Welsh Journals

of Wentloog, but pardoned the fine in 1504.116 Reference has already been made to his later service with the duke of Buckingham in association with his nephew, John Morgan of Tredegar, which also included excercising the receivership of the lordship of Newport and the constableship of Newport castle in the years immediately preceding Buckingham's execution in May 1521.117 It is doubtful whether he is to be identified with the Thomas ap Morgan who appears as a sewer of the chamber in the lists of those appointed in 1509 to attend Henry VII's funeral and Henry VIII's coronation.118 This Thomas ap Morgan may have been a younger brother of Sir William Morgan who served with him in the royal army in the early years of Henry VIII's reign, but this is uncertain.119 The commissioners who surveyed the duke of Buckingham's lands after his execution clearly thought that Thomas Morgan of Machen was not a a member of Henry VIII's household and considered that he should be, recommending him as right requisite to be his (the king's) sworn servant, 'for he ys an honest and a trew esquire'.120 If this recommendation was favourably received the Thomas Morgan of south Wales who appears as a sewer of the king's chamber in a list of the early 1520s may have been Thomas Morgan of Machen,121 but it seems more probable that the 1520s list was referring to the Thomas Morgan listed as a sewer of the chamber in 1509 whose identity is uncertain. The recommendations of the royal commissioners of 1521 concerning Thomas Morgan of Machen were not followed in regard to his position in the administration of the lordship of Newport, despite their commendation of him as a sad gentleman of good substance. 122 The commissioners authorised him temporarily to continue exercising the offices of constable of Newport castle and receiver of the lordship, but as previously noted, his nephew, John Morgan, was appointed constable on 12 January 1522 and by another grant of the same date Thomas ap Robert was appointed receiver. 121 Despite the latter appointment, Thomas Morgan continued to exercise some of the duties of the receivership. In the 1530s he appears as deputy to James Whitney, who was appointed receiver of Newport in succession to Thomas ap Robert in 1530,124 and early in 1533 after receiving the king's revenues in Newport castle he was reported to have sought the protection of Sir William Morgan against attack by the Herberts.125 In a 'remembrance' submitted to Cromwell in the 1530s he is mentioned with others under penalty to pay the king £ 100 each in respect of forfeitures within the lordship of Newport for which they had evidently not accounted.126 In July 1534 he was appointed one of the justices in eyre in the lordship of Newport and in January 1535 he was appointed one of the commissioners to assess the value of ecclesias- tical benefices in the diocese of Llandaff.127 That appointment is the last datable reference to his activities. He died at Machen on 27 July 1538, his heir being his