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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    £au0&o>#ne Coftkcfton r113i 1. {a) f. 63. Grant of the principality of Wales to Henry son of Henry IV, 15 October, 1 Hen. IV.; 16 cent. copy. The mode of investiture was by placing a chaplet on the prince’s head, and a gold ring on his finger. (1b) f. 83. Commission to let the crown lands in the lord- ship of Monmouth, 26 Henry VI, (a.d. 1448); late 16 or early 17 cent. copy. Extract: “ In the xxvjth yere of the raigne of king Henry the vj late kinge of England, a comission under the seale of the Duchy of lancaster, was by the same late kinge directed to Will’m then marques of Suff[olk], John lord lisle, Richard Newton, knight, then chefe justice of the comon place [pleas], Roger Ffenys knyght, Thomas Tukenham knyght, John Prysett sergea'nt-at-lawe, Rauf Pole sargea’nt-at-lawe, WiH’m Rotton, esquyer, and others to the number of xiijne, to let and sett the king’s lands, w’thin the Lordship of Monmothe and the members of the same p’ hec verba [then follows an extract from the commission], by vertu wherof the said comission’s granted aswell the demeane lands as the custom’y & bond lands to din’s p’sons to have to them & to their heyres frely for eu’ at the olde ancient rents.” I * 141 5- (1a) f. 6. The oath and acknowledgment to queen Elizabeth of Richard Davies, bishop of St. David’s; 1561; vellum. “ I, Richard Dauys, late Busshope of Saincte Assaph and now Busshop of Saint Davids, do moste humbly acknowledge and confesse yo’r moste excellent Ma’tie to be my moste true and undowbted soveraigne Ladye, and I utterly renownce and refuse all obedience for any thinge I possesse or enjoye, or hereafter shall possesse w’thin any yo’r ma’ts realmes and domynions to any foreyn power or potentate. And humbly confesse your ma’tie to be the supreame Governo’r in all things, aswell ecclesiasticall as temporal!, w’thin this realme, and w’th all obedience do make my homage for the temporalties and possessions of the Busshopricke of Saincte Davids w’ch I holde and enjoye. And I proteste by this my presente othe that I shall remaine yo’r true faithefull and obedient subjecte during my naturall lief as God shall helpe me and the contents of the booke touched by me. At Grenewich the xxviij daye of Maye, 1561, and the third yere of yo’r Ma’ts moste prousperous reigne. per me Richardu’ Meneven.”