Welsh Journals

small an area should have had these privileges I have not been able to ascertain. I think it likely that it remained in the hands of Welsh Lords. Rice Lewis, in his Breviat, states that Harry Morgan Lewis purchased the manor, but does not state when or from whom. Mr. Clark in a note, Cartse II., p. 270, states that the Lord- ship was held by Jenkins of Hensol, and so passed to the Earls of Shrewsbury, Lords Talbot of Hensol, by whom it was sold to its (then) owner. The then owner was Mr. Clark himself, and the present owner is his son, Mr. Godfrey Lewis Clark. OGMORE, the old Lordship of the de Londres family, whose ancestor was one of the followers of Fitz Hamon, was con- sidered as consisting of four knights' fees, held by knight's service. But for the fact of its having become vested in the Crown, as part of the Duchy of Lancaster estates, I suppose there would have been no occasion to mention it specially in the Statute of Henry VIII., as no doubt it was part of the old County. The de Londres family as connected with the Lordship of Ogmore ended in an heiress, Hawise, who married Sir Patrick de Cadurcis or Chaworth. He was killed in battle against the Welsh, 1258, and left an heiress, Matilda, who married Henry, Earl of Lancaster, grandson of King Henry III. Their son Henry, was Duke of Lancaster and father of Henry IV., King of England. Thus the Lordship of Ogmore came into the possession of the Crown and has so remained. Colwinston is a sub-manor of Ogmore. In speaking of this Lordship of Ogmore I should mention that the territory shown on the map comprises the parish of Llandyfodwg. Though this has been accounted part of Ogmore for several centuries (probably, at least from the time of Henry VIII.), it was no part of the old de Londres lordship. In the time of the de Clares it was parcel of the County of Glamorgan, under the name of Glynogwr, though not the