His agent, William Conway, was listed as a recusant by the vicar of Llanasa and was in fact presented as such at the Court of Great Sessions in 1679. Sir Edward Mostyn of Talacre, the landowner, came from the branch of the Mostyn family which remained true to the Old Faith, as we have already seen. Quite apart from the obvious question of unfulfilled obligation, the case is of special interest in that it was a dispute between Catholics. She added that her husband had been to a fortune teller who informed him 'that it was a neighbour one end of the first tree of whose house laid upon the chymney was the person that had maimed his, the said John Evans's cattle and that she knew of noe first tree that soe laid save in the said Charles Hughes his house and that therefore she suspected that the said Charles Hughes had maimed her cattle'. Hugh ap Edward further declared that in or about August 1690 he himself was at the house of his son, Charles, close to John Evans's dwelling, when Gwen, the wife of John Evans, called upon him and said that Charles deserved to be punished rather than defended by him. Charles thus became an immediate tenant to Sir Edward, much to the displeasure of John Evans, who, for this reason alone, according to Hugh ap Edward, now prosecuted Charles. Conway at the same yearly rent as he had formerly taken them from John Evans. William Conway, steward to Sir Edward Mostyn, and took the said tenements from Mr. Charles performed his part of the agreement but John Evans erected only two bays and refused to build the third. When Charles Hughes took the lands from John Evans it was agreed that the latter should erect three bays of building and that Charles Hughes should pay twenty shillings towards the cost thereof. Hugh ap Edward of Llanasa, yeoman, testified that his son, Charles Hughes, was undertenant to another yeoman, John Evans, of Calcoed, Holywell parish, who was, in turn, a tenant to Sir Edward Mostyn of Talacre. It involved, in addition, some of the inhabitants of the adjoining parishes of Holywell and Whitford. The next case to be considered also concerned the parish of Llanasa. The first part of this study concluded with an examination of the case of Dorothy Griffith. Journal of the Flintshire Historical Society, 1975-1976, 27, p. Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Flintshire (PART TWO) by J.
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