Letter from Thomas Ellis, Holyhead to Mrs. Ann Owen at Penrhos Humbly requests that she will be kind enough to send orders by the bearer to finish the floor of the school, to plaster and whitewash the walls and to make a large oak table for writing "I'd not be so bold a beggarand put on ye Irishman in this manner but for my real concern for ye swarm of children wich grow in a manner wild for want of schooling". 31 August 1744