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Agreement between Wennunwen, son of Owin, and his heirs, and the monks of Stradmarchell, concerning the fishery at Keuillioc, on the river Deui, so that all the issues of that fishery shall be divided equally in two parts, between the prince and the said monks, so that the work and labour, preservation and repair, and expenses in all things, shall be provided commonly by both. The prince Wennunwen gives to the monks half the said fishery, in free and perpetual alms, quit and immune from all secular exaction, for the souls of himself, his parents and heirs. -- Witnesses: David, son of Kendelu, priest, Daniel, priest of Pennegoys, Kennig, priest of Machenthleith, Ruin, clerk, Gorono, son of Eyniavn, Meyler, son of Rywallavn, Riwallaun and Madavc, sons of Cenillin, Owein and Eyniavn, Pobien and Mareduth, sons of Philipp, son of Uchtred and many others.

Brother G., abbot of the Cistercian Order and the entire assembly of the abbots of the General Chapter have revoked by their mandate the arbitration of the abbots H[oytlev] of Whitland, A[dam] of Dore , and K[enweryc] of Kayrlyon in a cause pending between the houses of Pool and Cumhyr, by which all things were to be restored to their former status; twenty-one pounds was to be given to the abbot and assembly of Pool by the abbot and assembly of Cumhyr; if either of the parties approached the secular arm against the other party to prevent it from enjoying the possessions adjudged to it, it was to be punished by the authority of the highest order, and if it failed to regain its sense, the arbitrators were to report the matter to the General Chapter following. This was done in the year 1226. By authority of this command, the cause was indicated and after various altercations, the suit was finally settled by compromise between the arbitrators. The arbitrators report that G[oronwy], abbot of Pool, and A., abbot of Cumhyr, appeared with some fifty persons from the seniors and counsellors of their respective houses and compromised for the arbitrators, abbots H[oytlev] of Whitland, K[enweryc] of Kayrlyon, P. of Stratflur, and subpriors S. of Dore and A. of Kayrlyon, P. of Stratflur, and subpriors S. of Dore and A. of Kayrlyon, to stand by their arbitration under penalty of a hundred marks to be paid by one party to the other. This arbitration made 15 July 1227 at Radnor, is that the whole land which belongs to the monks between Luyth and Buga upwards from the moor which is upon Peruet Menith shall be divided through the middle lengthwise as long as it endures, whether towards Pemlumon or towards any other place, so that it may be divided between the two houses, and that the moiety which is towards Luyth shall remain to Pool and from that moiety Cumhyr shall possess the entire lands of Cumbuga and Blayn Guy within their boundaries. As for the land between Chorw and Eyanun, Cumhyr is to have that part which is in Ceredigion and Pool that part which is in Keueyllauc. Of the twenty-one pounds formerly received for Cumbuga and now adjudged through the General Chapter to the house of Pool, the monks of Pool are to have two parts and the monks of Cumhyr one third. Whosoever of the monks or laymen will have striven to refute this form of peace shall be banished from their particular houses to remote houses outside Wales and shall not be readmitted except through permission of the General Chapter, and whosoever will have concealed some instrument which might further this composition or will absent themselves from the rest except by the consent of the father abbot shall be excommunicated. This form of composition was read in the chapter houses of both houses and was not contradicted.

Grant and confirmation by Griffudd, son of Lewelin, prince of North Wales, to St Mary and the monks of Stratmarchell, for his soul, in pure and perpetual alms, freely and quietly, without any claim, exaction, or secular custom, of the whole land called Hawoth Owen, with all its bounds and appurtenances, namely from the Black Dyke straight to Evernow, thence to Nant ereyre, by the stream to its source, thence to Bonemaynmnelin, thence straight to Rithewohc, thence by the summit of the hill to Nanhanauc, thence from its source, where it rises below the willows to its mouth, namely Puhlledan: on the other side towards the stream called Yhaen from the said Black Dyke, by circuit, to the stream called Hurht and from Hurht to Yhaen. He gives also, to them, common pasture, through out that whole land which is between Hawoht Oweyn and Riw mayn guin in breadth, in length to Derwen. He gives also to them the land called Pennant yeweine, and Cum kalaht, as the charters of the lord Wenunwin better testify. Also that land, between the stream called Nantu to its source, thence by the summit of the hill to Carnehtwen. He gives, likewise, those lands, namely Ros Ekarrec, with all its bounds and appurtenances; and Pennant kenhlling, in its bounds, namely from the source of the stream called Nant eskeleyv, as it flows to Dulas, from Dulas to Dengi, from Dengi upwards to its source. Likewise the land which is between Dulas and Nant eskolev, as that charter which the monks have between them and the heirs of the said land better testifies. He gives, also, to them Kevenchoch, with its bounds and appurtenances. In the same manner, he gives the said monks the whole land which is between Corfh and Enniaun, so that no other monks shall have in it any use, or any common or proprietorship, except the monks of Stratmarchell. All the said bounds and gifts which belong to Keveyliauc, he gives them, as the charters of the lord Wenunwin thereon better testify, to possess fully and honourably, in all peace. He gives, also, to them Edugoeht, with all its bounds and appurtenances, towards Keveyliauc, freely and quit, in perpetual possession, as they formerly held it, better and freely, in the time of the lord Wenunwin. This gift is made in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1226. Witnesses: T. and I., monks of Stratmarchell, D., K, and M., conversi of that house; of secular persons, Grifin, son of Rodri, Blehtint, son of Meuric, Meylir Du, T. and M., sons of Moruran, G., son of Daniel, G., son of Maredut, Goronvy, son of Dauid, Huhcdreth Crutheur, and many others.

John de Cherleton, lord of Powis, gives, grants and confirms to William, abbot of Stratamarchell, and the convent of the same place, their right to hold a court of all their tenants which they have held by their steward from three weeks to three weeks or for a greater period since the time of the foundation of the abbey until Griffith, late abbot, was unjustly deprived of the right by the servants of John de Cherleton, the grantor's grandfather, without his knowledge. The right includes cognizance of pleas of contracts and agreements within their lands, of debts and destraining of chattels to the value of forty shillings, of petty trespasses and striking of hands where there is no mortal wound or breaking of bones, attachements both of foreigners and the abbey's own tenants committing trespasses in their corn and meadows, and of taking amerciaments, taxed by good and legal men of the said abbot and convent, but saving to the lord and his heirs pleas of error, false-judgement and attainder.

Charter of King John, granting and confirming to St Mary and the abbot and monks of Stratmarchell, the gifts of Owen of Keuelyoc and Wennoneo, his son, and others, their donors, as the charters of the donors which they have thereon reasonably witness. -- Witnesses: H[ubert] archbishop of Canterbury, R[obert] bishop of Bangor, G[eoffrey] fitz Peter, earl of Essex, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, William, son of Alan, Hugh Bardolf, William Briwerr, Robert Corbet, John Lestrange. -- By the hand of Simon, archdeacon of Wells and John de Gray, archdeacon of Gloucester. -- At Worcester, 11 April I John.

Notification by Alan, bishop of Bangor, addressed to all sons of Holy Mother Church in the bishopric of Bangor, that Kadwaladr, son of Howel, for the souls of himself and his parents, has given to the brothers of the church of the Cistercian order, St Mary of Estradmarhel, in perpetual and quiet alms, free from all exaction and custom, all the land from the stream called Bacho to the stream called Dengum; and also has sold for fifteen marks the feeding ground from the stream Dengum to Cumluith, to the same brothers for their own use. -- The witnesses of this gift and sale are: Laurence, Hospitaller, Sulien, archdeacon, Ioreuerth, dean, son of Howel, Ieuwaf, son of Ioreuerth, Philipp, prior of Lanwinnauch, Master Helias, Master Roger; of laymen: Meiler, son of Nennian, Griffud, son of Kadugaun, Karadauch the Little, Griffud Hiruein, Gurgeneu Preco, Henir Vates -- Because the present age is prone to evil and ingenuity tempts it calumniously to infringe what it endeavours to extort to itself, he confirms this gift and sale with his seal. Whomsoever shall presume to annul or disturb this gift and sale and the confirmation of this charter, by God’s authority and his own, he shall be overwhelmed by the sentence of anathema and thrown out of the bounds of Mother Church as long as he remains in his presumption.

Confirmation of gift by Dauid, son of Owyn of Bridtyr, to St Mary and the monks of Stratmarchell, for the souls of himself and his parents, of all lands, with their appurtenances, and all gifts and liberties, which all other heirs and his ancestors, of Arustili, sold or gave to the monks, namely Pennantbacho and Defrenmerthyr, Peruetminit, Cumlluit, and Cumbuga, to Ridpenhoch, with all their bounds, and the whole land which they have of Deupiu and of Scoruaur, and half of all the land of Arannell to Ridywoch, and Aberbredwen and Ryucanesseit, freely and quietly, well and in peace, and without any exaction and secular custom, he gave now, by right, for ever, in possession to the said monks, in wood, plain, waters, ways meadows, pastures, mills, and in all their uses and utilities, and in their bounds and appurtenances, so that no other monks should have any proprietorship, use or pastures in that region, from the river Hawren towards Powis. Dauid, son of Owin, confirmed, by oath, before the underwritten witnesses, that neither he, nor any other of those who were of kindred to him, nor by him, or on behalf of his brother, or son, or nephew, or any other man, would do any harm or damage to the said house, nor permit such to be done, but would compel the restitution of anything taken from it. Witnesses: Dauid, abbot of Stratmarchell, T. prior, Dauid, prior of Stratflur, Dauid the Little, conversus of that house, Vrien, canon of Tallhau, Ririd, dean of Strattywi, Teguaret, son of L., Geruase, son of E. Madoc, son of I., conversi of Stratmarchell, Miles, son of I., with his two sons, Grifut and Ioab, Grifut Coyc, Meuric, son of M., Meilir, son of Grifut, Grifri, son of Laud, Peredur, with his two sons, Alan and many others. This gift was made at Llanamdivri, in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1215, in the hand of Dauid, abbot.

Confirmation of gift by Madoc, son of Owin of Briddir, to St Mary and the monks of Stratmarchel, in pure and perpetual alms, free and quit of all exaction, custom and secular service, of all the lands and pastures, which the said monks possess and hold, of the region called Arustli, by gift of his brothers and coheirs and ancestors, so that no other monks shall have proprietorship, use or pastures, in that region, from the river Severn (Sabrina) towards Powis. These are the names of the lands which the said monks possess, by right, in proper and perpetual possession from him and his ancestors, namely Defren merthir, Cum buga, Cum luit and thence to Kevelioc, and half of Deupiu, and half of Scoruaur, half of Aberbredewen, and half of the whole land from Aranell to Rit euoch, and Riu kanesseit, with all their bounds and appurtenances, in wood, plain, meadow, pastures, mills, and in all uses and utilities, well and in peace, fully, entirely and honourably. This gift is made in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1215. Witnesses: Owin of Brogintin, with his two sons, namely Kadugan and Howel, John and Anian, monks, Geruase, son of E., Madoc, son of I., conversi of Stratmarchel.

Madoc son of Kaswallaun has granted, given and by the present charter confirmed, for the salvation of his soul, to the monks of Stradmarchell who serve God and the Blessed Mary there, in free, quiet, and everlasting alms, all their tenements to be held for ever, completely and entirely, well and in peace, without any exaction or secular custom, namely, in lands and in pastures and in all its bounds, appurtenances, usages, and in all its possessions and liberties, as the charters of their donors and vendors better and more fully testify, namely, of Owin of Keueliauc and his sons, Wenunwin, Kaswallaun and Maredud, and also of Madoc son of Grifud and of Owin Brogintun and Elisse (ap Madoc), and of all their other donors or vendors. And he will guarantee and protect all these against men in accordance with his faithful power. He has also given to the same monks to the honour of the dedication of the church the whole land of Kaledfrud as is better and more fully contained in the charter of the lord Wenunwin which they have. So that this his gift might be ratified and valid for ever, he has defended and strengthened it both with the impression of his seal and by the attestation of good men.

Confirmation by Wennunwen, prince of Powis and lord of Arwistili, to the monks of Stradmarchell, in free and quiet and perpetual possession, of those lands, namely Gardlliuein, Cumber, and Hauot Gwgaun, and thence the whole land upwards, in wood and plain, to Red houoch and to Red arcum howen, in all their bounds and appurtenances, which lands they bought from him and the true heirs of those lands, for sixteen pounds, in perpetual possession. Wennunwen, accordingly, wishes that the monks shall possess, by right, for ever, all the said lands, in all their bounds and appurtenances, freely, quietly and in peace, without any exaction or secular custom, namely in stood and plain, and in all their uses and utilities. Lest anyone should presume to go against this sale, it is corroborated by seal and the attestation of good men. Witnesses: Sulian, archdeacon, Gervase, dean of Arwistili, Master Helin, Master Mabin, Daniel, son of the priest, Philipp, priest, John, priest, son of Kenewreic, Edenewein, priest, Anian and Grifri, sons of Goronui, Kener, son of Cadugaun, Meiler, son of Nenneaun, Madoc and Robert, sons of Griffud Hireuin Karadauc, son of Grifri Were, Eyniaun, son of Luarch, Eueleuu, son of Kengen.

Ralph de Lahee son of William Ketel has granted and by this his present charter confirmed to God and the church of the Blessed Mary of Stratmarchell and to the abbot and monks of the Cistercian Order who serve God for ever there and to their successors, for the salvation of his soul and those of his parents and successors, the whole land called Bahcwilim, with all its bounds and appurtenances, in wood and plain, in waters and meadows, which he, because of his need, sold to Ieuahf son of Grifud son of Ioruerht and to his heirs in everlasting possession, and which Madoc son of Iorerht, his maternal uncle, and his three sons, namely, Ioruerht, Grifud, Maredud and Einion (Anianus) son of Grifud, and his nephews, namely, the two sons of the said Ieuahf, by his (i.e. Ralph's) voluntary licance, consent and desire, had sold to the same abbot and monks of Stratmarchell, to be had, held and possessed by them and their successors, freely, quietly and honourably for ever, without any claim, molestation, impediment, exaction, secular custom or annoyance on his part or on that of his heirs, as the said men have ever had the same land more completely and more freely from him. So that neither he nor his heirs will have or will be able to have any counter-claim or claim or exaction concerning the aforesaid land against the afore-mentioned abbot or monks or their successors, he gives it, promises it to them peacefully and quietly, and protects it, if two pairs of spurs are kept for him and his heirs annually on the feast of Petrus ad Vincula (1 August) by the aforesaid abbot and monks instead of all feudal service, exaction and demand. But in return for this concession and voluntary licence, the oft-mentioned abbot and monks on their part have given him six shillings and eight pence and the other afore-named men on their part have given him six shillings and eight pence. So that this gift of his might be ratified and firm for ever, he has strengthened and confirmed it in the year of grace 1234 both with the impression of his seal and the attestation of good men.

Anian, bishop of St Asaph, commands, instructs, and for the remission of sins, enjoins all the clergy and laity (archdeacons, deacons, presbyters, clerks, princes, barons, knights and all laymen) to keep, maintain, and protect all things and possessions of the brothers of Stratmarchell in such a way that none cause them or permit to be caused them any annoyance, injustice, loss or trouble, and that they should not omit to display the monks without delay the justice that concerns them. If any of the laity in any way presume to dispute, by rash daring, this salubrious prohibition, the clergy (archdeacons, deacons, deans and priests) should diligently warn the wrongdoers and unjust persecutors so that they may restore to the said brothers stolen goods, make good damages caused, and show full justice, but should they have contempt for the clergy's warnings, the latter are to bind the laity with the chain of excommunication without any favour or fear, and are diligently to have them excommunicated and avoided by all until worthy satisfaction be given. The rest they are to suspend from their office, and Annian shall, on God's authority, hold both sentences firmly ratified while they shall ensure in all these things, carefully and diligently, so that the aforesaid brothers shall not be obliged, from default of justice, to labour in the bishop's presence. Neither shall they fear to be summoned by the supreme judge for the neglect of the office bestowed upon them nor shall they be punished by the bishop for their disobedience.