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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Myddelton, Mary, 1688-1747.
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Mary Myddelton's purchase of Plas Power,

Financial and legal papers accumulated by Thomas Davies, clerk and attorney acting for Mary Myddelton, relating to her purchase of the estate, including letters, rents, accounts, bills, valuations, receipts, legal opinions, deeds and abstracts of deeds.

Letters to 'Madam',

Letters addressed simply to 'Madam', all of which appear to have been intended for members of the Myddelton and Lloyd families and their associates. Many of them were meant for Mary Myddelton, but others were clearly not, and in most cases it is not clear which are which, even when annotated in Mary Myddelton's own hand (which sometimes appears on letters addressed to people other than herself); some letters are from Mary Myddelton herself; others mention her in the third person or date from after her death; and others are copies or drafts written on a sheet of paper from a previous letter, so that the real intended addressee is not always the apparent one.

Letters to other identified recipients,

Letters to other identified recipients, predominantly members of the Fownes, Myddelton and FitzHugh families and households, and their representatives and associates, together with those of the Lloyd family after Rev. Thomas Lloyd moved to Plas Power in 1720; included are letters from William Fownes, Richard Myddelton, Mary Myddelton and Roger Mostyn; as well as a letter from [Philip, duke of] Wharton, to his sister Lady Jane Holt, 1726, expressing his concern for his family in the light of his appointment as Jacobite ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire; a letter from John Yorke with military news from 'camp between Balaklava and Sebastopol', October 1854, and a copy of his letter from 'Balaklava Harbour'; and two letters from E.J. Stracey from Balaclava, October [1854], and 'camp before Sebastopol', December 1854, concerning military affairs and the condition of the army.

Letters to unidentified recipients,

Letters to unidentified recipients, mostly apparently members of the Fownes, Myddelton and FitzHugh families and households, and their representatives and associates, together with those of the Lloyd family after Rev. Thomas Lloyd moved to Plas Power in 1720; many of the letters are drafts in the hand of Mary Myddelton, and some may relate to Chirk Castle rather than Plas Power; included are a copy of a letter from an army officer north of Aberdeen, February 1715/6, to 'his ffreind att London' concerning the campaign against the Jacobites, and a letter from Captain E.W.D. Bell at Alma Heights, September 1854, concerning a recent action.

Chirk & Plas Power papers,

  • NLW MS 22097E.
  • File
  • 1704-1804.

Papers relating mainly to Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd bart, of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh, and his daughter, Mary Myddelton, and to the Lloyd family of Plas Power, co. Denbigh (cf. NLW Annual Report 1970-71, pp. 64-7), including correspondence, 1704-1804, mainly on personal and estate matters, and domestic and estate accounts, bills and vouchers, 1709-1736.