| Description | to the parson of the parish church of Llanfairfechan or to his curate, to inhibit and warn publicly, upon next Sunday at Divine Service in the afternoon, all persons from hindering or disturbing or interrupting Thomas Bulkeley, esquire, being the chiefest freeholder in the said parish, in the quiet use and possession of a seat or pew in the chancel and adjoining the south wall, the uppermost seat on that side, until they are able to prove their right and title to the same. Signed by "Lewes, Bangor", i.e., Dr Lewis Bayly, Lord Bishop. There is a post script: "The cause of this course taken is for the prevention of strife, controversies, fighting & bloudshedd in the Church there, as lately happened in the same Church concerning an other seate" |