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A copy of a poem entitled 'The Temple of Honour. An Heroic Poem', having the name R. Potter on the title page, and probably being by and in the hand of the Reverend Robert Potter.

A note book containing a narrative account of misunderstandings which had arisen between Mr. [ ] Lloyd on the one side, and Mrs. [ ] Tillard and Mrs. [ ] West on the other, during the period 1748-1750, dealing more specifically with 'Mr. Ll[oyd]'s reasons for not waiting upon Mr. T[illard]' s family when they came into the Country for the summer 1749'.

A draft holograph manuscript of [the Reverend Robert Potter's tract entitled An Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets particularly his observations on lyric poetry and the odes of Gray; [with] the ninth Pythian ode of Pindar translated, London, 1783], written to express the author's disagreement with some of the critical statements made by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson, particularly with regard to lyric poetry, in his biographical and critical work on English poets, The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works [London, 1781].

A copy of the sale catalogue of the library and scientific apparatus of John Lloyd of Wigfair ['The Philosopher'], entitled Bibliotheca Llwydiana. A Catalogue of the entire library (near ten thousand volumes) from the presses of Caxton, Wynhyn de Worde, Pynson, etc., and philosophical apparatus, late the property of John Lloyd, esq., LL.D., deceased . . . which will be sold by auction, without reserve, at his seat at Wygfair near St. Asaph, Denbighshire, on Monday, January 15th, 1816, and twelve following days . . . by Mr. Broster of Chester . . ., being an interleaved copy with manuscript entries recording the amount for which each item was sold.

Miscellaneous papers including genealogical notes on the descendants of [the Rev.] Hugh Williams, D.D. [father of Sir William Williams ('Speaker Williams') and founder of the family of Wynn of Wynnstay]; a pedigree tracing the descent of the children of [the Rev.] Rich[ar]d Howard [rector of Denbigh, 1818-1843, and of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, 1826-1843] and Dorothea, his wife [née] Clough, from the aforementioned Hugh W[illia]ms; a pedigree headed 'The Carreglwyd Pedigree Copied at Carreglwyd [co. Anglesey] the 20th Sept. 1820' tracing the descent of John, William, Sarah and Barbara, children of the Rev. Rich[ard] Griffith, vicar of Carnarvon (Llanbeblig) [1746-1762], and Margaret, his wife [née Griffith of Carreglwyd], from Ednyvet Vychan and thence from 'Marchudd one of the 15 Tribes of North Wales'; a record of the births and christenings [at Llanbeblig] of John, Edw[ar]d, Emm [sic], W[illia]m and Sarah [children of the aforementioned Rev. Richard Griffith and Margaret, his wife], 1730-1737, and of the births, 1733-1734, of two other children of the said Richard and Margaret who were not christened; a pedigree tracing the descent of Maria Emma Elisabeth Conway [nat. 1840], only child and heiress of Rich[ar]d Trygarn Griffith [of Carreglwyd] and wife of Sir Chandos Stanhope Hoskyn Reade [8th Bart.], from Edward Griffith of Carnarvon, mercer [grandfather of the aforesaid Rev. Richard Griffith]; a copy of a memorial inscription to the Rev. William Griffith, son of the aforesaid Rev. R[ichard] Griffith, vicar of Carnarvon (Llanbeblig) [1762-1766], in the parish church of Frodsham, co. Chester; genealogical memoranda relating to the family of Powell of Glanywern in the parish of Llandyrnog, co. Denbigh, including a pedigree showing the 'Descent of the Cloughs from the Powells of Glanywern & their Consequent Half Blood Relations'; a copy of a memorial inscription to Howel Lloyd of Hafodunos and Dorothea, his wife; a pedigree (with armorial bearings) showing the parents, paternal grandparents, and children of the aforesaid Howell and Dorothea Lloyd; a record of the births and of the christenings in St. Mary's chapel, Carnarvon, 1772-1785, of Thomas, Emma, Margaret, Wynn, Richard Coytmor, Robert and Hugh, children of Richard Howard [of Carnarvon, ob. 1792] and Barbara, his wife; genealogical memoranda relating to Katherine of Berain and her descendants; a copy (? translation from Latin) of the memorial inscription to Sara Horsley, ob. 1805, wife of Samuel Horsley, bishop successively of St. Davids [1788-1793], Rochester [1793-1802], and St. Asaph [1802-1806]; a copy of an obituary notice in respect of Mrs. [Anne] Wynne, relict of John Wynne, bishop [successively of St. Asaph, 1715-1727, and] of Bath and Wells [1727-1743]; a draft of a memorial inscription to the Newborough family which was to be set up [in the parish church of Berkley, Somerset] in 1751; a pedigree tracing the descent of [the Rev.] Benjamin Conway Potter [who circa 1825 assumed the surname Conway in lieu of Potter] from Henry de Novoburgo, [cr. 1st] earl of Warwick [1088]; biographical notes on [the Rev.] Robert Potter, 1721-[1804], his father, grandfather and great grandfather; and papers relating to law suits in connection with a messuage and lands called Nant yr Helfa, parish of Llanyckill, Merioneth (second half of the seventeenth century).

A copy of Riders 1670 Brittish Merlin containing manuscript memoranda including a list of books bought in London, 26 March 1670, a notice of an attachment served 17 June 1670 on one of the servants of Sir Richard Wynne [?4th bart. of Gwydir], and a copy of the Latin inscription on the tomb of John Williams [lord keeper of the great seal and archbishop of York, in the church of Llandygai, co. Caernarvon].

Miscellaneous papers relating to mining matters, including a letter from John Wynne to Howell Lloyd at Havodynos [18th cent.] concerning the affairs of the Aled Level Mine; a memorial by C. B. Dyer, as agent of the Gwernymynydd Mines Company, to the lords of Mold, 31 March 1831, with regard to the drainage of mines and difficulties encountered in obtaining additional land for driving a deep level (addressed on the outside to the Rev[eren]d J[ohn] C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northop); an agreement, 1848, whereby the Rev[eren]d Richard Howard of Llanrhaiadr yn Cinmerch, co. Denbigh, granted to David Evans of the parish of Llandudno, and Evan Evans, Edward Evans, John Jones and George John Newton, all of Liverpool, mineral rights on Trecastell farm in the parish of Llangelynin, co. Carnarvon (draft copy); an account of payments in respect of the Trawsfynydd Mine, 1815-1817; an account of the sale of coal and slack at Argoed Colliery [ ] for the half year ending 26 June 1824; notes on a speltre furnace; accounts between the Llandidno Mine Company and Messrs. Roe and Company, smelters of copper ore, 1793-1801; two accounts - the Llandidno New Mine Co. in account with the proprietor of Mona mine in respect of copper ore delivered to the Mona smelting works, 1830-1831 (both are addressed on the dorse to Thomas Jones, mine agent, New Mine, Llandidno, and the first is accompanied by a covering letter from Evan Evans, Mona Lodge Office, January 1831); an account relating to the Trecastell [co. Caernarvon] mine, 1811-1812; and extracts from a letter from John Wynn of Gwedir [sic] [later Sir John Wynn, 1st. bart.] to [Ralph Eure, 3rd] lord Eure, [lord] president [of the Council] of Wales, 30 November 1607, and from an undated letter from the said John Wynn to Sir Thomas Middleton [Kt., of Chirk Castle], both relating to Anglesey mineral water and experiments in connection with the production of copper.

A collection consisting mainly of the manuscripts, correspondence and other papers, [16 cent., second ½]-[1909x1925], of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire and Wigfair, Flintshire, including a considerable amount of correspondence to and from John Lloyd ('The Philosopher'), one of the most notable members of the family. The collection also includes correspondence of members of the Wynn family of Gwydir, the Clough family of Plas Clough and Hafodunos, the Holland family of Berw, the families of Carreglwyd, and the Rev. Richard Howard, Denbigh (matters relating to lead, iron and mineral resources in Flintshire); together with Hafodunos and Wigfair rentals and accounts and accounts relating to lead and copper mines in North Wales.

An undated holograph letter from John Tudr [Siôn Tudur, poet, ob. 1602] to his kinsman and friend Ieuan ap Rys ap Davydd, touching a pew (endorsement : 'forme') [in St. Asaph parish church].

A holograph letter, possibly a draft, 1664, from John Lloyde, Wickwer [Wigfair], to a kinsman in London, referring to the writer's daughter [Anne], wife of John Vaughan, a freeholder in Henllan parish, who is troubled with the 'King's Evil' and is about to take a journey to London in hopes of access to the King's presence to receive his touch. The writer names three physicians whom she has consulted, namely Mr. John Lloyd, Marchwiell, Mr. Pugh of Llanbeder, and cousin Wm. Williams. The writer also mentions his sons John and David, and solicits the recipient's assistance in securing a preferment for the latter, who is at the Court. There are references also to 'your nephew & myne' Nedd. Lloyd of Tythyn and the recipient's nephews and nieces in Caredvynyth who are sick of small pox.

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Howell Lloyd at Hafodunos and at Soughton, near Northop. The writers include [ ] Hall (in the third person), undated (the care of Mr. Griffith's mare, personal), Peter John, Ruthin, 1776 (the financial affairs of the late Mr. Conway of Soughton, with references to chief rents and heriots in Efenechtid and Llangwifen and a debt due to the writer), Edw. Jones, Holywell, 1777 (the examination of Mrs. Susan Lloyd for lunacy, personal), John Jones, W[hi]t Church, 1775 ( an invoice for books, etc., personal, a reference to the sale at Hammer Hall), [Dr.] Trevor Jones, Soughton Grove, 1780 (a plan for the restoration of the recipient's health), David Lloyd, [vicar of] Llangernew, also from Pentre, 1770-1772 (2) (the sealing of 'every place' at Havod unos, the death of the writer's 'worthy friend', the vacant curacy of Llangernew, the writer's relationship with the recipient's family), Hedd Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]70 (the health of their brother, must go to Ruthin and Plascoch), R. Lloyd, Hope, [17]66 and un-dated (2) (the death of Mrs. Wickham, a proposed visit to Soughton, the recipient's health, the death of their brother and of the vicar's brother-in-law), Tho. Sloughter, Chester, 1781 (thanks for a pot of char), Arn[old] Vincent, Stoke D'Abernon, 1780 (a better plan for working the mines on Mold Mountain), Bennett Williams, Chester, 1770 (news of the recipient's brother), J. Wynne, London, 1782 (a draft for £32/10/0, the writer's visit to Soughton, unhealthy weather, news of Mr. and Mrs. Bankes, the 'Dr',s engagements in the Court of Admiralty and on the Visitation of the Bishop of London), and John Wynne, Coed Coch, 1776 (3) (a godfather to an infant son John).

Twenty-five holograph letters to Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, wife of Howel Lloyd, at Havodunos, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Eriviatt, 1796-1797 (3) (proposed visits to the recipient, the health of the Bishop [of St. Asaph], personal), John Collingridge, Theobald's Road, 1792 (enclosing an account for the coach and harness), Marg. Dod, undated (thanks for Deboray), Holl[an]d Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1788 and undated (2) (the late Mrs. Wickham's will, personal, busy with trees, news of relatives and friends), Catharine Hughes, London, 1788 (the writer's share of the £60 left to her by her uncle Jno. Conway of Efenechtyd), Edw. Jones, Ruthin, 1779 (requiring attestation of the handwriting of the recipient's brother, in connection with an inventory of papers relating to the wardenship of the Hospital), S. Leche, Emral, undated (thanks for a nurse, the writer's health, the death of Mrs. Pugh, 'Die's marriage, references to Whitchurch Races), Dorothea Lloyd [recipient's daughter], Lower Grosvenor Street, 1771 (personal, references to Mrs. Burdet, Miss Meredith, etc.), M[ary] Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]89 (a proposed visit to the recipient), Phoe[be] Lloyd [niece of the recipient], 1785 (the death of 'poor Hedd'), Cath. Potter ['sister' of the recipient], 1768 (the illness and death of the writer's children, references to relatives), Catharine Potter [niece of the recipient], Barkely, 1775 (2) (the health of the writer's and the recipient's family) (with one addition by [Mrs. Catherine Potter]), M. E. Potter (daughter of the recipient], South H. Street [1797] (the settlement of the recipient's legal business with Mr. Philpott, news of relatives and friends, a reference to the new coinage), Edward Smedley, 1789 (the death of Jane, daughter of the writer's brother and sister[-in-law] (together with a draft or copy of a letter of condolence by the recipient to 'Cousin Smedley'), J. Smedley, College Street [London, 1788] (thanks for a present, the writer's health, news of the writer's family), T. Smedley, Smith Street, Westminster (in the third person), 1782 (thanks for kindness to the writer's family during their separation from the writer, the writer's improving prospects), D. Wickham, Horsington, 1764 (health matters, news of relatives), Mary Wickham, Frome, 1775 (2) (the health of sister Potter), and Wm. Wicksteed, Mount and Soughton, 1790 and undated (2) (legacies left by Aunt Lloyd to her husband's relations, thanks for riotous week).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to Susan(na) Lloyd at Hafodunos, Mold, at Soughton House (upper Soughton), Northop, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Thakeham Place, 1797 (a proposed visit by the writer's children, news of family and friends), D[orothea] Clough [the recipient's sister], Denbigh, [1805] and undated (2) (legacies bequeathed by the wills of aunt E. Conway and aunt Wickham) (with one draft reply), Richd. Garnons [Colomendy], undated (2) (pleasantries), Eliza Griffith, Carreg-lwyd, etc., [1801]-1803 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a meeting at Llangefni in connection with a proposed testimonial to Mr. Sparrow for his services in the Customs, disturbances in the Paris mines, the arrival of troopers in Caernarvonshire for fear of a rising by the poor, the discovery of copper at Ynysygwyddal, the birth of an heir at Leweney and a reference to Mrs. Piozzi, the progress of the harvest, comments on a visit to Bath), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1838 (amusement afforded the recipient by the writer's Welsh paper, hopes that electioneering differences are fast dying away in Flintshire, a visit to the writer by a multitude of Teetotalists, the letting of the writer's colliery at Berw), Richd. Howard, Denbigh and Beaumaris, c. 1817-1843 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a visit to Bangor Deanery, serious proceedings arising from old Panton's will, a change in the agency of the Marquis of Anglesey, satisfaction with the writer's curate, the probable departure of Thomas Davies from Jesus College, Oxford, a new statute in the University, the rejection of three Anglesey young men for scholarships, observations on the projected division of Soughton Common, a legal action touching a mortgage of the Hafodunos estate (together with a receipt, 1815, from Richd. Howard to Susan Lloyd for a sum of £6/10/0 paid by the former on the latter's behalf to Bevan, the timber merchant, on account of Coedycra Mill), the writer's departure from Beaumaris and subsequent movements, income from minerals received for the recipient, dissension in the National Church) (one incomplete), Catha[rine] Lloyd, from Carreglwyd, from Bath, etc., [17]94-1820 and undated (26) (copious news of relatives and friends, references to threats of French invasion and to the defenceless state of the Kingdom (1795-1804), accounts of visits to the theatre and to parties and to Ireland and Bath, etc., Colonel William Shipley's success in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1807, references to the mine at Ynnisygwyddle), J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Dublin Bay, 1801 (an account of the voyage from Holyhead and the arrival at Dublin), M. Lloyd, Bagillt, etc., [17]81-1790 and undated (9) (personal, the writer's health, news of relatives and friends, the death of the recipient's brother Ben), M. Lloyd, London, etc., 1803-1809 and undated (5) (news of relatives and friends, the health of the writer's husband, a reference to the most excellent shore at Llandidno Bay, the progress of the harvest, the writer's removal to London, visits to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' and to Cheltenham, the recipient's trouble about the writer's chaise), Phoe[be] Lloyd, from Plascoch, undated (the health of the writer's aunt), M. E. Potter, Soughton, [17]91 (personal, business matters on behalf of the writer's mother, news of the writer's mother) (with additions by M. E. Potter to Mr. Potter, touching 'home matters', with references to stock, and from C[atharine] Lloyd to Susanna Lloyd, touching armorial colours for a piece of plate), and Sarah Potter, undated (thanks for the loan of Aunt Lloyd's letter, requires a supply of ale).

Seventy-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1771-1809.
They comprise letters from L'abbé Andreii, 1777 (personal); R. P. Arden, 1786 (legal and financial); Alexander Aubert, London, 1793-1800 (2) (personal); Mrs. D [ ] Aubert, Highbury House [Islington], 1799-1803 (3) (personal and social); L[ewis Bagot, bishop of] St. Asaph, St. Asaph, Blithfield, and Oxford Street, [London], 1793-1802 and undated (17) (the war against the French and tumults near Mold (1793), the death of [?the Reverend William Stodart] and proposals for filling his vacant preferments, namely Abergele, Bettws and a [prebendal stall] (1794), the appointment of a postmaster at [St. Asaph], the wretched condition of the parish of [?St. Asaph] - allowances to the poor being in arrears, roads neglected, etc., Mr. Jackson's presentation to the living of Abergele (1794), the government's measures to meet the grain shortage (1796), the renewal of recipient's lease of [ ] from the precentor [of St. Asaph], plundering in the neighbourhood of Mostyn (1797), the conduct of Mr. Fox and his friends in Parliament and the raising of supplies for carrying on the war (1797), the need for economy in the consumption of barley, oats and potatoes, and the 'high' state of the market in spite of economies and of the importation of grain (1801), the repeal of the Brown Bread Act, the King's success in filling departments of state and law after the secession of ministers (1801), 'dangerous tampering with Lord Penrhyn's Slate Quarries and amongst the Miners both in Anglesea and Flintshire' (1801), a bill to be introduced in the House of Commons concerning the conduct of the clergy (1802), appointments to the deanery of York and the chair of Hebrew at Christ Church [Oxford] (1802), the arrival [in London] of antiquities from Egypt (1802)); Thomas Baldwin, Hool, [?Cheshire], 1771 (description of a journey in North Wales – Festiniog, Bala, Talardd, Dinas Mouthy, with ascents of Arran Ben Llyn, Cader Idris and ?Arran Mouthy, notes on stratification); M[argaret] Bankes, Old Palace Yard, [London], [?daughter of John Wynne, bishop successively of St. Asaph and Bath and Wells], 1804 (the illness and death of her brother and the disposal of his estate, other family news); Mrs. Bankes, Duke Street, undated (personal and social); Miss [Sarah Sophia] Banks, Soho Square, [London], [sister of Sir Joseph Banks], 1787-1795 (4) (personal and family news, a request for a copy of Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen, and for help in procuring specimens of a Macclesfield ½[d] and a Cronebane ½[d]); J. Barff, Oswestry, 1795 (financial and legal matters); Daines Barrington, London, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, etc., 1772-1787 and undated (13) (personal news and news of acquaintances, instruments from Mr. Ramsden, a promise of Gothic and Runic alphabets and of an account of Elden Hole, [Derbyshire], proposed journeys by Mr. Banks to Iceland and by Mr. Forster to the South Pole (1772), a fire at Garden Court, London (1775), the height of Snowdon, the receiving of the two Forsters [Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, who had accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage] by the King and Queen (1775), the preparation by Forster [senior] of a specimen narrative [in connection with his voyage] for Lord Sandwich's approbation (1775), the arrival of the Gymnotus Electricus, a letter to Mr. Panton stating that Lloyd would be glad to have copies of the correspondence between Sir John Wynne of Gwedir and Sir Hugh Myddelton, Mr. Panton's kindness in allowing the writer to peruse certain Gwedir papers, Lord Bulkeley's improvements at Baron Hill, [Anglesey], an ascent of Mont Blanc (1787), Mr. Herschel's discovery of two satellites to the Georgium Sidus [Uranus], a request for the return of 'the MS. Memoirs of Owen Glendower', the returning of books, namely Milnes Dictionary, Hill's British Herbal, Watson's Chemistry, etc., a gift of a pamphlet ?Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S., to William Heberden, M.D., F.R.S., giving an Account of some Experiments made in North Wales to ascertain the different Quantities of Rain which fell in the same Time at different Heights [a copy of which is attached]); [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of] Portland, Whitehall, 1795 (representations made by Lloyd that troops should be quartered at Ruthin, the writer's suggestion to the Secretary at War that this was necessary in order to protect the county gaol where rioters were imprisoned); John ?Binnie, St. Asaph, 1809 (personal); J. Blackburn, St. James Street, [London], [1784] (personal); C[harles] Blagden, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], and [London], 1778-1796 and undated (4) (mathematical instruments at the college in Philadelphia including a very fine orrery, public lectures to be delivered in the town [of Philadelphia] (1778), the evacuation of Philadelphia by British forces and news of the war in America, letters by Mr. Mills relating to volcanic appearances in the Western Isles, the discovery of two comets by Miss [Caroline] Herschel and [Pierre Francois Andre] Mechain (1790), an acknowledgement of the receipt, on behalf of the Royal Society, of a copy of Edward Jones's The Prevention of Poverty (1796), news of electrical experiments); Lord and Lady de Blaquieres, Denbigh, 1798 and undated (2) (personal and social); Thomas Bolt, Lerwick, [Scotland], 1792 (relief of poverty caused in the area by the effects of bad crops and poor fishing, comments on the opinion held by certain people that the sun was visible for twenty four hours at the summer solstice); B. S. Booth, undated (a request for a ticket to attend debates at the House of Commons); Thomas Boydell, Trevellyn, 1794 (a lease of land on Mold mountain); Dr. William Brownrigg, Ormathwaite [?Cumberland], 1778-1780 (2) (Lloyd's trip to [Cumberland] to see the black lead mines, a request for a specimen of native lead from Anglesea); [Elizabeth Harriet Bulkeley, nee Warren,] Lady Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, [London], undated (personal); [Thomas James Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, lord] Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, Old Windsor, 1788-1801 and undated (10) (personal news, the tactics of the Opposition in parliament with regard to the issues arising out of the illness of the King [George III] (1788), [William] Pitt [the younger]'s defence of the King and his three parliamentary resolutions for meeting the constitutional crisis and creating a Regency (1788), Captain Williams's canvass of the county of Carnarvon (1790), 'adventures in Copper & Slate' on the writer's land by recipient, the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, talk of sending a fleet to the Baltic (1791), the situation in the East Indies (1791), a meeting with the Duchess of York, the imminence of a French attack upon the Electors of Treves and Mayence and the emmigrants at Coblentz [1791], the destruction of the Duke of Richmond's house at Privy Garden by fire, Sir Watkin Williams's appointment to the stewardship of the lordship of Denbigh and his appointment of Mr. Wynne of Plasnewydd as his deputy (1795), a request for support for Sir Robert Williams against Lord Penrhyn in the [parliamentary election for Carnarvonshire] (1795), the King's recovery from his illness, the writer's opinion that the King could not 'go on without either Pitt or Fox as Prime Minister', his disgust with the political manoeuvering [in parliament], the danger to the country, the unhappy state of parts of the county of Carnarvon (1801), a visit to Paris); [Peter Burrell, Baron] Gwydir [of Gwydir, Caernarvonshire], White Hall [London], 1798 (an invitation to an anniversary dinner of the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons); and Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss [Sarah] Ponsonby, Plas Newydd [Llangollen, 'The Ladies of Llangollen'], undated (social).

Seventy holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1770-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Cath[erine] Parry, Soughton, Llwynegrin, etc. [17]76-[?1778] (14) (detailed news of herself, the family and acquaintances, and of happenings in the neighbourhood); D[avid] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], 1796-1811 and undated (4) (a request for support with regard to [?the parliamentary election in the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., in July 1796], damage to some of Lloyd's scientific instruments, a quotation from one of [William] Bowles's works relating to various types of jars or vases made in parts of Spain with references to the same from other writers, viz. [Sir John Talbot] Dillon and [Henry] Swinburne); [Richard Pennant, Baron] Penrhyn, Penrhyn near Conway [Carnarvonshire], [? 1795] (a request for support at the next parliamentary election for the county of [Carnarvon]); Tho[mas] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], Chester, Lichfield and Gothurst, 1770-1795 and undated (11) (personal, a contract with Moses [Griffith] who was to be instructed 'that he may do justice to our Welch antiquities', a request to Lloyd to ask White, the bookseller [of Fleet Street, London], to advertise the writer's work entitled Synopsis of Quadrupeds [Chester, 1771], a collection of drawings of Welsh monuments in the possession of Mr. Astle probably living in Lambeth, enquiries concerning monuments in the church at Luton, Bedfordshire, a list of buildings, monuments, etc., noted on a journey through Bedfordshire, Buck[inghamshire], Northamptonshire, Warwicksh[ire], Staffordshire and Cheshire (1773), a request that the writer's drawings be left at Mr. White's 'for they must be soon engraven' (1773), comments on relations with America (1775), an earthquake which had shaken the writer's house [at Downing, 1775], congratulations to Lloyd on his work [?as a justice of the peace], a request for a loan of a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Synonyms [British Synonymy or an Attempt at regulating the choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi, née Salusbury, formerly Mrs. Thrale, London, 1794], in order to check 'some pedigree remarks on the Mostyn family'); Roger Phillips, London, 1794 (the development of a cutting machine, the making of a turning lathe for Sir Joseph Banks, personal), [Constantine John Phipps, 2nd baron] Mulgrave [of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, later 1st baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Yorkshire], Portsmouth, Bath, and [on board HMS] Courageux, 1776-1780 (5) (enquiries concerning scientific instruments, personal); W. [ ] Phipps, Mulgrave Hall near Whitby, [Yorkshire], undated (personal); Gabriel Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1795-1796 (3) (personal, recommending Mr. Mead as architect in connection with the proposed improvements at Wygfaur and offering timber); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1800-1804 and undated (5) (personal, invitations to dinner, etc.); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi and Miss Cecilia Thrale, undated (personal); [Mrs.] H[ester] L[ynch] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, [1790]-1809 and undated (18) (personal, legal and business affairs, comment on the war against the French (1799) the position in France (1804) and Bonaparte in Egypt (1809), an offer of a corrected copy of the writer's work entitled Retrospection [or a review of the most striking and important events, characters . . . which the last eighteen hundred years have presented ..., London, 1801], invitations to Brynbella to meet Lady Orkney's family, the bishop of St. Asaph and others, a loan of two volumes of the works of [l’] Abbi [?Guillaume Thomas Frangois] Raynal, local news ); John Planta, Fulnec, near Leeds, 1807 (an order for two spinning wheels, descriptions of two different kinds of Reels and of a music desk); Joseph Pocklington, Carlton House near Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1778 (instructions as to 'House covering with Brown Paper'); Rob[er]t Preston, Liverpool, 1793 (financial matters); R. Parry Price, Bryn y pys, [1781x1782] (his inability to attend a meeting of the Order of Druids and his fear of being expelled from the order); and R[ ] Puleston, Camp near Morpeth, Northumberland, and Glan y Môr, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, 1796-1812 (2) (the vacancy in the [parliamentary representation] of the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn and the writer's hopes of Lloyd's support in connection therewith (1796), a request for assistance in tracing the pedigree of the Puleston family from 1622 onwards on the occasion of the grant of a baronetcy to the writer (1812)).

Forty-one holograph letters, etc., 1769-1813, from John Lloyd from Oxford, Dublin, London, Bewdley, Brussells, Calais, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Worcester, and Wygfair, and on board the Courageux at Spit Head, addressed to Mr. Brittain, Chester, 1793 (instructions relating to the handling of cases containing inter alia a clock and instruments sent from London to Wygfair), Mr. Jones, Wygfair, St. Asaph, 1795-1797 (2) (description of conditions on a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin, the taking over of a gold mine [in Ireland] by the government to prevent the peasants working it, an intended visit to Mr. Mills's house at the copper mine at Cronbane, a stay with Sir Joseph Banks in London, the writer's presentation to the King and Queen, speculation as to the outcome of negotiations between the ambassadors from France and Lord Malmsbury), Mr. Nat. Jones, Wickwer, Denbigh, 1789 [? the same person as the Mr. Jones of the two previous letters] (personal, a visit to Brussells and a meeting with the Abbe Mann, a proposed trip to Paris, details as to the terms, conditions, etc., of education in the convent at St. Omers), 'Dear Nat', 1791 [? the same person as the Nat. Jones of the previous letter] (personal, news of acquaintances, plans in connection with a proposed trip to the island of Shetland with Sir Thomas Dundas in Sir Thomas's yacht to inspect land belonging to Sir Thomas for copper, the said land being adjacent to ground on which copper had already been found), Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, [writer's mother, Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1769-1784 (16) (personal, family and estate affairs, financial matters, a receipt for money received from the Rev. William Conway as one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Eliza Conway, observations made by the writer and a friend in Bewdley on the comet and his keen interest in the science of optics though not to the neglect of his business (1769), impressions of London and places and persons seen ( 1770), a visit to the Herald's office [in London] to examine the pedigree of the Lloyds of Havodunos and comments on the said pedigree (1770), the cost of a new coach and harness, a visit to Calais and thence in Mr. Shuttleworth's yacht to Amsterdam and Antwerp and some account of activities in these places (1777), plans for a proposed trip to Bruxelles (1777), a stay with Sir John Cope at Bromshill, Hants. (1778), a visit to Spit Head to witness the King's review of the fleet (1778), a Snowdon expedition (1778), the writer's belief that all were 'to be ruined in Wales by a scheme of our diabolical cursed Ministers . . . to inclose all the waste lands in Wales for the Benefit of the Crown solely' (1778), a violent gale which had struck the ships of the fleet at Spithead where the writer was on board the Courageux (1781)), Howell Lloyd [the writer's father], Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1770-1776 and undated (4) (personal, arrangements for a journey to Llangernew (1770), the price of clover and trefoil, bequests made by Sir John Wynne (1773), an account of proceedings of a commission to determine whether Mrs. S[ ] Lloyd was a lunatic and matters arising there from (1776)), the Rev. J. Conway Potter, 1801 (2) (the death of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd]), the Rev. Rice Pugh, Llysfaen, Carnarvon, 1796 (a request that recipient would deny reports that he was going to vote against Sir Robert Williams after promising to vote for him [? in the Caernarvonshire parliamentary election, though the letter is dated 8 June whilst the election date is given as 7 June in W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales and other returns), John Lloyd Salusbury, Galtf . . . aenan, 1813 (suggestions relating to the act for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Asaph), Sir George Shuckburgh [who later adopted the additional name of Evelyn], Margate, 1784 (a balloon ascent by [Vincenzo] Lunardi), Mr. [John] Topham [treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries], undated (the intended resignation of the writer from the Society [of Antiquaries], a complaint that he had not been receiving copies of the society's publications, mention of talks or correspondence with Mr. [William] Norris [secretary of the society], a recommendation on behalf of Dr. [? Thomas] Meredith [for membership] signed by the writer [see N.L.W. MS. 12420]) (copy?), Sir W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynne, 1795 (the stewardship of the lordship of D[enbigh]) (draft copy), the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Flint, 1796-1799 (2) (offering his services as parliamentary candidate for the county in 1796, his resignation as parliamentary representative of the county in 1799) (draft copies), the Commissioners of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Denbigh, 1797 (the writer's resignation of his commission as a lieutenant in the supplementary militia of the county and the reasons for his action) (copy), a copy of an application by Lloyd for 'such an Office as will vacate my Seat for the county of Flint' in 1799 [? a copy of his application for the Chiltern Hundreds]), and five incomplete or fragmentary letters.

Forty-three holograph letters from Eliza Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, at Hafodunos, etc., [17]82-1804 and undated (copious news of relatives and friends, accounts of visits to and from Carreglwyd, the vacant living of Aber, the loss of a vessel opposite Trevadog, the prevalence of ague in Anglesey, an accident to a mail coach on the bridge by Holyhead, the death of 'Shone Pedrog', Malltraeth enclosure (1788-1789), Mr. [Holland] Griffith's attendance at a Druid meeting, a riot at Beaumaris, parliamentary election (1796), a recent dreadful duelling in the writer's area, a reference to Barmouth as a fashionable bathing place (1796), a warrant issued against Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddved, a tax of 3/- in the £, Paul Panton's health and reported arrest for £7,000, the enrolment of the Anglesey militia, a shortage of water, comments on the Irish revolt (1798), the death of Mrs. [Mary] Griffith of Berw, the sad situation of the Fleet (1800), the draining of the mine, the prospect of a bad winter as the result of the farmers' refusal to sell their stock at home (1800), the removal of Mr. Sparrow from the Custom House at Beaumaris, current high prices, shocking perjury at the Anglesey Assizes, rumours of a French invasion, a visit to Puffing [sic] Island, a visit from the famous harper Will Edwards, a meeting at Berw about the embankment) (together with an addition by C[atharine] Lloyd).

Fifty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1767-1815.
They comprise letters from John Call, Whiteford House, [Cornwall], 1799 (a request for help in obtaining returns of baptisms and burials in four parishes in Flintshire in connection with a proposed population check); Arch[ibald] Campbell, Edinburgh, 1801 (the death of [John Campbell], Lord Stonefield); Phoe[be] Campbell, Darlington, Inveraray and Edinburgh, etc., 1791-1796 (6) (her marriage to Lord Stonefield, personal health, detailed accounts of her social activities in Scotland, financial matters); Mr. Champion, Scrivelsby, [Lincolnshire], 1795 (personal); Mr. Chapeau, [London], 1803 (3) (personal, the eagerness and willingness 'this great City is in to meet the first consul and his barbarous Troops', the surrender of Tobago, the possibility of peace with Bonaparte, a fire in Frith Street [London]); Mrs. Anne Cleaver [wife of the bishop of St. Asaph], Bruton Street, [London], and St. Asaph, 1815 and undated (3) (personal, the slight damage to Sir Joseph and Lady Banks's house in Soho Square, [London], mob violence in parts of London, comments on Peter Roberts [of Llanarmon]'s book on Cambrian Customs [The Cambrian Popular Antiquities or An Account of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales, etc., London, 1815], the bad news from America); W[illiam Cleaver, bishop of] St. Asaph, [1806x1815] (a request to purchase brandy at a sale at Vron iw); Roger B[utler] Clough, Eriviatt, 1793 (the appointment of overseers of the poor at Llangerniew, [Denbighshire], a riot in the Hope and Mold neighbourhood and intervention by the military, a request to recipient to call at the First Fruits and Tenths offices [in London] on behalf of the writer and some of his friends to pay sums due in respect of the canonries of Rad[ulphi de] Berkinhead [sic] and Arthuri Bulkeley [in the cathedral church of St. Asaph] and the benefices of Thakeham, [Sussex], Llanelidan, [Denbighshire], Halkin, [Flintshire], and Ashington, [?Sussex]); Th[omas] Clough, Roger B[utler] Clough and others [?justices of Denbighshire], Denbigh, 1797 (times and places for training and exercising the supplementary militia [of Denbighshire] and the appointment of an adjutant and paymaster); Thomas Colby, Abergeley, 1806 (mathematical calculations relating to 'the Ruthlan Base or any other part of the Survey'); R. S. Cotton, Combermere Abbey, 1783 (a lease to the writer's father of the minerals in the lordship of [ ] and the granting of tack notes for digging near Llanrhaiader); Tho[ma]s Cotton, Treasury, [London], 1814 (a request for information concerning the heir at law of Mr. Richard Lloyd of Gray's Inn); Henry Cowper, Old Palace Yard, [London], 1811 (arranging a day convenient for both to be present to be called to the Bench of the Middle Temple); Will[ia]m Cox, Captain and Assistant Quarter Master General, Liverpool, 1804 (5) (the payment of expenses incurred in constructing a beacon and but at St. George and the payment of people stationed there, the installing of tubes at St. George Beacon to point in the direction of adjoining beacons at Ormshead and at Gop); Geo[rge] Cumming, London, 1812 (personal, papers read at the Royal Society, the writer's introduction and visits to the reading room of the British Museum, 'this institution truly does honour to the nation', a lecture on the properties of metals by Mr. [Humphry] Davy on the day before he was knighted, the sale of Mackinlay's shop); Foster Cunliffe, Acton Park, [17]88 (apologies for being unable to provide a copy of the rules of the Society of Royal British Bowmen); Edw[ard] Davies, Wrexham and Newmarket, 1803-1805 (2) (horticultural notes, an account of Wrexham fair and a murder committed at the time, an enquiry on behalf of Mr. Davies of Broughton [?Mr. Whitehall Whitehall Davies] concerning the whereabouts of pictures of Mr. Mutton Davies and his lady which had formerly been hanging at Llanerch and were supposed to have been 'drawn by Sir Peter Lilly'); Edw[ard] Davies, Mostyn, 1806 (the Porthymaen estate); J. Davies, London, 1782 (legal); W. Davies, Highbury House, [Islington], 1805 (the bringing home of the body of [Alexander Aubert] and the funeral); Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'], 1803 (the Ystymcolwyn coat of arms, the arms and inscription on the tomb of Meriel Williams, wife of John Williams of Ystymcolwyn, at Myfod, escutcheons in Myfod church); W[hitehall] W[hitehall] Davies, Whittington and Broughton, 1803-1812 (2) (arrangements relating to ? the loan or sale of books, a copy of the catalogue of the Llanerch library compiled in 1778 in the writer's possession [possibly the copy now designated NLW MS 17126D in the National Library of Wales, formerly Gwysaney MS 54], letters from Charles I to the writer's ancestor); Mr. Deluc, 1775-1795 (2) (personal); Rob[er]t Dodd, Terrick, 1767 (personal); Jon[as] Dryander, Soho Square, [London], 1783-1809 (6) (personal news and news of acquaintances, disagreements at the Royal Society (1783), the death of Mrs. Banks [Sir Joseph Banks's mother] in 1804, lack of news of [Frederik] Hornemann [the explorer]); and [Sir] Tho[ma]s [created baron] Dundas [of Aske, Yorkshhire, in 1794], Arlington Street [London] and Upleatham [Yorkshire], 1791-1798 (5) (personal news, preparations for a journey to the Shetlands, the discovery of copper on the race ground near Richmond and at Aske, the results of assays made of the copper ore found at Aske).

Fifty-three holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1772-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Sam[ue]l Gale, Brick Court, Temple, and York, 1798-1805 (3) (personal, news of acquaintances); Alex[ander] Galloway, High Holborn, London, 1812 (business matters); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, 1780 (personal); R[ichar]d Garnons, Carnarvon, 1793 (business and legal matters); G[eorge] Gilpin, Somerset Place, [London], 1798-1804 (2) (notification of meetings of the Royal Society, medical advice); F. Gower, Chelmsford, 1772 (a transcript of a certain manuscript); E. W. Gray, The British Museum, 1798-1800 (2) (acknowledgement, on behalf of the trustees of the Museum, of receipt of a pig of lead found near Salop, personal); C. F. Greville, Carnarvon, 1789 (a journey to North Wales with places visited, and a proposed visit to Aberystwyth and Pembrokeshire, the collecting of specimens on Paris mountain); Rob[er]t F. Greville, The King's Mews and Oxford Street, [London], 1797-1805 (2) (a request for information regarding routes prior to a visit to North Wales, a Roman villa near Rhaiadr y Wenol, a discovery by recipient in the Hengwrt library, a report of an earthquake shock in the Vale of Clwyd, a fir tree with cones dug up in the lead mines on Halkin mountain, Flintshire, personal); Hu[gh] Dav[id] Griffith, Caer Rhun, [17]98 (a request for genealogical information to support a claim to the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Trevor of Llanfyllin, deceased, reference to the pedigree of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls in 1692, in the Heralds' Office); J. W. Griffith, Garn, [17]94 (a contest for ?the coronership in [Denbighshire]); T. Griffith, Rhual, 1794 (a dispute between Rob[er]t Roberts and Jonathan Armstrong concerning possession of a mine, the writer's opposition to a petition to Parliament 'for granting further powers in the damned inclosure Bill', which powers would enable part of the commons to be sold so that a poor house, a round house and an infirmary could be built); Sackville Gwynne, Glane Brane, 1787 (personal); A. H., [London], undated (medical); S[amuel Hallifax, bishop of] St. Asaph, Warsop, [Nottinghamshire], 1789 (a vacancy in [the benefice of] Llandegla); Major R [ ] Hamilton, Assistant Quarter Master General, Gloucester House, London, 1805 (a request for three copies of the monthly accounts rendered of expenses incurred in respect of wages, fuel, etc., at the beacon under the recipient's superintendance); Tho[ma]s Hanmer, Bettisfield Park, 1795-1796 (2) (disturbances in the neighbourhood of Denbigh and the threat of such incidents in the writer's own district (1795), a request for support with regard to the [parliamentary] representation of the county [of Flint] (1796)); T. B. Hatchett, Ellesmere, 1811 (personal, the writer's acquisition of the Nymphaea Stellata); Ja[mes] Hayes, Conway, 1784 (thanks for information re. the Dean of St. Asaph's cause, the interruption of law business by the election battles in Anglesey and the borough of Carnarvon, the acquittal of a clergyman tried for murder); Mr. Henry, King Street, [Manchester], [1802] (an invitation to dinner, personal); W[illia]m Herschel, Slough near Windsor, 1791-1796 (2) (personal, the dispatch of a telescope to Lloyd (1796)); [Sir] Rich[ar]d Hill, [M.P. for Shropshire], London, 1804 (the candidates for the mastership of Wem school [Shropshire]); J. Holmes, London, 1793 (the death of Mr. Smeaton [? John Smeaton, civil engineer] and the sale of his instruments); J. Holmes, Llysmeirchion, 1810 (a request for an opinion as to the value of a book described in [Joseph] Ames's Typographical Antiquities [London, 1749], under the article 'Faques' or 'Fawkes', as a psalter printed in 1504); S[amuel Horsley, bishop of] St. Asaph, 1803-[1805] (2) (personal, the refusal of the living of St. Martins by Mr. Tisdall); David Hughes, Jesus College [Oxford], [17]93-1794 (2) (the admission of Mr. Jones [to Jesus College] and a grant to him of a Meyrick Exhibition, a violent 'contest' in Denbigh); Edw[ar]d Hughes, Kinmel, [17]92 (the price of Sir T[homas] Dundas's polished glass plates); Edw[ar]d Hughes, Kinmel, 1811 (an appeal for support in dealing with poachers); Ph[illi]p Humberston, Chester, 1803 (genealogical queries); Mr. Hunter and other gentlemen of Shetland, Lerwick, 1791 (an invitation to dine); Dr. John Hunter, Leicester Fields [London], 1778 (the election of a physician to the Westminster General Dispensary); Rich[ar]d Jackson, Abergele, 1804 (the disappearance of birds into a well near [?Abergele]); [Robert Banks Jenkinson, baron] Hawkesbury, [later 2nd earl of Liverpool], Whitehall, [London], 1807 (acknowledging receipt of a loyal address to the King from the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the county of Denbigh, expressing gratitude for his solicitude in preserving the security of the Protestant Church); Edw[ard] Jones, Soughton, 1780 (personal and legal); Edw[ard] Jones, Adelphi, [London], and Wepre Hall, 1787 (2) (financial matters, ?differences between recipient and his family); Herb[ert] Jones, Llynon, 1784 (the writer's decision to emigrate ?to America, a request for an introduction to Dr. Franklin); J[oh]n Jones, Denbigh, 1799 (thanks for important news, expectation of successes and of favourable news from Italy and Germany and from the fleets, comments on 'this horrid system of French tyranny', cases to be heard at Shrewsbury Assizes); John Jones, Kinmel, 1804 (2) (the erection of a beacon and but ?at St. George); Thomas Jones, Llantysilio, 1806 (a request for a recipe for walnut ketchup and for the titles of certain books); Ll. Kenyon, 1779-1782 (2) (returning a case with opinion, thanks for congratulations); and Edward King, Bedford Row, 1775 (personal, drawings of Elden Hole).

Seventy-seven holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1775-1814.
They comprise letters, etc., from John Rennie, London, 1810 (enquiries on behalf of a friend who was interested in purchasing the Lleweny and Cotton Hall estates in the county of Denbigh, which were for sale); D[avid] Richards ['Dafydd Ionawr'], Dolgelley, 1807 (requesting Lloyd to become a subscriber to his epic poem in Welsh on the subject of Joseph, the Governor of Egypt [Joseph, Llywodraethwr yr Aipht, Awen-Gerdd yn Saith Ran, Dolgelleu, 1809], the uselessness of applying to the bishops as they were 'entire strangers to the Welsh Language', Sir R[obert] W[illiams] Vaughan of Nannau's subscription for twenty copies); Thomas Richards, Holywell, 1803 (matters relating to an allotment of common on Mold mountain); W[illiam] Richardson, Moy, Portrush, Colerain and Antrim, 1810 and undated (6) (personal, agricultural and botanical matters including drainage and the cultivation of various crops, particular references to 'florin grass'); [Trevor Charles Roper, 18th baron] Dacre, Lee, [Kent], 1794 (matters relating to a coroner); W. L. Rose, Gwaynynog and St. Albans, 1803-1804 (2) (personal, the death of Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn); H. Langford Rowley, Dublin, 1780 (payment for seed wheat); R. [ ] Salisbury, Edgware Road, [London], 1811 (personal, news of acquaintances, horticultural matters, the digging up of old swords in Ireland, [ ] Chalmer's pamphlet on bank notes); W. Scott, [London], [1803] (personal, military preparations); [Jonathan Shipley], bishop of St. Asaph and Mrs. Shipley, Bolton Street, [London], undated (an invitation to dine); W[illiam] D[avies] Shipley [dean of St. Asaph], 1784-1807 and undated (5) (personal, requesting Lloyd to appear on his behalf at the ensuing Assizes (1784), the discovery of a pavement at a depth of fifteen feet in the parish of [?St. Asaph], introducing a ?Russian traveller, a meeting at Newmarket to sign land tax assessments); Edw[ar]d Simon, Denbigh, 1803 (enclosing a copy of an order directed from the Council Chamber at the Queen's House to Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart., as Custos Rotulorum for the county of Denbigh, concerning the impressing of seamen and seafaring men for service in the navy); John Sinclair, Edin[burgh], 1795 (conditions for instructing applicants in Mr. Elkington's mode of [agricultural] drainage, the writer's hope that every exertion would be made to complete the agricultural survey of the county [of Denbigh]); Dan[iel Charles] Solander, London, etc., 1776-1779 and undated (3) (personal, news of acquaintances including the marriage of Mr. [Thomas] Pennant and Miss [Anne] Mostyn [daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart., of Mostyn Hall], mention of [British] Museum appointments, the elections of Lord Palmerston and Mr. Wales to the Royal Society, biographical and descriptive details relating to Mrs. Banks [née Dorothea Hugessen, wife of Mr., later Sir, Joseph Banks], Lord Seaforth's marriage, Lord Mulgrave's departure to take command of [HMS] Courageux); [Charles Stanhope, earl] Stanhope, Stratford Place, 1807 (his intention of publishing a description of his method of burning lime, remarks on a certain type of lime); R. S. Sutton, Flushing, Falmouth, 180[8] (news of the defeat of [General Joachim] Blake's army [in Spain] by a division of the French Grand Army under Marshal Ney and the complete confusion of the Spaniards, the march of the British Armies to cover Madrid, the opinion of Major General [James] Leith that the French could never succeed 'as the lower orders of the Spanish were so inveterate against them'); Cha[rles] A. Tisdall, Burford, Oxfordshire, 1803 (personal, an offer of a benefice to the writer [?St. Martin by the bishop of St. Asaph]); [Thomas Townshend, baron] Sydney [of Chislehurst, Kent, later viscount Sydney of St. Leonard's, Gloucestershire], Whitehall, [London], 1786 (acknowledgement of receipt of an address to the king from the gentlemen and freeholders of the county of Denbigh); [Monsieur] de Traytorrens, [1782] (a request for a letter of recommendation to recipient's friends in London); [Sir] R[obert] W[illia]ms Vaughan, Nannau, 1801-1814 (4) (personal, a journey to Nannau ?from London (1805)); [Messrs.] Wakelin and Garrard, London, 1804 (enclosing a ring in memory of Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn); [John Warren] bishop of Bangor and Mrs. Warren, Bangor, 1783 (2) (personal); Sarah Wells, Old Windsor, 1776 (personal, news from America); Frederick West, Chirk Castle, 1802 (a request for Lloyd's attendance as a friend at Denbigh on the day of the election); Mr. Wilson, Strand, [London], [1799] (personal); Sir Richard Worsley, Stratford Place, 1781 (an explanation of the place name Appuldurcombe in the [Isle of Wight]); C[harles] W[atkin] W[illiams] W[ynn], Lincoln's Inn, undated (apologies for being unable to meet recipient); Thomas Wynn, Grosvenor Square, undated (an offer to show recipient any antiquities found on Bardsey island); Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn, St. James's Square, 1779 (a memorial to the Treasury Board, the circumstances connected with the leasing to Mr. Edwards of one of the writer's farms previously let to Mr. Langford); Watkin Williams Wynn, Stratford, [17]95 (enclosing a communication from the Duke of Portland); Lady Williams Wynn, Bodryddan, [1790] (personal); J. Wynne, London, 1802-1803 and undated (4) (personal, the loss incurred by the death of the bishop [Lewis Bagot of St. Asaph], comments on the new bishop [Samuel Horsley], his patron Lord Thurlow and his pamphlets against dissenters, and speculation as to his relations with the dean [William Davies Shipley], the appointment of Sir W[illia]m [Wynne] to the headship of Trinity Hall [Cambridge], the recruiting, training, etc., of the Volunteers of the Temple, good harvests, legal matters); John Wynne, Coed Coch, 1776 (personal); Maurice Wynne, Gwernhaylid, 1808 (the death of Mr. Fletcher); R. Wynne, Garthewin, [17]77 and undated (2) (personal, rumours that the writer was to be nominated sheriff of Carnarvonshire); W. Wynne, Mold, 1779 (arrangements to receive Lloyd, who was representing the sheriff at the ensuing assizes); Will[iam] Wynne, Mold, 1810 (the sale of Broncoed and Bromfilt and the proposed sale of Tyddyn); W[illia]m Wynne, Doctors' Commons and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1775-1807 (6) (personal, legal matters, the administration of the estate of Mr. [William] Conway, deceased, by Mrs. [Dorothy] Lloyd [sister of the deceased and mother of recipient] and the division of his real and personal property (1775), the wreck of the Athenienne off Sardinia with the loss of Mr. Bankes's son, comments on the [parliamentary] representation of Flint boroughs, a new road in Carnarvonshire which the writer believed would pass near Festiniog, Bonaparte in Russia); and Ph[illip] Yorke, Erthig, Dyffryn Aled and Abergele, 1776-1796 (9) (personal, a request for assistance in tracing the descent of the lordships of Bromfeild and Yale, comments on references to the said lordships by David Powell and [William] Camden, the descent of the lordship of Chirck, enclosing 'a very coarse card of the Dyffrynaled Alliances' which he would like recipient to fill up, Mr. Johnson's wish to succeed Mr. Graves at Newnham house, a request for 'any anecdotes not common that relate to our eminent Welsh', a proposal by the writer and his son Simon to give 'an account of each Tribe and its several descendants of Distinction', queries relating to the Kyffyns of Maenan, the Wynns of Soughton, the Prices of Vedu deg, Sir John Wynn 'the historian', etc., a request for recipient's influence at the Quarter [Sessions] in recommending a bridge over the Dinant at Rhydyr arrion, a historical note on a former bridge at that spot and suggestions as to the type of bridge suitable then, a person to copy manuscripts relating to Welsh families at the [?British] Museum, progress with the Tribes and hopes of 'a book of them e'er long' (1796) [The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1799], a request for a copy of Sir John [Wynn] of Gwydir' s minutes of his journey to London 'to kiss hands on his Baronetage'). Also included are three summonses, undated, to J. Lloyd requesting his attendance at the House of Commons; an invitation, undated, from the Lord Mayor [of London] to breakfast; and a statement giving statistical details relating to the import trade of the port of Liverpool, complaining re. the stagnated state of the market for West Indian produce and requesting a loan by Exchequer Bills to help the merchant importers [endorsed by J. Lloyd, January 1800 'This Statement was sent to me by the Committee of the Liverpool delegates who came to London in October 1799 to sollicit the Loan'].