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Letter, 5 June 1731, from Watkin Williams Wynn to [William Herbert], duke of Powis, concerning a grant of land for a market house in Llanvair [?Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd or ?Llanfair Caereinion].

The poll book of the Denbighshire election of 1741, the two candidates being Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and John Myddelton of Chirk Castle. The book gives the names of all the voters, the freehold in respect of which they voted and their place of residence. A note (incomplete), in a different hand, has been inserted at the end of the list of voters and relates to "an illegal return" by William Myddelton, sheriff, who was consequently sent to Newgate prison; opposite this note a contemporary print has been pasted which shows the sheriff in Newgate. Two letters, dated 24th October 1739, from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn to Edward Maddocks have been inserted into the book.

An account book kept by Richard Wynne, Garthewin, attorney, and secretary on the Brecknock circuit of the Court of Great Sessions, together with a letter from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn dated December 1740.