Dear Sir,

As you say nothing of seing [sic] us on your return, so I fear we are not to expect that pleasure; I therefore acknowledge the receipt of the books sent me, which with your letter, I had yesterday: I can help you to the Oswestry work mentioned; It is an ordinary performance, but it says, that the six daughters of Robert Davies of Gwasane, by Catherine ^Anne ^all wrong,, [sic]¹ his wife daughter to Sir Peter Mytton of Llanerch, were thus disposed of: Anne to John Thelwal of Plascoch, Elizabeth first to John Hope of Do^dleton (I suppose, meaning Hope) secondly, to John Eyton of Leeswood; Helen, to George Wynne of Rhydyclision [sic], and Leeswood, Jane, to Thomas Edwards of Rhual, Mary, to Thomas Humphreys of Bodlewiddan, Margaret, to John Holland of Tarden: The book takes no notice of Katharine the third, married to Piers Pennant. You are very good to wish to see us again at Downing, and I will aim to do so, for a night at lest, from Abergele, in the next month: You anticipate too favourably of my nonsense; If it eventually gets me some authentic information, it is all that can be expected from it; with such the Tribes had been no bad subject, & I have often wished, you had thought of it: What I have done, is rather the Memoir than the History of Powys. its Princes, and Lords, from Bleddyn ap Cynvyn, to the present Earl:² at present I can proceed no farther with the descendants of the first; his generation will not open their stores of Information.

With our best wishes and kind remembrances I remain Dear Sir,

Your affectionate Servant

Ph: Yorke

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Editorial notes

1. The insert below the line is in another hand.
2. Yorke refers to his work on The Tracts of Powys, probably either shortly prior to or soon after its publication in 1795. Note that he refers to it as a 'slight Memoir of the Princes and Lords of Powys, only' in his dedicatory letter to Pennant at the front of the volume, 1363.