| Title | Release by Sir Edward Herbert of Montgomery and Lady Mary his wife to Rowland David Lloyd of Porthaethwy [brother of Henry Hughes the elder of Plas Coch, Pedigrees, 30] and John ap Hugh ap William of Penhwnllys [Pedigrees, 62], for a consideration of £236, of Tyddyn Gwyn (alias Maes y Felin) in the hamlets of Tregarnedd and Llangefni, the moiety of Tyddyn David ap Edward in the hamlets of Porthaethwy and Treforion, molety of Tyddynod Bodfa Ucha and Bodfa Isa in the vill of Penhwnllys, moiety of Tyddyn Ieuan ap Griffith ap David Vaughan in the vill of Trevor; Randolph Smyth and Richard Boulton to be lawful attorneys for the seisin |
| Description | This is only another proof of the desire of Sir Edward Herbert [the first Lord Herbert of Chirbury] and his wife to part with their Anglesey possessions; the lands were Lady Mary's as daughter and heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Julian's in Monmouth, he in turn having married one of the three co-heiresses of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn.
For other surrenders of these Herbert (originally Penrhyn) lands, cp. Plas Gwyn Papers in this Library, docts. 15, 16, 109, 110.
There were no less than thirteen witnesses to this transaction of 1605 |