Sold with a letter: 'In this shirt Griffith, third son of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt Esqr. begged his way home from a French Prison to which he was taken by a Privateer off the Welsh coast. Begging at a gentleman's house in South Wales, he was recognised by the Housekeeper by a mole on his breast, she having lived at Hengwrt and assisted in nursing him, where he had every kindness shown him. R. Wmes.Vaughan'
Griffith Vaughan was born in 1640 and died on August 29, 1700. The writer of the letter was Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart. of Nannau (1768-1843), his great-great-great grandson. Hengwrt and Nannau were neighbouring estates owned by the Vaughan family, around Dolgellau in what is now Gwynedd.