Welsh Journals

Apr., 1873. BYE-GONES. 153 ^arra and lands measuring 25 acres, in the parish of Llan¬ gollen ; a, public house, with farm buildings attached, and land measuring 30 acres, in the parish of Llanarmon, Dyffryn Ceiriog ; a public house and land measuring about 3 acres; Dol Hir, a farm measuring about 14 acres, a house and a quillet of land measuring about 1J acres, cal ed Gilvoch; and a house and garden called Y Drill Gwtta, a i in the parish of Llansantffraid Dyffryn Ceiriog. The Almshouses. The.=e are six small houses in Corwen adjoining to the churchyard, and it is not known when, or in what manner, the parish became possessed of them, but it is supposed that they were erected and appropriated for the purpose of almshouses by an owner of Rug, the agent of which estate has exercised the sole management, and placed therein occupants. There is also a house adjoining these houses, which appears to have been bequeathed to the poor people by the will of Mr Roger Salusbury, hereafter men¬ tioned ; and the rent of which is still divided among the almspeople equally. Roger Salisbury's Charity. Roger Salusbury esquire, of Rug, by his will, dated the 27th of June; 1719. gave and bequeathed £200, to be laid out at interest by the owner of Rug, together with the con¬ sent of the minister and churchwardens of the parish of Corwen, the interest yearly for and towards the clothing of six of the oldest and poorest of the parish of Corwen, three men from the upper end of ' orwen parish, and three men from the lower end of the parish, to be settled with the ap¬ probation of the said owner of Rug, and the minister and churchwardens of Corwen, that each of the six men might have coat, breeches, and waistcoats, shirt, shoes, and stock¬ ings sgainst Christmas Day, and that none of the same should have this clothing two years together; and his will was that the poor old men that had, or their ancestors had, been belonging to the house of Rug be preferred before any others; and the testator also gave the rent of the house where John Smith then lived at Corwen to the use of the poor of the almshouses of Corwen, to be equally distributed between them by the minister, churchwardens, and owner of Rug; but if any dispute should arise the same should be decided by the owner of Rug. Mrs Lumley Salesbury's Charity. We learn from a miniate of a vestry, held January 14th, 1777, that a suit in Chancery had been instituted, in which John Pugh Payne was plaintiff, and John Lloyd, clerk, and Maria Carlotta, his wife, were defendants. "It was de¬ creed, in conformity with the Master's report, dated 14th March, 1768, that Thomas Pryse was owing to Mr Maurice Jones, surviving trustee of the will of Mrs Lumley Sales-, j bury, on bond and judgment, the principal sum of £400, with interest from the 25th February, 1750, and costs, £2 16s. 8d. ; and that the same principal sum of £400 was ordered to be paid to the said Maurice Jones, who was also directed to apply the interest of it to the purposes of Mrs Lumley Salesbury's will, to the clothing of twelve old women of the parishes of Corwen [and of Llangar and Gwyddelwern]; and the said Maria Carlotta Lloyd, of Rug, being willing to take the said sum of £400, gave her receipt for the same, and engaged to execute a bond for the same, with interest at 4J per cent, to the said Maurice j Jones, or to such other person or persons as should be con- sidered proper persons to be trustees, for the trust purposes aforesaid." It was d rected that the interest that had accrued on the { above principal sum having been unpaid for about twenty- five years, from February, 1752, to February 9th, 1777, at j -** £18 yearly, making a sum of £44916s. 8d., be paid over to Mr David Roberts, of Corwen, he having continued during those years to advance the said £18 of interest, in provid¬ ing the clothing for the said twelve poor persons annually, according to the will of the testator. This minute is signed by Robert Lloyd and Edward Jones, churchwardens ; John Beans and Thomas Jones, overseers ; and several of the parishioners. These two last charities have been under the management and direction of the owner of the Rug estate, with the assistance of an overseer of the parish. The expense attending the clothing of the old men and the old women with complete suits of clothing, and instruction to twelve boys in school at Corwen, amounted upon an average to £38 per annum. Preference is given under Mr Roger Salusbury's will to those who have either themselves or their ancestors been in the service of the family of Rug. Hugh Jones, Of Ddol, by his will, dated the 3rd of March, 1736, gave to Owen Owens, Thomas Hughes, and Robert Thomas, the sum of £300, in trust to be by them or the survivors or survivor of them or their assigns, from time to time placed out at interest, such interest to be for ever thereafter applied as follows :—viz., one-fourth thereof to the poor of the parish of Corwen [one-fourth to the poor of the parish of Llandrillo, one-fourth to the parish of Llanycil ante, the remaining fourth between the poor of the parish of Llanfawr. and Llangwm ante-] The said sum of £300 was laid out on a mortgage in 1760, bearing interest at £5 per cent., by Robert Wynne, ;.nd two other trusees of the charity, on a tenement des¬ cribed as a messuage, two tofts, two gardens, thirty acres of land, thirty acres of meadow, thirty acres of pasture, and forty acres t.f fuize and heath, with the appurtenan¬ ces, situate in the township of Panyfed, in the parish of Llangwm. The occupier of G-lanyrafon farm, whereon th;s mortgage was made, regulnriy paid, and we suppose regularly pavs, the interest due thereon. The interest of £5 per cent, was by an agreement in 1791 reduced to 4J per cent. This charity is usually due for distribution at Whitsun¬ tide, by the ministers and churchwardens. H. B. W. P. says :—" In the Archa'ologia Cairibrensis, of January, 1873 (hut only lately issued), p. 108, the date of the second marriage of Queen Angharad is given as A.D. 1023 instead of A.D. 1083. Perhaps you will consider it due to the author to mention the correction, which has doub'less been made in consequence of the absurdities, resulting from the error, being pointed out (Dec. 25, 1872) in Bye-gones column."—It would appear from this that the error was most likely that of the printer, and beyond control of the author. April 2, 1873. NOTES. POWYS-LAND CLUB.—The first division of the sixth volume of the Montgomeryshire Collections is just issued, and contains a continuation of Mr Edward Hamer's " Parochial Account of Llanidloes ;" and of the Rev. W. V. Llo\d's " Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire;" also a "History of the Parish of Garthbeibio," by the Rev. G-. Edwards, vicar of Llangadvan. There are other papera, which will come under notice in due course. CELWYDDWYR.—How was a liar punished in olden times in Wales ? 1.—He was to appear in church on Sunday during divine service in a white sheet and confess 27