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T. Catchmay to Sir Charles Kemeys. He had secured the interests of Ned White and George Morgan for Sir Charles; Arnold, by his emissaries, had been active in those parts; Col. Probert believes that Parliament would scarcely sit or be on Parliament long enough for Sir Charles to be a member; Mr Morgan would have only 14 days after the report was made to the House to decide which place he would serve; Mr Gildeing had promised his interest to Sir Charles.

T. [Lord] Wharton to Sir Charles Kemeys. He had complained to Lord Dursley, yet without naming his son, of the treatment of Lady Winter, wishing him to take care that his under officers would be guilty of nothing of the kind towards her; if he should neglect to do so, Lady Winter should send him affidavits of the particulars of the injury done her and the persons concerned; 'missusance' of her religion was no cause for doing wrong to one of her sex, and a friend and relation of Sir Charles.

T. Mullins of Goathurst to J. Kemeys-tynte. He had no game to send, not being in season, and of poultry there was only a turkey, which might be not worth sending so late in the season; it would be better to wait till May to send deer horns; Dyer had promised to pay his fine of £180 within a fortnight; reports of riots; a mob assembled from the Stowey, Stogursey area last Monday; they came to Goathurst and went into the Royal Meadow near Halswell House to the number of 500 or 600 men, but went away harming nobody, proceeding to North Petherton and thence to Bridgewater and dispersed; the following day another mob assembled at North Petherton in about the same number and came on to Halswell, when Major Tynte met them and desired them to return to Petherton quietly, which they did; he followed them to Petherton and quietened them by getting the farmers to sign a paper, promising them wheat at 10s. per bushel, barley at 6s., peas at 6s., potatoes at 1s. per peck, bacon at 8d. per lb, butter at 8d. and cheese at 6d.; there had been riots the previous week at Ilminster, Chard and Axminster, and also at Ne[t]tlecombe near Sir John Trevelyan's [house], where two of the rioters were taken into custody; a door was opened by force and bread was taken away; these two were brought to Taunton Assizes under guard of some of the light horse which went down from Taunton; last Friday they were tried, found guilty, and sentence of death was passed on them; they were to be executed Monday (tomorrow) morning.

Testimonial signed by the regicide Robert Wallop and. others, members of the committee in the county of Southampton, that Mr Hugh Halswell, clerk, never acted anything prejudicial to the State and that since being possessed of the parsonage of Cheriton, Hampshire, he has constantly and duly preached the word of God and behaved himself as becomes a godly and orthodox divine.

Tho. Mansell to Sir Charles Kemeys. States that he had received the letter and the articles of war for 2 years more, which he expected to get no more by [them] than the nation by carrying on the war in Flanders, 'or the late Queen's maids of honour will, if the King marries again, or you or I do by being members of Parliament'.

Thomas Andrews to Sir Charles Kemeys. Informing him that the prerequisites of the mayor of Cardiff were one bushel of grain of wheat, malt, etc., when any strange boat unloaded at the quay, which duty was also paid by our own boats, if they brought grain from abroad; one bushel is also paid of salt or coal, and 100 oysters when they came; the average value was £5 pa.

Thomas Bassett and his cousin Roger Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. Giving an account of the illness of Lady Mary Kemeys.

Thomas Bassett to Lady Mary Kemeys. Social gossip, family matters and the collection of rents. [1695, July 22 - see Vol. I, No. C638.].

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. Discussing the purchase of a horse and the prevailing prices; references to the marriage privately of Mr Lewis and to the death of Lewis Morgan; 100 bushels of wheat had been sent to Bristol.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. He had agreed that bearer should bring Sir Charles's horse up to London for £1; reference to his distraining on cattle.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. He had been with Sir Charles's friends, Messrs Huges, Oates, Jones, Thomas Williams and Edward Kemeys; he would receive letters from Messrs Oates and Jones, but Mr Huges would not write till he 'sydes' with Mr ffleror(?) and some of his friends at Abergavenny, but they all 'harye on the same string' till they hear from Mr Morgan; they all took it ill that Mr Arnold should move in it till the report of the House was over; Messrs Huges, Oates and Jones pledge Sir Charles their support, but urge him to write to Sir James Herbert, Sir John Powell, Mr Gunter and Mr Gwin of Langum; Thomas Williams was 'shie' till he heard from his brother, but afterwards he would wait on him; wishes Mr Springett to write to his cousins Roger and James Seys and Sir Charles to John Evans and his Monmouth friends; he would wait on Mr Smith on Wednesday; he had almost forgotten the main thing, which was that the Earl of Pembroke's interest could be secured if Mr William Thomas of Cardiff wrote to Mr Huges or Mr Thomas Jones.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. If he had not received his letter from Cowbridge it must have been stopped by their adversaries; the will he had seen was that of the eldest Edmond Thomas; he was sure that William Thomas, his master, did not make a will; details of estate and farm management; his father-in-law desires him and Mr Morgan to mind his concern; there was a meeting that day at Usk of such consequence that Mr Morgan had sent down to Mr Probert that which he received from the Counsel; reference to scarcity of money.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. Informing him of the serious condition of Lady Kemeys and upbraids him for not having written.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. Informing him that Sir John and Lady Thomas would be coming to Ruperra the following Tuesday; he intended brewing again next week.

Thomas Bassett to Sir Charles Kemeys. Jack Plumley had informed him of a parcel of letters which Arnold had sent to Bassett's father-in-law to dispose among his old friends, but he hoped he would not find one; he had sent on the one which was sent to cousin William, who in turn sent a copy of it to the Merchant [John Morgan] and to Mr Morgan with 'whatever else he thought convenient' for Sir Charles's interest; his cousin thought it well to let the sheriff have sight of Mr John Morgan's letters, which should afterwards be sent to the writer, as he wished to see on Monday Sir Charles's friends in the hundred of Usk and at the Rock, and on Tuesday in the hundred of Usk and at the Rock, and on Tuesday in the hundred of Calikot; he urges him to send Will Jones to Major Hombrye, to both the Prises, and to Roger Kemeys; wishes him to write to Lord Abergavenny and to Mr Howe; now that 'Mr Jack' [Williams] was in contest and Sir Charles was resolved to stand, though he, Bassett, 'would not have you disturb yourself', he would do his utmost to secure their friends; though he would send no word to my lord of Worcester's friends; if he wrote to the Newport corporation he should direct it to the mayor; Mr Arnold had sent [letters] over the whole county; Mr W. Williams has written to Mr Morgan to keep off the writ till after the next County Court; hopes he would send to Lanrumney to secure all those parts.