Held at: | Ewyas Lacy Study Group |
Reference: | ELSG |
Source: | Transcription: Survey of the manor of Ewyas Lacy for Lord Abergavenny |
Title: | Land tenure in Michaelchurch Escley: Lord Abergavenny’s land |
Place name: | Michaelchurch Escley |
Date: | 1701 |
Description:
Private research aimed at identifying land holdings in Michaelchurch Escley described in a survey of the manor of Ewyas Lacy carried out for Lord Abergavenny. [Click here for full Survey transcription ]
Land tenure in Michaelchurch Escley: Lord Abergavenny, 1701
| Name of owner/ tenant | Welsh | English Acres | Rent p.a. | Notes |
| Leaseholders: |
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| Phillip David | 47 |
| 3s 6d | 9 acres arable, 38 acres meadow |
| John Watkin | 13 ½ |
| 3s4½d |
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| Total Leasehold | 60 ½ |
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| Copyholders: |
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| Wm Harry | 15 |
| 3s 9d |
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| Thomas Gundy | [?34] |
| 8s 7d | House |
| Thomas Gundy | [?11] |
| 2s 9d | Includes a ‘poore house’ |
| Thomas Powell | 1 |
| 2 ½d | House and barn |
| Thomas Beavan | 8 |
| 2s 0d |
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| John Watkin | 15 ½ |
| 3s 10½d | House, outhouse & garden |
| John Watkin | 6 |
| 1s 6d |
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| John Watkin | 3 |
| 9d |
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| William John Harry | 12 |
| ? |
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| Eliz Jennings | 1 |
| 1 ½d |
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| Elizh. Roger | [18] |
| 4s 6d | House, barn & garden; may be Ty Caradog |
| Ann Lewis [John Price] | [?5] |
| 1s 3 ½d | Messuage & barn |
| Edward Perkins | [10 ½] |
| 2s 7 ½d | House ‘lately built’ |
| Edward Perkins | [?12½] |
| ? |
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| Humphrey Thomas | 19 ½ |
| 4s 9d | ‘Tyled house’ & barn |
| Humphrey Thomas | 9 |
| 2s 3d | House or tenement |
| Humphrey Thomas | 6 |
| 1s 4d |
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| Humphrey Thomas | 6 |
| 1s 6d |
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| Thomas Delahay | 16 |
| 4s 0d | House and customary land |
| Sir John Morgan | [?18] |
| 4s 7d |
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| ?Wm Ffreeman | [?24½] |
| 6s 1½d |
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| John Parry | [22] |
| 5s 6d |
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| Walter Delahay | [7] |
| 1s 8d |
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| Total Copyhold | 280 ½ |
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| Freeholders |
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| John Parry | [35] |
| 2s 11d | Messuage |
| James Rowland [?Humphrey Thomas] | [4] |
| 4d | Messuage |
| Humphrey Thomas | [1] |
| 1d | Called Hergest |
| James Price | [6] |
| 6d | Messuage |
| Thomas Abraham | [2] |
| 2d |
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| William Harry | [1 ½] |
| 1 ½d |
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| James Probert | [22] |
| 1s 10d | Messuage |
| Thomas Church | [2] |
| 2d |
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| John Price | [28] |
| 2s 4d | Messuage |
| Joseph Exon [?Exton] | [9] |
| 9d | Messuage |
| Mary Beavan | [13 ½] |
| 1s 1 ½d |
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| Thomas Rowland | [11] |
| 11d |
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| William James | [50] |
| 4s 2d | Messuage |
| William James | [11 ½] |
| 11 ½ d | Messuage called Lloyn Rosser |
| Walter Delahay, Gent. | [20] |
| 1s 8d |
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| Walter Delahay | [38] |
| 3s 8d | Messuage |
| James Nicholl | [22 ½] |
| 1s 10½d | Messuage |
| Thomas David | [21] |
| 1s 9d | Messuage |
| James Probert | [13] |
| 1s 1d | Messuage |
| David Price | [4 ½] |
| 4 ½d | Messuage |
| Wm Prichard | [4] |
| 4d | Messuage |
| Mary Beavan/ Thomas Morgan | [11] |
| 11d | Rees David’s lands |
| John Parry | [1 ½] |
| 1 ½d |
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| Total Freehold | 352 |
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| Total Tenanted land | 693 | [2772] |
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Observations:
Acreages of land holdings are only occasionally quoted in this survey. For the purpose of comparison to other early surveys estimated Welsh acreages are shown in square brackets based on the assumption that the rents due per acre are the same those quoted in the Survey of 1566 for the Earl of Leicester; that is, 1d per Welsh acre for free [freehold] land, and 3d per Welsh acre for copyhold and customary land, with one Welsh acre equal to four statute acres. This seems to hold good for most cases above where actual acreages are given, but not for all, so that the estimated figures must be used with caution.
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