their father gave to her during his life, namely, the province of Maelor Saesneg, with the appurtenances; the manor of Overton, with the mill and stream, and all the appurtenances; and all the vills which are in the province of Maelor Saesneg; the manor of Eyton in Maelor Bemorat, with the mill and park, and all other appurtenances, and two portions of lands situate in the said park, of which the one was purchased by the Lord Hywel ab Madog from all the heirs of Herbestog, subject to an annual rent of twelve gallons of beer, or the price thereof, at the Feast of St. Michael, and the other part was freely given by the aforesaid heirs of Herbestog to the Lord Gruffudd their father, the vill of Llanarmon, with the appurtenances in Beulleston, together with those lands which the Lady Ysota their grandmother, with the consent of the Lord Madog their grandfather, and the Lord Gruffudd their father, purchased from Cadwgan, and Eivit (Rhirid), and Einion, the sons of Doyoc, which are called Lloytlier to have and to hold all the aforesaid tenements, with the appurtenances of them and their heirs, as long as she should live.

In the Llyfr Coch Asaph there is a copy of a deed between Madog ab Llywelyn and Owain ab Gruffudd ab Madog, Lord of Bromfield and Iâl, in which the following persons are mentioned as witnesses. The Lord Anian, Bishop of St. Asaph; David, Dean of Brom

1 Anian or Einion II, surnamed de Schonan, Prior of the House of the Black Friars at Rhuddlan, was the son of Ynyr ab Meurig, Lord of Nannau, and was called Y Brawd Dû o Nannau. He was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph, as Anian II, September 24th, 1268. He was also Confessor to Edward I, whom he attended in his voyage to the Holy Land. In 1271, he obtained from John Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, the grant of more than an hundred acres of land in St. Martin's for the church there, paying yearly for ever one pair of gilt spurs, at Midsummer, with condition that it should not be lawful for the Bishop or his successors to alienate the same. This grant bears date "Apud Album Monasterium in crastino Paschæ, 1271". It was afterwards confirmed by Richard, the son of John Fitz Alan, who also gave forty-four acres more, with the seat of the Manor House thereto belonging. In 1278, he got from

field; Brother Cynwrig, Prior of Rhuddlan; and the Lord Gervasius (Iorwerth), Abbot of Valle Crucis. This deed was executed at Dinas Bran in 1270.

At this time, Anian II, Bishop of St. Asaph, appointed vicars to the churches of Llangollen and Wrexham, against which the Abbot of Valle Crucis appealed, on the plea that Wrexham, Rhiwabon, Chirk, Llansant Ffraid, and Llandegla, were capella to Llangollen, and that, therefore, one vicar was enough for all. And, in 1274, sentence was passed by the Abbot of Tal y Llecheu, the pope's delegate, condemning the bishop to a fine of five pounds and the said vicars to a penalty of sixty pounds (pro fructibus per eos receptis), and to restore the said chapelries to the abbey. Against this sentence the bishop appealed to the archbishop of the province, whose official at once gave the bishop letters of protection, and issued a mandate to the Archdeacon of Caer Ffyrddin to inhibit the Abbot of Tal y Llecheu from further proceedings, and to cite him to answer for his conduct. The abbot, however, supported by the pope, resisted, and excommunicated the archbishop and suspended the archdeacon, and the result was (by way of compromise) that the sequestered benefices were given up to the abbey by the bishop at his visitation in 1275.

I have not been able to discover who Prince Madog married; but we learn from the documents in the Record Gruffudd Fychan, Lord of Iâl, the Manor of Llandegla, to be settled upon himself and his successors. He gave two-thirds of the tithes of Bryn Eglys to the Abbey of Valle Crucis. He died February 5th, 1292-3, and was succeeded in the See by Llywelyn de Bromfield, who died in 1314.

Sale of Church Lands belonging to the See of St. Asaph in Powys Fadog.

May 9th, 1649.-Two Messuages in St. Martin's, co.

Salop; sold to William Fell and Jonathan Pilcot for £195 10.0 Aug. 20th, 1649.-Part of the Manor of Wrexham; sold

to James Lloyd for

March 25th, 1650.-The Manors of Llandegla, and of Gwytherin and Meliden in Gwynedd, with other lordships, manors, and lands; sold to John Jones and George Twistleton, Esqrs., for

£50 0 0

£3797 0 0

Office in London that the name of his consort was Margaret. Madog ab Gruffudd died in 1277, leaving two infant children, Llywelyn and Gruffudd, as his heirs.

Immediately after the death of Madog, Edward I, King of England, by a document dated at Shrewsbury, December 3, 1278, and the sixth year of his reign, directed Roger L'Estrange, the guardian of territories and estates that formerly belonged to Gruffudd ab Madog of Bromfield, to make over the proceeds of the lands and tenements to the Bishop of St. Asaph for the benefit of the sons and heirs of the said Gruffudd, who were under age, but that the tenants were to look to Roger alone as the guardian appointed by the king during his pleasure.1 On December 4 in the same year, the king appointed Roger Mortimer to be guardian to the two young princes.

On December 10 in the same year, in a document dated at Shrewsbury, the king informed Roger L'Estrange that he had deputed Gruffudd ab Iorwerth to be his justiciary in the lands which belonged to Madog of Bromfield, to execute justice according to the laws and customs of those parts of which the said Madog was seized in his lordship and fee on the day on which he died, and to receive all the rents and profits of those lands, and to deliver them to Margaret, who was the wife of the aforesaid Madog (and who lately swore before him that the two sons and heirs of the said Madog whom the king delivered to herself, should be sent and placed under the guardianship of the said Roger at the king's command) for the sustentation of those boys, and what was over and above that sustentation should be laid by for the use of those boys according to what the venerable father the Bishop of St. Asaph, the aforesaid Margaret, and the aforesaid Gruffudd, who was appointed for that special purpose in the king's place, should think best, so that the said Gruffudd should have the custody of those lands, and receive their rents and profits, and be answerable by a reasonable computation before the aforesaid bishop and 1 Rotuli Walliæ, 6 Edw. I, m. 12.

Margaret, or any other person whom the king might appoint for that purpose; with the exception that the conservation of the king's peace and the punishment of robbers and other malefactors, if there were any, against the king's peace, should be dealt with by the said Roger L'Estrange and his servants in such a way as the said

Roger L'Estrange might think best. And that the guar

dianship of the aforesaid lands and their profits was to be made over to Gruffudd from the octave day of St. Martin last past, on which day the king received the homage of the two boys during the king's pleasure.1

On the 4th January, 1278, the king, by a document dated from the Tower of London, directed Roger Mortimer and Walter de Hopton to settle a complaint that had been brought before him by Margaret, who had been the wife of Madog Fychan, against Llywelyn Fychan," who had unjustly, as she affirmed, taken possession of the province of Mechain, which she asserted to be the patrimony of Llywelyn and Gruffudd, the sons and heirs of the aforesaid Madog, and to decide the case justly, according to the laws and customs of the country.

On the same day, the king directed Roger Mortimer and Walter de Hopton to settle a complaint brought by the above-named Margaret, the widow of Madog Fychan, against the king's beloved and faithful Roger l'Estrange, for unjustly seizing the manor of Maela wr Saesneg, which was the patrimony of Llywelyn and Gruffudd, the sons and heirs of the aforesaid Madog Fychan, and of which province she, and men approved by the said heirs, ought to be the guardians, and no one else, according to the law and custom of those parts, till the time when the aforesaid heirs knew how to govern themselves and their inheritance, and no longer. Accordingly, the king gave directions to Roger Mortimer and Walter de Hopton to call the parties before them, and to decide the case according to the law and custom of those parts.

3

On the 4th January, 1278, by a document dated from the Tower of London, the king gave directions to the 1 Rotuli Walliæ, 6 Edw. I, m. 12.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

above-named Roger Mortimer and Walter de Hopton, to settle a dispute that had arisen between the Lady Emma, who had been the wife of Gruffudd ab Madog, and the Lady Margaret, who had been the wife of her (the Lady Emma's) son, Madog Fychan. The Lady Emma claimed manorial rights in the manor of Eyton, which had been settled upon her as a dowry by her husband; but the manorial rights were then in the possession of the Lady Margaret, who held them in consequence of their having been settled upon her as part of her dowry. The king then directs Mortimer and Walter de Hopton to see what rights the Lady Emma had in the manor; then to take possession of the manor for the king, and to give her an equivalent for it in the county of Chester, to be held during the time of her life in recompense for the above-named manor, but that after her death the manor was to revert to the king and his heirs; and if they shall find that the Lady Margaret is justly entitled to hold the manor by right of dowry, then that they shall similarly provide that, after the death of the said Lady Margaret, the said manor should revert to the king and his heirs.1

On the same day, the king gave directions to Mortimer and Walter de Hopton to settle a dispute, according to the laws of the country, between the Lady Margaret, who had been the wife of Madog Fychan, who claimed manorial rights in Corwen, Carrog, Mwstwr, Bonwm,3 and Rechald, which had been assigned to her by her husband as her dower, and Gruffudd Fychan of Iâl, who was stated to have unjustly taken possession of them.

On the 12th January, 1278, the king directed Roger L'Estrange to assign to Margaret, who had been the wife of Madog of Bromfield, all the land of which the said Madog of Bromfield was seised in his lordship and in fec, in the bailiwick of the said Roger L'Estrange, on the day on which he died, for the benefit of the sons of the aforesaid Madog, but that the said Lady Margaret 1 Rotuli Walliæ, 6 Edw. I, mem. 12, dorso.

2 A manor in Edeyrnion.

3 Carrog, Mwstwr, and Bonwm are manors in Glyndyfrdwy.

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