| Description | clash of two doughty personalities, over the right to quarries of "milstones and slates" at Penmon and Fedw Fawr, Sir William depending upon Letters Patent granted him by Queen Elizabeth (13 June, 1592) under which he claimeth the right to work all quarries “within the principality", and for which privilege he paid an yearly rent of £10.3.4. Sir Richard argued that his "diggers and workers" took stone from his own freehold and inheritance, that the Sovereign's patent had no prerogative upon the freehold of a subject. Unfortunately, 7 Henry V and certain Ministers’ Accounts seemed to prove the Sovereign had such a prerogative. Counsel (for this is really a lawyer's notes on the controversy) goes on to draw a distinction between the King's own quarries, of which he had no less than 20 on his own "wastes" in Anglesey, and quarries innate in his subjects’ freehold; but advises Sir Richard to let the stones at Penmon "rest" till the outcome of the proceedings be known. Three papers, one a mere fragment, while the third declares one stage of the litigation proceedings to be 9 Febr., 1609-1610 |