Held at:

Gwent Record Office

Reference:

D.668.71 (bundle of loose folded sheets)

Source:

ELSG digital images & transcription

Title:

Jurors’ Presentments, October 1743, Urishay, Clothy Hopkin, Trenant,

Place name:

Urishay, Michaelchurch Escley, Peterchurch

Date:

1743

Description:

Transcription of image 386

 

[These details were added to the dorse of the document by a later hand. Perhaps in 1818 ]

 

Transcription of image 387

Michaelmas 1743

 

Mannors of Urishay alias Hay-Urry, Trelleshope alias Trenant & Clothy Hopkin.

 

At the court of our sovereign lord the king, or view of frankpledge and court baron of John Delahay esq. lord of the said mannors kept at the dwelling house of Thomas Jones scituate in the parish of Michael Church Eskley the 18th day of October in the seventeenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the second now king of Great Britain and so forth and in the year of our lord God 1743. Before John Weare gent steward.

 

The names of the jurors.

 

William Harris

John Jones

Benjamin Pritchard

Richard Gronw

William Thomas

Abraham Price

Robert Shaw

David Pitt

John Gundy

David Gwyn

Richard Hanley

Richard Williams

Uriah Davies

Thomas Green

Francis Price

John Beavan

Thomas Pritchard.

 

Imprimis We the jurors aforesaid sworn and impanelled to enquire on behalf of our sovereign lord the king & the lord of the said mannors do upon our several oaths present as followeth.

 

Item  That John Price gent one of the tenants in the mannor of Clothey Hopkin & who owes suit & service to this court died since the last court, possessed of a messuage & lands within the said mannor & that a heriot of his second best beast accrued to the lord thereby which we find to be paid to the lord since his death & before the holding of this court.

 

Item  That Timothy Price son of Thomas John & one of the tenants of the same mannor died likewise possessed of a mess. & tenement within the same mannor since the last court & that a heriot of the second best beast accrued to the lord by his death which we likewise find is paid to the lord.

 

Item   We [------------] [?k  toit] of the mannor [----------------] [    as] Pritchard, Richard Hanley for several incroachments by them [-- ] made upon the Urishay common & [?---- ] [------ ] & each of them under a pai of xxxx each [?if] [---- ] [----- ] the same by the [-- ]th day of December next, & that Benjamin Pritchard & John Jones certify at next court under the like pain.

 

Item   We present Samuel Harris, Phillip Williams, Daniel Smith, George Ball, Peter Watkins & James Jones, tenants that owe suit & service to those courts, for not appearing to do suit & do amerce them in the sum of two shillings each for default of court.

 

[Signed by and the mark of]

 

William Harris

 

John Jones

 

Benjamin Pritchard

 

the mark of

Richard Gronw

William Thomas

 

the mark of

Abraham Price

Robert Shaw

 

the mark of

David Pitt

John Gundy

 

the mark of

David Gwyn

the mark of

Richard Hanley

the mark of

Richard Williams

the mark of

Uriah Davies

the mark of

Thomas Green

the mark of

Francis Price

the mark of

John Beavan

the mark of

Thomas Pritchard.

 

ELSG image accession ref. cwmbran1 – 386 & 387

 

Observations:

Transcription details are based on the work of Dewi Bowen Williams, see http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/Michaelchurch-Escley-and-Peterchurch/Manorial-Court-Records-for-the-Manors-of-Clothy-Hopkin-Urishay-Trenant-amp-Wellbrook/1466-1833/tg_mic_0127

 

For zoomable images see http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/docs/rs_ewy_0060_3.pdf

 

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