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Case submitted to Counsel on behalf of Mr Harris, the surviving executor of the will of Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich. It recites the will of the said Leonard Lloyd [see D. D. 1,525] and states that John Lloyd (testator's brother) was still alive; that all the nephews of the testator are now 22 years of age; Hugh Lloyd is married and has one son, an infant, now living; his brother, John Lloyd, is married but has no children; Leonard Lloyd is unmarried; Sibill, Elizabeth, and Mary Lloyd (testator's nieces) are married but Diana, Anne, and Priscilla are under age. Counsel's opinion appended.

Case, on behalf of Mr Lloyd, for Counsel's opinion in regard to the will of Leonard Lloyd of Ipswich, with Mr Charles Pilsworth's opinion. See D. D. 1,527.

Certificate by John Lewis and John Devereux Pugh, commissioner for taking acknowledgements of deeds by married women for co. Denb., of the acknowledgement by Jemima, wife of David Johnson, of an indenture, dated 28 Aug. 1879, and made between Mathew Ford, Charles James Abbott, and Edwin Evans Cronk, of the first part, Elizabeth Mitchell Jones, of the second part, the said David Johnson and Jemima, his wife, of the third part, and the said Charles James Abbott, of the fourth part.

Certificate by Wyllyam Phyllyps, notary public, that, on 8 July 1532 in the great hall of Hawarden Castle, there appeared before him and John Whytley, son and heir of John Whytley, late of Aston in the lp of Hawarden, gent., dec., the following persons, namely, John Smith, Richard Richard Hervye, and Wyllyam Corby of Hawarden, John Constantyne, Richard ...., and Wyllyam Aspinwall of Aston, John Strete, Henry Starby, William ffowler, Thomas Ithell, John Mayshin, and Wyllyam Strete of the More, Rauff Mayshin, Cristofer Pybberynge, Richard Cartwright, William Seldon, John ffoxe, and Richard Mayshin, John Gathelyn of the Brud lane, John Caud, and Wylliam Myllyngton of Pentrabyn, who deposed, in regard to the letting of a m. and lands in Broughton in the said lp of Hawarden between Piers Stanley, esq., late of Tullowe, dec., and the said John Whytley, gent., dec., that the said m. and lands were at all times let by the said Piers Stanley for a year or three or more and that the said John Whytley would let the property for the same term, and that there were no variances between them.

Certificate Of An Award (pursuant to a decree bearing date 12 Nov. 1761), setting forth the metes and bounds of Kilkennin Demesne and Llyestwen, two parcels included in a lease dated 15 Sept. 1636, granted by John Vaughan, esq. (afterwards Chief justice of the Common Pleas), and Jane, his wife, to his brother, Henry Vaughan, and allotting the same between the Rt Hon. Wilmot Vaughan Lord Viscount Lisbum, the Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, esq., his oldest son, and Wilmot Vaughan, an infant by his next friend, plaintiffs; and James Phillips, esq., Elizabeth Phillips, widow, and William Jelfe, defendants, in a suit touching the said premises. About fifty field-names are enumerated. It recites the will, dated 13 Aug. 1677, of Mary Vaughan, widow of said Henry Vaughan, and one of the coheiresses of John Stedman of Kilkennin, and states that Jane, wife of said John Vaughan, was another daughter and coheiress of John Stedman.

Certificate of the acknowledgment before Charles Tyler and James Gilbert George, commissioners in co. Mon. for taking the acknowledgements of married women under 3 & 4 Will. IV, by Anne (wife of Charles Gough) of an indenture, dated 22 Feb. 1841, and made between the said Charles Gough and Anne, his wife, of the one part, and Samuel Murrell, of the other part.

Certificate of the landing of goods at Swansea by Edward Harris from the George from Barnstaple, John Hancock being master. The consignment comprised Bristol wheat flour and barley.

Certificate of the landing of goods at Swansea by John Cudlip out of the Agenosia from Barnstaple, Thomas Tucker being master. The consignment consisted of British wheat, British barley, British malt, potatoes, cider, apples, and English cordage.

Certificate of the landing of goods by David Williams from the Refiner from Bristol, himself being master. The consignment comprised cast-iron plates, calamy [celamine], bath stone, sugar, linen and woollen drapery, rye grass seed, laths, cheese, earthenware, a sloop's mast, yards, and sails, etc.

Certificate showing Erasmus Vaughan of Trecoon, co. Pemb., to have been sworn a burgess of the Town and Liberty of Cardigan. Signed: Jacob Rice, town clerk.

Certificate that Wilham Henry Buckland of Cadoxton Place, co. Glam., esq., is the owner of 87 shares for £500 in the joint stock of the Vale of Neath Brewery, carried on under the firm of Stancomb, Buckland and Rusher. Signed by Joseph Stancomb, W. H. Buckland, and Joseph Rusher.

Certified Copy Of An Agreement, whereby John Read of Maesmawr, co. Mont., esq., and Bagott Read, esq. (his son and heir apparent), in consideration of an intended marriage between the latter and Margaret Jones, spinster (eldest daughter of Humphrey Jones of Flint, co. Flint, esq.), covenant to pay to the said Humphrey Jones £700 and also to convey to Thomas Jenkins of the town of Salop, esq., Edward Davies of Maesmawr, co. Mont., gent., Thomas Williams, junior, of Halkin, co. Flint, esq., and Evan Lloyd of Halkin aforesaid, esq., the capital m. called Maesmawr, a piece of land called Plas du, and a m. and lands in the tenures of Atheleston Hughes, John Owen, Thomas Morgan, Humphrey Proudley, William Arthur, Richard Cadman, and Martha Evans situate in p's Llandynam, Llanidlos, and Treveglwys, co. Mont. on trust for the said Bagott Read for his life, with remainders over, but subject to a life estate in some of the said property, for the said Margaret Jones. The said Humphrey Jones also covenants to settle property in p's Flint, Hollywell, Northop, and Hawarden, co. Flint on trust for the said Bagott Read and his intended wife for their lives, with remainders over. Witnesses: Edw. Pryce; John Moody and R. Bowdlas of Oswestry; Catherine Jones; Elizabeth Jones; John Blayney.

Certified Copy Of An Indenture, being a grant from Cornelius Davies, citizen and cloathworker of London and son of David Morgan Thomas of Trefdraeth, co. Ang., yeoman, dec., to Morgan Rogers of Caergeiliog, co. Ang., gent., and Lewis Prees of Newborough, co. Ang., yeoman, of m's and lands called Tythyn v'ch Adda, otherwise Tythyn Adda, in as ample a manner as Morgan Thomas, dec. (father of the said David Morgan and grandfather of the said Cornelius Davies), held the same; also a close called Cay yr wern ddwy and all other realty late of the said David Morgan and Morgan Thomas or of Morgan David, the dec. son and heir of the said David Morgan and half-brother of the said Cornelius Davies (which said Morgan David survived the said Morgan Thomas and David Morgan), or of David Morgan the younger, dec. (son and heir of the said Morgan David), all the said property being in Tredestinied, otherwise Trefdraeth, co. Ang. Consideration: £10. Witnesses: Ow. Hughes; Robt Williams; Henry Wynne; Wm Wynne; Richard Owen. Certified by Ow. Hughes and Richard Owen.

Certified Copy Of An Inquisition held (pursuant to a writ dated 18 Feb. 1864) at the house called the 'Angel' at Cardiff, co. Glam., before Hardinge Stanley Gifford, James William Bowen, and Charles Edward Coleridge, three of the commissioners appointed by the said writ, to enquire what realty Benjamin Bowen of Cardiff, dec., owned at his death. The jurors, Henry Cousins, Frederick William Armstrong, Arthur Henry Banner, George Thomas Downton, John Evans, Thomas Evans, Joseph Flint, William Foster, Joshua Herne, Joseph Jacymer, Charles Ellis, and Henry Bishop, say that the said Benjamin Bowen was at the time of his death seised in fee simple of the following property:- a farm formerly called Tir Thomas Evan cook, and afterwards known as Lanishen Park, and now as Lanishen cottage farm, containing 40 a., in p. Lanishen, co. Glam., and formerly in the tenure of Griffin Lloyd, and now in the occupation of Wyndham Lewis, esq.; that the said Benjamin Bowen became seised of the said property under the will of Mary Williams, and dec. 19 Dec. 1860 at Cardiff without devising the said property and without leaving any issue or right heir him surviving; that the said property was of the clear yearly value of £60; that it was held of Queen Victoria in free and common socage but not subject to any rent or service (except fealty); that by reason of the premises aforesaid the property vested in the queen as an escheat by virtue of her prerogative royal, and had accordingly been taken into the hands of the queen by the commissioners.

Certified Copy of extract from the rolls of the Great Sessions for co. Glam. held at Cardiffe on 14 Sept. 1607 before John Crooke, kt, one of the justices of the pleas, esq., and Francis Tale, esq., justice of co. Glam. It gives a long list of the amercements paid for the co. of Worcester, and the names and (in some cases) the addresses of the parties to the suits, who are principally residents in co. Glam.

Certified Copy of the verdict of a jury sworn at a court baron for the man. of Edlogan, held on 30 Mar. 1697, to view a right of way to a parcel of land of Mary Griffith, widow, called Gwaine ddy, situate in p. Panttegge, co. Mon., within the said man. of Edlogan and in the tenure of Thomas Richard Morgan. The jurors, Rod. Rogers, Miles Roger, William Jones, William Edwards, Arnoll Thomas, and John Morgan, find that the right of way runs from the upper corner of the north side of the said parcel of land through a gap to be made there near the butt of an oak into a parcel of land called Cae cluidd gwerne kemeys, and passes along the east side of this parcel up to a little lane, which it enters by the butt of an elm tree on the right hand, which lane leads from Pontum lyne to another lane called Hewle kemeys, which leads from Pont yr ynn towards Pont-y-moyl, and that the said right of way is to be 12 feet wide. The witnesses examined were: Nicholas Elise; Morgan Jenkin; Thomas Owen; Richard Morgan David; Walter Jenkin; Cha. Rosser John. The copy is certified by Roger Kemeys, steward of the man. of Edlogan.

Certified Copy Of The Will of Robert Savors of Breach, co. Glam., gent., whereby - after reciting that his uncle, Thomas Leyson, of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, gent., dec., by his will dated 20 Sept. 1699, devised to the said Robert Savors (subject to the life estate of Susanna, then the wife of the said Thomas Leyson, but now the wife of ---- Haws of Ramsbury aforesaid, clerk) all his realty in p's Ramsbury, Hungerford, and elsewhere in Wiltshire and Berkshire, including his home in Ramsbury and a lease of a water corn mill in Hungerford called Hungerford Mills - testator devised as follows:- To my uncle, Edward Carne of .... esq., and my cousin, John Willkins, of Keyra all the reversion of the above mentioned property and all other realty purchased by me in p. Lanblethian on trust to pay my said wife, Susanna, £100 per annum for her life and, subject thereto, on trust for my first and other sons successively in tail, with remainder to my daughters and their issue, with remainder to my father, Richard Savors, and his issue, with remainder to my cousins, Thomas Willkins of Lanblethian, gent., and Jenkin Thomas of St Mary Church, the eldest son of my aunt, Blanch Savors; to my said father, the tmt in Moulton (held under Jesus College, Oxfordshire), if I die without issue; to my cousin, John Savors, £100; my cousin, Richard Edmond, 1s. for gloves. My said wife to be executrix. Proved 21 Sept. 1710 at Llandaff. Witnesses: John Williams; Tho. Tristram; Evan William. [The last page, which contained the date of the will, is missing.].

Chirograph of a final concord in a fine levied at the Great Sessions for co. Flint, held at Mold before the Hon. Charles Warren and the Hon. Thomas Jervis, justices of the said sessions, between Rev. Peter Legh, clerk, plaintiff, and William Legh, esq., Mary Ann, his wife, and Alexander Murray, esq., and Johnina, his wife, defendants, when the defendants released to the plaintiff two-thirds of 6 m's, &c. and 260 a. of land in Gwernafield and Bistree in p. Mold and in Soughton in p. Northop, co. Flint. Certificate (endorsed) states that this chirograph was referred to in an affidavit of John Fitchett Marsh (sworn on 24 Jan. 1859) in regard to the trusts of the estate of John Wilkinson, dec., in Chancery.

Claim of Anne Whitley of Aston in p. Hawarden, co. Flint, spinster, to a right of common on the common or marsh called Saltney Marsh in the man. and p. of Hawarden aforesaid in respect of several ancient m's and lands of the said Anne Whitley, lying in said p. Hawarden. The claim, which is signed by Mascie Taylor, agent for the said Anne Whitley, is addressed to Samuel Wyatt of Burton, Staffordshire, gent., Edward Stelfox of Sunderland in p. Bowden, Cheshire, gent., and John Earl of Overton in p. Frodsham, Cheshire, gent., Enclosure Commissioners for Saltney Marsh, and was presented to them at their second meeting, held on 27 Oct. 1778, at the house of Elizabeth Dutton, known by the sign of the 'Fox', in Hawarden. This document gives a list of the said ancient m's and lands, with the acreages thereof. Witnesses: Thomas Huxley; Charles Bruen.