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- 1587-1624. (Creation)
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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].
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Mainly English, some Latin.
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The petition of the burgesses of Harlech, 1604, : Wynne, William Watkin Edward, 'Documents Relating to the Town and Castle of Harlech' in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1846, pp. 254-5.
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Several of the letters have been annotated by Sir William Maurice.
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Preferred citation: PEC1/1.
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- Great Britain. Court of Great Sessions (Merioneth) (Subject)
- Great Britain : Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Merioneth) (Subject)
- Corporation of Harlech. (Subject)
- Maurice, William, Sir, 1542-1622 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Lee, Henry, Sir 1533?-1611 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1633 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Vaughan, Griffith, 1616 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Wynn, John, Sir, 1553-1627 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1633 (Subject)
- Vaughan, Griffith, 1616. (Subject)
- Maurice, William, Sir, 1542-1622 (Subject)
- Wynn, John, Sir, 1553-1627 (Subject)