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Abstracts, dated 1 December 1788, of leases in Montgomeryshire relating to the estates of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart (1692-1749).

Letters and papers, including a petition, circa 1722, from Sir John Philipps suggesting the preferment of Owen Philipps to the rectory of Walwins Castle, Pembrokeshire, a petition, 1745, signed by Sir John Philipps, Thomas Carew, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and George Heathcote, to the members of the House of Commons, requesting their attendance at the House on January 16, 1746, and a Return of the number of Men that can be contained, in the Different Towns in the Counties of Carnarvon, Anglesea, Montgomery, Merioneth and Denbigh under the superintendance of Major Genl. Fisher on an emergency. Wrexham June 2nd 1805.

A small group of holograph letters of the family of Williams Wynn of Wynnstay:- a letter, 16 January, 1717/18, from Wat[kin] Williams (aft. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart.), from Westminster, to his father Sir William Williams, 2nd bart., at Wynnstay (the writer's visit to Baron Price about 'our Denbigh business', Baron Price's son is to have the lordship of Denbigh, the writer's decision not to send his coach horses down, a request to hasten 'Ned Wynn' with money, news of the King and the Prince, Sir Thomas Hanmer is the greatest man in England with the Prince); a letter, 21 June, 1747, from [Sir] Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart., from Wynnstay, to Mr. Griffiths, apothecary, in Bedford Street near Covent Garden, London (support for Sir Thomas Clargies and Sir John Philips in the Westminster election); a letter, 21 October, ----, from [Sir] Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bart., to John Evans, Esq., at Wynnstay (Mr. Wyatt's allocation, the writer's return to Wynnstay, etc.); a letter, 26 May, 1789, from Charlotte Williams Wyn, wife of the 4th bart., from Richmond, to John Evans, Esq., at Wynnstay (glass for new rooms, a flood-board to new cascade, money matters, a new malt room, Sir Watkin's health); and the blank dorse of a letter addressed 'To The Members of the Cycle'.