| Description | Proceedings at the Anglesey Great Sessions over the alleged illegal entry by David ap Gr. ap Hoell into the messuage of Fagwyr in Llanddyfnan, his making of a feigned lease of the premises for four years to an Andrew Mostyn; D. ap G. at the time being an infant under 21 years of age: bill of complaint by Jane [vch] Humphrey Griffith ap Thomas ap David, she being the beneficiary for life under her daughter's will of 1593 (docts. 1158-1161), but by the date of the bill it was evident the land had been sold to Sir Richard Bulkeley, from whom she now held it in lease; Mostyn accused of vexatious delay in bringing the issue to trial, evidently (says the complainant) hoping for the death of the chief witnesses against him [when those do come forward, they are almost all between 40 and 50 years of age!]; Court order (9 Oct., 1596) a commission, Owen Holland of Berw and Hugh Lewis ap Hoell ap Ieuan, to hear evidence at Llanbedr [Goch], on 20 Oct., 1596; over 20 witnesses examined for the plaintiff, including David ap Gr. himself and Douce vch Thomas his mother, who all agree he was under age in making the lease (it was alleged he connived at it in order to try his title). Finally, on 29 July,1597, the Justices of Great Sessions merely record that they have received the evidence, but betray very clearly that Mostyn's case was insincere and evanescent. Accompanying this are five other papers bearing upon procedure at great Sessions in this case, and the case where Mostyn was plaintiff |