| Description | Feofees in trust - Hugh Prichard of Normanton-upon-Soar, clerk; David Vaughan of Averham, clerk; John Weightman of Peckleton, gent.; Thomas Weightman of Leicester, mercer; marriage portion, £400. Lands places in trust for purposes of jointure were Tyddyn Glasfryn and Gwern-y-dwnn in the parish of Llangybi; Tyddyn Bach in Carngiwch, alias Tir Griffith ap John Gronow and two tenements in the town of Pwllheli. All these arrangements had to take cognisance of the dower of Winifred Vaughan, mother of Cadwaladr and of provision for the younger children of John and Winifred Vaughan, namely the daughters Elizabeth, Catherine, and Winifred, namely the daughters Elizabeth, Catherine and Winifred the younger (see TRALL/2-3). |
| AdminHistory | The Pedigrees (p. 212) have no reference whatsoever to the three daughters aforesaid, but do name Dorothy and Gaynor which have no place in the documents of 1682. Cadwaladr was heir to the Vaughan of Glasfryn, while David V., one of the trustees, was his younger brother, soon to be promoted from Averham in Notts. to Flething in Sussex; Hugh Prichard, another trustee, son of Richard Hughes of Clynnog, was rector of Normanton in Notts. The two trustees for the younger children were even more interesting - John Gunnis the elder, rector of Llanengan, and John Rowlands, the London banker who built Plas-y-Nant in Bettws Garmon, and grandfather of Emma, Viscountess Bulkeley of Baron Hill [wife of the sixth Viscount] - see Pedigrees 289, 297 |