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" Now feinge yt pleafed God to bringe you into this countrey, 

 " I am to defire you to take a view of the place, not beinge 

 " above a daie's journey from you ; and yf you doe fee things fit 

 " to be undertaken, I ame content to adventure a brace of hun- 

 " dreth pounds to joyne with you in the worke. 



" I have leade oare on my ground in greate ftore s , and other 

 " minerals neere my houfe, yf it pleafe you to come hither, being 

 " not above two daies journey from you, you fhall be moft 

 " kindely welcome ; yt may be you fhall find here that will tend 

 " to your commoditie and myne : yf I did knowe the day cer- 

 " taine when you would come to view Traithmawr, my fonne 

 " Owen Wynn fhall attend you there^ and conduct you thence 

 " along to my houfe. Commending me verie kindely unto you, 

 " doe reft, 



" Your loving Coufyn and Friend, 



Cwyder, Sept. I, 16-5. 



" John Wynne.'* 



To the Hon. Sir Hugh Myddleton, 

 Knight and Baronet. 



[A coppie of a letter to Sir Hugh Myddleton, Knight and Baronet, 

 at the Silver Mines ■ in Cardiganfhire.] 



In 1626, at the age of feventy- three, he died much lamented 

 both by his family and neighbourhood, which may be inferred 

 from the engraving by Vaughan already mentioned, as in thofe 

 times few had fuch refpecl: fhewn to their memories, who were 

 not very Angularly efteemed. 



* Thefe mines have been lately worked, and I am told with fome 

 fuccefs. 



1 There is fo much (ilver in fome of the lead mines not far from 

 Aberyftwith, that they have been filled the Welfh Potofi ; I have been 

 informed alfo that money hath been coined from them. 



How 



