Welsh Journals

ST. DOGMAELS: APPENDIX. As an addendum to Mr. Herbert Vaughan's interest- ing account of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary at St. Dogmael's we are glad to publish a full abstract of the possessions of the Monastery at the date of the Dissolution in the reign of Henry the Eighth, taken from the "Ministers Accounts" in the Public Record Office, by Mr. Edward Owen, a member of the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, and Secretary to the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire. — V.E. THE MONASTERY OF ST. DOGMAELS. Public Record Office: Ministers Accounts; 27-28 Henry VIII, No. 5287. Account of John Phillip Thomas, collector of the rents and ferms of the late dissolved monastery of St. Dogmaels, from Michaelmas 27th to Michaelmas 28th Henry VIII. Arrears-None, because this is the first account. Demesne Lands-Rent of the demesne lands in the hands of William Hyer, late Abbot 64s. Rents at will, and by lease in the parish of St. Dogmaels, alias the Llandr'. One tenement called Mylle Broke in parish of Nevern, and one close in the franchise of Newport (Novi Burgi), with all arable, non-arable, meadow and pasture, wet and dry, wood and plain, to the said tenement annexed, with all appurt's, demised by lease to Lewis (Leodoicico) Yonge by the conventual seal of the late Monastery, which lease was not exhibited 8s. Two tenements called Haber Berkethelley, demised by lease to Griffin ap Phillip ap Powell, by conventual deed which was not exhibited 6s. 8d. One burgage with garden adjoining in the township (villam) of St. Dogmaels, in the highway (vico) called Lan- don, demised by lease to Richard ap Thomas ap Ieuan by conventual deed which was not exhibited 7s. 4d. Two tenements lying in the parish of St. Dogmaels in the barony [or franchise] aforesaid, of which one is called Coit Parke John Lloyd, the other Tyre Wyat, lying between the common lands of the said monastery