| Teitl | Documents relating to the disposal of part of the Herbert property in Anglesey. There are four documents - articles of agreement, the purchase deed, and the bond of obligation, all dated 25th July, 1605; also an agreement in the form of release between Rowland and William Owen, dated 7th February, 1608-9.
Note: On the dorse of 30 a late hand has written, probably in reference to these four and collateral papers, 'miscellanyey concerning Mr Lloyd's hereditary lands', but a later hand has remarked 'nothing of the kind'. Unfortunately for the second remark, the original note is undoubtedly the more correct of the two. Mr Lloyd must be W.L. of document HEN/53 |
| Disgrifiad | These lands once belonged to the ancient family of Griffith of Penrhyn (who themselves were an offshoot of the Anglesey house of Penmynydd); at the death of Edward Griffith his lands devolved upon his three daughters as co-heiresses: Elin married Sir Nicholas Bagnall, and her share became part of the Plas Newydd patrimony; Catherine married Sir William Herbert of Swansea, and its disposal is recorded in various estate papers in this library; Jane married Sir William Herbert of St. Julian's in Monmouthshire, and it is their grand-daughter who is the Dame Mary of these documents, she having married Sir Edward Herbert of Montgomery, famous in history as lord Herbert of Chirbury (his signature can be seen at the foot of document HEN/30).
So it is clear that the Herbert lands referred to in these papers are those of the 'Herberts of St. Julian's', rich and substantial property rather diminished in value by being moistles and burdened by several leases of lives or years. The total consideration was £415; the properties, all in the commote of Tindaethwy, included Tyddyn Ucheldre, Tyddyn Catteris, Tyddyn Carnan, the mill, pandy, and gorad of Cadnant, Tyddyn Llansadwrn, Tyddyn Cremlyn Uchaf, Murddyn Einion, Tyddyn y Berllan, Tyddyn Hoell Wehydd, and Tyddyn Dafydd ap Hoell Wilcoke ap Rees.
The joint purchasers were Rowland Owen ap Jenkin of Ucheldre (one of the Owen family of Llandegfan), and William Owen ap Rees ap David ap Hoell of Tyddyn Friar in Llansadwrn, who had married Mawd, sister of Rowland Owen (Pedigrees 85, 96).
Later (document HEN/32) it will be seen that Rowland Owen concentrated on the Ucheldre group, and William Owen on the Cremlyn nucleus, which (later still) was merged in the Murddyn Gwyn patrimony, and devolved in time upon the William Lloyd of the Excise who made his will in 1748 (HEN/53). |