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Poll books from the Denbighshire election of 1868, recording the polling district, parishes and townships, names and addresses of the voters in numerical order, the votes and remarks.

Check books of the clerks from the Denbighshire election of 1868, showing the booth number, the number on the register, electors’ names, location of property for qualification, the votes for each candidate and observations.

Two bundles of papers relating to elections in Montgomeryshire, 1863-1877. The first comprises legal papers in a lawsuit of 1863 relating to the Montgomeryshire parliamentary election of 1862; and the second contains an electoral register, vouchers and letters dating from the Montgomeryshire Boroughs election, 1877.

Papers from various elections in which the Williams Wynn family stood for Parliament or otherwise had an interest, comprising miscellaneous papers from Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Merioneth, 1813-1874, and from Merioneth, 1868.

Files of unsorted papers from the office of Longueville and Co. relating to the Wynnstay estate, 1717-1909. Many of the papers concern purchases, sales and exchanges of property in Denbighshire, Merioneth, Montgomeryshire and Salop, mainly in the mid-nineteenth century. Typically they include draft deeds, abstracts, particulars, plans, valuations and conditions of sale. Some deeds relate to disentailment and the release of encumbrances on parts of the Wynnstay settled estates prior to sale, and to the right of the trustees to sell. Several documents concern the sale of Wynnstay land for railway development schemes and for water supply, such as the Vyrnwy water supply under the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act 1880. Several of the bundles contain papers of Watkin Edwards Wynne of Llewesog and of Owen Wynne, his brother and executor, 1785-1800. Other recurrent themes include the manorial rights of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in the manor of Cyfeiliog, the sale of timber from the Wynnstay estates, Wynnstay finances, and the work of the trustees for the purposes of the estate sales and purchases. Several files contain statements of conveyances of parts of the Wynnstay estates and trustees’ accounts, 1858-1860. Most files contain routine accounts and correspondence of Longueville and Co., of the Wynnstay agents and other interested parties.

Two mediaeval deeds concerning lands in Wick, Carswell and Wroxhale [Wraxhall] in Somerset. The first [late 12 x early 13 cent] is a grant by the Beket family pertaining to land at Wick, containing specific boundary clauses and details of the payment made partly in money and partly in high-status goods. The second, a quitclaim dated 1307, may be part of a settlement involving families located ‘atte Wike’ and Clopton, relating to lands at Carswell and Wroxhale [Wraxhall].

Six mediaeval deeds concerning lands mainly situated in Wrockwardine, Shropshire, [1289x1324]-1336. The grantors include Fulk Lestrange, lord of Wrockwardine and William, Abbot of Shrewsbury. Other parties and witnesses named are Adam le Despenser and members of the Lochard family of Wrockwardine. Two of the deeds refer to a piece of field called Vedelye, which appears to be the subject of a family settlement between Walter, rector of Culmington, his sister, Godithe and Adam Lochard, her son, 1327 and 1336.

Twelve deeds, 1302/3, 1537-1675/6, the majority of which relate to the manors or lordships of Mechain Is Coed and Uwch Coed, Caereinion, Mochnant, Mawddwy, Cyfeiliog, Talerddig and Arwystli. Two of the deeds, 1302 and 1588, appear to have originated from the manor of Caus. The Vaughan family is strongly represented and the series includes settlements of the Llwydiarth estate, 1538, and the manor of Talerddig, 1673-1675/6, involving John ap Howell Vychan and Edward Vaughan respectively. Among witnesses named in the deeds is Richard Herbert, seneschal of Powys, 1537-1538.

Fourteen charters, 1340-1549, by several of the lords of Powys, namely John de Charleton, Edward de Charleton, Henry Gray, Edward Sutton and Edward Gray, issued at [Welsh]pool (Powys) Castle or Mathrafal Manor. They include five pardons by Edward de Charleton to individuals who had taken part in the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr and whose lands were restored to them, 1408-1420. The lands to which they refer lay mainly in the lordships of Mechain Is Coed, Mechain Uwch Coed and Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. The recipient of the pardon of 1420 was Gruffith ap Jankyn ap Llewelyn ap Eignon ap Kelynnyn, an ancestor of the Vaughans of Llwydiarth and former squire to Charleton. Two deeds of 1418 and 1420/1 show that he benefited from further gifts of land and privileges. The gift of 1420/1 is the subject of a deed to settle a dispute between Edward Gray, lord of Powys and John ap Howell Vaughan in 1549. The charters of Henry Gray, 1446, and Edward Sutton, 1508/9, refer to lands in Caereinion and Deuddwr, granted to retainers for faithful service. Two other deeds, of Edward Gray, 1524 and 1540, concern previously forfeited lands in Trefedryd and Moel y Cornorion in Mochnant.

Two deeds, 1570-1572, recording the conveyance of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid or Pimbremear), ultimately to the existing tenant, Howell Vaughan of Llanuwchllyn. The lake and its surrounds lay in the territory of Penllyn once owned by Ystrad Marchell Abbey and appropriated by the Crown after the dissolution. The deeds recite a grant by Queen Elizabeth in 1569/70 and the names of successive owners, London gentlemen, the last of whom conveyed the property to Vaughan; it then formed part of the Glan-llyn estate. Both deeds were contained in an envelope [c. 1945]

File of notes, index cards and transcripts on the mediaeval charters originating from the abbey of Ystrad Marchell and from Wrockwardine, made by various antiquarians between 1795 and 1871, and by cataloguing staff of NLW [1945x1980]. See file description for details.

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.

Sparse series of deeds for properties on Anglesey, which appear to have belonged to the estates of Chwaen and Glasinfryn. The files describe properties in Beaumaris, Penmynydd and Pentraeth, 1595-1612; Llanbadrig and Llandysilio, 1605; Llanddona, 1594; Llan-faes, 1527; Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, 1594-1595; Llanfair-yn-Neubwll and Treflesg, 1577-1603; Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog and Llanidan, Berw estate, 1656-1672; Llangoed and Penmon, 1509, 1580-1609; Llangwyllog, 1609; Llanrhuddlad, 1608; Llantrisant, 1598-1641; Newborough, 1607; Penmon Rectory and Millne Hely, 1642; and miscellaneous deeds, 1636.

Title deeds and associated bonds for properties in the township of Bodsilin in the parish of Aber, namely Tythyn Pen y Bont, 1596-1614, Kay Madog, Kay Pen y Lan, etc., and Kay Madog Issa, 1596-1613, and Llwyn Eden, 1613-1614, purchased by Richard Gwynne of Bangor.

Title deeds for properties in the parish of Llanfair-is-gaer, namely Bach y Dinas or Tythyn y Dinas in the township of Botandreg, 1517, 1598-1603; miscellaneous properties in Llanfair, 1583-1607; Cae Glas, Drill yr Odyn, Y Berllan Newydd, etc. in Bonyrafallen, Llanfair Prysgol and Llannerch y Nestrig in Llanfair-is-gaer and Llan-rug, 1585-1620; and Cae yn y Krug and Cae Banadl, 1586-1612.

Title deeds for properties in the parishes of Llan-rug, 1578-1609, and a farm in Penmachno and Dolwyddelan, 1657.

Miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to the Earl of Arundel’s lands in Wales [tentatively placed here], the estates of Pentyrch and Glanyrafon, and the Caernarfonshire estate of Sir Richard Wynn, 1342, 1538, 1612-1639, 1771; deeds for properties in Llangian, Llaniestyn, Edern, etc., 1559-1615; and purchase deeds for a portion of the Gwydir estate, acquired by Sir John Wynn of Watstay, 1680-1681.

Loose deeds and original tied bundles relating mainly to properties purchased by Richard Gwynne from William and Piers Gruffith of Penrhyn, together with others acquired by Sir John Wynn and Moris Wynn of Gwydir. The files describe miscellaneous properties in Bangor and Maenol Bangor, 1441-1615, 1785; miscellaneous properties in Crewedog and Tyllfaen, 1446-1617; Tythyn y Bryn Due in Crewedog and Tyllfaen, 1562-1579; Crewedog estate and lands in Crewedog, Tyllfaen, Pentir, etc., 1584-1614; miscellaneous properties in Tregwyr-rhyddion, 1595-1611; Tyddyn Dan Garreg y Walch, Aber-y-pwll, 1598-1612; properties in Bangor purchased by Richard Gwynne from William Gruffith, 1598-1617; Bryn Heylloke Ucha, Bryn Heylloke Issa etc. in Tregwyr-rhyddion and Llwydiarth, 1605-1609; and Tythyn Pen yr Allt and a parcel in Maes-y-felin, Aber-y-pwll, 1636.

Title deeds for properties in the townships of Nanhwynan, 1524-1627, and Nanmor, 1529-1606, within the parish of Beddgelert, on the border of Caernarfonshire and Merioneth; and for properties in Dolbadarn in the adjacent parish of Llanberis, Caernarfonshire.

Title deeds relating mainly to properties acquired by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, his brother Richard Gwynne and Edward Williams, whose widow Grace married Richard Gwynne in 1602, situated in the townships of Penfro, Castell, Glyn and Gronant, often combining more than one of these townships and overlapping the parish boundaries of Caerhun, Llanbedrycennin and Llangelynnin. The deeds describe miscellaneous tenements and parcels of land in Castell and Llanbedr, 1480-1633; Tuthyn Griffith Vichan and lands in Eirannws, 1492-1584; miscellaneous properties in Penfro and Caerhun, 1499-1587; Garthmore, Pwll Dovergwn, etc., 1514-1588; Tythyn Bron Hyddgen in Castell and Conwy, 1527-1606; Tuthyn Owen ap Gruffith ap Gwilym, etc., 1533-1597; Catstone, Tuddyn y Coed, Cayr Llin, Y Geuallt, Havod Yddgwyn, etc., and Nant Kayr Llin, 1549-1617; Gelli Wastad, Tyddyn Carreg y Ffordd, Tyddyn Kyn’ ap Rees and Tyddyn Blethyn ap Ieuan Goch, 1550-1611; the property of Morvith vch Howell, Castell and Penfro, 1556-1588; Cae Tannow, Cae’r Bluen, Cae’r Vallen Viniog, 1563-1604; another part of Pwll Dovergwn, 1574-1609; properties in Ardda, Llanbedrycennin, 1575-1599; Maes Cadwgan and Dolriannus, 1576-1590; dower lands of Elen Peake in Castell and Eiriannws, 1572-1584; Y Glascoid and Kay Uchaf, 1591-1617; a messuage of Robert ap Thomas ap Howell ap Jenckyn, Cay’r Vorwyn, Erw Gwnion, Dalar, etc., 1593-1594; Gwergloth Pwll y Llivion, Tythyn y Porth Lloyd and Gwergloth Gwern Vach Ynys, 1597; Gwern Fledr, Llanbedr, 1599-1603; Gweirglodd yr Hayad, Gweirglodd y Dderwen, 1599-1615; properties in Castell, Llanbedr, Penfro and Llechan, purchased from John Hookes, 1604; Gorswen Hir, 1607-1612; and the Bulkeley estate in Caerhun, 1737.