Description:

Keven Coed Ewyas (alias the Gare)

Lease for lives, June 6, 1694

(1) Rt Hon George, Lord of Abergavenny

(2) Jane Oliver of par Comyoy, co Heref, widow

Consideration: £1

A cottage inhabited by (2) with 4 acres of land (boundaries given) and a new sheep-cott, lying on a mountain called Keven Coed Ewyas, par Comyoy.

For natural lives of (2), Morgan Oliver and Richard Oliver, 2 of her sons.

Rent 1/-

Witnesses: Richard Croft, Richard Croft and Joan Pytt

Endorsed:  ‘Richard only living’ (21 June 1718)

Observations:

A Monmouthshire property included in the catalogue of Lord Abergavenny’s holdings in the Manor of Ewyas Lacy.