XD2/5001
LETTER: David Clark, Customs, St., Kath[erines] D[oc]ks, London, to Lord Newborough informing his Lordship that six weeks before an article had appeared in The Times touching the weighty incubus of Chancery in reference to the Bill for Transferring the Testamentary Jurisdiction to that Court. This illustrated their experience. He had met their London managing man in London who had said that Shearman and Slater had fought inch by inch but that they had been beaten at a faster and more certain rate than their opponents in the Crimea. He had told this man that he had expected that the war would be fought inch by inch because S[later] and S[hearman] were still in receipt of the dividends. The ’London managing man’ had replied that it had been done on advice. He feared that they would refuse to refund what they had received and hoped that some positive check could be placed on S[later] and S[hearman] continuing to receive dividends. [N.L.W. Glynllivon 2770.]
Cyngor Gwynedd