Sir

Oxford 3 July 1777

I received your Letter in due Time, and I should have acknowledged it sooner if I had been able to command sufficient Leisure to transcripte Phayer's Poem, which I have now the Pleasure to send you herewith.¹ There are two Editions of it in the Bodleian Library. 1574 and 1587. I chose to Copy the first edition as it seemed to me to be much more correct.

I have sent you here with an Account of Hanmere Church which M^r Price has desired me to transmit [...]to you with his best Respects.² He informs me that he has a Description of Raglan Castle &c dat. 1674 which is very much at your Service.³ –

If there is any thing further that you could wish to have done here, I beg you will let me know, and I will most readily undertake it, I wish you all possible Success in your undertaking, and am

Sir
your most obedient humble Servant

Jno Jones

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Editorial notes

1. No enclosure survives with the manuscript letter. The poem may possibly be a lament in the person of Owain Glyndwr sometimes identified with Thomas Phaer, and included in an edition of A Mirror for Magistrates (1578). If so, however, it would have appeared posthumously, since Phaer died in 1560. See ODNB.
2. For Pennant's account of St Chad's Church, Hanmer, see A tour in Wales 1770 [1773] (1784), I, pp. 226–7. No reference is made to John Price's account there.
3. There is no evidence that Pennant visited Raglan in Monmouthshire, and no mention is made of it in either edition of A tour in Wales 1770 [1773].