Dangos 18614 canlyniad

Precepts.

Declarations (mixed).

Declarations, (mixed). 1784, 1786, 1788-1791 And 1793-1794 are missing.

(1). Letter from Montgomery Castle, 11 Aug. 1635, from Edward Lord Herbert to Edward Jones, his bailiff of Chirbury, enclosing a warrant, (dated 8 Sept. 1635), appointing Moses Lloyd and Richard Thompson to assist him in the levying of the Old and the New Estreats in the Hundred of Chirbury. (2). Letter of attorney dated 19 Nov. 1636, from Edward Lord Herbert to his servants, Richard Thompson, Robert Browne and Samuel Meyrick, empowering them to levy and receive the estreats imposed in his courts of the Hundred of Chirbury with a recommendation that reasonable mitigation of the amercements, (especially to the poorer sort), be left to his cousin Mr Richard Harries of Stockton. (3). A file of petitions (19), 1635, to the Right Honourable Edward, Lord Herbert, Lord Baron of Chirbury and Castle Island, and one of the King's Majesty's most Honourable Counsels of War, from various suitors requesting abatement or mitigation of fines and amercements imposed in the Leet, (and some of the small), courts of the Hundred. A very interesting series of documents, with the replies in most cases endorsed. [4-6 Detail minute particulars of: the distress made from time to time, the forfeitures remitted by petition, fees paid to attorneys and solicitors at Salop and Ludlow, legal costs, costs of witnesses, jurors and prisoners, maintenances and travel allowances to various officials, gifts to bell ringers in Chirbury when his Honour went to London, &c.]. (4). Accounts of the receipts of amercements and of the disbursements made by the bailiff of the hundred of Chirbury, 11 Chas. I, 1635. (5). Account of the receipts of amercements and of the disbursements made by the bailiff of the hundred of Chirbury by Richard Thompson and Samuel Meyrick, 1636. (6). Account of the receipts of amercements and of the disbursements made by the bailiff of the hundred of Chirbury by Richard Thompson and Samuel Meyrick, 1636-1637.

Case for opinion submitted by Mr. Whittingham to Mr. Justice Waties touching the iura regalia of the hundred of Chirbury; in particular, whether the mesne lords of the Hundred (on the ground of alleged charters temp. Edw. III and by the then Duke of Buckingham) had the right to hold court barons, and to enclose the waste or commons of the hundred; also whether "my lord" may have an action of waste against some of his tenants who have suffered their houses to fall to the ground, contrary to the covenants of the leases granted to them by his mother "My Lady Danvers", who had lately died intestate.

Bond (£200) from David Meredith to Richard, Lord Herbert, Baron of Chirbury for the performance of his office of bailiff of the hundred of Chirbury.

Copious extracts from 44 Court Leet Rolls ranging from 1380 to 1652, and from a court baron book (date not specified) re. the hundred of Chirbury and Shelve, in a law suit between Mr. James Moore, (a tenant of John Lingen Kt.), and the Lord of Chirbury concerning a tenement called 'White Gritte (?), sometime part of the common of Shelve; latter alleged by plaintiff to be a manor per se, and not a parcel of the manor of Worthyn, a member of the manor or the hundred of Chirbury; also incidental reference to a dispute between the townships of Shelve and Muccklewich as to rights of common pasture.

The precincts or jurisdiction of the manor or borough leet up to Chas. I (the date of the grant of its governing charter) coincided with the area of the medieval borough of Llanfyllin, i.e. seemingly the old maerdref section of the commote of Mechain Uwchcoed, and was divided into four wards or townships. The charter made the borough co-extensive with the parish of Llanfyllin, and accordingly incorporated four additional rural townships, formerly owing suit to the Manor of Mechain Uwchcoed. These were (1) Bodyddon; (2) Globwll and Bachie; (3) Bodfoch, Garthgell and Brinelltine; and (4) Bodran, Nanthallen, Rhiwachor and Camen. Also the township of Rhiscog that continued to do suit to the leet of the manor of Nant y Meichiad. Thus from about 1672 to 1846 the jurisdiction of the leet coincided with the area of the parish of Llanfyllin, less the township of Rhiscog. The latter township, moreover, was subject to the jurisdiction of the quarter sessions of the borough of Llanfyllin. The leet courts were held at the local guild or town hall, 1662-1846, except Michaelmas 1776-Easter 1793 (pending the repair or reconstruction of the guildhall after a disastrous fire that took place between Easter and Michaelmas 1776), when the courts were held alternately at two local inns, the 'Black Boy' and the 'King and Crown', with one adjounment, Easter 1790, to the house of one Richard Davies 'at the sign of the Lion'. The records comprise court leet proceedings, 1653-1846 (including, estreat proceedings and alienation accounts, 1675-1835), and quarter and borough sessions, 1674-1820. For the court leets for Easter 1710, Easter 1714, Easter and Michaelmas 1716, Michaelmas 1718, Easter 1721, Easter 1729, Easter 1737, Easter 1739, Easter 1744 and Michaelmas 1750, see the borough and quarter sessions records. The reference MA 677 was not used. MA 510 and 511 (Easter), listed in the original schedule, are now missing.

Fragile.

Comprises Easter court leet and estreats, and Michaelmas estreats roll.

Fragile.

Fragile.

Also Quarter Session on the same day.

Estreats only.

Grand Jury election of bailiff only.

Also estreats, [see Mechain Iscoed], and Easter Quarter Sessions on the same day.