Welsh Journals

original to the year 1290, under the assumption that the Prince was Edward of Caernarvon. Another interesting Bangor manuscript is a commonplace book of an officer of the diocese compiled about 1590 It contains legal forms and precedents, memoranda, recipes for making ink, a copy of bishop John [Clederow]'s charter to the citizens of Bangor, a copy of an inspeximus, March 4, 1509/10, of Henry VII's charter to the inhabitants of Wales, and notes of the tithes of the diocese, 1559, and of leases and presents, 1590. There is a copy of an exemplification, 1560, of charters granted to the bishops, as well as of surveys of the manors of Bangor, Maenol Bangor, Edern, Castellmai, Cantref, and Treffos, 1647, and Dyndaethwy 1650, and original records of the episcopal manors,2 including two interesting books of rules of court proceedings, oaths, and charge to the jury in Welsh (' Rheolau yw cadw au cynnal mewn grym yn arglwyddiaethau Esgob Bangor yn siroedd Carnarvon a Denbigh'). There are also rentals of the diocese, 1795-1883, registers of leases, 1673-1852, and files of papers relating to wrecks washed up on the lands of the Bishop of Bangor, 1747-1827, and to the rectory of Towyn, 1547-1787, which belonged to the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. The most important manuscript in the collection for the diocese of St Asaph is a large volume of miscellaneous papers written or copied in the late seventeenth century. They consist of copies of rentrolls, valuations, and terriers of the revenues, tithes, churches, and lands of the bishopric, copies of documents, grants, legal bills, counsels' opinion, and a large number of letters addressed to bishops of St. Asaph. Among the latter is a letter, Feb. 13, 1711/12, from William Lloyd, bishop of Worcester, to William Fleetwood, bishop of St. Asaph, in which he refers to the disappearance of' Llyfr Coch Asaph extracts from which are included in the manuscript. There are some registers of leases within the diocese between 1666 and 1735. The diocese of Llandaff is not so well represented in the collection, but a parchment survey of the manor of Mathern, 1564, and particulars of leases and accounts of the diocese, 1706-1829, are included. From the diocese of St. Davids came an eighteenth century copy of its famous Black Book ,3 a seventeenth century breviate of its temporalities, a register of parliamentary conveyances of episcopal lands, 1647-57, a survey made by the authority of bishop William Lucy, 1660, and a book of Bishop Burgess' containing valuations of temporalities, 1801-16. In addition to these records over five hundred deeds, mainly leases, dating from 1545 to 1842, and relating to properties in the four dioceses, have been received. E. D. JONES. 1 There are court books containing proceedings of courts of the following manors Black and Blue, 1797-1804 Castellmai, 1797-1813 Gogarth, 1797-1848; Llanddoget, 1797-1818 Llanddulas, 1797-1827 Maenol Bangor, 1797-1818 Treffos, 1811-44. 2 See Cymmrodorion Record Series, 5, for the text printed from British Museum Additional MS. 34.125.