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Marriage settlements, other family settlements and associated documents of the Vaughans of Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire, namely Owen Vaughan and family, 1569-1617, Sir Robert Vaughan and family, 1616-1622, Edward Vaughan (d. 1661) and trustees, 1655-1667, and Edward Vaughan (d. 1718) and family, 1670-1719.

Wills, inventories and other probate documents associated with members of the Wynn family of Gwydir, 1611-1719; inheritance of the Gwydir estate, 1618-1748; Sir John Wynn, 1673-1716, and the Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, 1840-1906.

Wills, letters of administration and other documents associated with probate belonging to the familes of Vaughan of Llwydiarth and Llangedwyn, 1584-1718, a further copy of Edward Vaughan’s will, 1717-1718; Thelwall of Plas y Ward, 1599-1733; and Kyffin of Glascoed, 1633-[c. 1653].

Trusts involving Richard Gwynne, 1596, Sir John of Gwydir, Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth and others concerning the wills of Ellen vch John, 1596, and of John Puleston, 1606, the wardship of Elizabeth and Margaret Price, 1606, and the debts of Bevis Lloyd, 1675.

Trusts involving Sir Richard Wynn, concerning payment of alimony to the Fildinge family, 1630, administration of John Bodvell’s estate, 1632, performance of covenants in a mortgage of the Rhiwlas estate, 1651-1658, and the trusteeship of Sir Richard Wynn’s own estate, 1656.

Trusts involving Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and Watstay, concerning payment to Thomas and Sarah Povey, 1665-1673, payment of his own debts, 1681, the will of Robert Lord Viscount Cholmondeley, 1682, and the will of Sir Robert Owen, 1696-1698.

Trusts involving Sir William Williams and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, concerning the will of Florence Bold, 1670-1671; Margaret Thelwall’s jointure lands, 1688; the marriage settlement of David Pennant and Arabella Mytton, 1724; a settlement of Plas Coch and Bathafarn estates, 1725; the estate of Edward Rogers, Sychdyn, Salop, 1733; the will of Ralph Kynaston, 1732-1746; payment of the debts of Edward Williams of Ystum-colwyn, 1734; and the estate of bankrupt John Howell of Trefarclawdd, 1786.

Thirty seven charters of the Abbey of Ystrad Marchell near Welshpool, dating from 1183 to 1529, together with three Elizabethan inspeximus of the earlier charters, 1577-1588/9. The original foundation charter of c. 1170 is missing, but copies have survived in TNA and in the Wynnstay Estate Records at NLW. Twelve of the charters comprise grants and sales by Gwenwynwyn ap Owain of lands in the commote of Cyfeiliog, the hundred of Arwystli and the manor of Caereinion Uwch Coed, 1185-1215. Other documents in the Wynnstay archive include six grants by members of the former ruling elite of Arwystli [c. 1195]-1215; several grants of lands or pasturage rights in Penllyn and Edeirnion, Mochnant, Montgomery, Caledffrwd and Bachwilym; confirmations by King John, 1200, and Edward de Charleton, 1420, of previous grants; conveyances by Llywelyn Fawr, [1209] and his son, Gruffudd, 1226; records of disputes between the abbeys of Ystrad Marchell and Cwm Hir over lands in Arwystli, [c. 1216], 1227; a mandate of Anian, bishop of St Asaph, [1268x1292]; confirmation of a grant by John de Charleton of the abbot’s right to hold a court of his tenants, 1367; leases of lands in Arwystli by two of the abbots, 1490-1529; and a single charter of Owain ap Madog granting land in Dinmael to Valle Crucis Abbey, 1207.