Family and Education

b. by 1512.1

Offices Held

Bailiff, Carmarthen 1533-4, mayor 1548-9.2

Biography

A prominent townsman of Carmarthen, Gruffydd Williams was assessed for the subsidy in 1544 as of King’s Street, New Carmarthen; his goods were said to be worth £30 6s.8d. He was one of the freemen named in Carmarthen’s new charter of 1546, but after his term as mayor no further trace has been found of him.3

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558

Author: P. S. Edwards

Notes

• 1. Date of birth estimated from first reference.
• 2. Principality of Wales: S. Wales (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xxvi), 346-7; Lloyd, Carm. ii. 467; C. Spurrell, Carmarthen, 174.
• 3. E179/264/1; LP Hen. VIII, xxi.