Showing 3 results

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].

Administration papers relating to the borough of Harlech, including copies, 1573, of an account of lead at Harlech Castle in 1571; grant of the constableship of Harlech Castle to Sir Henry Lee and Owen Cooke, 1589; a subsequent appointment of a deputy, 1599; a draft petition to the King by the Corporation of Harlech for holding the Great Sessions and Quarter Sessions at Harlech, [c. 1604]-1612; copy of the 1284 charter of Harlech [1604x1612]; regulations for the appointments and duties of burgesses and bailiffs in the town, 1612; and a copy of the results of an official investigation into the Corporation and crown land at Harlech, with the jury 's verdict, 1650.

Order of the Court of Chancery, 1624, resulting from a case between Ellis Sutton, plt., and William Vaughan, Henry Price, Hugh Jones and others, concerning lands in Harlech which the plt claimed by virtue of a grant by Lord Eure, constable of the castle and mayor of the town, and the bailiffs and burgesses in 1611/12, and which came to him through subsequent assignments. The defts' claim rested on several letters patent granted by Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth. The court ordered that a commission be established for redemption of the plt 's grant of land, redemption of the estate back to the Corporation of Harlech and prevention of future grants of the town 's lands and revenues for any periods exceeding 21 years, restricting them to burgesses only, for the exclusive benefit of the town and its corporation.