Welsh Journals

Malpas is considered to take its name from malus passus, a bad or wet place on the Roman road, which went from Caerlleon below Malpas church, over the Malpas brook, and so to Pye Comer, and by Bassaleg to Cardiff. The parish contains 974 acres of land and 10 of water. The rateable value in 1815 was £ 948 and in 1891 £ 3,222. The population has been as follows:- Year No. of inhabitants 1801 178 1811 150 1821 196 1831 211 1841 270 1881 320 1891 430 The manor Malpas was a cell belonging to the priory of Montacute in Somersetshire and was founded by Winebald, son of Drue de Baladon, brother of Hamelyn the conqueror of Over Gwent. At the dissolution of the monasteries it was valued at £ 15 2s. 4d. and by letters patent dated 4 July I Edw. VI [1547] was granted on lease to sir William Herbert (afterwards first earl of Pembroke of the second creation) described as' all the scite of the circuit wall, walks and precincts of the late house or cell of Malpas and manor of Malpas. and the rectory of the church of Malpas and lands. &c.. to the late priory of Mountague in the county of Somerset now dissolved heretofore belonging and the advowson &c. at the rent of 6s. 7/xl {Extracts from Valor Ecclesiasticus iv 361} Cella de Malopassu alias Malpas prope Newport super aqua Uske cum redditibus, oblationibus, ceterisque obventionibus, proficuis et commoditatibus universis, una cum eorundem vero valore communibus annis. et appropriata monasterio de Muntague in comitatu Somerset. Pro terris vocatis Demeanes in Mendyglegyf 26s. do. in Penrose 26s. 8d. &c Total 8" 13s. 4d. De tenementis in Mcndygelcgeffe 15" 6s. 7d. Malpas Deductiones This manor and Mendelgiff in the survey of the property of Henry Herbert, second earl of Pembroke, made 14 September 1570, are joined. The court on that date was held before Sir George Penruddocke, knt., Rowland Morgan, esq., Edmond Morgan, esq., Robert Glove, gent. and John Morice, gent., trustees of the earl of Pembroke, by the oaths of the tenants and jurors John Thomas Williams, Jenkin Thomas ap John, Morgan John, John ap John, Morgan Richard and Jenkin Dio. Katherina, relicta Will'i Morgan, armiger, tenet viij acras cum lez Warth xs. Eadem, unum tenementum cum x acris et unum Warth viijs. viijd. {in margin: 12} Joh'es Thomas Edwards, xviij acras vijs. Summa xiiijs. iijd. Liberi tenentes {in margin: 13} Will'm's Morgan de Lantemam, armiger, xiiij acras xviijd. Terre dominicales Will'm's Morgan, armiger, tenet per indenturam datam xxj Augusti anno Eliz. decimo [1568] a festo Sancti Michelis archangeli proxime extunc pro termino xxj annorum totum tenementum sive mansionem de Malpas, cum xij acris Wallice mensure terre arrabilis, et ij acris bosci, et unus prati vocati Greate meade continente vj acras. cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, et quod predictus Will'us, in consideracione quod gaudet omnes decimas ibidem, exonerabit dominum et heredes suos de curia ibidem et reddit vj" et ij capones olim Iiijs. iiijd. Joh'i Willyam Blethin, seneschallo 6s. 8d. Thome Ll'n. ballivo 6s. 8d. Thome Lyson. ballivo 3s. 4d. Remanet de claro 14" 9s. 1 Id. Decime inde 29s. Malpas and Mendelgiff Tenentes per virgam in Mendelgiff Summa cxijs. vijd. ob. Tenentes per virgam in Malpas