| Description | Mr Nicholls Jones, Lord Bostons' agent, one of the trustees, and Mr Ivor Pryce, Diocesan Registrar of Bangor, clerk. The founder of the trust seems to have been Thomas Meyrick of Cefn Coch in Llanfechell, descendant of a younger branch of the house of Bodorgan (cp. "Pedigrees", 126, 127, 151), who made his will on 19 December, 1839 (not November as in "Pedigrees") which was proved 21 June, 1841.
According to this will he gave a legacy of £1,000 to the society for Bettering the Condition of the poor so that the divident of about £35 would be payable to pay house rent in sums not above £5 each to seven or more country labourers, but only on their producing a certificate from the clergyman and the churchwarden of their honesty and sobriety and attendance at church; also they must not possess money or land or goods above £5, nor recieve parochial relief. A further legacy of £1,00 to the Society for Encouragement of Female Servants on very the same conditions as the former - must be industrious, godly, prove 10 years faithful service, and have never married.
For many years the trust remained inoperative until re-organised by the Court of Chancery in 1903 ("Reeve v. Attorney-General" - paper LLIG/114), and confined in its range to the four counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Merioneth and Montgomery. Among the papers preserved are analyses of the applications under the Trust for 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912; and balance -sheets for 1904, 1910-1912 |