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X/POOLE/3238

COPY WILL of Richard Bulkeley of Glanygors, co. Anglesey, gent. To his daughter Catherine Evans leaves 20/- and to his grandson Thomas Evans, her eldest son, leaves 20/-. To John Evans ,another grandson, leaves £20 to be laid out in apprenticing him to a trade. To his grandson Lewis Evans leaves £30 to be laid out in apprenticing him to a trade. To his grand-daughter Margarett Evans leaves £50. To his son in law Hugh Hughes of Tre’r draw, co. Anglesey, gent. leaves 20/- and to his grandson Lewis Hughes son of Hugh Hughes aforesaid leaves 20/-. To his second son Richard Hughes leaves £50 to settle him in a trade. To his third son John Hughes leaves £20 to set him up in a trade. To his grand-daughter, Elizabeth Hughes, leaves 20/- as he has already provided for her. To his daughter Gwenn Bulkeley leaves a rent charge of £5 per annum for a term of 21 years, out of lands in Coedare for the maintenance of herself and her children with a second rent charge of £5 per annum for the space of 21 years for the maintenance of his daughter Margaret Bulkely. To his sister Elizabeth Bulkeley leaves a rent charge of 40/- out of 2 houses in the parish of Kerrig Ceinwen [Cerrigceinwen] (unless she survives until the reversion of lands in parish of Kerrig Keinwen [Cerrigceinwen] and Llangristiolus, purchased of John Lloyd of Maesyporth, falls in, in which case the annuity is to cease and she is to be considered one of the 5 persons receiving the charity from these lands). To his servant Martha Williams leaves a rent charge of 40/- out of lands in parish of Kerrig Ceinwen [Cerrigceinwen]. Leaves the reversion of a house and lands called Kefn and other houses purchased from John Lloyd in the parishes of Llangristiolus and Kerrig Keinwen [Cerrigceinwen] to his son Robert Bulkeley and his grandsons Thomas Evans and Richard Hughes in trust to pay the rents and profit to his five nearest relations as a charity selecting a new recipient as vacancies arise, with a recommendation that the house be converted into a dwelling house for 5 persons. Leaves all his other houses and lands in the parishes and townships of Llangristiolus, Heneglwys, Kerrig Keinwen [Cerrigceinwen], Amlwch, Coedane, Truklwyn and Clygyrog, co. Anglesey (subject to the aforesaid annuities) to his son Robert Bulkeley for his life and then to his grandson Samuel Bulkeley and his heirs. To his daughter in law, wife of Robert Bulkeley leaves 20/- for a ring. To Bangor Cathedral leaves 2/-. Nominates his son Robert Bulkeley as executor, and instructs him to give 20/- to his servant Michael Thomas on discharging him after his death.