Welsh Journals

THE USK GLEANER &3ID MOKMOerTlSHIEE EBCORD, A Local Register of Events and Magazine of Information. No. 11. Published by J. H. CLARK, at « The County Obseever" Office, Usk. PRICE 3d ROGER EDWARDS'S CHARITY. By indenture, bearing date 29th April, 1621, Roger Edwards's Charity, of Altabilla, in the parish of Llangwm Ucha, granted and enfeoffed to "Walter Rumsey, John Saunders, and five others a yearly rent charge of £10 out of certain lands in the parish of Llanbaddock and Raglan, towards the maintain¬ ing and finding of a Free School in the town of Usk, and for a sufficient learned schoolmaster for the education and teaching of children of the said school, with full power to the said Trustees and their heirs, and the greater number of them, from time to time to place and displace such master, as by them should be thought meet ; and he also granted and enfeoffed to the said Trustees a dwelling-house lately erected by him, with a curtelage thereto adjoining, lying in the parish of Llangeview, near the highway from TJsk to the Town of Chepstow, and all his freehold messuages, lands and tenements situate in Llange¬ view, Llangwm Ucha, and Gwernesney in his own occupation ; and all his freehold lands in the several parishes of Llangwm Ucha, and Wolvesnewton, and also certain lands and tenements called Costleys, in the parish of Caldicot, and also a parcel of land called Cae Griffith Ucha; and a messuage garden and meadow in the parish of Llangeview; and also certain freehold messuages, lands and tenements in the said parish of Llangwm Ucha, and also certain lands and tenements in the parish of Llangeview; also a messuage, barn lands, and tenements in Llan¬ geview, and other his freehold messuages lands and tenements whatever (excepting one dwelling-house, barn, garden and one acre and a half of land part of the said premises called Costleys) to hold the same to the use of the said Roger Edwards for his life, and after his decease, to the use of the said trustees and their heirs; and after reciting that the said Roger Edwards had, according to the custom of the manor of Usk, surrendered to the said Trustees and theirs after his decease, a messuage or mansion house wherein he dwelt, called Altabilla House, with the gardens, orchards, and appurtenances and 15 parcels of land therein mentioned situate in Llangwm, 11 Llangeview, and Gwernesney, and also a barn and six parcels of land in the parish of Llangwm, a messuage garden and orchard and three parcels of land in Llangeview, and five parcels of land in the parish of Llangwm, and one parcel of land contain¬ ing about seven acres in the parish of Llangwm called Cae Thomas Powell; and also all the customary messuages, lands and tenements which he had purchased of Sir Charles Somerset, Knight, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, in the parish of Llangwm Ucha and divers other copyhold and customary lands mentioned in the said surrender. It was by the said indenture witnessed, that the said Trustees and their heirs should, after the decease of the said Roger Edwards, hold the said customary lands and tenements in the parish of Llangwm Ucha, which he had purchased of Howell Reynolds, being of the annual value of £6 13s. 4<L, upon trust, to divide the said yearly rent to the poor people of the parishes of Llangwm Ucha, Llange¬ view,* and* Gwernesney in manner following: £3 yearly to the poor of Llangwm Ucha, £3 yearly to the poor of Llangeview, and 13s. 4d. to the poor of Gwernesney, at the discretion of the parson, curate, vicar, or churchwardens of the ^said pariahes respectively. And as to the residue of the said freehold, copy¬ hold, and customary messuages, lands, and tene¬ ments to the use of the said Roger Edwards for life, and after^his decease, upon trust to employ the rents thereof to keep in good repair the messuage or tenement in Llangeview, which he had provided for the habitation of 12 poor, aged, blind, or impotent persons, successively to be chosen out of the several parishes of Llangwm Ucha, Llangeview, and Gwernesney, such as had or should inhabit in some or one of the said parishes at least three years next before such election, and if that number could not be had within the aforesaid parishes, then so many to be chosen out of some other next adjoining parish, of the like poverty and impotency, as should make up the same number, to be placed to dwell in the said house, and upon trust to divide the yearly sum of £5 a piece, to be paid to every one of the said poor, aged, blind, or impotent persons, by quarterly payments at Christmas, Lady-day, Hid* summer, and Michaelmas, and also to give 40s. per annum to some vicar, curate, or other sufficient churchman, who stall read divine Beryioe in tta