| Title | Purchase deed of numerous messuages and tenements in Anglesey, especially in the commote of Tindaethwy, by Henry, Lord Bishop of Bangor [Dr. Henry Rowlands of Meyllteyrn, founder of Bottwnog School], Thomas Williams of Glangwna, co. Carn., and Rowland Owen of Llansadwrn [Ucheldre], from Sir Edward Herbert of Montgomery [the later first Lord Herbert of Chirbury] and Dame Mary his wife. |
| Description | These had descended to Dame Mary from her father William Herbert of St. Julian's one of the Irish "undertakers", whose mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn son of William Griffith, usually known as the third Chamberlain of North Wales (Pedigrees, 57). Jane was one of three co-heiresses one being married to Nicholas Bagnall of Plas Newydd. It was one of the conditions of Mary Herbert's marriage that she should marry a Herbert (which she did): " if she married a Herbert, she was to have all the estates; if not, only those of Carnarvon and Anglesey". (G.T. Clark: Limbus Patrum, 282 ). The consideration for this purchase was £1,038.6.8. The dorse of the indenture is practically all covered with records of livery and seisin by the "lawful attorneys" together with the accompanying witnesses. There does not survive in this collection a document of division of partition between the Lord Bishop, T.W., and R.O., similar to that drawn up by Gabriel Roberts and Hugh Arthur in similar circumstances (109,110). |