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As no. 11.

He desires that their business may be finished as soon as recipient promised or sooner.

As no. 16. He hopes by the appointed time [that] all things will be satisfactorily performed by them both. According to recipient's command he sends the enclosed [missing].

(I) Promissory Note of William Williams to pay £3,000 to the use of the King on or before 1 July next. (ii) 1686, June 22 Receipt of Charles Duncombe for the said £3,000. Endorsed: Note of contents [of. no. 33(ii)].

Warrant to deliver to William Williams no. 31 he having paid the fine and executed to the King a release of errors in the judgement given against him (no. 34).

(I) July 17 Ellis Lloyd, Inner Temple, to William Williams at his lodgings in Monmouth. Since his last he has been hunting after a warrant to be signed by the King to enter satisfaction on record which part he thought would have been acted upon by Grayham and Burton but he understood that they or one of them said it was none of their business and that it was a dead cause. He waited upon Mr Shaw who sent him from the Lord Treasurer to Grayham and Burton and they sent him to the Attorney General who sent him to Mathew Johnson who drew it and so he brought it back to Mr Grayham who has carried it this day to Hampton Court for the King's hand. (ii) 1686, July 20 He is to inform recipient that he has been this day with Mr Graham who told him that he had delivered the warrant to the Lord Treasurer who was to carry it to the King to Windsor on Sunday. Recipient can have his bond when a release of errors has been drawn and signed by recipient.

He has nothing to add to his last but he hopes to have an answer to recipient's letter from Sir Samuel Astree by Wednesday and they say that my Lord Treas[urer] [Rochester] will stop to London for 2 days next week which should effect recipient's business with more ease. He would like a line before recipient's departure how it is with Sir Richard Middleton who they say is ill in town. Endorsed: 'Cos. Ellis Lloyds letter'.

Contemporary Transcript, with annotations, of a case of scandalum magnatum heard before the Court of Exchequer between Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, plt., and Thomas Starkey, esq., deft., a member of the Cheshire grand jury which had presented the plt. as being disaffected and had recommended that he should be bound over to keep the peace. Note: Williams may have acquired this transcript because he faced a similar charge in 1686. cf. NLW Wynnstay MSS. C21, C32, C38-9, C46 and NLW Coedymaen Papers, Group 1, 35-7.

Petition of Sir John Thompson to Lawrence [Hyde], Earl of Rochester, Lord High Treasurer, praying him to stay legal proceedings against the petitioner for non-payment of a fee of £1,095 payable upon the conferring of his knighthood in 1673. Draft [in Williams's hand].

List of causes [? respited and of those requiring the attendance of counsel] at the court of King's Bench. Endorsed: Legal notes apparently relating to quo warranto.

Notes of Sir William Williams for his argument in the cause of Dod v Burrows as to whether the latter ought to have liberty to try his title to an estate at law notwithstanding former orders and judgements. Superscribed: 'Dodd v Burroughs H of Lords Bar'.

Notes by Sir William Williams for his argument in the cause between the Duchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bath and notes of the opinion of the Lord Keeper [Somers]. Endorsed: 'My notes taken at a pro hearing in July 1693'.

Draft Opinion of Sir William Williams that the court of Wales and the Marches was abolished in 1688 but that the office of the President of the Council was not abolished. Endorsed 'Copy of my opinion [missing] & Draught of my opinion per President of Wals [sic] but no true Copy 10 Jan. 93 intended pro Earle Mansfield'.

Draft Petition of Lady Elizabeth Gerard to William III praying that she be admitted a tenant to the estate of her late husband, which estate, became vested in the King after the outlawry of her husband.

Reports of conferences held between both House of Parliament concerning the 'Bill of Impositions on foreign Commodities' and especially whether the Lords had any right to alter any 'Aids' granted to the King by the Commons. Endorsed on no. 78: 'Commons severall Conferences between the Lords and Comons in the Parliament 13 Car. 2' [sic] [cf. Commons Journal, IX, 1667-87, pp. 233-44]. Note: All the endorsements in this section are in Williams' hand.

Address from the House of Commons to Charles II beseeching him to make strict alliances as may secure his kingdoms and the Spanish Netherlands. Endorsed: 'first Address pro Alliances'. Copy.