Held at:

Glamorgan Archives

Reference:

MS.4.62

Source:

Original Document [translation]

Title:

Transcription of Cwmyoy and Llanthony Manor Court Rolls [part]

Place name:

Oldcastle, Redcastle

Date:

1609

Description:

Cwmyoy and Llanthony Manor Court Rolls. Gwent Archives.  [Latin script translated  by John Rhodes of Gloucester]

Transcription by Arthur Price, reproduced with his kind permission.

 

 

Oldcastle. 1609. 4/8.

Riceus [Rees] William John holds from the Lord of the Forest at will for rent at 12d a year.

 

Oldcastle. 1609. 4/8.

James ap Price on the fifteenth day of December in the sixth year [1563?] of the reign of [illege but probably Elizabeth?] took from the Lord a messuage with all its tenements situated in Oldcastle to hold to him and three assigns rendering 10s and 8d, a herriot of best animal. The said James assigned the premises to William John Thomas, the same William assigned it to a certain George William which George assigned it to John George William now the tenant only for the term of his life.

 

Redcastle. 1609.6/8.

Rees William John on the seventh day of April on the twenty second year [1580] of the reign of Elizabeth came and took from the Lord two closes, two enclosures of arable land and pasture of which one called Ynis Pen y Bont contains nine acres and another called Crow yr Eg Lewis contains one and a half acres- to hold to him self and three assigns at the usual fealty and a herriot [rest illege].  The said Reece assigned the premises to John Parry John Ychan.

 

Observations:

This branch of the Price family subsequently acquired extensive property and interests in many of the parishes of Ewyas Lacy, and further references can be found here.

 


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