File PEC1/2. - Letters to Col. William and Mary Owen,

Letters to Col. William Owen and his wife Mary, 1634-1670. Correspondents of note include Richard Anwyl discussing, among the more common topics, the post of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, other royal appointments and the union of Scotland 1669; George [Griffith], bishop of St Asaph, on appointing a suitable vicar and schoolmaster at Oswestry, 1664; Owen Griffith on hostility to the Dutch, seizure of commodities and a frigate accident in London, 1667; and Robert [Morgan], bishop of Bangor, on a preferment to the living of Llanegan in Llyn, 1669. Other correspondents include Thomas Mackworth, 1663, John Mordaunt, 1655, and Penelope Owen, 1634, and further, general topics are: events in parliament; estate business in Shropshire, Penychen and Hitchin, 1655-1669; sequestration of the estate of Sir John Owen, 1659; the taking of stone from the demolished town walls of Oswestry, 1668; and obtaining a college place for William Owen the younger.