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The file comprises letters by by John Wynne Griffith, 1783-1832, to his mother, Jane, his wife, Jane, son, George, and various acquaintances, on the subjects of social contact with Miss Wynne (presumably Jane), processions in London for proclamation of peace, 1783, botany and introduction to Sir Joseph Banks, 1783, 1806, fortifications at Portsmouth, request for a letter of introduction for his son, Thomas, outings to the theatre in London, 1807, enclosure and encroachments, 1807, [1818]- 1822, trusteeship of Plasnewydd estate, 1822-1823, financial burdens on his own estate, 1822, riotous elections, 1826, spa treatment for ill health; and a letter by John Griffith to an Oswestry lawyer, 1799, on financial problems.

The series comprises letters to John Wynne Griffith of Garn, 1784-1833, many of them from creditors, lawyers and the family of Robert Watkin Wynne concerning legal and financial problems of the Plasnewydd estate trust, 1805-1822. Other, numerous correspondents include: [Sir] John Bayley, 1830, Robert and Charlotte Myddelton Biddulph, 1802-1811, 1820, William Cleaver, Bishop of Bangor, 1806, John Heaton, 1809-1822, Dr David Hughes of Jesus College, Oxford, 1806-1815, Lord Kirkwall, 1805-1813, John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1791, Robert Myddleton, 1815, Lord Orkney, 1810, on the following recurrent topics: business of the Denbigh burgesses; commons and enclosures; the Western Denbighshire Local Militia, especially the court martial of Captain John Davies in 1813, and non-payment of the Denbigh Foresters Yeoman Cavalry; presentation of an inscribed silver vase to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1815-1816; military career of Thomas Griffith in India and the East Indies, and recovery of Java prize money after his death; careers of J.W.G.'s other sons; Denbigh borough and parliamentary elections; estate business and land conveyances; the contemporary political and social scene. Further correspondents are: Charlotte and Beriah Botfield, 1819-1822, on natural history, high society gossip and schooldays at Harrow; Lord Dinorben, 1832-1833, arranging a civic dinner and ceremony to enter the Duke of Sussex's name in the Denbigh Corporation books; John Lloyd of Glyn Nannau, 1808-1815, regarding the Garthmeilio estate; William Davies Shipley, Dean of St Asaph, 1803-1820, concerning application of the Poor Law in St Asaph and Rhuddlan, rights of common and enclosures on Rhuddlan Marsh, death of Conway Shipley; S. Thompson, 1822, reporting on Mrs Botfield's health; John Wilkin, 1822-1828, on crown rents; John Copner Williams, regarding elections and alterations to the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Sessions, 1806-1829; Sir Watkin and Charles Williams Wynn, 1815-1833, mainly on property tax and shooting rights. -- The series also contains several letters of significant botanical and horticultural importance from [Heneage Finch], Earl of Aylesford, 1799, [Sir] Joseph Banks, 1794, William Bingley, 1798, Hugh Davies, 1801, James Dickson, 1796, John Fenton, 1830, Edward Hasell, 1794, James Hunter, 1797-1820, Jonathan Stokes, 1788, Robert Teesdale, 1798, Dawson Turner, 1802-c. 1824, James Watt, 1807, and William Withering, senior and junior, 1796-1821.

An album containing correspondence mainly addressed to Sir Richard Puleston, bart, and his wife, Lady Emma Puleston. The correspondents are the duke of Clarence (Nos 1-4), Sir Benjamin Bloomfield and Colonel McMahon, both in attendance on the Prince Regent (Nos 5-28), Edmund Currey, aide de camp to the duke of Gloucester (Nos 29-31), the dukes of Beaufort (No. 32), Dorset (No. 33), Cleveland (Nos 34-5), and Buccleugh (No. 36), the duchess of Buccleugh (No. 37), the dowager duchess of Rutland (Nos 38-41, 44-5), Lord Forester (No. 42), Lady Katherine Forester (No. 43), the duke and duchess of Argyll (Nos 44-50), Elizabeth, marchioness of Westminster (Nos 51-9), Lady Elizabeth Belgrave (Nos 60-3), the dowager countess of Warwick (Nos 64-5), the countess of Clonmel (No. 66), the countess of Uxbridge (Nos 67, 69-71), Sophia Paget (No. 68), J. Sanderson, Plasnewydd (No. 72), the earl of Kilmorey (No. 73), Lady Georgina Needham (Nos 74-5), Lord Mulgrave (No. 76), J. Lloyd, Portsmouth (No. 77), Lord Adam Gordon, commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland (No. 78), Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon (Nos 79-92, 94-5, 97-105), the Honourable Charles Trevor (Nos 93, 96), Lord Berwick (Nos 106-8), General the Lord Viscount Hill (No. 109-12), Lord Kenyon (No. 113), Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, Llangollen (Nos 114-19), Viscount Fielding (Nos 120-1), the Honourable Mrs West (Nos 122-3), Sir Robert Leighton, bart (No. 124), Lady Bromley (No. 125), Sir Robert Peel, bart (No. 126), Sir John Kynsaton Powel, bart (No. 127), Sir George Nayler, York Herald (Nos 128-9), Sir Herbert Taylor (No. 130), Mrs Isabella Pigot (Nos 131-4), W. A. Madocks of Tremadog (No. 135), T. J. Pettigrew (No. 136), and Messrs Willoughby and Eustace, Piccadilly (No. 137); together with a printed pedigree of the descendants of Sir Robert Maude, bart (No. 138).
A letter from Sir Joseph Banks, dated 22 November 1814, has been removed from the volume (between items 130 and 131): this was sold separately (lot 312) at Sotheby's, 23-4 March 1981, but was not purchased by NLW.

Forty-one holograph letters, etc., 1769-1813, from John Lloyd from Oxford, Dublin, London, Bewdley, Brussells, Calais, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Worcester, and Wygfair, and on board the Courageux at Spit Head, addressed to Mr. Brittain, Chester, 1793 (instructions relating to the handling of cases containing inter alia a clock and instruments sent from London to Wygfair), Mr. Jones, Wygfair, St. Asaph, 1795-1797 (2) (description of conditions on a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin, the taking over of a gold mine [in Ireland] by the government to prevent the peasants working it, an intended visit to Mr. Mills's house at the copper mine at Cronbane, a stay with Sir Joseph Banks in London, the writer's presentation to the King and Queen, speculation as to the outcome of negotiations between the ambassadors from France and Lord Malmsbury), Mr. Nat. Jones, Wickwer, Denbigh, 1789 [? the same person as the Mr. Jones of the two previous letters] (personal, a visit to Brussells and a meeting with the Abbe Mann, a proposed trip to Paris, details as to the terms, conditions, etc., of education in the convent at St. Omers), 'Dear Nat', 1791 [? the same person as the Nat. Jones of the previous letter] (personal, news of acquaintances, plans in connection with a proposed trip to the island of Shetland with Sir Thomas Dundas in Sir Thomas's yacht to inspect land belonging to Sir Thomas for copper, the said land being adjacent to ground on which copper had already been found), Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, [writer's mother, Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1769-1784 (16) (personal, family and estate affairs, financial matters, a receipt for money received from the Rev. William Conway as one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Eliza Conway, observations made by the writer and a friend in Bewdley on the comet and his keen interest in the science of optics though not to the neglect of his business (1769), impressions of London and places and persons seen ( 1770), a visit to the Herald's office [in London] to examine the pedigree of the Lloyds of Havodunos and comments on the said pedigree (1770), the cost of a new coach and harness, a visit to Calais and thence in Mr. Shuttleworth's yacht to Amsterdam and Antwerp and some account of activities in these places (1777), plans for a proposed trip to Bruxelles (1777), a stay with Sir John Cope at Bromshill, Hants. (1778), a visit to Spit Head to witness the King's review of the fleet (1778), a Snowdon expedition (1778), the writer's belief that all were 'to be ruined in Wales by a scheme of our diabolical cursed Ministers . . . to inclose all the waste lands in Wales for the Benefit of the Crown solely' (1778), a violent gale which had struck the ships of the fleet at Spithead where the writer was on board the Courageux (1781)), Howell Lloyd [the writer's father], Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1770-1776 and undated (4) (personal, arrangements for a journey to Llangernew (1770), the price of clover and trefoil, bequests made by Sir John Wynne (1773), an account of proceedings of a commission to determine whether Mrs. S[ ] Lloyd was a lunatic and matters arising there from (1776)), the Rev. J. Conway Potter, 1801 (2) (the death of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd]), the Rev. Rice Pugh, Llysfaen, Carnarvon, 1796 (a request that recipient would deny reports that he was going to vote against Sir Robert Williams after promising to vote for him [? in the Caernarvonshire parliamentary election, though the letter is dated 8 June whilst the election date is given as 7 June in W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales and other returns), John Lloyd Salusbury, Galtf . . . aenan, 1813 (suggestions relating to the act for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Asaph), Sir George Shuckburgh [who later adopted the additional name of Evelyn], Margate, 1784 (a balloon ascent by [Vincenzo] Lunardi), Mr. [John] Topham [treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries], undated (the intended resignation of the writer from the Society [of Antiquaries], a complaint that he had not been receiving copies of the society's publications, mention of talks or correspondence with Mr. [William] Norris [secretary of the society], a recommendation on behalf of Dr. [? Thomas] Meredith [for membership] signed by the writer [see N.L.W. MS. 12420]) (copy?), Sir W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynne, 1795 (the stewardship of the lordship of D[enbigh]) (draft copy), the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Flint, 1796-1799 (2) (offering his services as parliamentary candidate for the county in 1796, his resignation as parliamentary representative of the county in 1799) (draft copies), the Commissioners of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Denbigh, 1797 (the writer's resignation of his commission as a lieutenant in the supplementary militia of the county and the reasons for his action) (copy), a copy of an application by Lloyd for 'such an Office as will vacate my Seat for the county of Flint' in 1799 [? a copy of his application for the Chiltern Hundreds]), and five incomplete or fragmentary letters.

Ninety-nine miscellaneous holograph and other letters:- Daines Barrington, London, to John Strange in Venice [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Lloyd of Hafodunos, F.R.S., stones at Towen and on top of Caderydris, Lloyd's knowledge of North Wales as a fossilist); Godfrey Bingley to Lady Jackson, London, undated (two bonds for £50 apiece); [George Booth, 2nd earl of] Warrington, Dunham [Massey, co. Chester], to . . ., 1700-1708/9 (2) (a request for certain deeds, comments relating to the king of France, a deed relating to the advowson of [the church of] Thornton [co. ]); R. [Byerley] to Lady Jackson, London, undated (financial and legal matters); John Calvert, London, to ? Tho[ma]s Kyffin, 1774 (instruments ordered by squire Jones, an account for the same, a request for specimens of ? moths from the Snowdon area, recipient's possible election to ? the Aurelian Society); Walt[er] Clopton, [ ]nant, to . . ., 1686/7 (points concerning a lease); Joseph Duke, Chester, to John Lloyd, Havedunos [sic], 1767 (an account for goods bought) (endorsed with receipts); Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, to Hugh Roberts, Mold, [18]22 (legal matters) (copy); R. Edwards, London, to . . ., 1748-1750 (3) (business and financial transactions, mention of ships from India and of the African Company); Samuel Edwards, Newport, to Mr. Warne, 1682 (financial matters); [Sir] G[eorge] Shuckburgh Evelyn [6th bart.], Shuckburgh Park [co. Warwick], to Nath[anie]l Jones, Wygfair, 1795 (enquiries about J[ohn] Lloyd of Wygfair who had gone to Ireland to see newly discovered gold mines); J[oh]n Foulkes, Wrexham, to the Rev[eren]d B. C. Conway, Lower Soughton, Northop, 1832 (enclosing a copy of an opinion by John Jervis of the Middle Temple dated 1832, and of a letter by the present writer to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard relating to a case ?concerning an obstruction on Soughton highway); T[homas] Gaisford, [dean of] Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford], to the Rev[eren]d Archdeacon Jones, 1832 (the examination of Mr. Howard ? for admission to Christ Church) (addressed to Reverend Dr. Howard, Mold); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, to Miss Gwynne [the writer's grand-daughter] at Havodunos, 1780 ( personal); Rob[er]t F[ ] Greville, Great Cumberland Street [ ], to . . ., 1803 (the work being done by Sir R[ichar]d [Colt] Hoare [2nd bart.] on a translation of Giraldus Cambrensis [The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales . . . by Giraldus de Barri. Trans . . . by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, London, 1806], attempts to identify places such as Hilcuria, Castrum Isabelis, etc., mentioned by Giraldus, queries re copper works near the summit of Snowdon, news of acquaintances); Ralph Griffith, Chester, to Charles Owen, Toke's Court, London, 1760-1762 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above]), and to Mr. Pardoe, 1767 (bills relating to the Mold cause) (draft); Will[ ia]m Griffith to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Rich[ar]d Griffith, Carnarvon, 1751-1752 (3) (financial matters in connection with a legacy to the writer from his mother); J. Haggersten, Berwick, to Edward Burdet, Holborne, London, [ ] 82 (personal and financial matters); Mr. Hay, St. Asaph, to Mr. Lloyd [ early 19th cent.] (a list of tokens the writer wished to collect) (in third person); J. Holland to . . ., 1810 (recommending a tenant for Havodynnos); R. W. Howard, Eton College, to his mother, undated (the writer's activities at Eton); Richard Howard, Llanrhaiadr, to Arthur Roberts, Mold, solicitor, 1847 (legal matters) (copy); Ow[en] Hughes, Bewmares, to Dr. Andrew Birch at Gwyder, 1679 (purchasers for lands in Merionythshire, Penmachno and Treflan); John Humffreys to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergay at Havodynnos, 1706/7 (financial matters); John Humffreys, Llanvyllin, to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergai at Eyarth, near Llanver, 1737/8 (an interview with Mr. Mainwaring concerning Caergai); Dauid Jones, Sallop, to . . ., 1637/8 (personal); Jos. Jones, Mold, to Mr. Griffiths, 1761 ( losses suffered owing to the [Mold mountain] dispute) (copy); Richard Jones, Carnarvon, to . . ., 1758 (business affairs); S[amuel] Jones, Kilken, to Watkin Williams, Penbedw, 1770 (a protest concerning the toll gate at the west end of the town of Mold) (endorsed with a reply from Will[iam] Lloyd, Maesmynan) (?both copies); W[illia]m Jones, Llan-fihangel, to Mr. Goodman, attorney, Anglesea, 1779-1784 (2) (a dispute with Mr. Howard concerning lands and rents, land at Trefriw); J[oh]n Langley, junior, London, to Jns. Williams, attorney, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning the estate of Sir Richard Langley, deceased, in Mould), and to Thomas Williams, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning ?the same estate as in the previous letter ); C. Lloyd, Wellow [near Bath], to the Rev[eren]d Ben[jamin] Conway Potter, Soughton, Northop, 1819 (the death of Dr. Griffith, news of acquaintances, activities in Frome); Dauid Lloyd, Southwark, to John Lloyd of Wickwer, 1673 (a journey by Sir Euan Lloyd, the captain of the writer's company, into Wales, to recruit forty men, a projected crossing into Holland with 15,000 foot men) (endorsed with a note by J. Ll. who had opened the letter by mistake); Eliza. Lloyd, Rhu . . ., to . . ., undated (enquiries concerning the Vaughan family); Ellis Lloyd, Pen Lan, to. . ., 1687/8 (legal affairs); Robert Lloyd to [Richard Nanney], 1609 (arrangements for a meeting and the delivery of a letter from Captain Salisbury) (endorsed with recipient's reply); M. Lockhart to . . ., undated (recommending Mr. Pauling); Geo[rge] Lowe, Chester, to Mr. Howard, 1756 (legal matters); H. M., to . . ., 1737 (personal); [Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st earl of] Seaforth [Ireland], Calais, to [Daniel Charles Solander], 1777 (a request that Mr. Lloyd should have any of the writer's books which were in recipient's custody); Edw[ard] Mainwaring, Wrexham, to John Edwards at Pen y Lan, 1680/1 (financial matters); M. Mainwaring, Whitmore, to Mrs. Vaughan at Eyarth, 1737 (the ? secret marriage of recipient's daughter); W. Manley, Temple, to Messrs. Phillips and Ellis, attorneys, Ruthin, 1796 (legal matters); T. Trevor Mather, Pentreholn [? Pentre-hobin ], to Mr. Richards, Holywell, 1803 (the fencing of an allotment on Mold mountain) (continued)

J. Montagu to . . ., 1706 (the taxing of vaults taken out of streets); Arth[ur] Newcomen to Tho[mas] Williams, Bronkoed, near Mould, [16]99 and undated (2) (dilapidations at Argitt, orders from Lord Derby [? William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl of Derby] re letting Argit, a request for a rent roll); C. Owen, Took's (Toke's) Court [London], to Tho[ma]s Owen, attorney, Mold, 1754 (legal matters), to Ralp[h] Griffith, attorney, Chester, 1756 (enclosing a copy of an order for viewing the area in dispute in the Grosvenor v. Swymmer suit [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above ]), to Mrs. Trevor in Berkeley Square [ ], 1761 (arranging a meeting, non-payment of a bill by Ralph Griffith), and to . . ., 1762 (legal matters relating ?to the Grosvenor v. Vincent suit) (copy); Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn, to Mr. Boydell, 1763 (the expenses in the [Grosvenor v. Vincent suit]); Tho[ma]s W. Partington to Mr. Griffith, 1756 (notification that the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case would be tried in Michaelmas term ); [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, to . . ., 1744 (the death of Cad[walad]r W[ illia]ms, who had served on board the ships Shrewsbury and Suffolk, in 1743, and pay due to him); Thomas Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], to the Hon. Daines Barrington, 1773 (the measuring ? of mountains in Snowdonia by ? [Jean André] De Luc, whom Pennant had met in Geneva, a request for goatskins, a letter from [ ] Forster, Pennant's intention of writing to [Charles] Linnaeus, a proposed journey) (endorsed with a note from D[aines] Barrington forwarding the letter to ?John Lloyd with a request for the Gwyder pedigree); Henry Perkins, Chester, to Mrs. Eliz. Jones at Trecastell, 1750 (financial); Prof[essor] M[arc] A[uguste] Pictet, professor of nat[ural] phil[osophy] at Geneva, to [Sir Joseph Banks], 1805 (the application of [John] Hadley's sextant for observing the meridian transit of the celestial bodies); W[illiam] Pitt, Downing Street [London], to. . ., 1799 (the decision to assemble parliament in order to propose a bill re the militia volunteers); John Price to . . ., undated (personal); M. Price, London, to Mr. Ing . . .y, senior, at Fearn, near Holywell, to . . ., and to Mr. Jones of Mold Mountain, 1763 (requests for payment of bills due in respect of the Mold cause); J[oh]n Roberts, Denbigh, to . . ., undated (legal matters); Domingos Rodrigues, Tellichery [India], to . . ., 1743 (commercial matters); Robert Roper to Robert Foulks, Chester, [1]703 (the letting of ? Argoed on behalf of the representatives of the late earl of Derby [William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl]); [Hew Sempill, 12th baron] Sempill, Lyons, to Mons[ieu]r Vaughan at Montpellier, 1736/7 (personal); Rob[er]t Sherbrooke to Lady Jackson, Lincoln Inn feilds, London , [16]93 (personal); Rich[ar]d R. Short, Lichf[iel]d, to Mrs. Margarett Griffith of Caraglwydd, at Carnarvon, 1774 (personal); Arch[ibald] Spark, London, to Mrs. Kathrine Lewys at her house near Northop, 1683/4 (personal ); John Tho[ma]s Stanley, Penrhos, to . . ., 1816 (the death of the writer's mother, Lady Stanley); Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Mrs. Margit Owen, Mold, 1761 (arrangements in connection with a court leet); Henry Swymmer and Edw[ ar]d Lloyd, Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor, 1784] at Eaton, 1756 (informing recipient that Mr. Swymmer (not the writer) would not take advantage of his privilege if the case [Grosvenor v. Swymmer] proceeded to trial); H. T. to . . ., 1683/4 (personal); Rob[er]t Tamberlain, Flint, to John Williams, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1763 (? legal matters); Maurice Trygarn, London, to . . ., 1669 (legal points relating to the outlawry of John Foulkes and others); H. Ussher to the Rev[eren]d Dr. W. Richardson, Portrush, near Coleraine [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Loyd of the Royal Society who was 'going to the Causeway in pursuit of natural history, thence to Ila and Staffa'); A. Vaughan to Miss Vaughan at Kensington, 1736 (personal); Evan Vaughan to John Vaughan, high sheriff of the county of Merioneth, 1670 ( legal); [? M.] Vaughan to [? Lady Mainwaring], undated (? the secret marriage of the writer's daughter); L. W., to Henry Lloyd near Bedford Row, London, 1745/6 (personal, soldiers quartered in the village and at Bromley ); W. Wake and John Spencer, Bombay [India], to Richard Edwards and Robert Nanny, 1747 (2) (the death of Hugh Howard and matters relating to the settling of his estate in India); John Wilkin, Office of Woods and Forests [London], to T. T. Mathew [? Mather], Pentrehobbin, Mold, 1830 (the purchase by Mr. Conway of encroachments on Soughton common, the sale of the tolls of Northop and the crown rents on the Wigfair estate); E. Bulk[ eley] Will[ia]ms, Baronhill [Anglesey], to Miss Griffiths at Carnarvon, undated (personal); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [3rd bart. after 1740], Downing Street [ ], to Hedd Lloyd at Havod ynos, 1738 (the loan of a chair to recipient who was suffering from gout), and to John Lloyd at Havodynos, 1743/4 (an approach to [Peregrine Bertie, 3rd] duke of Ancaster , ? on behalf of recipient, strained relations between the writer and the Ancaster family owing to his having inherited Wynnstay, concern about recipient's brother How[ar]d, the possibility of purchasing a commission ? for Howard, the writer's lack of influence with people in power since the success of the Denbigh petition, the advisability of deferring [the question of the commission] until they saw which of the competitors Lord [John] Carteret [2nd baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford, and later 2nd viscount Carteret and earl Granville] or Mr. [Henry] Pelham prevailed); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [4th bart.], Wynnstay, to . . ., 1774 (the writer's inability to visit the Vale owing to the dissolution of parliament, the decision of Sir Lynch [Salusbury] Cotton [4th bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh] not to offer himself for election [as member of parliament for the county of Denbigh] in the forthcoming election, the writer's hopes of securing 'the voice of this county', a request for support on election day 19 October); [Sir] W[atkin] W[illia]ms Wynn [? 5th bart.], to . . ., undated (2) (news of acquaintances, expectations of an heir at Coed Coch, hopes that Garthewin would follow suit, visits with Lord Darnley [? John Bligh, 4th earl of Darnley, co. Meath] to the tower on Cyrn y Brain, angles taken and observations made by ? Col[onel] [ ] Madge from the site of the tower, mention of Sir J[oseph] Banks, a report of a water spout above Rhiwedog); and Robert] Wynne, St. Asaph, to Hedd Lloyd at Havodunos [late 17th cent.] (enclosing a copy of the will of Catherine Vaughan of Hirdrevaig, co. Anglisey, dated 23 November 1691).

Seventy holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1770-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Cath[erine] Parry, Soughton, Llwynegrin, etc. [17]76-[?1778] (14) (detailed news of herself, the family and acquaintances, and of happenings in the neighbourhood); D[avid] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], 1796-1811 and undated (4) (a request for support with regard to [?the parliamentary election in the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., in July 1796], damage to some of Lloyd's scientific instruments, a quotation from one of [William] Bowles's works relating to various types of jars or vases made in parts of Spain with references to the same from other writers, viz. [Sir John Talbot] Dillon and [Henry] Swinburne); [Richard Pennant, Baron] Penrhyn, Penrhyn near Conway [Carnarvonshire], [? 1795] (a request for support at the next parliamentary election for the county of [Carnarvon]); Tho[mas] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], Chester, Lichfield and Gothurst, 1770-1795 and undated (11) (personal, a contract with Moses [Griffith] who was to be instructed 'that he may do justice to our Welch antiquities', a request to Lloyd to ask White, the bookseller [of Fleet Street, London], to advertise the writer's work entitled Synopsis of Quadrupeds [Chester, 1771], a collection of drawings of Welsh monuments in the possession of Mr. Astle probably living in Lambeth, enquiries concerning monuments in the church at Luton, Bedfordshire, a list of buildings, monuments, etc., noted on a journey through Bedfordshire, Buck[inghamshire], Northamptonshire, Warwicksh[ire], Staffordshire and Cheshire (1773), a request that the writer's drawings be left at Mr. White's 'for they must be soon engraven' (1773), comments on relations with America (1775), an earthquake which had shaken the writer's house [at Downing, 1775], congratulations to Lloyd on his work [?as a justice of the peace], a request for a loan of a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Synonyms [British Synonymy or an Attempt at regulating the choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi, née Salusbury, formerly Mrs. Thrale, London, 1794], in order to check 'some pedigree remarks on the Mostyn family'); Roger Phillips, London, 1794 (the development of a cutting machine, the making of a turning lathe for Sir Joseph Banks, personal), [Constantine John Phipps, 2nd baron] Mulgrave [of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, later 1st baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Yorkshire], Portsmouth, Bath, and [on board HMS] Courageux, 1776-1780 (5) (enquiries concerning scientific instruments, personal); W. [ ] Phipps, Mulgrave Hall near Whitby, [Yorkshire], undated (personal); Gabriel Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1795-1796 (3) (personal, recommending Mr. Mead as architect in connection with the proposed improvements at Wygfaur and offering timber); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1800-1804 and undated (5) (personal, invitations to dinner, etc.); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi and Miss Cecilia Thrale, undated (personal); [Mrs.] H[ester] L[ynch] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, [1790]-1809 and undated (18) (personal, legal and business affairs, comment on the war against the French (1799) the position in France (1804) and Bonaparte in Egypt (1809), an offer of a corrected copy of the writer's work entitled Retrospection [or a review of the most striking and important events, characters . . . which the last eighteen hundred years have presented ..., London, 1801], invitations to Brynbella to meet Lady Orkney's family, the bishop of St. Asaph and others, a loan of two volumes of the works of [l’] Abbi [?Guillaume Thomas Frangois] Raynal, local news ); John Planta, Fulnec, near Leeds, 1807 (an order for two spinning wheels, descriptions of two different kinds of Reels and of a music desk); Joseph Pocklington, Carlton House near Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1778 (instructions as to 'House covering with Brown Paper'); Rob[er]t Preston, Liverpool, 1793 (financial matters); R. Parry Price, Bryn y pys, [1781x1782] (his inability to attend a meeting of the Order of Druids and his fear of being expelled from the order); and R[ ] Puleston, Camp near Morpeth, Northumberland, and Glan y Môr, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, 1796-1812 (2) (the vacancy in the [parliamentary representation] of the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn and the writer's hopes of Lloyd's support in connection therewith (1796), a request for assistance in tracing the pedigree of the Puleston family from 1622 onwards on the occasion of the grant of a baronetcy to the writer (1812)).

Forty-eight holograph letters, 1783-1815 and undated, from John Lloyd at Wygfair, in London, etc., to his sisters, of whom there were four (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, p. 215), viz. Susanna and Phoebe, both of whom died unmarried, Dorothea, who married the Rev. Thomas Clough, and Mary [or Elizabeth], who married the Rev. J. C. Potter (later J. C. Conway). Some of the present letters are addressed to Miss Phoebe Lloyd or Miss S[usanna] Lloyd individually, some to the Misses Lloyd (beginning 'My dear sisters'), some to Miss Lloyd (but beginning 'My dear sisters') and some to Miss Lloyd (beginning 'My dear sister') but not specifying which. Most are addressed to Mold. They contain a considerable amount of personal news, news of friends and acquaintances, and accounts of social and other activities in London and at Wigfair, and refer more specifically to the illness of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd], the activities of London personalities (1783), the death and burial of the writer's mother [between whom and the writer there appears to have been an estrangement] (1801), a fever at Mold (1801), a hurricane which had blown down a large number of trees at Garthewin, Wigfair, etc., unroofed Henllan church and damaged [the churches] at Denbigh, Whitchurch and Bodfarry (1802), the illness of Miss Phoebe Lloyd (1802), detailed advice as to fumigation to counteract fever in the Mold area (1802), a visit in company with Sir Joseph Banks to Mr. [Thomas William] Coke [later viscount Coke and earl of Leicester of Holkham] at his 'noble Palace, Holkham in Norfolk', with remarks on the grandeur of the place and the munificence of the entertaining (1803), intelligence that the Brest fleet was putting to sea and that Lord Gardener [Alan Gardner, baron Gardner of Uttoxeter (Ireland), later baron Gardner of Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, who commanded the channel fleet at the time] was preparing to meet it (May 1805), the death of [? Alexander Aubert] at Wygfair (1805), a lecture by [ ] Crouch at the Royal Institution [in London] on early church music, and a performance of the Forty Thieves about which 'The Town is mad' (1806), the writer's relationship to the Wynnes of Coedcoch, bequests in the will of Mrs. Williams of Deganwyn, a claim by Robert Jones that he had discovered ore at ? Waenlas (1809), 'violent doings at the Election' and the creation of twenty seven burgesses by 'the Popish Party with noisy Griffith of Garn' at Denbigh (1812), the writer's 'grand day in the Temple Hall' as reader and presiding at the head of the Benchers' table (1813), and the illness of his sister (1814) [? Dorothea, who died in that year].

An account, in diary form [? by John Lloyd of Hafodunos], of a journey via Oswestry, Salop, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham to London, 4-10 April 1811, and of the writer's social and other activities in that city, 10 April-3 May. There are references to, inter alia, meals taken with Sir Joseph Banks and his family in Soho Square, the company at Sir Joseph's house, dinners at the Royal Society Club with names of members present, an introduction to Mr. [John] Pond, the recently appointed astronomer royal, conversations with bishop [Samuel] Goodenough of Carlisle concerning [ William] Aitoun's work Hortus Kewiensis, with Mr. [?Jesse] Foote concerning medical matters, and with Mr. [Thomas Andrew] Knight on horticultural topics, an account by Sir [William] Sidney Smith of some French officers he had known and of engagements at Acre and Mount Carmel, attendances at lectures [on electricity] given by Mr. [George John] Singer, comments by l'Abbe de Vey on [Hyman] Hurwitz's work on Hebrew grammar, information from Governor [William] Bligh ['Bligh of the Bounty', who had been Governor of New South Wales, 1805-?1808] about the impending court martial concerning the 'Port Jackson Business', and the proof sheets of Mr . [John] Farey's report on Derbyshire.

Forty-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1766-1812.
They comprise letters from T[imothy] Lane, [FRS], Hart Street, Bloomsbury, [London], 1804 (2) (Lloyd's contrivance for boring rocks and the possibility of ordering one for the Scotch Mines Company, astronomical experiments relating to a luminous ring observed around the moon during the total eclipses of the sun, comments on the opinion of Cassini relating thereto and a request for the bishop of St. Asaph's sentiments, treatment of injuries to the limbs by electricity); G. Lewis, Llwyn Egryn, undated (business); William Liddle, Grassfield near Alston, Cumberland, 1802 (engineering work to be done for recipient); James Lind, Windsor, 1786 (poultry for the Queen, [William] Herschel's work on his 'prodigious Telescope. Twenty people may dine in the Tube very easily'); Andrew Lindegren, London, 1783 (personal); Bell Lloyd, Llanrwst, undated (2) (personal); Doro[thea] Lloyd, Soughton and Havodunos [mother of recipient], 1776-1778 and undated (7) (personal and family news, activities in the neighbourhood); E. [ ] Lloyd, Red Lion Sq[uare, ? London], [1801] (condolences, the death of Lord Stonefield); Edw[ar]d Pryce Lloyd, Pengwern and Stratton Audley, Oxon., 1802-1811 (2) (genealogical queries and data relating to the writer's family); J[oh]n Lloyd, 1766 (financial arrangements, an order for tea, the death of Lady Ann Rushout); John Lloyd, Red Lion Square, [?London], 1788-1791 and undated (4) (legal proceedings); Phoe[be] Lloyd, Levenside, [ ], 1791 (personal); S[amuel] Lysons, 1811 (a canvassing letter on behalf of [George Gordon, afterwards Hamilton-Gordon] 4th earl of Aberdeen, in connection with the contest for the presidency of the Society of Antiquaries, an outline of events leading up to the contest, mention of William Owen Pugh); Theo[dore] Aug[ustus] Mann, Bruxelles, 1778 (data relating to the measuring 'of a degree of the meridien' by various mathematicians); N. Maskelyne, Greenwich, 1784 (paintings and drawings made by Mr. Burgess during a tour of North and South Wales, including a print of Langunna hill seen from Abergwilly); Mrs. Medley, Clapham, undated (thanks for assistance); Thomas Meredith, Wrexham, 1791 (a request for support in his application for membership of the Society of Antiquarians); A. Mills, Dublin and Macclesfield, 1788-1792 (4) (a visit to Ireland, interviews with Col. Vallancy and Mr. Kirwan, mineral prospects on 'our own Mountain' in Ireland, conversations with [ ] Graydon, secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society, re. volcanic matters, news of [Rudolf Eric] Raspe, a paper by the writer on volcanic appearances in the islands of Islay, Mull, etc., which was to be published by the Royal Society, matters relating to the Llandidno mine, claims by Mr. Campbell of Islay [Argyllshire] 'on our Company' for not fulfilling the terms of a mineral lease); Will[ia]m Milnes, Ashover, [Derbyshire], 1811-1812 (3) (news of the lead trade, news of Sir Joseph [Banks] and his family, Mr. [John] Farey's work on a proposed mineral map of the district); C. Moore, London, undated (personal, acceptance, on behalf of his mother, of an offer of a partnership in the trial [for minerals] to be made on Sir Roger Mostyn's grounds); Valentine Morris, [London], 1781 (arranging a meeting to discuss genealogical matters); Pyers Mostyn, Talacre, [1796] (the loan of a dog); Sir Roger Mostyn and Mr. M[ostyn], undated, signed T. Mostyn (personal); L. Mulgrave, Brussells, undated (personal); Major Jos[ ] Muter, Assistant Quarter Master General, Liverpool, 1805 (the beacon and but at St. George's); Robert Myddelton, Gwaynynog, 1802 (personal); W. Myddelton, Temple, [London], 1779 (Hengwrt MSS in Lloyd's hands, the death of Mrs. S. Lloyd, legal matters, reference to Mr. Wilkes); and Fra[nci]s Newton, London, 1801 (personal, news of acquaintances, the grain situation, the transport and sale of barley).