File Clenennau letters and papers 479. - William Maurice to Richard Vaughan, High Sheriff of Caernarfonshire,

He has received the Sheriff's letters. If Richard Vaughan had accepted William Maurice's word at their last appointment, William Maurice would have care not to see him 'damnified'. But William Maurice cannot find fault with the Sheriff's scruple, nor trusts the latter's dealing with his son, John Owen, and with his solicitor (whose ways suit not some of the country), nor wishes to take further courtesy at the Sheriff's hands, he will absent himself from their company at the musters, and commits the care for perfecting them to Vaughan as chief commissioner with the rest of the justices. Whether John Wynn of Gwydir will intrude contrary to reason or the contents of the commission, he leaves to Vaughan's discretion together with the justices of that end. If they allow that, there will be no men shortly to be had (they be almost spent and would have been wholly spent because of Wynn's obstinacy and the slackness of the justices of Lleyn and Uwchdwyfor). Here within Isdwyfor, if the writer had not procured every ... of his own for them to pay other volunteers, as he did in one year to ... Salisbury and Capt. Brown - 'and the ... year at Chester to supply the defallts of Lleyn - 7', and so every muster since. Indentures will show that at every muster there are from Isdwyfor, his own limit, tenants and neighbours double their portion, and from Uwchdwyfor more than their rate. They should therefore best be spared, and other places hitherto defective be more charged. He will pay the mise of Isdwyfor - £11 odd - when Richard Vaughan is ready to send it to London. Torn. Draft in the hand of William Maurice.