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- 1340-1549. (Creation)
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14 items (boxed).
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This group of charters, too, must have come to Wynnstay through the marital link with the Vaughans of Llwydiarth. In the first half of the sixteenth century, John ap Howell Vychan had married Elizabeth Grey, a descendant of the Grey and the Charleton families, who were the lords of Powys. Edward de Charleton was successful in defeating the supporters of Owain Glyndwr, 1401-1406, several of whom later received pardons. The less fortunate rebels had their lands confiscated and a number of them were executed.
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Fourteen charters, 1340-1549, by several of the lords of Powys, namely John de Charleton, Edward de Charleton, Henry Gray, Edward Sutton and Edward Gray, issued at [Welsh]pool (Powys) Castle or Mathrafal Manor. They include five pardons by Edward de Charleton to individuals who had taken part in the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr and whose lands were restored to them, 1408-1420. The lands to which they refer lay mainly in the lordships of Mechain Is Coed, Mechain Uwch Coed and Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. The recipient of the pardon of 1420 was Gruffith ap Jankyn ap Llewelyn ap Eignon ap Kelynnyn, an ancestor of the Vaughans of Llwydiarth and former squire to Charleton. Two deeds of 1418 and 1420/1 show that he benefited from further gifts of land and privileges. The gift of 1420/1 is the subject of a deed to settle a dispute between Edward Gray, lord of Powys and John ap Howell Vaughan in 1549. The charters of Henry Gray, 1446, and Edward Sutton, 1508/9, refer to lands in Caereinion and Deuddwr, granted to retainers for faithful service. Two other deeds, of Edward Gray, 1524 and 1540, concern previously forfeited lands in Trefedryd and Moel y Cornorion in Mochnant.
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Mainly Latin, 1 item in French.
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Preferred citation: Wynnstay (1945 deposit) GX.