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- 1 September 1646. (Creation)
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ii, 2 ff. ; 330 x 205 mm. and less.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr I[fan] Kyrle Fletcher; London; Purchase; January 1952
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Autograph letter, dated 1 September 1646, from William Foxwist, Recorder of St Albans, Hertfordshire, to his mother, Mrs Ellen Wynne, at Caernarfon, mainly containing instructions for the management of his estate in Caernarvonshire (ff. 1-2; text on f. 1 recto-verso).
Added in an eighteenth-century hand is a biographical note relating to Foxwist and his wife (f. 2). A few pencil annotations, [?late 19 cent.], have been added to the letter (f. 1 recto-verso), with a note in the same hand on the accompanying leaf (f. i).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16573D.
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Name access points
- Foxwist, William, 1610-1673 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Foxwist, William, 1610-1673 -- Family. (Subject)
- Wynne, Ellen, active 1610-1646. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2006 and January 2015.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;