| Description | TRALL/46 - 1796-1806
TRALL/47 - 1807
TRALL/48 - 1808
TRALL/ 49 - 1809
They supply plenty of evidence about the price of ordinary commodities, the wages of servants, the incidence of taxation, in the period of the Napoleonic wars, and should be studied in collation with the Penmorfa and Llangybi shop books already in the Library (BMSS/ 82; 519-521, 3611-2; 4116-4124).
Much the most interesting, because expressed in vigorous and homely Welsh terms, are the bills of the two black-smiths, William Jones and Robert Thomas.
There are rent reciepts interspersed - that for Ysgubor Hen to Sir Thomas Mostyn, and that for Rhwng-y-ddwy-afon to T. Assheton Smith.
The references to receipts from Dwygyfylchi were mysterious at first until it was discovered that the Rev. John Ellis was vicar of Dwygyfylchi as well as rector of Llanystumdwy as is proved by the entries on Mr Ivor Pryce's, 'Hist. Dioc.' ii, 52, which record the promotions made to the rectory and vicarage at the death of Mr Ellis in 1811.
All these bills and receipts fall within the period when the Rev. John Ellis was squire of Trallwyn. As eventual heir by the will of the Rev William Lloyd (see TRALL/ 34), he was to take the name and arms of Lloyd, but J.E.G. ('Pedigrees', 212) says he never did so. Is that exactly true? In these bills he is often called 'Rev John Ellis', but quite as often, Rev 'John Ellis Lloyd'. A Pwllheli tradesman, Evan Evans, uses both; the curate at Llanystumdwy refers to him always as Mr Ellis, while the clerk to the Caerns. Road Trustees invariably has the fuller appellation. It seems to be an open question. |