X/POOLE/4498
COPY CASE of Mr. Griffith of Cefnamwlch. Gives details of a marriage settlement 1710 of William Griffith, Esq., and Mary Lake devising lands in co. Caernarfon, with conditions re the maintenance of his wife in the event of her surviving him. William Griffith died without issue leaving a wife and his heir - a brother, John Griffith, in 1714. Gives details of a subsequent release of the said premises (1718). John Griffith died in 1739 leaving Anne, his widow, and William Griffith, his son and heir to whom the estate, subject to certain rent charges, passed. The estate was also subject to payment of interest on £3000 and William Griffith got little benefit from it and sought legal advice on the question of his estates. In 1742, however, he was unwillingly forced by one of the trustees into a conveyance of his capital messuage called Keven Amlwch and other houses and lands of his in co. Caernarfon to John Hosier and his heirs in order that a common recovery might be suffered. Certain provisos were still made concerning an allowance to his wife Sidney, to be paid from the estate and other unfavourable provisos re the reversion. He seeks an opinion on whether a court of equity would allow him to take away the ’pin money’ of his wife and alter the revision.
Cyngor Gwynedd