The Cernioge-Hiraethog Case

An intricated complicated case in which very ancient documents figured, some going back to the days of the Princes of Gwynedd, others containing grants of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, introducing the vexed questions of mediaeval manors, inclosures, and waste lands. From one aspect, it was a battle between blood-relatives, the Kenricks of Cernioge and the Wynnes of Voelas, the former descended from Robert Gethin ap Morris Gethin ap Rhys ap Meredith of Plas Iolyn, the second from Cadwaladr ap Morris Gethin ap Rhys ap Meredith. But the Kenrick properties had been purchased by a James Blair of Uttoxetter; in reality, he was the plaintiff in the case, though (to satisfy legal exigencies) the real plaintiff was obscured by "Roe on the demise of Hart, Esquire, and Others". The defendant's real name was Charles Wynne Finch of Voelas, son of Jane Wynne by her marriage with the Hon. Charles Finch, second son of the Earl of Aylesford, but he had (in 1804) secured a licence to use the name of Griffith Wynne instead of Finch; from that date till his death in 1865 his full name was Charles Wynne Griffith Wynne.