| Description | Incorporated in an indenture between the parties (31 December, 1883); illustrative plan; way granted, consideration £15, to Lord Boston and his tenants, five yards uniform width, provision for metalling the road, Lord Boston to be the expense of erecting a substantial gate and a sufficient boundary fence. A substantial part of the document is taken up with matters of title to land – the dispute started between John Griffith of Troseifion, a tenant to the Bodelwyddan trustees, and Owen Owens of Troseifion Newydd – and interesting matter is supplied about the last will of Sir John Hay Williams of Bodelwyddan who had married a daughter of the first Earl Amherst – they were the parents of the late lady Verney of Rhianfa – that explains why the second Earl Amherst and Sir Edmund Hope Verney, Lady Verney’s husband, figure in this indenture as trustees of the Bodelwyddan estate. The actual date of the death of Lady Hay Williams is left vacant; it can easily be supplied from “Burke’s”, ed. 1913, as 8 August, 1875. The sixth Lord Boston came of age while the arbitrator was taking his time over the conditions of the award, which necessitated the substitution of his sole name – instead of his trustees as heretofore – as a party to the final transaction. The same Bodelwyddan trustees appear in an arrangement with Lady Neave in 1877 (Llysdulas Papers/176-178) |