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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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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    [159] 89. f. 96. Lord Salisbury to Sir Michael Hicks ; 1605. I pray you if possibly you can find any more Notes of Wales, especially instructions in q’n Marie’s time or k. Ed. let y’m be sent me by dynner. Let not Foulk Greville nor anybody know y’t I have any. Your fr. Salisbury. One howres search will serve. [160] 92. f. hi. Maurice Kyffin, a recusant, to Sir Michael Hicks; 1611. Wales, ii, 65 (Ivor James), where the identity of the writer of the letter with the translator into Welsh of bishop Jewel’s Apology for the Church of Eugla?id is discussed. Search has been made amongst the various documents at the Public Record Office likely to contain the names of Welsh recusants for that of Maurice Kyffin, but unsuccessfully. [161] 93. ff. 171, 173, 175. Three letters1 from the archbishop of York (Sir John Williams) to Sir John Owen, of Clennenau, governor of Conway castle. A letter from the same to the same, and ot the same date as the first of the following letters (24 April 1646) was published in Arch. Camb., 4th Ser., vi, 316, by the late Mr. W. W. E. Wynne. It is without doubt the one referred to below. All three letters are originals, and are signed by the Archbishop ; the third is entirely in his handwriting. My very worthy cozon. I have written unto you this morning, upon the receipt of my lord Byron’s letter. And beinge informed of the approach of the Enemie on this side the Bridge at Har- hart (which is false) I rode my self to hasten these Aberystwyth men, for feare of interceptinge. And overtakeinge them nowe at Pen mayn mawr I finde that by a neglect of theyr Captn and chief officer that stayed behynde, theyr Order from the lord Byron is not comme, and all I can saye is this, that the liveten’t, a discreete man, informs me that they are directed to Conwaye. And if you be acquayntedtherw’th, and able to entertayne them (for provision) the men (most of our owne co’ntrey) seeme to be able lustye and exp’ienced yong men, and better co’dicioned then ordinarye souldiores. If you neede them not, it will be great charitye to point them out some waye to Denbigh, w’ch is not strickly [strictly] besieged, as nowe I heare. God in heaven blesse you. And doubt not but to my ottermost power I will assist you, and reallye expresse myselfe, your affectionate freynd and cozen, Jo. Eborac. Pen maen mawr, 24 of April 1646 at 9 of the clocke. You doe well to provide, but I am much mistaken if the Enemies shall looke upon you these 6 weekes yeat. [Endorsed] To my much honoured cozen S’r Jo. Owen, kt., governour of Conwaye, these p’sent. 1 For a subsequent letter from Archbishop Williams to (probably) Sir John Owen, see Lansd., 115, f. 269.