| AdminHistory | In 1796 Lord Uxbridge purchased from a "Mr Conway" (possibly one of the Conways of Bodrhyddan or Bryneuryn) certain tenements in the parishes of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, Trefdraeth and Llangristiolus, for the unexpired term of 200 years created by the marriage settlement of the vendor's father. The sale was confirmed in Chancery in 1797, but owing to some uncertainty over the vendor's title to certain of the tenements, the final drafting of the deed of conveyance was inordinately postponed, and it appears that Samuel Grindley, his Lordship's solicitor, paid Conway's legatees (Conway died in 1798) a small proportion only of the purchase money, of which the full amount was £2015.15.0. In 1809 a final settlement was still pending; while the legatees kept pressing for payment of the balance of the purchase money, which still remained in Grindley's hands. In fact, the latter's handling of the case seems to have been throughout none too satisfactory, and it is clear that Sanderson, for one, was thoroughly exasperated with his general dilatoriness. |