Dangos 2887 canlyniad

Concerning the sending of two mares. Note: John Wynn was afterwards Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and Watstay, 5th bart. He was the only son of Henry Wynn, the tenth son of Sir John Wynn, the 1st bart.

A very friendly letter concerning the assembling of the militia horse at Caernarfon. Hears that Ormonde will not take their county on the way to Ireland, but intends shipping at Weston.

Will send the accounts as soon as possible, but the auditor forgot to set his hand to those declared before the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The writer only waits for Mr Tudder, who is in Oxfordshire, to put his hand to them. Mr Hill, the auditor, has been very sick of a fever. Mr Chisslett's audit begins at Chester, 25 Oct., a Saturday; but the auditor comes in on Friday, and some business will be done that day. Statement of money received from drovers and others. Many Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anabaptists have been committed for disturbances.

Order at the General Sessions of the Peace for Caernarfonshire, held before Robert, Lord Bulkeley, Viscount Cashell, Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, Robert Williams, Hugh Wynne, Thomas Vaughan, William Hookes, Richard Glynne, Edmund Glynne, and William Wynne, Justices of the Peace for Caernarfonshire, for the levying of £100 upon the inhabitants of the county to repair an ancient bridge called Pontrhydgynon on the river Machno, running from Bullch Carreg y Vrane to the river Conwy on the highway from Pemnachno to Llanrwst, which the grand jury have presented as ruinous.

Capt. John Salusbury will bring down his guns. Ludlow had a very narrow escape this last week, as will be seen from the enclosed. Enclosure missing. Endorsed, in the autograph of Sir Richard Wynn: A doggerel on woman.

Requesting his favour, in the coming Quarter Sessions, on behalf of some servants of his, that they may have a warrant against some servants of Sir Gruffith Williams, who abused them at several times.

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Concerning the purchase of a horse.

Desiring him to send his tenant, William Bowen Skybell, to look after his land, for the neighbours have burnt his hedges and laid the land waste.

Wishing him a merry New Year. His wife is recovered from her illness. Praises his horse, which he is sending back to Wales, in order to renew the race of excellent Welsh horses.

My Lord Robartes's cause in Parliament is put off. Sir Thomas Meres and Henry Wynn answered for Sir Richard at the meeting of Parliament, the absent knights to be fined £10 and burgess members £5 for non-attendance. Drums daily beat for volunteers for Portugal.

Particulars of her illness. Thomas Price of Geeler died this morning. Begs him to remember his promise concerning his picture.

Order at the Conwy Sessions, to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of every parish, to make a return, before the next Great Sessions, of the number both of impotent poor and of such as are of able body yet overburdened, with charges, how many children they have, and how many are above 7 years of age and of sound bodies; what weekly or quarterly allowance is given them generally and what stock of wool, hemp, flax, and other materials is provided to get them work; what children are placed or fit to be placed as apprentices, and what parishioners are fit to take them as such. The Constables are also to present such persons as lodge or receive wanderers, and to state from which parishes these wanderers come, and how many of them have been whipped, or sent to their own parishes by pass. Overseers of highways and bridges must make their presentments for the repair of the same. Signed: John Jones, Clerk of the Peace for Caernarfonshire. Appended: A copy, in another hand, of a certificate and presentment of the churchwardens of Eglwys Rhôs, Caernarfonshire. There are four aged and impotent poor, who receive a weekly allowance and a suit of clothes yearly from the bequest of the late Hugh Owen, Sergeant of the King's Larder. They have as yet done nothing in the matter of the setting of poor children for apprentices, being straitened for time by repeated musters and training. Subscribed: Lewis Thomas and Robert ap John Gruffith, churchwardens; William ap John Thomas and Hugh ap John Gruffith, overseers.

Hoped to have seen Sir Richard at Sir Richard Grosvenor's funeral. As to his offer of a horse, a younger brother's purse is not able to answer such a price as £80.

It is reported that men are not only underrated for money but there are scarce any true numbers returned, and in some places servants' wages are omitted, while many by changing their place of residence, escape the tax. These persons, upon proof hereof, become liable within six months to pay double. Let them therefore consider what is fit to be redressed, or further reviewed, and act accordingly. Signed: T. Southampton; Ashley.

A very friendly letter relating to family matters. His wife and daughter send messages. Comments on womankind: 'O women, who will believe them? I have a dutiful wife, but I must do as she would have me, and then all's well; I fear that is everybody's case; God grant it be no worse.'.

Knowing Sir Richard's design to pull down his chimney the writer does not invite him to pay a visit. They have been crowded out by the judges at Cefnywern and were forced to quarter their servants in the country.

Sign manual warrant (pursuant to the Militia Act of 1662) for the levy of militia money in Wales, with instructions for paying the troops and the scale of pay from a captain downwards. Subscribed: Arlington. Dated at Whitehall.

Mr Thomas Wynn intends to set out with his family for Wales. A great victory at sea, and yesterday the Duke [of York] arrived at Whitehall and was presented with £10,000 by the Court of Aldermen. De Ruyter and the Dutch East India fleet, 12 men-of-war, endeavoured to enter the port at Barbadoes, but were profoundly shattered before they could get off. The mortality due to the plague is not so great.

Requesting payment of his fee for Ludlow and the circuit, for the half year. Besides the trouble of going from Stafford, he fears he will be called to Oxford immediately the circuit ends.