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A LLANDRINIO DEED, 1595 THE following Deed relating to a sale of land in Llandrinio, by Robert Lloyd and Margaret, his wife, of Trewylan, Gent., to Richard Vaughan of Trefedrid, is interesting for the light it throws on Place and Field Names, and the names of owners of adjoining properties at the distant date mentioned PARISH OF Llandrinio. The condition of this obligation is such that if the within named Richard Vaughan his heirs and assigns and any of them shall and may at all and any time and times hereafter chosen well and peaceably have hold safely possessed and quietly enjoy all those pastures meadows sillons acres and parcels of land hereafter specified and expressed situate lying and being within the parish of Llandrinio in the County of Montgomery within written, that is to sav all the land of the within bounden Robert Lloyd and Margaret Lloyd his wife containing by estimation five acres of land lying within a pasture there called Cae Griffith ap Einion Issa now being in tenure and occupation of one Margaret vrch John, widow, and adjoining to the common land usually there called Cae Halchton; one parcel of meadow ground containing by estimation three acres of land lying and being within a meadow there called Y Dalidd (Dolydd) in breadth between the land of Edward Penryn and others on one side and the land of the said Edward and John ap Humphrey on the other sides; one small parcel oi meadow ground containing by estimation one acre of land in Welsh called y wyrgloth tan y bynwent, one acre of land arable lying within a field there called Maes y Groes between the gleebe land appertaining to the Parish Church of Llandrinio on the one side and the said glebe land and the land of others on the other side; three sillons or ridges of land containing by estimation one acre and half of land lying within a field there called Maes y hendre between the land of Richard ap .Griffith on the one side and the land of the said John ap Humphrey on the other side; one acre of