Title | Letters to Sir Robert Williams of Nant and Friars by Llanfaes, M.P., for Carnarvonshire, son to Capt. Hugh Williams and Lady Emma, widow of James, sixth Viscount Bulkeley, and so half-brother to Thomas James, 7th. Viscount |
Description | All for the year 1800. Some from his wife Anne, daughter of Edward Hughes of Kinmel and sister to the first Lord Dinorben, others from his agent at Friars, others from his sister. Considerable light on the terms on which he held Friars from Lord Bulkeley; in the early months of this year relations were somewhat strained between the half-brothers, as witness the letters of Feb. 24 and March 6. References to a Welsh Club in London [see printed circular, dated 20 Febr.) and to a Druidical Society at Beaumaris, of which W. Sparrowe was Arch Druid (see July 29). A good deal about the awful scarcity on the countryside, and the drain of public subscriptions; one letter waxes eloquent on the appearance of fraudulent drovers in Anglesey (March 3) |