ID: 1017 [see the .xml file]
Identifier: NLW 5500C, no. 19
Editors: Transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019)
Cite: 'Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull 3 May 1782' transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019) in Curious Travellers Digital Editions [editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/1017]

Dear Sir

Moses gives you many thanks for your remittance & incloses the receit. I am putting in the first leaves of the welsh tour the arms of my alliances or in fact my pedegree.2 I presume that will not interest you, so shall omit it.3

I fear Lord Herberts house at Eyton is burnt down: but I shall make enquiry4 The tomb in Montgomery Ch. is of Richard Herbert Esqr & his wife. he in armr beneath a marble canopy – beneath the tomb is another figure of a man in a gown with a cord round his waste [sic]. his head hooded Two mutilated figures of Knights.5 the head of one rests on a helmet with a coronet & vast plumes. If you can give me any history of them I shall be much obliged to you for it will be of immediate use to

Dear Sir
Your faithfully

T Pennant.

Be so good as to try to get explained the words in old writing in the list of Sir J. Wynn's wardrobe,6 & return me the paper.


Editorial notes

1. The suggestion for dating this letter is made here in Richard Bull's hand.
2. Family arms are painted in the margins of text relating to Tre-Mostyn and Tre-Bychton in Pennant's extra-illustrated A tour in Wales 1770 [1773] (1778), I. See here [external link], pp. 8, 9, 14.
3. i.e. in Bull's copy.
4. Although Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury, to whom Pennant appears to refer here, was born at Eyton-on-Severn, it was the house rebuilt there by Francis Newport which was subsequently destroyed by fire. See Hist P s.n. Francis Newport II; and here [external link] [accessed 26 June 2019].
5. No mention of these additional figures is made alongside Pennant's description of Richard Herbert's monument in A tour in Wales (2nd edn., 1784), p. 374.
6. Pennant included an 'Inventory of Sir John Wynne's Wardrobe' in A tour in Wales (2nd edn., 1784), pp. 455–6. It is not clear what the 'words in old writing' referred to here were.

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