Welsh Journals

ON 30 January 1597/8 an inquisition was held at Llanbadarn Fawr in respect of the manor of that name before Charles Vaughan, esquire, and John Thomas David Powell, gent., commissioners by virtue of a commission of Queen Elizabeth directed to them from the Court of the Exchequer. At the request of the jury concerned, a copy was made of the resulting roll and it is this document which eventually formed part of the Nanteos family papers and now rests in the archives of the National Library of Wales. The following is an edited and abbreviated version of this manuscript, modernised in spelling and punctuation but preserving the original names of both people and places. I am indebted to Dr. B. G. Charles of the National Library for his assistance in deciphering parts of the manuscript and for checking the typescript. W. J. LEWIS University College of Wales, Aberystwyth An inquisition or presentment taken the day and year above said of the yearly value of the said Manor of Llanbadarn Vawr with the chapels and rectories of Llanbadarn, Aberustwith, Llanvichangell Castell Gwallter, Llangynvelyn, Gelynrod, Llanilar, Llangorothon, Llanychayarn, Llanavan, and Llanwnus in the said county, late belonging to the dissolved monastery of the Vale Royall, and also of the meeres bounds and limits of the said manor, and of the several messuages, houses and lands, with other appurtenances thereunto belonging with the particular rents yearly issuing out of the same by the oath of the persons following, being sworn and charged to inquire in that behalf, viz., Jury David Lloid Watkin, gent. Richard ap Ievan Lloyd David Lloyd ap David, gent. Ievan Llewellin ap David David Lloyd ap Richard, gent. Rees Moris Griffith Hughe Gwyn, gent. Ievan Moris ap Lewis John Watkin, gent. Griffith John John William Lloyd, gent. Harry Griffith ap Rees John ap Edward, gent. Richard Lewis Owen Meredith, gent. Thomas Moris Rees Watkin gent. Moris Jon ap Rees Phillip James ap Jon Moris gent The meres and bounds of the said manor, viz. In length from the liberties of Aberustwith on the west part to the lordship of Rhyd Onnen on the east part, being in distance about a mile and a half, and in breadth from the river of Rhydol on the south part to the river of Clarach on the north part, and containeth in breadth about a mile, and is bounded on the north from the lordship of Rhyd Onnen to the said river of Clarach, and along Clarach to the sea,