Clayton letters,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 11018E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004604058
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1656-1665 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • Contact NLW for more information.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Seventy-one holograph letters, 1658-1665, of William Rogers from Chepstow, Gloucester, etc., to Thomas Yates (Yattes), Lincolnes Inne Fields, John Morris in Corne Hill, Robert Clayton in Corne Hill, Sir Edward Heath, and Sir John Cutler in 'Gratiens' Street, London, relating to the production of mine and cinders in the Forest [of Dean] and the lading of vessels at Chepstow, Monmouth, Lidney Pill, etc., for Wexford and Eniscorthy. The writer refers to negotiations for favourable freight charges, shipwrecks at Wexford Bar and Milford Haven, attacks on ships by pirates, methods of weighing, complaints of the foulness of mine and cinders shipped to Ireland, the purchase of elms for belly-boards for the furnace and forge, the prices of barrel staves, etc., at Bristol, requests for advances of money for the payment of wages, the hiring of workmen for service in Ireland and payments to their wives, difficulties in employing finery men, a request for additional hammers and anvils (those 'that are made of our fforest mettle doth not hold'), timber trees in the Forest reserved for the Navy, the sale of the Kington estate for £850 to a schoolmaster in Worcestershire, the results of the parliamentary election of April, 1661, etc. Also included in the group are detailed accounts of receipts and disbursements, particulars of stock, etc., by William Rogers, 1656-1662; acquittances, 1657/8-1659, by William Rogers to Colonel John Nicholas, governor of Chepstow Castle, for sums of money to the recipient's use paid by Thomas Yates to Thomas Davies, Warwick Court, London; and an acquittance, 24 November, 1663, from William Rogers to John Morris for £25 for one year and a quarter's service since Mr. Morris 'entred on the Irish busines'.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11018E.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 289.

Archivist's Note

December 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

Related Material

For further collections of Clayton and related letters, see NLW MSS 11016-11017E, 11019-11021E; for further papers, [1667x1689], relating to George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem, Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris, see also NLW MS 11061D; for further papers relating to Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris see NLW MSS 4989D and 8472E, NLW Plymouth papers 1581, NLW Tredegar (4) papers 58/118, and NLW Milborne papers 1910.

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