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Has put in a Bill in Chancery to discover the incumbrances upon Sir John Wynn's estate, in whose will there is mention of lands mortgaged to Lady Wynn.

Order in the Court of Wards and Liveries, directed to Maurice Wynn, Robert Pugh, Edward Williams, Edward Lloyd, gent., and William Edwards, gent., for a commission to enquire into the death of Sir John Wynn, kt and bart.

Edmund Williams and wife v. Henry Williams. Order of the Court for retaining a Bill in Chancery, and thereby discharging the costs granted upon the dismission. Signed: Jo. Carpenter.

Complains of his letters, which are fitter to be answered by a scold at Billingsgate than by a person of quality. Wishes he would not consort with bad companions and ill-advisers. Reminds him that she is his mother, as nobly born as himself. Now that Mr Cheadle has married her he is her son's equal, and cannot be his servant. Rebukes him for going to the mayor with his complaint, a thing his grandfather did before him with more reason. Besides, he has not his grandfather's strength of will and power of ruling, but is young and weak in every way. In coming out of church he should have offered Cheadle the place in front of him, next the mayor, for he is high sheriff now and his [Bulkeley's] father-in-law. Let him ask Ro[wland] White whether, when his father was sheriff, the Lord President, on coming there, took the sheriff's place, although White had been his footman and owed him his preferment. His abuse of Cheadle to the Lord President and others will only harm himself. Cheadle is as near to her in her affections as her son, and whoever wrongs one, wrongs both. Advises him to restrain his venomous tongue. Refers to his brother, whom he set against her, but who is, poor boy, now punished for his disobedience. Prays he will not be reserved for a worse end. Although his brother almost killed Cheadle, yet the latter sought no revenge but sought to persuade him from going beyond seas. Pious reflections on his offence in the sight of Heaven.

A difference has arisen between two kinsmen, John Lloyd of Rhywedocke and John Lloyd of Yale. Hears Wynn has bought Bala town and lands. Would like a lease of the tolls of the town for his cousin, John Lloyd of Yale.

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Sister Bodvel would make an end of the business between herself and her children, but the writer has no faith in her, and her friend Sir William Jones renounces her now. Her carriage is so odious that the writer is ashamed to answer truly such questions as a number ask him.

Desires him to tell her son how sensible she is of his wicked practices against her. Compares him with Nero, who caused the death of his mother. He would, if he could, cause her to be hanged, but she knows the plots of his murderous cousin of Berw and wise cousin attorney. When her son was in London, how he laboured to persuade his grandmother to proceed against her. He has not ceased to declare that he believes his father to have been poisoned, although he was undutiful to his father in his sickness, so that she could hardly persuade him to visit him, whereat his father would curse him and say she would find him a most undutiful child. Neither Holland nor the rest would be commissioners, nor his paltry cousin prosecutor, without his consent. He will be a byword in the country. They will say 'there goes wicked Bulkeley that would have hanged his own mother; his grandfather sought to hang his mother-in-law, had not God raised up a friend to defend her.' Declares her innocence, and inveighs against him for his unnatural behaviour. Commits her cause to God and exhorts her son to amend his evil life. His dissembled love for his father got his ring from his sister Mary. Now he seeks the overthrow of his mother and sisters. What will they of Cheshire, nay, the whole world, say, but that 'that woman is most unhappy which matches with such a family'; but all she can say will not prevail and she must leave him to God's punishment.

Order in the Quarter Sessions held at Ruthin, Denbighshire, for raising £500 towards the repair of that part of Llanrwst Bridge lying in Denbighshire. Signed: Hatfield, Clerk of the Peace, Denbighshire. Annexed:. (A) Note of the proportion contributed by the hundreds in Denbighshire. (B) The same, in Caernarfonshire. (C) List of constables in Caernarfonshire.

Copy of an Order in the Court of Exchequer (Order and Decree Book, King's Remembrancer, 9 Car. I., fol. [--]), in the matter of John Jones, Rector of Derwen, clerk, complt. v. John Price, gent., farmer of Brynkiffe Park, in the township of Skiviogge, in the said parish of Derwen, Denbighshire, deft., concerning tithes of corn, hay, and other profits, which the said Price held for five generations, paying 5s. yearly farm-rent to the King, and 6s. 8d. yearly to the incumbent. The order for possession of the premises was then made against the King's farmer. Notwithstanding that, the rector was instituted and inducted only in Feb. 1632, which Mr Charles Jones alleged was contrary to their instructions, which were to settle possession only where it had been for the three years previous to exhibiting the Bill. All this is very prejudicial to the said King's farmer, who is an infant. An injunction was awarded against the said rector, with the King's writ of subpoena [attached] dated 12 Feb. 1634, to stay all suits in the Court of the Council of the Marches.

Copy of a declaration by the Earl Marshal, in the King's name, and dated at Arundel House, respecting the precedence of Sir Richard Wynn, Treasurer of the Queen's Household; Sir Robert Eaton, Secretary; Sir John Finch, Attorney; and Sir Thomas Hatton, Surveyor-General, who are to have rank and precedence next after four other eminent officers, namely, the Captain of the Guard, the Knight Marshal, the Treasurer of the Chamber, and the Master of the Jewel House. With the following exception: Sir Richard Wynn, being a baronet, shall 'take place of' all other baronets. The Office of Arms has been notified to this effect.

Order for holding musters in Wales, both of horse and foot, and for a survey of arms. The King is highly displeased at the remissness of the Deputy Lieutenants herein of late years. The Lord Lieutenant is ordered to reprove them sharply and to send an account of them with the muster-rolls. Commanders, officers, and soldiers must be able and sufficient men, well affected in religion, and must take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance. All able, untrained men between 16 and 60 years of age must be enrolled, that levies may be made of them when required. The number of trained bands, especially the horse, must be increased and well furnished with arms. Arms must be found for as many untrained men as possible. The clergy are to show arms and be mustered according to the directions of their Bishop, who is to send a list to the Deputy-Lieutenants. Recusants must have their arms sequestered into other hands, and repaired and kept for use at the charge of the owners, but they must be present at musters; the persons who are to wear the arms must be chosen by the Deputy-Lieutenants at the charge of the recusants. Provisions of match, powder, and lead are to be stored in magazines according to a former letter, dated 10 July 1626. Wood must be stored for making beacons, and carefully watched. The Lord Lieutenant must give an account of the state of the forces, for the King's information, by 1 Aug. next. Signatures appended.

An Order by the Prince's Council in pursuance of a petition by Mr Wynne on behalf of Sir William Williams and John Bodvel concerning right of common in the waste lands of the town of Caernarfon, in which they are disturbed by reason of the demising and enclosing of the said lands by certain persons of the said town, although the said waste belongs to the Prince and has not been granted by any charter to the said town, but has, time out of mind, been used as a free common or pasture. Rowland Gruffith, esquire, Recorder of Caernarfon, and William Thomas were instructed to appear before the Board, who ordered that the said persons should cease to enclose the waste lands, and were furthermore ordered to attend the Board on October 28th next, to answer by what warrant they had demised and enclosed the said lands. Dated at Commission House, Fleet Street. Signatures appended.

Desiring him to send venison against her brother Grosvenor's coming to Mostyn. John Pennant would have Wynn send a hawk and he shall not want for partridges.

Instructions to Captains Lewis Roberts, Robert Davies, Matthew Foster and John Bradley, for the exercise of a body of 1,200 soldiers.

Instructions for levying 640 footmen, able-bodied and well-clothed, which are not to be taken out of the trained bands. They must be conducted to the town of Selby-upon-Ouse, near York, by April 15. For the conduct money, they are to have 8d. a day, and a daily march of 15 miles. The conductors must be reasonably paid, and keep their men from straggling and pilfering. On the delivery of the men to the conductors, an indenture, containing a description of the men, is to be made and a copy thereof sent to the Board. Signatures appended. Underneath is a list of the Welsh counties, specifying the number of foot-soldiers to be levied from each.

Acknowledges Bulkeley's letter. The insolence of Chedle in the matter of the captainship of Beaumaris is grown to the greatest height by the affront of the Lord Lieutenant and his deputies. On Thursday last the Deputy-Lieutenants sent Chedle a letter, subscribed by Sir Thomas Holland, Owen Wood, and Row. White, to demand by what warrant or authority he had countermanded the writer, whom they had appointed captain of the town (a copy of which letter the writer sends herewith). As soon as Chedle received this letter, he caused his own private drum to be beaten in the open streets of the town, and his ensign borne. When they came over against Sir Thomas Holland's house (he being then in town), they made a stand there for a good while, and, by way of defiance of him as Deputy- Lieutenant, beat their drum and advanced their colours there a long time. After this a boy who waits on Dr Chedle came to Sir Thomas Holland and told him that Mr Chedle had sent him thither with a paper, which he delivered, and which the writer sends herewith. It seems to be only an extract from the Earl of Dorset's Patent, but the boy showed neither the Patent itself nor any warrant from the Earl of Dorset authorizing Chedle to be his deputy, neither has Chedle so much as subscribed his name to testify to its being a true copy, but in a slighting manner sent the enclosed bare scrawl to the Deputy-Lieutenants in answer to their letter. He has shown no one a warrant but tells all the townspeople that he has the Great Seal of England, meaning the Patent, frightening and terrifying them thereby. As soon as he had sent this paper to Sir Thomas Holland, he marched down the streets in his scarlet, with a great plume of feathers, afore his drummer, with Richard Vaughan carrying the ensign, and William Hughes and Jarrett Terry in attendance as officers of his band. And so he marched into the castle, having previously, by his drummer, summoned all the soldiers of the town to appear before him there. He and his drummer were followed through the streets by his created officers and by all the idle people and boys, making very unlawful assembly in these troubled times. The next day, being Friday, he caused his drum and ensign again to be beaten about the streets, and proclamation to be made at the Cross and divers other places to this effect, viz.: 'All gentlemen, soldiers, and inhabitants of Beaumaris, you are to appear before Mr Chedle, Lieutenant to the Earl of Dorset, who is captain of the town of Beaumaris, at the castle, by two of the clock, upon peril that may ensue.' On Saturday again, through the midst of the market (that the country as well as the town might take notice of his authority), he marched with his drummer, colour, and officers, to the castle, and then, by reason of threats that he would return their names and have them fetched up if they appeared not, very many came thither with their arms to him, while he wrote their names in a list, and all this in such an insolent and arrogant way, and with boasting words and behaviour, which is an affront to the noble Lord Lieutenant and his jurisdiction. He has proceeded to an actual usurpation of the rights of the Lord Lieutenant and of his deputy officers, all of whom, as well as the writer (who was appointed by them all to discharge the place that Chedle has usurped), desire Col. Bulkeley to move the Lord Lieutenant for redress. Endorsed: 'Letter Mr H. W. to Mr Richard Bulkeley, 24 Martij, 1638. Copy.'. See Richard Fenton (ed. J. Fisher), 'Tours in Wales (1804-1813)' (Cambrian Arch. Assoc., 1917), pp. 290-291.

Has been tedious in this long and confused relation of Chedle's practices, but has given a true account thereof, which he can prove and justify. It is known by true tradition that the last Constable resident in Beaumaris Castle was Sir Rowland Vielleville. All since have been rather titular Constables than in any way vested with the authority and privileges of Constables of former times. Conceives the reason to be because Wales was at that time joined and incorporated with England, so that the Crown was assured of their fidelity and obedience, and the castles, which had been hitherto fortified with officers and a garrison to keep the Welsh in due subjection, were now neglected and locked up, there being no longer occasion to fear the loyalty of the Welsh, and so no occasion to garrison the castles as formerly. Therefore, the power and authority of those Constables grew obsolete and vanished, cessante causa, cessavit effectus, yet still the same words and form were kept in the Patents for the Constableship granted by succeeding kings and queens, though none of the patentees had the same power. It is known that, till a few years ago, there was a clause in the sheriff's oaths that they should destroy and make to cease all manner of heresies called 'Lollaries', which were none other, in former days, than professors of the new reformed religion. And this clause continued till of late, though unpractised. He therefore conceives there are words of captainship in the Patent of the Constable of the Castle which have not been put into practice and which are antiquated and dead. He also believes there are words in the Constable's Patent to the effect that he should be mayor, and therefore Chedle may challenge the mayoralty as well as the captainship of the town. Since Sir Rowland Vielleville's time the writer has not heard of anyone who has openly attempted (by virtue of the words of their Patent) the captainship of the town of Beaumaris, until Mr Chedle usurped it. In 21 and 22 Eliz. there was a commission, dated March 11, directed to the mayor and some others of the town to authorize them to muster and train the inhabitants of the said town. There was then a Constable of the Castle and his Patent was as ample as now, yet that office is committed from him to the charge of the mayor, and lest it be objected that the Constable was then mayor, the said commission will make it appear otherwise. But note that this commission to the mayor was before the institution of Lords Lieutenant. Afterwards when the charge and oversight of the military forces was granted to several Lords Lieutenant, in several counties, the writer conceives all authority concerning these affairs was transferred to the said several Lords Lieutenant in their several jurisdictions, so that the government belongs to them and to their deputies. The first deputies for Anglesey were Sir Richard Bulkeley and John Gruffith. Sir Richard Bulkeley was also Constable of the Castle, yet he as Deputy-Lieutenant, and not as Constable, appointed a captain over Beaumaris, one Mr Hampton, who continued in that place many years and was called by the name of captain. Now, if Sir Richard Bulkeley had, in his office of Constable, appointed Mr Hampton, he would not have suffered him to be called captain (which title, by his Patent, belonged to him alone as Constable) but he would have been called either lieutenant or deputy, which he was not, being absolute captain. The same course was held by succeeding Deputy-lieutenants when Sir Edward Lewis was Constable, and since, when the Earl of Dorset was Constable, for the Deputy-Lieutenants appointed Rowland Thicknesse, by their warrant, captain of the town, who continued in the place till his death. After which they appointed Henry White, who was lately interrupted in his office by Thomas Chedle, who assumes the name and execution of the said office by virtue of certain words in the Earl of Dorset's Patent ( whose deputy the said Chedle pretends to be), though the words be none other than such as the said Sir Richard Bulkeley and Sir Edward Lewis had formerly in their Patents. The writer concludes by begging Bulkeley to refer the matter to the Lord Lieutenant and to the Earl of Dorset for settlement. Endorsed: 'Letter Mr H. W. to Mr Richard Bulkeley, 24 Martij; 1638. Copy.'.

Order for holding a general view and muster of trained bands, according to former letters. They are required, in addition, to return a perfect and exact muster-roll and certificate before the end of next Michaelmas term. And whereas, by his letters of 24 March 1636, and by their letters of 30 June 1638, the muster-rolls and certificates were required to be returned to Mr Mewtys, clerk of the Council and Muster-Master General, they now see fit to recall that direction, and to require that the muster-rolls and certificates be sent direct to the Board.

Warrant by the Commissioners of the Forest of Snowdon to the sheriff of Anglesey, for summoning a jury to meet at Beaumaris on 16 Aug. next, to enquire concerning certain encroachments, transgressions and other offences committed within the King's Forest of Snowdon and in the counties of Flint, Denbigh and Montgomery, according to the tenor and effect of a schedule of articles and instructions annexed to the said commission.