File C29. - Oliver Robotham to Sir Charles Kemeys. Gives an account of the election contest in the Monmouthshire boroughs between Charles, Lord ...,

Oliver Robotham to Sir Charles Kemeys. Gives an account of the election contest in the Monmouthshire boroughs between Charles, Lord Herbert of Raglan, and John Arnold; the County Court had been adjourned from one day to another, and the burgesses of Usk and Newport, generally favourable to Arnold, appeared every Monday at Monmouth, but their opponents claimed that they had no votes for the town of Monmouth; reports an altercation in public between Herbert Jones, mayor of Monmouth, and John Arnold, when the former at the town court of Monmouth accused the latter of arrogance in opposing the Marquis of Worcester in his own town; he had not heard from Sir Charles how to dispose of the votes of his tenants, except in the case of Morgan (for the county), but wishes instructions as to whether they were to vote for Lord Herbert or to 'remain silent'; mentions a report current in the country that the Marquess [of Worcester] was impeached by Jennyson to be accessory to the [Popish] plot.