Four charters of Welsh interest, in Latin or Tudor English, manuscript documents on parchment


Four charters of Welsh interest, in Latin or Tudor English, manuscript documents on parchment[Wales and adjacent border regions of England, thirteenth and sixteenth century] Four documents: (i) charter of "Iewan ap Lewelin" (Ieuan ap Llywelyn) to Walter, son of John Self, for sale of an acre of arable farmland (unnamed here, and reverse without endorsement, but most probably in a Welsh border region), on 15 long lines, seal tag (but no seal), 110 by 220mm., third quarter of thirteenth century; (ii) indenture recording the sale of the manor of "Longrove" in Penarth, Glamorgan, from Erasmus Saunders of Tenby (c. 1534-c. 1597, a recusant English Catholic, who through his marriage in 1570 became one of the wealthiest men in Pembrokeshire: see F. Green, 'Saunders of Pentre, Tymawr, and Galnrhyd', Historical Society of West Wales, Transactions, II, 1913, pp. 161-188) and Jenett, his wife, to Henry Thomas ap Owen of Ilston, Glamorgan, and Rowland Dawkyn of Penarth and John Danyell of Penarth, for £200 in "good and lawfull money of England", in Tudor English, on 40 long lines, opening two words and important words in enlarged version of same, witnesses added on reverse (Philip Williams, Henry Manfield [added in his own hand], John Lawrens, John Thome John, George Franklin, "Morgan af ap Jeremie Morgan", Hopkin William ap Rees, and William ap Richard Meline), the signature of Erasmus Saunders and his wife's shaky initials added by them to the turn-up on the dorse, indentured at head, tag for a seal present (but only half of red wax seal remaining), another seal tag torn away from foot of document, seventeenth-century inscription on reverse: "Old papers belonging to R[ichard]i Coraugh", 290+22 by 48mm., dated Penarth, Glamorgan 15 July 1573; (iii) enfeoffment by David ap David Jankyn of "Berthloid" (Berthlloyd), Montgomeryshire, of David ap Rees ap John ap David, for property in "Dorowen" (Darowen), Montgomeryshire, in Tudor English (with endorsement in Latin), in 28 long lines, 150 by 500mm., dated 26 August 1577; (iv) charter of Thomas Wyne of Garth, Montgomeryshire, "Jesper ap Hugh" of "Rydeskine", Montgomeryshire, and Gylbert Homfrey of "Cletterward", Montgomeryshire, acknowledging a £600 debt to Edward Horbert, on 11 long lines, remains of four red wax seals on seal tags cut horizontally across the bottom of the document (surviving seals with letters 'W' and 'O', and a herd of cattle between two castles), 160 by 320mm., dated Acton Burrell, Shropshire, 8 January 1578; all with spots, stains and folds, but overall in good condition, all apart from (ii) laid down on cards Items (i) and (iii)-(iv) were once in the collection of E.H. Dring (1863-1928), and his son E.M. Dring (1906-1990), and passed from them to the Schøyen Collection via the London book-dealership Quaritch. Item (ii) was acquired by the Schøyen Collection in July 1994 from Jeff Towns of Dylan's Book Store, Swansea, Glamorgan. All manuscripts from Wales, or of Welsh interest, are of significant rarity, and those of the thirteenth century greatly so.


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