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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28196	A treatise of the nobilitie of the realme collected out of the body of the common law, with mention of such statutes as are incident hereunto, upon a debate of the Barony of Aburgavenny : with a table of the heads contained in this treatise.; Magazine of honour	Bird, William, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2956; ESTC R18509	58,218	162

hath come and descended with the Castle which make the honour of by the space of 300. yeeres last past in their noble Families in the blood of the Hastings 2. In the time of Beauchampe and the time of Nevill where the name by the Grace of God doth now and long may continue every which family having right to the said Castle and honour did lawfully beare the name and title of Lord Aburgav and had place in Parliament accordingly And therein shall be answered the objections made to the contrary That the Barony of Aburgavenny is a Barony by Tenure and an antient Honour AFter the Normans had conquered this Land it was carefully observed by them as a matter of much moment and a point of special policie to place upon the confines or borders of the Brittaines or Welch not then subdued men of much matter not onely sufficiently able to encounter the inrodes and invasions of the enemie but also willing to make onset on them and to enlarge the conquest These men thus placed were of high blood credit and continuance among them countreymen to the Normans and in whose faith and prowes the Conquerors reposed speciall confidence and trust And therfore in the territories given unto them to hold the tenures were devised to be very speciall and of great importance and their Honours inriched with many priviledges 7. H 6.35 18 E 2. Assisis 382 Fol. The Earle of Chester for the North border of Wales erected a County Palatine And the Barons of the middle part of the South Marches were adorned i a manner with a Palatine Jurisdiction having a Court of Chancery and Writs onely among themselves pleadable to the intent that their attendance might not thence be driven for the prosecuting of Controversies or quarrels in the Law And as for the other part of the South Marches they seemed sufficiently fenced with the River of Severne and the Sea The Castle of Aburgavenny taketh his name from the River of Gevenny whereon it is scituate and the Brittish word Abber which signifieth a Mouth and is interpreted the Mouth of Gevenny because the Castle and Mouth of Aburgavenny is built neere the place where the said River of Gevenny doth open it selfe to the end of the Uske It is an antient Fortresse of old foundation there or neere unto the place as learned men doe probably and upon many good circumstances conjecture where the Romans builded their Gabonium It is the chiefest Townes of the County called the higher Guent by the Romans called Ventum Gallinum now parcell of the County of Monmouth This Castle c. was first given to be holden Per Baroniam sive grand Serjantie the service whereof is of great importance as appeareth by this Record following Inquisitio capt c. At Aburgavenny Ex būdelle Esch 6. E 2. Mar. Wal. 6. E. 2. upon the death of Jobn Hastings found quod idem Iohannes tenuit castrum c. De Rege in Capite per servicium homagij wardi maritag cum acciderit si _____ fuerit inter Regem Angl. Principem Walliae dictus Iohannes debet custodire patriam de Operwent sumptibus proprijs Inquisitio capt apud Hereford upon a Writ of ad quod damnum Ex Bundell Esch 25. E. 3. Ex rot Patent 4. E. 1. num 36. found quod non est ad damnum Regis nec c. si Rex conce●at Priori c. de Aburg quod ipse duas acr prat vocat Weldelham c. quas de Lorentio de Hastings nuper Comit. Pembrooke post Statutum de Mortmaine retinere possit sibi Successoribus suis dicunt quod praed 2. acr fuerunt de dominicis praedicti Comit. tenentur immediate de Rege ut parcella Castri quod tenetur de eo de nullo alio Also that this Barony was of a very large Seignorie and had petty Barons or Baronets holding thereof appeareth by Writ 1. E. 1. for the more speedy gathering of 15th which was granted to him towards his charge to the Holy land which Writ is directed to the Tenants of the said Barony that they should pay their part to Gremball Poneefote and Henry de Bray appointed Collectours directed in this manner Rex Abbatibus Prior. Baron Mil. liberis hominbius omnibus alijs Tenentibus de honor Aberg Salut Cum Archiepiscopi Episcopi Abbat Prior. Mil. omnes alij de regno 15th de bonis suis qnibusdam tamen rebus exceptis nobis liberaliter concesserunt benigne ad exonerationem debitorum in quibus diversis mercatoribus de tempore quo moram in terra sancta gessimus obligamur Nos c. Obser 2 Observatio secunda that the Title of Aberga de facto hath descended with the Castle c. William Conquerour gave the County of higher Guent Hamline de Backlune unto Hamline de Backlune the Sonne of Drugo de Backlune a Norman which builded the Castle and Priory of Abergavenny and after assured the same to Brian de Wallingford Sonne of Eudo Earle of Brittaine Sonne of Lucie younger Sister of the said Hamline by whom it was conveyed to Walter second Sonne of Miles of Gloucester tralt of Glou. Brewes Earle of Hereford from him it came to his Brother Henry and thence to the Families of Brewes Barons in the Marches of Wales and from them to Cantelupe Barons in the said Marches Cantelupe The the line of Hastings owners of this Castle and in respect thereof intituled Barons of Aburgavenny GEorge de Cantelupe Baron of Aburgavenny and Cant. the last of that name died without issue having two Sisters Hastings Ioan the eldest married to Henry Hastings and Milliscent married to Eudo la Zouch Henry Hastings by his had issue Iohn and because he did adhere to the Barons tempore H. 3. hee was imprisoned for seven yeeres Ed. Kelen Article 35. Rot. Cart. H 3. during which time hee died And that Barony being in the Kings hands he gave it to Peter de Sabandia in exchange for the Mannor of Baydenhall parcell of the Honour of Richmond which the said King had given him So that this Barony came now to the Earle of Richmond Esc 8. E. 3. In Suffex Ex rot claus 2. E. 1 indoes memb 12. as by an office found after the death of Iohn Britton Earle of Richmond tempore E. 3. appeareth The said Iohn Hastings at the time of the death of Henry his Father and Joan his mother both which died in the life of the said Geo. Cant. as also at the time of the death of the said Geo. his Uncle was within age and in ward to E. 1. during whose minoritie there was a partition betweene the said Milliscent his Aunt and the said Iohn by which the Castle c. of Aberg then extended to the yeerely value of two hundred pounds eighteene shillings and three pence as also Kill Garren St. Cleere and other lands in England and Wales And unto