File NLW MS 9055E/725. - Sir John Wynn's statement of his case before the Council of the Marches,

The informants against him are:. (1) John Hughes (a deponent of Henry Salusbury) whose son committed a murder, and, though nothing was at first done in the business for fear of Henry Salusbury, he was afterwards indicted and fled. (2) William Williams who, because he was oppressed by John Salusbury, was preferred by Sir Roger Mostyn, his kinsman, to Sir Richard Lewkenor. He is now turned Turk and has joined Henry Salusbury with his master the justice. Sir John Wynn was called before the Council on 7 Nov., but begged to have the hearing postponed until the next term, having taken cold on a late journey to Mostyn. He was refused and the matter was proceeded with. The witnesses on the defendant's side (being illiterate, simple people not having the English tongue) were examined by the common examiner who, being an Englishman, was fain to use an interpreter, and it is to be doubted whether the same did interpret rightly. In the end Sir John was condemned, heavily fined and pronounced degraded of his places. Sir Thomas Myddelton, after Sir John Musbury's death, wishing to end the breach between Sir John Wynn and Henry Salusbury (in the matter of lands in Llysvayne), sold Sir John all the freehold lands in Llysvayne and this by authority of Henry Salusbury. William Wynn was set on by the said Henry Salusbury, his cousin, to make Sir John believe he would procure his bargain, from which he fell into this inconvenience and dilemma.