File NLW MS 9063E/1708. - Will of Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, kt and bart,

Copy of the will of Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, kt and bart. After revoking a former deed of conveyance of lands in Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and Anglesey, testator willed his trustees to execute a deed of entail of the friths of Doluthelan in the commote of Nantconwy, Caernarfonshire, and of all lands in the township of Doluthelan, in the parish of Llusvaine, and in the township of Gwidder; that is to say, to the use of the heirs male of his body, with remainder to his brother Owen Wynn, Richard Wynn, son of the said Owen, and to the first son of the said Richard and of the heirs male of his body. To Justinian Pouey, esquire, Robert Ansham, esquire, and William Smith, gentleman, the almshouse at Brainford end in the parish of Thistelworth, Middlesex, upon trust to permit the churchwardens and overseers of the poor to put in such poor men of the parish as they shall think fit. Testator, furthermore, bequeathed as follows: To Dame Ann Wynn, my wife, all my household stuff in my house at Brainford, with £500, all her wearing jewels and plate which she had at her marriage, as well as a thousand ounces of white plate, all my linen at my house at Thistelworth and at my house m the Strand near Charing Cross, and all my pewter and brass in both houses, and coaches and coach-horses; with a proviso annulling all former bequests should she hereafter claim a moiety of the testator's goods and chattels upon the Custom of North Wales. To my brother Owen, and after his decease to his son Richard, the use of all my plate, hangings, and household stuff at Gwydir. Bequests to my brothers William and Henry, my nephews Jo. Bodven and Jo. Mostyn; my nephew Richard, son of my brother Owen, and my nephew Richard, son of my brother William; to John Chappell, Robt. Dolben, and E[d]ward Powell my servants. To the poor of St Martin's and Thistelworth, £10 apiece; to the poor of Llanrust, Treverue, and Llanruchwin, £5 apiece. To my brother Maurice, my house in the Strand of which I have a lease from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for 40 years. To the said Maurice, all my jewels and plate not bequeathed, and all my bills, bonds, and debts, the said Maurice to be my executor; and to the said Maurice Wynn, my executor, the lease of the parsonage of Llandidno, which I hold from the Archdeacon of Merioneth, and also my lease of the parsonage of Llanvair Diffryn Cloyd, Denbighshire; and all my lands, tenements, moor and fen lands in Crowland, Pinchbeck, Moulton, and Spalding, in Lincolnshire, which I hold by lease of 60 years from Her Majesty; and I bequeath to the said Maurice the reversion of my house at Thistelworth, and of the manor and lands which belonged to the chapel of All-angels, in the parishes of Thistelworth and Brainford, Middlesex, after the death of Dame Ann my wife. The said Maurice having paid off certain debts out of the lands in Llechweth Issa left to him for that purpose by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, I devise and bequeath the said lands unto the said Maurice Wynn and his heirs for ever; and I do further desire my said executor, who hath ever been forward to advance the house out of which he is descended, and this to be only by way of request and not injunction, that after his decease he would be pleased to cause to be regranted and reconveyed all the land, tenements, and leases to the heirs male of the house of Gwydir. Witnesses: Henry Wynn; John Chappell; Robert Doulben; John Younge; Roger Mostyn., William Briscoe; Edward Powell. Endorsed in the autograph of Maurice Wynn: 'The copy of Sir R. Wynn's will, but not his last will and testament.' [Sir Richard Wynn died in 1649].