File Clenennau letters and papers 904. - Rand(al) Wynne to Sir Robert Owen at Porkington,

The picture would have been sent some weeks ago, but the writer feared that Mistress Ellen Owen would have concluded hardly because the bible came not in company with it: the finishing of the bible proved a work of time because of the idleness of those through whose hands it passed. But both set out of town on Friday by John Symmonds, a Shrewsbury carrier who sets up there at the White Lion. If the bible does not please he will conclude that the lady who is to pay for it is as difficult to please in this as in a husband. It has so fine an outside that it is a pity to sully it with daily use 'and if posteritie be as carefull as you, no doubt but the booke may last many generations in your familie'.