Welsh Journals

Milborne 1196 7 December 1668. Release from William Thomas of the City of Bristol and Mary his wife, eldest daughter of Richard Gunter (II) late of the town of Usk, co Mon., deceased, to Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny, overseer of the Will of the said Richard Gunter (II), for the payment of a proportion of the consideration money specified in Milborne 1195. Milborne 621 1 December 1680. In an Indenture recording the sale of Cae yr gwraig by Walter Macocke to Robert Gunter say 1646-1702 of the Priory of Abergavenny, reference is made to the Will of Richard Gunter (II) dated 1 March 1662 in which he devised Cae yr gwraig to Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny his executor and administrator in trust to be sold to raise portions of £ 20 for his two daughters when the attained the age of twenty-one. Summary Robert Gunter c. 1546-1615 of the Priory, Abergavenny, devised named parcels of land, of which Cae yr gwraig was one, to his third son Richard Gunter (I) c. 1570-1648 of Monk Street, Abergavenny. Richard Gunter (I) in his Will devised the same lands between his wife and children; the close called Cae yr gwraig to be for the benefit of Mary and Elizabeth, the two daughters of his eldest son Richard Gunter (II) say 1600-1662/3 of Usk; then to Richard (II). In his Will Richard (II) devised Cae yr gwraig to Thomas Gunter in trust so that this close might be sold for the benefit of his daughters. By the terms of the same Will Thomas Gunter also rented out lands in Llanelen which had come to belong to Richard (II) for the benefit of his then eight year old son Richard Gunter (III), say 1654-1701, to whom Thomas had been asked to be tutor and guardian. We do not know when Thomas Gunter, 1627-1711, attorney, moved from his home the Gunter Mansion in Cross Street, Abergavenny, which he had used so long as a secret Roman Catholic chapel. In the knowledge that Thomas Gunter had been 'tutor and guardian' to Richard Gunter (III) it is not without significance that Richard Gunter of Cross Street inhabited the Gunter Mansion and that Thomas had prepared and witnessed his Will. (Lambeth 7 May 1701). In his Will Richard Gunter refers to his then only living son James: and expresses the wish that his "well beloved cozen James Gunter of The Priory, gent" should act as his Trustee and Executor. The Inventory that accompanied his Will