Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders, Volumes 1-28

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The Club, 1894
 

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Page 150 - EDWARD, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, dukes, earls, justices, sheriffs, reeves, officers, and all his bailiffs, and liege-men, greeting.
Page 159 - Witness of which thing we have caused these our letters*' patent to be sealed with our seal.
Page 163 - Roger held on the day on which he died, in his demesne as of fee of the lord the king in chief by knight service, the lordship of Kery, with its appurtenances, in the Marches of Wales [to the same] County [of Salop] adjacent. " And there is there of of the mills as and tenements xxviijYi.
Page 147 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 220 - Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th...
Page 188 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Page 302 - Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay, As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side He wound with toilsome march his long array ; Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance ; To arms ! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering lance.
Page 9 - Chester, and found by the increase of his levies, and the good disposition all things were in, that he might in a short time be able to march, and in so good a condition, that he should rather seek the rebels, than decline meeting with them, if the indispensable want of money did not make his motion impossible ; the merit and ability of the person, and the fair expectation from his posterity, he having two sons, both very hopeful, prevailed with his majesty to resume the same overture ; and in few...
Page 160 - Escheater of the lord the king in the county of Salop and the Marches of Wales to the same county adjacent by virtue of a certain writ of the lord the King to the same Escheator directed and sewn on to this inquisition. By the oath of William de la Sete, John de Ch . . ., John de Kaynham, John Tuppa, Henry Dondelers Roger de Pichford, John Parys, William Hereford, John Erliobe...
Page 160 - And there is there of annual rent xxvj/i. vjs. viijrf. to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael. "And a custom of divers customary tenants there is worth by the year Cs., to be paid at the Feasts of St. Michael, Christmas, the Invention of the Holy Cross, and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist by equal portions. "And there are there two carucates of arable land which were let to farm for Ixs., to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael. 1 Chancery Inquisitions post-mortem, 5 Ric.

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