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COPY WILL of Henry Rowlands, Bishop of Bangor. Gives a brief biography of himself. To Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral leaves £20 for repairing the steeple with lead. (It is sadly in need of repair though he left it in a better condition than he found it.) To the poor of Bangor leaves £3. To the poor of Amlwch leaves £2. For repair of Amlwch Church £5; to the poor of Llangristiolus leaves £3 and £30 to repair of church there. To the poor of Penmynydd £2; £2 for repair of Church of Penmynydd; to the poor of Aberdaron and Llanfaelrhys in Llyn leaves £3 and £1 to each of the two churches. To the poor of Llanrhaeadr in Dyffryn Clwyd leaves £5. To the poor of Llandwrog leaves £3 and £1 for repair of church. To the poor of parish of Meyllteyrn, Llyn, leaves £3 and £1 to repair of church; £1 to repair of Botwnnog chapel. To the poor of parish of Penllech where he went to school leaves £1. To the poor of Bryncroes leaves £1. To his eldest sister Marsley Rowland leaves £10; to his sister Ellen £10; to his sister Agnes £10; to his sister in law Jane, widow of his brother Edward Rowlands, leaves £5. Various other legacies to relatives. To his brother Thomas Rowland leaves a life interest in house and land called Llys lew in township of Porthamel, comote of Menai, co. Anglesey: asks him to allow the tenant Evan ap Eliza to continue to live there, and leaves him part of his farm stock. After his death the property is to be vested in trustees. The money from the property is for the establishment of a free grammar school in Meyllteyrn, or Botwnnog. He makes various conditions re the schoolmaster to be appointed, etc. Leaves Tyddyn yr Onnen alias Tyddyn y Penrhyn Oer and Tyddyn David in Erianell, comote of Llifon, co. Anglesey, to fellows of the College of Jesus, Oxford, to pay for a scholarship to Oxford for 2 scholars from Bangor and Beaumaris [Biwmares] Grammar schools. To Edmund Griffith, Dean of Bangor, leaves Tyddyn y Ddreinioes and Cae’r fynnon Hynyd and Caer Rhôs, parish of Llanfaglan for 3 years, then the property is to go to his niece Margaret Lloyd alias Margaret Rowland wife of John Lloyd, doctor of physic. Leaves recently purchased lands Tyddyn y goval alias Plas Gwyn, Llwynnon, Llwyn Ogan and a fulling mill called Pandu pwll fanogl and a house called Plas y modlew and 3 other houses in the township of Porthamel and Bodlew, co. Anglesey subject to certain charges to Richard Gwynn, Archdeacon of Bangor and Chancellor of Bangor, for a term, then to Mr. David Owen and his heirs for 7 years to pay for education of the son of his nephew Henry Rowlands, a former goldsmith of London, then for 3 years to Rowland Owen his godson and then to Henry Rowlands, son of his nephew Henry Rowlands. To his wife Francis Rowlands leaves a moiety of all his goods and money and as her one-third dower portion gives her his lands in Perthmyrn and Bryn erys and the tenement called Narnporth in the comote of Isgarfai [Isgwyrfai], co. Caernarfon. Leaves her his house in George Street to live in on her death. Nantporth is left to his cousin Edmund Griffith, Dean of Bangor, subject to a rent charge to the Dean and Chapter for the maintenance of 2 poor scholars. They are to be called "Huchines scholars" after his wife’s brother Mr. Hutchines of Gloucester who left £100 to the school. He leaves the land which he bought from Thomas Bold, gent. in the township of Castellor, Perthliyrn and Bryneryr and Rhos Owen, commote of Tindaethwy, co. Anglesey, to trustees, to maintain 6 old men who are to attend services regularly and conduct themselves in a fitting manner; and other bequests including bequests of his books, etc.
Cyngor Gwynedd