Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Com. Monmouth: £ s. d. Rumpney mill late in the possession of Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex, and formerly part of the possessions of Thomas, duke of Buckingham, attainted ... ... ... ... ... 2 13 4 Com. Carmarthen: £ s. d. Pulkenbed infra forestam de Glincothe ... o 5 o Fulling mill ibidem, situate on certain land called Kevenvays ... ... ... ...010 Mill vocatur Melin Seyson parcel of the vill of Drusloine ... ... ... ... ... 1 10 o Cligin mill, late of Rice ap Griffith ... ... 2 6 8 Mill vocatur le White Mill, with the land annexed and certain adjacent closes of land in the vill and franchises of Carmarthen ... ...300 Grain mill and water course called Melin Newith, both late of Rice ap Griffith, attainted, and afterwards of his wife, lady Katherine, countess of Bridgewater ... ... ... ...100 Gwithgrigg mill, late of the monastery of Talley o 16 10 Water grain mill situate at Hentegwyn [Hen Dy Gwyn], late of the monastery of Whitland ... 2 o o 10 19 6 Total' ... ... ... ... 200 7 o M'd’.—I have made this cirtificat of the king’s ma’ts milles in Wales (most of them beinge p’cell of mannors) by comaundm’t of the right ho. s’r Julius Caesar, knight, chauncellor of his ma’ts court of Exchequier. p’ Ric. Gibyng, dep’t, Tho. Hanbury, auditor. 22 July 1608. (d) f. 72. An account of the manors, &c., in Wales held by divers persons in tail, whereof the reversion or remainder is in the Crown ; c. 1620. An interesting return. The properties are situate in the counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Monmouth. Their total annual value is ^175 ij. \%d. This is followed (/. 73) by an account of rents in kind— corn, pilcorn, oatmeal, cheese, wool, eggs, capons and pullets, and day works—with their respective values, the total being j£io 8s. id. To the return is appended this note:—“M’d’, the granges oute of w’ch these customes and dueties are payde are assigned unto the prince his highnes [prince Charles, afterwards Charles I], But in regard the sayde customes were noe p’cell of his highnes value, they doe noweremayne in his ma’ts possessions and are amongst other things assigned to the contractors. There are not other duties of the natures aforesaide, nor of any other 1 The items under the county of Carnarvon do not add to the total for that county; the latter is no doubt correct.