X/POOLE/1013
LETTER: Hugh Owen from New Bond Street to Poole. He agrees to Poole’s plan of not allowing any farms on the Owen Estate to be held as Byeholds. Asks Poole to draw a list of tenants who are paying less rent than the recent valuation estimated. They are to be given notice to quit if they refuse to take their farms at the rent indicated by the recent valuation. The tenants must not know in advance that they are to be given notice to quit in case they damage their land by ploughing, etc.. He mentions an application he has received for a colliery at Malltraeth, but he cannot agree to their terms. In Pembrokeshire the landowner receives a third or fourth share in the one. He will not agree to have the land damaged for only a sixth share, especially as he would have to employ a man to look after his interests at the colliery.
Cyngor Gwynedd