Welsh Journals

GWYNIONYDD IS CERDIN IN 1651 THE following transcript of unpublished Crown-copyright material in the Public Record Office has been reproduced by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. It is a Survey of the Manor or Lordship of Gwynionydd Is Cerdin in 165 [P.R.O. Parliamentary Surveys (Cardiganshire) E 317/4]. The old commote of Gwynionydd was divided into Is Cerdin, west of Cerdin and Cletwr Fawr, and Uwch Cerdin to the east. Is Cerdin lay in the parishes of Llandyfriog, Llanfair Treflygen, Llangynllo, Llanfair Orllwyn, and Llandysul Is Cerdin. On Llandysul Is Cerdin see H. R. Evans, A Village Worthy,' in CEREDIGION, IV, pp. 146-89, and especially the map (facing p. 165). The manor of Gwynionydd Is Cerdin, however, had some outlying members which properly belonged to the old commote of Mebwynion. These tenements lay in the parishes of Dihewyd, Ciliau Aeron, and Llannerchaeron. The portion known as Trevigod was in the present rural parish of Lampeter. I take this to be an inaccurate but stereo- typed form of Trefgoed which was later, as Tref-y-coed, accounted a township of Lampeter (see Census 1851). It was an alias of Ffynnon-fair (Cardiff Free Library, Cardiganshire Deeds, 1729). The 1651 Survey rates these outlying members differently from the main part of the lordship. There is an earlier survey (1564) of the manor in the Cardiff Free Library, and I hope to publish this at a future date. For the custom of oats in the manors of Gwynionydd and Is Coed see Exchequer Proceedings (Equity) Concerning Wales, ed. Emyr Gwynne Jones, Cardiff, 1939, p. 83. The Bronwydd and Cilgwyn papers naturally contain many references to tenements in this manor. For the map, cf. what has been said above under Is Coed Uwch Hirwern. Department of Celtic Studies, MELVILLE RICHARDS University of Liverpool