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  <dc:title>Letters from Major-General Thomas Mytton to Thomas, first Viscount Bulkeley, one from Helston, the other from Oswestry ('Oswallds Tree")</dc:title>
  <dc:description>They both refer to the preoccupations of the Parliamentary leaders with the peace and good government of Anglesey following the capitulation of June, 1646 (cp. docts. 6727-6728) of which one were the accusations of riotous behaviour in Holyhead against the Puritan soldiers who wore going over to reduce Ireland. Mytton, whose moderation and common-sense were subjects of general tribute (cp. J.E. Phillips: Hist.,i,160), seems to have been on excellent terms with Lord Bulkeley, though he cannot have been under any delusion about the underground forces that were to rise up in insurrection (July,1648). 

The second Letter (6730) does lift the veil somewhat, Mytton guardedly referring to some "one man which might have caused much harme", but adds that he has received satisfaction concerning him from Capt. Symkis. Unfortunately, this particular Symkis must be put down as a military adventurer of no political convictions, as witness his acting (1646-1648) as Governor of Beaumaris Castle under the Parliament (for proof of this, see Cal. Comm. Advance of Money,ii,1118), and Later prominent as supporter of the insurrection of 1648 (Hist. Civil War in Wales,ii,400)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1646-1648</dc:date>
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