- Clenennau letters and papers 848.
- Ffeil
- 1686, 25th May.
Owen owes him two letters already, but the writer sends him a third because he knows that one letter from Owen will repay all with large interest. That day the King returned to Windsor. On Thursday, June 3rd, the campaign opens on Hounslow. Doubts not but that Owen's curiosity will lead him there before it's done. The holidays are over without disorders, though some apprehension there was of it, from the seizure of some 'tickets' wherein the apprentices invited their comrades 'to go and whip the fox which was looked upon as a cant for some other sport they desired'. Libels are thrown up and down especially among the guards 'dehorting' them from bearing arms for or with Papists, but as Llewelyn swallowed all the darts that flew at him, so did the soldiers these libels by melting them down at sixpence apiece. The French King is still statu quo; he had once resolved on a voyage to Barrege to bathe, which is at the foot of the Pyrreneans, and would have cost him twenty-one days. But upon a 'consult' he is off again, and his 'corps' is not thought competent for such a fatigue. The court being at Windsor, Lord Tyrconnel having set out with his caravan for Ireland, the women and the citizens being at the Wells and the red-coats at Hounslow, all makes St James's Park very thin ... Inter nos if Owen has not paid for his commission to the Duke of Beaufort's secretary, begs him not to forget to do so.