other Gale Tenants, and by the Lewelston accounts, which state that it is paid for customary land. "Also this is paiable at twoe ffeastes, where (whereas) free rentes are commonly paid but once a yeare. He further says that the Lewelston rents are placed under the Castle, "for that the same are said to have been sometime parcell of the demaynes thereof."

There are fifteen other free tenants of the lordship who held closes of land in free socage by fealty and suit of Court without rent. The holdings are at Sturmyn's Park in Carsfield1 (held by Thomas Revell, Esquire), by Eylard's Hill Bridge, Great and Little Lowlard's Mead and West Pelcam. The total rental of the free tenants is 54s. 7d. There were only two leaseholders, who each held by leases under the Great Seal for twenty-one years as of the manor of Lewelston. Alban Stepney3 held at a rental of £5 6s. 8d., premises of which a note says the true names were Anastaceslade, Tyrrellsholme, Churchull, Broademoore, Langelande, Todhull, le Pinfolde, and Walslande (otherwise Walshlande), "but the same have been so longe occupied together without survey that none of the tenauntes doe knowe how to divide them severallie, but being measured all together the same are founde to containe five carucates and two akers of lande, now commonlie called Austerslade." The rental of Roger Marcroft was sixty shillings, and he held at Agardhill, upon which it is noted, "the premises doe consist of one messuage and twoe carucates of lande, called Greate Eylardes Hill, which hath bene rented as in olde Recorde at Cs.; which was belike when the countrie was in such great disorder that the tenaunt thereof founde speciall defence by the ayde of the Castell (near which it lyeth) for himself and his goodes."

1 Cashfield in St. Martin’s.

2 Elliott's Hill in Camrose.

3 The founder of the family of Stepney of Prendergast; his holding was in and about Slade, in St. Martin's. Roger Marcroft was sheriff of Haverford in 1570.

The seven tenants at will, otherwise Gale Tenants, held messuages at Lewelston and Pelcam by suit of court, heriots and rents, which last amounted together to £4 18s. 4d.

Under the heading of "The Town and County of Haverforde, otherwise Haverfordwest, and the mill of Haverforde," the surveyor reports :

Fo. 24a.-Md. "The said Towne is scituate as before is remembered and consisteth at this present of three pishes viz One of our Ladie being the Queenes as impropriate to the late Priorie of Haverforde. One other of St. Martine being also the Queenes as impropriate to the late Priorie aforesaid. And the thirde of St. Thomas likewise impropriate and latelie pourchased by Sr. John Perrot Knyght. The same is the best buylt the most civill and quickest occupied Towne in South Wales but yet greatlie impayred touchyng Traffique since the subsidie of Tonnage and Pondage have bene paid and other imposicõns sought to be leavied.

"Also it appereth by olde Charters ratified by the Queenes Matie that now is by her highness Letters patentes dated viio Decembris Anno regni sui scdo that the said Towne is incorporate by the name of the Towne of Haverforde, and made to consist (for government) of a Mayor a Shireff ii baylieffes and burgesses to be yerelie chosen according to certeine Ordinaunces in the said Charter expressed.

"Also it is made a Countie of itself1 by name of the Countie of the Towne of Haverforde, and exempted from the Lordship of Hav'forde, wherin sometimes it was and that with such precinctes & boundes as then were used as belonging to the same as well by lande as by water: The Castell of Hav'forde with the Diches and other th'appteññces & rightes therof only excepted.

Fo. 24b." Also that the Shireff and the Baylieffes should be sworne before the Chauncellor of the said Lordshippe of Haverfordwest and Rowse (or his deputie) and before the Mayor whose othes in pte are to yelde a faithfull Accompte yerelie af the profites of their Offices.

"Also that the said Mayor shoulde or myght keepe the

1 By 34 & 35 Hen. VIII., cap. 26, s. 124, it is enacted that Haverfordwest shall be a county in itself, as it hath been before this time used.

2 The Castle moats, which seem to have been extensive.

Courtes following as in auncient tyme thei were kept before the Stewarde of the said Lordshippe and Portreve of the said Towne, viz One Courte termed intrinseca as well from moneth to moneth as from xv daies to xv daies. Also one other Courte

de xva in xva called a Hundreth Courte. And one other Courte termed Pipowder Court holden uppon special occasion for dispach of Straungers with expedicon or for contractes in ffayer tymes.

"Also that the said Mayor shoulde be Coroner within the said Towne and that both for the Office of Mayor and Coroner he should be sworne before the said Chauncellor or his Lieutenant : And that the said Mayor shoulde be Justice of Peace to all intentes within the said Towne.

"Also the said Mayor by point of Charter shalle be clerke of the market within the said Towne: and also that the said Corporacon have yerelie within the said Towne uppon the Eeven of St. Thomas the Martir one ffaire2 to continue for vii daies following with a Courte of Pipowder, as before, to be holden there during that tyme: So as the said ffaire be not hurtfull to the faires neere hand to it.

"Also that the Baylieffes for the tyme being shoulde uppon their othe before the Auditor or Auditors yelde a resonable Accompt of all and all manner of Issues, fynes, amercementes, forfaitures & casualties whatsoever hapning within the said Towne. And if thei the said Baylieffes fall to be insufficient the whole Towne to answere for them.

"Ffinally there is in the said Charter a speciall Proviso that the same shall not extende to graunt from the Prince the great Sessions to be holden before his Justices for that purpose within the said Towne and precinct thereof, nor the profites and comodities thereof, but that the same shoulde be duelie answered by the Shireff of that Towne as before is remembred.

"Thus much concerning the said Charter besides divers other

1 It was their civil business, not the strangers themselves, which was despatched at this court: it gradually fell into disuse. In late times if the mayor could not settle the dispute, he put the suitors back in their original positions: there seems to have been a difficulty about enforcing the orders of the court. The criminal business of fairs and markets was held at the court of the clerk of the market, whose principal duty was to try weights and measures; the standard was originally entrusted to a bishop, who appointed some clerk as his deputy: the judge of the court, afterwards a layman, continued to be called clerk of the market.

2 It began on the 7th July; George Owen calls it a great faire."

articles touchyng Liberties and usages not concerning the Revenue and therfore not thought needfull to be touched here.

"Ffurthermore I finde by the Recorde of the Ministers Accomptes de Anno xvii° H. vii (being then the possessions of Henrie Duke of Yorke1) that all his Revenue well neere within that Towne, saving that within the Chardge of the Butler and Customer of the Porte of Haverforde, were and had bene chardged in iii severall Accomptes. One of the Baylieffes there, who were wonte to accompte for the Rentes of assise of all the Burgesses within the said Towne the profites of Straungers and Chenceries of stalles and standinges for Butchers and others, the herbage about the Castell with divers other small rentes amounting then together as by the said Recorde pticulerlie appereth to xxiiii li. xviiis. xið. ob. One other Accompt of a Collector of the profites of Aleprize. And one other Accompt of the Seriantes of the Towne who did accompte for the profites of the Courtes following, viz., Curia intrinseca tent de quindeñ in quindenam. Curia intrinseca tenta de mense in mensem. Curia Hundredor. Curia de pede pulverizat. Curia admiralitať de finibus felonu et fugitivor. All which Rentes and profites were that yere excused in the said severall Accompts and chardged in the said Bailieffes Accompt."

The surveyor then sets out two leases for twenty-one years under the great seal to the mayor, sheriff, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of West Haverford; one of the tenements, rents, and dues in the town, late part of the hereditaments of Jasper, Duke of Bedford,3 at a rental of £26 12s. 4d., and the other of three corn mills in the parish of St. Martin, and the right of fishery there at a rental of £10. Whereon the surveyor remarks:

Fo. 25a.-The aforesaid mylles doe stande uppon and overthwart one of the rivers called Doygleddy, having that name by reason of their force and swiftness by falling from the mountaynes in great aboundance uppon everie rage of raigne; and to prevent the perill that might betide them by sodaine floodes, uppon the myll leete about a flight shorte from the mylles were pollitiquely devised a Headweare with certaine floodgates:"

1 Earl of Pembroke, King Henry VIII.

2 Tolls.

3 Earl of Pembroke.

He goes on to remark that the floodgates have been of late neglected and the banks decayed,

"by reason that the under farmer hath been used without any assignement to cut flagges and turfes in a meadow of the Queenes adjoyninge."

He further says:

Fo. 25b.-" Md. I find also in the former recited Recorde an Accompt of the Office of Customer & Butler of the Towne of Haverforde aforesaid who did accompt for prisage of wynes,1 for Custome of Wynes and other marchandizes then due to the chief Lorde of the soyle: but nowe the said prisage of Wyne is claymed by the Erle of Warwick as chief Butler of England. The Custom of Wynes by the ffarmore of that Custome and impost and in leu of thother Custome the Subsidie of Tonnage and Pondage is leavied by the Customer of Millforde with the members, wch was not leavied when the Butlerage was accompted for but began Anno primo Eliz. Regine.

"Also the Shireff of this Towne is accomptable yerelie for the profites of the great Sessions & quarter Sessions holden there and for all other such like profites there as the Shireff of the Countie of Pembrook accomptes for in the Shire.

Ffinally the Queenes matie hath more Revenue within the said Towne as pcell of the possessions of the late Priorie of Haverforde: the Priorie of the Pill, the Hospitall of St. Jones of Jerusalem, Rees Griffs attainted and of Colledges, Chauntries, and such like."

Then follow particulars of certain of the demesne lands in and by the town, held by Sir John Perrot for terms of twenty-one years at various rentals. Among them are six acres of meadow presented "to lye beneth the bridge and is called Cathlott Marshe;" marsh

1 The right of the Crown to take two tuns of wine from certain ships; the duty for which it was commuted by Edward I was called "butlerage."

2 The Knights Hospitallers, who had a Commandery at Slebech the patron is more usually known as St. John.

3 The grandson and heir of Sir Rhys ap Thomas; he was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1531.

4 Cartlet; the Jubilee Gardens occupy part of the old marsh, whither the townspeople used to resort to shoot at the butts.

6TH SER., VOL. III.

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