| Description | the particular Bodvell being Lloyd Bodvell of Bedfan, co. Carn., father of the more famous William Bodvel of Madryn. Bodvell became the mouthpiece of a pretty widespread discontent at this period with the immense power and influence wielded by the Bulkeleys of Beaumaris; there were personal animosities as well as political differences, Bodvel hoping to profit from the Whig ascendency, Lord Bulkeley from the Tory triumph in 1710. The vendetta took variegated forms: Bodvell and his friends presented a "memorial" to the Lord Treasurer, to be answered by Lord Bulkeley (BHILL/5527-5545); Bodvell tried to saddle the death of Quino, the name by which Rowland Jones, a ferrymau of Beaumaris, was known, with a consequent lawsuit at Great Sessions, which in turn was complicated by Lord Bulkeley's accusations of unscrupulous prejudice against Serjeant Hooke, one of the Justices (BHILL/5546-5556); Bodvell and Bulkeley were keen rivals for a lease on Abermeneai ferry (BHILL/5557-5560); there was no love whatsoever between Lord Bulkeley and the Bishop of Bangor, Dr John Evans, one of the staunchest Whigs of the time (BHILL/5561-5571); finally, the Bodvel quarrel was taken to the highest courts in London (BHILL/5572-1604A). |