Abbey Dore, Herefordshire : its building and restoration / by Edwin Sledmere ; with 27 ill., of which 20 are drawings from photographs, by Cuthbert Ernest Sledmere.

  • Sledmere, Edwin.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Abbey Dore, Herefordshire : its building and restoration / by Edwin Sledmere ; with 27 ill., of which 20 are drawings from photographs, by Cuthbert Ernest Sledmere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. I. DEEDS RELATING TO DORE ABBEY. The following particulars of certain deeds refer to lands which belonged to the Abbey at Llanfair Cilgoed, a chapelry in the parish of Llantilio Creseny, Monmouth ;* and are given here by the courtesy of Mr. John Hobson Matthews, editor of the Continu- ation of Duncumb’s Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford (Hundred of Wormelow). Grant by Griffin ap Gronov/, with the consent of William his son and Emeline his wife, and of his heirs, unto God and Saint Mary and to the monks of Dore, of lands at Llanfair [Cilgoed, co Monm.], at a rent of 12 pence and 3 farthings per annum. N.B. The lands are stated to be situate adjoining to the said monk’s grange. [Undated ; circa regn. Ed. II.] Grant by Brother Richard, Abbot of Dore, and the convent of the same place, unto David ap Howel ap Madoc, and Griffim his brother, of a messuage in the fee of White Castle [in the parish of Llantilio Creseny, co. Monm.], on the river Trothy, foi the term of the grantees’ lives. Dated at Dore, Saint Matthew’s day, 1331. Release by Jeuan ap David ap Jeuan Veghan, unto William ap John ap Howel ap Jeuan, of all his right and claim in all those lands and tenements late of Thomas ap Jankyn ap Jeuan Veghan in llanveyr kylcoyd (Llanfair-cilgoed, co. Monm.] in the fee of White Castle. Dated at Llanveyr aforesaid, the morrow of Saint James the Apostle in the 22nd year of the reign of King Richard the Second [1399.] Release by Robert, son of David ap Robert ap Philip, for the good of his soul and the souls of his ancestors and successors, unto the Abbot and Convent of Dore, of all his right in 13 pence of yearly rent due to him out of a parcel of the land annexed to the grange of Lanveyr Kilcoyd. Dated there, Tuesday the feast of the Innocents (in which day he was received into the brotherhood of the Order of Citeaux) in the 35th year of the reign of King Edward III. [1362]. Lease by Philip ap David ap Henry, to Meuric Glaac, of a parcel of arable land in the parish of Saint Teilo [Llantilio Creseny, co. Monm.] and in the fee of White Castle, by Llanveir Wood. Rent 5s. of silver money per annum, at Lady Day and Michaelmas in equal portions, and 6d. for a heriot. Dated at White Castle, 30 Aug. in the 22nd year of the reign of King Edward IV. [1483]. * Taken, from the original Latin deeds.