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A letter, 18 December 1644, from prince Rupert at Oxford to [?], concerning £100 from Sir Basil Brooke, due to be paid at Oxford, and £200 from Sir Thomas Whitmore.

Letters, documents and papers, 1624-[c. 1703], relating to the family of Davies of Gwysaney, including: five letters (including one from Henry Salusburye of Lleweny) to Robert Davies [II] of Gwysaney, 1624-1629; a copy of a deed of sale of the manor and lordship of Ewloe, Flintshire, dated 10 May 1632; papers re. the protest made to the bishop of St Asaph by the parishioners of Nerquis and Treythin, near Mold, in 1640 concerning the lack of divine service in their churches; a warrant from Prince Rupert to Robert Davies [III] of Gwysaney as High Sheriff of Flint to deliver monies collected for the King's service, 1644; appointment by Charles I of Thomas Davies as Colonel of a regiment of Foot and Dragoons in Denbighshire and Flintshire, 1643; a letter from John Owen, bishop of St Asaph, to Robert Davies; memorandum touching the conveyance of the advowson of Owston, Yorkshire, to Henry Cooke, 1702; copy of a conveyance of properties in Brynford, Flintshire (original dated 1363), etc.

Two letters written by John Williams (1582-1650), successively bishop of Lincoln and archbishop of York, the first from the Tower of London, 2 October 1640, during his imprisonment, to Thomas, second earl of Arundel and Surrey (1585-1646), the second from Conway, 29 January 1644/45, when he was archbishop of York, to Prince Rupert (1619-1682).

An autograph letter, dated 17 May 1645, from Prince Rupert, at Newport, [Shropshire], to [Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state], [?at Oxford], communicating the news that Montgomery Castle, under Sir John Price [or Pryce] the parliamentary governor, has come over to the Royalists, and that 'the Ennemys have drawne their cannon from Harding [Hawarden] Castle' (f. 28).
Also included is a letter, 30 March 1976, from the military historian Brigadier Peter Young to Anthony S. Gilbert, discussing the letter and tentatively suggesting General Charles Gerard or the Marquis of Worcester as its intended recipient (ff. 29-30). However, Thomas Thorpe's catalogue of autograph letters (1836) identifies the recipient as 'Sir Edw. Nicholes [sic]' and the Prince Rupert letter is endorsed in Nicholas's hand ('Maij. 1645. R[eceived] 21o. P. Rupert to me' on f. 28 verso).

Miscellaneous papers collected by Iolo Morganwg (and a few by Taliesin ab Iolo), comprising: an account of 'The state of the cause concerning the president and Councell established in the Marches of Wales', [?1641] (E13/1); a copy of the declaration of Prince Rupert, Shropshire, 6 May 1644, concerning the intent of the Commission of Marshal Law given by him to Sir John Mennes in the counties of Carnarvonshire, Merioneth and Anglesey (E13/2); a grant of a barn or cowhouse called Ty Pen y Twyn in Ystradyvoducke [sic], Glamorgan, 20 January 1653/4 (E13/3); a catalogue of books from unidentified library, [?17 cent, second ½] (E13/4, incomplete); a volume of sermon notes and/or Biblical commentary, [?late 17 cent. x early 18 cent] (E13/5, incomplete); a confirmation by Friedrich Augustus, King of Poland, etc., of appointment of a 'Geleitsmann', Dresden, 30 October 1703 (E13/6); a notebook containing a manuscript copy, [c. 1746], of the pamphlet An Appeal from the Late David Morgan Esqr … (London, 1746, ESTC T59776) (E13/7); lease of a plot of ground in the parish of Rumpney [sic], Monmouthshire, 24 March 1752 (E13/8); a rental of 'Dunraven Estate for the year 1756', [?1756] (E13/9); a schedule of land tax in Glamorgan for the year 1662, with a table giving the rate of tax from 1688 to 1759, [?1759] (E13/10); part of a deposition, [?1760s], by the unnamed tenant of land once owned by the late Miles Llewellin (junior) of Llantrisant, Glamorgan, concerning an unspecified dispute (ff. 28-30 only) (E13/11); draft particulars of lands belonging to John Bedford to be made a mortgage of the Hon. Board of Ordnance, providing a furnace and tools, [?1780] (E13/12); copy of a deed relating to [?a Unitarian meeting house] in Neath, 1814 (E13/13); a [?proof] copy of a reprinting, by W. Williams, printer, Merthyr Tydfil, of William Cobbett's address 'To the Journeymen and Labourers of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland…', [?1816] (E13/14); and three copies, 1816-1824, of English translations of two charters relating to the town of Aberavon (dated 1350 and 1373) (E13/15-17).