Bevere July 25. 1777.

Dear S^r

Having been a ramble in Oxfordshire, & that neighbourhood, I was not favoured with your letter so soon as I ought to have been, [...] which I hope you will accept as an Excuse for my delay: I wish you had given me some further Account of Your Excursion, I trust it was not an Iter Sabrinum or I should have seen you, if M^rs Pennant does not attend you in that Expedition further than Worcester, my wife would be very happy to wait upon her at Bevere while you continue your Tour: If you have been ^at Harrowgate on your Sons Account, I hope it has perfectly answered all your Wishes:¹ If you continue at Downing & the Weather is fine, we threaten you with a Visit.

Worcestershire goes on fair & softly, I have now employed Paine M^r White's Painter Partner to get the Plates rolled off, but I have not yet determined whether I shall print at Worcester, Birmingham or London.

As to your friend Glendwr I cannot give you much certain Intelligence: Something of his Pedegree I think I saw at Miss Moningtons, & believe you have seen it likewise, I took some Minutes, but cannot now find them.²

Worcester seems to have been the entrance into Wales when Henry determined in person to attack Glendwr, he issued orders for the forces to meet him there (1401.)³ In 1405 when he was beat by Glendwr he retired to Worcester, from thence he issued Orders for the defense [sic] of the Welch Castles.⁴

After the French had landed at Milford Haven & marched through Wales they came to Worcester,⁵ upon the Kings Approach (we read) that they posted themselves on a high hill about 3 leagues from the town which Tradition informs us is Wobury Hill in the Parish of Great Whitley about 9 miles off. where probably by the name was an old Entrenchment. The Camp is surrounded by a single Ditch including about 27 Acres of Ground: On the other side the River are two more Camps one in Wasal Wood in the Parish of Kiderminster about 8 miles from Wobury the other at Kin[...]r Edge about 11 miles from Glendwr's Camp, they lye in the Road from the North.⁶ Q^e Whether the King could occupy these Camps?

M^rs. Nash & my Daughter beg you will make their their [sic] Compl^s. acceptable to M^rs. Pennant & believe me to be

Your most obedient &
obliged humble Servant

T. Nash

P.S
Is there any thing curious in M^r Price's History of the Lords Marchers⁷ Pray tell me the Extent of the Marches, & how much of Worcestershire was included. At Bewdley the Severn was the Boundary

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Editorial notes

1. A visit to Harrowgate, county Durham, in May 1777 was apparently prompted by ill-health in Pennant's family. See Pennant's posthumously published A Tour from Alston Moor to Harrowgate and Brimham Crags (1804), p. 111; and for a further reference, 1379.
2. According to a contemporary poet, Iolo Goch, Owain Glyndwr was descended from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, prince of Powys, on the paternal side, and from Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Deheubarth, on his mother's side. ODNB. For Pennant's comments on Glyndwr's descent, see A tour in Wales 1770 [1773] (1778), I, p. 302.
3. Henry IV's army started from Worcester on a campaign into south Wales in October 1401, reaching Strata Florida in Cardiganshire. See Brough, The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dŵr, pp. 45–6; and Pennant, A tour in Wales 1770 [1773] (1778), I, pp. 320-1, where the expedition is dated to the beginning of June.
4. On Henry IV's retreat to Worcester following a 1405 expedition into Wales, marred by poor weather, see A tour in Wales 1770 [1773] (1778), I, p. 347.
5. See further 1304.
6. Further on these camps in the Worcester area, see 1306.
7. 'M^r Price' may be a reference to John Price (1734–1813), head librarian at the Bodleian library in Oxford from 1768 until his death. See DWB. If so, he is probably mistakenly identified with A concise history of the Lords Marchers, published within a larger work by Nicholas Owen in 1777.