File GAB7/10 - Creuddyn, Genau’r-glyn, Dyffryn Clarach, and Caeo deeds

Title deeds relating to lands in the commote of Creuddyn, Dyffryn Clarach and Genau’r-glyn, including the tenement of Tythen (other lands named), initially demised by royal letters patent to William Clerk in 1555 and to Henry [Radclife], Earl of Sussex in 1571. The deeds comprise successive assignments to John Muschampe of London, 1592, Maurice Vaughan of Glanleri, 1593/4, Henry Best of London (together with property in Camrose, Pembrokeshire), 1598/9, and Francis Smyth of Cosheston, Pembrokeshire, 1604/5; a family conveyance by John Meyrick of Pembroke to Rowland Meyrick of Gladestry, Radnorshire, 1606, and a deed of sale, 1607, by William Vaughan of Tretower, Breconshire, to Rowland Meyrick of a moiety of those properties and others which were part of the possessions of Rice Griffith, attainted, and a moiety of a mill called Kilinden, otherwise Kilmeharen, in Caeo, Carmarthenshire, lately belonging to the dissolved monastery of Talley, all sold to Reginald Nicholas and John Meyrick in 1586; the moiety belonging to Reginald Nicholas had been sold to William Vaughan in 1605. Finally there is an assignment and release by Rowland Meyrick to Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan, 1607-1608. The file also contains a release by Katherine [Howard], countess dowager of Suffolk, and Sir William Howard, KB to Sir Richard Pryse from any charges following the under-valuation of premises in the same locations (tenants named), conveyed by letters patent by Elizabeth I in 1595 to Gelly Merrick and Henry Lyndley, 1635/6