Abstract of title of Sir John Owen, Bart. to certain messuages in the parishes of Llanfeirian, Llangadwaladr, Llangristiolus, etc., and also to certain allotments of Malltraeth and Corsddaugan Marsh in the parishes of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog and Trefdraeth in the county of Anglesey purchased by the Revd. Edward Hughes, clerk (father of the first Lord Dinorben).

There are 23 pp. reciting various deeds governing the devolution of the property purchased, and ranging in date from 1725 to 1813. The solicitor for the purchaser was Rowland Williams of Beaumaris, chief agent to the Baron Hill estate. It was his duty to be absolutely satisfied on the question of title; so refractory were some of the questions put by him, that counsel (John Prujean of Gray's Inn) was not satisfied before he had made three separate attempts at answering them (5 Nov., 1814; 8 Feb., 1815; 3 May, 1815). It was well to be sure, as the purchase price was £15,000.

This Sir John Owen was the owner of the Bodeon estate in Anglesey and the Orielton lands in Pembrokeshire; his real name was John Lord, and succeeded to the estates on the death of his cousin Sir Hugh Owen in 1809, and assumed the name Owen (Pedigrees, 58).