| Description | (cp. Baron Hill 5527-5604) 6751 has to do with the Menai ferry leases, 6752-6754 introduce a new cause of contention, whether Sir Arthur Owen of Bodeon was trespassing upon the authority of Lord Bulkeley as Vice-Admiral of North Wales by appropriating wrecks on the shores of Aberffraw and Llangwyfan. 6755 contains the printed libel of Lloyd Bodvell and Sir Arthur Owen, with Lord Bulkeley’s considered defence; 6756-6757 prove that his Lordship was particularly chagrined by finding the names of several clergymen of Anglesey subscribing the libellous memorial (cp. papers 6756 and 6764), especially that of Hugh Wynne and others “nearly depending upon him" [he may have been the Mr Wynn recommended by the second Viscount for a chaplaincy with the Bishop of of StAsaph, document 6733, and almost surely the Son of Ty'nllwydan by Aberffraw, who was promoted to various good livings in western Anglesey, and (says Browne Willis: Bangor, 163) to the Chancellorship of the Cathedral (1705), in which he was no doubt helped by the Bishop (Dr John Evans), a stout Whig and no friend to the Bulkeleys]. After the great Tory victory of 1710, Lord Bulkeley was able to deflect the Influence of the Court and procedure at the courts in his favour: papers 6759-6763 introduce the names of a St John (Bolingbroke), the Lord Treasurer (Oxford), and the Lord Keeper (Sir Simon Harcourt). The friend who kept the fourth Viscount well posted with the latest London news, and who acted as go-between in the highest circles, was his brother-in-law, the Hon. Henry Bertie, third son of James, first Earl of Abingdon; H.B. represented Beaumaris in Parliament from 1705 to 1727. One peculiar news in 6752, viz., the letter of Francis Bulkeley of Porthamel and Llangefni, is that the general atmosphere of contention in Anglesey about 1707 had seen the strange appearance of an anti-Bulkeley “mob” even in Beaumaris itself |