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Lists of books purchased by Thomas Hanmer at Florence, and of medals bought at Man[n]heim.

An account of travels in France by Thomas Hanmer [of Fenns Hall], c. 1728, together with some draft and holograph letters, miscellaneous notes, etc., 1725/6-1731 and undated. The correspondents include M. Bernége, Turin, Jean Escher, Zurich, T[homas] Stephens, C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege], C[ambridge], and A. Bosatty, Bologna.

A fragment of an account of an adventure at sea, dated 1727. It is probably the work of a child.

An incomplete volume containing extracts from the Scriptures and from early Christian writers, and notes on theological and religious subjects. Also included in the volume (ff. 253-254) are accounts of disbursements on behalf of Mr. Trevor, 1718.

Two inventories of furniture and linen at Keel-Hendrey, 1719.

A contemporary copy [c. December, 1718] of 'The Genuine Speech of the Ld. L--ne [George Granville, baron Lansdowne] against repealing the Occasional and Schism Bills' (8 pp.); and a news letter, 6 June, 1719, containing an account of Mr. [Gilbert] Burnet, incumbent of East Barnet, the imprisonment of the late Earl of Mar [John Erskine, 6th or 11th earl] at Geneva, twelve porpoises at Greenwich, and the case of the heir of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls (mutilated).

Holograph letters and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc. The writers include Anne Vaughan, Corsygedol, to her brother Collonell Hugh Wynne, Bodscallan near Conway, [16]72 (a dispute with Mr. Jones of Wrexam over a right of way); Humphrey Jones to John Jones, 1673-1681 (4), and to [his step-daughter] Mary Jones, [16]86 (James Payne's portion, a debt due from Tho. Humphreys, and other money matters, a tenant for the ferry at Conway; the receipt of the writer's rent, the troubles of 'poor Dicke' [Richard Jones of Llanenddwyn]); J[onathan] Edwardes [archdeacon of Londonderry], Newtown Limavady, to his nephew [John] Jones, [16]79 (news of the writer's family); Charles Price, Machynlleth, to [John Jones] 1683 (Humffrey Jones's estate) (endorsed with a letter from Thomas Griffith, Llanciling, [16]83); Ann Major, London, to her aunt Mrs. Mary Jones, Brynnyfunon in Wrexham, 1684 (news of the writer's family); Jo. Jones to [his father-in-law Humphrey Jones], [16]84, and from Wrexham, etc., to his wife Mary Jones, Brin y ffynnon, etc., 1686-1690 (9) (an account of the possession of Penamnen, the likely ruin of the Taltreithin estate, personal, concerns in Mallwyd, Sir Richard Middleton's death, hangings in the Wrexham area, news of friends, money matters, the writer's term of office as sheriff [of Denbighshire], elections of 1690, Merioneth sessions); Roger Sontley, Wrexham, to Mr. 'Debity' Jones, Aldermanbury, London, 1689 (legal, news of actions in Ireland); Mary (Marry) Jones to her [step-]father Humphrey Jones, Aldermanbury, London, [16]86, and to [her husband John Jones], undated (2) (the recipient's concerns, losses caused by Tho. Jones, a visit to Sir W[illiam] W[illiams]); Wm. Williams to [ ] Jones, 1688 (arrears of rent) (fragment); F[ranics] Prichard, Jesus Coll[ege, Oxford], to John Jones, [16]88 (Oxford University news); Vrsula Mathewes, Blodwell, to her aunt Mary Jones, Cheapside, London [1689/90] (personal, the elections) (together with a postscript by the recipient's niece F[rances] Edwards); Thomas ?Speed, London, to John Jones, 169[ ] (the passing of Sir J. Fenwick's Act, Hugh Nanny's appointment as Vice-Admiral of North Wales, the negotiation of a treaty, a proclamation concerning hammered money) (mutilated); E. Wynne to John Jones, [16]92 (a transaction with the recipient's uncle) (endorsed with a note by John Jones); O[wen] P[richard] to John Jones, 1693 (money matters, alms money belonging to Beaumaris School, Dyffryn [Ardudwy] and Mallwyd rents, the employment of a miner); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Mr. Sergeant Rutland, [16]95 (the sealing of cousin Jones's deed); George Wooller, Chester, to John Jones, [16]95 (Mrs. Anne Jones's poor and low condition); Jo. Nicholas, Hook Norton, etc., to John Jones, 1696-1709 (2) (an invitation, family news); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin, [16]99 (the writings belonging to Vchlawrcoed, etc., the recipient's rights to Talwrn); Charles King, Oxon., to John Jones, 1705 (the sale of the recipient's books, life in Oxford); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], to her uncle John Jones, 1710 (legal); and John Williams, London, to John Jones, 1714/15 (lottery tickets). The miscellaneous papers include the certificate, 1663, by John Taylor, clerk of the parish of Woolwich, of the marriage of John Jones and Mary Paine on 9 February, 1662/3 (mutilated); rentals and memoranda, 1665-1696 and undated, relating to estates in Mallwyd, Montgomeryshire, and in Dyffryn [Ardudwy], Merioneth; the instrument, 17 April, 1696, of the appointment of John Jones, esquire, to be deputy lieutenant of the county of Merioneth (seal wanting); a sheet containing particulars of the location and measurements of parcels of land, 1701; lists of title-deeds, temp. Edward VI-1695 and undated, relating to land in Ardidwy, Merioneth; the will of John Jones of the township of Dudliston, co. Salop, esquire, 24 February, 1714/15 (cancelled 17 April, 1717); a poem, undated, by John Carless entitled 'To His Ever Honoured Patron Mr. Humphry Jones of Aldermanbury. And one of the Common Counsell of this Great Matropolis'; instructions, undated, to Owen Prichard concerning deeds and writings [of John Jones]; a list of manors in the lordshp of Bromfield and Yale, with an estimate of the profits of their courts, 11-14 Charles [II] (1659-1662); an account of the reprises due to the purchasers of Bromfield and Yale [after 1653]; and a list, undated, of the hundreds, parishes, and parts of parishes in the lordship of Englefeild.

Holograph letters mainly addressed to John Jones of Wrexham, etc., only child of John Jones of Maesygarnedd, together with some miscellaneous papers. The writers include Vincent Corbett, [16]97 (the writer's inability to act as J.P.); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart., of Glascoed], Gr[ays] Inn, [16]95 (complaints from Mr. Fowle of the recipient's ill dealing); John Jones, Llansilin, to Lady [Margaret] Williams, Glascoed, [16]98 (the vacant living of Llangollen); Edward Kyffin, [16]99 (the recipient's home journey); J. Morgan, Wrexham, 1700 (money against the fair, etc.) (together with a copy of the recipient's reply); J. V., Lond[on], 1703 (the rejection of the Conformity Bill by the House of Lords) (mutilated); Jo. Jones to his cousin, 1706 (money matters); John Williams (endorsed: 'ancestor of Bodelwyddan'), Wrexham, 1713 (an action against the recipient's cousin); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [2nd bart.], 1719/20 (a loan of £300); and ?John Jones to his uncle Humphrey Jones, undated (the recipient's concerns at Machynlleth, etc.) (fragment). Also bound in the volume are a list of four title-deeds, 1689-1696, left with Owen Prichard, 1697; a list, 1698/9, of deeds which Simon Lloyd took to show [Richard] Vaughan of Cors a Gedol [Corsygedol] and were not returned; a receipt, [16]99, from [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.] to cousin John Jones for £40, being arrears of rent for his part of Bryn y Fynnon [Wrexham]; a news letter, 20 October, 1716, addressed to Mr. Jones at Keel-hendre; a notice, 13 May [ ], from [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.] to [ ], to pay £30 for two and a half years' rent for Bryn y Fynnon; a second bill for £100 drawn by Hen. Jones upon Mr. Humph. Jones to Clemt. Ireton, 1670; and an imperfect sheet, c. 1684, containing particulars of securities on lands.

Papers of the family of Hanmer of the Fenns, Flintshire, and Morton Sea, Salop, relating mainly to the delinquency of William Hanmer. They include a holograph letters from Tho. Hanmer, London, to William Kirkham, Iscoide, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, [16]90 (instructions concerning stock and estate matters); a holograph letter from William Hanmer, Fenns, to William Lloyd, Halghton, 1712/13 (sureties of Davies nad Cliffe's wife); an order by the Committee of Parliament in Shrewsbury for the release of William Hanmer upon payment of part of his composition money, 1645; a receipt by James Hatton, minister of God's Word at Whitewell Chappell, to Robert Wyn, servitor to William Hanmer, for 10s. as a stipend or wages given from the manor house of Fennes to the said chapel for half a year, 1647; a certificate by the Commissioners for Compounding with Delinquents that William Hanmer of Fens-hall had compounded and that he ought not to be molested, 1648; an order by Oliver Cromwell to all officers and soldiers, giving protection to William Hanmere of Fenns, 1648/9; an order by the Committee for Advance of Money for the discharge of William Hanmere of Fenns hall on payment of £200 more than the £150 paid by him in Salop, 1649; a receipt, 1655, by Roger Sontley to William Hanmer for £16.1s.6d., being the moiety of one year's charge upon his estate; an order, 1656, by H. Mackworth, Rob. Hutton, and Charles Langford to William Hanmer to bring in a more perfect particular of the true value of his estate; an order, 1646, by the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to forbear to proceed upon the sequestration of the estate of William Hanmer, together with a particular of the estate; a certificate, 1655/6?, that William Hanmer of Morton Sea is well affected towards the government (unsigned); an order, 1656, by the Council at Whitehall that William Hanmer of the Fennes has licence to come up to London for attending to some private affairs of his own (signed by W. Jessop, clerk); an order, 1658, by Thomas Croxton to all commanders, etc., in the counties of Chester, Denbigh, and Flint to allow William Hanmere, a prisoner at Shrewsbury, to return to his house at Fenns for the space of fourteen days; a petition, undated, of William Hanmer of Morton Sea to His Most Excellent Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, etc., to be allowed the charges upon his estate in his tenths; two versions, undated, of the charge of delinquency against William Hanmer of the Fenns; a note taken out of the register book of Hanmer recording the christening, on 19 September, 1622, of William, son of Thomas Hanmer and Katherine, his wife; and two undated schedules of debts charged upon the estate [of William Hanmer?].

Holograph letters mainly addressed to John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc., together with a few miscellaneous papers. The writers include Ka. Jones, his step-mother, [16]66-67/8 (2) (a journey to London, the return to St. Albons, the meaning of the recipient's and his wife's letters, personal, the writer's spinning wheel) (together with a Biblical commentary written in the blank spaces of one letter); H[ugh] C[ourtney] [16]66 (spiritual experiences); Tho. Jones, London, 1668-1684 (2) (the arrest of the drover John Rouland at Epping fair, cousin Robert Wynne in Ireland) (the one endorsed with sermon notes, the other mutilated); Humfrey (Humphrey) Jones to his step-son John Jones and to his step-daughter Mrs. Mary Jones, Bryn y ffynnon house in Wrexham, [16]83-1684 (2) (the health of Mary Jones, the trial of Collonell Sydney, personal, news of friends); Tho. Major, London, to his sister [? Mary Jones], 1684 (family news; Mora Abbott, the Camp at Dundalke, to Humphrey Jones, London, 1689 (military actions in Ireland); J. Humphrey to [ ], 1689 (the appointment of cousin John Jones to the shrievalty of [Merioneth]); Jo. Jones, from Glascoed, to his wife Mary Jones in Cheapside, 1689/90 (3), and from Chester to Mrs. Anne Edwards, Keelhendrey, 1708/9 (the shrievalty of Merioneth, the Assize sermon, etc., the Pretender's attempted invasion of Scotland); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Hugh Jones, St. John Street, [16]92 (the payment of 'brin y ffynnon' rent) (together with a receipt); Richard Jones, nephew of John Jones, [16]95 (desiring his interest with cousin John Maddackes); Hugh Pyers, Mertyn-ysglan, 1695 (a copy of the Duke of York's conveyances); Cad. Wynne, Dublin, [16]97 (the sale of the writer's patent for the office of 'Cheefe seriant at Armes' in Ireland); Richd. Simpson, Poulton, near Lanc[aste]r, 1697 (money due upon a bond); John Billingsley, London, [16]97 (the election of the Elector of Saxony to be King of Poland, military preparations and actions at Namur and Barcelona, the escape of the English E[ast] India ship 'The Tavistock'); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin and Cors-y-gedol, [16]97/8-1699 (2) (personal, the completion of designs) (the earlier letter endorsed with a note of moeny left in a bag brought from Chester by Owen Prichard, and a note of washing left at Mallwyd 1697/8); Jo'n Davies [1700] (money matters, the recipient's father's quondam concerns in Ireland) (fragment); Jonath. Edwards, Jes[us] Coll[ege], Oxford, 1706/7 (the writer's book - 'a preseruatiue against Socinianisme', references to Dr. King of Merton College); Jonathan Jones, Wrexh[am], 1712 (the duel between the Duke of 'Hambelton' [Hamilton] and Lord Mohun, news of the war between Sweden and Denmark); [?Isaac] Manley, Dublin, 1712/13 (Mr. Davis's answer); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], niece of John Jones, undated (thanks for wine, personal); and F[rances] E[dwards], niece of John Jones, undated (news of the writer's sister). Also bound in the volume are a bond, 1675/6, from Joseph Mould, distiller, and John Jones, gentleman, both of Wrexham, to William Jones of the same, gentleman, for the payment of £10; a list of persons to be offered for sheriff of Merioneth, 1683; and an undated list, in the hand of John Jones, Junior, of family title-deeds and papers, 1659-1696 and undated.

Holograph letters addressed mainly to Morgan Llwyd. The correspondents include Esther Jones, Dol[ ], 1655 (2) (Coll. Jones's letter to Ellis Hughes, spiritual experiences); E. Herbert to his dear sister [?the wife of Morgan Llwyd], 1658/9 (the recipient's health); Hugh Prichard, Wrexham, etc., 1651-1654 (7) (the reason why Mr. Cradocke and Mr. Powell went out of town, references to Mr. Rice Vaughan, Capt. Strange, Jo[h]n Lilburne, M[ajor] G[eneral] Lambert, and Col. Barrow, the recipient's visits to Merioneth and Carnarvon shires, feelings against M[ajor] G[eneral] H[arrison], union and peace in the church at Wrexham, etc.); Phill[ip] Rogers, Beaumaris, etc., 1653/4-1654/5 (3) (impressions of 'this darke Countrey', books sent to the recipient, the death of Mrs. Courtney, W. Erbery's publication of 'some papers'); Peter Sterry, Whitehall, 1651-1656 and undated (5) (opinions on free will, the godhead of Christ, the writings of Beaumont, etc.); Hugh Courtney, 1649 (Mr. Cradocke's congregation, the Moderate Petition, news of Inchequin's forces in Ireland, etc.); John Trevor, Symon Thelwall, Stephen Marshall, Joseph Caryll, John Glynn, and Henry Herbert to [Sir Thomas Myddelton] [not before 1645] (Mr. Ambrose Mostyn and Mr. Morgan Floyd to be sent to the recipient to help reduce that country to due obedience) ('true copy'); H. J. [from London], 1656 (Mr. Jo. Goodwin's answer); Robert Hughes, Westminster, 1658/9 (Parliamentary business, the illness of two successive speakers, Major-General Overton sent ... to Jersey) (mutilated); Va[vasor] Powell, 1657-1659 (2) (comments on the recipient's beliefs and on their personal relationships); ?Phil. Eyton, London, 1656 (the election of an arbitrator, the war with the Spaniards, the Act for Registers); Samuel Hughes, Swansea, 1656 (personal, references to Mr. Ambrasse Mosten, John Robert, Edward Cynricke, etc.); Will. Rider and Wal. Thimelton, Hollborne, etc., 1652/3-1653/4 (3) (Mr. Erbury's publications and his trial by the Committee for plundered m[inisters], references to Strange and Spencer, etc., and to books); and W. T. Chapellizzard, 1653 (landing in Ireland, a report that the recipient has given over all meetings, etc.). Also included in the volume are a despatch, 1648, giving an account of the engagement (endorsed 'fight') at Maidstone; an order, [c. 1649], by the common knaves of England for the destruction of all gallows or gibbets, and the burning of all halters, ropes, etc., in the county of Montgomery, illustrated with rough sketches of gallows prepared for Powel, Mosten, Capt. Wil'n, the knight of the shire, E[dward] V[aughan], the committees, sequestrators, and all rebels, signed 'Amicus sculpit' [sic]; queries, undated, by James Parke 'To all the professors in Wrexham that deny the light of christ to bee in every man ...'; and an epistle signed by H. Jessey, Will Crees, and Tho. Teobald, in the name of the Church at Colman Street, London, to Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Minister of the Gospel at Wrexham, 1656. Bound at the beginning of the volume is a fragment of 'A perfect account of all the Horses that I receaved the sixth of May 1651', being an imperfect list which appears to have been used as a wrapper for a bundle of Morgan Llwyd's letters and which is endorsed: 'Bundle of letters to Mr. Morgan Lloyd of which perhaps some profitable use may be made if I should have leisure to peruse ym. so as to make some sober remarks & reflections uppon them, if not burn them. May 29th 1706'.

Transcripts of deeds and legal instruments relating to persons and properties mainly in the counties of Chester and Flint.

Holograph letters, etc., of the family of John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc. The writers include Humphrey Jones to his [step-]daughter Mary Jones, Bryn y ffynnon house in Wrexham, 1684-1686 (3), and to John Jones, 1685-1686/7 (2) (the management of the writer's affairs in Merioneth, etc.; money matters, the execution of Alderman [Henry] Cornish and others, the hearing of the writer's case before the Lord Chancellor, a purchaser for Penamnen); Jo. Jones, Wrexham, to Humphrey Jones, Aldermanbury, 1685 (the Penamnen tenants, claims upon estate owners in the lordship of Mr. Pugh of Mathavern, etc.); John Lloyd, Wrexham, to John Jones, Cheapside, London, 1689/90 (the plight of the widow of the heir of Collonell Michael Jones); and Ann Leven to her uncle John Jones, undated (personal, news of uncle Payne). Also bound in the volume is a true copy, in the hand of Humphrey Jones, of a rental and particulars of arrears sent by Mr. [Charles] Price, 1689.

Papers of Humphrey Jones, brother of John Jones of Maesygarnedd, including the deputation, 22 March, 1653/4, by Rice Vaughan of Graies Inne, co. Middlesex, esquire, and Humfrey Jones of London, gentleman, of the stewardship of the manor and lordship of Bromfeild and Yale, co. Denbigh, to Colonel John Carter of Kinwell [Kinmell], co. Denbigh, esq., together with an undertaking by John Carter to give a just account (mutilated); an account of receipts and disbursements on behalf of [?John Jones] since 6 August, 1683; a holograph letter from Hugh Williams, Marle, to Humphrey Jones, Alderman Bury, London, 1686 (legal, with reference to the Voylas estate); an account of money resting in Mr. [Charles] Price's hands, 23 August, 1687, and of money due at Michaelmas; and the answer, undated, of Humphrey Jones, one of the defendants to the bill of complaint of William Lloyd concerning properties said to be mortgaged by John Jones ('the regicide') (mutilated).

Notes 'taken in short hand of the Earle of Shaft[e]sbury['s] Speech in the house of Lord[s] upon the Debate of appointing a day for the heareing of Doctor Sherlies Cause', 20 October, 1675.

Three fragments mainly containing material in the hand of Morgan Llwyd: a) Sheets out of a notebook containing notes of sermons, one of which is said to have been delivered by 'Mr. Lloyd' [?Morgan Llwyd]. b) A copy (2 pp.) of the verses of lamentation and resolution by the Welsh saints, 1643, comprising ten out of the twenty verses printed by T. E. Ellis in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd (Bangor, 1899), vol. I, pp. 3-6, in the following order - 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 9, 8, 7, 14, 18; a version, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the first nine stanzas of a 'Thanksgiving song for Wrexham delivered from pest' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 12-13); notes by Morgan Llwyd, including drafts of sermons, and a list of names (Ens. Roberts, Howell Thom., Ben. Rich., Walt. Thimble., Hugh Prich.) headed by a cancelled sentence - 'who should have the booke of my verse'; twenty-two stanzas beginning 'The lord is kind and merciful ...' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, being apparently a draft of a poem or of a series of poems by him; thirteen stanzas based on Canticles, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, ten roughly corresponding to those printed in E. Lewis Evans: Morgan Llwyd (Lerpwl, 1930), pp. 176-8, stanzas 11 and 12 corresponding respectively to 4 and 5 in Ellis: Gweithiau, vol. I, p. 10, and stanza 5 being possibly the basis of stanza 3 in Gweithiau; a transcript of the Canticle verses in another hand; a draft, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the poem 'Hanes rhyw Gymro' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 57-60); and a copy of verse xxviii in Gweithiau, p. 61. c) Draft translations of psalms by Morgan Llwyd. The translations are incomplete, and many stanzas have been cancelled. There are verses translated from Psalms 19, 37, 44-46, 121-122, and 126.

Accounts, 1655-1660, entitled 'A noth of all such monis as I have disburss since the third of november 1655'. The identity of the writer is not known. Several entries relate to Whitchurch, Hanmer, and Bettisfield.

A holograph copy of a letter from Mor[gan] Llwyd to H[enry] Jessey, 1656 (lessons and observations from Jac[ob] Behmen, John Goodwin's answer, converse with Mr. Hartlib); holograph copies and one draft of letters (3) from [Morgan Llwyd] to unknown correspondents, 1658/1659, and undated (the recipient's change of doctrine, kindness to David Hughes's son, the recipient's action in Tho. Tillams and the writer's in breaking bread at Chester, the writer's wish to reside in the country); a holograph letter from Hen[ry] Jones, from Dublin, to [?Morgan Llwyd], 1655 (the writer's former course in writing, references to Robin, dear Daniell Lloyd, Capt. Prichard, Sontley, Kathrin, Lowrey Williams, and Eliz. Powell) (together with a draft reply in the hand of Morgan Llwyd); a sheet marked 'fourth' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, concerning the diversity of thoughts in the human heart, together with notes, dated 1655/1656-1656/1657, on apparitions; and 'The heads of the bill for Gouernment' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, 1656.

A draft by Morgan Llwyd, 17 April, 1657, of a statement on the Fifth Monarchy Men. Also included in the volume, being originally attached to the statement, is a leaf containing an exhortation not to forerun the steps of Jehovah.