To or beloved ffriends and brothern in Pensilvania or elsewhere. These are to certify whom it may concern yt or friend Hugh Griffith who have walked amongst us for a long while is a poor honest harted man whome we love and has been somthing serviceable amongst us and hath been a widower for these many years and have kept his motherless children not being very troublesome to friends or other and to the best of our knowledge free from an intangments or ingagements upon the account of marriage and so wishing his removal may be for his etternal and temporal feleicitie.
Dated at or monthly meeting at Hendere Mawr, Merionethshire in North Wales 10th 12 month 1696
Signed in the behalf of the meeting by
Robert Vaughan
David Jones
Edward David
Thomas Caddr