Clayton letters, &c.,

Miscellaneous holograph letters and documents which include five letters, 1671/2-1672/3, from G[eorge] Scudamore, Monmouth Forge, to Sir Robert Clayton and to John Morris at Augustine Friers, etc. (relating to the Rotherwas estate, collection of rents in the lordships of Dinder and Much Dewchurch, etc.); eleven letters, 1673-1673/4, from Abr[aham] Seward, Hereford, to John Morris and to William Belke at Sir Robert Clayton's house in London (repairs to the fulling mills and its effect on the cloth trade in Hereford, the leasing of Rotherwas estate, etc.); one letter, 26 January, 1678/9, to Lady [Ann] Jones [of Fonmon Castle]; two letters, 18 October, [16]88, to [George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem]; two dockets, November, 1688, of grants to Richard Bulkeley, 3rd viscount Bulkeley, of the offices of chancellor and chamberlain of the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth, and of constable of the castle of Beaumaris and captain of Beaumaris; a covenant, 1 September, 1691, in respect of the tithes of Yestradvellty and hamlet of Glyntawy; etc.
Amongst other references are those to the Alltycadno and Gwilodymaes estates in Carmarthenshire; and Kidwelly Tin Works.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11019E.

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 290.

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);

For further collections of Clayton and related letters, see NLW MSS 11016-11018E, 11020-11021E; 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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