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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    f 122] 22. ff. 166-170. Suggestions [contained in twenty numbered paragraphs] for reforms in the Council of the Marches of Wales ; a.d. 1576. I123] 27. ff. 187-206^. The limits and revenue of the forest of Snowdon in the counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth, and Anglesea, granted to the earl of Leicester, A.D. 1575- The totals are :— Acres. Revenue. £ S. d. In com. Carnarvon 18,0251 18 •5 6b Merioneth 12,7695 13 6 °i Anglisey 791 O l6 5f 3b586 £32 18 Oj [124I 28. (a) ff. 82-123. A number of documents relating to the ferm of the office of ragler (rhaglaw) of Cardiganshire ; A.D. 1579. Sir Henry Ellis printed two of these documents in the course of an article on “The office of Ragler” in Archtzologia, xxii, 330. The ^following copy of one of the documents [that at f. 118<5>] will give some idea of the interesting nature of the whole, and of the dispute that arose in connection with the demands of the royal fermor.1 Cardigan. Towchinge the office of Raglership in the Countye of Cardigan. The matter in issue is whether the Raglership for the time beinge w’thin the countye of Cardigan ought to have of everie free hollder w’thin the sayd countie, not havinge ani under ten’ante and havinge in the plowe an oxe or heyffer, a measure of otes called a Teale, conteyninge iiij busshelles Englishe measure. for prooffe hereof The maio’r and burgesses of, Aberustwyth, w’th David ap Rees ap Gruff, gent. Phillip Will’m, esquio’r David Lloid Will’ms Will'm Mores Jeuan [ap) David ap Rees These sworne and examyned by the maior and burgesses of 1 Aberustwyth and retorned by (certifficate under the seale of the sayd towne, and under theyr sev’all seales. 1 A continuous series of decrees of the court of Exchequer upon the lawsuit that ensued will be found amongst the Exchequer papers at the Public Record Office. Sir Henry Ellis states (loc. cit.) that the final order in the cause was made in the Mich, term, 22 Eliz. This is hardly correct; at any rate the dispute broke out afresh, for I have a transcript ol what seems to be the final decree in the 29 Eliz.