| AdminHistory | Harley Vaughan was undoubtedly the son of the Rev John Vaughan of Belton and grandson of Cadwaladr; the name Harley came from his 'mother's' maiden name, Elizabeth 'Harley' (the 'Pedigrees', 345, know nothing of Harley Vaughan as Mr J.E.Griffith did not even know that John Vaughan was married).
There is no doubt, either, that William Lloyd, clerk, of Penrallt, was William Lloyd of Tralleyn, son of Hugh Lloyd, collector of customs at Caernarvon, married to Mary, daughter of Richard Lloyd of Rhosbeirio - all this is made abundantly clear in a letter written by William Morris to his brother Lewis on 15 Jany., 1760 ('Morris Letters', II, 158-159) - "mab yttyw William Llwyd on ben yr Allt gynt, i Huw Lwyd, g'lector Caernarfon". What is 'not' at all clear is what interest William Lloyd had in Pen'rallt, unless he was curate at Bangor, but he must be very carefully distinguished from the William Lloyd who was at this very time usher at Friars' School, and curate of Llandegai, soon to become vicar of Cowden in Kent and a respectable literary figure. And why does William Morris, in January 1760, refer to William Lloyd of Trallwyn as "o benyr Allt gynt'" when this doct. places him at Penrallt in Aug., 1761? And why, in the next place, does this doct. of Aug., 1771, say he was of Pen'rallt near Bangor, when we know that the had been instituted months before as rector both of Edern and Llanengan far away in Llŷn? See A.Ivor Pryce: 'Hist, Dicc. of Bangor', ii, 31.
More light is wanted to solve these mysteries. But there seems no doubt whatsoever that it was by this transaction of 1761 that the old Glasfryn estate passed from the Vaughans to the Lloyds of Trallwyn. So it is another mystery ('Pedigrees', 212, footnote) what ground Mr J.E.Griffith had for saying that the Glasfryn lands were bought in '1728' by Hugh Lloyd, father of William, from John ap Cadwaladr, subject to a jointure to Grace Jones, mother of John.
John ap Cadwaladr would not but be John [Vaughan] ap Cadwaladr [Vaughan], but John's mother was not Grace at all but an English lady from Leicestershire. All this is too precipitate, and is corrected by a reference in the mortgage deed of 1742 (doct. TRALL/10), in which it is catagorically said that Hugh Lloyd had lately purchased from John Cadwalater : the messuage of Glasfryn 'Ucha' [not Tyddyn Glasfryn or Glas-fryn Fawr]; the mistake in J.E.G's note was not to distinguish between the two Glasfryns.
There still remains the somewhat wonderful coincidence that there were living about 1740 two gentlemen bearing the name of John ap Cadwaladr - the John who sold Glasfryn Uchaf to Hugh Lloyd in 1728, and the John [Vaughan] ap Cadwaladr [Vaughan], owner of Glasfryn Fawr, and living at the vicarage of Belton in Leicestershire (but it is very doubtful if the latter was ever referred to as John ap Cadwaladr - no doubt he had long discarded the old Welsh system of nomenclature).
Note : Rev 'William Lloyd of Penrallt, Bangor'.
Since writing the preceding it has come to light that William Lloyd was Precentor of Bangor Cathedral and so member of the Chapter (A.Ivor Pryce: 'Hist'. Dioc., ii, CD. pp. 29-45; it is the entries referring to both the Precentorship and the rectories of Edern-Llanengan being vacant through the death of the same W. Lloyd that settle quite definitely that he was Lloyd of Trallwyn).
Nobody seems to have emphasised the fact that he was Precentor; see Diary of Rt Wynne Garth; J.E.G. has not a word in the 'Pedigrees', a somewhat curious thing when one remembers that he himself married into the Trallwyn family (p.210). 'Penrallt' must have been his Bangor residence, and there he lived most of the time; it is known that curates did duty at Edern with its chapels of Pistyll and Carngiwch and also at Llanengan. Finally, he must have penned his last will (1794) at Bangor, as two of the witnesses are described as 'of Penrallt' (TRALL/34). |