Administration of the goods of William Gruffith ap William Wynne, late of p. 'Denis' [? Derwen] in the diocese of Bangor, gent., dec., was granted by Gruffith Hughes, M.A., clerk, and vicar in spiritualities to Lewis, bishop of Bangor, to Margaret verch William John Wynne, widow, and Catherine verch William John Wynne, widow, the paternal aunts and next of kin of the dec.
Mortgage, being a further charge of £60 by Katherine Badham of p. of Pembridge, Herefordshire, widow, and her son and heir apparent, Benjamin Badham, to Caleb Powell of Leominster, tanner, of a m. in the Low in said p. Pembridge, late in the tenure of Widow Lawrence, also a m. and lands called Brin cough in p. Llanvihangel Nant Mellan, co. Rad., which said property had been mortgaged on 29 June 1720 by the said Katherine Badham, Benjamin Badham, and Francis Price of Ludlow, Shropshire, gent. for £600 to the said Caleb Powell. Witnesses: John Pateshall; Richard Hooper.
Deed Poll whereby (after reciting a mortgage and further charge respectively dated 19 June 1720 and 29 Mar. 1721 [D. D. 1,502] and indentures dated 9 & 10 Nov. 1722, whereby Katherine Badham of p. Pembridge, Herefordshire, widow, and her son and heir apparent, Bejamin Badham, gent., and Essex Sherborne, junior of Pembridge, Herefordshire, further mortgaged a m. in the Low in p. Pembridge and a m. and lands called Brin cough in p. Llanvihangel Nant Mellan to Caleb Powell of Leominster, Herefordshire, tanner, to secure £150) the said Katherine Badham and Benjamin Badham charge the said property and also all realty owned by them at the Leen or elsewhere in Herefordshire or co. Rad. with £893, being the total principal due to the said Caleb Powell under the above mentioned mortgages. Witnesses: John Pateshall; Richard Hooper.
Indenture, being a lease for a year (so that a grant by release might be made), from Thomas Lloyd of p. fforster Downton, Gloucestershire, yeoman, and Mary Niplet of p. Kinarsley, Herefordshire, widow, to Edward Morgan the younger of p. Llanyre, co. Rad., gent., of parcels of land called Llain bengam (3 a.), Kae issa (6 a.), two days' math of hay in a meadow called Dolewen, and one-third of a meadow called Gorsegron, all in p. Nantmell, co. Rad., and in the tenure of Edward Morgan the elder. Witnesses: Will. Baker, William Barnet; Tho. Johnson.
Final Concord in a fine levied at the Great Sessions for co. Rad. before John Williams and John Harvey, esq's, justices, wherein Sir Henry Hartstonge, bart, and Lady Lucy, his wife, acknowledged that the castle called Kevenllys Castle, the bor. or man. of Kevenllys, the man. called Busmore, 30 m's, 10 cottages, a water corn mill, a fulling mill, 10 tofts, 30 gardens and orchards, and 5,200 a. of land in p's Llanvihangell Kevenllys, Llanvihangell Nantmellan, Llandegley, Llanbadarnvaur, Old Radnor, New Radnor, Llandrindod, Gladestry, Colvah, and Llangunllo, co. Rad. were the right of Evan Meredith, gent.
Rent Book for the year 1797 of the estate in co. Rad. of the Earl of Oxford. It gives the ...,
Rent Book for the year 1797 of the estate in co. Rad. of the Earl of Oxford. It gives the names of the tenants, the respective rents, arrears, and allowances. At the end of the book are the accounts for 1796 of William Powell (the agent of the Earl) showing his receipts and his expenditure on behalf of his principal.
Probate Of The Will of Anne Wolley of p. Beguildy, co. Rad., widow. Testatrix bequeathed as follows:- To my eldest son, John Wolley, £5; to my youngest son, James Wolley, £20; to my daughter, Anne (wife of James Jenkins), 21s.; to my daughter, Mary (wife of Thomas Price), £5; to my daughter, Sarah (wife of John Griffiths), £5. Residue to my sons, Jeremiah Wolley and George Wolley, they to be executors. Witnesses: Mathew Morris; Richard Williams; James Trow. Probate grant is missing.
Letter, dated at Presteigne, from Thomas Bowen to Messrs Thomas Harvey & Co., attorneys, Ross, Herefordshire, enclosing a £5 Bank of England note, the writer having tried at Kingston to remit 'the whole' from the bank of Cheese & Co., who could not accomodate him.
Affidavit of William Haslewood of Moreveild, Shropshire, that, having received a writ of execution of a decree in the suit in Chancery of Arthur Weaver, esq., plaintiff v. Mathew Jones, defendant, for the payment of £35.7.6 by the defendant to the plaintiff, he, on 23 July 1690, left a copy of the writ under the door of the defendant's house, as he could get no answer to repeated knocks at the door, although he believes that there was some one in the said house.
Memorandum of a petition by John Bemand, officer of excise, Bridgnorth, second division in the Wolverhampton Collection, to the Commissioners of excise for the first vacant division occurring in Shrewsbury in the Shropshire Collection.
Letter, posted on 9 Nov. 1827, from Th. L. Longueville [of Oswestry] to William Hardwick, esq., solicitor, Bridgnorth, stating that Edward Davies, by his will dated 4 Sept. 1794, bequeathed to his wife, Mary Davies, an annuity of £26 and a sum of £100 (payable after her death) to her appointees, and appointed his nephew, Ed. Davies, to be executor and residuary legatee; that the late Lewis Jones gave a bond to the late Mr Bemand for £100, being part of the personalty of the said testator, Edward Davies. By an agreement made in Nov. then following, the said Edward Davies (residuary legatee), the said Mary Davies, John Bemand, and Lewis Jones agreed that the said bond and other securities representing the personalty of the said testator should be deposited with the said Lewis Jones and John Bemand, and the interest applied to the payment of the said annuity of £26. The said Mary Davies now resides with her brother, John Davies, of Maesbury near this place [Oswestry]. The surviving trustee and executor of the late Lewis Jones is prepared to pay the principal and interest due on the bond, but a receipt therefor must be given by the executors of the late Mr Bemand, of whom (Mr Longueville believes) Mr William Hardwick is one.
Bond, in the penalty of £200, from John Davies of Maesbury in p. Oswestry, Shropshire, farmer, to William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gent., and John Bemand of Sutton, Shropshire, farmer, for the payment of £100 and interest to the said obligees. Witness: Edward Williams, clerk to Messrs Longueville & Son, solicitors, Oswestry.
Bond, in the penalty of £600, from William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, gent., and William John Hardwick of Bridgnorth, gent., to John Clarke of Ockleton in p. Worfield, Shropshire, gent., for the payment to the obligee of £300 and interest. Witness: J. Bell Hardwick, junior.
Letter from J. Vaughan Horne of Denbigh to William Hardwick of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, esq., stating that he had been instructed by Edward Davies of Penbryn near Ruabon to commence a chancery suit against the representatives of the late Mr Lewis Jones of Oswestry and those of the late John Bemand of Ellesmere, who, as trustees under a deed dated 24 Nov. 1798, received £300 paid up by a mortgagor and lent the same on a bond to the late Kynaston Powell of Hardwick, whose affairs terminated in insolvency. The interest was settled to secure an annuity to an elderly lady called Davies, who dec. about 2 years ago, and the principal is now payable to the said Edward Davies.
Letters Of Administration of the goods of Hanna Pye of the town and co. of Monmouth, widow, granted to her son and residuary legatee, Samuel Pye, surgeon, at the prerogative court of Canterbury, Herbert Pye, clerk, the executor named in the will, having renounced. Latin.
Estreat from the rolls of a court baron of the Most Noble John, earl Dundonald, in right of his wife, lord of the man. of Port Casegg, on 25 May 1717, before James Davies, gent., steward of the man. of Port Casegg. At which court George Gwynn of Port Casegg, co. Mon., gent., and Anne, his wife, surrendered into the hands of the lord of the man. of Port Casegg parcels of land called Tyr Rice, Kae gragg, Kae ffinnon, Garth y nyeth yr worled, Tue kae newith, Ddwy errow yr maes, and Errow wenn, all situate in p. St Arvans in the man. of Port Casegg to the use of Bridget Jones of the city of Bristol, widow, and her heirs. Whereupon the said Bridget Jones, having paid a fine of 15s. and performed her fealty, was admitted as tenant of the said property. The tenants present were:- Henry Nash; Samuell Evans; Thomas Maybrey. Latin.
Indenture, being a grant from John Price of p. Cludock, Herefordshire, gent., to the Rt Rev. John, bishop of Llandaff, of a farm in the tenure of Henry Edwards and a cottage and garden in the tenure of Henry Thomas in p's Waterstone, Herefordshire and Lanvihangel Crucorney, co. Mon., but subject to a mortgage to Robert Clayton of the city of Hereford, esq., for £420. Consideration: £530. Witnesses: Sa. Birch; Ro. Jenings. The seal is armorial.
Agreement for the conveyance by Roger Williams of Newport, co. Mon., gent., to Thomas Prichard of Newport, cordwainer, of the fee simple of a m. and gardens in the said town of Newport late in the tenure of Blanch Foster, widow, and a parcel of land adjoining called Cae clomendy, containing one a. and in the tenure of Thomas Dumayne, gent. Consideration: £205.5s. and the cost of the conveyance to be paid by the said Thomas Prichard. Witnesses: Thomas Phillips; John Richards; William Jones.
Indenture, being a lease for a year (so that a grant by release might be made) from William Barns of Bristol, sugar-baker, to Henry Edmonds of Cwmcarvan, co. Mon., gent., of a tmt called The rodge, a barn, garden, and 3 orchards adjoining to the priory lands on the south-east and to the lords meads on the north; 15 a. called The hill close; 15 a. adjoining a wood of Mrs Blethin Smith on the north, abutting on a wood of Mr Justice Price on the east and on The rodge lands on all parts thereof; 8 a. called The middle eight acres adjoining Lazarus Herbert's mead on the north; 2 a. adjoining the highway leading from the Five Lanes to Westerne Bridge on the north; 13 a. of coppice wood adjoining a common field called Sohooles on the south; 4 a. called Black moorles pitts adjoining the highway leading from Shirefield to the Five Lanes on the south and the water pitts on the east and Sohooles common on the west; 10 a. adjoining Caerwents bridge on the highway leading from Caldicot to Caerwent on the west; an a. in Sherefield called Badgers knapp abutting on the lands of the heirs of Dorothy Steder on the south and to the mouth of the lane leading from Brockwalls to Shirefield on the east; a m. and lands in p. Caldicot in the tenure of William Howell, and other parcels of land. Witnesses: J. Davies; Thomas Davis.