This is contemporary copy of a letter, written at Newport by Lady Elizabeth Dayrell, to her husband [William Morgan of Tredegar] shortly after leaving him.

She thanks him for his gift of the chariot [a small four-wheeled carriage with only back seats], a small thing compared with all his other generosities, which in her mean condition she can do no more than remember with gratitude. She hopes that he lives to discover their mortal enemies who have caused their separation. She asks pardon for the great presumption of writing, among the 'other failings of her that once you were pleased to desire as a wife'.

In a postscript she says that she hopes to come to London with 'the originall deeds of disposition of my smale estate in my owne power' [ie, her marriage settlement?], that he may burn it with his own hands.