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Ninety-nine miscellaneous holograph and other letters:- Daines Barrington, London, to John Strange in Venice [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Lloyd of Hafodunos, F.R.S., stones at Towen and on top of Caderydris, Lloyd's knowledge of North Wales as a fossilist); Godfrey Bingley to Lady Jackson, London, undated (two bonds for £50 apiece); [George Booth, 2nd earl of] Warrington, Dunham [Massey, co. Chester], to . . ., 1700-1708/9 (2) (a request for certain deeds, comments relating to the king of France, a deed relating to the advowson of [the church of] Thornton [co. ]); R. [Byerley] to Lady Jackson, London, undated (financial and legal matters); John Calvert, London, to ? Tho[ma]s Kyffin, 1774 (instruments ordered by squire Jones, an account for the same, a request for specimens of ? moths from the Snowdon area, recipient's possible election to ? the Aurelian Society); Walt[er] Clopton, [ ]nant, to . . ., 1686/7 (points concerning a lease); Joseph Duke, Chester, to John Lloyd, Havedunos [sic], 1767 (an account for goods bought) (endorsed with receipts); Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, to Hugh Roberts, Mold, [18]22 (legal matters) (copy); R. Edwards, London, to . . ., 1748-1750 (3) (business and financial transactions, mention of ships from India and of the African Company); Samuel Edwards, Newport, to Mr. Warne, 1682 (financial matters); [Sir] G[eorge] Shuckburgh Evelyn [6th bart.], Shuckburgh Park [co. Warwick], to Nath[anie]l Jones, Wygfair, 1795 (enquiries about J[ohn] Lloyd of Wygfair who had gone to Ireland to see newly discovered gold mines); J[oh]n Foulkes, Wrexham, to the Rev[eren]d B. C. Conway, Lower Soughton, Northop, 1832 (enclosing a copy of an opinion by John Jervis of the Middle Temple dated 1832, and of a letter by the present writer to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard relating to a case ?concerning an obstruction on Soughton highway); T[homas] Gaisford, [dean of] Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford], to the Rev[eren]d Archdeacon Jones, 1832 (the examination of Mr. Howard ? for admission to Christ Church) (addressed to Reverend Dr. Howard, Mold); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, to Miss Gwynne [the writer's grand-daughter] at Havodunos, 1780 ( personal); Rob[er]t F[ ] Greville, Great Cumberland Street [ ], to . . ., 1803 (the work being done by Sir R[ichar]d [Colt] Hoare [2nd bart.] on a translation of Giraldus Cambrensis [The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales . . . by Giraldus de Barri. Trans . . . by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, London, 1806], attempts to identify places such as Hilcuria, Castrum Isabelis, etc., mentioned by Giraldus, queries re copper works near the summit of Snowdon, news of acquaintances); Ralph Griffith, Chester, to Charles Owen, Toke's Court, London, 1760-1762 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above]), and to Mr. Pardoe, 1767 (bills relating to the Mold cause) (draft); Will[ ia]m Griffith to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Rich[ar]d Griffith, Carnarvon, 1751-1752 (3) (financial matters in connection with a legacy to the writer from his mother); J. Haggersten, Berwick, to Edward Burdet, Holborne, London, [ ] 82 (personal and financial matters); Mr. Hay, St. Asaph, to Mr. Lloyd [ early 19th cent.] (a list of tokens the writer wished to collect) (in third person); J. Holland to . . ., 1810 (recommending a tenant for Havodynnos); R. W. Howard, Eton College, to his mother, undated (the writer's activities at Eton); Richard Howard, Llanrhaiadr, to Arthur Roberts, Mold, solicitor, 1847 (legal matters) (copy); Ow[en] Hughes, Bewmares, to Dr. Andrew Birch at Gwyder, 1679 (purchasers for lands in Merionythshire, Penmachno and Treflan); John Humffreys to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergay at Havodynnos, 1706/7 (financial matters); John Humffreys, Llanvyllin, to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergai at Eyarth, near Llanver, 1737/8 (an interview with Mr. Mainwaring concerning Caergai); Dauid Jones, Sallop, to . . ., 1637/8 (personal); Jos. Jones, Mold, to Mr. Griffiths, 1761 ( losses suffered owing to the [Mold mountain] dispute) (copy); Richard Jones, Carnarvon, to . . ., 1758 (business affairs); S[amuel] Jones, Kilken, to Watkin Williams, Penbedw, 1770 (a protest concerning the toll gate at the west end of the town of Mold) (endorsed with a reply from Will[iam] Lloyd, Maesmynan) (?both copies); W[illia]m Jones, Llan-fihangel, to Mr. Goodman, attorney, Anglesea, 1779-1784 (2) (a dispute with Mr. Howard concerning lands and rents, land at Trefriw); J[oh]n Langley, junior, London, to Jns. Williams, attorney, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning the estate of Sir Richard Langley, deceased, in Mould), and to Thomas Williams, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning ?the same estate as in the previous letter ); C. Lloyd, Wellow [near Bath], to the Rev[eren]d Ben[jamin] Conway Potter, Soughton, Northop, 1819 (the death of Dr. Griffith, news of acquaintances, activities in Frome); Dauid Lloyd, Southwark, to John Lloyd of Wickwer, 1673 (a journey by Sir Euan Lloyd, the captain of the writer's company, into Wales, to recruit forty men, a projected crossing into Holland with 15,000 foot men) (endorsed with a note by J. Ll. who had opened the letter by mistake); Eliza. Lloyd, Rhu . . ., to . . ., undated (enquiries concerning the Vaughan family); Ellis Lloyd, Pen Lan, to. . ., 1687/8 (legal affairs); Robert Lloyd to [Richard Nanney], 1609 (arrangements for a meeting and the delivery of a letter from Captain Salisbury) (endorsed with recipient's reply); M. Lockhart to . . ., undated (recommending Mr. Pauling); Geo[rge] Lowe, Chester, to Mr. Howard, 1756 (legal matters); H. M., to . . ., 1737 (personal); [Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st earl of] Seaforth [Ireland], Calais, to [Daniel Charles Solander], 1777 (a request that Mr. Lloyd should have any of the writer's books which were in recipient's custody); Edw[ard] Mainwaring, Wrexham, to John Edwards at Pen y Lan, 1680/1 (financial matters); M. Mainwaring, Whitmore, to Mrs. Vaughan at Eyarth, 1737 (the ? secret marriage of recipient's daughter); W. Manley, Temple, to Messrs. Phillips and Ellis, attorneys, Ruthin, 1796 (legal matters); T. Trevor Mather, Pentreholn [? Pentre-hobin ], to Mr. Richards, Holywell, 1803 (the fencing of an allotment on Mold mountain) (continued)

J. Montagu to . . ., 1706 (the taxing of vaults taken out of streets); Arth[ur] Newcomen to Tho[mas] Williams, Bronkoed, near Mould, [16]99 and undated (2) (dilapidations at Argitt, orders from Lord Derby [? William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl of Derby] re letting Argit, a request for a rent roll); C. Owen, Took's (Toke's) Court [London], to Tho[ma]s Owen, attorney, Mold, 1754 (legal matters), to Ralp[h] Griffith, attorney, Chester, 1756 (enclosing a copy of an order for viewing the area in dispute in the Grosvenor v. Swymmer suit [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above ]), to Mrs. Trevor in Berkeley Square [ ], 1761 (arranging a meeting, non-payment of a bill by Ralph Griffith), and to . . ., 1762 (legal matters relating ?to the Grosvenor v. Vincent suit) (copy); Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn, to Mr. Boydell, 1763 (the expenses in the [Grosvenor v. Vincent suit]); Tho[ma]s W. Partington to Mr. Griffith, 1756 (notification that the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case would be tried in Michaelmas term ); [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, to . . ., 1744 (the death of Cad[walad]r W[ illia]ms, who had served on board the ships Shrewsbury and Suffolk, in 1743, and pay due to him); Thomas Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], to the Hon. Daines Barrington, 1773 (the measuring ? of mountains in Snowdonia by ? [Jean André] De Luc, whom Pennant had met in Geneva, a request for goatskins, a letter from [ ] Forster, Pennant's intention of writing to [Charles] Linnaeus, a proposed journey) (endorsed with a note from D[aines] Barrington forwarding the letter to ?John Lloyd with a request for the Gwyder pedigree); Henry Perkins, Chester, to Mrs. Eliz. Jones at Trecastell, 1750 (financial); Prof[essor] M[arc] A[uguste] Pictet, professor of nat[ural] phil[osophy] at Geneva, to [Sir Joseph Banks], 1805 (the application of [John] Hadley's sextant for observing the meridian transit of the celestial bodies); W[illiam] Pitt, Downing Street [London], to. . ., 1799 (the decision to assemble parliament in order to propose a bill re the militia volunteers); John Price to . . ., undated (personal); M. Price, London, to Mr. Ing . . .y, senior, at Fearn, near Holywell, to . . ., and to Mr. Jones of Mold Mountain, 1763 (requests for payment of bills due in respect of the Mold cause); J[oh]n Roberts, Denbigh, to . . ., undated (legal matters); Domingos Rodrigues, Tellichery [India], to . . ., 1743 (commercial matters); Robert Roper to Robert Foulks, Chester, [1]703 (the letting of ? Argoed on behalf of the representatives of the late earl of Derby [William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl]); [Hew Sempill, 12th baron] Sempill, Lyons, to Mons[ieu]r Vaughan at Montpellier, 1736/7 (personal); Rob[er]t Sherbrooke to Lady Jackson, Lincoln Inn feilds, London , [16]93 (personal); Rich[ar]d R. Short, Lichf[iel]d, to Mrs. Margarett Griffith of Caraglwydd, at Carnarvon, 1774 (personal); Arch[ibald] Spark, London, to Mrs. Kathrine Lewys at her house near Northop, 1683/4 (personal ); John Tho[ma]s Stanley, Penrhos, to . . ., 1816 (the death of the writer's mother, Lady Stanley); Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Mrs. Margit Owen, Mold, 1761 (arrangements in connection with a court leet); Henry Swymmer and Edw[ ar]d Lloyd, Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor, 1784] at Eaton, 1756 (informing recipient that Mr. Swymmer (not the writer) would not take advantage of his privilege if the case [Grosvenor v. Swymmer] proceeded to trial); H. T. to . . ., 1683/4 (personal); Rob[er]t Tamberlain, Flint, to John Williams, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1763 (? legal matters); Maurice Trygarn, London, to . . ., 1669 (legal points relating to the outlawry of John Foulkes and others); H. Ussher to the Rev[eren]d Dr. W. Richardson, Portrush, near Coleraine [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Loyd of the Royal Society who was 'going to the Causeway in pursuit of natural history, thence to Ila and Staffa'); A. Vaughan to Miss Vaughan at Kensington, 1736 (personal); Evan Vaughan to John Vaughan, high sheriff of the county of Merioneth, 1670 ( legal); [? M.] Vaughan to [? Lady Mainwaring], undated (? the secret marriage of the writer's daughter); L. W., to Henry Lloyd near Bedford Row, London, 1745/6 (personal, soldiers quartered in the village and at Bromley ); W. Wake and John Spencer, Bombay [India], to Richard Edwards and Robert Nanny, 1747 (2) (the death of Hugh Howard and matters relating to the settling of his estate in India); John Wilkin, Office of Woods and Forests [London], to T. T. Mathew [? Mather], Pentrehobbin, Mold, 1830 (the purchase by Mr. Conway of encroachments on Soughton common, the sale of the tolls of Northop and the crown rents on the Wigfair estate); E. Bulk[ eley] Will[ia]ms, Baronhill [Anglesey], to Miss Griffiths at Carnarvon, undated (personal); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [3rd bart. after 1740], Downing Street [ ], to Hedd Lloyd at Havod ynos, 1738 (the loan of a chair to recipient who was suffering from gout), and to John Lloyd at Havodynos, 1743/4 (an approach to [Peregrine Bertie, 3rd] duke of Ancaster , ? on behalf of recipient, strained relations between the writer and the Ancaster family owing to his having inherited Wynnstay, concern about recipient's brother How[ar]d, the possibility of purchasing a commission ? for Howard, the writer's lack of influence with people in power since the success of the Denbigh petition, the advisability of deferring [the question of the commission] until they saw which of the competitors Lord [John] Carteret [2nd baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford, and later 2nd viscount Carteret and earl Granville] or Mr. [Henry] Pelham prevailed); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [4th bart.], Wynnstay, to . . ., 1774 (the writer's inability to visit the Vale owing to the dissolution of parliament, the decision of Sir Lynch [Salusbury] Cotton [4th bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh] not to offer himself for election [as member of parliament for the county of Denbigh] in the forthcoming election, the writer's hopes of securing 'the voice of this county', a request for support on election day 19 October); [Sir] W[atkin] W[illia]ms Wynn [? 5th bart.], to . . ., undated (2) (news of acquaintances, expectations of an heir at Coed Coch, hopes that Garthewin would follow suit, visits with Lord Darnley [? John Bligh, 4th earl of Darnley, co. Meath] to the tower on Cyrn y Brain, angles taken and observations made by ? Col[onel] [ ] Madge from the site of the tower, mention of Sir J[oseph] Banks, a report of a water spout above Rhiwedog); and Robert] Wynne, St. Asaph, to Hedd Lloyd at Havodunos [late 17th cent.] (enclosing a copy of the will of Catherine Vaughan of Hirdrevaig, co. Anglisey, dated 23 November 1691).

Five holograph letters from H[ugh] R[obert] Hughes from Kinmel Park, Abergele, to Henry Howard [? Colonel Henry Richard Lloyd Howard], [18]92-1909 (notes, in reply to queries, on John Vaughan of Caergai, his wife Margaret, dr. of Hedd Lloyd of Hafodunos, whom he married in 1698, the arms and some of the descendants of the said John and Margaret, Rowland Vaughan of Caergai 'a Welsh Poet of some eminence . . . born in 1560', Edward Lloyd of Tyddyn born in 1650 and his two wives, Sir George Wynne [1st bart. of Leeswood, co. Flint] and his wife Margaret Lloyd, an ? inscription at Penucha grin, the Jones family of Penucha grin, David Lloyd of Tyddyn, brother of John Lloyd of Wygfair, [mid 17th cent.], and the Coytmore family of Coytmore; and comments on the 1909 budget).

A volume containing a rental for the year 1661 of the demesne of Hauodynnos, and of lands in Llansanan [co. Denbigh] held by virtue of a lease granted by Mr. Rob[er]t Wynne of Dyffryn Aled to Mr. Henry Lloyd of Hauod ynnos, deceased; an account of rents received in respect of the demesne of Hauod ynnos and of lands in Llansanan aforesaid, and of rents received from Hauod ynnos tenants, May and Michaelmas 1661; accounts of money received [? from the sale of] horses, cattle, sheep, crops, etc., and of presents received, 1661; and a summary of accounts [? in respect of the Hafodunos estate] for the period 6 November 1661 to 9 May 1662 by Dauid Lewis.

A copy of The Gentleman's New Memorandum Book Improv'd or the Merchant's and Tradesman's Daily Pocket Journal for the year 1765, bearing the name of Howel Lloyd, Penbedw, on the outside upper cover. The manuscript entries, which were not made very regularly, refer to various payments made, to the covering of animals, etc.

A note book bearing on the outside upper cover the inscription 'Fees as Secretary to Chancelor of ye D[u]chy of Lancast[er]'. The contents include an account of fees received, 1706-1712, ?in connection with the office mentioned in the inscription, quotations from Seneca's two tragedies Medea and Hippolytus or Phaedra, and quotations from Juvenal's Satires, Nos. 1, 6, 8, 10 and 13.

A commonplace book containing prescriptions (mainly for ailments suffered by horses), recipes, accounts of wages received [?by a hired servant at Hafodunos], 1776-1805, a list of 'Mares coverd By Druggist in [17]87', and a few other miscellaneous memoranda.

Genealogical and biographical data relating to the Clough family of Plas Clough, co. Denbigh, and related families, including notes on Richard Clough [Elizabethan merchant, ob. 1570] extracted from Fuller's Worthies, with additional notes on his death, the burial of his heart and hand at Denbigh, and his coat of arms; a 'Pedigree of Clough of Lleweny Green in Com. Denbigh' stated to be 'From Harl[eian] Mss. folio 1971 entitled North Wales Pedigrees collected by Randles Holmes. Page 95 and continued by A. B. Clough', tracing the descent of the senior branch of the Cloughs of Plas Clough from Richard Clough of Denbigh [temp. Henry VIII] to the mid nineteenth century, and their connections with the families of Foulkes of Eriviatt, Lloyd of Havodunos, etc.; a pedigree chart showing the 'Descent of the Cloughs from the Powells of Glanywern [co. Denbigh] and their consequent half blood Relations'; a copy of an inscription on a tombstone in the parish church of Llandyrnog, co. Denbigh, commemorating the burial of Henry Powell of Glanywern aforesaid in 1672, and of his wife Elizabeth in 1691[/2]; and extracts from the parish register of Llandyrnog recording the birth of the seventeen children of the said Henry and Elizabeth Powell.

An account book containing 'An Account of the Creditors of the late John Lloyd, Esquire'; 'An Account of the Sales of Estates & Timber belonging to the late John Lloyd, Esquire' (including a sale of Wigfair timber, April 1817, a sale of the Mold estate, June 1817, and sales at St. Asaph, June 1817, and at Mold, August 1817); the account of W. Wynne with Richard Watkin Price, Esq., and the Reverend Richard Howard; 'An account of the Sales of Timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818'; and [the] 'Rev[ eren]d Richard Howard's acc[oun]t with the Representatives of ye late John Lloyd, Esqr.', 1818-1822. All these relate to the settlement of the affairs of John Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair subsequent to his death in April 1815.

An account book of the ?Hen (Haun, Hain) Fferm (Ferm) colliery [co. ] in which the Reverend John Conway Potter [who assumed the surname Conway in lieu of Potter circa 1825], the Reverend Dr. Richard Howard and Miss [ ] Lloyd appear to have had an interest, 1824-1832.

Accounts relating to the sale of [Wigfair and Hafodunos] timber and estates at St. Asaph and Mold in April, June, and August 1817, and to sales of timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818; and a copy of the Rev[eren]d Richard Howard's account 'with the Hafodunos and Wygfair sales', 1818-1821.

A copy of a poem entitled 'The Temple of Honour. An Heroic Poem', having the name R. Potter on the title page, and probably being by and in the hand of the Reverend Robert Potter.

A note book containing a narrative account of misunderstandings which had arisen between Mr. [ ] Lloyd on the one side, and Mrs. [ ] Tillard and Mrs. [ ] West on the other, during the period 1748-1750, dealing more specifically with 'Mr. Ll[oyd]'s reasons for not waiting upon Mr. T[illard]' s family when they came into the Country for the summer 1749'.

A draft holograph manuscript of [the Reverend Robert Potter's tract entitled An Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets particularly his observations on lyric poetry and the odes of Gray; [with] the ninth Pythian ode of Pindar translated, London, 1783], written to express the author's disagreement with some of the critical statements made by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson, particularly with regard to lyric poetry, in his biographical and critical work on English poets, The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works [London, 1781].

A copy of the sale catalogue of the library and scientific apparatus of John Lloyd of Wigfair ['The Philosopher'], entitled Bibliotheca Llwydiana. A Catalogue of the entire library (near ten thousand volumes) from the presses of Caxton, Wynhyn de Worde, Pynson, etc., and philosophical apparatus, late the property of John Lloyd, esq., LL.D., deceased . . . which will be sold by auction, without reserve, at his seat at Wygfair near St. Asaph, Denbighshire, on Monday, January 15th, 1816, and twelve following days . . . by Mr. Broster of Chester . . ., being an interleaved copy with manuscript entries recording the amount for which each item was sold.

A copy of Riders 1670 Brittish Merlin containing manuscript memoranda including a list of books bought in London, 26 March 1670, a notice of an attachment served 17 June 1670 on one of the servants of Sir Richard Wynne [?4th bart. of Gwydir], and a copy of the Latin inscription on the tomb of John Williams [lord keeper of the great seal and archbishop of York, in the church of Llandygai, co. Caernarvon].

Miscellaneous papers relating to mining matters, including a letter from John Wynne to Howell Lloyd at Havodynos [18th cent.] concerning the affairs of the Aled Level Mine; a memorial by C. B. Dyer, as agent of the Gwernymynydd Mines Company, to the lords of Mold, 31 March 1831, with regard to the drainage of mines and difficulties encountered in obtaining additional land for driving a deep level (addressed on the outside to the Rev[eren]d J[ohn] C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northop); an agreement, 1848, whereby the Rev[eren]d Richard Howard of Llanrhaiadr yn Cinmerch, co. Denbigh, granted to David Evans of the parish of Llandudno, and Evan Evans, Edward Evans, John Jones and George John Newton, all of Liverpool, mineral rights on Trecastell farm in the parish of Llangelynin, co. Carnarvon (draft copy); an account of payments in respect of the Trawsfynydd Mine, 1815-1817; an account of the sale of coal and slack at Argoed Colliery [ ] for the half year ending 26 June 1824; notes on a speltre furnace; accounts between the Llandidno Mine Company and Messrs. Roe and Company, smelters of copper ore, 1793-1801; two accounts - the Llandidno New Mine Co. in account with the proprietor of Mona mine in respect of copper ore delivered to the Mona smelting works, 1830-1831 (both are addressed on the dorse to Thomas Jones, mine agent, New Mine, Llandidno, and the first is accompanied by a covering letter from Evan Evans, Mona Lodge Office, January 1831); an account relating to the Trecastell [co. Caernarvon] mine, 1811-1812; and extracts from a letter from John Wynn of Gwedir [sic] [later Sir John Wynn, 1st. bart.] to [Ralph Eure, 3rd] lord Eure, [lord] president [of the Council] of Wales, 30 November 1607, and from an undated letter from the said John Wynn to Sir Thomas Middleton [Kt., of Chirk Castle], both relating to Anglesey mineral water and experiments in connection with the production of copper.

Seventy-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1771-1809.
They comprise letters from L'abbé Andreii, 1777 (personal); R. P. Arden, 1786 (legal and financial); Alexander Aubert, London, 1793-1800 (2) (personal); Mrs. D [ ] Aubert, Highbury House [Islington], 1799-1803 (3) (personal and social); L[ewis Bagot, bishop of] St. Asaph, St. Asaph, Blithfield, and Oxford Street, [London], 1793-1802 and undated (17) (the war against the French and tumults near Mold (1793), the death of [?the Reverend William Stodart] and proposals for filling his vacant preferments, namely Abergele, Bettws and a [prebendal stall] (1794), the appointment of a postmaster at [St. Asaph], the wretched condition of the parish of [?St. Asaph] - allowances to the poor being in arrears, roads neglected, etc., Mr. Jackson's presentation to the living of Abergele (1794), the government's measures to meet the grain shortage (1796), the renewal of recipient's lease of [ ] from the precentor [of St. Asaph], plundering in the neighbourhood of Mostyn (1797), the conduct of Mr. Fox and his friends in Parliament and the raising of supplies for carrying on the war (1797), the need for economy in the consumption of barley, oats and potatoes, and the 'high' state of the market in spite of economies and of the importation of grain (1801), the repeal of the Brown Bread Act, the King's success in filling departments of state and law after the secession of ministers (1801), 'dangerous tampering with Lord Penrhyn's Slate Quarries and amongst the Miners both in Anglesea and Flintshire' (1801), a bill to be introduced in the House of Commons concerning the conduct of the clergy (1802), appointments to the deanery of York and the chair of Hebrew at Christ Church [Oxford] (1802), the arrival [in London] of antiquities from Egypt (1802)); Thomas Baldwin, Hool, [?Cheshire], 1771 (description of a journey in North Wales – Festiniog, Bala, Talardd, Dinas Mouthy, with ascents of Arran Ben Llyn, Cader Idris and ?Arran Mouthy, notes on stratification); M[argaret] Bankes, Old Palace Yard, [London], [?daughter of John Wynne, bishop successively of St. Asaph and Bath and Wells], 1804 (the illness and death of her brother and the disposal of his estate, other family news); Mrs. Bankes, Duke Street, undated (personal and social); Miss [Sarah Sophia] Banks, Soho Square, [London], [sister of Sir Joseph Banks], 1787-1795 (4) (personal and family news, a request for a copy of Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen, and for help in procuring specimens of a Macclesfield ½[d] and a Cronebane ½[d]); J. Barff, Oswestry, 1795 (financial and legal matters); Daines Barrington, London, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, etc., 1772-1787 and undated (13) (personal news and news of acquaintances, instruments from Mr. Ramsden, a promise of Gothic and Runic alphabets and of an account of Elden Hole, [Derbyshire], proposed journeys by Mr. Banks to Iceland and by Mr. Forster to the South Pole (1772), a fire at Garden Court, London (1775), the height of Snowdon, the receiving of the two Forsters [Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, who had accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage] by the King and Queen (1775), the preparation by Forster [senior] of a specimen narrative [in connection with his voyage] for Lord Sandwich's approbation (1775), the arrival of the Gymnotus Electricus, a letter to Mr. Panton stating that Lloyd would be glad to have copies of the correspondence between Sir John Wynne of Gwedir and Sir Hugh Myddelton, Mr. Panton's kindness in allowing the writer to peruse certain Gwedir papers, Lord Bulkeley's improvements at Baron Hill, [Anglesey], an ascent of Mont Blanc (1787), Mr. Herschel's discovery of two satellites to the Georgium Sidus [Uranus], a request for the return of 'the MS. Memoirs of Owen Glendower', the returning of books, namely Milnes Dictionary, Hill's British Herbal, Watson's Chemistry, etc., a gift of a pamphlet ?Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S., to William Heberden, M.D., F.R.S., giving an Account of some Experiments made in North Wales to ascertain the different Quantities of Rain which fell in the same Time at different Heights [a copy of which is attached]); [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of] Portland, Whitehall, 1795 (representations made by Lloyd that troops should be quartered at Ruthin, the writer's suggestion to the Secretary at War that this was necessary in order to protect the county gaol where rioters were imprisoned); John ?Binnie, St. Asaph, 1809 (personal); J. Blackburn, St. James Street, [London], [1784] (personal); C[harles] Blagden, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], and [London], 1778-1796 and undated (4) (mathematical instruments at the college in Philadelphia including a very fine orrery, public lectures to be delivered in the town [of Philadelphia] (1778), the evacuation of Philadelphia by British forces and news of the war in America, letters by Mr. Mills relating to volcanic appearances in the Western Isles, the discovery of two comets by Miss [Caroline] Herschel and [Pierre Francois Andre] Mechain (1790), an acknowledgement of the receipt, on behalf of the Royal Society, of a copy of Edward Jones's The Prevention of Poverty (1796), news of electrical experiments); Lord and Lady de Blaquieres, Denbigh, 1798 and undated (2) (personal and social); Thomas Bolt, Lerwick, [Scotland], 1792 (relief of poverty caused in the area by the effects of bad crops and poor fishing, comments on the opinion held by certain people that the sun was visible for twenty four hours at the summer solstice); B. S. Booth, undated (a request for a ticket to attend debates at the House of Commons); Thomas Boydell, Trevellyn, 1794 (a lease of land on Mold mountain); Dr. William Brownrigg, Ormathwaite [?Cumberland], 1778-1780 (2) (Lloyd's trip to [Cumberland] to see the black lead mines, a request for a specimen of native lead from Anglesea); [Elizabeth Harriet Bulkeley, nee Warren,] Lady Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, [London], undated (personal); [Thomas James Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, lord] Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, Old Windsor, 1788-1801 and undated (10) (personal news, the tactics of the Opposition in parliament with regard to the issues arising out of the illness of the King [George III] (1788), [William] Pitt [the younger]'s defence of the King and his three parliamentary resolutions for meeting the constitutional crisis and creating a Regency (1788), Captain Williams's canvass of the county of Carnarvon (1790), 'adventures in Copper & Slate' on the writer's land by recipient, the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, talk of sending a fleet to the Baltic (1791), the situation in the East Indies (1791), a meeting with the Duchess of York, the imminence of a French attack upon the Electors of Treves and Mayence and the emmigrants at Coblentz [1791], the destruction of the Duke of Richmond's house at Privy Garden by fire, Sir Watkin Williams's appointment to the stewardship of the lordship of Denbigh and his appointment of Mr. Wynne of Plasnewydd as his deputy (1795), a request for support for Sir Robert Williams against Lord Penrhyn in the [parliamentary election for Carnarvonshire] (1795), the King's recovery from his illness, the writer's opinion that the King could not 'go on without either Pitt or Fox as Prime Minister', his disgust with the political manoeuvering [in parliament], the danger to the country, the unhappy state of parts of the county of Carnarvon (1801), a visit to Paris); [Peter Burrell, Baron] Gwydir [of Gwydir, Caernarvonshire], White Hall [London], 1798 (an invitation to an anniversary dinner of the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons); and Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss [Sarah] Ponsonby, Plas Newydd [Llangollen, 'The Ladies of Llangollen'], undated (social).

Miscellaneous papers including genealogical notes on the descendants of [the Rev.] Hugh Williams, D.D. [father of Sir William Williams ('Speaker Williams') and founder of the family of Wynn of Wynnstay]; a pedigree tracing the descent of the children of [the Rev.] Rich[ar]d Howard [rector of Denbigh, 1818-1843, and of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, 1826-1843] and Dorothea, his wife [née] Clough, from the aforementioned Hugh W[illia]ms; a pedigree headed 'The Carreglwyd Pedigree Copied at Carreglwyd [co. Anglesey] the 20th Sept. 1820' tracing the descent of John, William, Sarah and Barbara, children of the Rev. Rich[ard] Griffith, vicar of Carnarvon (Llanbeblig) [1746-1762], and Margaret, his wife [née Griffith of Carreglwyd], from Ednyvet Vychan and thence from 'Marchudd one of the 15 Tribes of North Wales'; a record of the births and christenings [at Llanbeblig] of John, Edw[ar]d, Emm [sic], W[illia]m and Sarah [children of the aforementioned Rev. Richard Griffith and Margaret, his wife], 1730-1737, and of the births, 1733-1734, of two other children of the said Richard and Margaret who were not christened; a pedigree tracing the descent of Maria Emma Elisabeth Conway [nat. 1840], only child and heiress of Rich[ar]d Trygarn Griffith [of Carreglwyd] and wife of Sir Chandos Stanhope Hoskyn Reade [8th Bart.], from Edward Griffith of Carnarvon, mercer [grandfather of the aforesaid Rev. Richard Griffith]; a copy of a memorial inscription to the Rev. William Griffith, son of the aforesaid Rev. R[ichard] Griffith, vicar of Carnarvon (Llanbeblig) [1762-1766], in the parish church of Frodsham, co. Chester; genealogical memoranda relating to the family of Powell of Glanywern in the parish of Llandyrnog, co. Denbigh, including a pedigree showing the 'Descent of the Cloughs from the Powells of Glanywern & their Consequent Half Blood Relations'; a copy of a memorial inscription to Howel Lloyd of Hafodunos and Dorothea, his wife; a pedigree (with armorial bearings) showing the parents, paternal grandparents, and children of the aforesaid Howell and Dorothea Lloyd; a record of the births and of the christenings in St. Mary's chapel, Carnarvon, 1772-1785, of Thomas, Emma, Margaret, Wynn, Richard Coytmor, Robert and Hugh, children of Richard Howard [of Carnarvon, ob. 1792] and Barbara, his wife; genealogical memoranda relating to Katherine of Berain and her descendants; a copy (? translation from Latin) of the memorial inscription to Sara Horsley, ob. 1805, wife of Samuel Horsley, bishop successively of St. Davids [1788-1793], Rochester [1793-1802], and St. Asaph [1802-1806]; a copy of an obituary notice in respect of Mrs. [Anne] Wynne, relict of John Wynne, bishop [successively of St. Asaph, 1715-1727, and] of Bath and Wells [1727-1743]; a draft of a memorial inscription to the Newborough family which was to be set up [in the parish church of Berkley, Somerset] in 1751; a pedigree tracing the descent of [the Rev.] Benjamin Conway Potter [who circa 1825 assumed the surname Conway in lieu of Potter] from Henry de Novoburgo, [cr. 1st] earl of Warwick [1088]; biographical notes on [the Rev.] Robert Potter, 1721-[1804], his father, grandfather and great grandfather; and papers relating to law suits in connection with a messuage and lands called Nant yr Helfa, parish of Llanyckill, Merioneth (second half of the seventeenth century).

Forty-three holograph letters from Eliza Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, at Hafodunos, etc., [17]82-1804 and undated (copious news of relatives and friends, accounts of visits to and from Carreglwyd, the vacant living of Aber, the loss of a vessel opposite Trevadog, the prevalence of ague in Anglesey, an accident to a mail coach on the bridge by Holyhead, the death of 'Shone Pedrog', Malltraeth enclosure (1788-1789), Mr. [Holland] Griffith's attendance at a Druid meeting, a riot at Beaumaris, parliamentary election (1796), a recent dreadful duelling in the writer's area, a reference to Barmouth as a fashionable bathing place (1796), a warrant issued against Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddved, a tax of 3/- in the £, Paul Panton's health and reported arrest for £7,000, the enrolment of the Anglesey militia, a shortage of water, comments on the Irish revolt (1798), the death of Mrs. [Mary] Griffith of Berw, the sad situation of the Fleet (1800), the draining of the mine, the prospect of a bad winter as the result of the farmers' refusal to sell their stock at home (1800), the removal of Mr. Sparrow from the Custom House at Beaumaris, current high prices, shocking perjury at the Anglesey Assizes, rumours of a French invasion, a visit to Puffing [sic] Island, a visit from the famous harper Will Edwards, a meeting at Berw about the embankment) (together with an addition by C[atharine] Lloyd).

Fifty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1767-1815.
They comprise letters from John Call, Whiteford House, [Cornwall], 1799 (a request for help in obtaining returns of baptisms and burials in four parishes in Flintshire in connection with a proposed population check); Arch[ibald] Campbell, Edinburgh, 1801 (the death of [John Campbell], Lord Stonefield); Phoe[be] Campbell, Darlington, Inveraray and Edinburgh, etc., 1791-1796 (6) (her marriage to Lord Stonefield, personal health, detailed accounts of her social activities in Scotland, financial matters); Mr. Champion, Scrivelsby, [Lincolnshire], 1795 (personal); Mr. Chapeau, [London], 1803 (3) (personal, the eagerness and willingness 'this great City is in to meet the first consul and his barbarous Troops', the surrender of Tobago, the possibility of peace with Bonaparte, a fire in Frith Street [London]); Mrs. Anne Cleaver [wife of the bishop of St. Asaph], Bruton Street, [London], and St. Asaph, 1815 and undated (3) (personal, the slight damage to Sir Joseph and Lady Banks's house in Soho Square, [London], mob violence in parts of London, comments on Peter Roberts [of Llanarmon]'s book on Cambrian Customs [The Cambrian Popular Antiquities or An Account of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales, etc., London, 1815], the bad news from America); W[illiam Cleaver, bishop of] St. Asaph, [1806x1815] (a request to purchase brandy at a sale at Vron iw); Roger B[utler] Clough, Eriviatt, 1793 (the appointment of overseers of the poor at Llangerniew, [Denbighshire], a riot in the Hope and Mold neighbourhood and intervention by the military, a request to recipient to call at the First Fruits and Tenths offices [in London] on behalf of the writer and some of his friends to pay sums due in respect of the canonries of Rad[ulphi de] Berkinhead [sic] and Arthuri Bulkeley [in the cathedral church of St. Asaph] and the benefices of Thakeham, [Sussex], Llanelidan, [Denbighshire], Halkin, [Flintshire], and Ashington, [?Sussex]); Th[omas] Clough, Roger B[utler] Clough and others [?justices of Denbighshire], Denbigh, 1797 (times and places for training and exercising the supplementary militia [of Denbighshire] and the appointment of an adjutant and paymaster); Thomas Colby, Abergeley, 1806 (mathematical calculations relating to 'the Ruthlan Base or any other part of the Survey'); R. S. Cotton, Combermere Abbey, 1783 (a lease to the writer's father of the minerals in the lordship of [ ] and the granting of tack notes for digging near Llanrhaiader); Tho[ma]s Cotton, Treasury, [London], 1814 (a request for information concerning the heir at law of Mr. Richard Lloyd of Gray's Inn); Henry Cowper, Old Palace Yard, [London], 1811 (arranging a day convenient for both to be present to be called to the Bench of the Middle Temple); Will[ia]m Cox, Captain and Assistant Quarter Master General, Liverpool, 1804 (5) (the payment of expenses incurred in constructing a beacon and but at St. George and the payment of people stationed there, the installing of tubes at St. George Beacon to point in the direction of adjoining beacons at Ormshead and at Gop); Geo[rge] Cumming, London, 1812 (personal, papers read at the Royal Society, the writer's introduction and visits to the reading room of the British Museum, 'this institution truly does honour to the nation', a lecture on the properties of metals by Mr. [Humphry] Davy on the day before he was knighted, the sale of Mackinlay's shop); Foster Cunliffe, Acton Park, [17]88 (apologies for being unable to provide a copy of the rules of the Society of Royal British Bowmen); Edw[ard] Davies, Wrexham and Newmarket, 1803-1805 (2) (horticultural notes, an account of Wrexham fair and a murder committed at the time, an enquiry on behalf of Mr. Davies of Broughton [?Mr. Whitehall Whitehall Davies] concerning the whereabouts of pictures of Mr. Mutton Davies and his lady which had formerly been hanging at Llanerch and were supposed to have been 'drawn by Sir Peter Lilly'); Edw[ard] Davies, Mostyn, 1806 (the Porthymaen estate); J. Davies, London, 1782 (legal); W. Davies, Highbury House, [Islington], 1805 (the bringing home of the body of [Alexander Aubert] and the funeral); Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'], 1803 (the Ystymcolwyn coat of arms, the arms and inscription on the tomb of Meriel Williams, wife of John Williams of Ystymcolwyn, at Myfod, escutcheons in Myfod church); W[hitehall] W[hitehall] Davies, Whittington and Broughton, 1803-1812 (2) (arrangements relating to ? the loan or sale of books, a copy of the catalogue of the Llanerch library compiled in 1778 in the writer's possession [possibly the copy now designated NLW MS 17126D in the National Library of Wales, formerly Gwysaney MS 54], letters from Charles I to the writer's ancestor); Mr. Deluc, 1775-1795 (2) (personal); Rob[er]t Dodd, Terrick, 1767 (personal); Jon[as] Dryander, Soho Square, [London], 1783-1809 (6) (personal news and news of acquaintances, disagreements at the Royal Society (1783), the death of Mrs. Banks [Sir Joseph Banks's mother] in 1804, lack of news of [Frederik] Hornemann [the explorer]); and [Sir] Tho[ma]s [created baron] Dundas [of Aske, Yorkshhire, in 1794], Arlington Street [London] and Upleatham [Yorkshire], 1791-1798 (5) (personal news, preparations for a journey to the Shetlands, the discovery of copper on the race ground near Richmond and at Aske, the results of assays made of the copper ore found at Aske).