GRUFFYDD, Morris (by 1532-78 or later), of Beaumaris, Anglesey and Fachwen, Caern.

Family and Education

b. by 1532, yr. s. of Rowland Gruffydd of Porthamel. Anglesey, by 2nd w. Catherine, da. and coh. of Meredydd ab Evan ap Robert of Crug, Caern. m. Alice, da. of William Bulkeley II of Beaumaris, 1s. 1da.Presumed to be of age at election. Cal. Letters relating to N. Wales (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xxiii), 5-6 followed in preference to Griffith, Peds. 56, 208 on parentage.

Offices Held

Bailiff, Beaumaris 1554, 1577 – 78, subsidy assessor 1555, capital burgess 1562; escheator, Caern. Jan. 1572-Feb. 1573.C219/23/187; C. E. M. Evans, ‘Medieval Beaumaris and the commote of Dindaethwy’ (Univ. of Wales M.A. thesis, 1949), iii. 114; E179/219/14; CPR, 1560–3, p. 347.

Parlimentarian

GRUFFYDD, Morris (by 1532-78 or later), of Beaumaris, Anglesey and Fachwen, Caern.

Main residences: Beaumaris, Anglesey; Fachwen, Caern.

Author

P.S.E.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

GRUFFYDD, Morris (by 1532-at least 78)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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