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.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. 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 Mr Price has desired me to transmit to you with his best Respects.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. He informs me that he has a Description of Raglan Castle &c dat. 1674 which is very much at your Service.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]. –

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