JOHANNES STRADLING et assignati sui omnes convenciones ac omnia et singula infrascripta in partibus suis in forma predicta bene et fideliter tenebunt et perimplebunt sub pena forisfacture termini predicti hiis indenturis in aliquo seu aliquibus non obstantibus Proviso semper quod prefatus JOHANNES STRADLING et assignati sui durante termino predicto teneat vel teneant per se vel sufficientem deputatum suum seu per sufficientes deputatos curiam predicti EDMUNDI vel ejus heredum apud CALWYNSTOW secundum usum et consuetudinem ibidem usitatum singulis temporibus debitis et consuetis. In cujus rei testimonium partes predicti hiis indenturis sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt dicto die et anno supradicto.

Seal lost.

CCCXCIV.

CHARTER BY JOHN HERBERT, OTHERWISE RAGLAN, CONCERNING LANDS AT LANTWIT.

[FONMON MSS.]

17 AUG. 20 ED: IV. 1480.

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego JOHANNES HERBERT dictus RAGLAN armiger dedi concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi GRUFFINO ap ARON vicario ecclesie de PENDULON THOME DAVY rectori ecclesie de LANDOGH GALFRIDO vicario de PENLLYNE WILLELMO LOYDYN Rectori ecclesie de LAMAYS JOHANNE THOMAS rectori ecclesie de PORTKYRY WILLELMO RAGLAN LUDOWICO RAGLAN JOHANNE CARNE HOWELL ap PHILIP аp THOMAS LUDOWICO JOHN JANKYN ap JEVAN VYCHAN THOME GETHIN et JEVAN ap GwILYм ap LLEWELYN BAGH omnes terras et tenementa mea que habeo infra dominium de LANTWYT Habendum et

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tenendum omnes predictas terras et tenementa predicto GRUFFINO THOME GALFRIDO WILLELMO JOHANNI WILLELMO LUDOWICO JOHANNI HOWELL LUDOWICO JANKYN THOME et JEVAN ad terminum vite mei predicti JOHANNIS HERBERT de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia inde debita et de jure consueta. Ac ego vero predictus JOHANNES HERBERT omnes predictas terras et tenementa predicto GRIFFINO THOME GALFRIDO WILLELMO JOHANNI WILLELMO LUDOWICO JOHANNI HOWELL LUDOWICO JANKYN THOME et JEVAN contra omnes gentes warantizabo. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti carte mee sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus HUGONE RAGLAN vicario ecclesie de LANTWYT THOMA COBRUG JOHANNE DERE et multis aliis. Datum apud LANTWYT decimo septimo die Augusti anno regni Regis EDWARDI quarti post conquestum vicesimo.

Seal, red wax, broken. Deed poll.

This deed preserves the names of the incumbents of six parishes in east Glamorgan. The gift was probably for ecclesiastical uses. John Carne, the squire of Llantwyt, married Elizabeth Herbert. John Dere or Deer is the earliest known member of a family long settled at or about Llantwyt-Major.

CCCXCV.

INDENTURE BETWEEN JOHN HERBERT,

OTHERWISE

RAGLAN, AND OTHERS, AND HOWELL AP GWILYM
AP LLEWELYN BAGH.

[FONMON MSS.]

6 JUNE. 22 ED: IV. 1482.

This indenture made the 6 day of June in the XXII yere of the reigne of Kyng EDWARD the IIIJ between JOHN HERBERT otherwise called RAGLAN esquier master HUGH RAGLAN clerke WILLIAM RAGLAN of Lantwit LEWIS RAGLAN DAVYD ap JEVAN ap JEDO and JEVAN ap GWILYм ap LEWELYN

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BAGH yn the on parte and HOWELL ap GWILYM ap HoWELL yn the other parte wittenysseth that where as the saide JOHN HERBERT hath purchaseyd of PHILIP ap GWILYм ap HoWELL brother of the saide HOWELL a messuage a garden a houseplace VII acres and a halfe of lande and halfe an acre of wode with the appurtenances yn WALSH SEYNT DONAT withyn the lordship of TALVAN and III acres of lande with the appurtenances within the fee of LANCOVIAN yn the lordship of LANBLETHIAN yn and of which messuage gardyn houseplace londs and wode with the appurtenances the said HowELL hath as well by dede as by ffynes thereof leveid yn the courtes of LLANBLETHIAN and TALVAN relesyd and quyte claymed from and for hym and hys heirs and all his right titull and clayme yn the same to the saide JOHN HERBERT master HUGH RAGLAN WILLIAM RAGLAN LEWIS RAGLAN David ap JEVAN ap JEDO and JEVAN ap GWILYM ap LLEWELYN BAGH ther hers and ther assignes as by the saide dede and ffynes more playnly it appereth the same JOHN master HUGH WILLIAM LEWIS DAVID and JEVAN graunteth and letteth to ferme by this present to the saide HOWELL the saide messuage gardyn houseplace londe and wode with the appurtenances to have and to hold to hym from the ffest of the Annunciation of our Lady last passed before the date of this present till the ende of VIII yeare then next followyng yeldyng therefore yerly to the saide JOHN his heirs and his assignes XIS of lawfull mony of ENGLANDE to be paide yerly at the ffest of Seynt NICHOLAS besydes the fre rent thereof dew to the Abbot of NETH. And if hit happenyth the said rent to be unpaide yn parte or yn all at any tyme by the space of 1 dayes after the said ffest of Seynt NICHOLAS then hit shall be lawfull to the said JOHN his heirs and his assignes to rentre yn to the saide messuage gardyn houseplace londe and wode with the appurtenances and to put out the saide HOWELL of the same whereon the saide

JOHN HERBERT shall delyver the saide messuage to the saide HOWELL sufficyantly repaired and then the saide HOWELL shall well and sufficyantly kepe mayntane and repair the saide messuage upon his owne coste duryng the saide terme and leve hit as suffyciantly repaired as he fyndith it. And if the saide HoWELL do any waste or destruccion upon the saide messuage or upon the saide wode or else do not suffyciantly repair the saide house upon reasonable warnyng gevyn unto him on the behalfe of the saide JOHN his heirs or assignes then hit shall be lefull to the same JOHN his heirs or assignes to rentre ynto the same messuage gardyn houseaplace londs and wode with the appurtenances and therof to put out the said HOWELL. Moreover the said HOWELL shall not quite the said astate yn the saide messuage gardyn houseplace londe and wode with the appurtenances to no person without spaciall licens of the saide JOHN his heire or assignes and if he do hit shall be lefull to the saide JOHN to rentre yn to the same. Furthermore the saide JOHN graunteth by the present if the saide HOWELL or his heir pay to the saide JOHN his heirs or assignes at any tyme withyn the said terme of VIII yeres VIIIJ £ of lawfull mony of ENGLAND of the proper goods of the saide HOWELL without syllyng or pleggyng of the saide messuage gardyn houseplace lands and wode or any parte thereof to any person then the saide JOHN his heirs or assignes shall enfeoffe the saide HOWELL or his heirs of the same messuage gardyn houseplace londe and wode and delyver hym the evydences only concernyng the same and to the performans therof of the behalfe of the saide JOHN his heirs or assignes the same JOHN byndeth him his heirs or assognes to the said HOWELL yn xx £. In witnesse whereof to the present endenture the parties afore saide interchangeable have put to their seales the day and the yere afore saide. The label remains, but the seal is gone.

The varieties in the spelling are in the original.

CCCXCVI.

CHARTER BY RICHARD III. AS LORD OF GLAMORGAN FOR A CHAPLAIN IN ST. CROSS' CHURCH, COWBRIDGE.

[CARNE MSS.]

21 FEB. 1 RIC: III. 1484.

RICARDUS Dei gracia Rex ANGLIE et FRANCIE et Dominus HIBERNIE necnon Dominus GLAMORGANCIE et MORGANCIE in partibus WALLIE reverendo in Christo patri domino JOHANNI eadem gracia episcopo LANDAVENSI salutem. Cum dilecti burgenses et tenentes nostri residentes et inhabitantes villam nostram sive burgum nostrum de KowBRYGGE facere et procurare intendant quod unum capellanum idoneum divina in ecclesia sive capella Sancte CRUCIS de KoWBRYGGE predicta eisdem inhabitantibus continue celebraturum atque sacramenta et sacramentalia quociens opus sit administraturum ex fructibus et preventibus decimarum ac obvencionum ab ipsis inhabitantibus proveniencium exhibitum et inventum habere valeant et ad id pro perpetuo stabiliendum quamdam ordinacionem sive provisionem aliam quocunque nomine censeatur inter eosdem inhabitantes et residentes et modernum vicarium de LLANBLETHEAN et successores suos quoscunque vicarios futuros ibidem vestro arbitrio sive auctoritate ordinaria semper valiturum fieri petant et exposcant nobis supplicantes ut quatenus ad id ut premittitur faciendum nostrum consensum et auxilium adhibere dignaremur Nos vero pie considerantes devotam intencionem dictorum burgensium residencium et tenencium nostrorum villam nostram sive burgum nostrum de KOWBRYGGE predictum inhabitancium ad divini cultus augmentum et animarum eorundem salutem tendere justis eorum desideriis annuendum fore duximus atque ordinacionem hujusmodi per vos faciendum nostrum consensum in hiis scriptis graciose impartimur. Vos nichilhominus requi