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make them in a rick, two harrows to harrow in sowing time, one day's ploughing, two horses to lead corn, two able persons to shear sheep, one person for one day to keep watch at St. Meugan's Fair in Eglwyswrw. In addition to these annual duties lessees were expected to pay ios. in lieu of a heriot and to pay rates and taxes with an allowance of 5s. if a great rate should fall due during the term of the lease. A few odd items of manorial interest have come to light to supplement to a small degree the manorial records of the first Bronwydd group: an estreat of the court rolls of the barony of Cemais (1621); court leet presentments for the manor of Eglwyswrw (1700), Llanfyrnach (1772), and Keven- chirchogg (1762), of the barony of Cemais (1771 and 1837-53), and the borough of Newport (1818- 64); court roll of the barony of Cemais (1740-61) court roll of the manor of Moylgrove (18th century), copy of the court roll of the town of Newport (1846), suit roll and jurors of the manor of Moylgrove (1743-92); and papers relating to perambulations of the barony and commons of the barony of Cemais (1777-1829). A number of livings in Cemais were in the patronage of the lords of the barony (New- port, Whitchurch, Meline, Llanychllwydog and Llanllawer) and some records relating to them have survived; letters of admission and institution to the rectory of Whitchurch in 1584 (see this Journal, IV, 83), an enquiry concerning the rights of patronage of the rectory of Whitchurch (1683), papers relating to the advowsons of Newport, Whitchurch, Meline, Llanychllwydog and Llanllawer (1611-12), Newport (1611-1759), Meline (1704-1841), and correspondence as to a vacancy in the rectory of Dinas (1835). There are a number of scattered rentals in the collection: rent roll of the chief rents of the lord- ship of Generglyn (1682), chief rents of the manor of Emlyn Iscych (1713-46), rentals of chief rents and enclosure rents of the barony of Cemais (1775-1888), chief rents and enclosure rents of the town of Newport (1710-1859), chief rents of Moylgrove (1843), chief rents of Llanfyrnach (1873), and rentals of the Bronwydd estate (1775-1816). Of the accounts the following may be mentioned: accounts relating to the will of Edward Pryse of Gogerthan (1653-7), the stock and crop at Bury, parish of Nevem (1721), the estate of John Laugharne of Llanrheithan (1741-62), work done by Richard Jones, surveyor (1775), Bronwydd workmen (1819-23), building a bridge at Brithdir, co. Cardigan (1826), perambulations of the barony of Cemais (1829-67), expenses of the bailiff of the barony of Cemais (1847), building of the new mansion at Bronwydd (1853-6), and pitchings and tolls at St. Meugan's Fair, Eglwyswrw (1876-84). The most important discovery among the papers of George Owen, the Elizabethan antiquary, the 'Second Book' of his Description of Penbrokeshire, has already been published in this Journal (V, 265-85). The manuscript of his 'Prooffes out of Auntient Recordes, writings and Other Matters that the Lordship of Kernes is a Lordshippe Marcher' (Bronwydd 7275) is also in this group. Several documents (1585-1611) in the antiquary's own hand have been noticed but they are mostly concerned with the affairs of his estate and his position as lord of Cemais and the town of Newport and the law suits which troubled him towards the end of his career. Only one letter of his seems to have sur- vived, a draft of a letter to Sir William Wogan of Wiston in 1609 concerning militia affairs. A number of quo warranto proceedings were initiated against his claims to manorial jurisdiction in Cemais (1586- 1613) and certain papers relating thereto and some other suits have been preserved. His son Alban Owen carried on his father's work as deputy lieutenant of the county and some of his papers in this collection bear witness to his interest in the militia and other aspects of his office. Alban Owen was sheriff in 1620 and 1643. In the Commonwealth period his estate was sequestered on account of the part he played in the Civil War. Other documents from the Civil War and Commonwealth period relate to the rating of parishes in Cemais by the Commissioners of the Monthly Assessments (1649), the rates levied on the parish of Eglwyswrw for the maintenance of Commonwealth soldiers (1649-52) and a petition touching the latter rate (1649). Mention can be made of only a few of the numerous miscellaneous items of interest and impor- tance which are included in this group. There are, for instance, documents on the following sub- jects: a dispute concerning enclosures in Puncheston and Llanychaer, co. Pembroke, 1614; the tithes of Nevern (see The Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, I, 26-39); agreements relating to lead mines in Cardiganshire, including Bwlch yr Esgair mine, circa 1692; mnemonic verses by George Owen Harry, 1611; St. Meugan's Fair, Eglwyswrw, and St. Curig's Fair, New- port, 16th-19th centuries; an inventory of the goods of Sir Thomas Pryse of Bodvage Park, co. Cardi-