File Clenennau letters and papers 326 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - [REV.] William Brinkir, Hart Hall, to his uncle Sir William Maurice, kt, Clenennau,

Wishes to be remembered to William Maurice, her ladyship and his father and mother. Has no leisure because of the messenger's haste to write to them. Hopes his father has recovered from his sickness and that they are all well at Clenennau. Came up to London hoping to have something of the Lord Chancellor after the bishop of Bangor's death, but it was all gone and promised a month before he came. Lord Pembroke wrote a very earnest, kind letter on William Brinkir's behalf to the Chancellor about Aberdaron, and spoke most effectually in William Brinkir's hearing to Sir John Egerton to move his father that William Brinkir might have it, with a promise of far greater kindness for any friend of Sir John's if it stood in his lordship's power to perform it. The Lord Chancellor had already given his promise to one of his own chaplains and could not recall it, but he told William Brinkir that he would willingly please him thereafter in anything he could and that he would satisfy his lordship therewith. Dr Williams of Rhuthun and Dr Lewis, who was with William Maurice at Clenennau, and one Dr [Lewis] Bayly, who once lived with her ladyship at Abermarlais, stand for 'our' bishopric. It is not yet known who will have it; will write to William Maurice as soon as he hears of any certainty. Has no news to write. Postscript: A stationer of London sent this book, which is a speech by the King, to William Maurice. Saw no-one to bring it down before now.