called Coed y Kefne now in the plts posson and of severall other parcells of the said Townshipp Lands and his father payd ye rents thereof to Mrs Penelope and Mrs Ellin Owens, sisters to the said Sr John Owens, for some time till they took the same from him.
Hugh Thomas, of Llanarmon, in the County of Carnarvon, yeoman, aged 66 years or thereabouts, examined on the plts behalfe deposeth as followeth.
To the second, and all the rest of the Interries this dept sayeth, that he knows the tenemts called yr Ynys Goch, Carreg Vawr, Kae glan yr Afon, and Mill Field, alias Singrig, and alsoe knows the mill called Melin y Ghest, and has known the same these fortie yeares, all which said premisses are in the Townshipp of Ghest, and reputed for Kings Lands, and not Freehold, as his depont ever heard and was informed by David ap William Prichard heretofore tenant in Kae Glan yr Afon, William Prichard ap William heretofore also tent in Yr Ynys Goch, John ap William Griffith heretofore alsoe tent in Carreg Vawr and severall other antient people of that neighbourhood and this dept doth remember that the holdrs of the premisses heretofore payd their tythes out and taxacons for the premisses to the parish of Ynys Kynhayarn and all still doe, save that about 28 yeares agoe, and ever since the tythe of Yr Ynys Goch, was taken from Ynyskynhayarne and was payd to the parish of Penmorva, and this dept heard and beleives that this alteracon was made by some of the Clynenne family, and was soe informed by one John ap Richard John Owen, and the reason of this alteracon was as this dept heard and beleives was for that there was a small Freehold tenemt of Sr John Owen of about fifty shillings per annum in the parish of Penmorva neer adjoyneinge to yr Ynys Gôch, which with Ynys Gôch was held together, and name of the said Freehold tenemt this dept cannot remember; but the same was not called Yr Ynys Goch.
