Welsh Journals

Jan., 1881. BYE-GONES. 177 BYE-GONES FOR 1881. NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Wales and the Borders, must be addressed to " Askew Roberts, Croeswylan, Oswestry." Real names arid addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only. JANUARY 5, 1881. NOTES. FULK FITZ WARREN OF WHITTINGTON. The following interesting document is from " a true trans¬ lation" made by "John Caley, Grays Inn, 12 March, 1817." Why it was made, or for whom, I cannot say. Jabco. Among the Records of ye Court of Chancery in the Tower of London, that is to say, the Inquisitiones post Mortem, of the 23 Edw. 3d. Part 1, No. 39, is thus confcfiiiipd -A.O 1349 EDWARDby the Grace of God, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland, To his beloved John de Swinnertonhis Escheator in ye county of Salop Greeting Inasmuch as Fulk fitz Warren held of Us in Capite on the day of his death as we are informed, We command you that without fail you take into our hands all the lands & tenements of which the said Fulk was seised in his demesne of as of fee of your Baliwick on the day on which he died and cause the same to" be safely kept untill We shall thereupon otherwise command And by the oath of good & lawf ull men of your Baliwick by whom the truth of the matter may be better known you diligently enquire how much lands the said Fulk held of Us in Capite as well as in demesne as in Service in your Baliwick on the day on which he died and how much of others and by what Ser¬ vice & how much those lands are worth yearly in all issues, and on what day the said Fulk died and who is next heir and of what age And the Inquisition thereupon distinctly and openly made, without Delay you send to Us under your Seal and the Seals of those by whom the same shall be made and this Writ. Witness myself at Westminster the 20th day of August in the year of our reigu of England the 23. and of our Reign of France the tenth. The Marches of Wales. An Inquisition taken before John Swynnerton Eschae- tor of the Lord the King in the County of Salop and the marches of Wales adjacent at Shrewsbury on Friday next after the Feast of S't. Michael in the 23d year of the reign of King Edward the third after the Conquest that is to say according to the tenor of the Writ of the said Lord the King to this Inquisition served, by the oath of Madoc ap Zerward David ap Kenewrick, Howell ap David, Madoc ap David *p Howell Fayn ap Ithel Ievan ap Ada, Ierwerth Vauchan, Ievan ap Ithell Ievan Meiller, Madoc ap David Payn ap Ierworth & Howell ap Heillez. Who say upon their Oath that Fulk fitz Warryn held in his demesne as of Fee on the day on which he died the Manor of Whytynton with the Appurt's in the Marches of Wales aforesaid of the Lord the King in Capite by service of one Knights fee, In which Manor there is a certain Castle which is worth nothing yearly beyond Reprises, because it wants every year for repairing of the Houses and Walls there 40s. And there is a certain Garden which is worth yearly 6d. And there is a certain Dovehouse which is worth yearly 12d. And there is there two Water Mills which used to be worth yearly 40s. and now are worth only 20s. by reason of the Pestilence, be cause the tenan's are dead in the present pestilence And there is two Ponds, the fishery thereof is worth yearly 2s. And there is a certain Wood, the underwood whereof is worth yearly 2s. and the Past're thereof is common. And there is a certain Park in which there is no under- wood and the Pasture thereof is worth nothing yearly beyond the sustentation of the wild beast there. And there is a certain Chase which the Jurors know not how to extend because there is no wood and Pasture there but in Common. And there is there two Carucates of land which used to be worth yearly 20s. and not more because the land could not be ploughed by reason of the Stones and now is worth only 103. because no one would lease the same. And there is fh e Acr* s of Meadow which are worth yearly 20s. and they were mowed and taken away In the life of the said Fulk, there used to be rent of Assise of free (tenants) there 60s. and it was paid at the terms at the Birth of our Lord and the nativity of S't John the Baptist in equal Portions, and now there is only 29s. at the terms afiresaid and this by reason of the Pestilence The Pleas and Perquisites of Courts there used to be worth nearly 40s, and now they are worth only 13s. 4d. Also they say that the said Fulk died on Wed¬ nesday before the feast of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary last past. And they say that Fulk son of y'e said Fulk is the next Heir of the said Fulk and was of the age of 9 years at the feast of S't Jame3 the Apostle last Past. In Testimony whereof the said Jurors to this Inquisition have put their Hands and Seals. AN OSWESTRY WILL, 1559.—(30 Chaynay). Gwen verch Meredeth of OswtBtrye " unto my sonne John the house wherein he dwillitb. . . . and the greate house wt the garden wherein I dwellid wt the horse myll and the bygger barne wt theire appurtenaunces so that he do paie or cause to be payde unto Katheryne verch John bis base doughter the somme of five poundes . . . out of the aforesaide Horse Myll at his furst entrye with the fourthe part of the profettes growing upon Maefthyn Boola or that shall hereaftre growe thereupon untill vt be 25