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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

RELATING TO THE

TOWN & COUNTY OF CARMARTHEN

AND THE

Abbeys of Galley and CTygwyn-a-Daf

BY

J. R. DANIEL-TYSSEN, ESQ. /TF.S.A.

Of Brighton

Evited and Annotated bp

ALCWYN C. EVANS

Of Carmarthen

 

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WILLIAM SPURRELL

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ROYAL CHARTERS

AND

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

RELATING TO THE

TOWN & COUNTY OF CARMARTHEN

AND THE

Abbevs of Calley and Cygwyn-ar-Daf

BY

J. R. DANIEL-TYSSEN, ESQ., F.S.A.

Of Brighton

Lpited and Annotated by

ALCWYN C. EVANS

Of Carmarthen

Carmarthen
WILLIAM SPURRELL

1878
A.XVB 317
PREFACE.

Tue following were, through a desire expressed by Mr. A. C.
Evans, procured at considerable expense and trouble, from the
Record and other Offices, by J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., F.8.A.,
so well known by his many valuable contributions to the Sussex
Archaeological Society, and that of London and Middlesex. With
his usual liberality he sent them to Mr. Evans for publication in
the “Haul,” a well-conducted monthly periodical printed by Mr. W.
Spurrell at Carmarthen. The documents afford great information
as to the past history and privileges of this town, &c.; and they
are now produced in pamphlet-form, to interest those who love to
muse on foregone times, and conduce, may be, to the preservation
of other historical remnants, which, when taken singly, are appa-
rently rayless, but when collectively, may afford sufficient light to

penetrate the gloom surrounding many past incidents.
Charter Rolls and Ancient Deeds

RELATING TO THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF CARMARTHEN.

—_@——_

ROTULI CHARTARUM. ANNO DOMINT 1201.

2nv KING

JOHN. MEMB. 16.

Confirmatio
hominum
de Kaermerdin.

Johannes Dei,
&e. Justiciarijs, &e.
Precipimus vobis quod Burgenses
nostri de Kaermerdin sint quieti de
theolonio! et passagio et pontagio et
omnibus consuetudinibus per terram
nostram totam: et prohibemus ne quis
eos injuste disturbet super forisfac-
turam omnium catellor’ suor’, sicut

Confirmation
of the men
of Kaermerdin.

Hohn, by the
Grace of God, &c.
to his Justiciars, &c. We command
you that our burgesses of Kaermerdin
be quit of toll and passage and
pontage, and all customs throughout
our Kingdom, and we prohibit that
any one unjustly disturb them upon
forfeiture of all his chattels as the

carta Henrici Regis patris nostri
rationabiliter testatur.
Teste R. Sancti Andree Episcopo.

Charter of King Henry reasonably
testifies.

Witness R.? Bishop of Saint

G. filio Petri Comitis Essexie.| Andrews. G. the son of Peter, Earl
Willielmo de Braosa, &e. Datum per|of Essex. William‘ de Braosa, and
manum nostram apud Geytinton vj|others. Dated by our hand at Ged-

die Januarij nostri

secundo.

regni anno|dington® the 6th day of January in

the second year of our reign.

 

! Perhaps the proper English of the word “theolonio” is ‘“ God-bote,” 4 deodand
for offences against God.

2 Roger de Bellomont was Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 1178—1183. Held the
Bishopric of St. Andrew’s, 1188—1202. He was second son of Robert Blanchemains,
Earl of Leicester, by his Countess Petronil, daughter of Hugh de Grantemesnil, Lord
of the Honor of Hinckley in Co. Leicester, to which in former times was annexed the
office of Lord High Steward of England. Bishop Roger's sister, Amicia, was married
to Simon de Montfort, who thus obtained the Earldom of Leicester.

3 Geoffrey Fitz Piers married Beatrix, daughter and coheiress to William (son of
William de Say by his wife Beatrix, daughter of William and sister of Geoffrey de
Mandeville, Earl of Essex). Geoffrey Fitz Piers was a just and honoured Justiciar
of all England, 1196—1200. He was created Earl of Essex in 1199, and died
2nd Oct. 1212, when King John, who hated him, exclaimed, “ Let him go to hell and
join Archbishop Hubert. By God's foot, I am now, for the first time, King of
England.”

4 William de Breos, a cruel and unprincipled man. and an implacable enemy to
the Welsh, was son of Philip de Breos, by his wife Bertha (coheiress to her brother
William, Earl of Hereford) daughter of Milo, the first Earl, by his Countess Sibyl,
eldest daughter of Bernard de Newmarch, Lord of Brecon. Sibyl’s mother was
eldest daughter of Griffith ab Llewelyn, Prince of all Wales. Through various means
William de Breos obtained great possessions in Breconshire, Gwent, &c., and he
owned the whole of Gower, which at that time was in the precincts of the County
of Carmarthen. His wife was the “malapert ’ Maud de Haya, daughter of Reginald
de St. Walery. She sent word to King John that she would not send her children
as hostages to one who had murdered his own nephew. De Breos died in exile
A.D. 1212. Maud with a son, William Gam, had two years previously been starved
to death in Windsor Castle by order of the enraged King. A daughter, Maude de
Breos, was wife to Griffith, son to the Lord Rays of South Wales.

5 Geddington in Co. Northampton, is a parish which formerly possessed a regal
mansion, in which Henry II. held a Parliament A.D. 1188.
2

CHARTER ROLL. 111s HENRY III. ANNO DOMINI 1227.
PARS 2 (19) MEMB. 6.

Pro Burgensibus For the Burgesses \ :
de Kaermerdyn. Henri CUS Dei| of Kaermerdyn. Henry, by the

Gratia,&c. Justiciariis, Vicecomitibus, | Grace of God, &c. to the Justiciars,
et omnibus ministris suis tocius terre | Sheriffs, and to all his ministers of
sue Salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse | his whole Kingdom, Greeting. Know
pro nobis et heredibus nostris Bur-|ye, that we have granted for us and
gensibus nostris de Kaermerdin,}Our Heirs to our Burgesses of
quod ipsi et heredes eorum imper-| Kaermerdin, that they and their
petuum sint quieti de theloneo,| successors for ever should be quit
passagio, et pontagio, et omnibus] of toll, passage, and pontage, and all
consuetudinibus per totam terram| customs throughout Our Kingdom.
nostram. Quare uolumus et firmiter| Wherefore we will and firmly com-
precipimus quod predicti Burgenses| mand that the aforesaid Burgesses
de Kaermerdyn et eorum heredes| of Kaermerdyn and their successors
imperpetuum sint quieti de theloneo | for ever shall be quit of toll, passage,
passagio et pontagio et omnibus | and pontage, and all customs through-
consuetudinibus per totam terram|out our Kingdom as is aforesaid.
nostram sic predictum est. Hiis| These being witnesses, W..,! Bishop
testibus W. Carleolensis Episcopo.|of Carlisle. H. de Burgh,? Earl of
H. de Burgo, Comite Kancie, Justic-; Kent, Our Justiciar. Thomas de
iario nostro. Thoma de Muleton.| Muleton.* Henry de Braybroc.*
Henrico de Braybroc. Radulpho filio| Ralph® the son of Nicholas. Godfrey

 

‘W. Malclerk or Lack Latin, Bishop of Carlisle from 1228 to apparently 1246.
He resigned his see. Before his appointment to that diocese, he was Henry III.’s
Lord High Treasurer. He was considered to be one of the most learned men in
England at that time in Divinity and other sciences.

2 Hubert de Burgh, a powerful Baron whose life was strangely chequered, married
four wives: Ist. Joan, daughter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, widow of
William de Bruer. 2nd. Beatrix, daughter of William de Warren of Wermegay in
Norfolk, relict of Dodo Bardolph. 38rd. Isabel, daughter and coheiress of William,
Earl of Gloucester, divorced wife of King John, and widow of Geoffrey de Mandeville.
4th. Margaret, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland. He died 12th May,
1243. He was Lord Chamberlain to King John; Lord High Treasurer; Warden of
the Welsh Marches; Sheriff of Cornwall; Seneschal of Poitou; was present at
Runnimead, ex parte Regis; Justiciary of England, 1219—1231; Constable of Dover
Castle, which he gallantly defended against the French; Governor of England and
of the infant Henry III; created Earl of Kent 11th Feb., 1227; granted the Honor
of Carmarthen in 1230—1. Through the malice of his enemies, he lost all these, and
the favour of his King. .

3 Thomas de Multon, was a stout soldier, learned in the law, very wealthy, but
covetous and a wrongdoer. He married Ada, daughter and coheiress of Hugh de
Morvil, widow of Richard de Lucy, of Egremont, Co. Cumberland. He was puisne
Justice of Common Pleas, 1223—4; and the next year itinerant Justice. Governor
of Carlisle Castle and Sheriff of Cumberland, 1233 until 1236. Chief Justice of
Common Pleas, 1235 until his death in 1240. His son Thomas became in right of his
wife, Lord Gillesland.

4 Henry, Lord Braybrooke in Co. Northampton, was son of Robert Meg, afterwards
termed “de Braybrooke.” He married Christiana, daughter and heiress of Wishart
Ledet by Margaret his wife, and died in 1233 —4.

5 Ralphe Fitz Nicholas seems to have been an eminent man of his time, for King
John in 1213—4, sent him and Thomas d’Erdington, on a secret embassy to the
King of Spain and Morocco, to solicit his assistance against the English Varons, and
in requital, to acquaint him that John would become a Mahometan, and pay tribute
for the English Realm. Ralphe afterwards became Lord Steward to Henry IIT.
3

Nicholai. Godefrido de Craucumb.;de Craucumb.! Richard de Argen-
Ricardo de Argenteom. Henrico de|teom.? Henry de Capella, and others.
Capella, et aliis. Datum ut supra.| Dated as above. (At Westminster
(Apud Westmonasterium xxiij die|the 23rd day of July, in the 11th
Julij, anno regni nostri xj°.) year of our reign.)

' Godfrey de Crawcombe, Knight, was sent in company with John de Courcy, to
Galway, in order to bring Maud de Haya, mentioned previously as prisoner to King
John, In 1215—6, he obtained all the lands of Nicholas de Pointz and his son Hugh,
which were in the Counties of Somerset, Dorset, and Gloucester. Nicholas’s lands
were restored in a twelvemonth’s time, but Hugh's were not. In 1213 Henry III.
sent Sir Godfrey with 300 soldiers to apprehend and lodge the disgraced Hubert de
Burgh in the Tower. When the imprisonment had been effected, Henry, who had
sat up to hear the news, when he learnt that Hubert’s legs had been tied underneath
the horse, was highly pleased, and “ went merrily to bed.”

2 Richard d’Argentine, was Sheriff of the Counties of Essex, Hertford, Hunting-
don, &c., and Lord Steward of the King’s Household. He went on a pilgrimage tu
Palestine, and died in 1246. His son and heir was Giles, whom the Welsh captdero
in a skirmish near Montgomery.
CHARTER ROLL.

4

31st HENRY III. ANNO DOMINT 1247.

(42 MEMB. 9.)

Rex Archiepiscopis, &c., Salutem,
Sciatis nos inspexisse cartam Henrici
Regis aui nostri, in hec uerba:
“ Henricus, Rex Anglie, et Dux Nor-
mannie et Aquitanie, et Comes
Andegauie, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis,
Abbatibus, Comitibus, Baronibus,
Justiciariis, Vicecomitibus, Ministris,
Balliuis et omnibus fidelibus suis
Francis et Anglis et Wallensibus,
Salutem. Sciatis me pro salute anime
mee et antecessorum meorum et
heredum meorum concessisse et

.  dedisse et hac carta mea
Wallia. onfirmasse Deo et Ecclesie
Sancti Johannis Ewangliste de Kay-
ermerdin et Canonicis ibidem Deo
seruientibus,in perpetuam elimosinam,
veterem civitatem de Kayermerdin
cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, sicut
fines et termini perambulati sunt
coram Balliuis meis de Kayermerdin.
Dedi eciam prefatis canonicis eccles-
iam Sancti Petri que sita est in
eadem ciuitate cum capella de castello
meo de Kayermerdin et omnibus aliis
capellis ad eandem ecclesiam perti-
nentibus. Preterea dedi eis et concessi
liij carucatas terre in Eglisuent quas
habent ex dono Bolederici Latimer
et ij4 carucatas terre in communi
quas habent ex dono Bernardi

1 Henry II.

Che Hing to the Archbishops, &c.,
Greeting. Know you that we have
examined the charter of King Henry’
our Grandfather, in these words:
“Henry, King of England, and Duke
of Normandy and Aquitaine, and
Earl of Anjou, to the Archbishops,
Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons,
Justiciars, Sheriffs, Ministers, Bail-
iffs, and to all his faithful subjects,
French, English, and Welsh, Greet-
ing. Know ye that, for the safety of
my soul and the souls of my ancestors
and my heirs, I have given and

ranted and by this my
Wales pee have aa to
-God and the Church of Saint John
the Evangelist? of Kayermerdin and
to the Canons there, the servants of
God, in perpetual alms, the old City
of Kayermerdin, with all its appur-
tenances, as the bounds and limits
thereof are perambulated in the
presence of my Bailiffs of Kayer-
merdin. I have also given to the
aforesaid Canons the Church of Saint
Peter, which is situated in the same
city, with the chapel of my Castle of
Kayermerdin, and all other chapels to
the same Church belonging. Further
I have given and granted to them
4 ploughlands* in Eglisuent,* which
they have of the gift of Bolderic
Latimer, and 2 ploughlands in com-
mon which they have of the gift of
Bernard, Bishop of Saint David’s.®

 

2 The Church of Saint John the Evangelist stood on the right bank of the Towy,
about 50 yards west of the present Tin Mill. The “canons” there were of the order

of Saint Augustine.

The arms in the seal of the Church shew “ Azure, an Eagle

with wings endorsed, standing on a branch of laurel, all or.”
5 A ploughland equals as much as one plough turns up in a year, nearly 100 acres.
* Eglisuent, now known as Abernant Church (?), about 5 miles from Carmarthen.
5 Bernard; this eminent prelate and stout defender of the Archbishopric of St.

David's, had been Chancellor to Adeliza of Louvaine, second Queen to Henry I.

In

1115 he was admitted to priest’s orders, and the next day consecrated by Rodolph,

Archbishop of Canterbury, and six attendant bishops to the above see, which previous

to his time acknowledged no superior; and Bernard had afterwards most reluctantly

to resign his Metropolitan authority, in obedience to the desire of his king, Henry I,

to whom he was at the time Chaplain. Bernard successfully resisted the encroach-

ae ao Bishop of Landaff, on the boundaries of the see of St. David’s. He
ied in ;
Meneuensis Episcopi. Dedi eciam eis
et concessi vnam carucatam terre in
Egliskein, cum capella infra terminos
eiusdem terre sita quam dedit eisdem
canonicis Alfred Dryue, et vnam
carucatam terre que dicitur Pentewey.
Quare uolo et firmiter precipio ut
predicti Canonici prefatas terras cum
ecclesiis et capellis sine aliqua con-
suetudine seculari et exactione habeant
et teneant, bene et in pace, libere et
quiete plene, et honorifice, et integre
in bosco in plano, in viis in semitis
in pratis in pascuis, in aquis, in
molendinis, in piscariis et piscacioni-
bus, et in omnibus rebus. Et prohibeo
ne aliquis de Balliuis meis eisdem
Canonicis de supradictis rebus iniur-
iam vel molestiam faciat aut facere
permittat. Testibus Ricardo Can-
tuarensis Archiepiscopo. Gyleberto
Londinensis Episcopo. Petro Men-
euensis Episcopo. Ranulfo de Glanuill.

5

I have also given and granted to
them one ploughland in Egliskein}
with the chapel within the bounds of
the same land situated, which Alfred
Dryve gave to the same Canons, and
one ploughland which is called Pen-
tewey.2. Wherefore I will and firmly
command that the aforesaid Canons
the aforesaid lands with the Churches
and chapels shall have, and hold
without any secular custom or ex-
action peaceably, freely and quietly,
honourably and wholly, in wood, in
plain, in ways, in paths, in meadows,
in feedings, in waters, in mills, in
fisheries and fishings, and in all
things. And I forbid that any of
my Bailiffs shall do or suffer to be
done any injury or disturbance to
the same Canons concerning the
matters aforesaid. These being
witnesses, Richard’ Archbishop of
Canterbury. Gylbert,* Bishop of
London. Peter,’ Bishop of Saint
David’s. Ranulf de  Glanvill.®

 

_ | Egliskein, now called Eglwysgain or Llangain, otherwise called Manor Gayne,
is a parish about 4 miles from Carmarthen, on the road to Llanstephan. The plough-
land was at Tir Mabli, now called Waen Mabli.

2 Pentewey, now called Pentowyn. The

“Valor Ecclesiasticus” (temp. Henry VIII.)

mentions this place and the foregoing one.

Grangiam de Pontowyr

per annuw’ ad 66s. 8d.

De tenementis apud Manor Gayne per annuw’ 40s.

2 Richard, Prior of Dover, succeeded

the celebrated Thomas A’Becket in the

Archbishopric of Canterbury, which he held from 1173 until 1184, when he died at

Halling, in Co, Kent.

* Gilbert Foliot was Abbot of Gloucester.

until 1163, when he was translated to the

Held the see of Hereford from 1148
Bishopric of London, which he held until

1187. He was a near relative to Roger, Earl of Hereford, son of Milo.

5 Peter de Leia, was Prior of Wenlock Ciuniac Monastery, Co. Salop. He was

Bishop of St. David’s from 1176 until 1189.

The well-known learned divine and

patriot Giraldus Cambrensis was elected Bishop previous to Peter’s consecration and
after his death, but the King would not admit the election, nor would the Pope

confirm it,

§ Ranulph de Glanville, son to William de Glanville, was born at Stratford. He

commanded at the battle of Alnwick, 12th July, 1174, and obtained a signal victory,
taking prisoner William the Lion, King of Scotland. He was chief Privy Counsellor
and Justiciary of England from 1179 until 1189. He accompanied Richard I. to
Palestine, and died in front of Acre during its siege in June and July, 1191. By his
wife Bertha, daughter of Theobald the Elder, of Valoines, he had issue 3 daughters,
between whom, previous to his pilgrimage, he divided all his property. When Prince
John passed through Carmarthen to Ireland, this Ranulph accompanied him.
6

Humfrido de Bohun. Hugone de; Humphrey de Bohun.” Hugh de
Lacy, apud Westmonasterium.” Lacy,’ at Westminster.’ ‘

Nos igitur donacionem et conces-| We the aforesaid gift and gran
sionem predictam ratam habentes et | having ratified and allowed — Ni
acceptam ipsam pro nobis et heredibus | and our heirs, do grant, and by this
nostris concedimus et hac carta nostra|our charter, do confirm the same.
confirmamus.  Testibus, Willielmo| These being witnesses, William de
de Cantilupe. Radulpho filio Nicolai.| Cantilupe.’ Ralph* son of Nicholas.
Johanne de Plessy. Emerico de] John de Plessy.’ Emeric de Sacy.
Sacy. Robert de Mucogos. Barth-| Robert de Mucogos.’| Bartholomew
olameo Pecche. Willielmo de Cheeny. | Pecche.* William de Cheeny. Robert
Robert le Norreys. Johanne de Geres|le Norreys. John de Geres, and
etaliis. Datum per manum nostram,|others. Given by our hand, at
apud Westmonasterium, x die Aprilis.| Westminster, the 10th day of April.

 

1 Humphrey de Bohun (son of Humphrey ‘the Great,” by his wife Mabel or
Maud, daughter of Edward de Salesbury), Steward and Sewer to King Henry L,
married Margery, eldest of the three daughters of Milo, Earl of Hereford, Constable
of England, and coheir to her brother Mahel. He founded Monkton Farley Priory in
Wilts, and died 6th April, 1187.

2 Hugh, de Lacy was son of Gilbert, who assumed the surname “ De Lacy,” and
who became afterwards a Knight Templar. Hugh had a grant of the whole of Meath
in Ireland, and was moreover appointed Governor of Dublin, and Justiciary of
Ireland. He was a wealthy and powerful noble, but so severe, that on the 25th July,
1182, while he was superintending the erection of Lurhedy Castle at Derelagh, a
workman called Malva Miadaith came behind him and struck his head off with an
axe. He left two sons, Walter and Hugh, and a daughter called Elayne, who became
the wife of Richard de Beaufort.

2 William de Cantilupe married Eva, daughter and coheiress of William de Breos
and coheiress to Walter Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and in her right, had livery
of the Town and Castle of Haverfordwest, the Honor of Abergavenny, all Over-
Gwent, the Lordship of Cilgerran, &c. He died young, in September, 1255.

* Ralph Fitz Nicholas has been annotated.

5 John de Plessitis. a Norman. by birth, was domestic servant at the Court of
Henry III., who constrained Margery (widow of John Marshal, brother to William,
Earl of Pembroke), sister and sole heiress to Thomas, Earl of Warwick, to marry the
said John, who thus became Earl of Warwick. He died 26th February, 1263, and
by his first wife Christiana, daughter and heiress to Hugh de Sanford, left issue.

6 Emeric de Sacy’s daughter and coheiress, Isabel, married Warren de Bassingbourne,
of Co. Cambridge. Emeric was living in 1253.

7 Robert de Mucogos, otherwise Muscegros, married Helewise, daughter of
William Malet, Sheriff of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire, by Alice, daughter of Thomas
Basset, Lord of Deddington, in Co. Oxford. Helewise survived her husband and
married Sir Hugh Pointz. Robert left a daughter Hawise, who married Sir William
Mortimer, Knight.

§ Bartholomew Pecche had lands given him by King John, in the Counties of
Wilts, Northampton, Gloucester, Somerset, Dorset, Oxford, and Berks, They were
previously held by Elias Giffard, who forfeited them by rebellion. However, in
Henry IIL.’s time he had them restored, ;
“

CHARTER ROLL. 41st HENRY Ill. ANNO DOMINI 1257.
. MEMB. 9.

Pro ee
de Kermerdyn. Her Archiepis-
copis, &c. Inspeximus cartam quam
Edwardus filius noster primogenitus
fecit burgensibus de Kermeredin in
hee verba. ‘‘Edwardus, Illustris
Henrici Regis Anglie primogenitus,
omnibus fidelibus suis hoc presens
scriptum visuris vel audituris, Salu-
tem. Nouerit vniuersitas vestra, nos
concessisse dilectis et fidelibus burgen-
sibus nostris de Kermeredin omnes
bonas leges et consuetudines quibus
tempore Johannis Regis, aui nostri,
et predecessorum suorum, Regum
.  Anglie, hactenus vsi sunt
Wallia. ie ;
et gavisi, et communiam
suam liberam in planis et boscis, in
aquis et in omnibus aliis aysiamentis,
optentis et usitatis. Concessimus
eciam predictis burgensibus nostris,
quod ipsi pro transgressione seu
forisfacturaservientum suorum catalla
et bona sua in manibus ipsorum
inventa aut alicubi locorum per ipsos
seruientes infra terram nostram
deposita quatenus sua esse sufficienter
probare poterunt non ‘amittant. Et
quod si dicti burgenses aut eorum
-aliqui infra terram et potestatem
nostram testati decesserint vel in-
testati, nos vel heredes nostri bona
ipsorum confiscari non faciemus quin
eorum heredes integre ipsa habeant
quatenus dicta catalla dictorum de-
functorum fuisse constiterit dum
tamen de dictis heredibus noticia aut
fides habeatur. Item concessimus

 

For the Burgesses

of Carmarthen. | athe Ling ie
the Archbishops, &e. We have con-
sidered the Charter which Edward,
our eldest son, made to the Burgesses
of Kermeredin in these words: ‘ Ed-
ward, the first born of the illustrious
Henry, King of England, to all his
faithful people by whom this present
writing shall be seen or heard,
Greeting. Know ye all, that we
have granted to our dear and faithful
Burgesses of Kermeredin, all good
laws and customs, which in the time
of King John, our Grandfather, and

z of his predecessors, Kings
Wakes: af ringed, hitherto they
have used and enjoyed, and their free
common in plains and woods, in
waters and in all other easements
obtained and used. We have granted
also to the aforesaid Burgesses, that
they, for trespass or forfeiture of
their servants, shall not lose their
goods and chattels in their hands
found, or deposited by the same
servants in any place within our
land, so far as they can sufficiently
prove them to be their own. And
that if the said Burgesses or any of
them within our land and power, shall
die testate or intestate, We or our
heirs the goods of such will not cause
to be confiscated, but their heirs
wholly shall have the same, so
far as the said chattels may appear
to have been the property of the said
deceased; whilst nevertheless notice
or trust concerning the said heirs
shall be had. Also, We have granted
to the same Burgesses, that none of
them within our power shall be sued
for the debt of any of his neighbours,

1 “Edward, our eldest son,” was afterwards King Edward 1., who subjugated

Wales in 1282,
eisdem burgensibus nostris quod
nullus eorum infra potestatem nostram
vexetur pro debito alicuius vicini sui
nisi fuit debitor vel plegius. Et
quamuis plegius alicuius non cogatur
soluere dum debitor habeat vnde
soluere possit. Et quod omnes
transgressiones infra liberum burgum
suum facte, per eorumdem burgen-
sium consideracionem emendentur,
sicut hactenus consueuit. Conces-
simus eciam eis, quod si aliquis
eorum alicui infra burgum suum
forisfecerit, non ducatur infra portas
castelli, dum possit inuenire bonos
et saluos plegios de stando juri, nisi
pro transgressione pro qua plegiabilis
non fuerit. Et quamvis aliquis eorum
aliquam rem claro die coram vicinis
suis emerit, et postea resilla fuerit
calumpniata tanquam furtiua non
amittet nisi tantum rem illam, set
iurabit cui sacramento vicinorum
suorum, quod nesciunt rem illam
emisse de latrone. Et quod nullus
eorum cogatur accommodare balliuo
suo ultra duodecim denaratas, nisi
voluerit bona voluntate sua, et quod
nulla inquisicio de rebus forinsecis
fiat per predictos burgenses, set per
libere tenentes patrie, sicut hucusque
fieri consueuit. Et quod hee con-
cessio nostra, rata et stabilis pro
nobis et heredibus nostris predictis
burgensibus nostris, perseveretur, hoc
presens scriptum sigilli nostri inpres-
sione duximus coroborandum. Hiis
testibus, Dominis Petro de Sabandia,
Johanne filio Galfridi, Eble de Mon-
tibus, Willielmo de Pemis, Michaele

 

unless he shall be a debtor or surety:
and although the surety of any one,
he shall not be compelled to pay,
while the debtor hath herewith to
pay. And that all trespasses com-
mitted within their free borough,
shall be corrected by the judgment
of the Burgesses of the same, as
hitherto hath been accustomed. We
have also granted to them, that if
any of them shall forfeit to any one
within their borough, he shall not be
taken within the gates of the castle,
while he can find good and safe
sureties for his standing to law,
unless for a trespass, which shall
not be bailable. And although any
one, in open day before his neighbours,
shall buy any thing, and afterwards
that thing shall be alleged as stolen,
he shall only lose that thing, but
shall swear with the oath of his
neighbours, that they did not know
that thing to have been bought
from a thief. And that none of them
shall be compelled to give bond to
his bailiff beyond twelve pence, unless
with his own free will, and that no
inquisition concerning foreign matters
shall be made by the aforesaid Bur-
gesses, but by the freeholders of the
country, as hitherto has been accus-
tomed to be done. And that this
our grant, ratified and firm for us
and our heirs to the aforesaid Bur-
gesses, may be continued, this present
writing we have caused to be con-
firmed by the impression of our seal.
These being witnesses, Lords Peter-
de Sabandia,1 John the son of
Geoffrey,? Eble de Montibus,? Wil-

' Peter de Sabandia, otherwise known as Peter of Savoy, was son of Thomas, Earl

of Savoy, and was uncle to Eleanor of Provence, Henry III.’s queen.

Peter came to

England in 1241, five years after his niece Eleanor’s marriage, and received the
Harldom of Richmond. The same year he was given 15 manors, and made afterwards

chief or President of the King’s Council.

Strand, in London; the Honors of Eagle, Hastings, &c.

He obtained a grant of the houses on the
He made his will in 1268—9,

and left his Earldom to the Queen, and the last named Honors between his brothers

Thomas, Amzedius, and Lewis.

? John Fitz Geoffrey was son of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (previously mentioned), by his

second wife Aveline.

John married Isabel (sister of John Bigot, a member of the

family of that name, Earls of Norfolk), and obtained with her the Castle and Honor

of Ewias Lacy.

° Eble cle Montibus was in 1230, keeper of the Town and Forest of Windsor.
de Fenis, Waltero de Merton, et
multis aliis.”

Nos autem predictam concessionem
ratam habentes et gratam eam pro
nobis et heredibus nostris concedimus
et confirmamus, sicut predicta carta
rationabiliter testatur. His testibus,
Guidone de Lezine, Galfrido de
Lezine, et Willielmo de Valencia,
fratribus nostris, Petro de Sabandia,
Arcaldo de Sancto Romano, Magistro
-Johanne Maunsel, Willielmo de
Grey, Waukelino de Ardern, Imberto
Pugeys, Willielmo Gernun, et aliis.
Datum per manum nostram apud
Westmonasterium iiij die Februarij,

9

liam de Pemis,' Michael de Fenis,?
Walter de Merton,’ and many others.”

We, the aforesaid grant having
ratified and confirmed for us and our
heirs, do grant and confirm the same,
as the aforesaid charter reasonably
witnesseth. These being witnesses,
Guido de Lezine,* Geoffrey de Lezine,!
and William de Valencia® our
Brothers, Peter de Sabandia, Arcaldo
de Sancto Romano,® Master John
Maunsell,’ William de Grey,®? Wau-
kelin de Ardern, Imbertus Pugeys,
William Gernon, and others. Given
by our hand at Westminster, the 4th
day of February, in the 41st year of

 

anno regni nostri x]j°. our reign.

1 William de Pemis. Query, whether this person is not the same as William de
Pyns, mentioned as ‘“‘ Prior del Mas” in the Close Rolls (36th Henry III.), and in the
“ Royal and Historical Letters,” Vol. ii., p. 71.

2 Michael de Fenis was a member of the ancient family of Fienles, or, as written
in later times, Fienes, Fenes, &c.

3 Walter de Merton was appointed custodian of the Great Seal, 6th May, 1258,
because the Chancellor, Henry de Wengham, was ill in body; but the discontented
Barons deprived him of the office. However, without consulting them, the King, in
1261, again appointed him Lord Chancellor, and he held that; office until 1263, and
received a salary of 400 marks. On the accession of Edward I. in 1272, he was
consecrated Bishop of Rochester, and a third time undertook the duties of Lord
Chancellor. He seems to have died in 1279.

* Guido (=Guy) and Geoffrey took their cognomen from their natal place, now
called Lusignan. They were elder brothers of William de Valence, and were objects
of the thoughtless King’s improvident bounty.

5 William de Valence was son of Hugh le Brun, Earl of Lusignan and Valence, by
his Countess Isabella, widow of King John; she was daughter and heiress of Aymer
Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. William claimed subsistence from his half-brother
Henry III., and his protection, and was sent for in 1247, He married Joan, only
daughter of Warren, Lord Montchensy, and in her right, became Earl of Pembroke.
She became heiress to her brother William de Montchensy, who was crushed to death
in 1289, by the overthrow of Dryslwyn Castle, near Carmarthen, William de Valence
owned the Castles of Haverfordwest, Cilgerran, &c., and for his Commot of Oystrelow
did suit in the King’s Court at Carmarthen. This haughty, overbearing man died
(ut alii, was slain by the French) at Bayonne on the 13th June, 1296. His second,
but eldest surviving son, William, Lord of Montignac and Bellac, was slain in battle
by the Welsh near Llandeilo Fawr, in Co. Carmarthen, on the 24th June, 1282.

6 Arcaldo de Sancto Romano was keeper of King Henry III.’s Wardrobe.

7 John Maunsell was firstly, Chancellor of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London; then
became Provost of Beverly Monastery, in Yorkshire. In 1247 he had the custody of
the Great Seal to execute the office of Lord Chancellor. Two years after, the like
trust was confided to him until the feast of St. Mary. He possessed the Castle and
Manor of Sedgwick, in Westmoreland, and was a “special friend and counsellor” of
Henry III. His father was Henry Maunsell, son to Sir Philip de Maunsel, owner
of Oxwich Manor, in Co. Glamorgan, by the gift of his uncle, Sir Henry Harley,
Knight. The Chancellor (by his wife Joan, daughter of Simon Beauchamp, Baron
of Bedford) is the direct ancestor of the present Sir John Bell William Mansel,
of Maesdeilo, Carmarthenshire, Bart. Alard Fleming marricd a sister of John
Maunsel’s, and their daughter Joan became wife of Henry Hoese, one of the
rebellious Barons. . : :

8 William de Grey, of Landford, in Notts, and Sandiacre, in Co. Derby, was a
younger son of Henry de Grey, of Grimston, in Notts, by his wife Isolda, niece and
coheiress of Robert Bardolph, Lord of the Hundred of Hoo, in Kent.

2

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ROTULI WALLIE. 8ru E

10

DWD. I. ANNO DOM. 1280.

MEMBRANE 7.

Hex omnibus, &c., Salutem. Sciatis
quod commisimus dilecto et fideli
nostro Bogoni de Knouill, Castra
nostra et Comitatus nostros de
Kermerdyn et Cardigan, et Castra
de Lampader, Dynavor, Karakenny,
et Landeueri, cum omnibus terris et
tenementis et rebus nostris aliis que
sunt in manu nostra in partibus West
Wallie sumptibus suis custodienda
quamdiu nobis placuerit, excepta
balliva de Buelt, reddendo inde

nobis ad Scaccarium nostrum singulis
annis quadringentas marcas, videlicet,
medietatem ad Scaccarium nostrum
Sancti Michaelis et aliam medietatem
ad Scaccarium nostrum Pasche. Ita
quod illud quod idem Bogo recipiet
de exitibus predictorum castrorum
terrarum et comitatuum ultra quad-
ringentas marcas predictas cedat in
sustentacionem suam et custodiam
Castrorum Terrarum et Comitatuum
predictorum quamdiu custodiam illam
habuerit ex commissione nostra. In
cuius, Ge. Teste ut supra x die
Junii.

Che ding to all, &c., Greeting.
Know ye that We have committed
to our dear and faithful Bogo de
Knovill,! our Castles and our Counties
of IKermerdyn and Cardigan, and
the Castles of Lampader,? Dynavor,?
Karakenny,* and Landeveri,’ with
all lands and tenements and other
things which are in our hands in the
parts of West Wales, to be kept at
his own charges during our pleasure,
except the Bailiwick of Buelt,° render-
ing therefore to us at our Exchequer
yearly four hundred marks, to wit,
one moiety at our Exchequer at the
feast of Saint Michael, and the other
moiety at our Exchequer at Easter.
So nevertheless, that which the same
Bogo shall receive of the issues of
the aforesaid Castles, Lands, and
Counties, beyond the aforesaid four
hundred marks should be allowed for
his maintenance and custody of the
Castles, Lands, and Counties afore-
said, so long as he shall have that
custody as of our trust. In witness,
&e. Witness as above the 10th day
of June.

 

‘ Bogo, alias Bevis de Knoville, was summoned to Parliament as Baron Knoville
of Whitechurch from 1294—5 until 1306—7, when he died. He was sheriff of the

Counties. of Salop and Stafford, and Justiciary of West Wales.

Bogo, and left a son named Bogo, born in

He was son of a
1277-8.

* Llanbadarm is a parish in Cardiganshire, in which is situate the town of
Aberystwith. The Castle therein was anciently known as Llanbadarn Castle: it is

now in ruins.

3 Dynevor Castle, 14 miles east of Car
its immediate proximity, is the seat of Lo

* Karakenny, now Caregcennen, in Co.
Fawr.

5 Llandovery, in Co. Carmarthen. The

® Builth, in Co. Brecon, near which, two yi

Prince of Wales, was slain, 11th Dec., 128

marthen. Newton, the modern mansion in
rd Dynevor.
Carmarthen, 4 miles eastwards of Llandeilo

remnant of the Castle is but small,
, ears subsequent to above grant, Llewelyn,
11

ROTULI WALLIE. 8rxa EDWARD IL. ANNO DOMINT 1280.
MEMBRANE 7.

Rex dilecto et fideli suo Bogoni de
Knouill, Justiciario suo West Wallie,
Salutem. Quia pro wmultitudine
hominum tam Anglicorum quam
Wallensium, sectatorum Comitatus
nostri de Kermerdyn, et ad vtilitatem
eorumdem, Volumus quod vbi Comi-
tatus ille temporibus retroactis semper
tenerl consueuit per diem Jouis
de cetero per duos dies semper tenea-
tur, videlicet, per diem Jouis et diem
Veneris, vobis mandamus quod Comi-
tatum predictum per predictos duos
dies Jouis et Veneris semper decetero
teneri, faciatis publice etiam procla-
mari faciatis et firmiter inhiberi ex
parte nostra ne qui super grauem
forisfacturam nostram ad distancium
quinqne leucarum in circuitu ville de
Kermerdyn, per diem Sabbati donec
aliud inde preceperimus. Teste ut
supra.

' These Courts were of great dignity.

and the principal gentry sat to administer justice in lay and ecclesiastical suits.

 

Che Ling to his dear and faithful
Bogo de Knovill, his Justiciar of
West Wales, Greeting. Forasmuch
as for the great number of men as
well English as Welsh, suitors of
Our County of Kermerdyn, and for
the interest of the same, We are
willing that the County Courts’ in
times past always accustomed to be
held on Thursday may always be
held henceforth for two days, to wit,
Thursday and Friday, We command
you that you cause the County Court
aforesaid to be held for the aforesaid
two days, Thursday and Friday
always henceforth, also that you
cause it publicly to be proclaimed
and firmly enjoined on Our behalf
that no one, upon Our grave dis-
pleasure, shall trade within a circuit
of five leagues of the town of
Kermerdyn, in any merchandise,
except in the Market of the aforesaid
town of Kermerdyn on Saturday,
until otherwise thereof We shall have
commanded. Witness as above.

The Bishop, the Earl or Lord Lievtenant,
But

when the Earl neglected to attend, and the Bishop was forbidden, the Courts fell off

in importance.
generally the judges,

They were compelled to be held every 28 days, and freeholders were
12

WELSH ROLLS. 6ru, 7tu, 8rx, AND 97tu OF EDWARD I.

ANNO DOMINI 1278 TO 1281.

Rex omnibus, &c., Salutem. Sciatis,
quod cum commiserimus dilecto et
fidelinostro Bogonide Knouill, Castra
nostra et Comitatus nostros de Ker-
merdyn et Kardygan, et Castra de
Lampader, Dynauour, et Karakenny,
et Landeuery, cum omnibus terris et
tenementis et rebus nostris aliis que
sunt in manu nostra in partibus West
Wallie, custodienda quamdiu nobis
placuerit, excepta balliua de Buelt,
reddendo nobis inde singulis annis
ad Scaccarium nostrum quadringentas
marcas, videlicet, unam medietatem
ad Scaccarium nostrum Sancti
Michaelis, et aliam medictatem ad
scaccarium nostrum Pasche prout in
litteris nostris patentibus eidem
Bogoni inde confectis plenius con-
tinetur. Volumus et concedimus,
quod eidem Bogoni singulis annis,
quamdiu habuerit custodiam illam
ex commissione nostra in solucione
dictarum quadringentarum marcarum,
allocentur le Weeste, et sustentacio
equorum Domini et Rhaglorii, et
firma terre per nos certis personis
commisse in partibus illis, vsque ad
summam extente inde facte per
Ricardum de Oxon et Magistrum
Henricum de Bray. Ita tantum, quod
dictus Bogo nobis de prato de
Lampader, et de duobus solidis et
duobus denariis annuiredditus ibidem,
et prisa vini de Cardygan nobis ultra
predictam summam quadringentarum
marcarum respondeat. In cuius, &c.
Teste Rege apud Odyham, xxv die
Junii.

' Le Weeste=Waste.

 

MEMB. 7.

Che Ting to all, &c., Greeting.
Know ye, that whereas We have
committed to our dear and faithful
Bogo de Knovill, Our Castles and
Counties of Kermerdyn, and Kardy-
gan, and the Castles of Lampader,
Dynavour, and Karakenny, and
Landevery, with all Our lands and
tenements and other things which
are in Our hands in the parts of
West Wales, to be kept during Our
pleasure, except the Bailiwick of
Buelt, rendering therefor to Us
every year at Our Exchequer, four
hundred marks, to wit, one moiety
at Our Exchequer of Saint Michael,
and the other moiety at Our Hx-
chequer of Easter, as in our Letters
Patent to the same Bogo made
thereof, more fully is contained. We
will and grant, that to the same Bogo
in each year, so long as he shall have
that custody of Our committal, upon
payment of the said four hundred
marks, shall be allowed to him le
Weeste,! and the keep of the horses
of the Lord and the Rhaglaw,? the
farm of lands by Us committed to
certain persons in those parts, until
it shall amount to the sum of the
extent made thereof by Richard of
Oxford, and Master Henry de Bray.’
Yet nevertheless, the said Bogo shall
answer to Us for the meadow of Lam-
pader, and for two shillings and two
pence annual rent there, and the pri-
sage’ of Wine of Cardygan beyond the
aforesaid sum of four hundred marks.
In witness, &c. Witness the King
at Odyham,* the 25th day of June.

If a man had not special grant in writing he was liable

(52 Hen. III.) to an action for making waste, sale, or “exile” of houses, woods, or

men, and on conviction, he lost the thing wasted and treble its value.

confirmed and amended that law in 1278.

Edward I.

? Rhaglaw is a Welsh word signifying Deputy.
8 Henry de Bray, after the death of George de Cantilupe, was in 1273 appointed
Constable of the Honors and Castles of Abergavenny, Cilgerran, near Cardigan, and

Penrice, in Glamorgan.

He had also some lands in Watford, Co. Hertford, &c.

* The prisage of wine is the butlerage or impost on wines payable to the King.

5 Odiham is « corporate town in N.E.

of Hampshire. It contained a castle and

royal palace at one time, of which a few remains are still visible.
13

PLACITA DE QUO WARRANTO.

9th EDWARD I.

ANNO DOMINT 1281.

Placita Forinseca, adhue de quindena
Sancte Trinitatis, etc.

Presentatus fuit alias coram Jus-
ticiis Intinerantibus apud Derbia, in
Ragemannis, quod Wappentachia de
Ludchirch, Wyrkesworth, Appeltre,
et Reppingdon, fuit in manu Ed-
mundi, fratris Domini Regis. Ita
quod ad sectam Gilberti de Thornton,
qui sequitur pro Domino Rege, datus
fuit hic dies predicto Edmundo, ad
hune diem ad ostendendum quo
waranto tenet wappentachia illa. Et
modo venit predictus Gilbertus qui
sequitur pro Domino Rege, et similiter
predictus Edmundus per attornatum
suum. Et quo ad wappentachium de
Ludchirche, et quartem partem wap-
pentachii de Reppingdon, et totum
wappentachium de Appeltre, dicit,
quod ipse nuncque occupavit predicta
wappentachia super dominum Regem
nec aliquem antecessorum suorum.

Et hoc paratus est verificare sicut
Curia consid’. Unde petit judicium
si debeat inde sine brevi Domino

 

Foreign Pleas, still of the Quindime!
of the Holy Trinity.

dt Was P resented elsewhere before
the Justices Itinerant at Derby, on
the Ragman Rolls,? that the Wap-
pentake® of Ludchurch,*| Wyrkes-
worth,* Appeltre,* and Reppingdon,*
was in the hands of Edmund,’ the
brother of our Lord the King.
Wherefore at the suit of Gilbert de
Thornton,' who sues for our Lord the
King, a day was granted to the
aforesaid Edmund, to shew at this
day by what warrant he holds those
wappentakes. And now comes the
aforesaid Gilbert who sues for our
Lord the King, and also the aforesaid
Edmund by his attorney. And as
to the wappentake of Ludchurch, and
the fourth part of the wappentake of
Reppingdon, and the whole of the
wappentake of Appeltre, he says,
that he never usurped the aforesaid
wappentakes over the Lord the King,
or any of his ancestors. And this
he is ready to verify as the Court
may determine. Whereupon he prays
judgment whether he ought to answer
therefor to our Lord the King without

1 Quindime of the Holy Trinity=22 days after Whitsunday.

2? Ragman Rolls is a strange term importing a legal deed or indenture executed
under numerous seals. Again it is applied to one of the statutes enacted by
Edward I., which ordered Justices to hear and decide all complaints regarding
injuries done within the five years preceding the application for remedy.

3 Wappentake, a term identical with what is now called a hundred. The word is
said to be derived from the old custom of annually taking stock of the number of
weapons and armour in each hundred, the inhabitants of which were further obliged
to find pledges for their good behaviour.

4 Lidchurch, Wirksworth, Appletree, and Repington are hundreds, or parts thereof,
in Derbyshire.

5 Edmund Plantagenet, next brother to Edward I., born 16th of January, 1246.
The Pope titled him “King of Sicily,” 18th Oct., 1254. He was afterwards created
Earl of Chester, of Lancaster, &c. He was also Steward of England. In 1265—6
he obtained the Castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan, which he exchanged for
Wirksworth Manor, &c. He married Istly, on April 8th, 1270, Aveline, daughter of
William, Earl of Albemarle, heiress to her father, and through her mother Countess
of Devon and the Isle of Wight, she was also Countess of Holderness; she died s.p.
Edmund married, 2ndly, Blanche, widow of Henry, King of Navarre, and daughter
of Robert, Earl of Artois, 8rd son of Louis VIII, King of France. ? ;

8 Gilbert de Thornton was in 1279 appointed Attorney General, and in 1290 raised
to the dignity of Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, a post he held until 1296.

6
14

Regi respondere. Et Gilbert de
Thornton qui sequitur pro Domino
Rege non potest hoc dedicere. Ideo
consideratus est quod predictus Ed-
mundus quo ad hoc inde sine die.
Et Dominus Rex nichil capit per
presentacionem istam, set perquirat
sibi per breve si, etc. Et quo ad
wappentachium de Wyrkesworth
dicit, quod ipse illud tenet eo waranto,
quod Dominus Rex qui nunc est
dedit ei wappentachium de Wyrkes-
worth, et Manerium de Wyrkesworth
et Esseburn, et carta sua confirmavit,
habendum et tenendum eidem Ed-
mundo et heredibus suis de ipso
Domino Rege et heredibus suis, cum
feodis Militum, advocacionibus ec-
clesiarum, et omnibus libertatibus et

liberis consuetudinibus et aliis rebus
ad predicta maneria et wappentachia
qualitercumque pertinentibus imper-
petuum, in escambium pro Comitatu
et Castro de Kermerdyn et Cardigan,
et terris que prefatus HEdmundus
habuit in Comitatu predicto, et que
eidem Domino Regi reddidit et
quietum clamavit de se et heredibus
suis imperpetuum, faciendo inde
Domino Regi et heredibus suis pro
predictis maneriis et wappentachiis,
servicium feodorum duorum Militum
pro omni servicio. Et profert carta
sub nomine predicti Domini Regis,
que predictas donacionem et conces-
sionem testatur. Unde petit judicium
si debeat inde Domino Regi sive
respondere. Ideo predictus Ed-
mundus quo ad hoc sine die, etc?

 

a writ. And Gilbert de Thornton
who sues for the Lord the King
cannot deny the same. Therefore it
is considered, that the aforesaid
Edmund as to this goes without a
day. And the Lord the King takes
nothing by that presentment, but
may demand by writ if, etc. And as
to the wappentake of Wyrkesworth,
he. says, that he holds it by the
warrant, that our Lord the now
King gave to him the wappentake
of Wyrkesworth, and the Manor of
Wyrkesworth and Esseburn, and
by his charter confirmed the same,
to have and to hold to the same
Edmund and his heirs of the same the
Lord the King and his heirs, with
the Knight’s fees, advowsons of
Churches, and all liberties and free
customs and other things to the
aforesaid manors and wappentakes
in any way belonging for ever, in
exchange for the County and Castle
of. Kermerdyn and Cardigan, and the
lands which the aforesaid Edmund
had in the County aforesaid, and
which to the same the Lord the
King he rendered and quit-claimed
for him aud his heirs for ever,
performing therefore to the Lord the
King and his heirs for the aforesaid
manors and wappentakes, the service
of two Knight’s fees for all service.
And he produces the charter in the
name of the aforesaid Lord the
King, which testifies the aforesaid
gift and grant. Whereupon he prays
judgment whether he ought thereof
to answer to the Lord the King. -
Therefore the aforesaid Edmund as
to this goes without a day, etc

* Esseburn, now called Ashborne, is a market town and parish in Co, Derby.
15

CHARTER ROLL. 18 EDWARD I. ANNO DOMINI 1290. No. 78.

Hey Archiepiscopis, &ec., Salutem.
Cum Mereducus ab Rybert,' filius
Ricardi ab Mereduch in prisona
nostra, occasione transgressionum
per ipsum factarum, vt dicitur,
existens, per cartam suam dederit,
concesserit, et confirmauerit Deo et
Ecclesie Sancti Johannis Ewangliste,
et Sancti Teulaci de
Kaermerdyn, et Ca-
nonicis ibidem Deo
seruientibus, vnam acram terre iuxta
cimiterium Ecelesie de Ebernant, et
advocacionem eiusdem Ecclesie de
Ebernant, cum capella de Kenewell,
et omnibus aliis ad ea pertinentibus,
que sunt de feodo nostro de Kermer-
dyn, Habenda in liberam puram et
perpetuam elemosinam. Nos licet
feoffamentum predictum perpetue
firmitatis robur non possit optinere,
tamen de gratia nostra speciali,
dedimus, concessimus, et hac carta
nostra, confirmauimus Deo et Ecclesie
predicte Sancti Johannis Ewangliste
et Sancti Teulaci de Kermerdyn, et
Canonicis predictis, predictam acram
terre et predictam aduocacionem
Ecclesie de Ebernant cum predicta
capella de Kenewill, et omnibus aliis
ad ea pertinentibus, Habenda eisdem
Ecclesie Sancti Johannis Ewangliste
et Sancti Teulaci, ac Canonicis et
eorum successoribus in liberam et
perpetuam elemosinam. Ita tamen
quod predicti Canonici inueniant
’ quemdam canonicum suum singulis
diebus diuina celebrantem in predicta
Ecclesia sua de Kermerdyn, pro
animabus Stephani Baugan et Ricardi

Pro Canonivis
de Kermerdyn.

 

Che Ating to the Archbishops, &c.,
Greeting. Whereas Meredith ab
Richard, son of Richard ab Meredith,
being in our prison, on account of
offences by him committed, as it is
said by his deed had given, granted,
and confirmed to God and the Church
of Saint John the Evangelist, and
Saint Teilo? of Kaer-
merdyn, and to the
Canons there, the
servants of God, one acre of land
near the Cemetery of the Church of
Abernant® and the advowson of the
same Church of Ebernant, with the
Chapel of Kenewell,* and all other
things to the same belonging, which
are of our fee of Kermerdyn, To
hold in free, pure, and perpetual
alms. We, although the feoffment
aforesaid cannot have the force of
perpetuity, yet of our special grace,
have given, granted, and by this our
Charter, have confirmed to God and
the aforesaid Church of Saint John
the Evangelist and Saint Teilo of
Kermerdyn, and to the aforesaid
Canons, the aforesaid acre of land,
and the aforesaid advowson of the
Church of Ebernant, with the afore-
said Chapel of Kenewill, and all
other things to the same belonging,
To hold to the same Church of Saint
John the Evangelist and Saint Teilo,
and to the Canons, and their succes-
sors in free alms for ever. Never-
theless, the aforesaid Canons shall,
by one of themselves celebrate divine
service daily in their aforesaid Church
of Kermerdyn, for the souls of

For the Canons
of Kermerdyn.

' The words in the original text are “Cum M’educus ab Rybert filius Ricardi ab

M’educh.”
ab (=son of) plainly shews.

The word “Rybert” is evidently a mistake for “ Rychert,” as the Welsh

2 Teilo, one of the most celebrated saints of the ancient British Church, was born

near Tenby, in Co. Pembroke.

In A.D. 512, he was appointed Bishop of Llandaff, on
the resignation of Bishop Dyvrig, or St. Dubritius.

When the yellow plague

prevailed, Teilo retired to Britanny, and on his return, after more than 73 years

exile, was elected to the Archbishopric of St. David’s.

He died A.D. 566,

3 Abernant Church is about 5 miles from Carmarthen.

4 Conwil is still » perpetual curacy, annexed to the Vicarage of Abernant.

The

Church and Village are 6 miles from Carmarthen, and 4 from Abernant.
16

Giffard, ac aliorum fidelium in ob-
sequio predecessorum nostrorum et
nostro in partibus illis interfectorum
imperpetuum. Quare volumus et
firmiter precipimus pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quod predicti
Canonici et eorum successores hab-
iant et teneant predictam acram terre,
et aduocacionem predicte Ecclesie de
Ebernant, cum predicta Capella de
Kenewell, et omnibus aliis ad ea
pertinentibus, in liberam et perpetuanr
elemosinam. Ita tamen quod predicti
Canonici inueniant quemdam canoni-
cum suum singulis diebus diuina
celebrantem in predicta Ecclesia sua
de Kermerdyn, pro animabus Ste-
phani Baugan et Ricardi Giffard, ac
aliorum fidelium in obsequio prede-
cessorum nostrorum et nostro in
partibus illis interfectorum, imper-

Stephen Baughan' and Richard
Giffard, and other faithful subjects
in the service of our predecessors
and in our service, slain in_ those
parts, for ever. Wherefore We will
and firmly command for Us and
Our heirs, that the aforesaid: Canons
and their successors shall have and
hold the aforesaid acre of land, and
the advowson of the aforesaid Church
of Ebernant, with the aforesaid
Chapel of Kenewell, and all other
things to the same belonging, in
free and perpetual alms. Neverthe-
less that the aforesaid Canons, shall
by one of themselves, celebrate divine
service daily in their aforesaid Church
of Kermerdyn, for the souls of
Stephen Baughan and_ Richard
Giffard, and other faithful subjects
in the service of our predecessors,

and in our service slain in those parts,
for ever, as is aforesaid. These being
witnesses, The Venerable Fathers J.
Winchester? R. Bath and Wells,‘
Our Chancellor. A. Durham,’ and

petuum sicut predictum est. Hiis
testibus, Venerabilibus Patribus J.
Wintoniensis, R. Bathoniensis et
> Wellensis, Cancellario nostro, A.
Dunolmensis, et Th. Meneuensis

 

1 Stephen Baugan, who is said to have been a valiant and famous Knight, was sent
in command of 3000 cavalry, to repress Llewelyn ab Griffith, Prince of Wales.
Baugan arrived in Carmarthenshire by sea: pillaged Ty Gwyn Abbey: went through
Carmarthen to Llandeilo Fawr, to assist the English adherent—Rhys Vychan ab
Rhys Mechyll. On their retreat thence to Cardiganshire, Baugan and his army were
annihilated at Cymerau, on Sunday, 12th June, 1256.

2 He appears to have been one of the Giffards of Brimpsfield, Co. Gloucester; and
to have held the office of King’s Justice of the Court, tempore Hen. II.

3 John de Pontifera, or Pontois, was Bishop of Winchester from 1280 until 1304.

4 Robert Burnell, Archdeacon of York. He was keeper of the Great Seal from
24 Feb., 1273, until his death in 1292; Lord High Treasurer, 1274—1278: Bishop
of Bath and Wells, 1274—1292. Journeying in 1284 to Aberconway, in Wales, and
thence to Acton-Burnell, in Salop, he delivered, by patent, the Great Seal to Hugh
de Kendal and Walter de Odyham; and in Sept., 1286, he, as Lord Chancellor,
accompanied Edw. I. into France, whence he returned in August, 1289, with his
Sovereign.

5 Anthony de Beck. This celebrated man, who died 28th March, 1311, from being
Archdeacon of Durham, was advanced to that Bishopric in 1283. The Pope in 1305
created him Patriarch of Jerusalem; and his King, Edw. L., gave him the Principality
of Man. He was constable of the Tower also. In his youth he had been a gallant
warrior. So modest was he that he avoided looking at the face of a woman, though
he smiled at the frown of the monarch. So consciously chaste, that he alone, of all
the prelates, could dare touch at York the sacred bones of Saint William. So false,
that he disposed of an estate trusted to his honor. So vain, that for 40 herrings he gave
a sum now equal to £40. So haughty, that he seized Edward the First's palfrey as a
deodand: and he broke his heart when he was excommunicated by William Greenfield,
Archbishop of York. He was 2nd son of Walter de Bek, of Eresby, in Co. Lincoln,
cor apc nephew of Thomas de Multon, of whom mention has been previously
made,
17

Episcopes; Edmundo fratre nostro;,Th. Saint David’s,' Bishops; Ed-
Willielmo de Valencia auunculo|mund? our brother; William de
nostro; Edmundo Comite Cornubie' Valence? our uncle; Edmund Earl
consanguineo nostro; Henrico de/of Cornwall* our cousin; Henry de
Lascy, Comite Lincolnie; Roberto} Lascy,! Earl of Lincoln; Robert de
de Tybetot, et aliis. Datum apud Tybetot,? and others. Given at
Westmonasterium per manum nos-! Westminster by our hand, the 15th
tram xv° die Maij. | day of May.

 

1 Thomas Beck (younger brother to Anthony de Beck) was Archdeacon of Dorset
In 1279 he was made Lord High Treasurer of England, which office he held until the
year following, when he was appointed Bishop of St. David's. He died in 1294, and
left to his brother John, Lord Eresby, the Isle of Steepholme, in Somerset, the
advowson of the Church of Breen, two parts of the Manor of Midhurst, and a moiety
of the Manor of Ford, in Co. Sussex.

2 These have been previously annotated.

3 Kdmund, grandson of King John, and son of Richard, King of the Romans, by
his wife Sanchia, daughter of Raymond, Earl of Provence. Edmund was born in
1250, and in 1271 was created Earl of Ccrnwall. In that year he married Margaret,
sister to Gilbert de Clare. In 1289 he demolished Dryslwyn Castle, in Carmarthen-
shire, and died without issue, 1st Oct. 1300.

4 This Henry was son to Edmund de Lacy (who enjoyed the Tertium Denarium of
Lincoln), by his wife Alice, daughter to the Marquess of Saluces, in Savoy. Henry
married Margaret, only surviving child and heiress of William Longsword, Earl of
Salisbury, and through her had that Earldom. He was created Earl of Lincoln in
1272, and died (1312) in his mansion-house, now called Lincoln’s Inn, in London,
His only child Alice married Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster (nephew of
Edw. I.), beheaded 22 March, 1322.

5 Robert was son of Henry de Tibetot. In 1277 he was appointed a commissioner
to make peace between King Edward I. and Llewelyn ab Griffith, Prince of Wales.
In 1279—80 he was appointed Justice of South Wales; and in the following year
Governor of Carmarthen and Cardigan Castles. In 1292 (April 2nd) he defeated and
captured Rees ab Meredith of Carmarthen, and slew 4000 of his men. He died in
Sept., 1298. His only son and heir was Payne de Tibetot (born 1279), by his wife
Eve, daughter of Payne (or Paganus) de Chaworth (=Cadurcis).
18

CHARTER ROLL.

Pro Burgensibus \
de Kaermerdyn. Rex Archiepis-
copis, etc?, Salutem. Inspeximus
cartam, quam celebris memorie Domi-
nus Henricus, quondam Rex Anglie,
Auus Noster, fecit Burgensibus de
Kaermerdyn in hec verba: ‘‘ Henricus
Dei gratia, Rex Anglie, Dominus
Hibernie, Dux Normannie, Aquitanie,
et Comes Andegavie, Justiciariis,
Vicecomitibus, et omnibus Ministris
suis tocius terre sue, Salutem. Sciatis,
nos concessisse pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, Burgensibus nostris de Kaer-
merdyn, quod ipsi et heredes eorum
imperpetuum sint quicti de theolonia,
passagio, et pontagio, et omnibus
consuetudinibus per totam terram
nostram. Quare volumus et firmiter
precipimus, quod predicti Burgenses
de Kaermerdyn et eorum heredes,
imperpetuum sint quieti de theolonio,
passagio, et pontagio, et omnibus
consuetudinibus per totam terram
nostram, sicut predictum est. Hiis
testibus, W. Carliolensis Episcopo;
H. de Burgo, Comite Kancie, Justic-
iario nostro; Thoma de Muleton;
Henrico de Braybroc; Radulph ofilio
Nicholai; Godefrido de Craucumb;
Ricardo de Argentem; Henrico de
Capella, et aliis. Datum per manum
venerabilis Patris Radulphia Cices-
triensis Episcopi, Cancellarii nostri,
apud Westmonasterium xxij die Julij,
Anno Regni nostri, undecimo.”
Inspeximus eciam confirmacionis

‘ Henry III.

 

6rxr EDWARD II. ANNO DOMINI 1313.

For the Burgesses \
of Carmarthen. Jf @he ding to

the Archbishops, etc?, Greeting. We
have examined the Charter which the
Lord Henry! of glorious memory,
formerly King of England, Our
Grandfather, made to the Burgesses
of Kaermerdyn, in these words:
“ Henry, by the grace of God, King
of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke
of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Earl of
Anjou, to His Justiciars, Sheriffs,
and to all His Ministers throughout
his Kingdom, ‘Greeting. Know ye
that We have granted for Us, and
Our Heirs, to Our Burgesses of
Kaermerdyn, that they and their
heirs for ever should be free of toll,
passage, and pontage, and all customs
throughout Our Kingdom. Where-
fore We will and firmly command that
the aforesaid Burgesses of IXaermer-
dyn, and their heirs for ever shall be
free of toll, passage, and pontage,
and all customs throughout Our Land
as aforesaid. These being witnesses,
W. Bishop of Carlisle;? H. de Burgh,
Earl of Kent,’ Our Justiciar; Thomas
de Muleton;? Henry de Braybroc;?
Ralph, son of Nicholas ;? Godfrey
de Craucumb;? Richard d’ Argentine;?
Henry de Capella,’ and others. Given
by the hand of the Venerable Father
Ralph, Bishop of Chichester,t Our
Chancellor, at Westminster, the 22nd
day of July, in the eleventh year of
Our reign.”

We have examined also the Charter

* These have been annotated in a former page.

* Henry de Capella was probably the keeper of the Archives or Records.

aescribes the word thus:

Spelman

“Capella non a sacris tantum locis fuit, sed etiam Graphiar-

ium secretatium charto phylacium et archivum.quo mandata et responsa regia charte

epistolee et brevia a capellanis regiis condebantur, scribebantur et emittebantur,” &c.
* Ralph de Neville was in 1213, made keeper of the Great Seal under Peter de

Roches, Bishop of Winchester. Was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in 1223, which

office he held until 1245.
the Pope rejected him. On the 12th Feb..

for life, and in 1232 he was made Chancellor of Ireland for life,
Henry III., by his own prerogative, took the Great Seal from him,

Geoffrey de Neville (brother to Ralph),
ed the profits of the office.

He was elected to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, but

1226, the Parliament made him Chancellor
Six years later,
and gave it to
although Ralph

and John de Lexintune,
quam idem avus noster fecit prefatis
Burgensibus in hee verba: ‘‘Henricus,
Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie, Dominus
Hibernie, Dux Normannie, Aquitanie,
et Comes Andegavie, Archiepiscopis,
Episcopis, Abbatibus, Prioribus, Co-
mitibus, Baronibus, Justiciariis,
Forestariis, Vicecomitibus, Prepositis,
Ministris, et omnibus Ballivis, et
fidelibus suis, Salutem. Inspeximus
Cartam, quam Edwardus, filius noster
primogenitus, fecit Burgensibus de
Kaermerdyn, in hee verba: ‘“ Ed-
wardus, illustris Henrici Regis Anglie,
primogenitus, omnibus fidelibus suis
hoc presens seriptum visurum vel
auditurum, Salutem. Nouerit vni-
uersitas vestra nos concessisse, dilectis
et fidelibus Burgensibus nostris de
Kaermerdyn, omnes bonas leges et
consuetudines quibus tempore Johan-
nis Regis, Aui nostri, vel predeces-
sorum suorum Regum Angliehactenus
vsi sunt et gavisi et communiam suam
liberam in planis et boscis, in aquis,
et in omnibus aliis aisiamentis optentis
et vsitatis. Concessimus eciam pre-
dictis Burgensibus nostris quod ipsi
pro transgressione seu forisfactura
servientum suorum catalla et bona
sua in manibus ipsorum inuenta, aut
alicubi locorum per ipsos seruientes
infra terram nostram deposita qua-
tenus sua sufficienter probare poterunt
non amittant. Et quod si dicti
Burgenses aut eorum aliqui infra
terram et potestatem nostram testati
decesserint vel intestati nos vel
heredes nostri bona ipsorum confiscari
non faciemus, quin eorum heredes
integre ipsa habeant quatenus dicta
catalla dictorum defunctorum fuisse
constiterit dum tamen de dictis
heredibus noticia aut fides habeatur.

Item concessimus eisdem Burgensibus
Il

19

of Confirmation which the same Our
Grandfather made to the aforesaid
Burgesses in these words: ‘ Henry,
by the grace of God, King of
England, Lord of Ireland, Duke
of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Earl of
Anjou, to the Archbishop, Bishops,
Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Jus-
ticiars, Foresters, Sheriffs, Reeves,
Ministers, and to all his Bailiffs and
faithful subjects, Greeting. We have
examined the Charter which Edward,
Our eldest son, made to the Burgesses
of Kaermerdyn-. in these words:
“ Edward, the first-born of the illus-
trious Henry, King of England, i
all his faithful people by whom this
present writing shall be seen or heard,
Greeting. Know ye all that We
have granted to Our dear and faithfnl
Burgesses of Kaermerdyn all good
laws and customs, which from the
time of King John, our grandfather,
or his predecessors, Kings of England,
they have hitherto used and enjoyed,
and their free common in plains and
and woods, in waters, and in all other
easements obtained and used. We
have granted also to the aforesaid
Burgesses, that they, for the trespass
or forfeiture of their servants, should
not lose their goods and chattels
found in the hands of the same
servants, or deposited by the same
servants in any place within Our
land, so far as they could sufficiently
prove them to be their own. And
that if the said Burgesses or any of
them within Our land and power
should die testate or intestate, We
or Our Heirs would not cause their
goods to be confiscated, but their
heirs wholly should have the same,
so far as it might appear that the
said chattels were the property of
the said deceased, whilst nevertheless
notice or trust of the said heirs
should be had. Also, We have
granted to the same Burgesses that
none of them within Our power
should be sued for the debt of any
neighbour, unless he should be a

 
20

nostri quod nullus eorum infra potes-
tatem nostram vexetur pro debito
alicuius vicini sui, nisi fuerit debitor
vel plegius, et quamuis plegius ali-
cuius, non cogatur solueredum debitor
habeat vnde soluere possit. Et quod
omnes transgressiones infra liberum
Burgum suum facte per eorumdem
Burgensium consideracionem emen-
dentur sicut hactenus consueuit.
Concessimus eciam eis quod si aliquis
eorum alicui infra Burgum suum
forisfecerit non ducatur infra portas
Castelli dum possit inuenire bonos et
saluos plegios de stando iuri, nisi pro
transgressione pro qua plegiabilis non
fuerit; et quam vis aliquis eorum
aliquem rem claro die coram vicinis
suis emerit, et postea res illa fuerit
calumpniata tanquam furtiua, amittat
nisi tantum rem illam, set iurabit
cum sacramento vicinorum strum,
quod nesciunt rem illam emisse de
latrone. Et quod nullus eorwn
cogatur acomodare ballivo suo ultra
duodecim denaratas, nisi voluerit
bona voluntate sua. Et quod nulla
inquisicio de rebus forinsecis fiat per
predictos Burgenses, set per libere
tenentes patrie sicut hucusque fieri
consueuit. Et quod hic concessio
nostra, rata et stabilis pro nobis et
heredibus nostris predictis Burgensi-
bus nostris perseueret, hoc presens
seriptum sigilli nostri impressione
duximus corroborandum. Hiis tes-
tibus, Dominis Petro de Sabandia,
Johanne filio Galfridi, Eble de Monti-
bus, Willielmo de Pennis, Michaele
de Fenis, Waltero de Merton, et
multis aliis. Nos autem predictam
concessionem ratam habentes et
gratam eam pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, concedimus et confirmamus,
sicut predicta Carta rationabiliter
testatur. Hiis testibus, Gwidone de
Lezin, Galfrido de Lezin, et Willielmo
de Valencia, fratribus nostris; Petro
de Sabandia, Artaldo de Sancto
Romano, Magistro Johanne Maunsell,
Willielmo de Grey, Waukelino de

 

debtor or surety, and although the
surety of any one, he should not be
bound to pay while the debtor had
wherewith to pay. And that all
trespasses committed within their
free Borough should be corrected by
the consideration of the same Bur-
gesses, as hitherto had been accus-
tomed. We have granted also to
them that if any of them should
forfeit to any one within their
Borough, he should not be taken
within the gates of the Castle, while
he could find good and safe pledges
for standing to law, unless for a
trespass, which should not be bailable;
and although any of them should buy
anything in open day before his
neighbours, and afterwards that thing
should be charged as stolen, he should
only lose that thing, but should swear
with the oath of his neighbours that
they did not know that thing to be
bought froma thief. And that none
of them should be bound to assist
his bailiff beyond twelve deniarates,
unless with his own free will. And
that no inquisition of foreign things
should be made by the aforesaid
Burgesses, but by the freeholders of
the County, as then had been accus-
tomed to be done. And that this
Our grant may continue ratified and
firm for Us and Our heirs to the
aforesaid Burgesses, We have caused
this present writing to be confirmed
by the impression of our seal. These
being witnesses, Lords Peter de
Sabandia,' John the son of Geoffrey,
Eble de Montibus,! William de Pen-
nis,' Michael de Fenis,! Walter de
Merton,' and many others. We, the
aforesaid grant having ratified and
confirmed for Us and Our heirs, do
grant and confirm the same, as the
aforesaid Charter reasonably witnes-
seth. These being witnesses, Guido
de Lezin,! Geoffrey de Lezin,! and
William de Valence,’ our brothers;
Peter de Sabandia,'’ Artaldo de Sancto
Romano,! Master John Maunsell,!

' These haye already been annotated.
21

Ardern, Imberto Pugeys, Willielmo
Gernun, et aliis. Datum per manum
nostram apud Westmonasterium
quarto die Februarij, anno regni
nostri quadragesimo primo.” In-
speximus eciam Cartam quam clare.
memorie Dominus Edwardus, quon-
dam Rex Anglie, pater noster, fecit
predictis Burgensibus in hee verba.
‘‘Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglie
Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie,
omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis ad
quos presentes littere peruenerint,
Salutem. Cum Wallenses de Elued,
Dercles, Ewydugaga, Yskennen,
Mahathan, Commod Perueth et
Hyrevrin, in penultima guerra Wal-
lensi contra nos et pacem nostram
existentes, et inimicis et rebellibus
nostris adherentes, saniori postmodum
ductis consilio ad pacem nostram
venissent, et se et sua voluntati nostre
totaliter submisissent, ac nos tunc ad
melioracionem ville nostre de Ker-
merdyn, et ad securitatem et tuicionem
parcium adiacencium, concessissemus
Burgensibus nostris, et omnibus alijs
cuiuscunque condicionis fuerint de
predicta villa nostra de Kermerdyn
et veteri Kermerdyn, quod in boscis
nostris de Mahathan, et omnibus aliis
boscis dictorum Wallensium, tunc
tanquam nobis forisfact, in manu
nostra existentibus, in quibus, propter
eorum densitatem, depredaciones et
homicidia frequenter perpretabantur,
liberam haberent communiam. Ita
quod in eis, subboseum, quercus ad
maeremium, et alias arbores succidere
et asportare possent; et ipsos Bur-
genses, per breve nostrum dilectis et

' This has already been annotated.

 

William de Grey,! Waukelin de
Ardern, Imbertus Pugeys, William
Gernun, and others. Given by Our
hand at Westminster, the fourth day
of February, in the forty-first year of
our reign.” We have examined also
the Charter which the Lord Edward
of famous memory, formerly King of
England, Our Father, made to the
aforesaid Burgesses in these words:
“ Kdward (I.), by the grace of God,
King of England, Lord of Ireland,
and Duke of Aquitaine, to all his
Bailiffs and faithful subjects to whom
these present Letters shall come,
Greeting. Whereas the Welsh
people of Elved,? Dercles,’ Ewyd-
ugaga,* Yskennen,*? Mahathan,® the
Commots of Perveth’ and Hyrevrin,’
in the late Welsh war being against
Us and Our peace, and adhering to
Our enemies the rebels, afterwards
being led by better advised counsel,
returned to Our allegiance, and wholly
submitted themselves and theirs to
Our will, and We then, for the
improvement of Our town of Ker-
merdyn, and for the security and
defence of the parts adjacent, granted
to Our Burgesses, and to all others
of whatever condition they might be
of Our aforesaid Town of Kermerdyn
and of old Kermerdyn, that. in our
woods of Mahathan, and in all other
woods of the said Welsh people then
as forfeited to Us being in Our
hands, in which, on account of their
thickness, robberies and murders
frequently were committed, that they
should have free common. So that
in them they could fell and carry

2 Elfed, a hundred in Co. Carmarthen, now comprising 12, and part of 3 parishes.

3 Derllys (=the oaken palace or court), a hundred in the same County.

4 Ewydugaga, sometimes called Gwydigada, was a commot in the “Great Hundred,”
and situate, according to Dr. Pughe, in the South of Carmarthenshire, between the
rivers Towy and Tav. Can this word be derived from “Y gwydd a gagau”=“ the
woods with apertures” or open vistas therein? Gg

5 Iskennen, 2 commot in the “Small Hundred” of Carmarthenshire, situate on the
lower course of the river Cennen. :

6 Mahathen, so written for Mallaen, was a commot in the “ Small Hundred.” The
word expresses swampy land. Its position was about Llanarthney. : f

7 Perfedd, the central land, and Hirfryn, the long hill, were commots in the ancient
Cantref Ffiniog, the Boundary- Hundred.
22

fidelibus nostris Willielmo de Valen-
cia, Auunculo nostro, et Pagano de
Cadurcis, tempore illo locum nostrum
in partibus illis tenentibus directum,
in seisinam communie predicte poni
fecissemus. Nos factum nostrum
predictum ratum et gratum habentes,
Volumus et concedimus, pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quod predicti Bur-
genses, et omnes alii devillis predictis,
et heredes et successores sui, per-
cipiant et habeant predictam com-
muniam in hoscis predictis. Ita quod
subboscum, quercus et ad maeremium,
et alias arbores in eis, succidere et
asportare possint pro voluntate sua,
absque occasione vel impedimento
nostri et heredum nostrorum, Justic-
jariorum, Vicecomitum, Ballivorum,
seu ministrorum nostrorum quorum-
cumque imperpetuum. Inhibentes
super grauem forisfacturam nostram,
ne quis ipsos super communiam pre-
dictam ut predictam est habenda, in
aliquo perturbare seu inquietare pre-
sumat contra concessionem nostram
predictam. In cuius rei testimonium
has litteras nostras fieri fecimus paten-
tes. Teste meipso apud Kedewelly
nono die Decembris anno regni nostri
terciodecimo.” Nos autem concessio-
nem et confirmacionem predictas ratas
habentes et gratas eas pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis
est, concedimus et confirmamus, sicut
Carte predicte rationabiliter testantur,
et prout ijdem Burgenses et eorum
antecessores libertatibus  predictis
hactenus rationabiliter ysi sunt. Hiis

testibus, venerabili Patre W.Wygorn,|hitherto reasonably used.

away the underwood, oak for timber
land other trees; and, by Our Writ
directed to Our dear and faithful
| William de Valence,! Our Uncle,
‘and Payne de Cadurcis,’ at that time
Our Lieutenants in those parts, We
‘commanded the same Burgesses to
‘be put in possession of the aforesaid
‘Common. We our aforesaid grant
nating and confirming, We will
and grant for Us and Our heirs, that
the aforesaid Burgesses and all others
of the Towns aforesaid, and their
heirs and successors, shall take and
have the aforesaid common in the
woods aforesaid. So that the under-
wood, oak for timber, and other trees
upon the same, they can fell and
carry away without hindrance or
impediment of Us, our Heirs,
Justices, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, or our
Servants, whatsoever for ever. For-
bidding that any one upon Our
grave displeasure, in any wise pre-
sume to disturb or molest them upon
the aforesaid common contrary to our
grant as aforesaid. In witness whereof
We have caused these Our Letters
Patent to be made. Witness Ourself
at Kedewelly, the ninth day of Dec-
ember, in the thirteenth year of Our
reign. We the aforesaid grant and
confirmation having ratified and
confirmed for Us and Our Heirs, as
much as in Us is, do grant and
confirm the same, as the Charters
aforesaid reasonably witness, and as
the same Burgesses and their prede-
cessors the liberties aforesaid have
These

 

Episcopo; Gilberto de Clare, Comite! being witnesses, the Venerable Father

! This has already been annotated.

* Payne de Cadurcis, otherwise Chaworth (born 1244—5), was son of Patrick (slain

near Cilgerran in 1258), by his wife Hawys, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas de
Londres, Lord of Ogmore and Kidwelly. In 1270 Payne, with his brothers Hervey
and Patrick, accompanied Prince Edward to Palestine. In 1277 he was appointed to
command the King’s Army in West Wales, and having repressed the disturbances,
was rewarded by being made Governor of the Castles of Dynevor, Careg Cennen, and
Llandovery, in Co. Caermarthen, He gave the monks of Whitland, in that County,
nineteen acres of arable land. He died unmarried in 1278—9, seized among other
manors, of that of Hast Garston, in Berks, an appurtenance of Kidwelly. As his
brother Hervey had been slain in a skirmish near this last named town, in 1275
Patrick became his heir, ; :
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Gloucestrie et Herefordie; Adomaro|W. Bishop of Worcester ;! Gilbert
de Valencia, Comite Pembroch;/de Clare,? Earl of Gloucester and
Johanne de Britamer, Comite Riche-| Hereford; Adomar de Valence,’ Earl
mundie; Hugone le Despencer;|of Pembroke; John de Britamer,* Earl
Henrico de Bello Monte; Edwardo|of Richmond; Hugh le Dispenser ;5
de Malo Lacu, Senescallo hospitii] Henry de Beaumont;® Edward de Malo
nostri, et aliis. Datum per manum|Lacu,’ Steward of Our household, and
nostram apud Westmonasterium tercio}others. Given by Our hand at West-
die Maij. minster, the third day of May.

Per finem xx marcarum. For a fine of 20 marks.

‘ Walter Reginald, Prebendary of St. Paul’s, who had been the King’s School-
master, was appointed Lord High Treasurer in 1307. Under him was John de Sandall
as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1308 he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester.
On the 6th July, 1311, he had the custody of the Great Seal, and the next year was
made Lord High Chancellor, which office he held for two years. In 1313 he was
translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, “uot as a man of learning, but for his
great skill in theatrical plays.’ He died in 1327.

2 Gilbert de Clare was son of Gilbert the Red, Earl of Gloucester and Hereford,
by his 2nd Countess, Joan of Acres, 3rd daughter of Edward I. He was born in 1290.
In 1810—1 he was constituted guardian of the realm of England, during the King’s
absence. On 24th June, 1314, while leading the vanguard of the English at the
battle of Bannockburn he was slain. He was married, but left no surviving issue.

3 Adomar, or Aymer de Valence (born 1280), was the 8rd son of William de Valence
(previously annotated), Earl of Pembroke, by his Countess Joan, daughter and heiress
of Warren, Lord Montchensy (de Monte Canisio). In consequence of the eldest
brother John’s dying young, and the second William’s being slain near Llandeilo
Fawr, in Co. Carmarthen, Aymer succeeded to the Earldom in 1296. While Guardian
of the Scottish Marches in 1306 he caused Robert Bruce’s brother, Nigel, and all with
him to be hanged in Kintyre. He married, firstly, Beatrix, younger daughter of
Raoul de Clermont, Sire le Nesle, Constable of France; she died in 1320, 8.P.
Secondly, a daughter of the Earl of Barre, whod.s.p. Thirdly, Mary, daughter of Guy
de Chatillon, Count of St. Paul, by his wife Mary, danghter of John, Duke of Britanny,
and Earlof Richmond. Aymer attended Queen Isabel into France, and was murdered
there, 23rd June, 1323, leaving no issue. He was tall and pale in countenance.

* John de Britanny was son to Sir Peter Mauclere (of the blood-royal of France),
titular Earl of Richmond in England, by Alice, daughter of Guy de Toarche, by
Constance, daughter and heir to Conan, Duke of Britanny and Earl of Richmond.
This Constance was by her first husband mother to the murdered Prince Arthur.
Earl John fought in Palestine; and in 1307—8 was Royal Lieutenant over Scotland,
He married Beatrix, daughter of Henry III. and sister to Edward I., whom he buried,
A.D. 1275, in the Gray Friars, London. He died in 1334, leaving no issue.

5 Hugh le Despencer, son of Hugh the senior, by Isabel, widow of Patrick
Chaworth or de Cadurcis, and daughter of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
After the decapitation of the worthless Piers Gaveston, this Hugh became, with his
father Hugh, the minion of the despicable Edward II. Among other numerous
grants, he obtained the Governorship of Dynevor and Dryslwyn Castles, in Co. Car-
marthen; all Gilbert de Clare’s Royalties in Glamorgan; a grant of Careg Cennen
Castle, and the lands of Iskennen: for his wife be procured all the land of Gower,
with the Castle and Town of Swansea, the Castles of Oystermouth, Penarth, and
Laugharne, and other rich lands in Wales. He married Eleanor, eldest daughter and
coheir ‘of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and was hanged at Hereford,
29th November, 1326, leaving issue, Hugh (born 1308), Edward, Gilbert, and Isabel.

6 Henry de Beaumont (born 1284), a relative to Eleanor, Queen to Edward I., came
to this country through her means, and obtained lands in Lincolnshire: and did
service in guarding the Scottish Marches. In 1310—1 he had a life-grant of the
Isle of Man, and the same year married Alice, a cousin and coheiress of John, Earl
of Buchan, the Lord Constable of Scotland. The year following he obtained a grant
in fee of Cornhill, Harrow, and Little Greensted. In 1319—20 he obtained the
manors of Thoresway, Linwood, and Styveton, in Co. Lincoln, In 1830 he bore
the title of Earl of Buchan; and eight years later was made Justice of Scotland.
He died in 1340, leaving a son and heir John, and Elizabeth married to Nicholas de
Audley, son to Lord Audley.

7 De Malo Lacu=Mauley.
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PATENT ROLL.

Pro Burgensibus

ss ;
de Kaermerdyn | Rex omnibus ad

et aliorum =} quos, ete? Salu-
Burgorum de | tem. Inspeximus
Wallia. J litteras patentes

Domini Edwardi, nuper Regis Anglie,
patris nostri, in hee verba: ‘ Hd-
wardus, Dei Gratia, &c., omnibus
Ballivis et fidelibus suis in Wallia
ad quos, &c., Salutem. Cum tem-
pore Domini Edwardi, quondam
Regis Anglie, patris nostri, anno
regni sui tricesimo tercio, quondam
Princeps Wallie eramus, per ipsum
patrem nostrum et consilium suum
ac nostrum, pro emendacione et
melioracione Burgi nostri de Ker-
merdyn, et aliorum burgorum nos-
trorum in Wallia, ordinatum esset,
quod nullus in partibus vicinis burgis
nostris predictis per quinque leucas
in circuitu, emeret vel venderet
mercimonia, quocunque nomine cen-
serentur, nisi in ipsis burgis, sub
forisfactura mercimoniorum predic-
torum per certum ballivum nostrum
ad hoc specialiter deputandum,
capiendorum ad opus nostrum,
postquam eidem balliuo constaret
manifeste per se, vel per con-
sideracionem Curie nostre, quod
huiusmodi mercimonia emerentur, vel
manifeste venditioni exposerenter,
licet eciam non venderentur, exceptis
hiis que in locis per cartas priuilegia-
tis; et exceptis pane et ceruisia in
predictis burgis in grosso emptis,
que postmodum in parte per ementes,
licite vendi possunt: exceptis eciam
carnibus et piscibus, scissis cascis,
ouis, pullanis, et huiusmodi minutis
vendibilibus, cera tamen, aut sepum
extra burgos predictos in grosso
non venderetur: et quod dicta
ordinacio proclamaretur et publi-
caretur per Justiciarium nostrum
in singulis Curiis burgorum, Sen-

 

isr EDWARD III. ANNO DOMINT 1327.

For the Burgesses
of Kaermerdyn
and other Boroughs ( aj] to whom,

of Wales. etc, Greeting,
We have considered the letters
patent of the Lord Edward, late
King of England, Our father, in
these words: ‘‘ Edward, by the
grace of God, &c, to all his
Bailiffs and faithful subjects in
Wales, to whom, &c., Greeting.
Whereas in the time of the Lord
Edward, Our father, in the thirty
third year of his reign when We
were Prince of Wales, it was or-
dained by the same Our father,
and his and Our Council for the
amendment and improvement of
Our Borough of Kermerdyn, and
of Our other Boroughs in Wales,
that no one should, in the parts
adjoining Our aforesaid boroughs
within a circuit of five leagues, buy
or sell wares, by whatsoever name
they might be designated, except
in those boroughs, under forfeiture
of the wares aforesaid by Our certain
bailiff, for that purpose specially
deputed, to be taken to Our use,
when that to the same bailiff it
should clearly appear by his own
or by the consideration of Our
Court that such wares were bought
or exposed to sale, although not
sold, except those in places privileged
by charters; and except bread and
ale in the aforesaid boroughs bought
in gross and afterwards divided by
the buyers, which lawfully might
be sold: except also meat and fish,
cut cheeses, eggs, poultry, and such
small saleable articles, wax also nor
tallow (or suet) should not be sold
in gross out of the aforesaid
boroughs: and that the said or-
dinance should be proclaimed and
published by Our Justiciar in every
Court of the boroughs, stewards,
and Counties of those parts four

Che Ring to
25

in singulis Curiis burgorum, Scn-
escallorum et Comitatuum partium
ilarum quaterin anno. Nos voluntes
ordinacionem predictam firmiter et
inuiolabiliter obseruari de cetero
et teneri, Vobis mandamus, quod
contra ordinacionem predictam nichil
omnino attemptetis seu attemptari
permittatis, quominus dicta ordinacio
pro emendacione et wmelioracione
burgorum nostrorum predictorum,
sub forisfactura predicta ad opus
nostrum capienda, modis omnibus
valeat observari. In cujus_ rei
testimonium has litteras nostras fieri
fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud
Westmonasterium tercio die Maij,
anno regni sexto.”

Nos autem ordinacionem predictam
acceptantes, et eam firmiter et
inuiolabiliter obseruari _volentes,
vobis mandamus quod _ contra
eandem ordinacionem nichil omnino
attemptetis seu attemptari permittatis
quominus ipsa ordinacio pro emen-
dacione et melioracione burgorum
nostrorum predictorum sub forisfac-

tura predicta ad opus nostrum
capienda modis omnibus  valeat
obseruari. In cuius rei testimonium

has litteras nostras fieri fecimus
patentes. Teste Rege apud West-
monasterium viij die Februarij.

Per ipsum Regem et Consilium.

 

and Counties of those parts four
times in the year. We, willing that
the aforesaid ordinance be henceforth
firmly and faithfully observed and
held, command you that you neither
do nor permit anything whatsoever
to be done against the aforesaid
ordinance, by which the said or-
dinance for the amendment and
improvement of Our aforesaid bor-
oughs may in any way be the less
observed, upon forfeiture as aforesaid
to Our use to be taken. In witness
whereof, We have caused these Our
letters patent to be made. Witness
ourself at Westminster the third
day of May in the sixth year of
Our reign.”

We, the ordinance aforesaid truly
accepting, and willing that it be
firmly and faithfully observed, Com-
mand you, that you shall neither
do nor permit anything whatsoever
to be done against the said ordinance,
by which the said, ordinance for the
amendment and improvement of our
aforesaid boroughs may in any way
be the less observed, upon forfeiture
as aforesaid to Our use to be taken.
In witness whereof, We have caused .
these Our letters patent to be made.
Witness the King at Westminster,
the 8th day of February.

By the King and Council.
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De Licencia
_ dandi ad
manu Mortuam.

PATENT ROLL.
Ax omnibus ad

jae ete?, Salu-
tem. Sciatis, quod de gratia nostra
speciali, concessimus et licenciam
dedimus, pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, dilecto
ligeo nostro Thome Rede, quod
ipse duodecim mesuagia, tria tofta,
triginta acras terre, et vnam acram
prati, cum pertinenciis, in Nova
Kermerdyn, que de nobis vt de
corona nostra, tenentur; et que
valorem centum solidorum per annum
_vt dicitur non excedunt, dare possit
et assignare cuidam capellano, diuina
singulis diebus in quadam Cantaria
in honorem beate Marie infra
ecclesiam beati Petri de Kermerdyn

ab antiquo fundata celebratura,
Habendum et Tenendum eidem
Capellano et successoribus suis

Capellanis eiusdem Cantarie diuina
singulis diebus in Cantaria predicta
celebratura imperpetuum. Et eidem
Capellano quod ipse mesuagia tofta
terram et pratum predicta cum
pertinenciis a prefato Thoma recipere
possit, et tenere sibi et successoribus
suis predictis, in forma predicta
sicut predictum est, imperpetuum,
tenore presencium, similiter licenciam

dedimus specialem, Statuto de terris,

et tenementis ad manum mortuam
non ponendis edito seu eo quod
predicta mesuagia, tofta, terra, et
pratum de nobis, vt predictum est,
tenentur non obstante. Nolentes
quod predictus Thomas vel heredes

 

18ra RICHARD II. ANNO DOMINI 1894.

For License
of giving to
Mortmain.

Che Ring to all to
whom, etc?, Greeting.
Know ye, that of Our special grace,
we have granted and given license
for Us and Our heirs, as much as
in Us is, to our dear liege’ Thomas
Rede, that he may give and assign
twelve messuages, three tofts,? thirty
acres of land, and one acre of
meadow, with the appurtenances in
New Kermerdyn, which are held
of Us as of Our crown, and which
do not. exceed the value of one
hundred shillings yearly as it is
said, to a certain Chaplain to
celebrate divine service daily to
the honour of the blessed Mary, in
a certain Chantry anciently founded
within the church of the blessed
Peter of Kermerdyn, to have and
to hold to the same Chaplain and
his successors, Chaplains of the
same chantry, to celebrate divine
service daily for ever in the Chantry
aforesaid. And by the tenour of
these presents, we have likewise
given special license to the same
Chaplain, that he may accept from
the aforesaid Thomas, and hold to
him and his successors in form
aforesaid for ever as is aforesaid,
the messuages, tofts, land, and
meadow aforesaid, with the appur-
tenances, notwithstanding the Statute
enacted against placing lands and
tenements in mortmain, or so much
more that the aforesaid messuages,
tofts, land, and meadow are held
of Us as is aforesaid. Willing that
the aforesaid Thomas or his heirs,
or the aforesaid Chaplain or his

! Thomas Read of Carmarthen was in 1388 appointed the King’s Attorney-General

for South Wales.

He married the daughter of Thomas de la Roch, ab John ab

Robert, Lord of Roch Castle (as Golden Grove MSS.), and was father of William
Read, grandfather of Thomas Read, Lord of Manor Gain, and great grandfather of

Richard Read of Green Castle, within 3 miles of Carmarthen,

still extant.

The Read family is

2 A toft is the ground where a dwelling has stood.
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sui aut prefatus Capellanus seu
successores sui ratione premissorum
per nos vel heredes nostros Justicios,
Escuetores, Vicecomites aut alios
balliuos seu ministros nostros vel
heredum nostrorum quoscumque inde
occasionentur molestentur in aliquo
seu grauentur. Saluis tamen nobis
et heredibus nostris seruitiis inde
debitis et consuetis. In cuius, Ke.
Teste Rege apud Castrum de
Hauerford xxiiij die Septembris.
Per breve de priuato sigillo.

 

successors, by reason of the premises
be therefor in no wise impeded,
molested, or grieved in any way
whatsoever, by Us or Our heirs,
Justices, Escheators, Sheriffs, or
other the Bailiffs or Ministers what-
soever of Us or Our heirs. Saving,
nevertheless, to Us and Our heirs
the services therefor due and accus-
tomed. In witness, &c. Witness
the King at Haverford Castle, the
24th day of September.
By Writ of Privy Seal.
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PATENT ROLL.

De confirmacione
Rois’ .2 6

} Alex omnibus ad
quos, etc4, Salutem. Inspeximus
litteras Patentes carissimi domini
et Patris Nostri, Regis defuncti, dum
erat Princeps Wallie, factas in hee
verba:

“Henry, aisné filz au noble Roy
D’Engleterre et de Ffrance, Prince
de Gales, Due de Guyene, de Lan-
castre et de Cornewaill, et Conte
de Cestre, & toutz ceulx qui cestes
noz lettres verront ou orront, Salutez.
Sachez que nous auons ordené et
constituit nostre bienamé John Rous
nostre chief carpenter de toutz noz
Chastelx en South Gales, & avoir
et occupier mesme l’office pur terme
de sa vie, preignant pur ses gages
sys deniers le iours, par les mayns
de nostre Chamberleyn de South
Gales, pur le temps esteant, pour
auisi que lauaunt dit John se
gouerne et porte bien et loialment
en Voffice suis dit. En tesmoignance
de quele chose nou auons fait fair
ces noz lettres patentes. Doné!
soubz nostre seel en nostre Chastell
de Kermerdyn, le xj iour Nouembre
Yan du regne du Roy nostre dit
seigneur et pier Henry Quart, puis
le conquest noefisme.”

Nos autem dictas litteras prefati
patris nostri, de auisamento magni

 

Ist HENRY VI. ANNO DOMINT 1423.

Confirmation \

for Rous. J Ghe ing to all to
whom, etc#, Greeting. We have
examined the letters patent of Our
most dear lord and father, the
deceased King, made when he was
Prince of Wales, in these words:

“Henry, eldest son of the noble
King of England and France, Prince
of Wales, Duke of Guienne, Lan-
caster, and Cornwall, and Earl of
Chester, to all who shall see or
hear these Our letters, Greeting.
Know ye, that we have ordained
and constituted Our beloved John
Rous, Our chief carpenter of all
Our castles in South Wales; to
have and to occupy the same office
for the term of his life, taking for
his wages six pence per day by the °
hands of Our Chamberlain of South
Wales for the time being; provided
that the aforesaid John conducts
and bears himself well and faithfully
in the said office. In Witness
whereof, We have caused these Our
letters patent to be made. Given!
under Our seal in Our Castle of
Kermerdyn, the eleventh day of
November in the ninth year of the
reign of the King Our said lord
and father Henry the Fourth, after
the conquest.”

We, the said letters of Our
aforesaid father, with the advice of

‘ This charter in Norman French was granted on the 11th November, 1407, when
the donor [afterwards Henry V., the gallant and generous Victor at Agincourt]

was in the prime of his youth, viz.: 19 years of age.

His freaks when Prince, so

divertingly depicted by Shakespeare, are not sufficiently authenticated by contem-

porary evidence.
and Stowe.
beloved.

They were about 220 years after his time first mentioned by Hall
Henry had many fine qualities, and seems to have been universally
He was born at Monmouth, and Shakespeare writes :

K. Hen.—I wear (the leek) for a memorable honour. For Iam Welsh, you know,

good countryman.

Fluellen.—-All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of
your pody, I can tell you that: Got pless it, and preserve it, as long as it pleases his

grace, aud his majesty too!

K. Hen.—Thanks, good my countryman.

_ Fluellen.—1 am your majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it: I will confess
it to all the world: J need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be Got, so long as

your majesty is an honest man.
K. Hen.—God keep me so!
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consilij nostri, approbamus, ratifi-
camus, et confirmamus, prout littere
predicte rationabiliter testantur. In
cuius, etc2. ‘Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium xxiij die Ffebru-
arlj.

Per breue de priuato Sigillo.

Our great Council, do truly approve,
ratify, and confirm, as the aforesaid
Letters reasonably testify. In wit-
ness, etc#. Witness the King at
Westminster, the 23rd day of Feb-

ruary.

By Writ of Privy Seal.
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INVENTORY OF CHURCH GOODS IN CARMAR-
THENSHIRE. 7

Report of the Gommissioners appointed by Edward VL, A.D., 1552,
to take and make ‘a just viewe, survey, and inventorie of all maner
of Goods, Plate, Jewells, Vestyments, Bells, and other ornaments, within
euery parisshe,” &e. .
Exchequer Augmentation Office. Church Goods.
Wales.
ComitaT’ Carrw’THEN.
Hundred’ de Kydwellye.

P’ochia de In p’mis, ij chalyces of sylv’ p’cell gylt.
Kydwellye. Tt’m, a small crosse of sylv’ p’cell gylt.

It’m, a sence of sylv’.

I’m, a pyxe of sylv’, p’cell gylt.

It’m, iiij belles, great and small.

It’m, one chalyce in the handes of Morys ap Res,’ gent.

Llangenyth? In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.

Saint Ismaelles.* In p’mis, one chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.
It’m, a chalyce in Hawlkyng churche,‘ a chaple annexed
to the same p’rishe.

Llanellye In p’mis, ij chalyces.
ew capell’. It’m, iiij belles great and small.

It’m, a chalyce in the hands of H’oll Harry Nycholas,?
which he bought apon his owen costes & charges, to
s’ve the chaple of Saynt John® annexed to the sayd
pishe.

It’m, in the chaple of Saynt Diddgye,® one chalyce.

It’m, in the chaple of Saynt D’D,° a chalyce.

It’m, a chalyce in the chaple of Saynt Gwnlei.®

It’m, a bell there.

1 Morris ab Rees resided at Llechdwnny. He was son of Rees ab Morris ab Owen
ab Griffith ab Nicholas (the same ancestry as the present Lord Dynevor’s). He left
four daughters, and five sons who assumed the surname “Bowen.” Morris’s mother
was the heiress of Llechdwnny.

2 By this word Llangennech or Llangenych is meant. It is a chapel (not in
charge) to the Vicarage of Llanelly, in the patronage of Rees Goring Thomas, Esq,,
of Llannon,

3 Ismael, suffragan Bishop under St. Teilo, Archbishop of Menevia, was son of an
Armorican named Budig, by Arianwedd, sister to the Archbishop.

4 Hawlkyng, or Halkin Church, is now known as Llansaint.

5 Howel ab Henry ab Nicholas ab Thomas ab Griffith ab Nicholas. Howel was
of the same stock as the above Morris ab Rees,

6 The Rev. D, Williams, the estimable Vicar of Llanelly, kindly says, that “Saint
John’s Chapel is in Glyn Mawr (=The Great Glen); Saint David’s, now in rnins, at
Liwynhendy, in Berwick manor, Llanelly ; and Gwnlei must mean Gwynllyw;” if so,
it must be Gwynllyw the Warrior (great grandson of Cadell Deyrnllwg), who in the
5th century renounced his worldly possessions, and devoted himself 1o a religious life,
St, Dyddgu’s Chapel stood in Hengoed Manor,
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Llandevaylog 2 In p’mis, a chalyce.
cu’ capell’, It’m, a chalyce i in gage of xiij§ ilij¢ put by the p’ishio’s
there to by a p’aphras of Erasms.!

I’m, ij belles.
It’m, a chalyce in the chaple of Llangenhython?
It’m, a bell.

Llangendeyr* 2 In p’mis, a chalyce.

ew capell’. Ii’m, iij belles.
It’m, a chalyce in Saynt Dethgen* is chaple.
It’m, a bell.
It'm, a chalyce, in Saynt Johns? chaple.

Llantobye.° In p’mis, a chalyce.
Tt’m, iij belles, great & smalle.

Llanddaroy Tn p’mis, a chalyce.

cw’ capell’. It’m, iij belles.
It’m, in Bronach® is chapell, a bell.

Llanarthney. _—‘In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iij belles.
Ii’m, in Lanllia’ is chaple, a chalyce.
Tt’m, ij bells unpayd for, as the p’ishn’s there doth saye.
Tt’m, in Saynt D’D® is chaple, a chalyce whiche the

p *ishn’s there hathe solde xij moneth past.

Llanguno’.? In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.

Bett?.¥° Tn p’mis, a chalyce.
Iv’m, a bell.

Llanone.4 In p’mis, a chalyce.

It’m, ij belles.

1 In 1552, it was charged against Bishop Ferrar, the martyr, that the churches
appropriate to him, and almost all the clergy, lacked English paraphrases, although
plenty were on sale in the diocese. He replied that Gcorge Constantine, one of his
accusers, had covetously engrossed nearly the whole of them.

? Cynheiddon was a saint of the 5th century, and said to be a grand-daughter of
Brychan, Reguius of Breconshire.

3 This Church was dedicated to Saint Cyndeyrn, or Kentigern, founder of the
Bishoprics of Glasgow and St. Asaph. He was grandson of Urien Reged.

* This name is called Hyddgen in the Myvyrian Archeology, p. 747. The walls
of Capel Dyddgen are still up, and were used as a cow-house, St. John’s Chapel is
now converted into a farm-house.

5 Llandybie: the Church was dedicated to Tybieu, who was slain near it by the
pagans in the 5th century. She was said to be a daughter of Brychan’s,

6 Brynach the Irishn.au, was son-in-law and chaplain to Brychan. He founded
seven Churches. The above chapel has been in ruins for more than 230 years.

7 Llanllian, as marked on the ordnance map, is about four miles southward of
Llanarthney Church. It should be spelt Lianlleian=the Nun’s Church. It is said
she was the daughter of Brycban, and had been wife to Gavran ab Dyvnwal Hen, by
whom she had Aeddan the Traitor.

8 Saint David’s, or Capel Dewi, now ruinated, is between Carmarthen and Llan-
arthney Village, being four miles from each.

9 Llangunnor Church is dedicated to Cynyr of Caergawch in Pembroke-
shire. He was the maternal grandfather of Saint David.

‘0 Bettws: some say this word is a corruption of Beatus; others, of Bead-house=a
house of prayer. This is but a small parish, containing about eight square miles,

Mu Tlan-nonn: Noun was mother of St. David,
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Llanedye.’ In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell. ued
It’m, a chalyce, in varyaunce betwyxt the p’ishn’s there,
and Llandylo penybont,? whye chalyce now remayneth
in Llanedye.

-Penbrey. In p’mis, a chalyce.
I’m, iij great belles.

Hundred de Kethynoke.

P’ochia de Jn p’mis, a chalyce.
Karrag.* It’m, a bell.

Llanllonye.* It’m, a chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.

Llanybeth’r® In p’mis, a chalyce.
cu’ capell’. It’m, in the chaple of Ab’go*legh’ a chalyce.
It’m, in Llanybeth’, a bell.
It’m, in the sayde chaple, a bell.

Llanvenyth® In p’mis, a chalyce, which is in gage of iiij* wth one
D’D Jon Lloyd? put by the p’ishn’s there.
It’m, ij belles there.

Llanvyhangell % In p’mis, a chalyce.
yereth.” It’m, ij belles.
It’m, a chalyce in Pencadyr" is chaple.

Llangathe.” In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iij belles.
Llanvyhangell"} In p’mis, a chalyce.
Rose y corne. } I’m, ij belles.

1 The Church of this small parish is dedicated to St. Edith.

2 Llandilo-pen-y-bont is the adjoining parish to Llanedy, but is in Glamorgan.
The river Lloughor separates the two parishes.

3 Penbre=the head or extremity of the promontory.

4 The Church of Carreg (=Crag) is dedicated to St. Patrick.

5 Its Church is dedicated to Llonio, the long armed, Dean at Llanbadarn in the
beginning of the 6th century.

6 Llanybyddair (=the Church of the Ambuscade, i.e., where the onslaught oc-
curred): its Church is dedicated to Saint Peter.

7 Aber-gorlech=the confluence of the rivers Gorlech and Cothi: the former river
is so called from the remarkable stones in its bed.

8 The Church of Llanvynydd (or The Mountain-Church) is dedicated to St. Egwad.

9 David John Lloyd was a magistrate, who resided at Ynyswen in Llanegwad
parish, a mansion but three miles from Llanvynydd Village. He derived his descent
from Gwyddno Garanhir, whose arms he bore. By his wife, Margaret, a nat, dau. of
John Vaughan, of Golden Grove, Esq., he had one daughter, and ten sons.

‘0 Llanfihangel=Church of St. Michael. The origin of the agnomen Yeroth, or
lorwerth, Anglicé, Edward, is w moot point. The probability is, that some Edward “
erected the building in honour of St. Michael, and afterwards, to distinguish it from
the many Churches bearing the same name, it was given the name of its founder.

" Pencadair signifies, the head or chief chair, possibly of the Bardo-Druidic Order.
The chapel is in ruins; but the grave yard is preserved. There is an immense
tumulus (unopened) at this place.

'4 This Church and the Hundred in which it is situated, take their names from
Cathan, grandson to Caradog of the Brawny Arm. He flourished circa A.D. 600.

‘8 Llanvyhangel-rhos-y-Corn (the latter word is a corruption of cezrion)=St.
Michael’s Church on the berry-mour-land: the place produces hurtle- and bil-berries.
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Llanegwade! In p’mis, a chalyce.
cw’ capell. It’m, ij belles.

It’m, a chalyce in Llanherenyn? is chaple, in the handes
of Jewn D’D Gruff’.

It’m, there a bell.

Tt’m, a chalyce in the chaple of Gwnllow® in the handes
of G’lter ap Yeroth.

It’m, there a bell.

It'm, a chalyce belonging to the sayd p’ishe churche,
pledged for ij yeres past, to one John Drap’,t and now
beyng in the handes of Thom’s D’D Will’m,> for the
some of xx§.

Llanvyhangell®? In p’mis, a chalys.
ab’ bothyugh. § It’m, ij belles.

Hundred de Derlles.

P’ochia de In p’mis, a chalyce.
Keffyg.7 It’m, iij belles.
Marras.* In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a small bell.
Pendyne.? In p’mis, a chalyce.

It’m, a bell.
Eglwys ue In p’mis, a chalyce.
ney.'° It’m, a small bell.
Llansadurne’." In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.
Llandawke.” In p’mis, a lytvll bell, & no chalyce.
Llandowrer.* — In p’mis, a chalyce.
Tt’m, a bell.

1 Llanegwad is dedicated to St. Egwad, great grandson of Gildas. He flourished
in the 7th century.

2 Llanynhernyn=The Church in Hernin, a hamlet in Llanegwad. The site is on
Twyn farm.

3 Gwynlliw, Latinised into Gunleius: see note 6, p. 80.

‘ John Draper resided at Carmarthen. He took an active part in the proceedings
against Bishop Ferrar.

5 Thomas David Williams was of Brynhavod. By his wife, a daughter of Mr.
Glyn, he left an heir, David.

® Llanfihangel Aberbythich=St. Michael’s Church at the influx of the river
Bythich, eleven miles east of Carmarthen. Bythig means The constantly flowing.

7 This name is said to be derived from Cefn=a rising ground, and Figen, a bog.

§ Marro6s=Mawr-rhés=The great Marsh. The Church is dedicated to St. Lawrence.

9 Pendine=Pen-dain=The beautiful summit.

‘0 This place is now called Eglwys Cymmun, which, some say, means The Com-
munion Church. However, it was in this parish St. Teilo was born. Vide Liber
Landav. pp. 363, 522.

1 This Church was founded by Sadlwrn Hen, the son of Cynyr, of Caer Gawch in
Pembrokeshire. He lived in the 6th century.

2 Founded by St. Oucloceus, often written Docheu. He was Bishop of Llandaff,
after the death of his uncle St. Teilo, in 563 or 566. The bishops of that diocese
claimed supremacy over the southern parts of Pembrokeshire, and a portion of
Carmarthenshire. The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret Marloes.

'8 This word is a corruption of Llan-dyfr-wyr=The Church of the Waterman. In
the Life of St. Cybi, it is spelt Llandaverguir. It is further mentioned that before
Cybi went thence to St. David’s, he left a small parti-coloured hand bell at this
Church. The place derived its name from some fishermen whom St. Teilo placed
there on his property.

5
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Laugharne. In p’mis, ij chalyces.
It’m, iij belles.
Llanstepha’.? In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iij belles.
Marbell Church.’ In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.
Llandylo.’ In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.
Llangledwy.5 ‘In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.

Egermon.® In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.
Llangan.’ In p’mis, a chalyce.

It’m, iij belles.

Henllan.® In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, 1 belles.

Capel Vayre.® In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.

Meydrem." In p’mis, ij chalyces.
It’m, ij belles.

Llanvihangell."' In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.

Saynt Clere. In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iij belles.

' The ancient name of this place was Abercoran=The outlet of the river Coran,
The present name is supposed to be from Tal-y-coran, Talycharn, The Church is
dedicated to St. Martin.

2 Dedicated to Ystyphan, great grandson of Cadell Deyrnllwg, Prince of Powis.
He lived about 650. He was called the Bard of St. Teilo. Some of his poetry is
preserved in the Myvyrian Archeology.

3 The Marble Church was in the hamlet of Llanybre, and was or rather is now
used by the Independents as their place of worship, Llanybre (=The Church on a
hill) is otherwise said to be derived from one Olbrey or Awbrey, who resided there;
and his well is still called Ffynnon Olbrey.

* This Church is 43 miles N.W. of Llanstephan, and is situate on the river Cywyn.
The “Book of Llandaff” states it was given to St. Teilo, whose name it now bears.

5 This is dedicated to St. Cledwyn one of the sons of Brychan.

6 Egermont=Egyr Mwnt, Anglicé, the mound containing an acre. There is a
small but very ancient camp close to the Church.

7 Llangan was founded by Cain, daughter of Caw of Twr Celyn. In this parish
stood the celebrated abbey called Ty Gwyn (=White or Holy House), where Howell
the Good summoned a great council to amend and make a code of laws circa 940.

8 Henllan-amgoed=The old Church surrounded by woods. There are many an-
tiquities in the parish.

§ Capel Vair=St. Mary’s Chapel.

© Mydrim=the route that subdivides. A Roman road ran through this place
from Carmarthen to St. David’s.

" This Church, dedicated to St. Michael, lies on the banks of the Cywyn.

” The Church is supposed to have been erected by a lady named Clara, who be-
came its patron saint after canonization,
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Llangenyn.! In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, ij belles.
Llanwonyi.? In p’mis, ij belles, & no chalyce.

Llanbeydy.® In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iij belles.

Langayng.* A chalyce.
It’m, a bell.
Llangonoke.® —‘In p’mis, a chalyce, a bell.

Hundred de Elvet.

Kenarth.° In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.

Saynt Johnis’ 2 In p’mis, a chalyce.
Chaple. It’m, a bell.

New Castle.® In p’mis, a chalijs. It’m, a bell.

Llangeller.’ In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, a bell.
Penbeyre.”” In p’mis, a chalyce. It’m a bell.

Bettus Capella." In p’mis, a bell & no chalyce.
Treff lech.” A chalyce and one bell.

Ab’nant. In p’mis, a chaylys and one bell.
Conwyll.1# A chalyce and ij belles.
NewChurch.'* A chalyce and a bell.
M’th: 6 A chalyce and a bell.
' Llangenyn, or Llanginning, was founded by St. Cynin, son of Tudwal Bevr.
The edifice is also sometimes called “Llangynin a’i weision”*=“ The Church of Gynin

and his attendants.” He lived in the 5th century.

2 Llanwynio is dedicated to St. Gwyno, a friend and contemporary of St. Iltutus.

3 Llanbeydy, or as it is now spelt, Llanboidy, is most probably a corruption of
Llan-bod-Dewi=The Church in which (St.) David dwelt. Llanboidy is but 3 miles
N. of Ty Gwyn Abbey, near which place St. David spent ten years.

* Founded by Cain, daughter of Caw, son of Geraint ab Erbyn.

* Founded by Cynog [Kinothus], who was archbishop of St. David's in 544.

6 Kenarth, by syneresis, for Cefn Garth, the summit of the enclosiug mountain.
The Church is dedicated to St. Llawddog.

7 This is Capel Ieuan (—Evan’s Chapel) now so called. It is situate 4 miles
southward of Kenarth.

8 Newcastle, formerly called Dinas Emlyn, is a chapelry in the parish of Kenarth.

® The Church is dedicated to St. Celer the Martyr.

10 The Church is dedicated to St. Llawddog. There are several Roman remains in
this parish.

u This chapel is one of ease to Trelech Church, and is situate 2 miles N.W. of the
latter. It is now in use.

2 Trélech= The concealed home-stead, or The dwelling of stone. The Church is con-
secrated to St. Teilo. :

13 Abernant=The rivulet’s efflux. The Church is dedicated to St. Lucia. ;

4 Cynwyl=The front guard-station. Cynwyl appears also as the name of a saint
of the 6th century; and he is said to have founded this Church, He was son of
Dunawd the Wily.

15 Newchurch is 3 miles N.N.W. from Carmarthen. : ;

16 Merthyr=Martyr. The Church is dedicated to St. Martin. In the “Vita Sancti
David” (Cott. MSS.) there is mention made of a Saint Martin in the province of Kid-
welly, The parish is often called “Merthyr Mynach””"=The Martyr-Monk.
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Ab’gwylly.? ij belles and no chalyce, quia furat’ fuit.

Ulaxytiangell* ‘ A chalece and ij belles.
euchwylly. :

Villa Karm’then’.
In p’mis, a chalyce.
It’m, iiij belles.
Hundred’ de P’veth.

Llanvayr ar In p’mis, ij chalyce and iiij belles.
y bryne.? It’m, a lyttel Bell at Llange’ vab.

Llandyngad.t A chalyce, and one lytle bell. r
It’m, more there, & iiij great belles.
Meddvey? A chalyce and one bell.

It’m, a bell at the chaple.

Llanyddoysant.® In p’mis, a chalyce, and ij small belles.
Tt’m, one chalyce, w’th Res Will’m Thom’s Goz," gent.

Llansadurn.® AA chalyce and ij belles.
Llangadog.® A chalyce and iij belles.

= Carmarthen.
(Endorsed) Certificat of belles, plate, &«.

1 The Church, formerly a collegiate one, is dedicated to St. Maurice. This parish
contains the palace of the bishops of St. David's, at present occupied by the ven-
erated and world-known scholar, Dr. Connop Thirlwall. Abergwili=The influx of
the Gwili; this word signifies a river of devious course.

? Llanvihangel-uwch-Gwili was a chapel of ease, but is now a perpetual curacy.
It is 4 miles east from Abergwili, the mother-church.

3 Llanvair-ar-y-bryn=St. Mary’s Church on the hill. It was the site of a Roman
station. There is a singularity about the situation of this Church: it is erected about
a mile’s distance from the parish which bears the same name.

‘ The Church is dedicated to St. Dingat, a son of Brychan, who it is said founded
it: other authorities say he was the son of Nudd Hael, and flourished in the 6th
century.

5 Myddvai Church honours St. Michael. The parish was famous for its physicians ;
and David ab Gwilym says, —

“Meddyg ni wnai modd y gwnaeth
Myddfai, o chai ddyn meddfaeth.”

The name is derived from Mawdd-fai=The spreading plain.

° Llanddausant=“The Church of the two Saints.” viz., St. Simon and St. Jude.

7 Rees Williams, son of Thomas Goch, or the Ruddy, was a gentleman who lived
at Ystradflin, in co. Carmarthen; and he was High Sheriff in 1546, 1549, and 1562.
He was descended from the Lords of Cayo and Cilyewm: his wife was Anne,
daughter of Hugh David Lewis of Harpston, in co. Radnor, by whom he left five
daughters and 3 sons, the eldest of whom, Thomas, was High Sheriff in 1577 and
1592. Thomas's wife, Joan Price, of the Priory, Brecon, became afterwards wife to
Thomas Jones, Esq. [the celebrated Twm Sion Catty].

§ Sadwrn was a member of St, Asaph’s College.

° Cadog (Sth century) was son of Brychan. Cressy says he died in 490. He was
buried in France.
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AUGMENTATION RECORDS. EDWARD VI. A.D. 1546-7,
Certiricates or Cotteans any CHAnrRins.

The Certificate to the Right Worshipfull S*. Walter Myldemay,' Knight,
and Robert Keylwey, Esquyer, Comyssioners to the King’s Maiestie,
for the sale of all Collegs, Hospitalls, and Chauntreys, §c., by the
Surveyour of Suth Wales.

— \ A Brefe Boke or Certificate of all the Colligies, Chann-
teries, F'free Chappells, Ffraternytes, Brotherhedes, Stipendaries,
and such other, wh the names of the Maisters, Governours,
Incumbents, or other Ministers of the same, w’h all suche Lands
and somes of money whiche were gyven to the fynding of
Gramer Scoles, and to be distributed emongst poore people whin
the survey of JOHN BASSET; particler surveyor there, made
by virtue of a Letter to the said John Basset, directed frome
the Right Worshipfull S: Walter Myldemaye, Knight, and
Robert Kelwey, Esquyer, the King’s Maiesties Comyssioners
for the sale of all Chauntrey Lands.

Comitatus Karmerthen.

(Ther is w’tin the} { In the Stipende |

said parish one free | of Nichas By-

Chapell, called the forde, Thome |

Rode Church,‘ wher- bent ther of

unto ther dothe ap- thage of ii

pertaine Lands and yeres, hauynge ¢ iiij!! yjs
Tenements of the other spirituall
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' Sir Walter Mildmay became afterwards (under Queen Elizabeth) Chancellor of
the Exchequer. He it was that erected in 1584, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on
the site of a Dominican Priory.

2 Robert Kelway was from Dorset. He left Oxford without taking his degree,
and in time became a barrister of the Inner Temple; and in 1552 was made Sergeant
at Law, when he was surveyor of the King’s Wards and Liveries. He died in 1580,
and was buried at Exton, in Rutlandshire. His funeral sermon, preached by Anthony
Anderson, was printed in 1581.

3 John Basset was one of the family of Beaupré in co. Glamorgan. Trebasset,
within a mile of Carmarthen, is now corruptly termed Tre-bersed. Trebassed signi-
fies Basset’s homestead.

* The Rood Church was dedicated to St. Mary. It stood between the present Town
Hall and Nott’s Monument.
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parishe
of 4
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said parishe one
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ther, wherunto ther

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yerlie pencon paid
by the Kings Ma’ts
Receyuor of the same
comynge to the clere
yerlie valewe of

Ther is also w’tin the |
said parishe one ser-
vice called our Lady
service? wherunto ther
doth apperteine Londs
and Ten’ts yeven to

thentent to fynde a}

Prest for euer, and
the same Londs put
in ffeffment to the
same vse, beinge of
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wherof

lvs viij4
wherof

( In the Stipende
of John Molde,
Incumbent ther,
of the aige of
xlij yeres. .

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(In the Stipend ]
of one Morice
ap Griffith,
Clerke, Stipin-
dary Prest ther,
of the age of

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twoe yeres, hau-
ynge none other
spirituall pro-
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‘ This chapel was known as Prince Edward's chapel, otherwise the King’s Chapel.
? This service was performed in the chauntry of the Church of St. Peter, Carmar-

then.
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CERTIFICATES OF COLLEGES [AUGMENTATION
s RECORDS]. EDWARD VI. A.D. 1548.
OWTH

Watts. The Gertificat of Sir Thom’s Johns,! Knyght, Dauid
Broke, Sargyant at Law, John Bassett, John Rastall, and John
Phillip Morgan, gentilmen, auctoriseid by the Kings Ma’tie
Comission, datid the xiiij+ of Ffebruare, in the second yere of
the Reigne of o’r seid Soveryne Lord the King, Edward the
Sext, by the grace of God, of England, Ffraunce, and Ireland,
King, Defendor of the Ffaithe, and in Earth Supreme heid of
this Churche of England, and also of Irvelond, to Surveye all
and.singler Colleigs, Chaunteries, Ffree Chappells, Ffraternytes,
Brotherheids, Guyldes, and Salaryes of Stipendarye Prests,
having perpeteuytes for ever, whiche were in esse, or had bene
w'tin V_yeres next before the iiijth of Novembre last past: and
also all Manors, Lands, Ten’ts, Hereditaments, and Possessions,
wt the Good and Ornaments, Plate and Jewells to the same
belonging or apperteynyng, being w’tin the circuyt and surveye
of the above named John Bassett, particler Surveyor ther, as
here after more planely may appere.

The Countie of Karmerdin.

Ther is wtin the said parishe one Ffree Chappell of o’r Ladie, comonly
callyd the Roode Churche, in the towne of Karmerden, wheronto there
doth apperteyne lands and ten’ts of the clere yerely valew of ix! x5 as
more planely yt may appere by the Rentall therof, the whiche lands and
ten’ts of olde tyme haithe bene gyven to thententt to fynd one prest for
ever to synge morow masse dalye there, and the prest to have for
his salarye and towards the Reparacions of the said lands and cae, vii
the said yerely rent of ixli x* which lands and ten’ts ar letten to one
‘ Griffyth Donne,’ for xxj yeres, the said terme having comense-
iy parishe “mentt the xxth daye of Novembre in the xxxvj' yere of the
ene reigne of o’r late Soueraigne Lord of most famus memorie
Henry theight, laite King of England, yelding and paing
therfor yerely, and the said Griffith Donne to repare the
premisses during the said terme.

: In the stipend or wages of Nicholes Byford, Chauntreprest
The Stipend thore, having a perpeteuyte therin, being of thage of liiij
Geena) yeres having other sp’uall promocons of the yerely valew
Prest, of xiii vj 8 viij4
Et val. vitraclar. . . . . n’l,

! Sir Thomas Jones was of Abermarlais, co. Carmarthen. He was son to John ab
Thomas ab Griffith ab Nicholas; and was the first M.P. for co. Pembroke. High
Sheriff for Carmarthenshire in 1541, He married Ist Elizabeth, dau. and coh. of Sir
Edward Donne, of Abercyfor, knt.. and 2ly Mary, dau. and heiress of Sir James
Berkeley, knt., and widow of Sir Thomas Perrott, of Haroldston, knt. By his first
wife he left two daughters; by his second he had three sons and four daughters, of
whom one, Catherine, took as her second husband Richard Basset, of Beaupré.

? Griffith Donne of Carmarthen was eldest son of Owen Donne of Ystrad Merthyr,
Llandevaelog, by Maud Lloyd of Blaentren. By his wife Sage, daughter of John
Vaughan of Golden Grove, he left 5 sons. Griffith Donne was one of the “utterest
enemies” of Bishop Ferrar, the martyr, as that prelate wrote.
Plate and
Ornaments,

As yett
the parishe
0

Karmarden.

As yett
the parishe
of
Karmerden.

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There is w’tin the said ffree Chappell or Chauntrey certeyn plate
and ornaments. That is to saye, one Challes of Silver, }
weing ix ouncs, valewid at xxixs. One pare of Vest- sie
ments of blew satten, valewid at xx4, ij alter ase te
valewid at iiij?, and ij smale bells valewid at xv$, in all

Memor’d, that the Tennants and Ffermors of the said Chappell
do pay ouer and besydes the rent above chargeid all the rents
resoluts to the King his Ma’tie. That is to saye, for euery
hole burgage xij4, and for euery half burgage vj.

There is w’tin the said-parishe one service called o’r lady ser-
vice in the parishe Churche of Karmerthen wheronto there
doeth aperteyne lands and ten’ts of the clere yerely ue

of lvs viij4 ouer and besydes the rents resolute paid to )- We

the King his Ma’tiec. That ys to saye, of euery whole § ale

burgage xij¢, and of euery halfe burgage vj, as yt more
planely may appere by the Rentall.

There is w’tin the Castell of Karmerthen, one Chappell, |
called the Kings Ma’tie, a free Chappell wherof one Jobn |
Moilde ys Incumbentt, whos age nor other spirituall pro- vi
mocon was not presentyd. The said John Moild receyv- vilja
ing yerely at the hands of the King his Ma’ties Receyvor | 7
there for his stipend J

The nombre There be w’tin the said parishe in howseling people to the

of houseling
people.

Thanswer

nombre of i we

The same Towne of Karmerthen ys a fayre Merkett Towne,

of the Towne having a fare haven, and the ffarest Towne in all South
of Karmerden. Waills, and of most Scevillytie.
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CHARTER ROLL.

17th HEN. III. ANNO DOMINT 1233.

MEMB. 4.

Benvicus Rex,
&e., Salutem. Scia-
tis nos concessisse et hac carta
nostra confirmasse pro nobis et
heredibus nostris Daniele Molendi-
nario de Kaermerdin, quod ipse et
heredes sui inperpetuum habeant et
teneant molendinum illud extra muros
de Kaermerdin super aquam de
Wynveth, quod idem Daniel de li-
cencia nostra leuauit ad custum
suum, reddendo inde nobis et heredi-
bus nostris ipse et heredes sui
singulis annis quinque solidus per
manus Balliuorum nostrorum de
Kaermerdin pro omni seruicio. Quare
volumus etc? pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quod predictus Daniel et
heredes sui inperpetuum habeant
et teneant predictum molendinum
bene et in pace libere et quiete cum
omnibus libertatibus et liberis con-
suetudinibus ad idem molendinum
pertinentibus sicut predictum est.
Hiis testibus, Venerabili Patre P.

Pro Daniele de
Kaermerthin.

 

For Daniel of
Kaermerthin.

Henry, Ling, &e.,
Greeting. Know ye, that We have
granted, and, by this Our charter,
have confirmed, for Us and Our
Heirs, to Daniel the Miller of Kaer-
merdin, that he and his heirs for
ever shall have and hold that Mill
situate without the walls of Kaer-
merdin upon the water of Wynveth,!
which the same Daniel by Our li-
cence, erected at his own cost:
Rendering therefor to Us and Our
Heirs each year five shillings by the
hands of Our Bailiffs of Kermerdin
for all service. Wherefore We will,
ete?, for Us and Our Heirs, that
the aforesaid Daniel and his heirs
for ever shall have and hold the
aforesaid mill, wholly, peaceably,
freely, and quietly, with all liberties
and free customs to the same mill
belonging, as is aforesaid. These
being witnesses, the Venerable
Father P. Bishop of Winchester.?

1 Gwynveth, from Gwyn and Maedd, the buffeting foamy stream. As the rent re-

served for the above mill is the same as that paid for ‘‘ Ridcors” Mill, and is far
below the sum paid for three other mills, mentioned in the “extent of the Manor of
Carmarthen,” made but 42 years after the above grant, it is evident they are the
same. The long lapse of time and the change of names render it difficult to identify
the site. The probability is, that Pontcarreg Mill, a mile from the town, is the name
which it now bears. The water which works it is drawn from a stream now called
Nant-y-ci, or the Hound’s Brook, which issues from Ffynuon Wen, the White Fount,
a distance of 33 miles thence, as its course runs.

2 Peter des Roches, or de Rupibus, was a Poictevin born. In 1204, he was conse-
crated Bishop of Winchester, a diocese that had ‘the deepest manger, though Can-
terbury had the highest rack,” as William de Edington, bishop of that see, observed,
when he refused the archbishopric, although elected. Peter had the custody of the
King in his minority, and having great influence, obtained settlements of land and
many honours. In 1213, he became Justiciar of all England. After displacing
Hubert de Burgh, Peter crowded the court, and filled all offices with Poictevins,
Gascons, &c., and soon rendered himself odious to the nation. Stowe, in his Annals,
under the year 1233, relates that Robert Bacon openly preached against the Bishop,
and his brother Roger Bacon both earnestly and pithily persuaded the King to avoid
the Bishop’s counsel. The barons also sent to Henry, threatening to depose him
unless he would banish Peter. Wars, confiscations, etc, ensued. At length, Peter
was banished, but soon returned, and died in 1238. .
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8. de Segraue,
Philippo
Malo Lacu.

Wint: Episcopo.
Justiciaro Anglie.
Albiniato, Petro de
Radulpho filio Nicholai.
filio Philippi. Thoma de Hemme-
graue. Galfrido de Canet. Johanne
de Plesseto, et aliis. Datum per
manum Venerabilis Patris R. Cyces-
trensis Episcopi, Cancellarij nostri,
apud Wigorniam, xxx2 die Maij.

Johanne|John the son of Philip.’

S. de Segrave,! Justiciar of England.

de| Philip de Albiniato,? Peter de Malo

Ralph the son of Nicholas.’
Thomas
de Hemmegrave. Geoffrey de Canet.
John de Plessitis,s and others.
Given by the hand of the Venerable
Father R. Bishop of Chichester,®
Our Chancellor, at Worcester, the
30th day of May.

Lacu.?

' Sir Stephen de Segrave, knt., was son and heir of Gilbert, Lord of Segrave, in
co. Leicest., son of Hereward. In 1203-4, he was appointed Constable of the Tower.
14 years afterwards he was a Justice in the “Curia Domini Regis.” Having been
a Justice-itinerant for the counties of Derby & Nottingham, he was raised to the
high office of Justiciar of England (A.D. 1219) on the removal of Hubert de Burgh,
and made Governor of the Castles of Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Windsor, Odi-
ham, Hertford, Colchester, and the Tower of London. Matthew Paris says he was
“more mindful of his own profit than of the common good: yet he died with much
honour,” in Leicester Abbey, 9th Nov., 12+1. He married Ist Rohese, daughter of
Thomas le Despencer, and sister of Hugh; 2ly Ida, sister of Henry of Hastings.
His eldest son John died in 1231, and the next son, Gilbert, who married Annabel,
daughter and coheir of Robert de Chaucombe, succeeded as heir.

2 Philip de Albiniato, or Albiniaco, was a younger son of William de Albini Brito
of Belvoir, by his wife Maud [born 1188], widow of Robert, son of Richard de Tun-
bridge, and daughter of Simon de Saint Liz, the first Earl of Huntingdon of that
name. Philip became Governor of Ludlow, and Bridgenorth Castles, the Island of
Jersey, &c. He was present at Rununymead against the King. At the battle of
Lincoln (12 May, 1217) he was a chief commander. In 1222, he went to the Holy
Land, and returned in two years’ time. In 1236, he again went thither, and the
following year died, and was buried there.

3 This Peter de Mauley was‘son and heir to Peter, by his wife Isabel, heiress of
Muigrave Barony, and daughter to Robert de Turnham. This lady and her inheri-
tance were bestowed on Peter by King John. as a reward for his murdering the
young Prince Arthur. The above witness was in 1234-5 made Governor of Devizes
Castle, and two years later, Sheriff of Northamptonshire. In 1239, he stood [as one
out of nine, 4 temporal and 5 spiritual barons} sponsor at the baptism of Edward,
eldest son of Henry HI. In 1241, he went to Palestine, and died the next year. By
his wife Joan, eldest daughter of Peter de Bruce of Skelton, he left an heir, Peter.
This family was of the blood royal of France, for Isabel’s husband was grandson of
Robert le Dreux, a younger son of Louis le Gros,

4 Previously annotated. :

5 Henry IIL, in the 19th of his reign, granted to this John, that Petronilla his
wife, should, in case of his death, have the custody of his heir and lands, and the
marriage of the former.

® Ralph Neville, previously annotated.
43

PATENT ROLL. 26rx HENRY III. ANNO DOMINT 1242.
MEMB. 3.

De terris Regis \ | For the King’s oz
reddendis. R 0X Mereduco| lands ie Ghe Ai NY to
filio Resii, Salutem. Quia accepi- ee Meredith’ the son

seine enact ee! of Rees, Greeting. Forasmuch as
Sap) q a em’? We are informed by Inquisition

de Whidigadau debit esse domini-'that the land of Whidigadau ought
cum nostrum, et terra de Kadewely|to be Our Lordship, and the land
debet esse baronia nostra, Vobis|/of WKadewely ought to be Our
mandamus quod predictam terram| Barony, We command you that

de Widigadau tanquam dominicum! You restore to Us the aforesaid land
nostrum et predictam terram de of Widigadau as such Our Lordship

: and the aforesaid land of Kadewely
Radewely tanquam Baroniam nos-)as such Our Barony. Witness the
tram nobis reddatis. Teste Rege| King at Portsmouth the 7th day of
apud Portesm’. vij? die Maij. May.

 

" Meredith, the son of Rhys Gryg, or The Hoarse, who was son to the Lord Rhys
ab Griffith ab Rhys ab Tewdwr Mawr. Rhys Gryg died at Llandeilo Fawr, in Co.
Caermarthen, in 1234. He possessed Dynevor Castle, and the land attached to it,
viz., the Great Hundred; he had the commots of Kidwely and Carnwyllion, by right
of assignment in the partition (made by Prince of Llewelyn) of the family lands.
His son, the above Meredith, succeeded; and it appears that in the squabbles of that
period he adhered to the English King’s interests. Early in 1242, Henry IIL, by
his writ, directed John of Monmouth, the principal bailiff of the counties of Carmar-
then and Cardigan, to value the lands in those counties; and that inquiry produced
the above order. Meredith was afterwards, by Henry’s order, associated with
Nicholas de Miles, &c., to eject the Welsh from their estates. Meredith died 6th
August, 1271, in Dryslwyn Castle, and was buried close to the great altar in Tygwyn
Abbey.
44

PATENT ROLL.

50ta HENRY III. ANNO DOMINI 1266.

MEMB. 12.

De muragio de

Kermerdin. i R eX Ballfuis et
probis hominibus de Kermerdin,
Salutem. Volentes ad instanciam

filii nostri Edmundi vobis gratiam
facere specialem, concedimus vobis
quod consuetudines quas de rebus
venalibus in villam vestram venien-
tibus et eandem villam exeuntibus
percipere consueuistis ad villam
vestram predictam claudendam de-
cetero capiatis vsque ad festum
Sancti Michaelis proximo futuro et
ab eodem fasto Sancti Michaelis
vsque in tres annos proximo sequen-
tes completos. Ita quod completo
termino dictorum trium annorum
consuetudines predicte penitus ces-
sent et deleantur. In cuius, &c.
Teste Rege apud Kenilworth xxviij°
die Junij.

 

Concerning the :

murage of Che Hing to the

Kermerdin. ) Bailiffs and good
men of Kermerdin, Greeting. Wil-
ling at the request of our son Ed-
mund' to do you special grace, We
do grant to you, that the customs
of saleable things coming into your
town and going out of the same
town, which you have been accus-
tomed to receive, you shall, for the
purpose of enclosing your aforesaid
town, take until the Feast of Saint
Michael next following, and from
the same Feast of Saint Michael
until and for three years next follow-
ing. So that, the term of the said
three years being complete, the afore-
said customs shall wholly cease and be
extinguished. In witness, &c. Wit-
ness the King at Kenilworth the
28th day of June.

} Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, brother to Edward I., has been previously annotated.
Edmund in this year (1266) had a grant from his father, of the Castles of Carmar-
then and Cardigan, which he exchanged (8th Edw. I.) for Wirkesworth Manor, and

other lands in Derbyshire, &c.
45

INQUISITIONS. EDWARD L, JUNE, 1275.

Gxtenta Manerij de Rermer-
din facta die Mercurij proxima ante
festum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli,
Anno regni Regis Edwardi Tercio:
Coram Howel ap Meuric, et Henrico
de Bray: per sacramentum Nicholai
le King, Laurentij Batin, Willielmi
Chaumpeneys, Ricardi Chapmon, Jo-
hannis Laurence, Magistri Elie, Melir
Vawhan, Johannis Baret, Meridith
ap Ricard, Gynon ab Henry, Howel
Vawhan, Philipp ap Liwel’, Griff’
ap Gynon, Gynon Vochan, Meridic’
ap Will’, Res’ ap David.

Oui dicwnt per sacramentum su-
um quod apud Kermerdin est quoddam
castrum, in quo est quedam bona
Dungeo, ex quinque paruis turribus
constructa, que tam emendacione
indiget quam sustentacione.

Est ibi quedam magna turris que
magna indiget emendacione; vna
aula competens cum camera indigent
tantum ut supra.

Capella, Stabulum, et Coquina
debiles, et porta Castri, quam fere
nullius ualoris.

Htruut eciam quod murus Castri

uersus aquam, per longitudinem viij
perticarum per perticam xxv] pedes
Et murus a porta Castri usque ad
angulum occidentalem per longitu-
dinem x perticarum minantur ruinam
et corruuntur in parte.

Hiruat tantum quod omnes de-
fectiones tam turrium murorum
quam domiciliorum de C. marcis
pessent emendari seu de nouo re-
parari.

 

 

No. 84.

Gxtent of the Manor of Ler-
merdin made on Wednesday next
before the Feast! of the Apostles
Peter and Paul, in the third year
of the reign of King Edward the
Third: Before Howel ab Meurig,’
and Henry de Bray :* by the oath of
Nicholas le King, Laurence Batin,
William Champeneys, Richard Chap-
man, John Laurence, Master Ely,
Meilir Vaughan, John Barrett,
Meredydd ab Richard, Eineon ab
Henry, Howel Vaughan, Philip ab
Llewelyn, Griffith ab Hineon, Eineon
Vychan, Meredith ab William, Rhys
ab David.

who Sl] upon their Oath, that
at Kermerdin there is a certain
Castle in which is a certain good
Dungeon constructed from five small
Towers, which is in want of repair
as well as keeping up.

A certain great Tower is there,
which is much in want of reparation:
one convenient Hall with a Chamber
also require repairing as the above.

The Chapel, Stable, and Kitchen
are decayed, and the gate of the
Castle, so as to be of no value.

Chey alsa say that the Castle-
Wall towards the water for the
length of 8 perches (26 feet to the
perch) And the wall from the Castle-
Gate unto the western corner, for
the length of 10 perches appear in
a ruinous state and have partly
fallen down.

Chey also soy that all the de-
fects as well of the Towers and
Walls, as of the Houses, can be

amended and newly repaired for 100
marks.

1 This feast was held on the 29th of June.

? Howel ab Meurig appears to have been a partizan of the English ; for he, having
been appointed by Sir Roger Mortimer, to be his constable of the Castle of Keven-
llys in Radnorshire, was with his wife and children, taken prisoner 29th November,
1268 (twelve years before the date of this Extent), by the forces of Prince Llewelyn

ab Griffith, and the Castle was demolished.

3 Henry de Bray has been previously noticed.
46

Sunt ibi in dominico C. acre terre
arabilis per . C. per per-
ticam xxvj pedum, que quidem acre
jacent in diuersis locis: scilicet:
super Alishull, Lintlour, Lintlot, et
in loco qui appellatur terra Archi-
diaconi quarum quelibet acra exten-
ditur ad iiij4

Summa xxxiij§ iij?.

Sunt ibi in dominico xxix acre
prati, quarum quelibet acra extendi-
tur—ad 13) ot

Est ibi quedam mora pasture
separabilis iuxta pratum antedictum
et valet per annum—x solidi

Summa x sol.

Est ibi quedam prisa uini que
extenditur ad C. sol.

Summa C. sol.

Sunt ibi duo gurgites ad capien-
dum Salmones, et quedam piscaria
que coniunctim extenduntur—lijj ®
ij 4

Summa—liij§ iiij?
Summa xiiij} js vinj?.

Extenta Sunt ibi tres Commot,
Walescaria. \ videlicet, Elued, Widi-
gada, et Derclis, in quibus commot
est magna wmultitudo Walensium
tenentium de Domino de Kermerthin
per Walescariam, et reddunt per
annum xXvij vaccas in communi
et iiij solidos et ij denarios simi-
liter in communi de argento, et
hoe . in festo Sancti An-
dree, quarum quelibet uacca exten-
ditur ad v. solidos. Et est in opcione
Domini vel balliui capere uaccas
uel pro qualibet v. solidos.

Summa ij? ixse ij4.

Et predicti Wallenses faciunt

 

There are in demesne 100 acres
of arable land . . poe ko LOO
(26 feet to the perch) which acres
lie in divers places, to wit: upon
Alishill, Lintlour, Lintloc’ and in
a place which is called The Arch-
deacon’s land,'! each acre of which
is valued at 4d.

Sum.—33s. 4d.

There are in demesne 29 acres of
meadow, each of which is valued
at 3s.

Sum.—£4 7s.

There is a separate pasture moor’
near the above said meadow, and it
is worth yearly 10s.

Sum.—10s.

There is a certain prisage of wine
which is valued at 100s.

, Sum.—100s.

There are two streams for the
taking of Salmon and a certain
Fishery, which together are valued
at 538s. 4d.

Sum.—d3s. 4d.
Sum.—£14 3s. 8d.

Extent oeay Commots are
Walescaria. { there, to wit: Elved,
Wydigada, and Derllys, in which
Commots are a great number of
Welsh holding of the Lord of Ker-
merthin, by Walecheria? and render
yearly 17 Cows in common and 4
shillmgs and 2 pence money also
in common, and this . ... . at
the Feast of Saint Andrew,’ each
cow being valued at 5 shillings:
And it is at the option of the Lord
or his Bailiff to take the cows or.
for each of them 5 shillings.
/ Sum.—£4 9s. 2d.
And the aforesaid Welsh do suit

1 These places are now recognized as Gwaen Ellis (part of Alltycnap), Cillevor, and

Llanllwch.

There are adjoining the South-West portion of Carmarthen, eight
meadows, which still bear the name of “The Archdeacon’s Land.”

Four of these

fields are those first traversed by the path leading from the Gasworks through the
“Five Fields” to the Royal Oak Turnpike Gate.

2? Walcheria, or Welsh Tenure, has been thus described :—“ Quod quatuor villate
propinquiores loco ubi casus homicidii vel infortunium contigerit, veniant at proxi-
mum Comitatum, unacum inventore et Wallisheria, i.e., Parentela hominis interfecti,
scilicet, unus ex parte patris, et aliis ex parte matris, et ibidem presentent factum

feloniz et casum infortunii, etca.”

3 St. Andrew’s feast was on the 30th of November.
47

sectam ad comitatum de Kermerdin!
de mense ad mensem, et debent!|
venire ad quamcumque rationabilem |
sumonicionem Domini uel sui balliui'
alioquin amerciari. Et debent sequi
uexillum Domini sui in partibus
Wallie sumptibus propriis in exercitu.
Sunt in Comoto de Widigada
due particule terre Walense, que
appellantur Redrau et Clodori Cad-
evor (7), quas quidam liberi Wallen-
ses tenent, pro quibus particulis
reddunt in communi vij® iiij 4 obolum,
et faciunt sectam ad Comitatum et
omnia seruicia qualia predicti Walen-
ses hoc excepto, quod ubi omnes alii
Wallenses dabunt x solidos pro suo
herieto, ipsi de illis duabus particulis
dabunt nisi ij solidos pro suo herieto.
Summa vij§ 11j4 ob.
Sunt ibi de certo redditu assise
de molendino de Thewi xxx et de
molendino de Ridcors—v 8s
Summa xxxv6.
Est ibi quoddam molendinum quod
uocatur Bok milne, cuius tres partes
sunt Domini, quod modo iacet pro
defectu reparacionis ae 2
. reparari de j marca, quod si
repararetur, ualeret per annum xxvj§
viij?. Item tercia pars molendini
quod dicitur Dam Milne extenditur
xiij§ iiij4.
eer Placita et perquisita
Comitatuum cum herietis
et omnibus ...... . totius

‘) tion

 

Summa xij!i xj vj¢ ob.

at the County of Kermerdin every
month, and are bound to come at
every reasonable summons of the
Lord or his Bailiff, or if not, to be
amerced. And they are bound at their
own charges to follow the Lord’s
standard in his march through Wales.

There are in the Commot of
Wydigada,’ two small parcels of
Welsh land, which are called Redrau
and Clodori Cadevor (?) which the
free Welsh hold, for which parcels
they render in common 7s. 42d.,
and they do suit at the County, and
all services the same as the aforesaid
Welsh, except this, that where all
the other Welsh give 10 shillings
for their heriot,’ they, for those two
parcels, give only 2 shillings for their
heriot.

Sum.—7s. 43d.

There are for the certain rent of
assize of the Mill of Towy® 30s.
and for the Mill of Redgors? 5s.

Sum.—35s.

There is a certain Mill which is
called Bog-Mill (three parts of
which belong to the Lord) which
now lies (useless) for want of repara-
. . . to be repaired for
1 mark, which, if repaired, would
be worth yearly 26s. 8d. Also
the third part of a Mill which
is called Dam Mill® is valued at
13s. 4d.

The a Pleas and Perquisites
of the County with

heriots and all . of the

entire County are valued at £4.

Sum.—£12 11s. 64d.

! Wydigada is a Lordship for which courts leet are held at the present day, and
includes the Parishes of Llanpumsaint and Llanllawddog, and parts of those of

Abergwili and Llanegwad.

2 Heriot meant originally the tribute due to the Lord of a manor, to enable him

the better to prepare for war.

3 This mill, in late years entirely destroyed, was situate close to the river Towy,

on the South of the present Tin Mills.

4 Red-gors Mill is thought to be the one now known as Pontcarreg Mill, and

Bog-Mill th be Llanllwch Mill.

5 The Dam Mill formerly stood, as in Speed’s map, outside the town walls close

to the Dark Gate, on the site occupied by the corner house, formerly called the
Nag’s Head Inn, now forming part of the Half Moon Hotel. The lane to.the
the westward is still called Dame-street, which name was given it from the mill-dam
which once supplied the water.
48

Dominus Rogerus de Mor-
tuomari tenet terciam par-
tem Baronie de Sancto Claro per
Baroniam, et facit sectam ad Comi-
tatum de mense in mensem, et
debet placitare, et ob hominibus
suis de Sancto Claro de ipso per
feodum militis tenentibus in comitatu
predicto per breve si necesse fuerit
implacitare. Et ipse uel Bal-
liuus suus debet sequi uexillum
Domini de Kermerdin per Walliam
suis sumptibus tempore guerre.
Humfridus de Bown cum habuit
saysinam tercie partis predicte Baronie
debet facere
dictus Rogerus.
Heres . . de Cantilup cum

Baronia. |

sicut pre-

Lord Roger de Mortimer’
holds the third part of the
Barony of Saint Clears by Barony,
and does suit every month at the
County, and for his men of Saint
Clears: who hold of him by Knights’
fee in the aforesaid County, by writ,
if it shall be necessary. . . . And
he or his Bailiff is bound to follow
the standard of the Lord of Ker-
merdin throughout Wales, at his
own charges, in time of war.
Humphrey de Bohun’ when he
shall have seizin of the third part of
the aforesaid Barony is bound to
do . . . as the aforesaid Roger. |
The heir of de Cantilupe*
when he shall have seizin of his

Barony. |

habuerit seysinam sue tercie partis. . ./third part... . .
Guido de Brian tenet Baroniam! Guy de Brian* holds the Barony

 

! Lord Roger was son of Sir Ralph Mortimer, by his wife Gwladys Ddu, daughter
of Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, paramount Prince of Wales. Roger was born in 1225-6,
and died at Kingston, 28th Oct., 1282. By his means, Prince Edward, afterwards
Edw. L, effected his escape from Hereford Castle, where he had been confined by
Montford, Earl of Leicester, after the battle of Lewes. Roger’s wife, Maud, 2nd
daughter and coheiress of William de Braose, brought him the lands of Radnor, the
third part of the town of Saint Clears, with the advowson of its Church; the third
part of the commots of Amgoed and Pebidiog, in co. Pembroke; the Castle, Manor,
and Forest of Narberth, in the same county, &c. Their children were Sir Ralph, knt.,
o.v.p.; Edmund, the heir, born in 1255; Roger. Lord of Chirke; Sir Geoffrey, knt.,
o.v.p.; and Sir William, knt., 0.s.p.

2 Humphrey de Bohun (seventh of that name), son of Humphrey (who, after
Evesham battle, died 27 Oct., 1265, a prisoner in Beeston Castle, co. Chester), by his
wife Eleanor, 4th daughter and coheiress of William de Braose, and grandson of
Humphrey de Bohun, the good Earl of Hereford and Essex, who died 24th Sept.,
1275. Through his mother Eleanor he became entitled to a third share of Saint
Clears. He held, by grand sergeanty, the office of Lord High Constable of England ;
but of this he was deprived in 1296-7. He died in 1298, and left a son, Humphrey,
by his Countess, Mand, daughter of William de Fiennes. The Chronique of the
Gestes of England says of the subject of our notice, “A.D. 1271, young Humfray
fastnid on his land of Breknok after the fest of 5S. Marke.”

3 George de Cantilupe was born in 1251, and died in 1272-3. He was son of
William de C., by Eve, 3rd daughter of William de Braose. George left no issue,
and so John, son of Henry de Hastings, by George’s sister and coheiress, seems to
have become the inheritor of the remaining third part of Saint Clears barony, and
the other Welsh lands.

* Guy de Bryan, or Brienne, married Eve, only daughter of Henry de Tracy. The
rebellious barons in 1264 appointed him governor of Carmarthen and Cardigan
Castles, and the next year confided Cilgerran Castle to his charge. Not long after,
Guy returned to his allegiance, and died in 1306-7, leaving a son, Guy, who was born
in 1282-3. The Barony of Laugharne was held by the service of finding two
soldiers with horses harnessed, or eight footsoldiers, for three days at his own cost,
whenever notice was given him by the King’s Bailiff of Carmarthen. This Guy
became insane; but by his wife Gwenllian, he had a son, still named Guy or Guyon,
who rose to be an eminent man. In 1361, Edward III. made him a knight ban-
neret, and gave him a life annuity of £200: in 1375, the King invested him with the
Order of the Garter. He died in August, 1390.
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de Thelacharne, et facit sectam . . .
. . sicut predictus Rogerus.
Galfridus de Kamuule tenet Baron-

iam de Llanstephan et facit

ut supra.

Episcopus Menevensis tenet Ba-
ronia de Lanhuhadem.

Paganus de Chaworth tenet Ba-
ronia de Kedwelli et Cernewethin,
et debet ut supra, set hoc subtrahitur,
et nescitur quo waranto.

Heron de Gower .. . tenet
Dominus Willielmus de Brews con-
sueuit de Kermerdin in capite
et sectam facere ad Comitatum ut
supra, set predicti Willielmi
“non fuit facta.

Johannes Laundr tenet j feodum
Militis, et facit sectam et omnia,

of Laugharne and does suit . .
as the aforesaid Roger.
Geoffrey de Camville' holds the

.|Barony of Llanstephan and does

- . . ag above,

The Bishop of Saint David's?
holds the Barony of Llewhaden.

Payne de Chaworth® holds the
Barony of Kidwely and Carnwallon,
and is bound as above; but this is
withdrawn, and it is not known by
what authority.

Heron de Gower holds
Lord William de Breos* was accus-
tomed . . . of Kermerdin in
capite, and to do suit to the County
as above, but . . . .. . of the
aforesaid William was not done.

John Laundr® holds one Knight’s
fee and does suit and all things as

ut supra. above.
. . « de Boneuile tenet j feo-
dum Militis et facit sectam ut supra.

Est ibi quidam burgagium in quo

i ak de Bonville holds one
Knight's fee and does suit as above.
A. certain burgage® is there in

 

' Geoffrey de Camville was eldest son of William de C., by his wife Albreda,
daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Marmion. He married Maud, daughter of the
first Sir Guy de Bryan in preceding note. She became his widow, and took for her
second husband Nicholas Martin, Lord of Kemeys in co. Pembroke. Geoffrey died
in 1308-9, leaving a son and heir ‘called William, at the time 40 years of age.

2 Richard de Carew was bishop from 1255 until 1280, He is said to have been
a‘ good theologian and philosopher.” 1n 1256 he went to Rome, where the Pope
consecrated him. Immediately after Easter in 1271, he visited France, whence he
returned about Ascension Day. He died in the latter half of March, 1279, and was
buried on the 4th April, 1279, or 1280, new style, on the south of the Altar of the
Holy Cross in St. David’s Cathedral, co. Pemb. Lawhaden is 4 miles from Narberth ;
and considerable remains of the castle still exist. Leland says, “ Lanwadein lordship
on the est side of Gledi (Cleddy), wher is a castel buildid on a rokke longging to the
Bishop of Saint David.” In virtue of this lordship the Bishops take their seat in
the House of Peers.

3 Payne de Chaworth has been previously noticed.

* William de Braose was son and heir of Reginald, third son of William de
Braose, Lord of Brecknock. He met an untimely fate, for he was hanged in April,
1229, by orders of Prince Llewelyn ab Iorwerth ; and it is supposed that this act was
brought about through treacherous letters being sent to the Prince, by the English
Justiciar Hubert de Burgh, who bore great enmity to De Braose. By his wife Eve,
daughter to Walter Marshall, brother to the Earl Richard of Pembroke, he lett four
daughters and coheiresses, viz., Isabel, who married David, son to the Prince
Llewelyn, and Maud, Eve, and Eleanor, whose marriages are recorded in the pre-
ceding notes.

5 John Laundr, or Laundry (query Londres), appears as a witness to the charter
granted, tempore Edw. L, to the burgesses of Laugharne, by the demented Sir Guy
de Bryan. Half witted or not, he was a most munificent benefactor to that ancient

lace.

e 6 The word “burgage” as here used appears to designate not a dwelling house,
but a tenure, held by the burgesses proper at a fixed rent, whereas those burgesses
called for the sake of distinction “de vento et vico,” of the wind and the street, paid
no certain yearly amount in money, but possibly in personal service when occasion
required,

@
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sunt ey burgagij, et quodlibet red-

dit per annum xij?.
Summa—ix!i xij¢.
Est ibi vnum burgagium, ad quod
terra que dicitur terra Archidiaconi
pertinere dinoscitur, et valet per
annum—vj §.
Summa—yjs
Sunt ibi quidem alii qui appellan-
tur burgenses de uento et vico,
quorum redditus extenduntur ad
lxvj§. viij.4. per annum, set protest
esse plus et minus, secundum quod
pax se habet in partibus illis.
Summa—lxvj§. viij4.
Item sunt quidam que vocantur
herisar quorum redditus extenditur
per annum ad vijs.
Summa—patet.
Tolnetum Mercati extenditur per
annum ad lxvj solidos viij4.
Summa—lxvj§. viij?.
Tolnetum nundinarum extenditur
ad Ixvj§. viij?. per annum.
Summa—lxvj§. viij?.
Placita et perquisita hundredi ex-
tenduntur at xls. per annum.
Summa—xls.
Summa—xxj!!. xiiij§.
Item predicti Jurati dicunt quod
in Castro de Kermerdin sunt ix
Baliste parui uel nullius valloris.

Cc eee
vil quarelle que valent iij
vje.
quod Castrum non

. de minus sustentari quam de}.

cilij marcis per annum.
: omnium summarum
toting vali is de Kermerdin.
xlviijtt, ixs. ij4. ob.

 

which are 181 burgesses, and each
renders yearly 12d.
Sum—£9 12d.

One burgage is there (and it is
not known whether the land called
the Archdeacon’s Land belongs to
it) and it is worth yearly 6s.

Sum—6s.

Certain others are there, who are
called burgesses ‘‘de vento et vico”?
whose rents are valued at 66s. 8d.,
but it may be more or less, according
as peace prevails in those parts.

Sum—66s. 8d.

Also there are some who are
called “‘Herisars” whose rents are |
valued at 7s. yearly.

Sum—A ppears.

The Toll of the Market is valued
yearly at 66s. 8d.

Sum—66s. 8d.

The Toll of the Fairs is valued
at 66s. 8d. yearly.

Sum—66s. 8d.

The Pleas and Perquisites of the
Hundred are valued at 40s. yearly.

Sum—40s.
Sum—£21 14s.

Also the aforesaid Jurors say,
that in the Castle of Kermerdin,
there are 9 Cross-bows of little
or no value.

. . . 700 Arrows which are

scortli 3s. 6d.

. That the Castle not...

. be kept up for less than 104

marks yearly.

‘ of all the sums of the
whole value of Kermerdin.
£48 9s. 24d.
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EXCHEQUER RECORDS.

8tH EDWARD I.

Gxtenta de Rermerdin coram
Domino Ricardo de Oxoniense, et
Henrico de Bray, apud Kermerdin,
die Lune proxima ante festum An-
nunciacionis beate Marie, anno regni
Regis Edwardi, Octavo, per sacra-
mentum subscriptorum ......
Vauthan, Ricard le Chapman, Mineu
. . . de Bedeford,
Nicholai "King, Thome le Clerk,
Thome Winter, Nicholai Minund,
Res Kreg, Walteri Juuen, Thome
Bulpen, Johannes Luring, .
.. . Bernard. Oui dient anad
est ibi quoddam Castrum in quo est

quedam bono [dungeo] ex v parvis
turribus constructa.

Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi xx
acre terre in dominico, que terra
vocatur Archidiaconi quorum queli-
bet acra valet per annum—xiid.

Summa xx.

Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi xij
acre terre in dominico in quodam
loco, qui dicitur Kileleuor, quarum
quelibet acra valet per enna — aes

Summa viij§

Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi Ixxviij
acre terre in dominico quas firmarij
tenent ad voluntatem Domini et
valet quelibet acra per annum—viij 4.

Summa lijs.

Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi .. ,

. . prati in Redcors in v acre
prati in Dothoc, quarum quelibet
acra valent per annum—1iij$ et iiij4.

Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi . . . .
acre prati vitra Tewi ex opposito

 

BAG I. WALLIA, No. 14
MARCH, 1280.

Gxtent of Hermerdin taken
before Lord Richard of Oxford, and
Henry de Bray, at Kermerdin, on
Monday next before the Feast of
the Annunciation of the Blessed
Mary in the Eighth year of the
reign of King Edward, by the oath
of the underwritten ; d) a whe
Vaughan, Richard the Chapman,
Minen . . . of Bedford, Nicholas
King, Thomas the Clerk, Thomas
Winter, Nicholas Minund, Rees
Cryg, Walter Ieuan, Thomas Bul-
pen, John Luring, . . . . Bernard.
wha BOTY that a certain Castle is
there in which is a certain good
[dungeon] constructed out of 5
small towers.

Also, they say that there are 20
acres of land in demesne, which
land is called ‘‘The Archdeacon’s”
each acre of which is worth yearly
12d,

Sum.—20s.

Also, they say there are 12 acres
of land in demesne in a certain place
which is called Kilelevor,! each acre
of which is worth yearly 8d.

Sum.—8s.

Also, they say that there are 78 .
acres of land in demesne, which the
farmers hold at the will of the Lord,
and each acre is worth yearly 8d.

Sum.—2s.

Also, they say that there are
of meadow in Red Gorse,”
and 5 acres of meadow in Dothoc?®
each acre of which is worth yearly

- . . 8s. 4d.

" ‘Also, they say “that there are

acres of meadow on the

! Cillevor is about a mile to the westward of Carmarthen.

? Red Gorse, or Gors Goch, is a large tract of boggy land which extended from
near Cillevor to Nantyrhebog. Its waters have in a good measure been drained,
and now the 8. Wales Railway runs longitudinally over its centre.

3 This is supposed to be the Dockett Land, south of Towy, but in the Lower Fran-

chise of Carmarthen.
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castro quarum’ quelibet
ujs nid.

Item, dicunt quod burgenses pre-
dicte ville de Kermerdin dant Do-
mino pro communa

Item, dicunt quod sunt in dicta} *

villa de Kermerdin C. et lxix bur-
gagil.

Ttem, dicunt quod sunt ibi a et Vj,
qui dicuntur burgenses de vento
quorum quilibet solv’

Item, dicunt qui sunt ibi xxij . .

. quorum quilibet soluit per
annum—yj?.

Summa xj&.
Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi curti-
lagia et valent per annum—vs & j¢.
Summa vs jd.
Item, dicunt quod terra Ricardi
. valet per annum—ijs.
Summa ij’.
Item, dicunt quod Thomas Vollen
tenet quondam turrim et reddit per
annum—iij@.
Summa—iij 4.
Item, dicunt quod placita et per-
quisita Hundredi de Kermerdin
valent per annum—lx§.
Summa—lxs.
Item, dicunt quod tolletum mer-
cati ibidem valet per annum—viij!'.
Summa viil!.
Item, dicunt quod exitus nundi-
narum valet per annum—v!i yjs et
vilj 4.
Summa vii yjs viijd.
Item, dicunt quod prisa vini ibi-
dem valet per annum—Cs.
Summa Os.
Ttem, dicunt quod Dominus habet iij
partes molendini quod vocatur Tewis-
mulle, et valet per annum—xxx§.
Summa xxx,

 

.| other side of the Towy opposite the

Castle each of which . . . . 3s. 4d.

Also, they say that the Burgesses
of the aforesaid Town of Kermerdin
give to the Lord for common . . .

Also, they say that there are in
the said town of Kermerdin 169
burgesses.

Also, they say that there are 86,
who are called Burgesses ‘‘ de vento”
each of whom pays

Also, they say that there are 22
each of whom pays yearly

ee ee

Sum.—11s.
Also, they say that there are
certain curtilages' and they are
worth yearly 5s. 1d.
Sum.—ds. 1d.
Also, they say that the land of
Richard . . . is worth yearly 2s.
Sum.—2s.
Also, they say that Thomas Vol-
len holds a certain Tower, and
renders yearly 3d.
Sum.—3d.
Also, they say that the pleas and
perquisites of the Hundred of Ker-
merdin are worth yearly 60s.
Sum.—60s.
Also, they say that the Toll of the
Market there is worth yearly £8.
Sum.— £8.
Also, they say that the issues of
Fairs are worth yearly £5 6s. 8d.
Sum.—£5 6s. 8d.
Also, they say that the prisage?
of Wine there, is worth yearly 100s.

Sum.—100s.
Also, they say that the Lord has
3 parts of the Mill, which is called
Towy’s Mill, and is worth yearly 30s.
Sum.—30s.

1 Curtilages seem to be gardens separate from the dwelling-house. An Inquisition
of 36 Hen. III. says, “Et si in Curtilagio alicujus bladum siminaretur, decimam
garbam illius bladi, sicut in campis percipiet.”

® Prisage is derived from the French word Prendre, to take.

The king, by ancient

right, took from each ship, laden with twenty tuns or more of sale wines, two tuns
for his share, the one before and the other behind the mast (unum dolium in prora

navis, et aliud in puppi).
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Item, dicunt quod sunt ibi vj
gurgites in aqua de Tewi, et valent
cum piscaria per annum—lx§.

Summa Ix.

Item, dicunt quod est ibi quedam
piscaria ex superiori parte pontis,
et valet per annum—viij$.

Summa viijs.

Item, dicunt quod Thomas Bolpen
reddit pro quodam prato apud Red-
cors dimidium libre piperis precinm
—iij?.

Summa iiij?.

Item, dicunt quod Johannes Lu-
ring reddit pro quodam prato in
loco predicto per annum dimidium
libre piperis precium—iiij ?.

Summa iii ¢.

Item, dicunt quod idem Johannes
reddit pro uno mesuagio et vna acra
prati vnam libram sinimi, precium

Summa j?.

Item, dicunt quod Phillipus Kist
reddit per annum pro quadam terra
que vocatur Leylond, j libram sinimi
precium—j ¢.

Summa j4.

Item, memorandum quod tercia
pars cuiusdam molendini quod vo-
catur : tempore Domini
Edmundi que quidem pars valet per
annum j marcamet ... . . inter

Hospital de...

. per Dominum Edmundum post
ultimam extentam.

Jurati dicunt quod est ibi forinseca
terra extra villam quequidam terra
dicitur Redraw et . . . . et illam
terram tenent liberi Wallenses et
reddunt pro eadem per annum—
vij &. iiij? et ob’., et faciunt sectam
ad Comitatum.

Summa vij § iiij 2 et ob’.

Et sciendum quod tenentes pre-
dictam terram de Raderau et cetera

 

Also, they say that there are 6
streams in the water of Towy, and
that they are worth with the fishery
yearly 60s.

Sum.— 60s.

Also, they say that there is a cer-

‘tain Fishery on the upper side of the

bridge, and it is worth yearly 8s.
Sum.—ss.

Also, they say that Thomas Bol-
pen renders for a certain meadow
at Red Gorse half a pound of pepper,
value 4d.

Sum.—4d.

Also, they say that John Luring
renders for a certain meadow in the
aforesaid place, yearly, half a pound
of pepper, value 4d.

Sum.—4d.

Also, they say that the same John
renders for one messuage and one
acre of meadow, one pound of cin-
namon, value 1d.

Sum.—ld.

Also, they say that Philip [ist
renders yearly for certain land which
is called Leylond, 1 pound of cin-
namon, value 1d.

Sum.—ld.

Also, be it remembered that the
third part of a certain Mill which
is called ..... [was alienated ]
in the time of Lord Edmund,} which
said part is worth yearly j mark, and
.... .» between... . Hos-
pital of by the Lord Ed-
mund after the last extent.

The Jurors say that there is
foreign land outside the Town,
which same land is called Redraw?
and and that land the
free Welsh hold, and render for the
game yearly 7s. 44d. and do suit
at the County.

Sum.—7s. 44d.
And be it known that the tenants
of the aforesaid land of Raderaw,

1 Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, only surviving brother of Edward I. He was called
Crouch-back, possibly from his wearing a cross, or crouch, as it was anciently called,
on his back, in token of his vow to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

2 Rhydyrhaw, Abergwili, in the Lordship of Whydigada.,
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dant pro releuijs ij § et pro seisina
terre habenda ij §. ‘
Item, dicunt quod Wallenses Hel-
uet de parte Domini Regis, de Derlis
et Widigada dant Domino per an-
num xvij aueria, dimidium auerium,
et tercium partem vnius auerii, pre-
cium cuiuslibet vs, et licitum est
Domino capere denarios uel aueria
pro voluntate sua.
Summa iiij! ix s ij4.
Item, dicunt quod releuia Wallen-
sium ibidem valent per annum—xl §.
Summa x15.
Item, dicunt quod placita et per-
quisita Comitatus tam Anglicorum
quam Wallensium valent per annum
Summa xj.
Item, dicunt quod cum Dominus
voluerit, Wallenses cariabunt mere-
mium bosco usque Castrum de Ker-
merdin. :
Summa Ixviij i v § iiij 4 et obolum.

 

and others, give for reliefs 2s., and
to have seizin of their land, 2s.
Also, they say, that the Welsh of
Elfed,! on behalf of the Lord the
King, of Derllys' and of Widigada,'
give yearly to the Lord 17 head of
cattle, half of one, and the third
part of one, the value of each 5s.,
and it is lawful for the Lord to take
the money or the cattle, according
to his will.
Sum.—£4 9s. 2d.
Also, they say that the reliefs of
the Welsh there, are worth yearly 40s.
Sum.—40s.
Also, they say that the pleas and
perquisites of the County as well
of the English as Welsh are worth
yearly £11.
Sum.—£11.
Also, they say that when the
Lord orders it, the Welsh carry
timber from the wood to the Castle
of Kermerdin.
Sum.—£68 5s. 44d.

' These are names of districts in Carmarthenshire.
55

PATENT ROLL.

De Mercato et

Feria apud q @X dilecto et fi-

Dynauor poe suo Bogoni de

tenendis. Knouill, Justiciario
suo West-Wallie, Salutem. Quia
volumus quod quoddam mercatum
singulis septimanis, et vna feria
singulis annis, apud villam nostram
de Dynauor teneantur, prout vestra
discrecio melius duxerit prouidendi,
Vobis mandamus quod huiusmodi
mercatum et feriam publice procla-
mari, et ea apud villam predictam,
cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis
consuetudinibus ad huiusmodi mer-
catum et feriam pertinentibus, teneri
facias in forma predicta. In Cuius,
&e. ‘Teste Rege apud Westm’
quarto die Decembris.

1 Previously annotated.

9TH EDWARD I. A.D. 1280.

 

MEMB. 29.
For the holding
a Market and Che Hing to his
Fair at dear and faithful!
Dinevawr.

Bogo de Knoville
his Justiciar of West-Wales, Greet-
ing. Forasmuch as We will that
a certain Market every week, and
a Fair every year, shall be held at
Our town of Dinevawr,? according
as in your discretion it shall seem
convenient to provide, We command
you that such Market and Fair be
publicly proclaimed, and the same
with all liberties and free customs to
such Market and Fair belonging, you
cause to be held at the aforesaid town
in form aforesaid. In Witness where-
of, &c. Witness the King at West-
minster the 4th day of December.

? Now known as “Llandeilo-fawr,” 15 miles eastward of Carmarthen.
56

ROTULI WALLIE.

De Compoto audiendo
de exitibus Muragij
de Kermerdyn,

Rex Bal-
liuis suis de
Kermerdyn, Salutem. Quia volu-
mus quod exitus Muragii ville vestre
predicte, fideliter et plene in con-
struccione et reparacione murorum
ville vestre predicte aproponantur,
iuxta concessionem nostram homi-
nibus ville predicte inde factam,
pro quog assignauimus dilectum et
fidelem nostrum Robertum Tibetot
ad audiendum compotum de exitibus
proventibus de muragio predicto, a
tempore concessionis predicte, prout
ei plenius iniunximus viva voce.
Vobis mandamus, quod compotum
predictum de omnibus exitibus de
dicto muragio prouenientibus, et de
omnibus misis et expensis circa con-
struccionem et reparacionein muro-
rum predictorum, eidem Roberto
reddi faciatis: et vos ipsi in omni-
bus que ad compotum illum pertinent,
intendentes sitis et respondentes,
prout idem Robertus vobis  scire
faciet ex parte nostra. In Cuius,
&c. Teste Rege apud Perssonere
primo die Januarij.

10ra EDWARD I. A.D. 1282.

MEMB. 10.

For Auditing the }

Account of the | @he Ling tohis
Issues of the f Bailiffs of Ker.
Murage of merdyn, Greet-
Kermerdyn. ing. Forasmuch

as. We are desirous that the issues

of the Murage' of your aforesaid
town, faithfully and fully may be
appropriated to the construction and
reparation of the Walls of your
aforesaid town, according to Our
grant thereof made to the men of
the aforesaid town, for which pur-
pose We have assigned Our dear
and faithful Robert Tibetot? to audit
the account of the issues arising
from the Murage aforesaid from the
time of the aforesaid grant, as to
him more fully We have by word
of month enjoined. We command
you that the aforesaid account of
all the issues arising from the said
Murage and of all costs and expenses
about the construction and repara-
tion of the aforesaid walls, to the
same Robert you cause to be ren-
dered: and that to him in all things
which to that account may appertain,

‘you be intentive and responsive as

jthe same Robert shall direct on Our

behalf. In Witness, &c. Witness
the King at Perssovere® the first
day of January.

 

' Murage was a toll, exacted from every laden horse or cart coming into a town,
which toll was applied towards building or repairing the walls of that town.

2 Previously annotated.

3 Now called Pershore, a town in Worcestershire.

King Edward in this year kept

his Christmas at Worcester: he was then on his way to North Wales.
57

ROTULI WALLLZ.

De domibus in
Castro de Kermer-
dyn reparandis
et cooperiendis.

dMandatum
est Roberto de
Tibetot, Justi-
ciario Regis West Wallie, quod
domos Castri Regis de Kermerdyn
foragio coopertas reparari et cooperiri
facit petris, et poni faciat in opera-
cionibus earundem vsque ad Triginti
libras: et Rex inde ei debitam al-
locacionem habere faciet. Teste Ed-
mundo, &e., apud Westmonasterium
&e. xiij die Maij, Anno, &e.
Et sunt clause.

’ Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, grandson
ward I., has been previously annotated.

l7tu EDWARD TI. A.D. 1289.

MEMB. 8.

For repairing and Lv ,
roofing the houses dt Is cont=
in Kermerdyn Castle.) pra pd ed

that Robert de Tibetot, the King’s
Justiciar of West Wales, cause to
be repaired and roofed with stone,
the houses of the King’s Castle of
Kermerdyn now covered with straw,
and that he may expend in the
works of the same, to the amount
of Thirty Pounds: and the King
will cause due allowance thereof to
be made to him. Witness Edmund,!
&e., at Westminster, &e., the 13th
day of May, in the year, &e.
And it is done.

 

to King John, and cousin-german to Ed-
ROTULI WALLIA.

Rex omnibus Ballinis et fidelibus
suis ad quos, &c., Salutem. Sciatis
quod concessimus pro nobis et here-
dibus nostris, venerabili Patri, Thome
Meneuensi Episcopo, et Canonicis
suis de Alberwyly, quod ipsi. et
successores sui imperpetuum habeant
communiam in boscis nostris de
Magh-hatan, Commoth parvet, Hi-
ruerin, Ketheynoks, Wydagada, Mab-
riderith, Maueluet-ayan, Elueth,
Dercles, et Iskennen, in Comitatu
de Kermerdyn et in boscis qui
fuerunt Resi filii Mereduci in eodem
Comitatu, qui, per forisfacturam
eiusdem Resi, ad manus nostras
devenerunt. Ita, quod in eisdem
boscis, subboscum, quercos ad maere-
mium, et alias arbores pro voluntate
sua succendere et asportare, et com-
modum suum inde facere possint,
prout sibi magis viderint expedire.
Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod pre-
dictos Episcopum et Canonicos, contra
hance concessionem nostram, non
disturbetis in aliquo seu grauetis.
In Cuius, &e. Teste Rege apud
Deuises xx die Septembris.

 

' Thomas Beck (previously annotated).

19TH EDWARD I. A.D. 1291.

MEMB. 6.

Che ding to all his Bailiffs and
faithful , subjects to whom, &e.,
Greeting. Know ye, that We have
granted for Us and Our Heirs to
the Venerable Father, Thomas,!
Bishop of St. David’s, and the
Canons of Abergwili, that they and
their successors for ever, may have
common in our woods of Magh-hatan,
Commot Pervedd, Hirfryn, Cethin-
iog, Wydigada, Mab-riderith, Mab-
Elved-ayan, LElvet, Derllys, and
Iscennen, in the County of Kermer-
dyn, and in the woods which belonged
to Rees ab Meredith? in the same
County, which by the forfeiture of
the same Rees came to Our hands:
so that in the same woods, the under
wood, oak for timber, and other
trees, they may at their will cut
and carry away for their own profit,
as it shall seem most advantageous
to them. And therefore we com-
mand you, that you, adversely to
this Our grant, in nowise disturb
or aggrieve the aforesaid Bishop and
Canons. In Witness, &c. Witness
the King at Devises the 20th day
of September.

? Rhys ab Meredydd was eldest son of Meredydd (previously annotated), son of

Rhys Gryg; aithovgh a traitor to Prince Llewelyn, be bad been loyal to King Ed-
ward, and was made a knight. Disappointed of grants and preferments, he dis-
obeyed a summons to attend the King’s Court, and took up arms in May, 1287. Be-
fore the 11th of June, he had captured the Castles of Llandovery, Dinevor, and
Carreg Cennen; and immediately after burned the towns of Swansea, Oystermouth,
Llanbadarn Vawr, and Carmarthen. Strong forces proceeded to take him; but he
fled to Ireland. On the 2nd April, 1291, having returned, he was captured in a
battle, in which 4000 of his adherents were slain. He was taken to York, tried,
condemned, drawn through that city to the gallows, and there ended his life.
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19t# EDWARD I.

Alex Burgensibus et probis homini-
bus suis de Kaermerdyn, Salutem.
Cum nuper concesserimus yvobis in
auxilium ville vestre predicte clau-
dende ad tuicionem et maiorem se-
curitatem parcium illarum, quasdam
consuetudines de rebus venalibus ad
eandem villam venientibus, vsque
ad certum tempus, qui iam preteriit
capiendas, prout in litteris nostris
patentibus vobis inde confectis, plen-
ius continetur: NOS, vobis in hac
parte ampliorem gratiam facere vo-
lentes, concessimus vobis tam in
auxilium predicte ville vestre clau-
dende, quam in auxilium Pontis
vestre ibidem reparandi, quod a die
confeccionis presencium, vsque ad
finem quatuor annorum proximo
sequencium plenarie completorum,
dictas consuetudines capiatis, inxta
tenorem litterarum nostrarum pre-
dictarum. Et ideo vobis mandamus
quod predictas consuetudines capiatis
in forma predicta completo autem
termino illo dicte consuetudines peni-
tus cessent et deleautur. In Cuius,
&c., per predictum tempus duraturas.
Teste Rege apud Bergaueny xxv die
Octobris.

 

A.D. 1291. M. 6.

Che AUING to his Burgesses and
good men of Kaermerdyn, Greeting.
Whereas lately We granted to you.
in aid of inclosing your aforesaid
town for the defence and greater
security of those parts, certain cus-
toms arising from saleable things
entering the same town, until a
certain time now past, as in Our
Letters patent to you thereof made,
more fully is now contained: WE
desirous to confer upon you more
ample grace in this behalf, have
granted to you as well in aid of
inclosing your aforesaid town, as in
aid of repairing your Bridge there,
that from the day of the making
of these presents, for the term of
four years next following and fully
to be complete, you shall take the
said customs according to the tenor
of Our aforesaid letters. And there-
fore We command you, that you may
take the aforesaid customs in form
aforesaid. But that term being
completed, the said customs wholly
shall cease and determine. In Wit-
ness, &c., to continue for the afore-
said time. Witness the King at
Abergavenny the 25th day of Oc-
tober.
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PATENT ROLL.

5ta EDWARD IIL, A.D. 1831.

PART. 3.

MEMB. 2.

Pro Abbate et
Conventu de R @X omnibus ad

Tallach, quos etc#, Salutem.
Inspeximus litteras patentes celebris
memorie Domini Edwardi, nuper
Regis Anglie, pater nostri, in hee
verba.

“ Edwardus, Dei gratia, Rex
Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, et Dux
Aquitanie, omnibus ad quos presentes
littere, peruenerint, Salutem.

Donacionem, concessionem, et con-
firmacionem quas Resus junior, filius
Resi junioris, per cartam suam fecit
Abbati et Conuentui, Deo, et Beate
Marie, et Sancto Johanni Baptiste,
apud Tallach, seruientibus, in puram
et perpetuam elemosinam, de omni-
bus terris, possessivnibus, pascuis,
redditibus, ecclesiis, libertatibus, et
rebus quas eisdem Resus Magnus
et Resus Auus ipsius Resi junioris
auuneuli, consanguinei vel cognati
ipsius Resi, vel nobilis terre dederunt,
vel ex testamento reliquerunt de
Tallach, videlicet, Keuenbleith, Le-

 

For the Abbot :
and Convent Ghe ding to all to
of Talley. whom, etc#, sends
Greeting. We have examined the
Letters Patent of the Lord Edward
of glorious memory, Our Father,
the late king of England, in these
words.

“ Edward, by the grace of God,
King of England, Lord of Ireland,
and Duke of Aquitaine, to all to
whom these present letters shall
come, sends Greeting.

The gift, grant, and confirmation
which Rhys Vychan,! son of Rhys
Vychan,! by his Charter made in pure
and perpetual alms, to the Abbot
and Convent serving God and the
Blessed Mary and Saint John the
Baptist, at Talley,’ of all the lands,
possessions, pastures, rents, church-
es, liberties, and things which Rhys
the Great,! and Rhys! the grand-
father of the same Rhys Vychan,
the uncles, cousins, or kinsfolk of
the same Rhys, or the Nobles of
the land gave or by will bequeathed
to them of Talley, to wit: Cefn-
bleidd,? Llechwedd-dderi,* the moiety
of Cwmbleawg,> Bryngwyn,’ Bryny-

' Rhys Vychan, the first mentioned, died in his Castle of Dynevor, 27th August,
1271, and was buried in Talley Abbey. He was son of

Rhys Vychan, otherwise Rhys Mechyll, who died in 1244.

He was son of

Rhys Gryg, Lord of Ystrad Towy, who in 1219 married a daughter of Richard,
Earl of Clare, and died in 1234 at Llandeilo Fawr, whence his body was taken to be
entombed in St. David’s Cathedral. He was son of

Rhys Magnus, or the Lord Rhys, who became Prince of South Wales in 1136.
He married Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ab Meredith, Lord of Bromfield, died
4th May, 1196, and was buried in St. David’s Cathedral.

2 Talley Abbey stands on a delightful spot, 8 miles to the N. of Llandeilo Fawr.
The names of seven of its abbots have been preserved. In its cemetery the ashes of

the illustrious Welsh poet, David ab Gwilym, repose.

He was buried in 1368, ei. 68.

“Ym medd y gorwedd a'r gareg—arnaw,
Mawr ernych gloew ofeg,
Acw yn ynys cain waneg,
Lle uweh dwr, Tal Llychau deg.”

Hopkin ab Thomas, 1380.

3 Cefnbleidd=the Wolves’ Ridge, is the name of a hamlet and farm, 13 mile E.

of the abbey.

+ Llechwedd-dderi=the Slope of Oaks, 1m. 8. of Taliaris Park.
5 Cwmbleawe=the Feathery Dell, 3 m. E. of Llansawel.

6 Bryngwyn is 13 m. N.E, of the abbey.
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wedderi, Hanner Cumblehaue, Brin-
wyn, Brinyllech, in antiquis finibus,
Tallunelgan, et de particula terre
apud Crucbar, Penros, preter terram
filiorum Bledri Choch, Ynystewilh,
Treveywern, IXynwil, Kilmaren, et
de particula terre cum prato inter
duos riuvlos snbtus ecclesiam NKyn-
wil, et supra ecclesiam eandem inter
duos riuulos. Landewi Crus vsque
Rinrisken et Corrderwen iuxta Pren-
vol Gwallwin, Llunwermon, Penvenit
Gordoguy vsque Hyrvayngudauc,
Rospedyr; de Grangia de Gudgruc
et Nanmaur; de grangia de Brechva,
Brynyreidon, Castell Gweiraun, Mays
y Kyghellaur, Kylkyngen, et de
tota terra inter dictam Grangiam,

lech, according to their ancient
boundaries, Tallunelgan,' and the
parcel of land at Crugbar,? Penrhos,
excepting the land of the sons of
Bledri Coch, Ynysdywyll,’ Trewern,‘
Cynwil,? Cilmaren,® and the parcel
of land with the meadow between
the two streams below Cynwil
Church, and above the same Church
between two streams, Llanddewi-
crwys’ unto Penyresgair, and Gwar-
derwen adjoining Prenvol Gwallt-
ewyn,® Liwynywermod,? Penvynydd,
Gwardogwy unto Hirvaengwyddawg,
Rhosybedw ;"' the grange of Gwydd-
gryg” and Nantmawr:" the grange
of Brechva,!! Brynyreidion,'* Castell-
Gweiraun, the Chancellor’s Meadow,’
Cileyngen, and the whole land,
between the said grange and Clau-

 

et Cleudam; et de grangia de'dach;” the grange of Brunus ® in all

1 This word is also written Traethnelgan, Traellnelgan, Traileneygan, and Trath-
leneygan. It is the name of the upper hamlet in Talley parish. Here, in January,
1213, was the rendezvous for the respective forces of Rhys ab Griffith, his brother
Owen, and Ffoulke, Seneschal of Caerdiff, preparatory to the attack on Dynevor
Castle, occupied by Rhys Gryg (uncle to the first two named), who had deprived
them of their inheritance. The allies took the castle, and reduced the Cantrey Mawr
under their authority.

2 Crug y Bar=the Tumulus of Affliction, is supposed to be the place where a
Roman legion interred their slain during the insurrection of the Britons under
Boadicea. It is13}m.8.W. of-Cayo Village.

3 Ynys Dywyll=the Gloomy Upland, is 14 m. from the abbey.

4 Trewern=the Alder Home, is 14 m. from the abbey.

? Cynwil is now the name of a parish with the affix “ Caio.”

6 Cilmaren is 12 m. 8.E. of Caio Church.

7 Llanddewi Crwys is now called Llanycrwys=the Rood Church.
from Lampeter.

8 This is a grey stone on a hill in Cellan parish, and is 2 m. E. of Llanycrwys. It
is 16 ft. long, and 24 ft. in circumference. It resembles a box with two inclined lids
like the roof of a house, and hence its first name “ Prenvol”=a small chest.

9 Llwynywermon=the * Wormwood Bush,” is 3m. N.W. of Caio.

10 Hirvaen Gwyddog=the guiding long-stone, is still erect in Cellan parish, on a
mountain S. of the river Ffrwd, near Llanycrwys. This also is 16 ft. high, on three
sides about 33 ft., and the fourth 2% ft.

4 Rhosybedw=the Birch Moor, is 1 m. from Llanyerwys Church.

12 Gwyddgryg is now sometimes erroneously called Gwyrgrug. It forms part of
the manor of Talley, and the grange includes many farms, such as Tiryddolgoy,
Ffosyravel, Rhoswen, etc4. In the “Taxatio” it is spelt “ Gowithgreye.”

13 Nantmawr, a farm in Conwyl Gaio.

 Brechva=a hilly place, is situated 12 m. N.E. from Carmarthen.

'3 Bryn yr Eidion=the Ozen- Hill, is 2m. W. of Brechfa. : :

16 This is supposed to.be the field adjoining Alltyferin, now raised to the higher
title of Dél yr Esgob, or the Bishop’s Meadow. ,

17 Claudach is the name of the stream which runs into the Cothy river, close to
Mynachdy mill. .

18 Brunus is a large manor in Llanegwad, and extends to Velinwen, In the Liber
Landavensis, p. 364, it is stated that Meredydd, son of Rhun, prince of Dyfed, expiated
a murder by giving Brunus Manor, etc@., to the Church of Llandaff and its pastors.

It is 4 m. E.
6

Brunus in finibus suis; Penllunyr-
hit apud Lanteilau Mawr, Ynysteilan,
Llodre Iago, Kylkynan, Gudynys,
et Ynysyradar; et de terra quam
Gwasteilau dedit: et de terra ec-
clesie apud Aberkennen: et de terra
ecclesie apud Talharth, Keuenmeirch
et Lankeinwyry, Volhowel, inter
Yskenac et Henwen: et de Grangia
de Karreckennen et Kilmanllut in
finibus suis; et de medictate Kilwr.
Apud Keredigaun, Porthothin in
finibus antiquis, Y Vardreiv, Ryt
Ywein, Nant Kedivor, Brin Yron,
Kynbyt, Molehedauc, cum molendinis
et de communi pastura tocius terre
ipsius Resi. :

Confirmacionem eciam quam idem
Resus per eandem cartam suam fecit
eisdem Abbati et Conuentui, de om-
nibus ecclesiis quas tune possidebant
in proprios usus quantum ad Domi-

2
its boundaries, Penllwynyrhydd near
Llandeilo-vawr; Ynysteilo; Llodre
Iago; Cileynan, Gwyddynys; and
Ynysyradar: and the Jand which
Gwas Teilo' gave; and the land of
the Church near Abercennen ;? and
the land of the Church at Talhardd,?
Cefnmeirch, ‘and Llanceinwyryf,
Voelhowel® between Yskenac® and
Henwen; and the grange of Carregcen-
nen,’ and Cilmaenllwyd® in all their
boundaries: and the moiety of Cilwr.?
Cardiganshire, Porthothin” in the
ancient boundaries, The Maerdrey,"
Rhydowain,” Nantcadivor,* Bryn-
eyron, Cynbyd, Moelhedawg,” with
the mills and common pasture of
the whole land of the said Rhys.
The confirmation also, which the
same Rhys by his same Charter
made to the same Abbot and Con-
vent of all the Churches which they
then possessed to their own use, as
much as to the Lord of the soil

 

num fundi pertinebat, de ecclesia

belonged; the Church of Saint Cyn-

1 There was a Gwas Teilo in Gwen%, contemporary with the Prince Rhys herein-
after mentioned as one of the benefactors in this charter ; the descendants of both
intermarried in the 4th and 8rd generation, the bridegroom being Meredydd, son of

Griffith, Lord of Talley.

2 This is the Church-land adjoining the river Cennen as it flows into the Towy at

Llandeilo Fawr.

3 Talhardd is 13 m. 8.W. from Llandeilo.
4 Cefn Meirch=the Ridge of the Cavalry, is mentioned in Liber Landavensis, p.

822, as on the boundary of Llandeilo Fawr territory.

“From Nantllwyd to Cefn

Meirch, from Cefn Meirch towards Crug Pedill Bechan.”

5 Llan Cein Wyryf=the Church of St.
‘Brychan.

2m. N.W. of Llandovery.

Keyna the Virgin. She was daughter of

There are in Carmarthenshire two places which bear a corruption of this
name; viz., Liwyncynhwyra, nearly 4 m.

5.W. of this abbey ; and Llwyncynyrys,

6 This is land in the extreme east of Myddvai parish, between the rivers Henwen
and Usk, and situate near Dolhowel Church, mentioned in p. 64,

7 Carregcennen is 4 m. 8.E. of Llandeilo Fawr.

in which there was a chapel.

On a lofty cliff stands the castle,

8 Cilmaenllwyd=the Grey-stone Corner, is 1 m. N. from the aforesaid castle.

9 Cilwr is 13 m. S.E. of Abergorlech, and it gives name to the hamlet.

In former

times it was called Tir Gwaun Mynach=the Monk’s Meadow Land.
10 This seems to be Borthoin in Llandyssil parish. An extinct chapelry was in the
hamlet of Borthin, and went under thatname. Blaen Porthin is 1 m.N.W. of Llanllwni.

) Maerdrev=the Bailiff’s District.

The farm stands 1m. N.E. from Llandyssil.

Formerly a chapel existed in the Maerdrev hamlet.
12 Rhydowain is supposed to derive its name from a “ford” which Prince ‘‘ Owain”

of Gwynedd crossed in 1187.
'3 Nant Cadivor=Cadivor’s Streamlet.

It is situate 4 m. N.E. from Llandyssil.
This appears to be a stream that runs into

the Teivi midway between the Cerdin and the Clettwr, and gave name to a farm on

its banks.

There is now a farm called Blaen Cwm Cadivor, 14 m. N. of Maerdrev.

“4 The Geyron river runs into the Clettwr near Alltyrodin mansion.
15 Moelhedawg is a farm on the base of a conical mountain of the same name -

4 miles W. of Llanwenog.
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Sancti Kynwil, cum capellis de
Lansadurn, et Lanurdam, et Pistill-
sawil, et Lanypymseint, et ceteris ad
eandem spectantibus; Lanteilau Vaur
cum capellis, et aliis pertinenciis
suis, et de ecclesia Sancti Davidis
de Dinewr; ecclesia de Lantevassan,
ecclesia Sancti Michaelis de Aber-
bythyche; de capella de Karrecken-
nen, Lanogwat Vaur cum capellis
de Lanteilau Brunus et Lanehernyn,
et capella Sancti Michaelis de Lech-
meilir, et aliis pertinenciis suis:
Lanteilau Brechua apud Keredigaun,
et de ecclesia Sancti Michaelis de
Penbryn, cum capellis de Baglan
et Brithdir et MNarlighest et de
Porthothin et capella filiorum Ydhal
filiis Rael, et ecclesia de Lancoyt-

 

wil,’ with the chapels of Llansadwrn?
and Llanwrdaf,’ and Pistyllsawyl# and
Llanypumpsant,* and others to the
same belonging; Llandeilo-vawr with
the chapels and other its appurten-
ances; and the Church of Saint
David® of Dinevawr: the Church of
Llan-Dyvei-sant,’ the Church of Saint
Michael of Aberbythych;*® the chapel
of Carregcennen;’ Llanegwad Vawr?”
with the chapels of Llandeilo Brunus”
and Llan-yn-hirnin,” and the chapel
of Saint Michael of Llechmeilir, and
their other appurtenances, Llandeilo-
brechya’® in Cardiganshire, and the
Church of Saint Michael of Pen-
bryn, with the chapels of Baglan
and Brithdir,'’® and Caerllegest'® and
Porthothin,” and the chapel of the
sons of Ithael the son of Rahael;
and the Church of Llancoedmawr,"

' Cynwyl Gaio is a parish of which the Church, dedicated to St. Cynwyl, is 5 m-

N.E. from the abbey.

? Llansadwrn Church is 3 m. N. of Llangadog. It takes its name from its dedi-

cation to Sadwrn, the knight.

3 Llanwrda Church lies a mile westward of Llansadwrn.
opinion relative to the person to whom this Church was dedicated.

There is a contrariety of
Theophilus.

Jones, in his History of Breconshire, 1., p. 70, suggests St. Cawrdaf; Professor Rees,

“Gwr Da,” or the holy man.

Another conjecture may be hazarded whether the saint

be not “Teilo,” the “Gwr Daf,’ or the ‘Man of the Taf,” on the banks of which
river he lived many years, and, as the monkish writers assure us, performed wondrous:

miracles.

4 Pistyllsawel is now called Ffynnon Sawyl, and is in Llansawel parish.

5 Llanypumpsant, or the Church of the 4 saints, is now called Pumsant.

m. W. of Conwil Gaio.
formerly existent in this place.
6 This was a chapelin Dynevor Castle.

It is 13

There are now hardly any traces of the large Chapel of Ease

7 Llan Dyvei Sant, or the Church of St. Tyfei, brother of St. Ismael, is built on
the site of a Roman edifice, in Dynevor Park.
8 Aberbythych Church is 4 miles 8.W. from Llandyfeisant.

9 This was a chapel in the castle.

grandson of Gildas.

It was attached to Llandeilo Church.
'0 This Church is 7} m. E. from Carmarthen.

It was dedicated to Egwad, a great

‘The site of Brunus Chapel was close to the N. of the railway bridge that now

crosses the river Towy near Abercothi.

The remaining stone material of the chapel

were taken to build the farm house called Llandeilo-rwnws.

'2 Hirnin Chapel was annexed to Llanegwad Church.

forming part of Twyn farm.

Its site was on a field now

8 ‘This appears to be the Brechfa about 5 miles southwards from Tregaron, and
probably the place mentioned in Goodwin’s Bishops, “In Brecua, Llanguruaet mainaur.”

'! Penbryn is on Cardigan coast, half way between Aberporth and Llangranog.
The locality is most interesting from the numerous remains of antiquity.

S Brithdir is 2 m. N. of Troedyraur.

16 Caerllegest is 13 m. N. of Llangeitho Church. ;
7 Porthodin, otherwise Port-hodni or Howni, is now called Aberporth. It is on

the sea coust in Cardiganshire.
Howoni.

The river which there falls into the sea is now named
The Church is dedicated to St. Cynwyl.

18 Llancoedmawr=the “ Church in the great woods,” is 1 m. E. of Cardigan town,

and its patron saint is CynIlo.
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maur, et ecclesia de Berwic et ec-
clesia Sancti Davidi de Dolhowel.
Donacionem eciam et confirmacio-
nem quas Resus filius Resi junioris,
per cartam suam fecit cisdem Abbati
et Conuentui, in puram et perpetuam
elemosinam, de porcione terre de
Eskeirnant, illam scilicet que est
inter Nant Velin Coygs et fossatam

factam ab amne Duleis sursum ver-|.

sus capellam, et ab illa fossata
sursum per vallem vsque ad magnum
aceruum lapidum, ab illo acervo
lapidum vsque at Gwerncolmon, et
ab illo loco fine inter nemus_ et
campum ducente versus Blain Pen-
uenit vsque ad fossatam, et ab illa
fossata valle sursum ducente vsque
ad Cruc Cletwin, et ab illo Crue
vsque ad Carn Toll, et a Carn Toll
sursum vsque ad Ryt Karreggaug
super rivulum proximum vitra Karn
Toll, illo rivulo decendente vsque ad
hostium suum, vbi descendit in
Krymlin.

Donacionem eciam et concessionem
quas idem Resus per eandem cartam
suam fecit eisdem Abbati et Conuen-
tui de tota terra inter riuulum de-
scendentem de fonte Gueliant et
Abbatiam, et ab illa fonte totum
nemus sursum vsque ad Blainnant
Cumbyr, et de tota terra illa que
vocatur Eskeir Euclin.

Confirmacionem eciam quam idem
Resus per eandem cartem suam fecit
eisdem Abbati et Conuentui, de om-
nibus terris, redditibus, et possessioni-
bus, quas habent ex donacione Resi
Magni proaui predicti Resi filii Resi,
vel ex donacione cuiuslibet heredum
suorum vet aliorum magnatum

1 Berwig or Verwig is 2m. N. from Cardigan.
Pedrog, who, according to Cressy, was a scion of some Welsh prince.

at Bodmin.

 

and the Church of Berwig,' and the
Church of St. David of Dolhowel.?

Also the gift and confirmation
which Rhys the son of Rhys Vychan
by his Charter made’ to the same
Abbot and Convent, in pure and
perpetual alms, of a portion of the
land of Esgairnant, to wit, that
which is between Nant Velin Coyg
and the trench made from the
river Dulais up towards the chapel,
and from that trench up through
the valley unto a great heap of
stones, from that heap of stones
unto Gwerncolman, and thence the
boundary leading towards Blaen Pen-
vynydd unto a trench, and from that
trench in the valley leading up to
Crug Gledwyn, and from that Crug
unto Carn Twill, and from Carn
Twll up to Carregog Ford on the
stream next beyond Carn Twll, by
that stream descending unto its
efflux, where it falls into Crymlyn?

Also the gift and grant which the
same Rhys, by his same Charter
made to the same Abbot and Con-
vent, of all the land between the
stream descending from the Cwm-
bleawg spring and the Abbey, and
from that spring all the wood up
to Blaen Nant Cwmbyr, and all
that land which is called Esgair
Euclin.

Also the confirmation which the
same Rhys by his same Charter
made to the same Abbot and Con-
vent of all the lands, rents, and
possessions which they have of the
gift of Rhys the Great, the great
grandsire of the aforesaid Rhys ab
Rhys, or of the gift of any of their

This Church is dedicated to St.
He was buried

? Dolhowel Church, now extinct, was situate on the borders of the parish of Llywel
in Breconshire; but it gave its name to a hamlet in the adjoining parish of Myddvai,

in co. Carmarthen.

In Pope Nicholas’s Taxation, Anno 1291, are the words, “Abbas

de Talelleze habet grangias de Dolheuwel et Brunlles duas carucatas terre cum aliis
commoditatibus——18s. 0d.”° Brynllys is also in Breconshire.
3 The land described in this section appears to be in the W. of co, Carmarthen.

Llan Golman and Llan Glydwen are within + miles of each other.

nant or Nant Coy also in the same part.

There is a Ceu-
6

Sudwallie cum omnibus libertatibus,
et vtilitatibus que ex eis provenire
poterant. 4

Confirmacionem eciam quam Resus
Resi filius, Principis Sudwallie per
cartam suam fecit Abbati et Conuen-
tui loci predicti, de omnibus terris
que habuerunt ex donacione Gur-
geneu et Rys filiorum Moridic, et
filiorum eorundem, videlicet Dauit
isrl (?) et presrl (?) Meuryc, Mor-
gan, et Morwran, prout hiis terminis
continentur, scilicet: ab aceruo qui
est terminus inter predictos ct filios
Heylin iuxta riuulum Naumhaur per
transuersum vsque ad crepidinem
Moylwre, deinde per transuersum in
vadum Carregauc in riuulum Guen,
de inde Guen in longitudine sui
vsque ad ortum, de inde per tran-
suersum vsque Cwmbyr, illo ducente
ad Croys, et illo ducente riuulo vsque
ad ortum suum, de inde valle ducente
vsque Blain Pyb, et ilo riuulo du-
cente vsque Ryt Morynnyon, de
inde Marleys ducente vsque in alium
Marleys, et ultimo Marleys ducente
versus ortum, vsque ad ostium Nant-
ywetiw, et illo riuulo ducente vsque
in ortum suum, de inde per transver-
sum in Bloteuen.

Confirmacionem eciam, quam Mer-
edud filius Oweni per cartam suam
fecit eisdem Abbati et Conuentui,
de omnibus terris, ecclesiis, et
possessionibus, quas habuerunt ex
donatione Patris, Aui, Proaui, vel
auunculorum suorum, seu ex dona-
cione aliorum magnatum vel nobilium
de Detheubarth, in puram et per-
petuum elemosinam, quiete ab omni
seculari exaccione, possidendas et
nominatim de terra que vocatur

 

 

5

heirs, or of other Maynates of South
Wales, with all liberties and profits
which from them could arise.

Also the confirmation which Rhys,
the son of Rhys, Prince of South
Wales, by his Charter made to the
Abbot and Convent of the aforesaid
place, of all the lands which they
had of the gift of Gwrgeneu and
Rhys, the sons of Moreiddig, and
their sons, to wit, David 8
Meirig, Morgan, and Morwran, as
by these bounds they are contained,
to wit, from the Cairn (which marks
the boundary between the aforesaid
and the sons of Heilin) near Naw-
mawr stream across unto the foot
of Moelvre, thence across to Car-
regog ford in the river Gwen, thence
along Gwen unto its. source, thence
across unto Cwmbyr, that Cwm lead-
ing to Orwys stream, and along that
unto its source, thence by the valley
leading to the spring of the Pib,
and along that stream unto the
Maidens’ Ford, thence following
Marlais unto another Marlais, and
along this last Marlais towards its
source unto its confluence with the
stream Nantywetiw, and along this
stream unto its source, thence across
to Blodeuen.t

Also the confirmation which Mer-
edydd ab Owen by his Charter made
to the same Abbot and Convent, of
all lands, churches, and possessions
which they had of the gift of his
father, grandfather, greatgrandfather,
or of bis uncles, or of the gift of
other Magnates or Nobles of South
Wales, in pure and perpetual alms,
quit of all secular demands, to be
possessed, and especially the land
which is called Maerdrev,? Gwynion-
ydd,? Bryneyron,? Rhyd Owen,’ Nant

1 The land described in the foregoing section appears to be situate to the South

Westward of Pencadair, in Carmarthenshir
? Previously noticed.

e.

3 Gwynionydd gives name to a district in the 8. of Cardiganshire, formerly in-
cluding all the parishes adjoining the river Teivi as far as Cardigan. The castle,

now bearing the name of Pen Coed Voel, is 13 m. N. by H. from Llanclyssil,

Prince

Rhys took it in 1164, and shortly afterwards, by arbitration, it was allotted to his son

Rhys, its donor to the abbey.
9
66

Mayrdreiv, Gwinonit, Brynyron, Ryt
Ywein, Nant Kedin, Kynbyt Ysalld,
prout hiis terminis continentur; ab
hostio Kerdin in Teiui versus ortum
suum vsque Aber Keveil, Keveil in
longitudino sui vsque ad ortum
suum, et ab ortu eius per tranuersum
vsque Blayr Pant y Moch: Pant y
Moch ducente vsque ad fossam; inde
descendentem fossa illa ducente
vsque Kaletur; Kaletur vsque Aber-
menei; Menei versus ortum suum
Gweun Ruth; ab inde vsque ad
fontem versus viam maiorem venien-
tem de Blan Nant Kediuor; et a
fonte vsque ad viam illam; et trans
viam illam vsque ad moram parvam ;
et ab illa mora vsque Bleidbull; et
a Bleid recte vsque Blan y Pantsych;
et illa valle ducente vsque Blan Nant
Kediuor; illo riuulo descendente
vsque Aber y Ffynnaun; ab inde
rivuulo illis fontis in sursum ducente
vsque ad ortum suum; et ab inde
versus viam ubi proxima est dicto
fonte; et trans viam illam versus
lapides magnos iacentes in campo;
ab illis lapidibus per tranversum
vsque Cayr Huvid; et a Cayr Huvid
vsque Corderwen; et ab inde vsque
ad fontem; fonte illo descendente
vsque ad pratum in valle; et inde
versus Teivi; sicut satis noti sunt,
fines Teivi vsque Aber Kerdin, vbi
cepit prima diffinicio.

De terra eciam de Molhehedauc
sicut hiis terminis continetur: Ab
Hescluyn artabetur vsque Cribin;
ab inde yr Carn; et ab inde fossat
ducente vsque Crue; et a Cruc vsque
Carn super montem; ab inde vsque
Carn arall iuxta Moyle Hedauc; ab
inde ad lapidem album stantem in

' Abercerdin, or the conflux of the Cerdin with the Teivi,
? Abercevail is 1$ m. N. from Abercerdin.
* The source at a place called “ Y Gaer,”

* From the Gaer through Pant y Moch eastwards unto the river Clettwr is nearly

1} m.
5 Previously noticed.

 

Cerdin, Cynbyd Isallt, as by these
bounds they are encompassed: from
Abercerdin! in Teivi, towards its
source as far as Abercevel,’ along the
stream Cevel unto its source,’ and
from its source across unto Blaen
Pant y Moch; Pant y Moch* leading
unto the trench; that trench leading
to Clettwr;* the stream Clettwr unto
its confluence with Menai; Menai
towards its source at Gwaun Rhydd;
thence unto the spring towards the
High Way leading from Blaen Nant
Cadivor; and from that spring unto
that Way, and across that Way to the
little Moor; and from that Moor unto
the Wolves’ Pool, and from that Pool
straight to Blaen y Pantsych; and
through that Pant or Dingle leading
unto the source of Nant Cadivor; by
this stream descending to Aber y Ffyn-
non; thence along this Ffynnon from
its outlet up to its source; and
thence towards the road nearest to
the said source; and over that road
towards the great stones lying in a
field; from those stones across unto
Caer Hyveidd; and from Caer Hy-
veidd unto Gwarderwen; and thence
unto the spring: by that spring
descending to the meadow. in the
valley; and thence towards Teivy,
and as the bounds of Teivy are well
known, unto Abercerdin,® where the
first boundary began.

The land also of Moel Hedog,
as by these bounds encompassed:
It is defined from Islwyn unto Cribin;
thence to the Cairn; thence by a
ditch leading to the Crug; and from
the Crug unto a Cairn upon the hill;
thence unto another Cairn near Moel
Hedog; thence to the white stone
standing in the valley; thence to
the source of Cathal stream ;* thence

is 4 m. N. from Llandyssil.

is about 13 m. northwards from Abercevail.

° Blaen Cathal is nearly § m. from the summit of Moelhedog.
valle; ab inde vsque Blayn Cathil;
ab inde valle ducente vsque Cam;
et a Carn vsque Blayn Camnant;
Camnant in longitudine sui vsque
Caletur; et Caletur vsque Heslunen.

Et de terra de Porthoin prout hiis
terminis continetur: A mari Hodin
ducente in longitudine sui versus
ortum suum vsque Nant Pthwymu-
nit; ab illo inde ducente vsque in
ortum suum; de inde fossa ducente ;
et postea per tranuersum vsque ad
fossam aquosam vlteriorem iuxta
terram sitam filioram Mayaut; illa
fossa ducente vsque ad fossam Nant
Helic; et inde Nant Helic ducente
in mare. Et de terris grangiarum
de Gudgruc et de Brechva in omni-
bus finibus suis.

Donacionem eciam, concessionem,
et confirmacionem quas Willielmus
de Breusa, de consilio et consensu
vxoris sue, et proborum virorum de
Went, per cartam suam fecit Abbati
et Conuentui loci predicti, de tota
terra ipsius Willielmi, de Koet Gor-
vynen, et de Rivgoch, inter amnem
de Wenfrvt et fossam que cadit
de Creic Riem in Vsyt iuxta Ryt
y Pystill; et illa predicta fossa
extendente se vsque ad verticem mon-
tis de Creic Riem; et de inde vsque
Dar y Gicuran per tranuersum mon-
tis, in bosco et plano, in pratis et
moribus, subtus terram et supra.
Et de tota terra in campo Hubert
apud Yskyryt Vechan, in dinisis et
termines, in puram et perpetuam

1 The Carn appears to be “Carn Wyn,”

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by the valley leading to a Cairn)!
and from that Cairn to the source
of the Camnant;? along this stream
unto Clettwr* stream: and from
Clettwr to Islwyn.

And the land of Porthodin! as by
these bounds encompassed: From
the sea along Hodin® towards its
source unto Nant Tre Wimwnt stream,
thence leading to its source; thence
by the trench; and then across unto
the further water-ditch near the land
of the sons of Morgant; that ditch
leading to Nant-helyg® trench; and
thence Nant-helyg leading into the
sea. And the lands of the granges
of Gwyddgrug’ and Brechva? accord-
ing to all their bounds.

Also the gift, grant, and confirma-
tion which William de Braose® by
the advice and consent of his wife,
and the good men of Gwent, by
his Charter made to the Abbot and
Convent of the aforesaid place of
all the land of the said William,
of Coed Gorvynen and Rhiw Goch?
between Gwenffrwd river and the
trench which runs from Craig y Rhiw®
into Usk near Rhyd y Pistyll;° and
the aforesaid trench extending to
the top of Craig y Rhiw® mountain,
and thence to the Raven’s Oak
across the mountain, in wood and
plain, in meadows and moors, under
and above the earth, and the whole
land in Hubert’s Field, at the Little
Skyrid,'° in its divisions and bounds,
in pure and perpetual alms. And

 

3m. 58. of Blaen Cathal.

2? Camnant source is 4 m. S.W. from the Carn Wyn.

' 8 Clettwr is reached in another 4 m.
4 Porthodin is now called Aberporth.

It is on the coast.
5 Hodin is the river that flows through Aberporth.

It is now called Howni; and

Tre Wimwnt is now the name of a farm about 1 m. 8.E. from Aberporth.
6 Helyg=“The Willows,” is a farm nearly } m. E. from Aberporth.

7 Already noticed.
8 William de Braose was eldest son of

Philip de Braos, and he married Maud de

Haya, otherwise Maud de St. Walery. He died A.D. 1212.

9 These localities are midway between

Crickhowel and Abergavenny. The Gwen-

ffrwd separates the Counties of Brecon and Monmouth. Graig y Rhiw Goch, Pant y
Rhiw Goch, and Pistyll Gwyn are names still extant. The land forms a portion of the

lovely vale of Usk.

10 The Little Skyrid=the Rugged Mountain, is 1 m. E. from Abergavenny.
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elemosinam. Et de pastura sua de
Telari ad opus animalium fratrum
suorum qui moram fecerint in pre-
dicta terra de Went.

Donacionem eciam, concessionem,
et confirmacionem quas Johannes
de Braus primogenitus Willielmi de
Braus, Dominus de Ghoer, per car-
tam suam fecit Abbati et Conuentui
loci predicti, de terra illa que dicitur
Killewen, in finibus et pertinenciis
suis. Et de terra illa que dicitur
Kethlie Thrim inter fossam descen-
dentem de Kethle Wen sicut vadit
in Leu, et illum rivulum qui dicitur
Leu; cum bosco et plano, pasturis,
moris, et aquis, et cum omni vtilitate
que exinde prouenire poterit, libere
et quiete ab omni seculari exaccione
imperpetuum.

Confirmacionem eciam quam idem
Johannes per eandem cartam suam
fecit Abbati et Conuentui loci pre-
dicti, de terra in Gwent quas habuer-
unt ex dono W. de Breaus, aui sui,
-videlicet, Eve Skerit, et inter Gwen-
frud et Lanwenard, et de communi
pastura animalibus fratrum  babi-
tancium in terris nominatis, et de
libertate ab exaccione  cuiuslibet
tolonei in terra ipsius Johannis.

Donacionem eciam, et concessionem
quas Wyaum, Maredud, et Lyeilyn
fiius Heylyn in perpetuam elemosi-
nam fecerunt Sancte Marie Virgini
et Sancto Augustino, et Canonicis
loci predicti de terra illa a Nant-
maur vsque ad Goyd Gruc; a Goyt

Gruc ysque ad fluvium Blodewen;
et inde ad Wenfrud; et ubi Nant-

 

his pasture of Telari, for the use
of the animals of their brethren who
may stay in the aforesaid land of
Gwent.

Also the gift, grant, and confirma-
tion which John de Braose,! eldest
son of William de Braose, Lord of
Gower, by bis Charter made to the
Abbot and Convent of the aforesaid
place, of that land which is called
Gelli Wen in its bounds and appur-
tenances; and that land which is
called Gelly Thrim, between the
trench descending from Gelly Wen
as it runs into Lliw,? and the stream
which is called Lliw, with wood and
plain, pastures, moors, and waters,
and with every profit which can
arise therefrom, free and quit of
all secular demands for ever.

Also the confirmation which the
the same John, by his same Charter
made to the Abbot and Convent
of the aforesaid place, of the land
in Gwent which they had of the
gift of W. de Braose his grandsire,
to wit, Eueskyrid, and between
Gwenffrwd? and Llanwenarth? and the
common pasture for the animals of
the brethren dwelling in the land
named, and freedom from any kind
of toll in the land of the same John.

Also the gift and grant which
Gwion, Meredydd, and Llewelyn,
the sons of Heylin, in perpetual
alms made to Saint Mary the Vir-
gin, and Saint Augustin, and the
Canons of the aforesaid place, of
that land from Nantmawr‘ unto Coed
Grug,* from Coed Grug unto the
river Blodeiyn,' and thence to Gwen-
ffrwd,t and where Nantmawr falls

1 John de Braos, lord of Gower, son of William, was brought up privately by a

Welsh woman in Gower.

Prince of Wales, and died in 1231-2.

His father was starved
in Wiudsor Castle, others, in Corff Castle.

to death by King John; some say
He married Margaret, d. of Llywelyn,

? The river Lliw runs into the Loughor from the eastwards to the S. of Castell

Loughor.

3 Llanwenarth stands 1 m. W. of Abergavenny. Its Church is dedicated to St.

Peter. See page 67.

4 The Nantmawr flowing northerly unites with the Gwenffrwd, close to the E. of

Pencadair, in Carmarthenshire.

Coed Grug is on the former river, and Blodeiyn

joins the Gwenffrwd, 2 m. before it reaches Pencadair.
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into Gwenffrwd, in its woods, fields,
pastures, and waters.

Also the gift, grant, and confirma-
tion which the heirs of Madawg and
Tudor, sons of Ivor, to wit, Madawg
Vychan and Traharn the sons of
Howel, and Traharn Vychan, Ior-
werth ab Tudor, and his sister Lucy,
with their sons and coheirs on the
ex parte Ivor filii Gogaun, per
eartam suam fecerunt Abbati et
Conuentui loci predicti, in puram
et perpetuam elemosinam, de tota
terra quam habent ex donacione
Madauc et Tudoy, parentum suorum,
apud Brunoys et Brynguyn et
Llethuernant, secundem porcionem
illorum in predictis terris, sicut hiis
terminis continetur :—O penn y dol
hit y foss Kiluach yr Eilyn, in fini-
bus et terminis assignatis inter
heredes Ivor et heredes Kyndelv,—
foss Kiluach yr Eilyn, yt y nant;
or nant yr Wern hyt y foss; y foss
yn ygorthoyneb versus ortum suum
vsque teir Dar ys syd yn Anwaeret
Kynan; or teir Dar y fin yn y hyt
hyt y penn uchaf; o penn y fin
kymryd y tir hyt y nant; y nant
yn ygorthoyneb hyt y Weun Rud;
odyna kymer y foss ar traus y Weun
Rud, a gerdha yna dan y Godor

 

maur cadit in Wenfrut, in nemori-
bus, campis, pascuis et aquis.
Donacionem eciam, concessionem,
et confirmacionem quas_heredes
Madauc et Tudoy filiorum Ivor, sci-
licet Madaue Vychan et Trahaern
filii Howel et Trahaern Vychan, Ior-
werth filius Tudoy et Lleucu soror
elus, cum filius et coheredibus suis
side of Ivor ab Gwegan, by their
Charter made in pure and perpetual
alms to the Abbot and Convent
of the aforesaid place, of all the
land which they have of the gift
of Madawg and Tudor their parents
at Brunus, and Bryngwyn! and
Liethrnant,? according to their por-
tion in the aforesaid lands, as by
these bounds encompassed :—From
the extremity of the meadow’ to
Gilfach yr Eilun ditch in the bounds
and terminations assigned between
the heirs of Ivor and the heirs of
Cynddelw. From Gilfach yr Eilun‘!
ditch to the stream,° from the stream
to the Wern® along the ditch,’ the
ditch being left towards its extremity,
unto the Three Oaks that are in
Cynan’s meadow; from the Three
Oaks along the boundary till its
highest point; from this point take
the land unto the stream; the stream
being left, unto Waun Rhydd:*
thence take the ditch running across
Waun Rhydd, and walk below the
Godor?® unto the stream; the stream

1 Bryngwyn seems to be now subdivided into farms, bearing the names of Pen-
llwyn Gwyn, Llwyngwyn, and Cwmgwyn, within the boundaries afterwards described.

2 Llethrnant is now also a farm situate between Melin Gwm village and the river
Cothi. It is in the manor of Llechvraeth, of which Earl Cawdor is the lord.

3 This meadow called Dél-hir seems to be a field in Pantyveiddwr farm, near

White Mill, and 43 m. E. of Carmarthen.

On that field there was an ancient chapel,

and lettered grave stones are still to be seen in its hedges.

4 Gilvach yr Eilun=the Image’s Niche, now called Gilvach, Gilvach Berthog, and
Gilvach yr Evel, is at present divided into two farms.

5 This stream is named the “ Annell;’’ it runs through Melin Wen to the Towy.
6 This farm is now called Werndrevi, and is close to Llanvihangel Church.
7 This ditch has not been effaced, and runs from Werndrevi towards Waun Rhydd,

hereinafter named.

8 Waun Rhydd=the Common Field, is a farm 4 m. W. of Llanvihangel Church.
’ Godor=a gap or opening, is a farm 3} m. N. of Waun Rhydd, at present occupied
by Mr. D. Jones, to whose kindness and intelligence this section of the charter

is indebted for its elucidation.
Pr

(

hyt y nant; y nant o foss y
Godor hyt ygcleudach; Cleudach
hyt yghothi; Cothi yn y hyt hyt
ymhen y dol hir, vbi incepit prima
diffinicio, in bosco et plano, in pascuis
et moris, molendinis et piscariis, et
in omnibus prouentibus, super ter-
ram et subtus terram, similiter cum
pastura communi tocius terre sue
animalibus preditorum Abbatis et
Conuentus.

Donacionem eciam, concessionem
et confirmacionem quas Kynvricus
de Wistyn et Kynuricus, Kynanh
et filii Kynuryk Crach per cartam
suam fecerunt eisdem Abbatti et
Conuentui, in puram et perpetuam
elemosinam de tota parte sua et tota
parte pertinente ad Lewelinum Crach
Coch, et heredes suos in campo de
Anwaeret Kynan, scilicet, de tribus
acris et quarta parte unius acre; et
tota parte sua apud Berthloet, et
teir ystag apud Guern yr Yspyty;
et teir ystag apud Bon yr Auallen
yn Ystrad Brunos; et de omni eo
quod ad ipsos pertinuit jure heredi-
tario in terris de Bryn Gwyn, et de
Llethvarnat issaf et de Llethvarnat
vehaf.

Donacionem eciam et concessionem
quas Grono ab Gwyn, per cartam
suam fecit Abbati et Conuentui loci
predicti, in puram et perpetuam
elemosinam, de dimidietate terra que
dicitur Cumbleauc.

Confirmacionem eciam quam Resus
filius Griffini per cartam suam fecit
Abbati et Conuentui loci predicti,
de terra ecclesie Sancti Michaelis de
Penbrin, prout hiis terminis contine-

 

tur:—a cimiterio eiusdem ecclesie

0

from Godor ditch unto Claudach!
(brook); along Claudach to the
(river) Cothi; along Cothi to thé
extremity of the long meadow,
where the first boundary begins, in
wood and plain, in pastures and
moors, mills and fisheries, and in
produces both upon the land, and
under the land, likewise with the
common pasture of all their land
for the animals of the aforesaid
Abbot and Convent.

Also the gift, grant, and con-
firmation which Cynvrig of Wiston,
and Cynvrig, Cynan and the sons
of Cynvrig Crach, by their Charter
made in pure and perpetual alms
to the same Abbot and Convent of
all their share and the whole share
belonging to 'Llewelyn Crach Coch,
and his heirs, in the field of An-
waered Cynan, to wit, three acres
and a quarter of an acre; and all
their shares at Berthlwyd;? and three
perches at Gwern yr Ysbytty,? and
three perches at Bon yr Avallen in
Brunus‘ valley, and every thing which
to them belonged by hereditary right
in the lands of Bryn Gwyn,‘ and
Liethvarnad Isaf* and Llethvarnad
Uchaf.é

Also the gift and grant which
Grono ab Gwyn by his charter made
in pure and perpetual alms to the
Abbot and Convent of the aforesaid
place, of the moiety of the land
which is called Cwmbleawg.

The confirmation also which Rhys
ab Griffith by his charter made in
pure and perpetual alms to the
Abbot and Convent of the aforesaid
place, of the land of the Church
of Saint Michael of Penbryn,‘ as by
these bounds encompassed :—from

1 Claudach is the name of a stream that runs southward into the Cothi at’ Myn-

achdy Mill, or the Monastery Mill.

2 Berthlwyd seems to be situate 2m. N.W. of Llandeilo,
* This place is said to be Cil Wern in Llangathen parish,

* Already noticed.

5 Llethvarnad appears likely (from the context) to be a mistake for Llethrnant;
and this place is said to have been divided into two farms, now called Nant y Paun
and Nant y Bastau, the first word Llethr being elided.
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magna
crucem ;
:

strata ducente vsque ad
et a cruce eadem strata
ducente vsque ad vadum in Bern
versus Porthotny; ab inde Bern
ducente vsque in Seyt; et exinde
Seyt ducente vsque in mare: ex
altera parte a cimiterio vsque Hod-
nant; et Hodnant vsque mare.
Ratas Hasentes et gratas eas pro
nobis et heredibus nostris quantum
in nobis est dilectis nobis in Christo
Abbati et Conuentui loci predicti, et
successoribus suis, Concedimus et
confirmamus prout carte predicte
rationabiliter testantur, et prout
ijdem Abbas et Conuentus et prede-
cessores sui predicti terras tenementa
ecclesias et capellas predicta hactenus
rationabiliter tenuerunt. In Cuius
rei testimonium has litteras nostras
fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso
apud Westmonasterium vicesimo
quarto die Marcij, anno regni nostri
decimo septimo.” |

Nos autem donaciones, conces-
siones, et confirmaciones predictas,
necnon donacionem, concessionem,
et confirmacionem quas _heredes
Griffini et Traharn filiorum Hodlu,
scilicet, Kediuor et Lywelin filii
Griffud; Traharn paruus, Iorverth
major et Jorverth junior filij Tra-

 

the cemetery of the same Church,
by the high street leading up to the
cross; and from the cross by the
same street leading to the ford in
Beron! towards Porthhodni; thence
Beron leading to Saeth,’ and thence
Saeth leading to the sea; on the
the other side from the cemetery
unto Hodnant;? and from Hodnant
unto the sea. Havine Rartiriep
and confirmed the same for Us and
Our Heirs as much as in Us is, to
Our beloved in Christ, the Abbot
and Convent of the aforesaid place,
We do grant and confirm as the
aforesaid Charters reasonably wit-
ness, and as the same Abbot and
Convent and their predecessors have
hitherto the aforesaid lands, tene-
ments, Churches, and chapels reason-
ably held. Ix Wuryess whereof
We have caused these Our Letters
Patent to be made. Witness Our-
self at Westminster, the 24th day
of March, in the seventeenth year
of Our reign.” [1324. ]

We indeed the gifts, grants, and
contirmations aforesaid, also the gift,
grant, and confirmation which the
heirs of Griffith and Traharn the
sons of Hoedliw,> to wit, Cadivor
and Llewelyn, sons of Griffith;
Traharn Vychan, Iorwerth the elder,
and Torwerth the younger, sons of
Traharn; the heirs also of Gwr-

' Beron is the name of the stream which runs into the river Saeth=Dart, and
united, they fall into the sea midway between Penbryn and Aberporth.

2 This river, now termed Hoffnant, runs into the sea on the other, or N. side of

Penbryn.

3 This Hoedliw was a descendant of Idio Wyllt, cousin of Prince Rhys ab Tewdwr,
slain 1089. He is here said to have two sons:
I. Griffith, father of Cadivor and Llewelyn.
II. Traharn, who, by marrying Joan, daughter and coheiress of Griffith ab
Meurig Goch, became possessed of her purparty, Rhydodin, an estate, still
of that name (Anglice. Edwinsford), situate 13 m. N. of the abbey. By his

wife he had three sons:

1. Philip, whose descendants resided at Edwinsford. _

2. Traharn Vychan.

3. Iorwerth or Edward, who was father of

(1.) Iorwerth Vychan.

(2.) Evan, whose eventual heiress, his great grand-daughter, married Rhys
Vawr ab Griffith ab Llewelyn Vongam.
Rhydodin, or Edwinsford estate, is now possessed by Sir James-Hamlyn-Williams
Williams-Drummond, born in January, 1857.
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harn; heredes quoque Gurgeneu!geneu Sais,’ to wit, Ivor ab Gwrgeneu

Seis, scilicet Euyr filius CGurpennew! and Madawg Vychan, his nephew;

et Madauc paruus nepos eius, et 2nd the nephews of the same
: Re -- Madaweg, to wit; the sons of Traharn

nepotes eiusdem Madoc, scilicet, filii au
: and Howel, sons of Madawg ab
Traharn et Howel filiorum Madoc Ivor, by their writing made in pure
ab Ivor, per scriptum suum fecerunt) and perpéetual alms to the Abbot
Abbati et Conuentui loci predicti/and Convent of the aforesaid place,
in puram et perpetuam elemosinam,|of all the gifts of their parents to
de omnibus donacionibus parentum|the same Abbot and Convent made
suorum eisdem Abbati et Conuentui)of the land called ‘The Chancellor’s
factis in terra nominata Mays y|Field,”’? with the wood adjacent, and
Gyghellaur cum nemore sibi adia-|with the bounds in the Charters of
cente et cum finibus in cartis ipsorum|the same heirs contained. Having
heredum contentis. Ratas habentes|ratified and confirmed for Us .and
et gratas eas pro nobis et heredibus|Our Heirs, as much as in Us is,
nostris quantum in nobis est dilectis|to Our beloved in Christ the now
nobis in Christo nune Abbati- et] Abbot and Convent of the aforesaid
Conuentui loci predicti et successori-| place, and their successors, Do grant
bus suis, Concedimus et confirmamus|and confirm as the Charters and
sicut carte et scriptum predicta ra-| writing aforesaid reasonably witness,
tionabiliter testantur, et prout ijdem}and as the same Abbot and Con-
Abbas et Conuentus terras, tene-|vent, the lands, tenements, Churches,
menta, ecclesias et capellas predicta/and chapels aforesaid now hold, and
modo tenent, et ipsi et predecessores;they and their predecessors have the
sui predicti ea hactenus rationabiliter|same hitherto reasonably held. Our
tenuerunt. Jure nostro semper salvo.|right always being saved. In Wir-
In Curus, &c. Teste Rege apud|nuss, &c. Witness the ‘King at
Guldeford xx die Novembris. Guildford the 20th day of November.

Per finem quadraginta solidorum. For a fine of forty shillings.

 

1 Sais=Englishman. By the expression Gwrgeneu Sais, is meant—Gwrgeneu, who
had been in England, and acquired such a knowledge of English as to be able to con-
werse fluently in it.

2 Already noticed.
CHARTER ROLL.

léra KING JOHN, A.D. 1214.

Ist PART.

MEM. 3.

Sohannes, Dei gratia, etc?. No-
verit vniversitas vestra nos intuitu
Dei, & pro salute anime nostre, &
antecessorum & successorum nostro-
rum, confirmasse Deo &/ Ecclesie
beate Marie de Alba Landa, &
Monachis Cystersiensis ordinis ibi-
dem, Deo servientibus, terram in
qua Abbacia de Alba Landa sita
est, quam habent de dono Johannis
de Thorynton, & terram quam voca-
tur Hentywin, & Tresgrigh, et
Eskeyrevell, et Keuen Kenvargan,
et Fonenon-uayr, et Kylg™ man, et
Trefhowystell, et Synod et Onnen
et (?) Keredic, et totam silvam de
Gardif, et terram Brinnaltudyon, et
Kyldugeyn, de dono eiusdem Jo-
hannis.

 

John, by the grace of God, etc?,

Let all know that We by the in-
spiration of God, and for the safety
of Our soul, and the souls of Our
ancestors G successors, have con-
firmed to God, and to the Church
of the Blessed Mary of Whitland,!
and to the Monks there, of the
Cistercian Order,? the servants of
God, the land in which Whitland
Abbey is situate, which they hold
of the gift of John de Thornton,
and the land which is called Hen-
Dy-Gwyn, and Tres-grug, and Es-
gai-Evel, and Cefn-Cynvarchen,?
and Ffynnon-Vair,' and Cilgryman,?
and Tref-howystell, and Sinod,°® and
Onnen’ in Cardiganshire, and all
Gardif’ wood, and the land Bryn
Alltudion, and Cil-Dy-Gwyn of the
gift of the same John.

1 Whitland (in Welsh. Hen Dy Gwyn) is situate in Llangan parish, Carmarthen-
shire. So early at least as the Sth century, a religious community was situate here,
and about A.D. 480, Paulinus (Paul Hen) greatly enlarged the institution, of which
he was elected the first abbot. St. David and St. Teilo studied under him. A MS.
in the Cottonian Collection (Domitian A. 1) states, sub anno 1144, “that some pil-
grims from Dyved and Ceredigion were drowned. They had as guide a monk of
the Cistercian order, which order was a little time previously located at Alba Landa
in West Wales by Bernard, bishop of Saint David's, who gave them a place near
Trefgarn in Deuglethef.” Prince Rhys ab Griffith largely endowed the Abbey with
lands as is shewn in this charter.

? The’Cistercian Monks first assembled in 1097 at a place called Citeaux, or’ Cis-
tercium, whence they derived their name. Harding, an Englishman, is said to have
been their leader. They were also termed Bernardines, from St. Bernard, whom
they admitted to the order. In 1128 they were brought to England by William
Giffard, bishop of Winchester, and they settled at Waverley Abbey in Surrey. They
habited themselves in a white robe like a cassock, a black scapulary, a hood, and a
woollen girdle. They debarred themselves the use of eggs, fish, cheese, and milk,
neither did they eat flesh except in sickness. The order became so powerful, that
its members virtually governed nearly all Europe, both spiritually and temporally.

3 Cefn Cynvarchen is supposed to be identical with Cefn Varchen, a farm (in
Henllan Amgoed) 3m. W. of the Abbey. It was here that Prince Llewelyn ab Ior-
werth was encamped in 1219, and where he refused to make «. treaty of peace with
the Flemings of Pembrokeshire.

4 Ffynnon Vair is also written Ffynnon Oer (Fons frigidus). The former means
St. Mary’s Well; the latter “Cold Well.” A place of this name is 2 m. 8. of Capel
Colman, and one of that, 4 m. W. of Maenclochog.

5 Cilgryman, the concave shelter. This farm and its mill are 23 m. N.E. of Llan-
boidy. :

6 Sinod, so called from an ecclesiastical conference having been held there, is
situate about 4 m. 8. of New Quay, on the Cardiganshire coast. The old land is
now subdivided into three farms. ‘ ; : 35

7 Onnen is also a farm in Cardiganshire, probably situate in Llandyssilio-Gogo.

8 Cardif. A place called Cardeeth is situate } m. E, of Carew Castle.
74

Et terram de Trefgrinn, et terram
Godeelini Militis, quas habent de
dono eiusdem Johannis, et Howel
Says, quas omnes predictas terras
Resus filius Griffini, quantum ad
eum pertinuit, tempore suo eis dedit,
et carta sua confirmavit.

Confirmamus eciam eis alias terras
quas idem Resus eis dedit, et carta
sua confirmavit, scilicet :—terram de
Oysterlayth, et lLanuyhangell, et
Penfos, et Keuentlengath, et Blan-
wytheno, et Kilvargeyn, et Penvey,
et Ridemangwyn, et Keuen-er-drun,
et partem filii Mareduc de Kylredin,
scilicet,—Rosleverith, et Broncled,
et Nant Genevrich, et Maynorvoreen,
et Esker kayr, et Maynar Cruchvyl, et
Rudelan, et Dynewyn, et Craic Cryr,

 

And the land of Trefgrin, and
the land of Godecelin the knight,
which they have of the gift of the
same John and Howel Sais,’ all
which aforesaid lands, Rhys ab
Griffith,? as much as belonged to
him, to them gave in his time and
confirmed by his charter.

We also confirm to them all the
lands which the same Rhys gave
to them, and by his charter con-
firmed, to wit,—the land of Oyster-
laith,’ and Llanvihangel,* and Penffos,
and Cefnllengath,’ and Blaengwyth-
no,° and Cilvargen, and Penvey,
and Rhydymaengwyn,’ and Cefn
Drum,’ and the portion of Meredith
of Kilrhedyn’s son, to wit,—Rhos-
Nefrith,? and Bronclyd,’ and Nant
Gynfrig, and Manorvorion," and
Esgair-Gaer, and Maenor Grug-
Whyl,” and Rhyddlan,’ and Dy-

' Howel Sais was a younger son of Prince Rees ab Griffith. He was called Sais,

or the Englishman, because he had served in England. In 1193 he captured Gwys
Castle in Pembrokeshire, destroyed that of Llandovery, and demolished Llanhaden
town. After other warlike exploits he visited King John’s Court in Easter, 1199;
and on his return died at Chepstow, or, as others affirm, was killed by the Normans
there. He is said to have excelled all the other Welsh chiefs in generosity.

2 Rhys ab Griffith, prince of South Wales from 1136 till 4th May, 1196. Previously
annotated in Talley charter.

3 Oysterlaith (or, as in the Myvyrian Archeology, Escyrlwyv) was a farm in a com-
mot of the same name in the hundred of Arberth.

* Llanfihangel Abercowin is a farm in a small parish of the same name, some
9 m. §8.W. from Carmarthen.

5 “Cefn-lengath” is written “ Cefn-llech-elgan” in Henry VI.’s confirmation of
this charter.

5 Blaengwydduno, a grange 2 m, 8. of Lampeter Velvrey in co, Pemb.

7 Rhyd y Maengwyn is a farm 9 m. N. of the Abbey.

8 Ceyvn y Drum (“the summit of the mountain ridge”) was the ancient name for
what is now termed “ Forest,” near Cilgerran. It was a lordship and manor. About
the middle of the 16th century Dr. Thomas Phayer was located there. He wrote an
English versification of Virgil’s Aneid. He married Ann, d. of Thomas Walters,
mayor of Caermarthen in 1543. Dr. Phayer died at Cilgerran in 1560. “Forest” is
3m. N. of Cilgerran.

9 Rhos-llefrith, literally “The sweet milk meadow.”
m. N. of the Abbey.

” Bronclyd=* the warm knoll.” appears to be the one } m. W. of Brongwyn Church
in Llandugwydd, near Newcastle in Emlyn.

"' Manor Vorion appears to be situate somewhere about 3 m. W. of Marros, and
about 6 miles S.W. of the Abbey. Two places are there called Cryg y Borion, the
greater and less,

» Manor Crug Whyl. A place of this name is situate in Llanwenog parish, 2 m.
8.W. from Llanybydder, co. Carmarthen. There was an ancient chapel in this place
called Capel Whyl.

8 Rhyddlan grange and mill appear to be 34 m. W. of Llanybydder. In the Valor
Ecclesiasticus this place is described as near the river Teivi.

A Pistyll-llefrith is within 3
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et Kumkeltlybroc, et Crugge-gwal-
lem, et Capriscum, et Nant Arren,
et Dadenath Chorannimus, et Byland-
bedewe, et Bland-Seyth, et Eskyr
Seith, et unam carrucatam terre de
Porth-began, quas omnes predictas
terras idem Resus eis dedit, et carta
sua confirmavit quantum in eo fuit,
tempore suo.

Confirmamus eciam eis LX acras
terre, quas habent de dono Yorevorth
filii Yorevorth, et de dono Maylgun
filii Resi, terram de Peynluin er
Ebaul, et Kathanen.

Quare volumus et firmiter precipi-
mus, etc?.

Testibus, Dominis P. Wintoniensi;
E. Herefordiensi; J. Bathoniensi et
Glastoniensi, Episcopis. W. Marisc.
Comite Pembrochie. W. Comite

 

newyn,’ and Craig Cryr,? and
Cwmeelli-brog,? and Crug-Gwallem,
and Caprisewm,! and Nant <Aren,
and Dadenath Chorannimus, and
Blaen-bedw,> and Blaen Scith,® and
Esgair Seith,® and a Plough-land
at Porth-bychan, all aforesaid lands
the same Rhys gave to them, and
confirmed by his charter as much
as in him was in his time.

We confirm also to them 60 acres
of land which they have of the gift
of TIorwerth ab Torwerth, and of the
gift of Maelgwyn’? ab Rhys, the
land of Penllwyn-yr-Ebol® and
Cathanen.

Wherefore we will and firmly
command, ete. 7

Witness, the Lords P.2 of Win-
chester; E.° of Hereford, J." of
Bath and Glastonbury, Bishops.
W: Marshal, Earl of Pembroke.

' Dynewyn (? Ty’nywaun) is written Thirnewe in Pope Nicholas’s “Taxatio,” 1291;
Dinowyn in Henry VI.’s charter, and in “ Valor Eccles.” Tire Newith.

? Craig Cryr=the Heron’s Rock. is in “Valor” described as “Craig Eryth”=the
Eagle's Rock. There is a Craig Eryr (or Erydd, being synonymous) on the right
bank of the river Clettwr Vawr in Cardiganshire, some 6 m. N. of Llandyssil.

* Cwm-celli-brog=the embowed hazel-dell.

4 Caprisewm=the bushy-dingle field.

* Blaenbedw=the Birch-summit, is in Llandissilio Gogof, and is 4 m. 8. of the
parish Church. The Abbey had } part of the Gogof Chapel.
6 Blaen Seith and Esgair Seith or Saeth appear to be two places in Penbryn,

situate 2m. §.E. from Aberportb.

7 Maelgwyn was a son of the Prince Rhys, a donor in this charter.

This young

man is described as “fair and comely in person, honest and just, beloved of his

friends, and feared by his foes.”

captured him in 1189, and imprisoned him in Dynevor Castle.
Ju the course of a few months his brother Griffith took him

rupture is not given.

from that castle and gave him into William de Breos’s custody.

However this might be, his father, the prince,

The cause of the

After a long and

stormy life, during which he generally took part against the Southwalians, he died

in 1230.

8 Penllwyn-yr-Ebol is 24 m. N.W. of Cilymaenllwyd Church in co. Pemb.

9 Peter de Roches, previously annotated.

 Egidius, otherwise “ Giles’? de Braos, was second son of William de Braos, and

his wife the celebrated Maud de Haya or “de St. Waleric.”
In 1214 he obtained possession of six castles in
He died at Gloucester 17th Nov., 1215, and

Hereford from 1200 till 1215. _
Breconshire, &c., being his patrimony.
gave his estates to his brother Reginald.

| Joceline, canon of Wells, was elected to the bishopric of Bath, &c., in 1205.

died in 1241.

Giles was bishop of

He

12 William Mareschal, earl of Pembroke (heir to his brother John), was son of

John, and grandson of Gilbert Mareschal, and marrying Isabel, daughter and _hciress
of Richard, earl of Strigule (Chepstow), obtained with her tlis earldom. He was
made (15th John) governor of the Castles of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Gow. r. Fe
was governor of the realm and of young Henry UI. This great earl died in 1214,
and on the 15th of April was buried in the New Temple, London.
76

Arundell. §. ‘Comite Wintonie.)W.! Earl of Arundel. 8? Earl of
Willielmo Brewerra. Hugone de|Winchester. William Brewerra.*
Neville. P.f. Herberte. Roberto de|Hugh de Neville* Peter Fitz-Her-
Ros. bert.6 Robert de Ros.°

Datum per manum Magistri Ri-| Given by the hand of Master
Richard de Marisco,’ Our Chancellor,
: ype: at Worcester, the 27th day of De-
apud Wygorniam xxvij? die Decem-|cember, in the 16th year of Our
bris, Anno regni nostri xyj°. reign.

cardi de Marise., Cancellarii nostri

1 William d’Albini was son of William, earl of Chichester, Arundel], and Sussex,
by Queen Adeliza, widow of Henry I. He took the king’s part at Runnymead, but
afterwards made oath to obey the barons, and to assist in compelling King John
to observe the Magna Charta. On his return from the famous siege of Damietta in
Egypt, he died A.D, 1222, and his body was brought to England by Thomas, a
St. Alban’s Monk, and buried in Wymondham Abbey.

2 Saer de Quincy, earl of Winchester, so created in 1206 He took the barons’
part at Runnymead; and even after the king’s death continued in arms on behalf of
young Louis (the Lion) of France, until he was taken prisoner in Lincoln battle,
1217, May 20. In the October following, on his submission, his lands were fully
restored to him. By his wife, the Countess Maud de St. Liz, sister and coheiress of
Robert Fitz Parnell, earl of Leicester, he left issue, three sons and a daughter. He
died in 1219 on his journey to Jerusalem,

3 William Briwere, son of Henry Briwere, was a man highly trusted by the Kings
Henry Il., Richard, John, and Henry III., and at various times had held the
Shrievalty of no fewer than 12 counties. ‘He married Beatrix de Valle, a concubine
to Reginald, earl of Cornwall, by whom he left one surviving son and five daughters.
He died in 1226-7, and was buried in front of the high altar in Dunkeswell Cis-
tercian Abbey, in co. Devon, which he had founded in 1201.

4 Hugh or Hugo de Neville, surnamed “le Gros,” was one of King John’s “ Evil
Councillors.” He also was present at Runnymead, ex parte Regis; but in 1216
deserted the king, paid homage to the French Prince Louis, and surrendered Marl-
borough Castle to him. He married Desiderata, daughter and heiress of Stephen
de Camera, and died in 1221-2. His body was buried in Waltham Abbey Church,
Essex.

5 Peter was son of Herbert Fitzherbert, Lord Chamberlain to King Stephen, by
Lucy, third dau. of Milo, earl of Hereford. Peter was a minion of King John’s, and
another “ Evil Councillor.” He married firstly Alice, d. of Roger Fitz-Roger, a North-
umbrian Baron; secondly, Isabel, widow of Roger de Mortimer, and d. of William
de Braos, lord of Brecon, by the latter of whom he had three sons. He died in
1234-5. He was the progenitor of the Herberts, earls of Pembroke, of the first and
second creation.

6 Robert de Ros of Hamlake, now called Helmesley upon the Black Moor, near
York, was eldest son of Everard of Ros, or Rooss in Holderness, co. York, by his
wife Rose, d. of William Trussbut of Wartre in Holderness. He was born in 1162.
On some account or other King Richard hated him, but he obtained favour in King
John’s sight for a time, when he was deprived of his lands. He re-obtained them,
however, and he was one of the few who adhered to the king in 1214. Nevertheless,
in 1215 he was with the first to compel John to sign the charters, and undertook
with others to make him observe them. He died in 1226-7, and was buried in the
Temple Church, London. He left two sons by his wife Isabel, dau. of King William
the Lion of Scotland.

7 Richard de Marisco was archdeacon of Northumberland. Made Lord Chancellor.
in 1202, which office he held for 2 years. In 1212 he accepted the same office but
resigned the seals to the king, Oct. 19th, 1215. Made Dean of Salisbury, and in
1217 raised to the bishopric of Durham. From 1223 to 1226 became Lord Chancellor
the third time, when he died. Stowe says, the bishop “like an old persecuter of
religious persons, for the maintenance of his most filthy quarrell he picked against
them, came with a great rowt of men of law towards London, and lodged in the
Abbey of Peterborough; after he had daintily refreshed himself with costly meates,
he went to bed in health, but was found dead on the next morning. He was buried
at Durham, when he had sate Bishop nine yeares.”
y

PATENT ROLL.

25TH HENRY VL, A.D. 1447.

7

PART. 2.

MEM. 28.

Pro Abbate et

Conventu de Rex omnibus ad
Alba Landa. ) quos, &c., Salutem.
Constat nobis per inspeccionem rotu-
lorum Cancellarie Domini Ricardi,
nuper Regis Anglie secundi post Con-
questum, progenitori nostri, quod
idem progenitor noster litteras suas
patentes fieri fecit in hee verba:—
Ricardus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie &
Ffrancie, & Dominus Hibernie. Om-
nibus ad quos presentes littere perue-
nerint, Salutem. Inspeximus Cartam
Domini Edwardi quondam Regis
Anglie, progenitoris nostri, factam in
hecverba: Edwardus, Dei gratia, Rex
Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, et Dux
Aquitanie, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis,
Abbatibus, Prioribus, Comitibus,
Baronibus, Justiciis, Vice-comitibus,
Prepositis, Ministris, et omnibus
Balliuis et fidelibus suis, Salutem.
Inspeximus Cartam, quam celebris
memorie Dominus Johannes quon-
dam Rex Anglie, proauus noster,
fecit Deo et Ecclesie beate Marie
de Alba Landa, et Monachis Cis-
terciencis ordinis ibidem, Deo serui-
entibus, in hec verba: Johannes,
Dei gratia, Rex Anglie, Dominus Hi-
bernie, Dux Normannie, Aquitannie,
et Comes Andegavie, Archiepisco-
pis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Comitibus,
Prepositis, et omnibus Ballivis, et
fidelibus suis, Salutem. Nouerit
vniuersitas vestra nos intuitu Dei,
et pro salute anime nostre et ante-
cessorum et successorum nostrorum,

confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Beate
Marie de Alba Landa, et monachis

For the Abbot

and Conventof > Ghe Ain Q to all to
Whitland. whom, &c., Greet-
ing. It appears to Us by the in-

spection of the Chancery Rolls of
the second Lord Richard after the
Conquest, late King of England,
Our progenitor, that the same Our
progenitor caused certain letters pa-
tent to be made in these words :—
Richard, by the grace of God, King
of England and France, and Lord
of Ireland. To all to whom these
present letters shall come, Greeting.
We have examined the Charter of
the Lord Edward,* formerly King
of England, Our progenitor, made
in these words:—Edward, by the
grace of God, King of England,
Lord of Ireland, and Duke of
Aquiiain, To the Archbishops,
Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls,
Barons, Justices, Sheriffs, Reeves,
Ministers, and to all Bailiffs and
his faithful people, Greeting: We
have examined the Charter which
the Lord John of glorious memory,
formerly King of England, Our
great grandsire, made to God, and
the Church of the Blessed Mary
of Whitland, and the Monks of the
Cistercian Order there serving God,
in these words: John, by the grace
of God, King of England, Lord of
Ireland, Duke of Normandy, and
Count of Anjou, To the Archbishops,
Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons,
Justiciars, Sheriffs, Reeves, and to
all Bailiffs, and his faithful people,
Greeting. Know ye all, that We
by the inspiration of God, and for
the health of Our soul, and the
souls of Our ancestors and succes-
sors, have confirmed to God and
the Church of the Blessed Mary

 

* Edward II.
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Cisterciensis ordinis ibidem, Deo
servientibus, terram in qua Abbacia
de Alba Landa sita est, quam habent
de dono Johannis de Toryton, et
terram que vocatur Hentiwin et Tref-
grigh, et LEskeyrevell, et Keuen
Kennarghan et .Ffennonnoyr, et
Kylgrumman et Trefhowistell, et
Sinod et Onnen Keredic, et totam
siluam de Gartheif, et terram Brenn
Alltudion, et Kidlidugeyn, et terram
de Tresgun de dono eiusdem Jo-
hannis de Toryton, et terram
Godscelini Militis, quam habent de
dono Howell Seys, quas omnes
predictas terras Resus filius Griffini
quantum ad eum pertinuit tempore
quo potuit, eis dedit, et Carta sua
confirmauit.

Confirmauimus eciam eis alias
terras quas idem Resus eis dedit,
et Carta sua confirmauit, scilicet,
terram de Oysterloyth, et Lam-
myhangell, et Penfos, et MKeuen-
tleghelgan, et Blanwytheno, et
Kiluargeyn, et Penuey, et Rede-
mayngwyn et Keuendrim, et partem
filiorum Maredue de Kilredyn, sci-
licet, Roseleuerith, et Broncled, et
Nant Kenewric, et Maynoruoreon, et
Eskerkair, et Maynar Cruc Whil
et Ruthelan et Dinowyn et Cruch
Grir et Cumketli Brogh, et Cruge
Wathlan, et Catprisc, et Nant Car-
ren, et Dadbath Corannus, et Blaind-
bedewe, et Blain Seith, et Ekeir
Seith, et vnam carucatam terre de
Porth Begham, quas omnes predictas
terras idem Resus eis dedit, et
Carta sua confirmauit, quantum in
eo fuit. Confirmavimus eciam eis
sexaginta acras terre, quas habent
de dono Ricardi filii Kenwric, et
Kedivor filii Roberti, et fratrum
suorum; et viginti et quatuor acras
terre, quas habent de dono Yore-
worth filii Yoreworth, et de dono
Maylgum filii Resi, terram de Pen-
loynebaul et Katlanuen.

 

of Whitland, and the Monks of the
Cistercian Order there serving God,
the land in which Whitland Abbey
is situate, which they have of the
gift of John de Toryton, and the
land which is called Hen Dy Gwyn,
and Tresgrigh, and Esgair Evell,
and Cefn Cynvarchan, and Ffynnon
Oer, and Cilgrymman, and Tref-
howystell, and Sinod and Onnen
(in) Cardiganshire, and the whole
of Gartheif wood, and the land of
Bryn Alltudion, and Gelly Dy Gwyn,
and Tresgun, and the land of Sir
Godcelin, the Knight, which they
have of the gift of Howel Sais,
all which aforesaid lands Rhys ab
Griffith, as much as to him belonged
at the time, gave to them, and con-
firmed by his Charter.

We have also confirmed to them
other lands which the same Rhys
gave to them, and confirmed by his |
Charter, to wit :—the land of Oyster-
layth, and Llanvihangel, and Penffos,
and Cefn Liechelgain, and Blaen
Wythbno, and Cilvargen, and Pen-
vey, and Rhydmaengwyn, and Cefn
Drim, and the portion of the sons
of Meredydd of Cilrhedin; to wit,
Rhos Llevrith, and Bronclyd, and
Nant Cynvrig, and Manor Vorion,
and Esgair Caer, and Manor Cryg
Whyl, and Rhuddlan, and Dinowyn,
and Cryg Grir, and Cwmeelli Brogh,
and Crug Wallan, and Catprisc, and
Nant Carren, and Dadbath Corannus,
and Blaen Bedw, and Blaen Seith,
and Esgair Seith, and the plough
land of Porth Bychan, all which
said lands the same Rhys gave to
them, and confirmed by his Charter,
as much as in him lay. We have
also confirmed to them sixty acres
of land which they have of the gift
of Richard ab Cynvrig, and Cadivor
ab Robert and his brothers; and
twenty-four acres of land which they
have of the gift of Iorwerth ab
Iorwerth, and of the gift of Mael-
gwyn ab Rhys, the land of Pen-
llwyn Ebol and Katlenuen.
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Confirmauimus eciam eis vnum
mesuagium in villa de Haverford,
quod habent de dono Roberti filii
Ricardi, et piscariam eiusdem ville
singulis septimanis, per noctem et
diem Veneris, quam habent de dono
eiusdem Roberti.

Quare volumus et firmiter precipi-
mus, quod predicti Monachi de Alba
Landa habeant et teneant omnes pre-
dictas terras cum omnibus suis perti-
nenclis imperpetuum, bene et in pace,
libere et quiete, integre et plenarie,
cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis
consuetudinibus ad huiusmodi terras
pertinentibus, sicut Carte predic-
torum donatorum rationabiliter tes-
tantur.

Testibus, Dominis P. Wintoniensi:
E. Herefordensi: J. Bathoniensi et
Glastoniensi, Episcopis. W. Mares-
call, Comite Pembrockie. W.
Comite Arundell. §. Comite Wyn-
tonie. Willielmo Briwerra. Hugone
de Neuill. Petro filio Hereberti,
et Roberto de Roos.

Datum per manum Magistri Ri-
cardi de Marisco, Cancellarii Nostri,
apud Wygorniam, vicesimo septimo
die Decembris, anno regni nostri
sexto decimo.

Inspeximus eciam quandam aliam
Cartam, quam idem proauus noster
fecit prefatis Monachis in hec verba :—

Johannes, Dei gratia, Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie, Dux Normannie
et Aquitanie, Comes Andegauie,
omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis
presentes litteras inspecturis, Salu-
tem. Sciatis quod suscepimus in
proteccionem nostram Abbatem de
Alba Landa et Monachos ibidem,
Deo servientes, et omnes res et
possessiones suas. Et ideo vobis
mandamus et firmiter precipimus,
quod ipsos et omnia sua manu-
teneatis et protegatis, nullam eis
inferentes vel inferri permittentes

 

We have also confirmed to them
one messuage in the town of Haver-
ford which they have of the gift of
Robert ab Richard, and the fishery
of the same town every week, during
the night and day of Friday, which
they have of the gift of the same
Robert.

Wherefore We will and firmly
command that the aforesaid Monks
of Whitland shall have and hold all
the aforesaid land with all their
appurtenances for ever, well and
peaceably, freely and quietly, wholly
and fully, with all liberties and free
customs to such lands belonging, as-
the Charters of the aforesaid donors
reasonably witness.

Witnesses, the Lords P. of Win-
chester: E. of Hereford: J. of
Bath and Glastonbury, Bishops.
W. Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke.
W., Earl of Arundel. §., Earl of
Winchester. William Briwerra.
Hugh de Neville. Peter, son of
Herbert, and Robert de Roos.

Given by the hand of Master
Richard de Marisco, Our Chancellor,
at Worcester, the twenty-seventh
day of December, in the sixteenth
year of Our Reign (A.D. 1214).

We have examined also a certain:
other Charter which the same Our
great grandsire made to the afore-
said Monks in these words :—

John, by the grace of God, King
of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke
of Normandy and Aquitaine, and
Count of Anjou, To all his Bailiffs
and faithful people, by whom these
present letters shall be seen, Greet-
ing. Know ye that we have taken
under Our protection the Abbot of
Whitland and the Monks there
serving God, and all their effects
and possessions. And therefore We
direct and firmly command you that
you maintain and protect them and
all theirs, not doing or permitting
to be done any injury, molestation,
or grievance, and if in anywise
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iniuriam, molestiam, aut grauamen,
et si in aliquo eis forisfactum fuerit,
id sine dilatione eis emendari faciatis.

Concessimus eciam eis quod quieti
sint per omnes terras nostras, illi
et hominis sui, de theolonio, et omni
alia consuetudini ad nos pertinente,
de omnibus rebus quas ad opus suum
proprium vel hominum  suorum
emerint, vel de suo proprio vendi-
derint. Ita quod per illos vel suos,
quantum in eis est, nichil, de’ hiis
que emerint vel vendiderint peruenict
ad manus inimicorum nostrorum.
Et prohibemus, super forisfacturum
nostram decem librarum ne quis eos
super hoc impediat, vel impedire
presumat. Volumus eciam et pro-
hibemus ne implacitentur de aliquo
tenemento suo nisi coram nobis vel
capitali Justicio nostro. Et in huius
rei testimonium has litteras nostras
patentes eis fieri fecimus.

Teste meipso apud Wigorniam
vicesimo septimo die Decembris anno
regni nostri sexto decimo.

Nos autem, confirmaciones et con-
cessionem predictas ratas habentes
et gratas eas, pro nobis et heredibus,
nostris quantum in nobis est, con-
cedimus et confirmamus sicut Carte
predicte rationabiliter testantur. Hiis
testibus, venerabilibus patribus, W.
Cantuariensi, Archiepiscopo tocius
Anglie, primate; J. Norwicensi et
J. Karliolensi, Episcopis. Thoma
Comite Lancastrie; Johanne de Bri-

forfeiture shall be done to them, the
same without delay you cause to be
made right to them.

We have also granted to them
that they and their men shall be
quit throughout Our land, of toll,
and all other customs to Us belong-
ing, for all things which for their
own use, or for that of their men
they may buy, or which they may
sell of their own. So that by them-
selves or theirs, as much as in them
is, nothing of that which they may
buy or sell shall come to the hands
of our enemies. And we prohibit,
upon forfeiture to Us of Ten Pounds,
that any one obstruct or presume
to obstruct them. We also will and
command that they be not impleaded
for any tenement except before Us
or Our Chief Justice. And in wit-
ness hereof We have caused these
Our Letters to be made patent.

Witness Ourself at Worcester,
the twenty-seventh day of December,
in the sixteenth year of Our reign
(A.D. 1214).

We truly the confirmations and
grant aforesaid having confirmed
and ratified, and for Us and Our
heirs, as much as in Us lies, do
grant and confirm them as the
Charters aforesaid reasonably wit-
ness. These being witnesses :—The
Venerable Fathers, W., Archbishop
of Canterbury, Primate of All
England. J. of Norwich! and J.

 

of Carlisle,? Bishops. Thomas, Earl
of Lancaster:* John de Britannia,

1 John Salmon, Prior of Ely Benedictine Abbey, was raised to the Bishopric of
Norwich and the Lord Chancellorship of England in 1299, He held the latter until

1302, and the see until apparently 1324,5,

* John de Halton (a township in Northumberland) was Canon of Carlisle, when

he was in 1292
was appointed.
> Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster,

promoted to the dignity ef Bishop of

Carlisle. In 1324 his successor

was eldest son of Edmund (2nd son of Henry

TIL.) by his second wife Blanche, d. of Robert, Earl of Artois (3rd son of Louis VIII.

of France).
the earldom of Lincoln.
to be executed “by the hand of

Thomas, through his wife Alice, a. and h. of Henry de Lacy, acquired
He was one of the chiefs that caused Piers de Gaveston
a Welshman,” and he thereby incurred the hatred

of the king, Edward IL, who nevertheless soon provided for himself a fresh favourite,

Hugh de Despenser. In 1321,

c @ great dispute among some nobles arose for the
possession of Gower, then a portion of the county of Carmarthen.
and entered into possession of the land. The discontented nobles

Hugh stepped in
took up arms, and
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tann’, Comite Richemundie. Hum-
frido de Bohoun, Comite Herefordie
et Essexie; Johanne de Segraue;
Johanne de Crumwell, Senescallo
hospicii nostri, et aliis. Datum per
manum nostram apud Lincolniam
primo die Septembris, anno regni
nostri nono.

Nos autem, litteras predictas et
omnia in eis contenta, rata habentes
et grata ea pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, ac-
ceptamus, approbamus, ac dilectis
nobis in Christo nune Abbati et
Conuentui loci predicti, et successori-
bus suis concedimus et confirmamus,
sicut Carte predicte rationabiliter
testantur, et prout ijdem Abbas et
Conventus et predecessores sui terras
et tenementa predicta hactenus ra-
tionabiliter habuerunt et tenuerunt,

 

Earl of Richmond. Humphrey de
Bohun,* Earl of Hereford and Es-
sex. John de Segrave.’ John de
Crumwell,® Steward of Our House-
hold, and others. Given by Our
hand at Lincoln, the first day of
September, in the ninth year of Our
reign. [A.D. 1315.]

We truly, the letters aforesaid,
and all things in them contained,
having confirmed and ratified, for
Us and Our Heirs, as much as in
Us lies, do accept and approve, and
do grant and confirm to Our beloved
in Christ, the now Abbot and Con-
vent of the aforesaid place, and
their successors, as the Charters
aforesaid reasonably witness, and as
the same Abbot and Convent and
their predecessors have hitherto
reasonably had and held and were
accustomed to use and enjoy the
aforesaid lands and tenements, and

the battle of Boroughbridge was fought, in which the leader, Thomas of Lancaster,
was taken prisoner and beheaded, after an unfair trial on Monday, the 23rd of
March, 1322. His brother Henry became his heir. His widow Alice married
Eubulo le Strange, with whom it was asserted that she had been familiar, and in
consequence thereof had been repudiated by the earl.

* Humphrey de Bohun (the consecutive eighth of the name) was eldest son of
Humphrey, Earl of Hereford and Essex and constable of England, by Maud, d. of
William de Fienles. (See note, Inquisitions, Edward L., i275.) He took part with
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, to restrain Edward II.’s folly, and to recover the liberties
of the people. In 1814 he was captured after Bannockburn battle, in Bothwell Castle,
whither he had retreated ; and to recover this powerful baron, the English were fain
to give up Robert Bruce’s wife, sister, and daughter, together with Wisheart, Bishop
of Glasgow, and the young Ear! of Mar. This earl having joined Lancaster (see
last note) also fought at Boroughbridge, and a Welshman, who was underneath
seeing him crossing, thrust a spear upwards and slew the earl, 16th March, 1322.
He was buried in the Friary, York. By his wife Elizabeth, widow of John, Earl of
Holland, and d. of Edward L, he had issue 6 sons and 4 daughters.

5 John Lord Segrave, born in 1256, son of Nicholas Segrave, Lord of Segrave, in
co. Leicester, was a bold and active baron. He fought in the Scottish wars under
Edward 1.; was present at Caerlaverock seige, and then made Lieutenant of Scot-
land. He was one that brought William Wallace to Westminster Hall to be con-
demned; was captured at the battle of Bannockburn, and in a twelvemonth’s time
exchanged for a number of Scots. He fell under the displeasure of Edward IT. in
consequence of the escape of Roger Mortimer from the tower, and as a punishment
was sent to Gascony, where he died in 1324,5. By his wife Christiana, d. of Sir
Hugh de Plessets, knt., whom he married in 1270, he had issue Stephen (who died
v.p.) who left as heir his son John. ;

6 John de Cromwell, son of Ralph Cromwell, filled many offices; viz., Governor of
Chepstow Castle, Constable of the Tower, Warden of the King’s Forests, north of
Trent. He also fought in the Scottish wars. He was the only baron that accom-
panied Queen Isabel to France, whence she refused to return at ber husband’s desire,
Upon the deposition of Edward II. this John was immediately appointed Constable
of the Tower. By his wife Idonea of Leyburn, younger d. and coh, of Robert de
Vipont, the hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, he left issue Ralph his heir.

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libertatibus et quietanciis predictis
vti et gaudere consueuerunt. In
cujus rei testimonium has litteras
nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste
meipso apud Harefcrdiam decimo
nono die Maij, anno regni nostri
vicesimo secundo.

Nos autem pro eo quod littere
predicte casualiter sunt amisse, sicut
Hugo Water, Gentilman, coram
nobis in Cancellaria nostra sacramen-
tum prestitit corporale, et quod nunc
Abbas loci predicti litteras predictas
si eas imposterum inuenire con-
tigerint nobis in dictam Cancellariam
nostram restituet cancellandas teno-
rem irrotulamenti earumdem _lit-
terarum tenore presencium duximus
exemplificandi. In Cujus, etc#. T.
R. apud Westmonasterium xij die
Maij.

 

the liberties and quittances aforesaid.
In Witness whereof We have caused
these Our letters to be made patent.
Witness Ourself at Hereford, the
nineteenth day of May, in the
twenty-second year of Our reign.
[A.D. 1899.]

We truly for that the aforesaid
letters are accidentally lost, as Hugh
Walter, Gentleman, has taken cor-
poral oath before Us in Our Chan-
cery, and that the now Abbot of
the aforesaid place, will the letters
aforesaid, if hereafter they shall
happen to be found, restore to Us
in Our said Chancery to be can-
celled, have caused the tenor of the
enrolment of the same letters to be
exemplified by the tenor of these
presents. In Witness, &c. Wit-
ness the King at Westminster, the
12th day of May. [A.D. 1447.]
.

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ROTULI WALLIA.

De transgressionibus

et iniuriis audiendo Hex, dilectis
et terminando. et fidelibus

suis, Radulpho de Hengham, Jo-

hanni de Cobeham, et Rogero de

Burghull, Salutem.

Quia sicut vniuersis et singulis
de regno nostro de transgressioni-
bus et imiuriis sibi factis, sic de
transgressionibus et iniuriis nobis
factis, plenam iusticiam volumus
exhiberi, assignauinius vos ad audien-
dam et videndum, vna cum sectatori-
bus Comitatus nostri de Kermerdin,
recordum et processum habitum in
eodem Comitatu, inter Nos et Resum
filium Mereduci, de quibusdam trans-
gressionibus et iniuriis nobis per
ipsum Resum factis, in partibus illis,
pro quibus idem Resus positus est
in exigendis, vt dicitur, et tam nobis
quam prefato Reso, iusticiam inde
faciendam, prout de iure et secundum
legem et consuetudinem parcium il-
larum fuerit faciendam. Et ideo
vobis mandamus, quod die Jouis
proximi post festum Sancte Trinitatis,
proximo futuro, ad Comitatum pre-
dictum, personaliter accedatis, et
premissa faciatis, in forma predicta.
Mandavimus enim sectatoribus pre-
dictis, quod ad diem predictum, vna
vobiscum ibidem, ad hoc, diligenter
intendant. In cuius, &c. Teste,
Edmundo, Comite Cornubie, Con-
sanguineo Regis, apud Westmonas-
terium xx° die Maij.

15ts EDWARD LI, A.D. 1287.

 

MEM. 10.

For the hearin :
and ioe Che Ring, to his
Trespasses and (dear and faithful

Injuries. Ralph de Heng-
ham,’ John de Cobham,? and Roger
de Burghull, Greeting.

Forasmuch as We wish to provide
full justice for all and every one
of Our kingdom, as well for the
trespasses and injuries done to them,
as for the trespasses and injuries
committed against Ourself, We have
assigned you to hear and view, to-
gether with the suitors of our County
of Caermarthen, the Record and
Process taken in the same County,
between Us and Rees ab Meredydd,*
concerning certain trespasses and
injuries committed by the same Rees
against us in those parts, for which
the same Rees is placed in Exigent,
as it is termed, and thereupon to
do justice as well to Us as to the
said Rees, as should be done of
right and according to the law and
custom of those parts. And there-
fore We command you, that on
Thursday next after the Feast of
the Holy Trinity, next ensuing, ye
do, in form aforesaid, personally
assemble and perform the premisses
in the aforesaid County. We have
also commanded the suitors afore-
said, that they be diligently inten-
dant there together with you, on the
aforesaid day, for this purpose. In
witness, &c. Witness, Edmund,* Earl
of Cornwall, Cousin of the King, at
Westminster, the 20th day of May.

' Ralph of Hengham, in Suffolk, was in 1270 appointed a Puisne Justice of the

King’s Bench, in 1274 a P.J. of the Common Pleas.

On 28rd June, 1278, Chief

Justice of the King’s Bench, and on 9th Sept, 1301, C.J. of the Common Pleas.

2 John de Cobham was appointed in 1244 a P.J. of the Common Pleas. In 1275
a P.J. of the King’s Bench, and on 8th June. 1277, Baron of the Exchequer.

3 Rees ab Meredydd has been previously noticed under the grant, dated 1291, of

Common in his Woods, to Thomas Beck, bp. of St. David’s, and the canons of Abergwili.

4 This writ was not issued by K. Edward in person, for on the 24th of June, 1286,
he sailed to France, whence he returned in August, 1289. Rymer in his Federa, vol.
IL, p. 801, says, the king left as Regent, Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke ; and
the Annales Waverleiensis assert that the Regent was the above Edmund Plantagenet,
Earl of Cornwall: “Domino Rege in partibus transmarinis sic agente, Dominus
Edmundus, Comes Cornubia totius Regni Angliz tenuit gubernacula, Domino Rege,
ante egressum a Regno sic volente.”
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PATENT ROLL.

De Muragio
de Rede Rex, Ballivis et pro-
bis hominibus de Kedwelly, Salutem.
Sciatis, quod ad instantiam dilecti
et fidelis nostri, Patricij de Cadurcis,
Domini vestri, concessimus vobis
in auxilium ville vestre predicte
claudende, ad securitatem et tuicionem
eiusdem ville et partium adiacentium,
quod a festo Natalis Domini, anno
regni nostri nono, usque ad finem
quinque annorum proximo sequen-
cium completorum, capiatis de rebus
venalibus in villam predictam venien-
tibus, consuetudines subscriptas,
videlicet :
De qualibet carecta cariata panni,
duos denarios :
De quolibet summagio panni, unum
denarium :
De quolibet dolio vini, duos de-
narios :
De qualibet carecta cariata lane,
quatuor denarios :
De quolibet summagio lane, unum
denarium :
De qualibet carectata mellis, duos
denarios :
De quolibet summagio mellis,
unum denarium :
De qualibet carectata ferri, duos
denarios :
De quolibet summagio ferri, unum
denarium :
De qualibet carectata piscis marini,
duos denarios :
De quolibet summagio eiusdem
piscis, unum obolum :
De qualibet carectata bladi, unum
denarium :
De quolibet summagio bladi, vnum
obolum :
De qualibet carectata panis, vaum
denarium :
De quolibet summagio panis, vnum
obolum :

 

9rH. EDWARD L., A.D. 1280. MEM. 29.
Concerning :
the Murage Che Hing, to the
of Kidwely. ) Bailiffs and Good men

of Kidwely, Greeting. Know ye,
that at the request of Our dear and
faithful Patrick de Chaworth, your
Lord, We have granted to you in
aid of enclosing your aforesaid Town
for the security and the defence of
the same Town and the adjacent
parts, that from the Feast of the
Birth of our Lord, in the ninth
year of our reign, until the end of
Five years next following and to
be completed, you may take the
underwritten customs for saleable
things coming into your aforesaid
town, to wit:

For each cart load of cloth, two

pence:
For each horse load of cloth, one
penny:
For each pipe of wine, two pence:

For each cart load of wool, four

pence:

For each horse load of wool, one
penny:

For each cart load of honey, two
pence:

For each horse load of honey,
one penny :

For each cart load of iron, two
pence :

For each horse load of iron, one
penny :

For each cart load’ of sea fish,
two pence:

For each horse load of the same
fish, one half penny :

For each cart load of corn in the
straw, one penny :

For each horse load of corn in
the straw, one half penny:

For each cart load of bread, one

_ penny:

For each horse load of bread, one
half penny :
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De qualibet carecta cariata coriis
bouinis vel equorum, duos de-
narios :

De quolibet summagio eorumdem
corrorum, vnum obolum:

De qualibet carecta salis, unum
denarium :

De quolibet summagio salis, vnum
quadrantem :

De quolibet summagio pellium
caprorum, oulum uel agnorum,
unum denarium :

De quolibet summagio
unum obolum :

De quolibet summagio Wayde (?)
unum obolum :

De quolibet summagio pomorum,
pirorum, uel fructum, unum
quadrantem.

De quolibet summagio hominis de
blado, vnum quadrantem :

De quolibet equo, uel equa, boue,
uel vacca, vnum obolum :

De decem bidentibus vel ouibus,
vnum denarium :

De sex capris, vnum denarium :

De quatuor porcis, unum dena-
rium :

De quolibet summagio linee tele,
unum denarium :

De quolibet summagio hominis de
eadem tela, vnum obolum :

De quadraginta pellibus vulpium
vel squirellorum, vnum dena-
rium: et

De viginti pellibus vulpium uel
squirellorum, vnum obolum.

Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod
a predicto festo Natalis Domini
vsque ad finem predictorum quinque
annorum consuetudines illas capiatis,
sicut predictum est. Completo autem
termino illo, consuetudines ille peni-
tus cessent et deleantur. In cuius,
etc., per totum tempus predictum
duraturum. Teste Rege apud Turrim
Londinensem viij° die Decembris.

farine,

 

For each cart load of ox-, or horse-
hides, two pence:

For each horse load of such hides,
one half penny :

For each cart load of salt, one
penny:

For each horse load of salt, one
farthing :

For each horse load of goat-,
sheep-, or lamb-skins, onepenny :

For each horse load of flour, one
half penny:

For each horse load of . . . (?)
one half penny :
For each horse load of apples,
pears, or fruit, one farthing :
For each man-load of corn in the
straw, one farthing :

For each horse or mare, ox or
cow, one half penny:

For ten old or young sheep, one
penny :

For six goats, one penny:

For four pigs, one penny:

For each horse load of thread web,
one penny:

For each man-load of such web,
one half penny :

For forty fox-, or squirrel-skins,
one penny: and

For twenty fox-, or squirrel-skins,

one half penny.

And therefore we command that
from the aforesaid feast of the Birth
of our Lord, until the expiration
of the aforesaid five years, ye may
take those customs as is aforesaid.
But that term being complete, those
customs shall wholly cease and be an-
nulled. In witness, &c., to continue
during the whole time aforesaid.
Witness the King at the Tower of
London, the 8th day of December.
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PATENT ROLL. Isr HENRY VI., A.D. 1422. PAR. 38.
MEM. 21.

De eee

Kaermerdyn. R eX, omnibus
ad quos, ete#, Salutem. Inspexi-
mus cartam Domini Henrici, nuper
Regis Anglie, patris nostri, factam
in hec verba:—

Henricus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie
et Francie, et Dominus Hibernie,
Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbati-
bus, Prioribus, Ducibus, Comitibus,
Baronibus, Justiciis, Vice-Comitibus,
Prepositis, Ministris, et omnibus
Balliuis et fidelibus suis, Salutem.
Inspeximus litteras nostras patentes
dum eramus Princeps, Burgensibus de
KKaermerdyn, factas in hee verba :—

Henricus, filius illustris Regis
Anglie et Francie, Primogenitus,
Princeps Wallie, Dux Aquitanie,
Lancastrie, et Cornubie, Comes
Cestrie, Omnibus ad quos presentes
littere peruenerint, Salutem. In-
speximus litteras patentes metuen-

dissimi Domini et patris nostri,
Regis supradicti, factas in hee
verba :—

Henricus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie
et Francie, et Dominus Hibernie,
omnibus ad quos presentes littere
peruenerint, Salutem. Inspeximus
cartam Domini Ricardi, nuper Regis
Anglie, secundi post conquestum,
factam in hee verba :—

Ricardus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie
et Francie, et Dominus Hibernie
Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbati-
bus, Prioribus, Ducibus, Comitibus,
Baronibus, Justiciis, Vice-Comitibus,
Prepositis, Ministris, et omnibus
Balliuis, et fidelibus suis, Salutem.
Inspeximus cartam Domini Edwardi,
nuper Regis Anglie, aui nostri,
factam in hee verba :—

Edwardus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie

 

Confirmation i
for Caermarthen.§ @he Hing, to
all to whom, etc2., Greeting.” We
have examined the charter of the
Lord Henry, Our father, late King
of England, made in these words :—
Henry (5th), King of England

and France, and Lord of Ireland, .. .

to the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots,
Priors, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Justices,
Sheriffs, Reeves, Ministers, and’ to
all his Bailiffs and faithful subjects,
Greeting. We have examined our
letters patent to the Burgesses of
Caermarthen, made when we were
Prince, in these words :—

Henry (5th), Prince of Wales,
Duke of Aquitaine, Lancaster, and
Cornwall, Earl of Chester, eldest
son of the illustrious King of
England and France, to all to whom
these present letters shall come,
Greeting. We have examined the
letters patent of Our most dread
Lord and Father, the above named
King, made in these words :—

Henry (4th), by the grace of God,
King of England and France, and
Lord of Ireland, to all to whom the
present letters shall come, Greeting.
We have examined the charter of
the Lord Richard, late King of
England, the second after the
Conquest, made in these words : —

Richard (2nd), by the grace of
God, King of England and France,
and Lord of Ireland, to the Arch-
bishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors,
Dukes, Earls, Barons, Justices,
Sheriffs, Reeves, Ministers, and to
all his Bailiffs and faithful Subjects,
Greeting. We have examined the
charter of the Lord Edward, Our
grandfather, late King of England,
made in these words :—

Edward (8rd), by the grace of
&7

et Francie, et Dominus Hibernie,
Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbati-
bus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Baronibus,
Justiciis, Vice-Comitibus, Prepositis,
Ministris, et omnibus Balliuis et
fidelibus suis, Salutem. Inspeximus

cartam quam celebris memorie,
Dominus Edwardus, nuper Rex
Anglie, progenitor noster,  fecit

Burgensibus de Kaermerdyn, in hee
verba :—

Edwardus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie, et Dux Aqui-
tanie, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Ab-
batibus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Bar-
onibus, Justiciis, Vice-Comitibus,
Prepositis, Ministris, et omnibus
Balliuis, et Fidelibus suis, Salutem.
Inspeximus cartam quam celebris
memorie, Dominus Henricus, quon-
dam Rex Anglie, auus noster, fecit
Burgensibus de Kaermerdyn, in hec
verba :—

Henricus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie, Dux Normandie,
Aquitaine, et Comes Andegavie,
Justiciis, Vice-Comitibus, et omnibus
Ministris suis tocius terre sue,
Salatem.

Sciatis nos concessisse, pro nobis,
et heredibus nostris, Burgensibus
nostris de Kaermerdyn, quod ipsi,
et eorum heredes imperpetuum sint
quieti de theolonio, passagio, et
pontagio, et omnibus consuetudin-
ibus per totam terram nostram.
Quare volumus et firmiter precip-
imus, quod predicti Burgenses de
Kaermerdyn et eorum heredes, im-
perpetuum sint quieti de theolonio,
passagio, et pontagio, et omnibus
consuetudinibus, per totam terram
nostram, sicut predictum est. Huis
testibus :—W. Karliolensi, Episcopo:
H. de Burgo, Comite Kancie, Jus-
ticio nostro: Thoma de Muleton:
Henrico de Braybroc: Radulpho
filio Nicholai: Godefrido Craucumb :
Ricardo de Argentem: Henrico de
Capella, et aliis. Datum per manum

 

God, King of England and France,
and Lord of Ireland, to the Arch-
bishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors,
Earls, Barons, Justices, Sheriffs,
Reeves, Ministers, and to all his
Bailiffs and faithful Subjects, Greet-
ing. We have examined the charter
which our progenitor of illustrious
memory, the Lord Edward, late
King of England, made to the
Burgesses of Caermarthen, in these
words :—

Edward (2nd), by the grace of
God, King of England, Lord of
Treland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to
the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots,
Priors, Earls, Barons, Justices,
Sheriffs, Reeves, Ministers, and to
all his Bailiffs and faithful Subjects,
Greeting. We have examined the
charter, which our grandfather of
illustrious memory, the Lord Henry,
formerly King of England, made
to the Burgesses of Caermarthen,
in these words :—

Henry (8rd), by the grace of God,
King of England, Lord of Ireland,
Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine,
and Earl of Anjou, to the Justices,
Sheriffs, and to all his Ministers
of his whole land, Greeting.

Know ye that We have, for Our-
self and Our heirs, granted to Our
Burgesses of Caermarthen, that they
and their heirs shall for ever be freed
from toll, passage, and pontage, and
all customs throughout Our whole
land. Wherefore We will and firmly
command that the aforesaid Bur-
gesses of Caermarthen and their
heirs shall for ever be freed from
toll, passage, and pontage, and all
customs throughout Our whole land,
as is aforesaid. These being wit-
nesses :—William,' Bishop of Car-
lisle; Hubert de Burgh,! Earl of
Kent, Our Justiciar; Thomas de
Multon;! Henry de Braybrooke ;*
Ralph Fitznicholas;! Godfrey de
Crawcumbe ;1 Richard d’Argentine;*
Henry de Capella, and others.
Given by the hand of the Venerable
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venerabilis patris, Radulphi Cicestrie,
Episcopi, Cancellarij nostri, apud
Westmonasterium, vicesimo secundo
die Julij, anno Regni nostri vndecimo.

Inspeximus eciam cartam con-

firmacionis, quam idem Auus noster
prefatis Burgensibus fecit, in hee
verba :—

Henricus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie
et Dominus Hibernie, Dux Norman-
nie, Aquitanie, et Comes Andegavie,
Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbati-
bus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Baronibus,
Justiciis, Forestariis, Vice-Comitibus,
Prepositis, Ministris, et omnibus
Balliuis et fidelibus suis, Salutem.
Inspeximus cartam, quam Edwardus,
filius noster primogenitus fecit Bur-
gensibus de Kaermerdyn in hec
verba :—

Edwardus, illustris Henrici Regis
Anglie primogenitus, omnibus fideli-
bus suis, hoc presens scriptum visuris
vel audituris, Salutem. Nouerit
vniuersitas vestra, nos concessisse,
dilectis et fidelibus Burgensibus
nostris de Kaermerdyn, omnes bonas
leges et consuetudines, quibus tem-
pore Johannis Regis, aui nostri,
et predecessorum suorum, Regum
Anglie, hactenus vsi sunt et gauisi,
et communiam suam liberam, in
planis, et boscis, in aquis, et in
omnibus aliis aisiamentis obtentis et
vsitatis. Concessimus eciam predic-
tis Burgensibus nostris, quod ipsi,
pro transgressione seu forisfactura
seruientum suorum, catalla et bona

sua in manibus ipsorum inuenta, aut
alicubi locorum per ipsos seruientes
infra terra nostram deposita, qua-
tenus sua esse sufficienter probare
poterunt non amittant: et quod si

 

Father, Ralph,! Bishop of Chichester,
Our Chancellor, at Westminster,
the 22nd day of July, in the eleventh
year of Our reign. [A.D. 1227.]

We (Edw. 2nd) have also ex-
amined a charter of confirmation
which the same Our grandfather
made to the Burgesses, in these
words :—

Henry (8rd), by the grace of God,
King of England and Lord of
Treland, Duke of Normandy and
Aquitaine, and Earl of Anjou, to
the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots,
Priors, Earls, Barons, Justices,
Foresters, Sheriffs, Reeves, Ministers,
and to all his Bailiffs and faithful
Subjects, Greeting. We have ex-
amined a charter which Edward,
our first-born son, made to the
Burgesses of Caermarthen, in these
words :—

Edward (1st) eldest son of the
illustrious Henry, King of England,
to all his faithful men, by whom this
present writing shall be seen or
heard, Greeting. Know ye all, that
We have granted to our beloved
and faithful Burgesses of Caermar-
then, all the good laws and customs,
which, from the time of King John,
our grandfather, and his predecessors,
Kings of England, they have hither-
to used and enjoyed; and their free
common obtained and used in plains
and woods, in waters, and in all
other easements. We have also
granted to our aforesaid Burgesses,
that they shall not lose their goods
and chattels for trespass or forfeiture
of their servants, found in their
hands, or deposited by the same ser-
vants anywhere within our dominion,
so far as they can sufficently prove
them to be their own. And that if
the said Burgesses or any of them
shall die testate or intestate within
our dominion or power, We nor our

' Walter Malclerk, Hubert de Burgh, Thomas de Multon, Henry, Lord Braybrooke;

Ralph Fitznicholas, Godfrey de Crawcombe, Knt.;

Capella, and Bishop Ralph de Neville,

Richard d’Argentine, Henry de

have been previously noticed.
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dicti Burgenses, aut eorum aliqui,
infra terram et potestatem nostram,
testati decesserint vel intestati, nos
vel heredes nostri bona ipsorum
confiscari non faciemus, quin eorum
heredes integre ipsa habeant, qua-
tenus dicta catalla dictorum defunc-
torum fuisse constiterit, dumtamen
de dictis heredibus noticia aut fides
habeatur. Item concessimus eisdem
Burgensibus nostris, quod nullus
eorum infra potestatem nostram vex-
etur, pro debito alicuius vicini sui,
nisi fuerit debitor vel plegius, et
quanivis plegius alicuius, non cogatur
soluere, dum debitor habeat unde
soluere possit ; et quod omnes trans-
gressiones infra liberum Burgum suum
facta, per eorumdem Burgensium
consideracionem emendentur, sicut
hactenus consuevit. Concessimus
eciam eis, quod -si aliquis eorum
alicui infra burgum suum forisfecit,
non ducatur infra portas Castelli, dum
possit inuenire bonos et saluos plegios
de stando juri, hisi pro transgressione
pro qua plegiabilis non fuerit, et
quamuis aliquis eorum, aliquem rem
claro die coram vicinis suis emerit, et
postea res illa fuerit calumpniata
tanquam furtina, non amittet nisi
tantum rem illam, set iurabit cum
sacramento vicinorum suorum, quod
_nesciunt rem illam emisse de latrone,
et quod nullus eorum cogatur ac-
comodare balliuo suo, ultra duodecim
denarios, nisi voluerit bona voluntate
sua: et quod nulla inquisicio de
rebus forinsecis fiat per predictos
Burgenses, set per libere tenentes
patris, sicut hucusque fieri consueuit :
et quod hec concessio nostra rata et
stabilis, pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, predictis Burgensibus nostris
perseueret, hoc presens scriptum
sigilli impressione duximus corro-
borandum. Hiis testibus: Dominis
Petro de Sabandia: Johanne filio
Galfridi: Eble de Montibus: Wil-
lielmo de Pennis: Michaele de

 

heirs will cause the goods of the
same to be confiscated, but their
heirs shall wholly have them, so far
as the said chattels shall appear to
have belonged to the said deceased.
We have also granted to our same
Burgesses, that none of them shall
within our power be molested for the
debt of any his neighbour, unless he
shall be a debtor or surety, and
although a surety for anyone, he
shall not be bound to pay while the
debtor hath wherewith to pay; and
that all trespasses made within their
free Borough shall be corrected, as
hath been hitherto accustomed, by the
deliberation of the same Burgesses.
We have also granted them that
if any of them shall forfeit to any
one within their Borough, he shall
not be confined within the gates of
the Castle, while he can find good
and safe sureties to abide by the
law, unless for a trespass which is
not bailable; and though any one
of them shall in open day buy any-
thing in the presence of his neigh-
bours, and that thing be afterwards
adjudged as stolen, he shall lose not
only that thing, but he shall swear
with the oath of his neighbours that
they do not know that that thing
was bought of a thief; and that-
none of them shall be bound to pay
his bailiff more than twelve pence,
unless of his own free will. And
that no inquisition of things outside
shall be made by the aforesaid Bur-
gesses, but by the freeholders of the
County, as hath hitherto been ac-
customed to be done. And that this
our grant to our aforesaid Burgesses
may continue firm and and sure for
Us and our heirs, we have caused
this present writing to be confirmed
by the impress of our seal. These
being witnesses:—The Lords Peter?
of Savoy, John Fitzgeoffrey,! Eu-
bule de Montibus,' William de Pen-

1 Previously annotated.

12
90

Fenist Waltero de Merton: et
multis aliis.
Nos autem, predictam conces-

sionem ratam habentes, et gratam,
eam pro nobis et heredibus nostris,
concedimus et confirmamus, sicut
predicta carta rationabiliter testatur.
Hiis testibus: Guidone de Lezine:
Galfrido de Lezine, et Willielmo de
Valencia, fratribus nostris: Petro
de Sabandia: Arcaldo de Sancto
Romano: Magistro Iohanne Maun-
sell: Willielmo de Gray: Waukelino
de Ardern: Imberto Pugeis: Wil-
lielmo Gernonum: et aliis. Datum
per manum nostram, apud West-
monasterium, quarto die Februarii,
anno, regni nostri quadragesimo
primo.

Inspeximus eciam cartam, quam
clare memorie Dominus Edwardus,
quondam Rex Anglie, pater noster,
fecit predictis Burgensibus, in hec
verba :—

Edwardus, Dei Gratia, Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie, et Dux Aqui-
tanie, Onmmibus Balliuis et fideli-
bus suis. ad quos presentes littere
peruenerint, Salutem. Cum Wal-
lenses de Elued, Derles, Gwidigada,
Iskennen, Mahathan, Commod Per-
-veth, et Hirewrin in penultima
guerra Wallie, contra nos et pacem
nostram existentes, et inimicis re-
bellibus nostris adherentes, saniori
postmodum ducti, consilio ad “pacem
nostram venissent, et se et sua
voluntati nostre totaliter submisis-
sent; ac nos tunc, ad melioracionem
ville nostre de Kaermerdyn, et ad
securitatem et tuicionem parcium
adiacencium, concessimus Burgensi-
bus nostris, et omnibus aliis cuius-
cuimque condicionis fuerint de predicta

1 All these have been annotated.

 

nis,! Michael de Fenis,’ Walter de
Merton,! and many others.

We (Hen. 3rd) again having rati-
fied and confirmed the aforesaid
grant for us and our heirs, do grant
and confirm it, as the aforesaid
Charter reasonably testifies. These
being witnesses :—Guy’ of Lusignan,
Geoffrey’ of Lusignan, and William?
of Valence, Our brothers. Peter of
Savoy; Arcald de Sancto Romano;
Doctor Jobn Maunsell;+ William
de Gray;' Waukelin de Ardern;
Imbert Pugeys;? William Gernon,
and others. Given by our hand at
Westminster, the fourth day of
February in the 41st year of Our
reign. [A.D. 1257.]

We (iidward 2nd) have also ex-
amined a charter which our father
of illustrious memory the Lord Ed-
ward, late King of England, made
to the aforesaid Burgesses, in these
words :—

Edward (1st), by’ the grace of
God, King of England, Lord of
Treland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to
all our Bailiffs and faithful sub-
jects, to whom the present letters
shall come, Greeting. Whereas the
Welshmen of Elved,? Derllys,? Gwy-
digada,? Iscennen,* Mallaen,’® Pervedd
Commot,’ and Hirvryn,® being in the
last Welsh war but one against us
and our peace, and adhering to our
enemies the rebels, being afterwards
induced by sounder counsel, returned
to our peace, and wholly submitted
themselves and theirs to our authority;
and We then for the improvement
of our town of Caermarthen, and
for the security and defence of the
adjacent places, granted to our Bur-
gesses, and to all others of our

It may not be necessary to notite that in ancient

times, those who were called “ Magister” had attained to some proficiency in science,

especially in literature.
our days is equivalent to “ Magister.”

John Mansell is therefore styled “ Doctor ;” this word in

2 Tn a treaty of peace for one year dated in July, 1260, between Henry III. and
Prince Llewelyn ab Griffith of Wales, Imbert Pugeys’s name appears as the King’s

Steward.

3 These are districts in the present county of Carmarthen, and have been noticed.
91

villa nostra de Kaermerdyn et veteri
Kaermerdyn, quod in boscis nostris
de Mahathan, et omnibus aliis boscis
dictorum Wallencium, tune tanquam
forisfactis in manu nostra existen-
tibus, in quibus, propter eorum
densitatem, depredaciones et homi-
cidia frequenter perpetrabantur, li-
beram haberent communiam. Ita
quod in eis subboscuim quereus aut
maeremium et alias arbores succidere
et asportare possent, et ipsos Bur-
genses, per breve nostrum, dilectis
et fidelibus nostris Willielmo de
Valencia, Avunculo nostro, et Pagano
de Cadurcis, tempore illo locum
nostrum in partilus illis tenentibus
directam, in seisiuam communie pre-
dicte poni fecissemns.

Nos factum nostrum  predictum
gratum et ratum habentes. volumus
et concedimus pro nobis et heredi-
bus nostris, quod predicti Burgenses,
et omnes alii de villis predictis, et
heredes et successores sui, percipiant
et habeant predictam communiam in
boscis predictis. Ita quod subbos-
cum, quercus, et maeremium, et alias
arbores in eis, succedere et asportare
possint, pro voluntate sua, absque
occasione vel impedimento nostri et
heredum nostrorum, Justiciorum,
Vicecomitum, Balliuorum, seu minis-
trorum nostrorum quorumcumque,
imperpetuum. Inhibentes super
grauem forisfacturam nostram, ne
quis ipsos super communiam pre-

dictam vt predictum est habenda'

 

aforesaid town of Caermarthen, and
of Old Caermarthen,’ of whatever
condition they might be, that they
should have free common in our
Woods of Mallaen, and in all other
Woods of the said Welshmen, then
being in our hands, forfeited as it
were, in which robberies and murders
were frequently committed, by reason
of its thickness.. So that they could
fell and carry away the underwood,
oak, or timber, and other trees in
them. And we caused the same
Burgesses to be put in possession
of the aforesaid Common, by Our
writ directed to our dear and faithful
William de Valence, Our Uncle,
and Payne de Chaworth, at that
time our Lieutenants in those places.

We, having ratified and confirmed
our said act, will and grant for us
and our heirs, that the aforesaid
Burgesses, and all others of the
aforesaid Towns, and their heirs and
successors, shall take and have the
aforesaid Common in the Woods
aforesaid. So that, at their pleasure,
they can fell and carry away the
underwood, oak, timber, and other
trees on the same, without hindrance
or impediment from Us, our heirs,
Justices, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, or Ser-
vants whatsoever, for ever.  For-
bidding that any one, upon our grave
displeasure, presume contrary to our
aforesaid grant, to disturb or molest

in aliquo perturbare seu inquictare' them in any wise upon the aforesaid

1 To persons now inhabiting this ancient town the distinctive names of Old and

New Caermarthen may appear strange ;

to state that formerly the town was so divide t
f a line drawn through Little Water-street, and

This portion was built within the town walls, and was
d Bailiffs appointed by the English Prince of Wales as
Old Caermarthen, extended from that line

then was that part to the west o
extending to the river.
governed by the Provosts an
lord of the town. The other portion, or

it will not, therefore, be considered irrelevant

d. The king’s town of New Caermar-

eastward until the river Gwily, and was under the government of the Prior of Caer-

marthen, and his
sent the Prince’

Town to collect tolls, and he justified his action
which had been given to his monastery by charter of |
even up to our days, a nominal mayor was
in procession throughout the town. It reflected

old city,
going may indicate the reason why,
elected in Priory-street, and carried
the shadow of their past days.

. Provost and Bailiff; and in the assertion of his rights, he actually ,
s Provost to prison, in Nov., 1353, for daring to come into his Old

by proving that he was lord of the
of Henry II. The fore-
yearly
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presumat, contra concessionem nos-
tram predictam. In cuius rei testi-
monium has litteras nostras fieri
fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso
apud Kadewelly nono die Decembris,
anno regni nostri terciodecimo.

Nos autem concessiones et con-
firmacionem predictas ratas habentes
et gratas eas pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantam in nobis est, con-
cedimus et confirmamus sicut Carte
predicte rationabiliter testantur et
prout ijdem Burgenses et eorum
antecessores libertatibus predictis
hactenus rationabiliter vsi sunt.
Hiis testibus: Venerabili Patre W.
Wigorniensi, Episcopo. Gilberto de
Clare, Comite, Gloucestrie et Here-
fordie. Adomaro de Valencia, Comite
Pembrochie. Johanne de Britamer,
Comite Richemundie. Hugone le
Spenser. Henrico de Bello Monte.
Edmundo de Malo Lacu, Senescallo
Hospicii nostri, et aliis. Datum per
manum nostram apud Westmonas-
terium tercio die Maij anno regni
nostri sexto.

Nos autem concessiones et con-
firmaciones predictas ratas habentes
et gratas eas pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, con-
cedimus et confirmamus, sicut carte
predicte rationabiliter testantur, et
prout ijdem Burgenses et eorum
antecessores libertatibus predictis
hactenus rationabiliter vsi sunt et
gavisii ET CUM in dicta carta
prefati Henrici Regis, progenitoris
nostri, inter cetera contineatur, quod
predicti Burgenses et eorum heredes
imperpetuum, sint quieti de omnibus
consuetudinibus per totam terram
nostram, et pretextu istorum verbo-

1 These have been noticed.

 

common, held as aforesaid. In wit-
ness whereof we have caused these
our Letters to be made Patent.
Witness Ourself at Kidwely the ninth
day of December, in the thirteenth
year of Our reign. [A.D. 1284.]
We (Edw. 2nd) again, having
ratified and confirmed the aforesaid
grants and confirmation, do for our-
self and our heirs, as much as in
us is, grant and confirm the same,
as the aforesaid Charters reasonably
witness, and as the same Burgesses
and their predecessors have hitherto
reasonably used the aforesaid liberties.
These being witnesses: the Vener-
able Father, Walter, Bishop of
Worcester. Gilbert de Clare,’ Earl
of Gloucester and Hereford. Aymer
de Valence, Earl of Pembroke.
John de Britanny,! Earl of Rich-
mond. Hugh le Despencer.!. Henry
de Beaumont.!| Edmund de Mauley,?
Steward of our Household, and
others. Given by our hand at West-
minster, the third day of May, in
the sixth year of our reign. [A.D.
1313. ]
We (Edward 3rd) again, having
ratified and confirmed the aforesaid
grants and confirmations, do for
ourself and our heirs, as much as
in Us is, grant and confirm as the
charters aforesaid reasonably testify,
and as the same Burgesses and their
predecessors have hitherto reason-
ably used and enjoyed the aforesaid
liberties. And whereas in the said
charter of our progenitor, the afore-
said King Henry (8rd), it is among
other things contained, that the
aforesaid Burgesses, and their suc-
cessors for ever, shall be quit of all
customs within our kingdom, and
under colour of those general words,
the said Burgesses and their prede-

2 Edmund de Mauley lost his stewardship very shortly after this charter was

granted ; in fact, the same year. It was

discovered that the king’s seal had been

counterfeited, and this Edmund was accused by a John de Redinges of having re-

ceived from him forty “talents” of gold
and John convicted,

for the seal; but Edmund was acquitted
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rum generalium, dicti Burgenses et
eorum antecessores a tempore con-
feccionis carte illius semper hactenus,
de muragio, pauagio, kaiagio, et
killagio, de rebus bonis et merci-
moniis, suis soluendis quieti esse
consueuerunt; cumque in dicta carta
prefati Aui nostri, inter cetera
similiter contineatur, quod idem
Auus noster concessit predictis Bur-
gensibus, omnes bonas leges et
consuetudines, quibus tempore dicti
Johannis Regis et predecessorum
suorum Regum Anglie, vsi fuerunt
et gauisi, ijdem que Burgenses et
eorum successores, pretextu con-
cessionis huiusmodi, emendas assise
panis et ceruisie fracte, et assaiam
mensurarum et ponderum infra Bur-
gum predictum, a tempore confec-

cionis carte predicte semper hactenus |

habuerint, sicut dicunt, et nobis sup-
plicauerint, vt pro ipsorum Burgen-
sium heredum et successorum suorum,
securitate futuris temporibus, velimus
dictas libertates eis per cartam nostram
specificare. Nos ad melioracionem
burgi predicti, et commoditatem
Burgensium nostrorum eiusdem burgi,
ut eo tranquillius negociacionibus
suis intendere possint, Volentes eis
in hac parte gratiam facere specialem,
per finem quem predicti Burgenses
fecerunt nobiscum, concessimus eis,
pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quod
ijdem Burgenses et eorum heredes
et successores, de muragio, pauagio,
kaiagio, killagio, de rebus bonis et
mercimoniis suis, per totum regnum
et potestatem nostram, imperpetuum
sint quieti; et quod ipsi et eorum
heredes et successores habeant emen-
das assise panis et ccruisie, in burgo
predicto, fracte, et assalam mensu-
rarum et ponderum infra eundem
burgum. Ita quod Senescalli et

 

cessors were always hitherto accus-
tomed to be freed from paying
murage, pavage, wharfage, and
keelage, for their goods and wares.
And whereas in the said charter
of our aforesaid Grandfather (Edw.
Ist), it is among other things like-
wise contained, that the same our
Grandfather (Edw. 1st) granted, to
the aforesaid Burgesses, all good
laws and customs which had been
used and enjoyed in the time of the
said King John and his predecessors,
Kings of England, and the same
Burgesses and their successors, under
colour of such grant, have, from
the time of the making the charter
aforesaid, always hitherto had, as
they say, the correction of the breach
of the assize of Bread and Ale, and
the assay of weights and measures
within the aforesaid Borough, and
they have petitioned us, that we.
will, for the security in future times,
of the same Burgesses their heirs
and successors, specify to them the
said liberties by our charter. We,
for the improvement of the aforesaid
Borough, and the convenience of our
burgesses of the same Borough, in
order that they may the more easily
carry on their traffic, willing in this
behalf to do them special favour,
have, for a fine on which the afore-
said Burgesses have agreed with us,
granted to them, for us and our
heirs, that the same Burgesses and
theif heirs and successors, shall for
ever be freed throughout our king-
dom and power, from murage, pavage,
wharfage, and keelage for their goods
and wares; and that they and their
heirs and successors shall have the
correction of the breach of the As-
size of Bread and Ale in the afore-
said Borough, and the assay of
weights and measures within the
same Borough. So that the Stewards
and Marshals of our household, or
of our heirs, or the Clerk of the
Market of Us or Our heirs, Justices,
or any other person whatsoever,
Ot

Marescalli de hospicio nostro, vel
heredum nostrorum, vel clericus
noster, vel heredum nostrorum, de
Mercato, Justicii, seu alins qui-
cumque, ad assaiam huiusmodi men-
surarum et ponderum, vel alia
quecumque, que ad officium clerici
de mercato pertinent, in burgo pre-
dicto, facienda vel exercenda, decetero
nullatenus ingrediatur; hoc semper
saluo quod Cancellarius noster et
heredum nostrorum, qui pro tempore
fuerit, cum in partes illas venerit,
mensuras et pondera huiusmodi
superuidere, et querelas omnium et
singulorum se conqueri volencium
trangressiones in hac parte si que
fuerint iuxta eorum demerita punire
ac clericus noster et heredum nos-
trorum de mercato, in presencia
nostra et heredum nostrorum, officium
suum in dicto burgo exequi valeant
et exercere, prout antea fierl con-
sueuit. Et cum in dicta Carta
prefati Aui nostri, contineatur quod
nulla Inquisicio de rebus forinsecis
fiat per predictos Burgenses, set per
libere tenentes patrie, sicut hucusque
fieri consueuit, Nos, de vberiori
gratia nostra, concessimus pro nobis
et heredibus nostris, prefatis Bur-
gensibus, heredibus, et successoribus
suis, quod ipsi, aut eorum heredes
seu successores, decetero non ponan-
tur cum hominibus forinsecis, seu
forinseci cum ipsis, in assisis, iuratis,
aut Inquisicionibus aliquibus, que
ratione terrarum et tenementorum
in eodem burgo aut libertate eius-
dem existencium, vel trangressionum,
contractuum, seu aliorum negociorum
intrinsecorum in eodem Burgo, aut
libertate eiusdem emerserint, capien-
dis. Set assise ille iurate et In-
quisiciones de seipsis Burgensibus
et non aliis in eodem Burgo solum-
modo fiant et capiantur, nisi res illa
taugat nos vel heredes nostros aut
Communitatem eiusdem Burgi. Hiis
testibus: Venerabilibus Patribus, J.

 

shall henceforth in no wise enter
to do or exercise in the Borough
aforesaid, the assay of weights and
measures, or other things whatever,
which belong to the office of Clerk
of the Market. Saving this always
that our Heirs’ Chancellor, for the
time being, when he comes to those
parts, shall have authority to survey
such weights and measures, and on
complaint of all and singular persons
wishing to complain to him, to
punish offences in this behalf, if any
there be, according to their demerits.
And the Clerk of the Market of
Us or our heirs, shall in the
presence of Us and our heirs, have
authority to execute and exercise his
office in the said town, as hitherto
has been accustomed to be done.
And whereas in the said charter of
our aforesaid Grandfather (Edw. Ist),
it is contained that no Inquisition
of foreign things shall be made by
the aforesaid Burgesses, but by the
freeholders of the country, as thither-
to had been accustomed to be done.
We of our abundant grace have
granted for ourselves and our heirs,
to the aforesaid Burgesses, their
heirs, and successors, that they, or
their heirs or successors, shall hence-
forth not be put with foreign men,
or foreign burgesses taken with
them, on any Assizes, Juries, or
Inquisitions whatever which may
arise by reason of lands or tenements
being in the same borough, or the
liberty of the same; or of trespasses,
contracts, or other internal affairs
within the same borough or the liberty
of the same. But those assizes,
juries, and inquisitions shall only be
made and taken in the same borough
from the Burgesses themselves and
no others, unless that matter shall
concern Us or Ovr heirs, or the
Commonalty of the same borough.
These being witnesses: The Vener-
able Fathers, John,! Archbishop of

' John de Stratford, D.C.L., was in 1318, appointed Lord High Treasurer by Edw.
IL, which office he held but for a short time. In 1323 he was made Bishop of
aes)

Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi tocius| Canterbury, Primate of all England.
Anglie Primate. H. Lincolnensi et]Henry! of Lincoln, and Richard?
R. Dunolmensi, Episcopis. Henrico]of Durham, Bishops. Henry* of
de Lancastria, Comite Derbie. Wil-| Lancaster, Karl of Derby. William
Tielmo de Bohun, Comite Nor-|de Bohun,' Earl of Northampton.
hamptonie. Henrico de Ferrariis.| Henry de Ferrers. John D’arcy,®

Winchester; and in 1327, being again Lord Treasurer, brought a bill into Parliament,
charging the king with indolence, incapacity, cowardice, cruelty, and oppression,
and this in the presence of the younger Edward. John was then appointed one
of three to goto Kenilworth for the purpose of inducing (!!) the old king to resign
his crown. On the 28th Nov., 1331, Edw. III. made John keeper of the great seal,
which (June 23rd, 1333) was given to his brother Robert’s custody. as he was
then employed in the king’s business. In 1335, at Edw. IIL.’s desire, John
was raised to the archbishoprick of Canterbury; and in Nov., 1336, he held a
convocation in London. He died in 1348 of that great and famous plague which
desolated Europe.

' Henry de Burghersh, consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in 1320, was one of the three
bishops, mentioned in last note, sent to Kenilworth. Edward II. accounted this man
one of his chief enemies. He was (12th May, 1329) appointed Lord Chancellor,
which office he held until Nov., 1331. He also held the Treasurership of England
during the periods 1327—1329, and 1336, 1337. He died about 1343.

* Richard Angerville, also called “ De Bury,” was born in 1299 near St. Edmunds-
bury. His father was knight of the same name. By his uncle, Sir John Willoughby,
he was sent to Oxford, whence he was called to become tutor to young Prince Ed-
ward of Windsor. Edw. II. sent him afterwards as Principal Receiver to Gascony ;
and when the young Edward and ‘his “beautiful”? mother fled to France in 1325
and their means failed, Richard succoured them in their necessities. When the
young prince as Edw. III. ascended his father’s throne, he made Richard his Cofferer,
Treasurer of the Wardrobe, and Lord Privy Seal, which last he held‘for 5 years.
At the king’s wish he obtained in 1334 the Bishopric of Durham; was appointed
Lord Chancellor Sept. 28th, 1335 (which high office he relinquished on the 6th of
June following); and Lord High Treasurer in 1337. In these years he was thrice
sent to France to demand that kingdom for Edw. III. He died at Auckland in 1345,
and was buried at Durham, having been bishop of that see for 11 years and 2 months.
His charity was unbounded, and his love of literature was so great that it was said
he had more books than all the other bishops put together.

3 Henry “Grosmont”’ of Lancaster was eldest son of Henry, Earl of Lancaster,
Derby, Chester, Lincoln, Leicester, and Provence (grandson of Henry III.), by Maud,
daughter and heiress of Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwely, in co. Caer-
marthen, whom he married in 1298. On the 28th Dec., 1333, young Henry was
granted by his father the castle and town of Kidwely, the territory of Carnwyllion,
in Carmarthenshire. and some places in co. Monmouth, On the 16th March, 1337,
he was created Earl of Derby, and advanced to be Duke of Lancaster, 6th March,
1351. According to Froissart and Knighton he was a most accomplished warrior.
He died of the plague, 24th March, 1360, at Leicester ; and by his Duchess Isabel,
he left two danghters—Maud, who married Ralph, son of Ralph, Lord Stafford ;
and Blanche, married to John of Ghent (4th son to Edw. III.), who became Duke of
Lancaster.

* William de Bohun (5th son of Henry de Bohun, VIL. Harl of Hereford and
Essex, and Constable of England, by his Courtess Elizabeth, d. of Edw. I.) was
created Earl of Northampton, 17th March, 1337. He excelled in military science,
fought in Scotland and France, and took part in the battle of Creci, He died on
Sept. 16th, 1360, and was buried to the north of the presbytery in Walden Abbey,
in Essex. By his wife Elizabeth, widow to ‘Edmund Mortimer, d. to Bartholomew
Badlesmere, he left a son Humphrey, and a dau. Elizabeth, mar. to Richard, eldest
so Earl of Arundel.

5 a a pee born 1302,3, was son and heir to Sir William de Ferrers, knt.
of Groby, in co. Leicester (only bro. to Robert. de F., last Earl of Derby of that
name). He served in the continental wars of Edw. IL, and died Sept. 15th, 1343,
leaving, by his wife Isabel, dau. of Theobald de Verdon, a son, William, 13 years old.

6 John d‘Arcy, a younger son to Norman d‘Arci, was in his time a person of great
action and eminence. On the 2Iist Aug., 1328, he was made Governor of Ireland,
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Johanne Darcy, Senescallo hospicii
nostri, et aliis. Datum per manum
nostrum, apud Westmonasterium
quarto die Maij, Anno Regni nostri
Anglie quarto decimo, regni vero
nostri Ffrancie primo.

Nos autem, omnes et singulas con-
cessiones et confirmaciones predictas,
ratas habentes et gratas, eas pro
nobis et heredibus nostris, quantum
in nobis est, prefatis Burgensibus
dicte ville de Noua Kaermerdyn, et
successoribus suis, de gratia nostra
speciali, tenore presencium, concedi-
mus et confirmamus imperpetuum,
sicut, dicta carta prefati aui nostri
rationabiliter testatur.

Prererea, volentes eisdem Bur-
gensibus gratiam in hac parte facere
specialem, concessimus, et hac carta
nostra confirmauimus, pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis
est, eisdem Burgensibus, quod licet
ipsi vel eorum predecessores, seu
antecessores Burgenses eciusdem ville,
aliqua vel aliquibus libertatum, seu
quietanciarum in dictis cartis conten-
tarum, aliquo casu emergente, hac-
tenus plene vsi non fuerint, ijdem
tamen Burgenses et successores sui,
libertatibus et quietanciis illis, et
earum qualibet, exnunc plene gaudeant
et vtantur, absque occasione vel im-
pedimento nostri vel heredum nostro-
rum, Justiciorum, Escaetorum, Vice-
comitum, aut aliorum Balliuorum,
seu ministrorum nostrorum quorum-
cumque,imperpetuum. Considerantes
insuper, qualiter ijdem Burgenses
nostri eiusdem ville et burgi de
Noua Kermerdyn, dampna et op-
pressiones quamplurima, que homines
Wallenses ex eorum malicia, ante
hec tempora, sepsius intulerunt mul-
tipliciter sunt perpessi, Ac volentes

and a second time its Justiciar.

 

Steward of our Household, and
others. Given by our hand at West-
minster the 4th day of May, in the
14th year of our Reign over England,
but the Ist year of our Reign of
France. [1340.]

We [Rich. II.] again, having ratified
and confirmed all and singular the
grants and confirmations, Do, by the
tenor of these presents, of our special
grace, to the aforesaid Burgesses
of the town of New Caermarthen,
and their successors for ever, grant
and confirm them for ourself and our
Heirs, as much as in Us is, as the
said Charter of our aforesaid great
grandfather reasonably testifies.

FourtTHermore willing to do special
grace in this behalf to the same
Burgesses, we have granted and by
this our Charter have confirmed, for
Us and our heirs, as much ag in
Us is, to the same Burgesses, that
although they or their predecessors
or ancestors, Burgesses of the same
town, have not hitherto fully used
any or either of the liberties -or
quittances contained in the said
Charters, in any emergency, yet the
same Burgesses and their successors
shall henceforth for ever fully enjoy
and use those liberties and quittances
and every of them, without ob-
struction or impediment of Us or
our Heirs, Justices, Escheators,
Sheriffs, or other our Bailiffs or
Servants whatsoever. Considering
further how the same our Bur-
gesses of the Town and Borough of
New Caermarthen have very greatly
suffered from the many damages and
violence, which the Welshmen have
aforetime, from their malice, often
caused, and willing therefore of our

He did good service in Ireland and Scotland, and

while he was Steward of the King’s Household was one sent to treat of peace with
David Bruce of Scotland; when filling the important office of Constable of the
Tower, he as one was sent ambassador to France to demand that country for Edw.

II.

He married two wives—I1st, Emeline, dau. and heiress to Walter Heron, by

whom he had 3 children—Sir John, born 1317, Eleanor, and Roger; 2nd, Joan
(mar. at_ Maynooth, 3rd July, 1329), dau. of Richard Burgh, Earl of Ulster, by whom
he had William, born in 1330. He died 30th May, 1347.
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proinde, tam pro auxilio et releuamine
dicte ville et Burgi de Noua Kaer-
merdyn, quam pro commodo pace
et quiete ipsorum Burgensium nos-
trorum eiusdem ville, ex regia
benignitate vberius prouidere, de
auisamento et assensu concilii nostri,
concessimus, et hac Carta nostra
confirmauimus, pro nobis et heredi-
bus nostris, quantum in nobis est,
eisdem Burgensibus nostris, et suc-
cessoribus suis, quod ipsi, de se ipsis,
libere possint eligere vnum Maiorem
et duos Balliuos, semel quolibet
anno, videlicet, die lune proximo
post festum Sancti Michaelis, qui
statim cum in Maiorem et Balliuos
sic electi fuerint, officia Maioris et
Balliuorum ibidem debite faciant et
exerceant, et inde corporalia prestent
sacramenta. Et quod ijdem Burgen-
ses heredes vel successores sui, nul-
latenus convincantur nec indicentur
in Comitatibus de Kermerdyn, Car-
digan, nec in sessionibus nec in
aliquibus aliis Curtis per aliquos
Wallices in aliquibus appellis nec in-
dictamentis feloniarum,rectis, iniuriis,
transgressionibus, criminibus, nec de-
mandis, in ipsos impositis seu im-
ponendis, nec in aliquibus aliis
accionibus personalibus infra Comi-
tatum de Kermerdyn et Cardigan
emergentibus, seu alibi in partibus
illis, preterquam Burgenses Anglicos,
et vero Anglicos. Et insuper, quod
eligere possint de se ipsis, quolibet
anno, vnum Coronatorem ad diem
predictum, qui, prestito sacramento,
prout moris est, faciat et conseruet
que ad officium Coronatoris pertinent
in villa et Burgo predictis.

Et quod ijdem Burgenses et suc-
cessores sui, habeant returna omnium
breuium nostrorum et heredum nos-
trorum, in omnibus placitis, per-
sonalibus et realibus, et in omnibus
aliis casibus de rebus infra dictam
villam et Burgum emergentibus.
Tra quod nullus Escaetor, vice-comes,
uel alius Ballinus, nec Minister nostri

13

 

more abundant Royal Bounty to
provide as well for the aid and relief
of the said Town and Borough of
New Caermarthen, as for the ad-
vantage, peace, and quiet of our
Burgesses of the same town, We,
by the advice and assent of our
Council, have granted, and by this
our Charter have confirmed for us
and Our Heirs, as much as in Us
is, to the same Burgesses and their
successors, that they, from them-
selves, may freely elect a Mayor and
two Bailiffs every year, to wit: On
Monday next after the feast of St.
Michael, who, immediately upon such
their election to be Mayor and
Bailiffs, shall take their corporal
oaths, and shall duly perform and
exercise the offices of Mayor and
Bailiffs there. And that the same
Burgesses, their heirs or successors,
shall by no means be convicted or
indicted in the Counties of Caer-
marthen or Cardigan, nor in Sessions,
nor in any other Courts, by any
Welshmen, or any appeals or in-
dictments of felony, rights, injuries,
trespasses, crimes, or demands im-
posed or to be imposed on them,
nor in other personal actions arising
within the Counties of Caermarthen
and Cardigan, or elsewhere in those
parts, except by English burgesses
and true Englishmen. And further,
that they from themselves may every
year elect a Coroner on the afore-
said day, who, having taken oath
according to custom, shall, in the
Town and Borough aforesaid, do
and perform all things pertaining
to the office of Coroner.

And that the same Burgesses and
their Successors shall have the re-
turn of all the Writs of Us and
Our Heirs in all pleas, real or per-
sonal, and in all other cases concern-
ing matters arising within the said
Town and Borough. So that no
Escheator, Sheriff, or other Bailiff
or Servant of Us or Our Heirs shall
in any wise enter or come into the
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vel heredum nostrorum, infra dictam
villam et Burgum, nullatenus in-
grediatur, nec se inde intromittat,
ad aliquam execucionem ibidem fa-
ciendam. Et insuper, quod Comi-
tatus de Kermerdyn et Cardigan,
ac Sessiones magne et parve, que
infra dictam villam et Burgum de
Kermerdyn teneri solebant, exnunc
teneantur ibidem imperpettuum, prout
ysitari consueuit. QuarEe volumus
et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quod predicti Bur-
genses dicte ville de Noua Kermer-
dyn et successores sui, habeant et
teneant omnia et singula libertates
et priuilegia supradicta, eis que pa-
cifice et quiete gaudeant et vtantur
imperpetuum sicut predictum est.
Hiis testibus:—Venerabilibus Patri-
bus, A. Archiepiscopo Ebor, Anglie
Primate; R. Londoniensi, J. Dunol-
mensi, Thesaurio nostro; W. Covent-

 

said Town or Borough, to make any
execution there. And further, that
the County Courts of Caermarthen
and Cardigan, and the great and
petty Sessions, which were accus-
tomed to be held within the said
Town and Borough of Caermarihen,
shall for ever henceforth be held
there, as was accustomed to be used."
Wuererore We will and firmly
command, for Us and Our Heirs,
that the aforesaid Burgesses of the
said Town of Caermarthen and their
successors, shall have and hold all
and singular the aforesaid liberties
and privileges, and shall for ever
enjoy and use them peaceably and
quietly, as is aforesaid. These being
witnesses: the Venerable Fathers,
A. Archbishop of York, Primate
of England; R.° of London; J.
of Durham, Our Treasurer; W.' of
Coventry and Lichfield, Bishops.

' The foregoing section was rendered nugatory by a grant of Richard II. to the
Cardigan burgesses, dated 22nd Sept., 1395.

2 Alexander Neville, Archdeacon of Durham and Canon of York, was raised in
1878 to be Archbishop of York. This man was accused by nobles and commons
of flattering and pampering the dissolute Richard II., the unworthy son of a noble
father. In 1887, he was one that swore to the nobles that the king intended no
treachery towards them, on their road to confer with him at Westminster, while at
the very time an ambuscade had been prepared on their route, commanded by two
knights. The bishop was that year banished; and although the Pope elected him
to the see of Saint Andrew in Scotland, he never attempted to place foot there; but
after serving as a parish priest in Louvain in France, he died there in 1392, and was
buried among the Carmelite Friars in that place.

3 Robert Braybrooke, Dean of Salisbury, was promoted to be Bishop of London
in 1381. On Saturday, the 23rd Feb., 1383, he was made Lord Chancellor, and had
the Great Seal delivered him by the king himself, who considered he had met with
an unscrupulous person. The tale is instructive, the former Chancellor, Sir Richard
Scrope, knt., had boldly refused to annex the Seal to all the grants of the infatuate
king, who, after a refusal of Scrope’s to resign it, went personally and obtained it.
He kept it for some days, and himself sealed several patents, and then gave it to
ie ee Oe who held it until the 13th of March following, being 18 days. He died
in

* John Fordham, Dean of Wells, was consecrated Bishop of Durham in 1381. In
1885, he was appointed Lord Treasurer, but the Parliament removed him in the
following year; and in 1388, he was with others entirely removed from Court, but
not sent to prison as many were. The same year, as Richard II. and his nobles had
in a measure been reconciled, Fordham was translated to the vacant see of Ely.
which he held until 1426, the apparent year of his death. :

* Walter Skirlaw, born in the parish of Swine, Holderness, co. Y
of St. Martin’s, when he was consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Liha a coe
The next year he was translated to Bath and Wells, and in two years after he was
again translated to the see of Durham, which he held until his death in 1406, He
rebuilt the bridges of Shincliff, Yarrow, and Auckland, and was a benefactor in the
way of building and repairing religious edifices,
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rensi et Lichefeldensi, Episcopis;/Thomas,! Duke of Gloucester;
Thoma, Duce Gloucestrie; Roberto| Robert de Vere,? Marquess of Dub-
de Veer, Marchione Dublini, Comite|lin, Earl of Oxford, Chamberlain of
Oxoniensi, Camerario Anglie; Mi-|England; Michael de la Pole,’ Earl
chaele de Pole, Comite Suffolcie,Jof Suffolk, Our Chancellor; John
Cancellario nostro; Johanne de/de Cobham‘ of Kent; John de
Cobham de Kent; Johanne de Monte] Montacute,’ Steward of Our House-

1 Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock, Earl of Essex and Northampton, born 7th
Jan., 1356, was 6th son of King Edw. III. When 21 years old he was made Con-
stable of England, and at the coronation of his nephew, Rich. IT. (21st June, 1377),
was created Earl of Hereford. On the 12th Nov., 1385, he had the earldom of
Albemarle, and was advanced to be Duke of Gloucester, to which a grant of £1000
yearly was added. He took the people's part against the king’s profligate favourites,
especially Robert de Vere. He was chief of the 14 nobles commissioned to govern
the country, who were summarily dismissed when Richard attained his majority.
The king had long nourished secret revenge against Gloucester ; and in Nov., 1397,
he deceitfully enticed him from his house, and on the road to London left him ar-
rested by Thomas, Earl Marshal, who took him to Calais, where, by the king’s
orders, the marshal ordered Gloucester to be smothered, and was rewarded by the
king’s raising him to the dukedom of Norfolk. By his duchess, Alianore, d. of
Humphrey de Bohun, he left a son, Humphrey, born in 1381; Ann, born 1380, mar-
ried to Edmund, Earl of Stafford; Joan died unmarried; and Isabel, born 23rd
April, 1384, who became a nun in the Minoresses, London.

? Robert de Vere, born 1261-2, was son and heir to Thomas, Earl of Oxford, by
Maud, dau. of Ralph de Ufford. Her mother was Maud, Countess of Ulster, sister
to Henry, Earl of Lancaster. He was the great favourite of King Richard, who
bestowed many castles, manors, and much wealth upon this Adonis; and created
him Marquess of Dublin (1385), a title not previously known in England,
and the same year made him Duke of Ireland. These honours excited the hate of
the great body of the nobility, who knew they were more worthy than he to receive
the like. Feeling elated, he discarded his fair young wife, Philippa, first cousin to
his king; for she was dau. to Ingelram de Guisnes, Earl of Soissons and Redford,
grandson to Leopold, Duke of Swabia, by his countess, the Lady Isabel, dau. to the
noble King Edw. III., and he married a girl called “ Lancecrona,” who came over
with Queen Anne from Bohemia. The king cared not, but withdrew with him into
Wales, whence they soon returned, as the nobles had risen. De Vere eventually
escaped to France to avoid a charge of high treason; so the Parliament confiscated
all his property and outlawed him. In 1392, while hunting, a boar wounded him,
and he died in Louvain. The silly king sent for his body in Nov., 1395; and after
getting “a last fond look” as he lay in his cypress-wood coffin, re-interred him at
Colne in Essex, the only mourners being himself and a good many bishops, but few
of the nobles. He left no issue by either of his wives.

3 Michael de la Pole, son of Sir William de la Pole, knt. banneret, Edw. ITI.’s
“beloved merchant’’ (who resided at Kingston upon Hull), by his wife Katherine, d.
of Sir John Norwich, knt., served in France and other places under noble com-
manders. In 1364 Edward raised him to the title of Baron de la Pole of Wingfield,
in Suffolk. Richard IL. (12th Mar., 1383) constituted him Chancellor and Keeper
of the Great Seal; and on the 6th of Aug., 1385, advanced him to the earldom of
Suffolk, and granted him 1000 marks yearly. The Parliament of 1386 impeached
him, confiscated his estates, and condemned him for frauds and misdemeanors ; he
lost his chancellorship, but Richard condoned his offences. When the barons took
to arms, Michael fled to Paris, and there died, Sept. 5th, 1388. By his wife Catherine,
d. and h. to Sir John de Wingfield, knt., he left a son Michael, born in March, 1367,
and Anne, m. to Gerard, son of Warine, Lord L’isle.

4 Sir John de Cobham, knt. banneret, Lord Cobham, was son of Henry, Lord
Cobham. He served Edw, III. and Richard IL. faithfully in the French wars and
in embassies. Nevertheless, Richard, in the Parliament of 1397, caused this “ good
and upright old man” to be impeached and condemned. The king sent him prisoner
to Jersey, but spared his life. He died Jan. 10th, 1408, leaving a grand-daughter
Joan, who married her 3rd husband, the celebrated Sir John Oldcastle, knt.

5 Sir John de Montacute, knt. banneret, Lord Monthermer, was second son of
William, Earl of Salisbury, Lord of Man and Denbigh, by his Countess Katherine,
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Acuto, Senescallo Hospitii nostri, et
aliis. Datum per manum nastram
apud Westmonasterium septimo die
Julij, anno regni nostri, decimo.

Insprximvs eciam quasdam litteras
patentes Domini Edwardi nuper
Regis Anglie proaui nostri, in hee
verba :—

' Edwardus, Dei gratia, Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie,
omnibus Balliuis et fidelibus suis in
Wallia, ad quos presentes littere
peruenerint, Salutem. Cum tempore
Domini Edwardi, quondam Regis
Anglie, patris nostri, anno regni suj
tricesimo tercio, quando Princeps
Wallie eramus, per ipsum patrem
nostrum et consilium suum ac nos-
trum, pro emendacione et meliora-
cione Burgi nostri de Kaermerdyn,
et aliorum Burgorum in Wallia,
ordinatum esset, quod nullus in par-
tibus vicinis Burgis nostris predictis,
per quinque lencas in circuitu eorum-
dem, emeret vel venderet mercimonia,
quocumque: nomine censerentur, nisi
in ipsis Burgis, sub forisfactura
mercimoniorum predictorum, per cer-
tum balliuum nostrum, ad_ hoc
specialiter deputandum, capiendorum
ad opus nostrum, postquam eidem
Balliuo constaret manifeste per se,
vel per consideracionem Curie nostre,
quod huiusmodi mercimonia emeren-
tur, vel manifeste vendicioni expone-
rentur, licet eciam non venderentur,
exceptis hiis in locis per cartas
privilegiatis, et exceptis pane et
ceruisia in predictis Burgis in grosso
emptis, que postmodum in patria

dau. to William de Grandison.

 

hold, and others. Given by our
hand at Westminster, the seventh
day of July, in the 10th year of
Our Reign. [A.D. 1886.]

We [Rich. II] have also ex-
amined certain Letters Patent of
our great grandsire, the Lord Ed-
ward, late King of England, in these
words :—

Edward [II.] by the grace of
God, King of England, Lord of
Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to
all his Bailiffs and faithful Subjects
in Wales, to whom the present letters
shall come, Greeting. Whereas in
the time of our father, the Lord
Edward [I.], formerly King of
England, it was, in the 83rd year
of his reign (when we were Prince of
Wales) by our same father, and his
and Our Council, for the amendment
and improvement of our Borough
of Caermarthen, and of Our other
Boroughs in Wales, ordained, that
no one, in the parts adjoining our
aforesaid borough, for five leagues
in the cireuit of the same, should
buy or sell wares, by what name
soever they might be designated,
except in those boroughs, under for-
feiture of the aforesaid wares by
Our certain Bailiff, for this purpose
specially deputed, to be taken to
our use, when it should clearly ap-
pear to the said Bailiff, by his own,
or by the consideration of Our
Court, that such wares were bought,
or clearly exposed for sale, although
not sold, except those in places
privileged by charters: and except
bread and ale in the aforesaid
boroughs bought in gross, which
afterwards could lawfully be sold in
the country by the buyers: except
also meat and fish, cut cheese, eggs,
poultry, and such saleable things,

He also served in the French wars; and in 1381,

being Steward of the King’s Household, was, with others, sent to conduct Richard’s

young wife, Queen Anne, into England.
his wife Margaret, d. and h. of Thomas de Monthermer, three
(born 1850), afterwards Earl of Salisbury; Thomas,

Alianore, Sibyl, Catherine, and Margaret.

He died Feb. 25th, 1890, leaving by

¢ sons—Sir John
Richard ; and four daughters—
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per ementes licite vendi possunt;
exceptis eciam carnibus, et piscibus,
scissis caseis, ouis, pullanis, et huius-
modi vendibilibus, cera tamen que
pro sigillis, extra Burgos predictos,
in grosso non venderentur; et quod
dicta ordinacio proclamaretur et
publicaretur per Justicium nostrum in
singulis curiis Burgorum, senescallo
de Comito parcium illorum, quater
inanno. Nos, volentes ordinacionem
predictam firmiter et inuiolabiliter
obseruari decetero et teneri, vobis
mandamus, quod contra ordinacionem
predictam nichil omnino attemptetis
seu attemptarl permittatis, quominus
dicta ordinacio pro emendacione et
melioracione, Burgorum nostrorum
predictorum, subforisfactura predicta,
ad vpus nostrum capienda, modis
omnibus valeat obseruari. In cuius
rel testimonium has litteras nostras
fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso
apud Westmonasterium tercio die
Maij, anno regni nostri sexto.

Nos autem concessiones et con-
firmaciones predictas ratas habentes,
et gratas, eas pro nobis et heredibus
nostris quantum in nobis est, ac-
ceptamus, approbamus, et nunc
Burgensibus dicte ville de Noua
Kaermerdyn et successoribus suis
de gratia nostra speciali concedimus
et confirmamus sicut Carte et littere
predicte rationabiliter testantur, et
prout ijdem Burgenses et eorum
antecessores, libertatibus predictis
hactenus rationabiliter vti et gaudere
consueuerunt. In cuius rei testi-
monium has litteras nostras fieri
fecimus patentes. Teste meipso
apud Westmonasterium vicesimo
quarto die Marcii, anno regni nostri,
primo.

Nos autem, concessiones, confirma-
ciones, libertates, quietancias, fran-
chesias et priuilegia predicta, ac
omnia et singula in cartis et litteris
predictis contenta, rata habentes et
grata, ea pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, ac-

 

wax, nevertheless, for seals should
not be,sold in gross out of the afore-
said boroughs; and that the said
ordinance should be proclaimed and
published by Our Justice in every
court of the Boroughs, to the
Steward of the Commot of those
parts, four times in the year. Wer
[ Edw. II.] willing that the aforesaid
ordinance be henceforth firmly and
faithfully observed and kept, com-
mand you that you neither do nor
permit anything whatever to be done
against the aforesaid ordinance, by
which the said ordinance for the
amendment and improvement of Our
aforesaid boroughs, may in any way,
be the less observed, under the for-
feitures aforesaid to be taken for
our use. In witness whereof, We
have caused these Our Letters to
be made-patent. Witness ourself at
Westminster the 3rd day of May, in
the sixth year of Our reign. [A.D.
1313.]

We [Hen. IV.] again, having for
ourself and our Heirs, as much as
in Us is, ratified and confirmed the
aforesaid grants and confirmations,
Do accept, approve, and of our
especial grace do now grant and
confirm the same to the Burgesses
of the said Town of New Caermar-
then, and their successors, as the
aforesaid Letters and Charters reason-
ably testify, and as the same Bur-
gesses and. their predecessors have
hitherto been reasonably accustomed
to use and enjoy the liberties afore-
said. In witness whereof We have
caused these our Letters to be made
Patent. Witness ourself at West-
minster, the 24th day of March, in
the first year of Our Reign. [A.D.
1400.

We [Henry V.] again, having
for ourself and our Heirs, as much
as in Us is, ratified and confirmed
the grants, confirmations, liberties,
franchises, and privileges aforesaid,
and all and singular contained in
the aforesaid Charters and Letters,
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ceptamus, approbamus, et nune Bur-
gensibus dicte ville de Kaermerdyn
ac eorum heredibus et successoribus,
tenore presencium, concedimus et
confirmamus, prout carte et littere
predicte rationabiliter testantur, et
prout ijdem Burgenses ac anteces-
sores sui, Burgenses eiusdem ville
de Kermerdyn, libertatibus, quietan-
ciis, et franchesiis, et privilegiis
predictis, hactenus rationabiliter vsi
sunt et gavisi. In cuius rei’ testi-
monium has litteras nostras_fieri
fecimus patentes. Datum sub sigillo
nostro apud Manerium nostrum de
Kenyngton, vicesimo octavo die
Januarij, anno regni metuendissimi
Domini et Patris nostri Regis supra-
dicto quinto.

Nos autem, donaciones, conces-
siones, et confirmaciones, tam dicti
Patris nostri, quam aliorum progeni-
torum nostrorum  supradictas, et
omnia alia et singula in cartis et
litteris predictis contenta, rata
habentes et grata, ea pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis
est, acceptamus, approbamus, ac
dilectis nobis Majori, Ballivis, et
Burgensibus dicte ville de Nona
Kaermerdyn, et successoribus suis, de
gratia nostra speciali confirmamus,
prout Carte et littere predicte rationa-
biliter testantur. Prererna, volentes
eisdem Maiori, Balliuis, et, Burgensi-
bus, gratiam in hac parte facere
vberiorem, concessimus, pro nobis et
heredibus nostris, et hac carta nostra

confirmauimus, quod licet ijdem
Maior, Balliui, et Burgenses vel
eorum predecessores, libertatibus,

immunitatibus, siue quietanciis, in
cartis et litteris predictis contentes,
vel earum aliqua, casu aliquo emer-
gente, hactenus vsi non fuerint, ipsi
tamen Maior, Balliui, et Burgenses,
et successores sui, libertatibus, im-
munitatibus, et quietanciis illis, et
earum qualibet, decetero  plene
gaudeant et utantur, sine occasione
vel impedimento nostri, vel heredum

 

Do accept, approve, and do now
grant and confirm them by the tenor
of these presents, to the Burgesses
of the said Town of Caermarthen
and their heirs and successors, as
the aforesaid Charters and Letters
reasonably testify, and as the same
Burgesses and their predecessors,
Burgesses of the same Town of
Caermarthen, have hitherto reason-
ably used and enjoyed the liberties,
franchises, and privileges aforesaid.
In witness whereof we have caused
these Our Letters to be made Patent.
Given under Our Seal at Our Manor
of Kennington, the 28th day of
January in the fifth year of the
reign of our most dread Lord and
Father, the King abovesaid. [A.D.
1404.]

We [Hen. V.] again, having for
Us and Our Heirs, as much as in
Us is, ratified and confirmed the
gifts, grants, and confirmations, as
well of Our said Father, as of
our other Progenitors, and all and
singular other things contained in
the aforesaid Charters and Letters,
Do accept, approve, and, of our
especial grace, do confirm them to
our dear Mayor, Bailiffs, and Bur-
gesses of the said Town of New
Caermarthen, and their successors,
as the aforesaid Charters and Letters
reasonably testify. FurtTHERMoRE
willing to do more abundant grace
in this behalf to the same Mayor,
Bailiffs, and Burgesses, We have,
for Ourself and Our Heirs, granted
and confirmed by this our charter,
that, although the said Mayor,
Bailiffs, and Burgesses, or their
predecessors, have not hitherto used
the liberties, immunities, or quit-
tances contained in the aforesaid
Charters and Letters, or any of
them, on any emergency, nevertheless
they, the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Bur-
gesses, and their successors, may
henceforth for ever fully enjoy and
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nostrorum, Justiciorum, Escaetorum,
vice comitum, aut aliorum balliuorum
seu Ministrorum nostrorum, vel
heredum nostrorum quorumcumque,
imperpetuum. Er vurenius, volentes
eisdem Maiori, Balliuis, et Burgen-
sibus, gratiam facere ampliorem,
concessimus, et hac carta nostra
confirmauimus, pro nobis et heredibus
nostris, quantum in nobis est, eisdem
Maiori, Balliuis, et Burgensibus,
quod ipsi vel eorum heredes, succes-
sores seu assignati, tenentes aut resi-
dentes infra villam predictam, aliquo
tempore futuro nullatenus convincan-
tur, indictentur, nec adiudicentur,
nec trahantur in responsum, nec in
iudicium nec aliquomodo impetan-
tur, in aliquibus appelis, nec indicta-
mentis prodicionum nec feloniarum,
nec intrangressionibus,rectis, iniuriis,
mesprisionibus, calumpniis, aut de-
mandis quibuscumque, nec in ali-
quibus aliis accionibus personalibus
seu realibus, nec in aliquibus crimini-
bus, emergentibus vel accidentibus
infra Comitatum de Kaermerdyn et
Cardigan, per aliquos forinsecos, set’
solomodo per homines meros Anglicos
ville predicte, et non per aliquos
homines Wallicos imperpetuum.
Hiistestibus: Venerabilibus Patribus
Thoma, Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi,
tocius Anglie Primate, Consanguineo
nostro. H. Wynton, Auunculo

 

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use those liberties, immunities, and
quittances, and every one of them,
without obstruction or impediment
from Us or our Heirs, Justices,
lischeators, Sheriffs, or other the
Bailiffs or Servants of Us or our
Heirs whomsover. Anp Furruer,
willing to do more ample grace to
the same Mayor, Bailiffs, and Bur-
gesses, We, for ourselves and our
Heirs, as much as in Us is, grant
and by this Our Charter confirm
to the same Mayor, Bailiffs, and
Burgesses, that they or their heirs,
successors or assigns, tenants or
residents, within the aforesaid Town,
shall in no wise, in future, be con-
victed, indicted, adjudged, or com-
pelled to plead, or in any wise be
impeached in judgment in any
appeals or indictments of treason
or felonies, or in trespasses, rights,
injuries, misprisions, accusations, or
demands whatsoever, or in any other
actions personal or real, or for any
crimes arising or happening within
the Counties of Caermarthen and
Cardigan, by any foreigners, but
only by true Englishmen of the
Town aforesaid, and not by any
Welshmen, for ever. These being
witnesses: the Venerable Fathers,
Thomas,’ Archbishop of Canterbury,
Primate of All England, Our Cousin.
HY? of Winchester, our very dear

' Thomas Fitzalan, archdeacon of Taunton, born 1353, was 2nd son of Richard,
Earl of Arundel, by his Countess Eleanor, d. of Henry, Earl of Lancaster. When
21 years of age he was consecrated Bishop of Ely, and enthroned two years after,
Godwin exclaims, “Annosum quemque virum facile credas gravissimum—cum jam,
Ocapularem senem! etatis annum explevisset—fere vicesimum secundum !” By virtue
of the Pope’s bull, he was in 1388 raised to the see of York, and in 1396 to the
archiepiscopal see of Canterbury. He was 3 times Lord Chancellor and Keeper
of the Great Seal; viz., 24 Oct., 1387, till 4th May, 1389; 7th Sept., 1392, till 23rd
Nov., 1897; and 30th Jan., 1407, till 1410. He was so active and busy in civil affairs
that Richard II. banished him in 1396. The Pope expostulated ; but the king wrote
to say that if the Pope had a mind to provide for him, he might, but he would not
allow him to “dip in his dish.” The archbishop carried the invitation to Henry of
Lancaster to return and dethrone Richard, and that accomplished, he crowned Henry
king. The Pope refused him a bull, which he earnestly asked for, to diy up Wick-
liffe’s bones, and burn them. This intolerant bigot, soon after he had excommuni-
cated Lord Cobham, the Lollard, cay i with an inflammation of the throat,

j e 20th of February, 1413.
a ae eee deau of Welle, was a legitimated son of John of Ghent, Earl of
Richmond, and Catherine Swinford, afterwards his third wife. Educated at Oxford
and Aix-la-Chapelle, he became Bishop of Lincoln in 1397, Chancellor of Oxford in
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nostro carissimo, Cancellario nostro.) Uncle and Chancellor. Thomas! of
Th. Dunolmensi. N. Bathonensi et| Durham. N-of Bath and Wells. HH.
Wellensi. H. Meneuensi, Episcopis. | of St. David’s, Bishops. Thomas‘ of
Thoma Arundell, Thesaurario nostro. | Arundel, Our Treasurer. Richardé of
Ricardo Warrick. | Consanguineis | Warwick, Our dear Cousins, Earls.
nostris carissimis, Comitatibus. Hen-| Henry Fitz Hugh,’ Our Chamber-

1399, and Bishop of Winchester in 1405. He was Lord Chancellor four times, viz.,
1404 till 1405, 1414 till 1417; 12th Oct., 1417, till 23rd June, 1418; and 16th July,
1424, till March, 1426. In 1428, while in France, he received a cardinal’s hat from
the Pope. He lent £20,000 to Henry V. for his expedition into France. He had.
dissensions with the Duke of Gloucester, who in 1426, at the Parliament held in
Leicester, exhibited 6 indictments against him, but he was acquitted. Again, he was
one that accused the Duchess of Gloucester of treason, witchcraft, &c. The “good
Duke Humphrey” died in arrest on the 28th of February, 1447, and the nation
believed he was murdered. His old rival, our “ Lord Cardinal,” also died on the
11th April the same year, “and made no sign.” But the “sign” he made appeared
in his will, by which the mass of his property was bequeathed for charitable pur-
poses.

' Thomas de Langley, dean of York, was elected Bishop of Durham in 1406. He
held the high office of Lord Chancellor twice; viz., from 1405 till 1407 and from
23rd June, 1418, until 1424. He was twice sent on an embassy to France, and died
in 1424, :

2 Nicholas Bedwith, prebendary of Salisbury, was Master of the Rolls from 24th
Sept., 1401, till March 2nd, 1404. He was also Keeper of the Privy Seal. He
was made Bishop of London in 1406, Lord Treasurer for a short time, Bishop of
Salisbury in 1407, and Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1408. He died in 1425.

3 Henry Chickley, D.C.L., archdeacon of Salisbury, was born at Higham Ferrers,
in co. Northampton. Being Chancellor of Salisbury, his talents were brought under
the notice of Henry IV., who employed him; and while on an embassy to the Pope,
was by his holiness’s hand consecrated Bishop of St. David’s, at Sienna, in 1407,
He received the temporalities April 3rd, and the spiritualities August 26th, 1408. In
1409 he was deputed by the English clergy to the council of Pisa. He and the Earl
of Warwick were in 1413 sent by Henry V. on an embassy to the French king; and
when Thomas Fitzalan died in 1414, he was translated to the archbishopric of Canter-
bury. He built All Souls College, Oxford, and, enjoying the respect and esteem of
the people, he died in 1443. :

+ Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, was son of the executed Earl Richard, by his
Countess Elizabeth, dau. of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton. He was
restored in blood and made K.B. in 1399 by Hen. TV. Henry V., in 1413, made him
Constable of Dover Castle, Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Treasurer of England.
He died 13th Oct., 1415, leaving no issue by his wife Beatrix (married 26th Nov.,
1414), nat. dau. of John Nothus, son of Pedro the Cruel, king of Portugal.

5 Richard Beauchamp, K.G., earl of Warwick, born Jan. 28, 1381, was son to Earl
Thomas, by the Lady Margaret, dau. of William, Lord Ferrers of Groby. This war-
like and accomplished man had a wish to travel. So in 1408 he crossed to Paris
and through Verona to Rome; back to Venice and thence to Jerusalem; again to
Venice, and thence through Germany, Prussia, Westphalia, Poland, Lithuania, and
Russia. He returned to England in Sept., 1410. His services and fidelity were so
conspicuous that Henry V. in his will gave him the tutelage of his infant heir till
he would be 16 years of age; but when Henry VI. was 14, the earl was relieved and
sent to France as its Regent. He continued in that high office until his death April
30th, 1439. By his first wife Elizabeth, d. and h. of Thomas, Lord Berkley he left
3 daughters; by his second wife Isabel, dau. of Thomas le Despenser Earl of
Gloucester, he left a daughter and his heir Henry, who was christened on ‘Saturday
24th Mar., 1424, by a Caermarthenshire man, Philip Morgan, Bishop of Worcester,
Cardinal Beaufort and Humphrey, Earl of Stafford being his godfathers, and his
godmother, Joan, Lady Abergavenny. :

6 Sir Henry Fitzhugh, knt, was son of Henry Fitzhugh, by his wif :
of Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham. He acted a path iaee in ee
England and Denmark, and England and Scotland; and for the coronation of
Hen. V. was advanced to be Constable of England. The following year, 1414, was
made Lord Chamberlain, which office he held for several years. He fought bravely in
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rico Fitz Hugh, Camerario nostro.
Thoma Erpyngham, Senescallo hos-
picii nostri, militibus: et Johanne
Prophete, Custode priuati sigilli, et
aliis. Datum per manum nostram
apud Westmonasterium octavo die
Junii, anno regni nostri, primo.

Nos autem cartam predictam ratam
habentes et gratam, eam de auisa-
mento magni consilii nostri, quantum
in nobis est, acceptamus ratificamus
et confirmamus prout carta predicta
rationabiliter testatur, et prout ijdem
Burgenses et predecessores sui liber-
tatibus et quietanciis in eadem carta
contentis hucusque iuste et rationa-
biliter vsi sunt et gavisi. In cuius
etc?. Teste Rege apud Westmonas-
terium xv° die Decembris.

Per breve de priuato Sigillo.

 

lain. Thomas Erpyngham,' Steward
of Our Household, Knights. And
Doctor John Prophet, Keeper of
Our Privy Seal, and others. Given
by our hand at Westminster, the
8th day of June, in the first year
of our reign, [A.D. 1413.]

We [Hen. VI.] again, having
ratified and confirmed the aforesaid
Charter, Do, by the advice of Our
High Council, accept, ratify, and
confirm it, as much as in Us is,
as the aforesaid Charter reasonably
testifies, and as the same Burgesses
and their predecessors have hitherto
justly and reasonably used and en-
joyed the liberties and franchises
contained in the same Charter. In
witness, etc?. Witness the King
at Westminster, the 15th day of
December. [A.D. 1422.]

By Writ of Privy Seal.

the French wars, travelled twice to Jerusalem and once to Cairo, and died on the 11th
Jan., 1425. By his wife Elizabeth, dau. and sole h. to Sir Robert Grey, knt. [bro..
and heir of Lord Marmion], he had eight sons—Sir William (born 1399), Sir John;
Robert, bishop of London; John, ob. inf.; Henry, drowned; Ralph, slain; Herbert,
ob. inf.; Richard, ob. inf.; and five daughters.

4 Sir Thomas Erpingham was one of the 16 lances that embarked with Henry of
Lancaster in 1399 to dethrone Rich. II. He was in that year made Constable of
Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports for life. This was followed by his
appointment to be Lord Chamberlain; and in the 8rd year of Hen. IV., he was made
guardian of the king’s son, Thomas of Lancaster. In the 5th year, he was of the
King’s Privy Council as Steward of the Household; and Henry VI. in his 1st year
confirmed the grant to him of many manors. According to Shakespeare, Henry V.
was very partial to his steward, and addresses him, ‘‘ Good morrow, old Sir Thomas,

a good soft pillow for that good old head were better than a churlish turf of
France.”

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PATENT ROLL.

32nn ELIZABETH, A.D. 1590, PT. 28,

MEM. 10.

Donacones sibi et heredi- ;
bus pro Johanne Perrott Re ina,
Milite. Hec In-

dentura facta inter excellentissimam
Principem et Dominam, Dominam
Elizabeth, Dei Gratia, Anglie,
Francie, et Hibernie, Reginam, fidei
Defensorem, etc? ex vna parte, et
Johannem Perrott, militem, vnum
de priuato Consilio suo, ex altera
parte, Testatur, quod cum prefata
Domina Regina per literas suas
patentes, gerend’ datum nono die
Julii anno regni sui vicesimo quinto,
concesserit, tradiderit, et ad firmam
dimiserit prefato Johannis Perrott,
per nomen Johannis Perrott, militis,
Rectorias suas trium ecclesiarum
in Wallia, vocat’ Llanelthi, Llan-
devallock, et Pembray cum omnibus
proficuis, decimis, oblaconibus, terris
glebalis, fructibus, mortuariis, cum
omnibus aliis obuenconibus, et como-
ditatibus predictis tribus Rectoriis
sive ecclesiis, aut eorum alicui
pertinentibus, sive spectantibus, tunc

 

Grant to Sir John Perrott,’ } ;
Knight, and his Heirs. f Ohis
Indenture made between the Most
Excellent Princess and Lady, the
Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God,
of England, France, and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc.,
of the one part, and John Perrott,
Knight, one of her Privy Council, of
the other part, Witnesseth, that
whereas the aforesaid Lady the
Queen by her letters patent, bearing
date the ninth day of July, in the
twenty-fifth day of her reign [1583],
had granted, given, and demised to
the aforesaid John Perrott, by the
name of John Perrott, Knight, her
Rectories of three churches in Wales,
called Llanelly, Llandefaelog, and
Pembrey, with all profits, tithes,
oblations, glebe lands, fruits, mortu-
aries, together with all other offerings
and emoluments, to the said three
Rectories or Churches or to any of
them pertaining or belonging, now
or of late in the tenure or occupation
of William Morgan or his assigns.
Always however excepting to the
aforesaid Lady the Queen, her heirs

1 Sir John Perrott was born in 1527, and when 18 years old was sent to the Marquis

of Winchester in London, who then was Lord Treasurer. He is described as being
tall and stout, exceeding ordinary stature, with auburn hair and piercing eyes. His
reputed father was Thomas Perrott, of Haroldston, whose wife, Mary, daughter and
sole heiress of James Berkeley, Esquire of the Body to Henry VII, is said to have
been Henry VIII.’s “ familiar.” At the coronation of Edward VI.. John Perrott was
made a Knight of the Bath. When Queen Mary ascended the throne, Sir John was
sent to the Fleet prison for entertaining heretics in his house in Wales, but afterwards
made his peace, and Mary granted him Carew Castle. In 1572 he was appointed
President of Munster, and suppressed the Irish rebels. From 1583 to 1588 he was
Lord President of Ireland; after he had returned, he was accused of high treason by
Sir Christopher Hatton, and condemned. The Queen swore that “the jury were all
knaves,” aud they delivered it with assurance, that on his return to the Tower, he said
with oaths and fury to the Lieutenant, Sir Owen Hopton, ‘“ What! will the Queen
suffer her brother to be offered up as a sacrifice to the envy of my strutting adver-
saries?” which being made known to the Queen, and the warrant of his execution
tendered, and somewhat enforced, she refused to sign it, and swore he should not die
for he was an honest and faithfulman * * *' * He died suddenly in the Tower
in September, 1592. It may not be amiss to add that Sir John’s mother, when she
became a widow, married Sir Thomas Johnes of Abermarlais, in Carmarthenshire.
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vel nuper in tenura sive occupacone
Willielmi Morgan sive assignatorum
suorum, Exceptis tamen semper et
prefate Domine Regine, heredibus
et successoribus suis, omnino reser-
vatis, advocationem et presenta-
tionem predictis vicariis predictarum
trium ecclesiarum quociens et quan-
documque vacare contigerint, Que-
quidem premissa nuper spectabant
et pertinebant nuper Collegio Novi
operis Leicestrie. Habend’ et Tenend’
omnia et singula premissa cum
suis pertinencilis prefato Johanni
Perrott et assignatis suis vsque
ad finem termini triginta annorum
incipiend’ a data predicte Indenture,
si quidem alius terminus annorum
quem quidam Robertus Christmas
tunc habuerit de et in premissis
vigore cuiusdam dimissionis dicte
Domine Regine per Indenturam
datam vitimo die Novembris, anno
regni sui octavo, prefato Roberto
Christmas et assignatis suis inde
factam pro termino viginti vunius
annorum tunc determinat’ existit.
Jam prefata Domina Regina pro
et in consideracone boni, veri, et
fidelis servicii per prefatum Johan-
nem Perrott, militem, dicte Domine
Regine antehac impens’, de gracia
~sua speciali ac ex certa sciencia
et mero motu suis, dedit, conces-
sit, et confirmavit, ac per presentes,
dat, concedit, et confirmat prefato
Johanni Perrott, militi, heredibus
et assignatis suis, imperpetuum,
predictas Rectorias suas predictarum
trium Ecclesiarum in Wallia pre-
dicta, vocatur Llanelthi, Llande-
vallock, et Pembray, cum omnibus
predictis proficuis, decimis, obla-
conibus, terris glebalis, fructibus,
mortuariis, cum omnibus aliis obven-
conibus et comoditatibus, predictis
tribus Rectoriis siue Ecclesiis aut
eorum alicui pertinentibus siue spec-
tantibus, modo. vel nuper in tenura
predicti Willielmi Morgan siue as-
signatorum. Exceptis tamen sem-
per et prefate Domine Regine,

 

and successors, the full right of
advowson and presentation to the
aforesaid vicarages of the aforesaid
three churches as often as and when-
soever they should happen to become
vacated, which certain premised
rights recently belonged and apper-
tained to the late College of new
structure (?) at Leicester. To
have and hold all and singular
the premises with their appurten-
ances, to the aforesaid John Perrott
and his assigns, until the expiration
of aterm of thirty years commenc-
ing from the date of the aforesaid
Indenture, as soon as a certain other
term of years (which Robert Christ-
mas had of and in the premises by
the authority of a certain dimission
of the said Lady the Queen, by an
Indenture dated the last day of
November, ‘in the eighth year of her
reign, and made to the aforesaid
Robert Christmas and his assigns,
thence forward for the term of
twenty-one years) should cease and
determine.

Now the aforesaid Lady the
Queen, for and in consideration of
the good, true, and faithful service
in times past, performed by the said
John Perrott, Knight, for the said
Lady the Queen, She, of her special
grace, certain knowledge and mere
motion, has given, granted, and con-
firmed, and by these presents, gives,
grants, and confirms for ever to the
aforesaid John Perrott, Knight, his
heirs and assigns, her aforesaid
Rectories of the aforesaid three
churches in Wales aforesaid, called
Llanelly, Llandefaelog, and Pembrey,
with all the aforesaid profits, tithes,
oblations, glebe lands, fruits, mortu-
aries, together with all other offerings
and emoluments to the aforesaid three
Rectories or churches or either of
them, appertaining or belonging, now
or lately, in the tenure of the afore-
said William Morgan or his assigns.
Always however saving both to the
aforesaid Lady the Queen and her
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heredibus et successoribus suis,
omnino reservatis advocaconem et
presentaconem predictis vicariis pre-
dictarum trium ecclesiarum et earum
cuiuslibet quocies et quandocumque
vacare contigerint.

Habend’ et Tenend’ predictas
Rectorias predictarum trium Eccles-
jarum in Wallia predicta vocatur
Llanelthi, Llandevallock, et Pem-
braye predict’, cum omnibus pre-
dictis proficuis, decimis, oblaconibus,
terris glebalis, fructibus, mortnariis,
obvenconibus, ac cum omnibus pre-
missis superius concess’, et predictis
tribus Rectoriis siue ecclesiis, aut
earum alicui pertinentibus universis
(exceptis pre except’) prefato
Johanni Perrott, militi, heredibus,
et assignatis suis imperpetuum, ad
solum et proprium opus et vsum,
prefati Johannis Perrott, militis,
heredum et assignatorum suorum
imperpetuum, in feodum firma Te-
nend’ predictas Rectorias et cetera
premissa cum pertinentibus de pre-
fata Domina Regina vt de honore
suo de Kydwelley in Wallia predicta
in jure Ducat’? sue Lancastrie per
fidelitatem tantum in libero soccagio,
et non in capite. Ac reddendo
annuatim prefate Domine Regine
heredibus et successoribus suis, pro
omnibus premissis superius, per
presentes concess’, Centum et vi-
ginti quatuor libras legalis monete
Anglie, videlicet, Centum et quatuor
libras de antiqua firm’, et viginti
libras jam de novo incremento, ad
festam Annuncionis beate Marie et
Sancti Michaelis, Archangeli, per
equalis porconibus annuatim soluend’
imperpetuum.

In cuius rei, etc? Teste Regine
apud Westmonasterium secundo die
Marcij.

Per breve de priuato Sigillo, ete.

 

heirs and successors, the full right of
advowson and presentation to the
aforesaid Vicarages of the aforesaid
three churches, and to any one of
them as often as and whensoever they
may happen to become vacant.

To have and hold the aforesaid Rec-
tories of the aforesaid three churches
in Wales aforesaid, called Llanelly,
Llandevaelog, and Pembrey as afore-
said with all the aforesaid profits,
tithes, oblations, glebe lands, fruits,
mortuaries, offerings, and with all
the premises as above granted, and
to the aforesaid three Rectories or
churches or to any of them apper-
taining or belonging, with all their
rights, members, and appurtenances
without exception (excluding as
above excluded) to the aforesaid
John Perrott, Knight, bis heirs, and
assigns for ever, to the sole and
special use and behoof of the afore-
said John Perrott, Knight, his heirs
and assigns for ever, in fee absolute,
To hold the aforesaid Rectories and
the other premises with their appur-
tenances of the aforesaid Lady the
Queen as of her Honor of Kydwely
in Wales aforesaid, in the district of
Her Dutchy of Lancaster, by fealty
alone in free socage, and not “in
capite.” And rendering annually
to the said Lady the Queen, her heirs
and successors, for all the above
premises granted by these presents,
One hundred and twenty-four pounds
of legal English money, to wit, One
hundred and four pounds of ancient
rent, and twenty pounds furthermore
of new increase, to be for ever paid
at the feast of the Annunciation of
the blessed Virgin and at that of
Saint Michael the Archangel, in
equal parts annually.

In Witness whereof, &c.. Witness
the Queen at Westminster; the
second day of March.

By writ of Privy Seal, &c.
 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

SPURRELL, PRINTER, CARMARTHEN.