Ffeil (Manorial) 380. - Another English translation (late Henry VIII) of an early custumal of Crickhowell,

Includes interpolations in an Elizabethan hand. Names of jurors: John Broile, Seisill ap Adam, Griffith ap Reve, Jevan ap Root [--] Seisill, Hugh Clerkes, Henry Bofford, Mille ap Mille. (A) Park of Kellylan; rights of tenants, including custom of the pinfold bounds of park (see no. 379 for abstract). (B) The Lord of Crickhowell holds the Manor of Crickhowell of the Lord of Blaenllyfni by four knights fees [interpolation in Elizabethan hand: and a half] doing such services as follows: finding in the Common War between the King of England and the Prince of Wales four armed men in the Castle of Blaenllyfni by forty days; he holds the manor by ward and marriage and to pay heriot and relief, and shall come by attorney to the days of marches and make homage and swear fidelity to the Lord and "come by attorney ... to the dayes off the let, holden threes by the yer" and suit of court monthly of Blaenllyfni; to be quit of suit of count during war between the King of England and the Prince of Wales. (C) To enjoy the whole manor of Crickhowell, with liberties following with the castle, rents, homages, heriots, reliefs, advowsons of churches, woods, meadows, etc., weights and measures to be amended by the standard of the said Lord of Crughoell. All the tenants of the burgh or villages and other tenants Welsh and "fordyn" [interpolation in Elizabethan hand: forren] come and pay rents to the Lords bailiffs on certain days in which the said rents be 'levable' by reasonable summons (three days). Beadle to attach any who do not come and to arrain them before the steward "at the lordes Barre", each to be amerced 10s. for a Welsh tenant, 7s. for a foreign tenant, 1s. for a burgess. All tenants who hold lands by service of homage to come to the Lord kneeling, close his hands within the Lord's hands, and swear fidelity [form given], the Lord to kiss him, then he to stand and pay 6s. 8d. to Lord's chamberlains for their fees; Welsh tenants to bring oxen to plough the Lord's demesne and to take office as beadle and forester when elected and pay "seriantr" at August terms; to pay 13s.4 for the farm of the beadle and 5s. for the farm of the forester, and pannage of hogs and other dues to the Lord on his becoming knight, etc., and Welsh tenants to accompany Lord to wars-as many of them as be chosen-and to pay suit of court and essoin and heriot of 5s. at death to the Lord, and a heriot on the alienation of lands, when the seller should come to "lordes Baylles" [sic] and acknowledge the alienation, those who hold by relief to come before the Lord's stewards [interpolation in Eilzabethan hand: in the Lord's Court] and bring their charters to be enrolled in the "lordes Rolles". (D) The Lord of Crughoell holds the advowson of parsonages of Crughoell, Llangattok, Llampeder, the vicarage of Crughoell is presentation of the parsonage of the said church, and the same Lord holds the park of Kyllylan of Crughoell. (E) The park and wood of Llampeder are common for all tenants except the lord has the hay of Penalte, Cleydagh, and Nalawdecond, tenants having liberty for their beasts in the said forest to give a hen at St Andrew to the Lord, and to be amerced as above if he does not bring it (i.e. 10s., 7., or 1s.). (F) Demesne lands are the fields of lanvayer, Crughoell, and Enys y coyd in the hills of Rodewyth, Cludagh, Rywebuch, Breanog, and in meads of brode meude, Oldeorchard, Rede Kese Adam yskyfelde, Symondashome, ffroggemede, Abwenllan, and Enysgeroyn, all forbidden to tenants except demesne field of llanway when fallow. Lord and his heirs have weirs to fish and take fish and remember that [--] the time of Hugh Turberville the Welsh tenants of the country of Crughoell ought of custom to repair the weir called Walshewer. (G) Lord and his heirs have liberty to hold fairs once yearly at the Nativity of Our Lady and market every Thursday in "the Towne and Burgh of Crughoell makyng proclamacon of querelles or pleys of pyponders by the portreve or Chachepoll of the towne". The same querels and pleas to be examined and determined in the hundred of the Pyponders the same day of the fair or market. The Lord has courts to be held from month to month and hundred from fortnight to fortnight and in the said courts and hundreds to examine, accuse, and determine all causes and pleas "both Ryall and [interpolation in Elizabethan hand: done & Comyttdd] ppsonall both off trespass and off all man's felonyes contractes & other [crossed through by Elizabethan scribe] within the Lordship of Crughoell. But off suche trespasses or felonyes whyche ben made wt in the daye of the late of the Cheife lorde for whye all Casualt' and comodytyes falling wt in the days of the let' pptayn to the Cheff lord, the same lord hath hys mesures wt in hys burgh and elles where wt in his lordship", i.e. trug, half trug, peck, gallon, half gallon, and quart, yeard, and ell [i.e. same as quoted earlier]; if fake, measure to be "brende" and owners punished. Elizabethan marginals:. "Libtat tened Nundinas Isemell in Ann' calls for the grante";. Cur' tenend de mesa in mesem et hundred a quind' in quindecem. (H) The Custome off the Milles of Crughoell. Cludagh [sic]. All the Welshe tenants of Llanelly Maysewartha Abbarthoen [Elizabethan addition] and Preske shall sustain and repair the mill of Cludagh with appurtenances at their own expense, i.e. carpentry, millstones, and other necessary works and find sufficient water in winter and summer or any other time to the course of the same mill, and if they default in the turning off the water at any time to the said Mill turned by the tenants of the Welsh tenure they oughtto be amerced 10s. each, and if it rain in the said Mill for default of covering all the tenants to be amerced 10s. and any Welsh tenants who refuse to let a tenant or stranger of another lordship who has come to the mill to grind his corn there, have his multure in the said mill, each of them to be amerced 10s. and to satisfy the lord or his farmer of the said mill of the toll so borne away. Any Welsh tenant who goes to another mill to grind his corn to be amerced 10s. and to satisfy the lord of the toll so borne. The lord to find timber for the reparation of the said mill and the lord or his farmer to ordain the miller of the said mill. Welsh tenants to make the weir which is called Welsh Weir with other Welsh tenants and pay toll as in the time of Hugh Turberville [c. 1280-1324]. The Custom of the Mille of Usk. All Welsh tenants of the lordship of "Chrughoell" shall carry timber for repairs to the mill of Usk with their bodies save the timber that the lord ought to carry to repair the same, "being above the pynne of Vske [crossed through by Elizabethan scribe] and the hopper stretching from above the ground to the bottom, and shall fine millstones. Reeve or beadle to summon Welsh tenant to remove old stones and fine better ones, or to be amerced 10s. If they go out of the lordship to grind their corn they ought to be amerced 10s. and to pay the lord or farmer the toll borne away. The lord to find timber for the said mill and to make the Welsh weir at his own cost, tenants to pay due toll as in the time of Hugh Turberville and his predecessors [last three words are Elizabethan addition]. The Custom of the Mille of Kemer. All the Comynteys of Kemer, Lampedr, Banfroods' Langease and Bellefondayne [Elizabethan addition] Toregayr, Henboote, and Kellyhulagh of custom of their lands and tenants shall carry timber to repair Kemer mill with their bodies and find suitable millstones [as Usk Mill above], with 10s. amercement if, because of their default, the mill is empty. Tenants ought to carry gutters to lead the watercourses and to cover the mill at their own cost lest rain enter, or 10s. amercement. 10s. amercement each to Welsh tenants if they do not come as summoned to repair the said mill. Toll as in the time of Hugh Turberville and his ancestors. "The Knyghten Bedell of the lord of Blaynlyfny & Dinas powes [last three words are Elizabethan addition] hath nothyng to do noder medelt hym in executyng his offic' wyth in the lordship of Crughoell.". Endorsed: 'Custumes of Crughoell'. Cf. note as to watermark of paper. 1 Long paper roll. Very fragile: unfit for production. Mutilated, especially part of top lost.