File BA1/6 - ‘Peniarth, Maine, etc.’

Title deeds mainly for Pentrego, formerly the estate of Thomas Brookes and Margaret his wife, and Maes y Wern in the townships of Main and Dyffryn in parish of Meifod, 1730-1795. They include deeds relating to a recovery of the estate of Thomas Phillips, 1730; a mortgage by Robert Phillips to Mary Harwood of Shrewsbury, 1731; a succession of assignments of mortgage by the mortgagees of Robert Phillips, 1734, John Lloyd of Pentrego, widowed husband of Elizabeth, niece of Robert Phillips, 1748-1750, William Humphreys of Llwyn, husband of Anne, daughter of John Lloyd, who had purchased the premises, 1759, and an assignment from the last mortgagee, Rev. Richard Maurice, back to William Humphreys, 1765; a conveyance prior to the marriage of William Humphreys and Ann Lloyd, in trust for the payment of annuities to John Lloyd and his brother Meyrick Lloyd, 1757; a mortgage by William Humphreys, of Pentrego, Calcots Field in Trefedyryd, Maes y Wern, Penybryn, Erw Glomen, Alt Vawr in Peniarth and Teitref, and several other properties, 1768, followed by successive assignments, a further mortgage, and releases by Ann, Hawley, Mary Esdaile, Frances Humphreys and Lucy Humphreys, daughters of William Humphreys the elder, of legacies received under their father’s will, 1787-1795; deeds by John Humphreys and the mortgagees and trustees, for the sale of Pentrego and Maes y Wern to Thomas Morris 1795, which the latter mortgaged to Edward Edwards, Archdeacon of Brecon, 1795; and copies of the wills of Robert Phillips of Shrewsbury, 1735, William Humphreys, 1772, his son William Humphreys, 1781, Jenkin Parry of Main, 1787, and Powel Parry of Overton, Flintshire, 1791.