- Clenennau letters and papers App II/46.
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- 1689.
The deposition of David Owen, Keeper of the Gaol at Dolgelley, for Sir Robert Owen, High Sheriff, co. Merioneth, testifying that when the news came to Dolgelley that King James had left England and that the Irish army would come and kill all before them, the inhabitants of the town rose in arms as the greater part of the said country did to put themselves in a posture of defence. Then, on the 19th December, about thirty of the persons thus in arms rescued the prisoners in the deponent's custody, viz Rowland Price, Esq., Rowland Ellis, John Davies, gent., and Ellin Jones ... The commissioners of excise coming to the town across the mountain they were taken to be part of the Irish army, and one of the rabble, Rowland Jones, gent., shot dead one of these commissioners. Sworn at Oswestry the 3rd May before Morgan Powel, Mayor.