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CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE. IO5
Earl’s houfes in that country. The leading men of the
neighbourhood, and deputy lieutenants of the county, natu-
rally interfered to put a flop to this fhameful fpoliation, but in
vain ; the following plain-fpoken letter being his reply :—
“Honourable Friends,—
“ I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 20th
September, in which you are pleafed to inquire of me whether
my fervant Milward doth add by my order for taking down of
the lead, timber, and iron of Conway Cadle : in anfwer to
which queftion I do by this acknowledge it to be my add and
deed ; and that the faid Milward is employed by me to difpofe
of the timber and iron, according to fuch directions as I gave
him, and to tranfport the lead into Ireland, where I hope it
will be more ferviceable to his ma’tie than in this countrv.
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And having this opportunity of addreffing myfelfe to you,
I humbly befeech you to take off the reftraint which you have
put upon his proceedings, and to affoord him yor favour in it;
for I am already prejudiced by the Ioffe of fhipping and an
opportune feafon for the tranfportation of the lead ; yet I fhall
efteeme this as a particular obligation vpon mee, and be ready
to expreffe it by all the fervice in my power to every one of
you, that you are pleafed to grant this att my requeft ; which
otherwife may put me to fome trouble and delay. And I doubt
not of meeting occafions to teftifie my being,
“ Honoble Sirs,
“ Your affectionate and obedient ServL
“ Conway and Kilulta.
“ Ragley in Warwickfhire, 6th October, 1665.
“ To the Honoble Thomas Bulkley, Efq., Colonell Wynn,
Hugh Wynn, Efq., Thomas Vaughan, Efq., his Ma’ties
Deputy-Livetenants in North Wales.”
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Earl’s houfes in that country. The leading men of the
neighbourhood, and deputy lieutenants of the county, natu-
rally interfered to put a flop to this fhameful fpoliation, but in
vain ; the following plain-fpoken letter being his reply :—
“Honourable Friends,—
“ I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 20th
September, in which you are pleafed to inquire of me whether
my fervant Milward doth add by my order for taking down of
the lead, timber, and iron of Conway Cadle : in anfwer to
which queftion I do by this acknowledge it to be my add and
deed ; and that the faid Milward is employed by me to difpofe
of the timber and iron, according to fuch directions as I gave
him, and to tranfport the lead into Ireland, where I hope it
will be more ferviceable to his ma’tie than in this countrv.
J
And having this opportunity of addreffing myfelfe to you,
I humbly befeech you to take off the reftraint which you have
put upon his proceedings, and to affoord him yor favour in it;
for I am already prejudiced by the Ioffe of fhipping and an
opportune feafon for the tranfportation of the lead ; yet I fhall
efteeme this as a particular obligation vpon mee, and be ready
to expreffe it by all the fervice in my power to every one of
you, that you are pleafed to grant this att my requeft ; which
otherwife may put me to fome trouble and delay. And I doubt
not of meeting occafions to teftifie my being,
“ Honoble Sirs,
“ Your affectionate and obedient ServL
“ Conway and Kilulta.
“ Ragley in Warwickfhire, 6th October, 1665.
“ To the Honoble Thomas Bulkley, Efq., Colonell Wynn,
Hugh Wynn, Efq., Thomas Vaughan, Efq., his Ma’ties
Deputy-Livetenants in North Wales.”
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