Welsh Journals

Aug., 1873. BYE-GONES. 193 Cymerau, which is considered as a rent charge upon the said farm. These charities are distributed among the poor of the parish generally on St. Thomas's Day, in various sums. Evan Evans, of Blaidd Bwll, who died on the 9th January, 1820, as appears by the churchwarden's books, be¬ queathed to the rector and churchwardens of this parish the sum of £5, desiring that the same may be r ut out to in¬ terest to produce 5s. annually, and that this amount should be distributed to the five poorest old men in the parish, on Easter Eve. This sum of £5 was held by one of the execu¬ tors, a rector of the parish, on his promissory note. THE SCHOOL. Mary Parry, of Wrexham, in the county of Denbigh, by her will, dated the 9th of June, 1817, bequeathed to the rector and churchwardens for the time being of Llanbedr [juxta Harlech], the sum of £1,000, the interest whereof she directed to be laid out in teaching poor children, boys and girls in equal number. And the said testatrix ap¬ pointed her nephew, Robert Hartley, executor of the said will. Mrs Parry died in the month of June, 1817, but the legacy was not paid by her executor until the year 1820, at which time the interest had accumulated to a sufficient sum to pay the legacy duty and the costs of the attorney for recovering the same. The sum of £9 4s. 3d. being the surplus, was laid out in the year 1824, together with £37 17s. lOd. raised by voluntary contribution in the creation of a school house, the remainder of its cost being paid from the interest of the £1,000, and the whole expense having been £121 10s. 9£d. This sum of £1.000, which was originally laid out on a mortgage, wa3 transferred on the 9th September, 1833, by the trustees, viz., Richard Anthony Poole, Robert Jones, the Rev. David Evans, Rector, and William Pugh, church¬ warden of the parish, on property belonging to Miss Mary Poole. The school-house then built was adapted for the accom¬ modation of 100 children, the boys and girls to be in separate rooms, and taught separately under a master and mistress. This charity, and another known as " Dr Ellis's Charity," in the adjoining parish of Llandanwg have been the subjects of inquiry by the Commissioners, under the "Endowed Schools Act" of 1869, who have recently issued a "scheme " for their management. This scheme we shall notice by a full summary, after our notes upon the charities of Llan¬ danwg. PARISH OF LLANDANWG. The Parliamentary Returns of 1786 inform us in re the charities of this parish, that :— 1. A Donor, then unknown, gave by his will, land pro¬ ducing 10s. per annum, which original sum was at that time vested in one John Wynne Pugh, and payment made out of the rents of a field called " Cae'r Gibeion," in the parish. 2. Llewellyn Prichard, by his will, dated in 1738, gave £6 to the poor, then vested in Owen Humphreys. 3. Lowry Prichard, by her will, dated in 1746, also gave £5 to the poor, which was at that time vested in the Rev. Mr Jones. The sum of lis. as interest on these two charities of the Pritchards is paid by the occupier or owner of the farm of Las-ynys-bach, from the rent-charge thereon. 4. The Rev. William Wynne, by bis will in 1761, gave £15 to the poor, then vested in John Wynne Pugh. The same was invested in the farm lands of Las-ynys-fawr. 5. Griffith Humphreys, by his will, dated in 1764, gave £5 to the poor, which sum was at the date invested in Owen Richards. And the sum of 5s. was paid by the tenant of the farm called Morfa, in this parish, to the parish officers, as the interest of the said Bum of £5. These several amounts were respectively received by the overseers, and distributed among the poor, by the parish authorities, on the 1st of January in each year, in small doles of money. 6. Rees Morgan, about the year 1763, gave £10 to the poor. This sum, with other monies, belonging to the parish was afterwards laid out in building a small house in the parish, for the reception of parish paupers; the parish officers and vestry allowing out of the rates the sum of 10s. as interest, which was distributed at the same time and in the same manner as the other charities before mentioned. Fine or £21. The parish came into possession of the sum of £21 by a fine levied upon three persons for a misdemeanour, and which was directed by the magistrates to be given to the poor. This sum was invested on the tolls of the road leading from Bala to Dolgelley, and secured by a bond dated 13th February, 1826, at an interest of £5 per cent. To obviate the improvident mode of distribution of these several charities, with the approval of the Charity Com* missioners, the amount of them, being £3 12s., was given to the support of the schoolmaster at Harlech for the educa¬ tion of the most necessitous children of the parish of Llan- THE SCHOOL. John Ellis, minister of Dolgelley, by his will dated 4th December, 1665, devised the tenement of Rhyddallt, with the Owergloddgron adjoining, with all their appur¬ tenances, lying and being in the adjoining parish of Llan- aber, to the rectors, or ministers, churchwardens and six honest persons of the several parishes undermentioned, viz., Llanaber, Maentwrog, Festiniog, Llandecwyn, Llan- fihangel-y-traethau, and the town of Hardleigh (Harlech) within the parish of Llandanwg, to this intent and purpose, to wit, for the yearly maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach twelve poor boys, especially orphans, without any entrance or other charge at any time, and these children to be of next of kin to the said testator (if such there should be), otherwise generally to be chosen, without any respect or difference, out of the said parishes and places, or some of them, and his will was, that the said revenues and rents aforesaid should be employed for the reading of prayers three times a day by the schoolmaster, either in the place where the youths aforesaid should be taught, or in the chapel of the said town of Hardleigh unto which, and the corporation thereof, together with the other parishes, he de¬ vised the said tenements, for the same intent and purpose, to be held by them and their successors for ever, and he appointed the constable of the castle, the bailiffs, burgesses, and other members of the said corporation, with all the per¬ sons of the other parishes and places before specified from which the youths above spoken of should come to be taught there, to'see that his will was punctually performed, and that the said youths should not continue to be taught as above, beyond the age of sixteen years, but others be forthwith chosen and admitted into their vacant places. 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