Miscellaneous collection of documents found amongst the Porth yr Aur papers, but wholly unrelated, both in matter and personal, to any of the numerous cases figuring in that corpus.

This material is held atArchifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 222 BMSS/1218
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1681-1761
  • Physical Description
    • 43 documents

Scope and Content

Document 1 supplies us with the name of Richard Griffith of Tyddyn Cae in Bodfean

Document 2 is a letter from Barbados written by a native of Llannor

Document 3 - author unknown except that he was uncle to Sir John Wynne of Watstay

Document 4 - written by S. Radnor, almost certainly Sarah, Countess of Radnor, daughter of the Cavalier Sir John Bodvel, although technically she was never Countess of Radnos, as her husband, son of the first Earl of Radnor, died before his father

Documents 5-12 have to do with the case of Anne Jones, orphan daughter of John Roberts of Cwmeisdir in the parish of Edern, who seems to have been married to Catherine, sister of Edmund Glynne of Llanidan. There was some difficulty about the wardship, but ultimately and at the request of the Bishop of Bangor (Dr Humphrey Humphreys), Glynne rather reluctantly undertook the duty for the practical certainty that Anne was the daughter of John Roberts. Owen Lloyd, senior of Llannor, seems also closely related to her. Ann Jones benefitted considerably by the last will and testament of Edmund Glynne.

Documents 20-36 - Ellen, widow of Owen Lloyd and her son Richard engaged in litigation over incidence of lands and rents.

Document 38 - an inventory of the chattels of Ffoulk Price of Llanllyfni, clerk, 1705-6 (son of Edmwnd Prys, Archdeacon of Meirionydd and rector of Llanllyfni)

Documents 40-43 - refer to the Bodewryd and Chwaen Wen estates, supplying a very illuminating analysis of the rent-roll in various hundreds of Anglesey and drawn up in view of the marriage, most probably, of John Wynne to Blanche Lloyd of Lligwy

Other Finding Aids

Another catalogue description can be found here https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb222-bmssolj

Custodial History

At one time, the greater number of them, judging from the endorsements in his hand, must have been in the possession of Owen Lloyd, junior of Ty Newydd in Llannor, who migrated to London about 1690-1691