| Description | Descriptive of the uneasy days that set in with the capitulation of Anglesey in the first Civil War (for interesting documents bearing on the surrender of Beaumaris Castle on June 14, 1646, examine Cal. Wynn Papers, nos. 1774-1801; J.R. Phillips Hist Civil War, 11, 312-313; it certainly did not add to the pleasantness of the negotiations that the headquarters of the Parliamentary officers was the house of Lady Cheadle in Beaumaris, whose very name was an abomination to the Bulkeley family). It was well for the inhabitants of the island to keep on good terms with Major-General Mytton - he is the “noble Generall" of the letter - so as to keep free quartering of Parliamentary soldiers within moderate limits, and also the provision of food, forage, stores, &c.; this letter wants a sevenights provision sent immediately to Holyhead to be delivered to William Williams there "the best man in that parish & best able to provide house-roome". In a postscript the writers are still in an atmosphere of trepidation - they have heard of the likelihood of John Lisle, one of the most incisively uncompromising legal men on the Parliamentary side, passing through Anglesey on his way to Ireland, and call him “my Lord Lisle”, thus ante-dating his peerage by eleven years |