| Disgrifiad | Towards the reparation of Bangor Cathedral, £5; of the church if Beaumaris, £5; of Llanfaes, 40/-; "towards settinge the poore of Bewmares at worke either by Erectinge of a house of Correction or otherwise as the Corporation of Bewmeres … shall thinke fitt," £40. Bequeaths to his wife Dorothy the moiety of all his personal estate; to a sister Anne, wife of Henry Whyte of Friars, £100; to Mrs Lettice Whyte, mother of Henry, £20 to buy a memorial ring; to Lettice Whyte her [spinster] daughter, £20 also for the same purposes; to Gaynor, daughter of William Griffith of Trefarthen, £20 as an acknowledgement of her pain and care towards him in his sickness; many gifts and legacies to servants. Residue of his goods and chattels, movable and immovable, to his uncle Thomas Bulkeley [afterwards first Viscount]. This document declares the name of R.B.'s wife to be Dorothy, a point left absolutely obscure by both J.E. Griffith in Pedigrees and Ormerod in Hist. Cheshire; and it discovers a new sister [Lettice] to Henry Whyte of Friars not vouched for in the pedigrees. On the dorse of the original are the words "My Nephewes last will", most probably in the hand of the first Viscount Bulkeley; on the dorse of the copy, "A Copy of my uncle Richd. Bulkeley's Will who dyed at Carnarvon", no doubt written by Robert the second Viscount. Proved in London, 28 May 1640 |