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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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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    |129] 38. ff. 95 (96 blank), 97 (98 blank), 99 and 180. Papers relating to the court of the Welsh Marches. f. 95 is the following letter from Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Croft, comptroller of the Queen’s household:—Uppon saterdaie last yt pleased her m'tie to comaund me to sett downe my oppynion conserninge the Councell in the Marches; w’ch I have conceaved in sorte as maie appeare in the inclosed paper, wherew’th I thought good to acquaynt yo’r L. before yt shall come to her highnes handes To thintent I maie understand howe you lyke the forme of the wrytinge. As for the matter, uppon the examynacion wilbe confessed to be trew. And so I humbly take my leave. At Westmynster this Wensdaie night 1583. Yo’r L. most bounden, James Croft.—[The enclosure to the above letter does not now accompany it.] ff. 97 and 99 are brief statements of accounts for various years by the receiver of the court. f. 180 is a letter from the bishop of Hereford to lord Burghley complaining of the arbitrary conduct of the president of the court of the Marches. The diocese of Hereford fell within the jurisdiction of the court, and the bishop, who by the machinations of the president and his friends was being kept imprisoned in the Fleet, begs to be “ exempte from his 1. autorite, [and] to aunswer in the corts here at Westminster as other bushopes owte of the said principalite do use to aunswer;” 21 June, 1583. [I3°] 53. f. 163. Memorandum respecting a licence issued by Henry VIII to Thomas Parry to export butter from the counties of [Somerset, Gloucester,] Monmouth and Glamorgan; June, 1585. His ma’tie by l’res patente under the great seale dated the viijth daie of Maie in the xxvijth yere of his reigne graunteth license to Thomas Parrie his facto’rs and assignes &c., to provide and buie within the counties of Somersett, Glocester, Bristoll, Monmouth and Glamorgan yerelie during the space of seaven yeres the quantetie of v° [500] barreles of butter, and the same to transport upone the seae w’thout paieng anie custome or other duetie for the same. [131] 48. (a) ff. 8-11. Brief of Instructions for Sir Henry Sidney, president of the council of the Marches of Wales ; Sept. 1583. (3) ff. 186-187& A statement of acreage and of rents (apparently of crown lands) in Carnarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth; c. 1585.