Randles Holmes. Page 95 and continued by A. B. Clough', tracing the descent of the senior branch of the Cloughs of Plas Clough from Richard Clough of Denbigh [temp. Henry VIII] to the mid nineteenth century, and their connections with the families of Foulkes of Eriviatt, Lloyd of Havodunos, etc.; a pedigree chart showing the 'Descent of the Cloughs from the Powells of Glanywern [co. Denbigh] and their consequent half blood Relations'; a copy of an inscription on a tombstone in the parish church of Llandyrnog, co. Denbigh, commemorating the burial of Henry Powell of Glanywern aforesaid in 1672, and of his wife Elizabeth in 1691[/2]; and extracts from the parish register of Llandyrnog recording the birth of the seventeen children of the said Henry and Elizabeth Powell.

An account book containing 'An Account of the Creditors of the late John Lloyd, Esquire'; 'An Account of the Sales of Estates & Timber belonging to the late John Lloyd, Esquire' (including a sale of Wigfair timber, April 1817, a sale of the Mold estate, June 1817, and sales at St. Asaph, June 1817, and at Mold, August 1817); the account of W. Wynne with Richard Watkin Price, Esq., and the Reverend Richard Howard; 'An account of the Sales of Timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818'; and [the] 'Rev[ eren]d Richard Howard's acc[oun]t with the Representatives of ye late John Lloyd, Esqr.', 1818-1822. All these relate to the settlement of the affairs of John Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair subsequent to his death in April 1815.

An account book of the ?Hen (Haun, Hain) Fferm (Ferm) colliery [co. ] in which the Reverend John Conway Potter [who assumed the surname Conway in lieu of Potter circa 1825], the Reverend Dr. Richard Howard and Miss [ ] Lloyd appear to have had an interest, 1824-1832.

Accounts relating to the sale of [Wigfair and Hafodunos] timber and estates at St. Asaph and Mold in April, June, and August 1817, and to sales of timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818; and a copy of the Rev[eren]d Richard Howard's account 'with the Hafodunos and Wygfair sales', 1818-1821.