File BA1/7 - ‘Dyffryn’

Title deeds labelled ‘Office copies of title deeds relating to Dyffryn farms and referred to in the covenant of Barbara C’ss of Powis dated 6th Septr 1773’. The deeds concern firstly Rhosfawr and Bysnant, and secondly Dyffryn Hall or Dyffryn Farm, the malthouse or barn called Tycoch on the road from Meifod to Newbridge, a small tenement on Allt yr Ancar Hill, and a wood called the Great Park in the parishes of Meifod and Guilsfield, 1765-1808. They include a mortgage by John Jones of Llanfyllin and his trustees, of property belonging to the Rhosfawr estate to Dorothy Rocke, 1765; the covenant by Barbara Countess of Powis to John Rocke of Trefnannau and his son Richard Rocke of Shrewsbury to produce title deeds, 1773; a conveyance by Ann Jodrell of Ankerwyke, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, widow of Gilbert Jodrell of Lincolns Inn, and Gilbert Jodrell’s daughters Sarah and Ann, to John Rocke and Richard Rocke, of the Dyffryn properties, 1773; a mortgage by Richard Rocke, 1787, which was assigned to Ann Acton of of Brockton, Salop, 1797, followed by a further mortgage to her in 1798; a lease to William Payne of Wilcott, Great Ness, 1792, and an assignment of the lease to Samuel Yale, 1800; an agreement between Richard Rocke and Charles Watkin Williams Wynn for the purchase, followed by the deeds of sale of the Rhosfawr and Dyffryn properties, with a schedule of deeds incorporated, and an assignment by the Ann Acton of the term of years in trust, 1803; a mortgage by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn to Richard Rocke, 1803, and a surrender (on dorse) by the latter’s executor, Rev. John Rocke of Shrewsbury, upon repayment of the mortgage, 1808.