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XD2/541

COPY WILL of Roderick Lloyd of Lincolns Inn, co. Middx., directing that if he dies in or near London he is to be buried at Lincolns Inn in or near the grave of his uncle Richard Annwyl at the East end of the chapel. Bequests include £100, plate and goods to £50, all arrears of rent and dividends, to his daughter Anne Lloyd; an additional maintenance of £10 p.a. out of the tithes of Penmachno to the minister or curate of Penmachno on condition that he keep a school there, perform divide [?divine] service every Wednesday and Friday morning during Lent, and catechize the children every first Sunday of the Month; £100 to the minister or curate and churchwardens of Penmachno to be invested in land to buy food for the poor; all his lands tenements and hereditaments at Pembrin, co. Merioneth [Meirionnydd]., to John Wynne, Bishop of Bath and Wells, James Brymber of Brymber, co. Caernarfon, Esq., Thomas Kuffin of Maynen, co. Caernarfon, Esq., Lewis Owens of Pennarth, co. Merioneth [Meirionnydd], Esq., Robert Meyrick of Hafaddwrydd, co. Caerns., Esq., in trust to raise £120 out of rents to build an almshouse in Penmachno for 5 old men and 5 old women, and then to buy them coats with Roderick Lloyd’s initials thereon and to maintain them; suns of money to various members of family, servants and friends, and to the poor of Nevin [Nefyn] and Penmachno; £50 to buy religious books in Welsh for the poor of Penmachno; his tithes of the parish of Penmachno, his real estate there and in Nevin [Nefyn] and elsewhere, to the said Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Robert Price, Esq., Justice of the court of Common Pleas, Watkin Williams Wynne of Winnestay, co. Denbs., Esq., Thomas Lloyd of Gwernhaled, co. Flint, John Briscoe of Lincolnes Inne, Esq., and Robert Meese of New Inne, gent., in trust for his daughter Anne Lloyd and her heirs, in default of which the estate in Penmachno goes to the minister or curate of Penmachno, the other estate successively to the use of his nephew Lewis Lloyd and his heirs, to his cousin John Lloyd and his heirs, and then to his own right heirs, upon condition that if the minister or curate of Penmachno shall inherit he shall be a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, have no other cure of souls, and perform all conditions of the gift of £10 p.a.; all his personal estate to the same trustees upon various trusts for his daughter Anne Lloyd with instructions for disposal if she shall die without issue. Names the said trustees with the said Robert Meyricke as executors. Appended: CODCIL (4 November 1729) directing the trustees of the personal estate to pay a suitable annuity to Anne Lloyd’s husband, giving John Briscoe Esq. £50 for the special management of legal business in the will, and revoking legacies to his niece Barbara Lloyd, who has "disobliged" him by her marriage. [N.L.W. Rug II 3.]