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p. 1
Memorandum about the sale of nine runts at £6.10.0 each
p. ii
Summary of Carnarvonshire rentals £830.15.1
Summary of Anglesey rentals £901.12.7
Total : £1732.7.8
A. pp.1-17
Particulars of Caernarvonshire holdings - parishes, holdings, rents, dates of receipt etc.
B. pp. 1-22
Particulars of Anglesey holdings etc.
The right hand columns (receipts) should be carefully examined for the many tenants who paid not in cash but in work (e.g. Thomas Hugh Peter of Nefyn owed 15/- for a Nefyn tenement - his wife paid the agent 5/-, Peter paid the rest by thatching for 15 days at Mochras)
Several old tenants received annuities and pensions - more especially Morgan Hughes of Llangwnadl and William Prichard's widow at Llanddona.
There was no escaping the meticulous accuracy of the agent, as witness the two pence he owed (and paid) Frances Lewis of Llaniestyn; also how Robert Owen of Llangian was reminded of a certain 8d. he had not paid a year since. He seems to have been a just man; if the mills of Catherine Prichard at Nefyn and Boduan stood inactive (one for 9 days, the other for 8 days) she received compensation at the rate of 9 and a half pence per day.
In this rental again attention must be drawn to the Nefyn storehouses to the 66 barrels of herrings cured there (at 6d. per barrel) to the allowance of 2/6 in the rent of John Prichard John for mending his nets, and to the £1.3.1 paid to a certain Peggy for a barrel of herrings.
Note also the "king's rent" which had to be deducted for the receipt of tenements n Niwbwrch [Newborough] and Bodvell's emoluments as Constable of Beaumaris Castle and the component parts of these.
There is a more intimate touch about an entry on A. 12, which specifies that 6d. was paid to Ellis Hugh Jones of Pwllheli for a "Journey with Veal for Mr Chancellor in May 1757". This must have been Bodvell's second cousin, Robert Lewis of Siambr Wen, rector of Trefdraeth, and Chancellor of Bangor. |