| Description | Honoured Uncle'. Is heartily sorry for his uncle's afflictions and would be glad to understand how he might be instrumental towards the removal of them. Wood has no doubt heard of the writer's putting himself into the bonds of wedlock. Thinks ithis duty to acquaint him with the causes that induce him thereunto so soon. First, he acknowledges that he had an affection for his cousin, now his wife, which with the fear of Mr. Pierce Lloyd's traps and snares which he daily laid for the writer, made him hasten his own security, for he thought that family aimed at having his estate into their "griping talons" as they got Wood's. From which family it was the writer's mother's care that, he should "blesse" himself, Wood's house and the ancient family of Bodychan being two fresh monuments of their "avaricious Tyrannie and unjust dealings". Desires Wood to accept of this hint as a great truth from the writer : that whatever persons tamper with Wood about Llangwyfan estate, they are employed by Aunt Wood though they appear in several shapes and bring him several pretences. The writer has desired his father-in-law to convey five pounds to Wood as a small token of the writer's love and respects to him. Is at school at Wrexham where his kinsman and countryman Mr. Ambrose Lewis is his master, with whom he diets and lodges.
(Draft) Addressed to - "John Wood Esq at ye King's Bench prison in South Wark, London". |
| AdminHistory | Owen Bold of Tre'rddol; H.S.A., 1684; married Margaret, daughter of John Owen of Penrhos |