Ffeil Ottley (Pitchford Hall) Correspondence/1787. - Browne Willis at Mr Hardings a booksellers in St Martins Lane on the pavement, Westminster, to the Bishop Of St ...,

Browne Willis at Mr Hardings a booksellers in St Martins Lane on the pavement, Westminster, to the Bishop Of St Davids at Counde. He will spend his time more agreeably in Town if the recipient should come. Since he came to Town he has purchased a manuscript containing several things concerning the recipient's 'metropolitical' church. It seems to have been written in Queen Elizabeth's time by one Thomas Tomkins, organist of St Davids. The writer gives lengthy extracts from this manuscript, consisting of fairly detailed notes on a number of the bishops of St Davids, from Henry Gower to Anthony Rudde. He is not well and may not live to publish 'it' [? the manuscript referred to; ? a revised edition of the survey of St Davids], and so imparts to the recipient what comes to his hand. The following week he proposes to go to Lambeth and see the papers of the usurper of the recipient's privileges.