XD2/19019
LETTER: William Elias, at Ffestiniog to Lord Newborough. He wishes he may fare as well at all his Lordship’s audits, but has only faint hope from the corn farmers. The dissenters have built their chapel to the level and it is ready for roofing. The culvert over the stream is done but they cannot continue for want of the lease, and they will visit his Lordship on Saturday afternoon about the lease. He encloses the plan and measurements for the lease and says that they have paid 3 guineas for 1 year’s rent. He discusses the settlement of leases with David Lloyd and Griffith Evans and building work which they are to undertake. They wish to build the wall C.D. for which they have stones. He thinks the Church House a good building and hopes his Lordship will put as small a rent on it as possible considering the use it is for, whilst leaving it without a garden as the space there is the only enclosed yard at Ty isa for livestock at fairs. Mr. Jones takes the cottage rent in a lump sum paid nearly up to May next. He is greatly pitied on account of his being fined by the magistrates. Another bailiff was greatly abused a short time before in Holland’s Quarry on similar duty. The Rector expects the landlords to pay him the tithes upon all their estates for the past year now. Enclosed: PLAN of plot of ground at Ffestiniog village, part of Ty isaf farm, the property of Lord Newborough, let and leased out to the Independent Dissenters for building a chapel and dwelling houses in October 1839. Document defective: Letter torn.
Cyngor Gwynedd