| Disgrifiad | Conflicting claims of Hugh Evans of Henblas as executor and Griffith Edwards of Llanynghenedl as next-of-kin: vein search for a will; much money found; agreement to wait for administration broken by Edwards (as alleged by Hugh Evans and his attorney, Owen Anthony Poole); difficulties of sitting tenant at Glan Alaw, who does not want to offend either; Edwards alleged to have carried away all effects - deeds, money, &c. Evidence of Mr Prichard of Llwydiarth Esgob important, by being the lawyer who made the will. Regarding the claims of Edwards, it is important to read again the will of Owen Davies (HENB/304), and remember the words of lawyer Samuel Grindley of Tregarnedd about Edwards, that he thought him "honest and well-meaning" (this in 1788, HENB/320). Poole was driven to state a case for counsel (whose opinion had not been preserved) in October 1816 (HENB/335); last paper in the matter is dated 16 November 1816 (HENB/336), with Edwards v. Evans at the head of it, not Evans v. Edwards. Note: There is nothing at all fanciful in thinking that William Thomas - the perturbed tenant who found himself between two fires in 1816 - was the selfsame farmer who three years before had come across the 'cistfaen' at Glan Alaw which was supposed to contain the remains of Branwen ferch Llyr, and which caused Sir Richard Colt Hoare to write about it to the 'Cambro-Briton' for 1820 (ii, 71-73); the incident led also to considerable notice in 'Archaeologia Cambrensis' for 1860 (334-335); the latest reference to the cist is 'Anglesey Ancient Monuments', 36. |