| Description | Examples of writs, warrants, rules of procedure, indentures, etc., and dated well into the 1740s. Several counsel's opinions quoted. Very interesting are the various examples, based on actual cases and often referring to persons then living (when W.P. entered them in this book), e.g., the bond of obligation by William Williams of Glangwna and Blanch his wife (Pedigrees, 268) to the Rev. Owen Lloyd, Rector of Llansadwrn in Anglesey from 1707 to 1742 (date 15 April, 1727, p. 9); the case of Griffith Ellis, the brother of John Ellis the Taicroesion genealogist, who died a bachelor intestate "in the American parts beyond the seas," leaving no kin but a minor not yet 21 thus supplying a poser to the lawyers (cp.pp.60, 61, and Pedigrees, 76); the light thrown on the Hughes family of Bodaden (Pedigrees, 291) by the indenture tripartite on pp. 69b to 75b. Quite piquant are the Welsh quotations in the defamation cases, pp. 85b, 98a, although it is open to some doubt whether the old Welsh proverb in the former was correctly translated by the lawyers of the day. |