| Title | Terms of an arbitrament and award upon sundry matters et variance between Dame Mary Bulkeley (not Margaret, as in Pedigrees, 42), widow of Sir Richard Bulkeley the elder [third knight, d.1621], and her grandson Richard Bulkeley, esq. (compare carefully Bangor MS. 1921, pp.1-25); the arbitrators were Sir Edwin Sandys [uncle to young Richard], Sir John Danvers, Sir Richard Wynne, and Sir Eubule Thelwall |
| Description | Dame Mary to enjoy her jointure-lands in Cheshire and the township of Cremlyn Heylyn in co. Anglesey; young Richard to enjoy the rents and issues of the Anglesey lands, including those in the town and liberties of Beaumaris, which were referred to in the marriage settlement of his father Sir Richard Bulkeley the younger, this Sir Richard's wife being Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford of Idington in Kent; young Richard also to enjoy the ultimate benefit of certain leases for years which had been assigned by the elder Sir Richard to his second son Thomas. This weighing of the scales in favour of the grandson was somewhat moderated by his having to pay £400 to his grandmother in certain specified instalments. One of the witnesses on the dorse, who signs his name three times, is "Thomas Chedell" (more commonly, Chedle or Cheadle) between whom and the Bulkeleys there developed in later years the most bitter animosity; he was accused of having poisoned Sir R.B. the younger in order to marry his widow [see Gwydir Papers, nos. 1554, 1573, 1624, 1625] |