File Clenennau letters and papers 338 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - [Sir] William Thomas, Caernarvon, to his father-in-law Sir William Maurice, kt, and Dame Jane, his lady and bedfellow, Clenennau,

Learns partly from his son William Thomas and partly from some of the recipients' wellwishers that the latter have bestowed between them a thousand pounds with their grandchild Mrs Jane Awbury to match her to their liking. Persuades himself that they have a better liking for William Thomas's son William Thomas, whose condition they know and allow of, than for another more estranged by nature and country. Thought it not amiss to manifest to them his readiness and consent thereto, the more because the young people may justly expect greater kindness at the recipients' hands than of others, besides the portion due to William Thomas for the estate which he means to assure upon them and their heirs. As William Thomas told the recipients in conference at Corsygedol, [this consists of] all William Thomas's lands in Caernarfonshire, namely, Aber, Llanfair, the fields in and near the town of Caernarvon, the lands in Hugh ap Robert ap Yner's hands, the mills, Coedalen and William Thomas's chief mansion house in Caernarvon, all which he values at £500 a year or not much under. That money must go to redeem his lands now in mortgage and to pay his debts. As for the lands in Anglesey, intends to reserve some of them for his eldest son, and the residue towards the preferment of the rest of his children by the recipients' daughter. Will make his son William Thomas a competent jointure such as the recipients think reasonable and all the lands in Caernarfonshire after William Thomas's decease, discharged from all encumbrances, to make the best thereof, except his mother's right. Makes the recipients the first offer of his son with William Thomas's main and principal estate and expects their answers, jointly or severally.