Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    your honno’rs auncesto’r. And though he be a poore man yet most of the better sort of men in South Wales do come out of his howse. He requesteth me thus inuche to signyfye unto yo’r hono’r the rather because heretofore I presumed to declare unto you what I knywe touching thees matters, and the stat of Wales univ’sally, and presented yo’r hono’r therwyth in a small volume. He declareth unto me that his owne ffrendes and kynysmen do use him uncourteouslie respecting rather howe they might devest him from his lyving then otherwise to further his credit. And therfor as unto the head of his kynne is enforced to make his accesse unto yo’r hono’r, craving yo'r sh’ruice [service] and entertayne’t. I do remitt the consideration of his suet, and the further credit of his report unto yo’r hono’r And for my part canne say nothing but that he is of yo’r bloode, and by his nativitie a very good gentleman not inferior to the best of the Vaughans. And thus I rest most humbly yo’r hono’rs at comaundem’t. Writyn at the Fflet, Junii 24, 1569. Yo’r hono’rs most humble at comaundem’t, Jenkin Gwynne. (b) ff. 163-4. Fees payable to the various functionaries of the council of the Marches ; 3 June 1570. 19] 14. f. 33. Letter from John Wogan, sheriff of Pembrokeshire, to lord Burghley ; 10 Sept. 1572 j1 imperfect at margin. My duetie most humbly premisede unto yo’r good L. Whereas hit ys my duetye being shiriffe of the shire to adv’tise her ma’tie or some of her highnes most hon’able counsaill of every thinge or cause whiche doth concerne her ma’ts comoditie by any maner meanes Therfore thes are to adv’tis yo’r hono’r that I [am] credebly enformede and the report ys . . . that aboutes Easter laste Jevan Canton . . . Hurte and Thomas Probert of this county of Penbrok have ffounde at an olde peyre of [walls] at Spittell in the said countie a greate quantitie of Threasure, golde and silver, conteynede in a certaine crocke of brasse as is supposede and that they had knowlege thereof by the adv’tisment of one Syr Lewis a preste dwelling in Carm'thenshir not ffarre from Kayo. The presumption is greate as may appere by the varietie of their owne confessions taken before me and by the circu’staunce of the deposicion of others before me also examinede, specially of twoo, the one of thaege [the age] of xviij yeres, the other of xvj yeres, namede John Canton and Thomas Canton (bothe brethern to the forenamed Jevan Canton one of the parties charged with the said threasure trove). And myself, with others, repaired to the place and ffounde the walles broken withe engyns and a place w’thinthe centre . . . wall conteigninge one ffoote square ffytte for ... a crock, and the soille or ruste of the crock . . . made black the 1 The sheet containing the letter has become detached from its fly-leaf con- taining the endorsement; the latter is f. 21 b.