Welsh Journals

KNIGHTED WELSH LANDOWNERS, 1485-1558: CORRIGENDA SINCE the publication of 'Knighted Welsh Landowners 1485-1558: A Provisional List', ante, 13, no.3 (1987), pp.282-98, further information has been found about the dates of knighting and/or death of several of the knights listed there. Amended entries for the knights concerned are printed below. The 1987 article related to knights with lands wholly or mainly in Wales; since its publication no more knights who meet this criterion have been identified. I Although in some cases the precise dates of knightings and deaths may never be established, closer approximations to such dates may be valuable in throwing new light on individual careers. This may be exemplified from the information now presented. The references relating to Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml suggest that he was prob- ably knighted about the time of the parliamentary session held early in 1542, and that he, rather than John Games, was the first knight of the shire for Breconshire.2 Sir Mathew Cradock's knighthood in 1517, which may be attributed to the influence of Charles, earl of Worcester as lord chamberlain of Henry VIII's household, was probably conferred 'The recently published will of Morgan Herbert (d.1526), eldest son of Sir Richard Herbert (d.1539) of Montgomery, describes him as a knight (miles), but in litigation after his death he was described as an esquire and his description as a knight is an error probably attributable to the circumstances of his death (M. U. Chapman, 'Transcript of will of Morgan Herbert, kt., dated 19 July 1526', Montgomeryshire Collections, 82 (1994), 126; W R. B. Robinson, 'Edward Sutton (d.1532), Lord Dudley and Powys: an early Tudor marcher lord', ibid., 86 (1998), 44-6. 2 The article on Breconshire in The House of Commons, 1509-1558, ed. S. T. Bindoff (The History of Parliament, 3 vols., 1982), vol. I, 268-9, suggests that Games may have been the first knight for the shire.