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XD2/15034

LETTER: Edward Knowles, Denbigh to ? informing him that Mr. Ffoulkes, Ffoulk Salisbury and William Hughes had a private counsel in the market place and he observed, at a great distance, a letter which he believed to be of Sir John Wynn. He therefore believed that they were probably in pursuit of the [Denbigh] Mills, which they probably had some promise about. As Sir John Wynn would probably be down in the country the next month he wished to state that he would not willingly lose the mills and would give as much as he possibly could, hoping that Sir John would not set him aside. He could not understand the warmth that Sir John felt for Ffoulk Salisbury, who had used Sir John so ill on a previous occasion. He therefore proposed to give Sir John £200 a year from the following Michaelmas, liable to repairs, as before. If Sir John would put Segroit Mill into such repair as to render it fit to do business with the kiln for drying oats for shelling, he would enter into a lease for seven, fourteen or twenty-one years, taking all repairs upon himself, Sir John finding and allowing sufficient timber, slates and milestones, at a yearly rent of £200. He asks that a repossession clause for non-payment of rent be put into the lease. The timber then squaring at Segroit for Caernarfon would soon be sent down to Ridland [Rhuddlan]. He had cautioned Thomas Pierce about turning cattle into the brow intended for a coppice. [N.L.W. Glynllivon 2935]