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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.

A composite volume (containing items (a)-(h) and (i) a-o) comprising:
(a) Accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the issues of North Wales by Simon Thelwall, 1553-1554 (see also Wynnstay MSS 92 and 93) (ff. 2-64);
(b) Rental of Richard, duke of York, of his lordship of Rhos, Rhufoniog and Ceinmeirch, for the year ending Michaelmas 1437. The following place-names are included: Commote of Ceinmeirch. Property in Segrwyd, Cefn Main, Garthennwch, Oakwood/Oakenwood, Prion, Cader, Brynbagl, Cerenyfed, Havod lom, Postyn, Sgeibion, Bachymbyd, Llewesog, Caeserwyd, 'Glyfferowe', Cilcedig, Kilford, manor of Kilford, and manor of Ystrad, all in p's Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch and Llanynys, co. Denb. Commote of Is Aled. Property in 'Alba Firma', 'Campus iuxta vivarium', Denbigh Fforensis, Graba, Lleweni, 'Newburgh', 'Poleflatte', Ystrad Cynon, Bodeiliog, Galltfaenan, Brynysgub, Gwenynog Wyntus, Gwenynog Canon, Nantglyn sanctorum, Nantglyn Canon, Erifiad, Taldrach, Twysog, Penporchell, Llechryd, Berain, Talybryn, Bodysgawen, Maes-y-cae, Dincadfel, Carwedfynydd, and Prys, in parishes Cerrigydrudion, Denbigh, Henllan, Llanefydd, Nantglyn, Pentrefoelas and Tir Ifan, co. Denb. Commote of Uwch Aled. Incomplete, but including property in Deunant, Grugor, Chwilbren, Pennantaled, Penglogor, and Petrual in p's Llansannan and Llanfair Talhaearn, co. Denb (ff. 66-89);
(c) Rental of the properties of Eubule Thelwall in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, 1495-1496 (ff. 92-96);
(d) Rental of the estate of Eubule Thelwall, 1491-1492, in the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd (ff. 98-100);
(e) Rental of lands in the lordship of Denbigh, let to farm by Walter Blount, surveyor there, to diverse persons whose terms were to begin at Michaelmas 1538 (ff. 103-105);
(f) Rental of the demesne lands of Edward Thelwall, dated 25 March 1589, and a rental of tenements and houses in Ruthin, co. Denb., belonging to [Jane Thelwall, wife of Edward Thelwall] and Gabriel Goodman, her son, dated 22 Nov. 1593. Note. This document, while it agrees well with Dean Goodman's will, does not entirely substantiate the particulars given by J. E. Griffith in Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire Families, pp. 204, 274. and Richard Newcome in A Memoir of Gabriel Goodman, Appendix S (ff. 108-112);
(g) Rental of the commote of Collion, including property in t's Dyfanner and Ysgeifiog in p. Derwen, p. Clocaenog, t's Maesmaencymro, Trefechan and Bryncaredig in p. Llanynys, t's Bodangharad and Cilgroeslwyd in p. Llanfwrog, p's Efenchtid and Gyffylliog, all in co. Denb., n.d. [?1551x1600];
(h) Account roll of William de Melton, chamberlain of Chester, from 7 Feb. 1300/1 (when the counties of Chester and Flint were granted to Prince Edward [II]) to Michaelmas 1301, including receipts and payments for Cheshire and co. Flint. Payments in Cheshire include those to Chester Abbey, the nuns and the Dominican friars of Chester, the Hospital of St John, the lepers at Boughton, Stanlow Abbey, Chester Castle, and a mark to William of Northampton for painting a picture of the murder of Thomas a Becket by the four Knights, for the smaller chapel near the great hall in Chester Castle. Places mentioned in the receipts for Cheshire include the city of Chester, the demesne manors of Macclesfield and Overton, the towns of Northwich and Middlewich, and lands in Handbridge. Receipts from the county of Flint include: revenues from the three commotes of Englefield (Coleshill, Prestatyn and Rhuddlan); the towns of Flint, Rhuddlan, Caerwys, Ewloe, Coleshill and Vaynol [in p. Bodelwyddan]; the inhabitants in the pass of Bach-y-Graig [p. Tremeirchion]; income from escheated lands in Englefield, the miners of Holywell, the mills of Trelanwyd and Picton [p. Llanasa]; the common pleas of the county court of Flint held before the justiciar of Chester; and the payment of 'ebediw', 'tolcester' and other payments, services, customs, etc. Payments in co. Flint include accounts of the expenses in making crossbows for the castles, and small works at Flint and Rhuddlan castles are also stated in detail. Endorsed: 'Compotus Camerarie Cestrie De Anno Primo' in a contemporary hand and 'Chamberlains Acct Chester' in a modern hand; commission of the new justiciar, dated 12 April 1301; appointment of Melton as a chamberlain, dated 17 April 1301; the auditors' commission; dated 1 May 1303; and acquaintance of Melton, dated 21 Aug. 1303. For notes on, and transcript of the account-roll, see the appendix to Cheshire in the Pipe Rolls, vol. 92 (1938) of the publications of the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire;
(i) Rentals: i(a) The rent of Eubule Thelwall for lands, burgages etc., in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(b) The rent of Edward Thelwall in the town of Ruthin and the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd, late of Symon Thelwall, his grandfather, and Eubule Thelwall, his father, as it appears in a rental made in 1475; i(c) Note of allowances in Eubele Thelwall's rental, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(d) Eubule Thelwall's rental, n.d. [?1450x1500]; i(e) The chief rent of the burgage lands and tenements of Eubule Thelwall in Ruthin and Dyffryn Clwyd, 1493; i(f) Edward Thelwall's rental, 1541; i(g) Rental of the same, April 1561. Two copies. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(h) Rental of the same, 1562. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(i) Rental of the same, 1564. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(j) Rental of the same, 1565. [Edward Thelwall's rental]; i(k) Rental, [?1570], including tenants who pay the Queen's Rent; i(l) Two sheets (one incomplete) of rentals written by Simwnt Fychan, 1575-6, in the commotes of Colion, Dogfeiling, and Llannerch, and in Ruthin and Llanfwrog, co. Denb; i(m) A mutilated rental, date missing, [?1501x1600], but it seems to fall here; i(n) Eight sheets containing rentals of the Thelwall property from 1580 to 1585. Simwnt Fychan became a tenant in Ruthin in 1581, in place of one Harry Jones who held the tenement when Simwnt Fychan wrote the rentals of 1575-6; and i(o) Two fragments of a rental, [?1501x1600].

Literary, legal and historical manuscripts, together with volumes of pedigrees and account books, including the account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, treasurer of Queen Henrietta Maria.

A gathering of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, comprising the prologue and the text of the end of Book IV, chapter VII. The verso and recto of f. 3 are blank, but there is no lacuna in the text, so that the scribe must have turned over two leaves. The writing suggests the end of the 14th century as the date of the transcription, and a note at the beginning shows that the manuscript belonged to Reginald de Wolstone, a canon of Hereford. This Reginald died about 1411. The paper provides some excellent examples of the bunch of grapes watermark which is sometimes dated as late as 1450, or even later.

This is a composite volume containing: an index by William Maurice to the Laws of Hywel Dda; Adversaria Historico Britannica, extracts from a large manuscript of the Bruts by John Jones, apparently Peniarth MS 264, the books of Plasyward and other old manuscripts which are not named, from Brutus to the time of Ifor and Ynyr; a fifteenth century copy of an extent of the lordship of Chirkeslond made in the 15th year of Richard II (This extent is said to be of the lordship of Oswestry and appears as such in the catalogue in spite of the thickness of eight inches which is there given. It is here broken up into two parts by the insertion of a copy of a grant of customs, 2 April 1571, but it appears to be quite complete. The error of regarding it as a survey of Oswestry may have arisen from a note which appears at the end of the text recording its transfer by Dd Edmunds, receiver, to Thomas Edwards, surveyor, of the lordship of Oswestry); chronological extracts from Welsh chronicles; a copy with translation into English by William Maurice in 1672 of Gutto'r Glyn's cywydd to Sir Roger Kynaston, and copies of the following cywyddau: Tudur Aled to Sir Thomas Kynaston, Gutto'r Glyn to the Earl of Pembroke, and Sion Ceri to Humphrey Kynaston; William Maurice's letter on Brennus addressed to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt; 'Cambropapismus Enervatus & Triumphatus per Tyronem quendam Succenturiatum Evangelicae Militise, Cambrobritanum, AD 1653' - criticisms by William Maurice of a work concerning the due time and place for worship which appears to have been written by Dr Griffiths and translated into Welsh by Ric: Jervis [These were presumably Dr George Griffith, rector of Llanymynech, the antagonist of Vavasor Powell, and bishop of St Asaph after the Restoration, and Richard Jervis, vicar of Llansilin, that is, William Maurice's own parish. It purports to be a draft of a work which he intended to publish, and has the following 'imprint':- 'Lansilin. Printed by Martin Mar=temple & Haly Mock=holydayes for Oliver Cancellor=criticus & Erasmus Altarmastix & are to be sould at their Anti=missall Shop at ye signe of the Holy Misselltoe in ye geniculation=Crosse=Street, over against ye Clero=druid's Consecrated Oake in Pater=noster=lane']; 'Tystiolaethau Tadau ac Athrawon iawn=grediawl hen a Newydd am Demlau a Dyddiau gwylion dan y Testament Newydd', an appendix or a sequel by William Maurice to the preceding work; copy of a chronicle in English from the Flood to Edward the Confessor; excerpts from Thomas Philpott's Villare Cantianum; notes on Speed's Chronicle; criticisms of Camden; the heraldic arms of a large number of Welsh families; and extracts from the New Testament arranged under the titles of Law and Gospel.

The laws are preceded by a calendar in the same hand; the first folio contains accounts and astronomical memoranda, and the last folio contains poetry by Robin Ddu, Rhys Vardd and Taliesin, in a later hand. In addition to the laws are examples of pleadings taken from Carmarthenshire and proverbs. There are marginal notes by William Maurice of Llansilin and others.

Latin idioms and phrases with their equivalents in English; a dictionary of classical proper names; and notes on Latin Grammar. Some of the lists of phrases were compiled in 1613, but the greater part of the manuscript is later. The following note occurs on the last folio: 'Watkin Kyffin is my name and with my pen I wroate the same, and if my pen [ha]d benne better I would amend it every letter witness to the same Edward Moris and Hughe Blodwell and more if needs be'.

A collection of maternal descents of Welsh families mainly of the north east of the Principality. The pedigrees are arranged in two columns to a page and are written in black ink, with the word 'Mam' and the chief name in red. On many pages shields have been outlined in pencil but none has been filled in.

A continuation of the register of documents relating to the lordship of Caurs.

A continuation of the register of documents relating to the lordship of Caurs. On pp. 36-37 there is an account of the division of the hundreds of Montgomery, 27 Henry VIII.

Copies of legal tracts including a 16th century copy of a treatise, in French, on Forest laws. The treatise, which was composed after 1390, takes the form of an exposition of the Charter of the Forest of November 1217, and the opening words of each section of that statute are quoted in the text. (See also MS 50). This is followed by thirty questions, with answers, on ecclesiastical law, mainly concerning plurality and residence in benefices; 'Mayster Lambertes treatyse of the high courtes of Justice in England & especiallye of the Chauncerie & of the lord Chauncellor yt judgeth there, 1584' (Mayster Lamberte is probably William Lambarde, 1536-1601, the historian of Kent); 'The recognition of the high and sacred authority of the supremacy investid in our most gracious soueraigne ladie Elizabeth ... delivered in the open sessions holden at xc wth the ordinary charge the 2 of Octobr 1593' (This charge also may the work of William Lambarde); 'A breef note of the chardge of Sr Jon. Brydgeman, made at Ludlow the 22 of Januarye, 1635'; and a copy of a cywydd marwnad by Sion Kein (probably in his autograph) to Roger Kynaston, 1641.

A register of deeds and miscellaneous documents relating to the lordship of Caurs.

Accounts of the receipt by Simon Theloal of the arrears of the issues of north Wales; receipts of issues and mises in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire, Caernarvonshire, Anglesey and Merioneth in 1555-1556; account of money received by Simon Thelwall of the chamberlain of north Wales, and of disbursements made by him at the chamberlain's bidding; list of collectors of the second payment of a mise in Bromfield and Yale with their charges; fees and annuities paid by Simon [Thelwall] for the year ending Michaelmas 1555; and the account of Simon Thelwall, made to Sir John Salesbury, knight, of receipts for the year 1555-1556. Simon Thelwell, the writer of this manuscript, as well as MS 93 and section (a) of MS 86, was probably the son of Richard Thelwall of Plas y Ward. He was an MP for Denbighshire in 1553, 1563, and 1571, and high sheriff for the same county in 1572.
Among the loose papers in the volume are: (a) Receipt from Lanselot Alforde, porter of the Castle of Chirk, for £7.12.0 being two years' fee, paid by Simond Thelwall on behalf of Sir John Salesbury, knight, general receiver of north Wales, [1555]; (b) Receipt from John More for an annuity from the same source, 24 March 1555/6; (c) Receipt from Morgan Lloyd on behalf of the Earl of Penbrok, 1 April 1555; and (d) Inventory of the stuff remaining in the Exchequer at Caernarfon in Oct. 1555, after the death of Lewes Owen. This Lewes Owen, who was a baron of the Exchequer and vice-chamberlain of north Wales, was the victim of the vengeance of Gwylliad Cochion Mawddwy.

Accounts of arrearages received by Simon Thelwall that were depending in the receivers' accounts for the year ending at Michaelmas 2 & 3 Philip & Mary, receipts of issues, and mises, 1556, money received of Sir John Salesbury and of others to his use, 1556, money paid by Simon Thelwall to the use of Sir John Salesbury after 1 May 1556, money paid into the receipt of the exchequer, fees and stipends paid after Easter 1556, and an account made to Sir John Salesbury of all the receipts of Simon Thelwall from 20 April 2 & 3 Philip & Mary, until 20 April following.

Account of receipts and disbursements at the exchequer of North Wales, 3 & 4 Philip & Mary, 1556-1557; and arrears pending in the account of Sir John Salesbury, Michaelmas 1557.