| Disgrifiad | Bequeaths Cae Sclater to his wife Jane for the term of her natural life; after her decease, to her niece Margaret, wife of Thomas Williams, and her heirs; after his wife's decease the premises will be subject to the payment of two annuities of £7 each to the ministers and churchwardens of the parishes of Pistyll and Llangaffo respectively, the said annuities to be applied towards the support of schoolmasters for instructing the poor children of the two parishes in reading the English and Welsh Bibles, learning the Catechism .... according to the true principles of the Church of England. In 1825 the opinion of an eminent counsel of the Temple was sought on these rent-charge annuities, who pronounced them void under 9 Geo:II, cap.36 (DIN/173, opinion affixed to title); at least, no benefit ever accrued from the aill to either of the two parishes. In the Endowed Charities Report (Anglesey, 1897) there is not a word of the annuity under Llangaffo (pp. 296-298); on the other hand, what is said in the Caernarvonshire report under Pistyll (inquiry held 6 April 1898) is full of inexactitudes: Cae Sclater was purchased not in 1836, but 1830; not by the Rev. R.W. Prichard's grandfather, but by his Uncle John; nor is it true that Cae Sclater was purchased without any knowledge of these rent-charges in the will of 1813, as counsel's opinion in 1825 was conspicuously pinned to the abstract of title made out in 1830 by Richard Anthony Poole of Caernarvon, solicitor to the purchaser, in conjunction with David Williams of Pwllheli, for the vendor.
There are other interesting bequests in the will of R.H.: to his wife the £50 invested in the Portinllaen first District Road" and his one-sixteenth share in the brigantine Alert of Pwllheli; after her decease both interests to be shared between the aforesaid Margaret Williams, Richard and John Jones, joiners of Pistyll; £100 to Jane Ellis of Bryntanni; wife Jane named as sole executrix.
Proved at Bangor, 22 October 1813. |