Welsh Journals

Search over 450 titles and 1.2 million pages

Watters yeom'; Lodovicus Gwynne yeom'; Joh'es Griffiths yeom' Joh'es Morris yeom' David ap Rees ap Owen yeom'; Ric'eus ap David, Edwardus Morgan, Robertus Myricke, Eduardus Morgan de Churchstoke, Johannes ap Richard ap Griffithes Yeom' Jur8. 1 To the first Article the said Jurors say that they have made a perfect Survey of the premises Conteyned in the said Article & for the number of the Tennants being freeholders, they have lavd downe their names in a Schedule thereof hereunto annexed; who hold their lands paying the Rents theerein expressed and the best beast for a Herriott in kind, at the death of every freeholder dying seized of any ffreehold lands, within the" said Lordshipps, And by doeing suite of Courte (Videlicet) Com'te Leet & Co'te Barren. To be holden within the said Lordshipp. But Coppy holders, or estates at the will of the Lord we have not any within the said Lordshipp; the s'd freeholders pay halfe'one years Rent ffor relief after the Death. 2. To the second Article they say that the s'd Lordshipp or Mannor is confined & bounden Eastward with the Lordshipp of Lydom in the County of Salop, & adjoining to a little prill of water there dividing the said Counties of Salop & Mount gomery, & following the pirle to the River of Kemlett towards the west unto A place called Llyn y Gloch, & soe to a little River of water called L!ack brooke, & soe^leading to a place called Gwerne Haltin nere the house of John Vaughan. & soe Northwards unto a place call'd Kay prior, & then to All porth gate, & thence Eastwards over the River of Kemlett unto a pirle of water called Coyd-brooke, & soe leading between the two Aldrosses to a port way by the Mardee, & so leading to Come Weston, & soe to a River of water meering between Shropshire & Mountgomeryshire nere the white gritt, & soe following the river to a place called the Hunnis, and soe Southwards to Gllan ymongoz, & soe unto the Roveras, & from thence unto the pirle of water nere the house of Thomas Williams where they first began. 3. To the Third Article they say there are noe Castles nor other manner of Mansion houses belonging to his matie within the s'd Lordshipp to their knowledge nevertheless they say that there is one scite or tofte being a bank or Rock called Symonds Castle, for which there U answered to his Majesty Six pence halfe penny yearly, lately in the Occupac'on of Richard Powell of Edenhope in the County of Salop Gent, <& now in the tenure of Richard Cowper