Articles of agreement

Relating to the marriage-settlement of Richard Williams of Eirianell in Llechgynfarwy and Margaret Foulkes alias Warmingham of Glyn, parish of Llanbedr-goch. R.W. well assured that M.F. was possessed of considerable personal estate (ready money, goods, chattels); in consideration, allows her £100 for her sole use and benefit, with unfettered testamentary powers over the same.

This document is of considerable importance - it establishes the fact that R.W. was Margaret's second husband; together with DIN/24. It points to Margaret's intimate family relation with Evan Foulkes of Penmachno; and it unequivocally traverses an undoubted mistake in some of the pedigree tables. e.g., the New Testament entries (DIN/16) and the table of 1894 (DIN/18) distinctly state that Williams of Eirianell married Elin, daughter of Evan Foulkes and Margaret Llloyd, and that it was their daughter Elin who married John Prichard of Dinam. This is not so, for it was Margaret, sister of Evan Foulkes, who married R.W., and it was their dr. Elin who married J.P.. There was but one Elin, dr. of R.W. and M.F. These are the facts as supported by the marriage-agreement of 1724-1725, the conjoint force of the pedigrees in docts. 15 and 17, and the considered judgement of Mr. J.E. Griffith in the Pedigrees (46). It is somewhat difficult to explain away the family entries on the New Test. of 1712, until we note that the incorrect reference to the Eirianell marriage is a note at the foot of the page in a much later hand than the rest. Perhaps the most effective rebutter to the entries, that Elin, dr. of Evan Foulkes, was married to R.W. of Eirianell, is the fact that Elin was not born until 20 August 1724, and the other fact that R.W. was actually married to Elin's aunt in 1725.

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