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Papers of Sir William Williams, mainly legal papers, 1685-1693; political papers, 1680-1698; and papers relating to, or collected by his ancestors or descendants, 1567-1812. The legal papers include papers relating to the trials of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 1677, Algernon Sidney, 1683, his own trials for a scandalum magnatum brought by James II and the Earl of Peterborough, 1685-1686, and the trial of the Seven Bishops, 1688.

Estate and family records, 1183-1957, of the Wynn and Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, Denbighshire. The archive includes a group of architectural drawings, c. 1770, by James Byres; a group of early charters and deeds, 1183-1676, from the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Marcella (Ystrad Marchell) near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, and elsewhere; antiquarian, legal and literary manuscripts; account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, Treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1627-1649; manorial records relating to manors and boroughs in Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1364-1895 (1934-40 and 1952 deposits); parliamentary election papers for Anglesey, Cardigan (county and borough), Denbighshire, Flintshire and Montgomeryshire, 1621-1883; family and estate correspondence, including part of that of Sir William Williams (1634-1700), Speaker of the House of Commons; rentals and account books, 1300-1925 (preserved in an almost unbroken series from the time of Sir William Williams); over 5000 title deeds and documents, [pre-1290]-[c. 1910], mainly relating to properties in the six North Wales counties and Shropshire, including records for Glascoed and Llanforda, Llwydiarth, Llangedwyn and Glanllyn, Plas-y-Ward, Rhiwgoch and Mathafarn, estates acquired either by marriage or purchase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; together with papers relating to administration of the estates, 1573-1946; family papers, 1499-1913, county and central government administration papers, 1608-1880; two discrete groups of Much Wenlock estate records, 1534-1860, and Nantcriba estate records, 1381-1680; and various maps. There is an additional group of papers relating to the Wynnstay estate which came from the office of Longueville Gittins solicitors, Oswestry, dated 1582-1957.

Miscellaneous holograph letters and documents including letters, 18 January, 1667/8 and 15 August, 1668, relating to an action on behalf of [John] Morris and [Robert] Clayton for the recovery of iron at Pembroke; two letters, 16 May - 1 June, 1668, to [John] Morris or [Robert] Clayton relating to the lading of cinders; a covenant, 30 September, 1679, for the observance of an award of Sir Edward Mansell, bart, and Bussy Mansell concerning the purchase of properties in Ewenny, Colwinston, and Llangan, Glamorgan; two recommendations, 18 May-26 June, 1687, signed by Henry Somerset, 1st duke of Beaufort, of persons fit to be put into the commission of the peace for the counties of Gloucester, Monmouth, Denbigh, Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Brecknock; a letter, 7 June, 1687, from William Herbert, 1st marquis of Powis, to [George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem] (recommending the appointment of a Clerk of the Peace for Montgomeryshire); a letter, 16 September, 1688, from [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams ['Speaker Williams'] from Glascoed, 'near Oswestry', to [George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem] (the forthcoming parliamentary elections for Anglesey, Wallingford, etc.); papers, 1736, 1745, 1756, relating to the Lloyd family of Alltycadno, Carmarthenshire; an attested copy of the will, 15 June, 1782, of George Philipps of Coedgaing, Carmarthenshire; etc.

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.

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.

Autograph letters and copies of letters from Edward Lhuyd to the Reverend John Lloyd, Ruthin, David Lloyd, Blaenyddol, Richard Mostyn, Penbedw, and others, 1685-1708; a list of plants observed on Aran Benllyn and Snowdon, 1682; a short Irish-Latin-Welsh vocabulary, and a copy of Lhuyd's 'parochial queries'; miscellaneous letters, including autographs of Susannah Puleston, 1678, John Myddelton, 1713, Will: Gruffith of Llyne, 1660 (with Welsh sermon notes), B. Bulkeley, H. Egerton, M. Price, Margarett Coytmore, Thomas Pennant, John Anstis, etc.; the opinion of Sir Thomas Powys on the will of Owen Jones of Braichybib, 1687; and papers relating to the fishery of Dysynni, with an opinion by Sir William Williams, 'Speaker Williams'.