| Description | Still, the entries on pp.1-2 "are" arrears of rents of Beaumaris tenants for 1715. Then follow several lists of persons for several years who had had liberty to set nets for the herring fishers at Penmon [Penmaen]; accounts of cattle sold at Llanerch-y-medd in November 1713 (p.13); plenty of proof that heriots (or their communtation money) were insisted upon (e.g., pp. 21b,26); and what of the £1.3.0. recieved in 1719 for Lewis John Williams and partners "for ye puffings of ye [puffin] Islands sold them the last season"? (p.22). Then on p.24 comes an account of money received for every seventh hundred of "oysters" that were taken in "the river of menay", especially from the crew of the "Speedwell and the Garth boat; on pp.40-44 very important light on the working of the Porthamel-Penmynydd estate under new arrangements.
Occassionally, a person's name arrests one's attention, like Seipio Thomas of Creuddyn (p.38). It may be added that these accounts of Cadwaladr's were very carefully scrutinised usually by the fourth Viscount himself
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