3^rd. May 1782. Q.¹

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 Esq^r & his wife. he in arm^r 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.

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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.