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Letters to Sir William Maurice and Elen Eure,

Letters to Sir William Maurice and a number of drafts or copies of outgoing correspondence, 1587-1619, and a single letter to Lady Elen Eure, 1624. Items of interest include a water bailiff 's report on shipwreck timber found along the shores of Anglesey and Caernarfon; an application by the burgesses of Harlech to obtain an act of parliament for holding the Merionethshire [Great] Sessions and Quarter Sessions there, and to get royal confirmation of the town charter and fee farm, 1604, with letters from Griffith Vaughan on the technical difficulties of implementing the same, 1611; Sir Henry Lee on a dispute over lands held by William Maurice from the Corporation of Harlech, 1591; William Thomas on the subsidy roll accounts, with a summary of deputy lieutenants in other counties of Wales and England, 1602; John Wynn of Gwydir and others, with copies of William Maurice 's outgoing letters to county and government officials, emphasising the difficulties encountered by the deputy lieutenants in mustering troops and collecting mises in Caernarfonshire against a possible Spanish invasion, and for the suppression of rebellions in Ireland, 1587-1602; and a draft request to Anne, Countess of Warwick, to use her influence in obtaining a position for William Maurice 's son [pre-1588].

Lee, Henry, Sir 1533?-1611.

Original seal of cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth,

  • NLW MS 11725E.
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  • [1700x1718].

Two sheets of accounts made with Thomas Warburton, Chamberlain and Chancellor of North Wales, and Dorothy Wynne [mother of William Wynne, serjeant at law] of the profits of the original seal of cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth, together with the fines, prefines, and recoveries levied at the Great Sessions of cos. Merioneth, Caernarvon, and Anglesey, 1718.