| Description | "it may well become the Heroic Greatness of your Generall [Marlborough] to impress the Glory of your Arms in those parts of the Calendar which had been left void and toucht by other Conquerors" (the reference is to the capture of Lille, Bruges and Ghent in the early winter of 1708).
Richard, fourth Viscount Bulkeley, signs as Custos Rotulorum: close to his is his ill-fated kinsman Francis Bulkeley of Llangefni; the Mayor, Recorder, and Bailiffs if Beaumaris; the Rev. Henry Rowlands, the later author of Llanddyfnan, practically a non-juror at the revolution of 1688, and soon to move from Anglesey to Herefordshire; Owen Davies, rector of Llandyfrydog, one of the predecessors of Lewis Davies; William Lewis of Llysdulas; Henry Whyte of Friars; Richard Hampton of Henllys; the John Bold who according to document DIN/246 was a mere shopkeeper , but great-grandfather to the first Lord Stanley of Alderley, etc. |