Welsh Journals

tb%fyill of James Lloyd of Monington, in Pembrokeshire, who died in 1669. It was dated the 19th Sept. 1669, and contained the following bequest:- To James Selby of Wavendon, in the county of Buck- ingham, the son and only issue of Thomas Selby of Neverne, in this countie, by my sister Mary, his deceased wife, the sum of fortie pounds of current English money. The testator's messuage and lands in St. Dogmaels were devised to his son and heir, Evan, charged with pay- ment to his two brothers, John and George, of eight score pounds, being four score pounds a year to each. To the testator's wife during her widowhood he gave half his messuages, etc., in Monington, and all his personal estate to his son Evan, whom he appointed executor. The in- ventory of his chattels annexed amounted to £ 39. The p will was properly indexed, "Testamentum Jacobi Lloyd de Monington, 1669". Harris, a clerk to one Morgan, Thomas Jones's successor, proved that he found this will in a bag in the Consistory Court of Carmarthen, and the Rev. T. Griffith, who in right of his wife had preferred a claim to the estate which had been abandoned, stated that some years before he had found the name of James Lloyd of Monington in the index, and that the will was produced to him in the presence of two clerks in the office. A deed of release, dated 11th Oct. 1620, from Evan ap Rees to Alban Lloyd of Freystrop, and a bond, dated 11th Dec. 1629, in which Evan ap Rees was obligor, and Alban Lloyd obligee, were produced to show that Alban Lloyd was the purchaser of the Trevigin estate, and that it 1 There is an old deed in the possession of Mr. J. H. Davies of Cwrtmawr, Cardiganshire, dated 12 March 1613, by which Elizabeth, the daughter of Phillips, a widow living in the parish of Llantood, conveyed the farm of Trevigin to Alban Lloyd of Frestroppe, gent.-F. G.