Type-written copies of letters written between 1675 and 1698

Of interest chiefly to the Bodewryd and Penrhos families. For the persons mentioned therein, Mr J.E. Griffith's 'Pedigrees' must be continually consulted, especially p.28. There are in all seventeen letters. The first group (i-xi) were written to John Owen of Penrhos (1628-1712) either be William Owen his brother, Protestant rector of Wexford in Ireland, or by his Kynaston cousins who lived at Eyton in Salop. One is from Pierce Bean, nephew to John Owen, who was receiving his education in Ireland, and who died there early in 1692 (ix). There are some piquant references to the Irish troubles following the Revolution - the Kynastons are ready to give asylum in Salop to John Owen should Anglesey be invaded (v); William Owen and young Bean were closely confined for a day and a night in Wexford (vii). Letters xii, xiv-xv, were written to John Owen by his brother-in-law Sir William Williams, Speaker and Solicitor-General, all referring to family matters. xiii, xvi were from Bishop Humphrey Humpreys to his sister-in-law Margaret, wife of Edward Wynn, rector of Llanddyfan in Anglesey, and mother of Dr Edward Wynn of Bodewryd, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford. xvii is from Dr Edward Wynn himself, dated Oxon., Dec 1698. A leaf of this letter seems to have been lost.

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