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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    [125] 30. (a) ff. 72-73. Abstracts for 21 and 22 Eliz. of the fines received and disbursed by the Council of the Welsh Marches. Appear to be rough abstracts of a more complete account. For a similar abstract for 23 Eliz., see Lansd. 36, f. 4. (b) f. 131. Letter from the earl of Essex to lord Burghley, concerning the great decay of the earl’s house at Lamphey ; 23 June, 1580. Latin; partly illegible. 1126] 32.' ff. 126^, 127. An account of the fines and amerciaments received and disbursed by the receiver of the Council of the Marches of Wales ; 23 Eliz. Apparently the original return of the receiver. For what seems to be an abstract for the same year see Lansd. 36, f. 4, but the figures are not identical. [127] 35. f. 140. The names of the sheriffs throughout [England and] Wales ; A.D. 1582. The Welsh sheriffs are (f. 140$) :— Flint, Pierce Griffith, ar. Denbigh, Edward Hughes, ar. Mountgumery, Morganne Gwynne, ar. Merioneth, Riceus Hughes, ar. Carnarvan, Will’mus Morrice, ar. Anglesey, Joh’es Griffith, ar. Carmarthen, Will’mus Thomas, ar. Pembrok, John Pries de Rickerdston, ar. Cardigan, Joh’es Stedman, ar. Glamorgan, W’me Herbert de Swanzey, mil. Brecknock, Henricus Jones, mil. Radnor, Morganne Meredith, ar.1 Monmouth, Edmond Morgan, ar. [128] 36. (a) f. 4. An abstract of the fines and amerciaments received and disbursed by the Council of the Welsh Marches; 23 Eliz. (b) f. 76. The state of the bishopric of St. David’s; A.D. 1582. Strype’s Annals (ed. 1824), iii, pt. 2, 226. 1 According to the list in Edwards’s History of Radnorshire (Arch. Ca?nb., 2nd Ser., iii, 37), Rhys Lewis, of Gladestry, was sheriff in 1582, and Morgan Meredith, of Llynwent, in 1585. B