Also there was a Charter of the grant of the lands of the said Principality Earldome of Chester and Flint dated the twenty seuenth of February in the said fift yeere of the said King made vnto the said Prince The said King Henry the seuenth by his Charter bearing date the twentieth day of March in the eight yeere of his reigne did constitute and appoint the said Prince Arthur to bee his Iustice in the County of Salope Hereford Glocester and the Marches of Wales adioyning to the said Shires to enquire of all liberties priuiledges and fraunchises being possessed or claimed or which then after should be possessed or claimed by any person or persons and which were to bee seized into the Kings hands and of all escapes and fellons and those Inquisitions so from time to time to be taken to certifie into the Chancery And by the same Charter gaue him power to substitute and appoint others vnder him for the better execution of the same which after wards by commission was executed accordingly And the said King also by his Charter bearing date the fourteenth of Iune in the eight yeere of his reigne made and constituted the said Arthur Prince of Wales and Gouernor and Warden of the Marches of England towards Scotland and substituted as his Lieutenant and vice-warden vnder him Thomas Earle of Surrey for the due execution thereof Likewise the said King by his letters patents dated the fift day of Nouember in the ninth yeere of his reigne in augmentation of the reuenew of the Prince did grant vnto the said Prince the honor Castle and Lordship of Wigmore and diuers other Castles Mannors and Lands which sometime had beene belonging to the Earledome of March which came to the Crowne by King Edward the fourth who was himselfe Earle of March before he assumed his regall estate To haue and to hold during the pleasure of the King yeelding yeerly the rent of two hundred pounds This Prince was sent into the Marches of Wales for the gouernment of that Country and in the seuenteenth yeere of the reigne of the said King his father had a Councell of very wise and worthy persons assigned vnto him as namely Sir Richard Poole chiefe Chamberlaine of the said Prince Sir Henry Vernon Sir Richard Crofts Sir Dauid Phillips Sir William V dall Sir Thomas Englefield and Sir Peter Newton Knights Iohn Wilson Henry Marian Doctor William Smith President of his Councell and Doctor Charles where not long afterwards the said Prince died in the Castle of Ludlow without issue After the death of the said Prince Arthur King Henry the seuenth by his letters patents dated the eighteenth of February in the 19. yeere of his reigne in Parliament created Henry then his onely soune who after was King Henry the eight and whom before that in the 11 th he had made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by another Charter of the same yeere Constable of the Castle of Douer to be Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester being then about the age of twelue yeeres to haue and to hold to him and his heires Kings of England for euer being the like limitation of estate and with the like inuesture as in former times had beene accustomed But whether the said King did grant the lands and reuenewes belonging to the said Principality vnto the said Prince Henry or no as hee had done vnto Prince Arthur his brother doth not appeare by any Charter that as yet thereof can be found After the death of King Henry the seuenth the said Prince Henry was King of England by the name of King Henry the eight he had issue a sonne called Henry who dyed very yong hee likewise had issue the Lady Mary afterwards Queene and the Lady Elizabeth our late Soueraigne of most happy memory and lastly Prince Edward the yongest in yeeres who first reigned after the death of his said father by the name of King Edward the sixt But there cannot be found any Charters among the records whereby it may appeare that any of them were created Princes of Wales or whereby any of the reuenewes of the said Principality were giuen or conferred vnto any of them so that it seemeth they were Princes generally by their birth and not Princes of Wales by any creation or investure for in a record of an accompt of the Dutchy of Cornwall in the time of the said Prince Edward he is called by the name of the Prince of England and not by the name of the Prince of Wales And thus much touching the succession or rancks of the Princes of Wales which I haue drawne in an historicall although a plaine and homely manner thereby the better to take away the harshnesse of the particularities of records intermingled therewith which of themselues although they affoord profitable knowledge yet they doe carry with them small delight but also for that the variety of things in those succeeding ages in the sundry occurences and accidents thereof doe yeeld good matter of obseruance and worthy memory representing as it were the English State for the time of more then two hundred yeeres together Now therefore do rest neuerthelesse three things concerning the said Principality to be further considered of First in what manner and order the said Principality and Marches of Wales were gouerned and directed vnder the said Prince Secondly what officers aswell domesticall as others the said Princes had about them and their fees as farre forth as I could come to any certaine knowledge thereof And thirdly an abstract of the reuenewes of the said Principality as they now stand in charge and be esteemed to your Maiesty whereby may bee perceiued what in time past the said reuenewes haue beene and in what case they now stand The manner of the gouernment of the Principality and Marches of Wales THe said Principality being vnder the gouernment of the Princes of the Welsh blood whose ancient patrimony yet remained vntill the Conquest thereof by King Edward the first as before hath beene shewed was guyded gouerned and directed by their owne municipall and homebred Lawes and the Customes of their Country Most of which had their commencement from the Constitutions of one of their ancient Princes called Howell Dah as their Historians haue recorded But being reduced vnder the yoke by the said King Edward he diuided certaine parts of that Territory into Shires as hath beene declared he caused the Welsh Lawes to bee perused some whereof he did allow and approue some others he did abrogate and disanull and in their place appointed new altogether according to the English manner of executing Iustice Hee caused to be deuised ce taine Briefes Writs or formulaeturis and he instituted their manner of Processe pleadings and course of their Iudiciall proceedings All which things doe manisestly appeare by the act of Parliament made at Rithlan in Wales called therefore Statutum Walliae which afore is remembred and when they want a writ of forme
the said Kings hands by the dissolution of the Priory of Trewardreth in the said Countie of Cornewall And also the Mannors of Breadford Cauerdon Clymesland Pryor Treworgy Stratton Eastway Bowyton Bradrissey Bucklawrue and Bonyaluey which came to the said Kings hands by the surrender and suppression of the Priory of Lanceston All which Mannors so newly granted vnto the said Dutchie were by the said Act of Parliament so annexed thereunto as were the said Castle and honour of VVallingford and the members and parcels of the same before the making of the same Act of Parliament any Act Law vsage or custome to the contrary notwithstanding And thus much concerning the reuenues locall and called in the lawes Heâ—editamenta corporea and of annuall value which were either originally giuen by King Edward the Third and afterward by Patent conferred or by Act of Parliament in liew of other lands granted vnto the said Dutchie which threefold distinction of the said reuenues is here made and induced to this end that it might be obserued that those Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands which were either first giuen vnto the said Dutchie and established by Act of Parliament or lastly giuen by Act of Parliament in liew of other the lands seuered from the said Dutchie might appeare so to be annexed vnto the said Dutchie by the intent and meaning of the said Acts of Parliament and so knit and conioyned thereunto as that they should not be alienated therefrom and are of more validitie in that respect then the reuenues of the second sort which were onely conferred by Letters Patents without helpe of Parliament and therefore not so firmely vnited vnto the said Dutchie as are those two former kindes mentioned Inheritances of casuall value belonging to the said Dutchie were these 1 The Duke hath granted vnto him and his heires inheritable vnto the said Dutchie yeerely to elect choose create and make the Sheriffe of Cornewall in such sort as the King himselfe doth elect the Sheriffes of other Counties 2 The Prises Customes of all Wines brought into these Ports of the said Countie of Cornewall and the profits of the Ports and Hauens there and the Customes of all Wooll Leather and Woollsels shipped to be transported out of the said Dutchie to be collected by Officers appointed by the said Duke wrecke of the Sea and the prerogatiue of all Royall Fishes taken and brought to land within the said Countie the Hundred Courts and Countie Courts and the profits thereof The prises and Customes of Wines of the Port of Sutton which is now called Plymouth and is partly with in the Countie of Deuon Also the said Duke hath free warren in all his said landsgranted Also hee hath the liberty and returning of all Writs and summons directed to the Sheriffe of the said Countie which shall not be returned but by the Officers of the said Duke for the time being Also the goods and chattels of all Felons and Fugitiues being Tenants of the said Dutchie And the benefit of all Fines imposed for any trespasse or crime fynable and all Fynes to be paid for Licences to leuye any Fyne or Concord of record And all Ame cements Issues and Forfeitures and the yeere day and wast streepe and spoile of the lands of such as are Tenants of the said Dutchy vpon murthers or Felons by them committed and whereof they shall be attainted and likewise the Escuage of all Tenants holding by Knights seruice which they are to pay being assessed in Parliament for their faile of seruice absence not being with the King when he should make any Army or voyage Royall against his enemies whereby such escuage doth come due Also there is annexed vnto the said Dutchie the Stannaries and profits of the Coynage of Tynne within the said Counties of Deuon and Cornewall For the better vnderstanding whereof it is to be obserued that in the said Counties being in many parts thereof mountanous full of wast grounds and Moores there is found great quantities of Tynne the purest best and most plentifullest in Europe by reason whereof it hath euer beene accounted one of the Staple Commodities of this Kingdome and of good estimation in forraigne regions These Mynes of Tynne in these West parts of the kingdome were not vnknowne to the Romanes as appeareth by Diodorus Siculus who liued in the time of Augustus the Emperour aboue 1600. yeeres sithence and who thus writeth thereof Britanij qui iuxta Velerium promontorium incolunt mercatorum vsum qui co Stanneri gratia nauigant humaniores reliquis ergahospites habentur Hiexterra Saxosa cuius venas sâ—quuti effodiunt Stannum ignem eductum in quandam Insulam ferunt Britanicum iuxta quam Ictam vocant maris fluxu videntur insulae cum vero refluit exsicato interiecto littore curribus co Stannum deferunt c. Ex hijs Insulis mercatores emptum Stannum in Galliam portant inde diebus fere triginta cum equis ad fontem Eridani fluminis perducunt That Promontorie which he calleth Velerium by the iudgement of all learned in Cosmographie is now called the Lyzard and is scituate in the West part of Cornewall The Island that he calleth Icta is the Wight and that which he saith was an Island and at the Floud and at low water passable from the mayne is a true description of Portland as it is at this day being not farre from the I le of Wight vnto which place out of Cornewall the Tynne was brought to be transported into France from whence it was carried thirty dayes iourney on horsebacke and so ouer the Alpes into Italy euen to the Fountaines of Eredanus as he saith which is the Riuer now called the Po in Piemont and Lumbardy I doe alledge his authority the rather for that he in a manner set out the laborious search for Tynne in those dayes euen as it is vsed by the Spaliard at this day with great industrie and paines Hi ex terra Saxosa venas sequunti effodiunt Stannum c. All the moores and wastes wherein the Tynne is found being of ancient time belonging to the Kings and many of the said moores at this day being parcell of this Dutchie of Cornewall The Kings of this land in former times haue cast their Princely care to establish a good and orderly mannaging of the said Commoditie and haue endowed the Tynners with sundry priuiledges for their good gouernement thereby the more to encourage them in the search of Tyn. And thereupon by ancient Charters the whole Company and body of Tynners in euery of the said Counties of Deuon and Cornewall are cast and diuided in foure seuerall Stanneryes or Iurisdictions In euery of which Stanneries there is a Court to minister iustice in all causes personall arising betweene Tynner and Tynner and betweene Tynner Forraigner and also for and concerning the right and ownership of Tynne Mynes and the disposition thereof except in causes of land life and member
l. 13. s. 4. d. The fee of the Steward and keeper of the Courts of the Mannors in the County of Cornewall which sometimes were the Marquesse of Exceter and now parcell of the lands annexed vnto the said Dutchy 46. s. 8. d. The fee of the Bailiffe Itinerant of the said Dutchie of Cornewall 3. l. 10. d. The fee of the Woodward of the said Dutchie of Cornewall yeerely 5. l. The summe totall of the fees of the Officers of the said Dutchie of Cornewall 138. l. 3. s. 4. d. Money paid vnto the Captaine of the Castle of Saint Mawes 118. l. 12. s. 6. d. Money paid to the Captaine of the Castle of Pendynas both which Castles are for the defence of the Hauen of Falmouth 118. l. 12. s. 6. d. Summe totall 237. l. 5. s. Paid yeerely to the Bishop of Exceter for the tenth of the coynage of Tynne in Deuon and Cornewall 16. l. 13. s. 4. d. Paid yeerely vnto the Barons of the Exchequer forth examination of the accounts belonging to the said Dutchie 5. l. The summe totall of all the charges and reprizes taken out thereof amounted vnto 615. l. 9. s. 6. d. Which being deducted out of the generall summe of the reuenues of the said Dutchie being by estimation 4569. l. 12. s. 2. d. q. there may remaine of cleere reuenue the summe of 3954. l. 2s 8 d. q. which cannot be cast into a certaine yeerely value by reason of the casuall profits and casuall expences which may happen yeerely And thus much of the Dutchie of Cornewall THE EARLEDOME OF CHESTER The third reuenue is the Earledome of Chester whereunto is annexed the Countie of Flint belonging to the Prince as Earle of Chester THe Earledome of Chester is the third reuenue before spoken of this Earledome bordering vpon North-Wales for the better defence of that Country and that the Inhabitants should not be thence withdrawne in sutes of law was made Palatyne and conferred by the Conquerour vpon his kinsman Hugh sirnamed Loupe or Lupus sonne to the Earle of Awrenches in Normandy to whom hee gaue this Earledome To haue and to hold to him and his heires as the words of the first donation import It a libere adgladium sicut ipse Rex tenebat Angliam Coronam This Earledome for the more honour thereof and for the better accomplishment of the Palatyne iurisdiction therin hath certaine substitute Baronyes vnder it who doe acknowledge the Earle Palatyne to be their superiour Lord as 1 The Baron of Halton 2 The Baron of Mountalt 3 The Baron of Maâ—banâ—k 4 The Baron of Shibrooke 5 The Baron of Malpas 6 The Baron of Mascey 7 The Baron of Kinderton 8 The Baron of Stockport This Earledome from the said Hugh Lupus discended in his bloud and kâ—ndred by sundry descents vnto Iohn sirnamed Scot Earle of Chester Anguise Galway and Huntingdon who in the time of King Henry the Third dying without issue the said King Henry the Third seized the same into his hands giuing the Aunts and next coheires of the said Iohn other Lands by exchange which thing the said King was induced to doe as the Record saith netanta haereditas inter colos diduceretur not willing that so great a patrimony should beâ— parted amongst disttaffs Afterward King Edward the first was by his father the said King Henry the third created Earle of Chester But the same Earldome being afterwards conferred vpon Simon de Monford by his attainder it came the Crowne After that Edward the third in the life-time of his father and before he tooke vpon him the Kingdome had the said Earledome but afterwards hee being King gaue the same to his eldest sonne Edward surnamed the Black Prince by his Charter bearing date at Pomfret the eighteenth day of March in the seuenth yeere of his reigne and inrolled of record in the Exchequer anno 33. of the same King By which Charter the said King did grant vnto the said Earle of Chester the Castles of Chester Beston Rothlan and Flint and all his lands there And also the cantred and lands of Englefield together with the Knights fees aduousons liberties franchises forrests chaces parks woods warrens and other the appurtenances thereunto belonging to haue and to hold to him and to his heires Kings of England And the same King by another Charter bearing date the ninteenth of March in the seuenth yeere of his reigne granted vnto the said Earle of Chester all his goods chattels stock of cattell then being in or vpon the said lands of the said Earldome formerly granted Moreouer all the Kings of England succeeding when they created their sonnes and heires apparant Princes of Wales did also create them Earles of Chester to haue and to hold the same vnto him so created and his heires Kings of England in such manner as the Principality of Wales was giuen vnto him And did by their seuerall Charters giue vnto the said Earle the said Earledome and lands as namely the said Castles of Chester Beston Rothlan and Flint and the Castle also of Hope and the Mannors of Hope and Hopedall and of Foreshaâ— and the said Cantred and lands of Englefield and other their lands in the said Counties of Chester Flint and elsewhere belonging vnto the said Earledome And the Aduouson of the Cathedrall Church of Saint Asaph in Wales and the auoydance issues and profits of the temporalities of the Bishopricks of Chester and Saint Asaph aforesaid together with all aduousons pentions portions corrodies offices prizes customes liberties franchises lordships comots hundreds escheats forfeitures and hereditaments vnto the said Earldome belonging And to the intent that it may the better appeare both what the ancient reuenewes were of the said Earledome and also what it is at this present I shall according to the order before pursued set downe the ancient reuenew thereof as it was in the latter time of King Edward the third and also how it now standeth in charge to your Maiestie The ancient reuenews of the Earldome of Chester as it was taken vpon the suruey thereof made in the fiftieth of Edward the third The County of Chester The fee farme of the City of Chester 100. l. For other profits out of the said Citie 4 l The farme of the towne of Medwick 64. l The Farme of the Milles vpon the Riuer of Dee 240 l The Manner of Dracklow in yeerly rent 49. l. 22. d. The farme of the Mannor of Dummarsh 15. l The Forrest of Mara the issues and profits thereof 51. l. 7. s. The rents and profits of Norwich are 66 l The Mannor of Shotwick the rents are 30. l. 14. s. 1. d. The Mannor of Eordsham in yeerly rent 56. l. 13. s. 4. d. The profits of the office of the Sheriffe of the said County 124. l. 7. s. 4. d. The perquisits of Courts holden by the Iustice of Chester 180. l. The profits of the office of the Escheator 100 l The summe totall of the reuenew of the said Earldome
rebellions and disorders the kings of England deuised their Scutagium or Escuage as it is called in the Lawes of England that is to leuy ayd assistance of their tenants in England which held of them Per Seruitium militare to suppresse such disordred Welsh tanquaÌ„ Rebelles and Non hostes as Rebells and not as forraine Enemies And hence it is that King Henry the third vpon those often reuolts of the Welsh indeuored to resume the Territory of Wales as forfeit vnto him selfe and conferred the same vpon Edward the Longshanckes his heire apparant yet neuerthelesse rather in title then in possession or vpon any profit obteyned thereby For the former prince of Wales continued his gouernment notwithstanding this betweene whome and the said Edward warres were continued Whereof when the said Edward complained to King Henry the third his father the said King made this answer as recordeth Matthew Paris a Cosmographer liuing in that time Quid ad me terra tua est ex dono meo Exerevires primitiuas famam excita iuuenilem et de caetero timeant inimici c. But the Charter of this gift is not now readilie to be found among the Records For after this time it appeareth by the Records of the Tower of London that by the mediation of Othâ—bon Deacon Cardinal of S Andrews a peace was concluded between the then Prince of the Welsh blood and the said Henry the 3. which neuerthelesse as it seemeth continued not long for sundry battells were fought betweene the said Edward both before and after he was King of England Lewlyn the last Prince of the Welsh blood and Dauid his brother vntill both the said Prince his said brother were ouercome by the said Edward after he was King of England and who thereby made a finall and full conquest of Wales annexing the same vnto the Crowne of England diuiding some parts thereof into Shires and appointing Lawes for the gouernment of that people Although the Welsh nation doe not willingly acknowledge such conquest but referres it rather to composition The words of the Statute made in Wales at Ruthlan presently vpon the conquest are these Diuina Prouidentia quae in sui dispositione non fallitur inter alia dispensationis munera quibus nos regnum nostrum Angliae decorari dignata est Terram Waliae cum incolis suis prius nobis iure fendali subiectam jam sui gratia in proprietatis nostrae dominium obstaculis quibuscunque non obstantibus totaliter et cum integritate conuertit et corona Regni pradicti tanquam partem corporis eiusdem annexit et vniuit This Territory of Wales thus being vnited the said King Edward vsed meanes to obtaine the peoples good will to strengthen that which he had gotten by effusion of blood with the beneuolence of his Subiects of Wales who promised their harty and most humble obedience if it would please the King either to remaine among them him selfe in person or else to appoint vnder him a gouernour ouer them that was of their owne nation cuntrey The King thereupon purposing a pretty policie sendeth for the Queene then being greate with Child to come vnto him into Wales who being deliuered of a sonne in the Castle of Carnaruon in Wales called by reason thereof Edward of Carnarnon the King thereupon sent for all the Barons of Wales tooke their assurance and submission according to their offers formerly made if they should haue a gouernour of their owne nation affirming vnto them that he was then ready to name vnto them a Gouernour borne in their Countrey and who could not speake any word of English whose life and conuersation no man was able to staine and required their promise of obedience whereunto they yeelding the King thereupon named vnto them his said sonne borne at Carnaruon Castle a few dayes before vnto whom the Barons of Wales afterwards made their homage as appeareth Anno 29 E 1. at Chester The said Edward of Carnaruon after the death of his father was King of England by the name of King Edward the second liuing in a turbulent time betweene him and his Barons was afterwards deposed for his ill gouernment and came to a violent death in the Castle of Barkeley and Edward his sonne by the name of King Edward the third reigned in his steade Neuerthelesse this Edward the third being called Edward of Windsor in the life of his father was created Prince of Wales and Duke of Aquitane in a Parliamant holden at Yorke Edward the third in a Parliament holden at Westminster in the fifteenth yeare of his reigne created Edward his eldest sonne surnamed the blacke Prince Prince of Wales being then of tender yeeres and inuested him in the said Principalitie with these ensignes of honour and as in the Charter is conteined Per sertum in capite et annulum in digitâ— aureuÌ„ ac virgam argenteam iuxta moreÌ„ By a Chaplet of Gould made in the manner of a Garland for the word SertuÌ„ importeth by a gould ring set on his finger and by verdge Rod or Scepter of Siluer how be it in the inuesture of the succeeding Princes this Rod or Scepter as appeareth by the Charters of their seuerall creations was changed into a verge of gould The said King for the better maintainance of the said Prince his sonne in honorable support according to such his state and dignity gaue vnto him by his Charter dated the twelfth of May in the seuenth yeere of his reigne of England and in the fourth yeere of his reigne of France and inrolled in the Exchequer in the Terme of S. Hillary in the eighteenth yeere of the said King Edward the third The said Principality and the Mannors Lordships Castles and Lands ensuing to appertaine to the said Principalitie viz. All his Lordships and Lands in Northwales Westwales and Southwales 1 The Lordship Castle towne and County of Carnaruon 2 The Lordship Castle and towne of Conway 3 The Lordship Castle and towne of Crucketh 4 The Lordship Castle and towne of Bewmarish 5 The Lordship Castle and towne of Hardlagh 6 The Lordship Castle and townes and Countys of Anglesey and Merioneth 7 The Lordship Castle towne and County of Caermardin 8 The Lordship Castle and towne of Lampaderuaur 9 The Lordship and Stewardship of Cantermawer 10 The Lordship Castle towne and County of Cardigan 11 The Lordship Castle and Towne of Emelyn 12 The Lordship Castle and Towne of Buelt 13 The Lordship Castle and Towne of Hauerford 14 The Lordship Castle and Towne of Montgomery And all the Lands that were of Rice ap Meridick which came to the hands of King Edward the first together with all the Lordships Cities Castles Borrowes Townes Manours Members Hamlets Lands Tenements Knights fees Voydances of Bishopricks Aduowsons of Churches and of Abbeys Priories and of Hospitals with Customes and Prisages of wines The exercise and execution of
there with the appurtenances 3 The Castle Borough and Mannor of Tyntagell if histories doe not fable this is supposed to bee the place of birth and Seat of King Arthur 4 The Castle and Mannor of Restormell with the parke there 5 The Mannor of Clymesland and Parke of Kerrybollock 6 The Mannor of Tibesta with the Bayliwick of Powdershire 7 The Mannor of Tewynton with the appurtenances 8 The Mannor and Borough of Helston in Kerier with the appurtenances 9 The Mannor of Moresk with the appurtenances 10 The Mannor of Trewervaile also Tywervaile with the appurtenances 11 The Mannor of Penkneth with the appurtenances 12 The Mannor of Peulyn with the Parke there 13 The Mannor of Relaton also Rillaton with the Beadlery of Eastwyveâ—shire 14 The Mannor of Helston in Trigshire with the appurtenances and the Parke of Hellesbury 15 The Mannor and Borough of Leskeret also Liskerd and the Parke there 16 The Mannor of Kallestock with the fishing there and other his appurtenances 17 The Mannor of Talskydo with the appurtenances in the said County of Cornwall 18 The Borough or Towne of Lostwythiell together with the Milles. Devonshire 19 The fee farme of the City of Exeter 20. l. per annum 20 The Mannor of Lydford with the appurtenances together with the Chace of Dartmore 21 The Mannor and Borough of Braduish 22 The water and Riuer of Dartmouth In diuers other Shires dispersedly 23 The Castle of Wallingford with the Hamlets and members thereof and the yeerely farme of the Towne of Wallingford with the honors of Wallingford and Saint Valeries in the County of Oxford and in all other Counties wheresoeuer the said honours doe lie 24 The Castle Mannor and Towne of Barkhampsted with the Parke there and together with the honour of Barkhampsted in the Counties of Hertford Buckingham and Northampton 25 The Mannor of Byflet with the appurtetenances in the County of Surry 26 The Castle and Mannor of Meere in the County of Wiltshire 27 The Castle and Mannor of Knaresborugh with his Hamlets and members together with the honour of Knaresbury and York and elsewheresoeuer the said honors doe lie 28 The Mannor of Isleworth in the County of Middlesex 29 The Mannors of Kenmigton and Franckshall together with a meadow in Lambeth and Newton in the County of Surry 30 The Mannor of Rising with the appurtenances in the County of Norfolk and the fourth part of the Talbot of Linne with the appurtenances in the said County 31 The Mannor of Chisiemore and fourescore and eighteene pounds six shillings and eight pence rent with the appurtenances in the City of Coventry which were then in lease to the Queenes mother for her life And thus much concerning the reuenew locall and annuall of this Dutchy of the first kinde according to the former proposed diuision being the first inheritance giuen thereunto and which is so annexed to this Dutchy by the words of the said Charter as that by the intent thereof it should in no case be aliened therefrom As concerning the reuenew locall and annuall of this Dutchy of the second kinde the said King Edward the third for further increase of the said Dutchy by his Charter bearing date the said 11 th yeere of his reigne did giue vnto the said Duke in such manner as is aforesaid All his Knights fees which hee then had in the said County of Cornwall with all wards Escheates forfeitures profits and commodities whatsoeuer thereunto belonging which fees hee also annexed vnto the said Dukedome by the words of the said letters patents as that the same should in no wise by the intention of that patent be seuered from the same Howbeit some difference may bee conceiued in Law as touching the value of such annexation made by letters patents only and the former annexation by letters patents which were confirmed or strengthned by act of Parliament concerning the power and ability of aliening and disannexing the same from the Dutchy The last branch of the reuenewes locall and annuall belonging to this Dutchy are such Mannors Lands and Hereditaments as haue beene giuen by act of Parliament and annexed vnto the said Dutchy in liew of other lands that by act of Parliament were formerly taken from the same And therefore whereas by the former letters patents hath appeared the Mannors of Isleworth in the County of Middlesex was giuen and annexed by King Edward the third vnto the said Dutchy King Henry the fift hauing afterwards founded the Monastery which hee called Syon neere adioyning to the said Mannor did by an act of Parliament in the ninth yeere of his reigne seuer the said Mannor of Isleworth from the said Dutchy and conferred the same vnto the said Monastery and in liew thereof by the same act of Parliament gaue and annexed to the said Dutchy the Mannor of Curry Mallet Stoke Vnder Hamden Milton Fawconberge Stratton vpon Fosse Inglesoome Norton with Welweyton Widcome Farrent Lauerton and the moyty of the Mannor of westharptrâ—e and Sheptonmallet with their appurtenances in the County of Somerset the Mannor of Ryme with his appurtenances in the County of Dorset and also the moyty of the Mannors of Maydencot in the County of Barkshire and of Magor in the Marches of Wales and the fourth part of the Mannor of Sellings in the County of Kent All which premisses did exceed the value of the Mannor of Isleworth yeerly two hundred pounds which doth appeare aswell by the said act of Parliament made in the ninth yeere of King Henry the fifth as also by one other act of Parliament made in the three and thirtieth yeere of King Henry the fixt wherein the said former act of Parliament is mentioned Likewise King Henry the eight at his Parliament holden at VVestminster the one and thirtieth yeere of his reigne and proroged vpon diuers prorogations vntill the foure and twentieth day of Iuly in the two and thirtieth yeere of his reigne did seuer the honor and Castle of Walling ford and all Lordships Mannors Lands Tenements and other hereditaments thereto belonging from the Dutchy of Cornwall being moued thereunto for that the said Castle and honor is neere adioyning vnto the Mannor of Newelme which was by the said Act of Parliament made an honour and therefore for the commodious scituation and vicinitie thereof the said King did seuer the same from the said Dutchie and made it parcell of the said honour of Newelme whereof hee was then seised in the right of his Crowne and in liew thereof there were giuen and annexed vnto the said Dukedome the Mannors of VVestanton Portlow North-hill Portpighan Laudren Triloweia Treganoe Trelagan Crosthole Treuitherne Courtney Landulph Leighdurant and Tinton in the Countie of Cornewall and all other his Lands in the said places which came to the said King by the attainder of Treason of Henry Courtney Marquesse of Exceter Also the Mannors of Anstell Fentregan Tremeynalls Tremageuon Fowey Credyowe and Portheaprior in the said Countie of Cornewall which came to
Tynners in that County amounted vnto the summe of 14. l. 2. s. 8. d. Forraine Counties The issues and profits of the forraine Minnors which doe lie out of the said Counties of Deuon and Cornwall in other the Counties of England 958. l. So that the whole reuenew of the said Dutchy of Cornwall without reprizes amounted vnto 10095. l. 11. s. 9. d. q. But to the intent it may appeare what are the Castles Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now or lately belonging vnto the said Dutchy and how the present reuenewes thereof do rise I will here enter into the particularity thereof as they were accompted for to Queene Elizabeth in the fourth and fortieth yeere of her reigne which is the last accompt extant Cornwall Mannors in the County of Cornwall 1 The Mannor of Rylaton of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 12. s. 4. d. 2 The Mannor of Clymesland of the yeerly rent of 60. l. 7. s. 2. d. 3 The Mannor of Helston of the yeerly rent of 67. l. 3. s. 10. d. 4 The Mannor of Liskerd of the yeerly rent of 64. l. 6. s. 10. d. 5 The Mannor of Tybefta of the yeerly rent of 33. l. 2. s. 4. d. q. 6 The Mannor of Tywaruaile of the yeerly rent of 22. l. 2. s. 7 The Mannor of Tallyskydy of the yeerly rent of 5. l. 12. s. 8. d. 8 The Mannor of Penninayne of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 14. s. 7. d. 9 The Mannor of Calestock of the yeerly rent of 60. l. 4. s. 6. d. q. 10 The Mannor of Trematon of the yeerly rent of 52. l. 9. s. 5. d. ob 11 The fee of Trematon of the yeerly rent of 2. l. 5. s. 12 The Mannor of Refflormell of the yeerly rent of 33. l. 15 s. 1. d. ob 13 The Mannor of Penkneth of the yeerly value of 4. l. 18. s. 6. d. ob 14 The Mannor of Peulyn of the rent of 6. l. 18. s. 6. d. ob 15 The Mannor of Tewynton of the rent of 38. l. 12. s. 7. d. ob q. 16 The Mannor of Helston in Kerier of the rent of 56. l. 5. s. 6. d. ob q. 17 The Mannor of Tyntagell of the rent of 36. l. 6. s. 6. d. 18. The Mannor of Moresk of the rent of 32. l. 9. s. 9. d. The Mannors in the County of Cornwall newly annexed by King Henry the eight vnto the said Dutchy in liew of the honor of Wallingford and were in times past parcell of the possessions of the Priory of Trewardreth in the County of Cornwall 19 The Mannor of Anstell of the yeerly rent of 5. l. 3. s. 6. d. 20 The Mannor of Fentrigan of the rent of 3. l. 13. s. 4. d. 21 The Mannor of Trewenuen of the rent of 9. l. 11. s. 7. d. 22 The Mannor of Crediock of the rent of 10. l. 19. s. 6. d. ob 23 The yeerly farme of the Mannor of Fowye 39. s. 2. d. 24 The Mannor of Porthea Prior of the rent of 7. l. 10. s. 10. d. The summe totall of these annexed Mannors belonging sometimes to the Priory of Trewardreth 38. l. 17. s. 11. d. ob The Mannors in the County of Cornwall annexed vnto the said Dutchy in liew of the honor of Wallingford which were sometimes parcell of the Priory of Launceston 25 The farme of the Mannor of Carvidon Prior of the yeerly rent of 19. l. 15. s. 9. d. 26 The Mannor of Clymesland Prior of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 15. s. 10. d. 27 The Mannor of Treworgy of the yeerly rent of 8. l. 19. s. 7. d. 28 The farme of the Mannor of Stratton of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 5. s. 8. d. 29 The farme of the Mannor of Bucklawren of the yeerly rent of 21. l. 14. s. 8. d. 30 The farme of the Mannor of Eastway of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 5. s. 8. d. 31 The farme of the Mannor of Bonialvay of the yeerly rent of 7. l. 15. s. 32 The farme of the Mannor of Boyton of the yeerly rent of 4. l. 17. s. 2. d. The summe totall of these Mannors which were sometimes parcell of the Priory of Trewardreth 85. l. 7. s. 10. d. ob q. The Mannors of the County of Cornwall which lately were the Lands of the Marquesse of Exceter and annexed vnto the Dutchy of Cornwall in liew of the honor of Wallingford and S. Valeries 33 The Mannor of Crosthole of the rent of 28. s. 7. d. 34 The Mannor of Port Pighan of the rent of 55. s. ob q. 35 The fee farme of the Mannor of Portlow of the yeerly rent of 15. l. 16. s. 10. d. ob 36 The fee farme of the Mannor of Northill 26. s. 3. d. 37 The fee farme of the Mannor of Laudreyn 49. s. 10. d. 38 The Mannor of Tregameere of the rent 4. l. 17. d. 39 The Mannor of Trelugan of the rent of 6. l. 17. s. 9. d. 40 The Mannor of Trevarven Courtney 19. l. 15. s. 3. d. 41 The Mannor of Leighdurrant of the rent of 22. l. 9. s. 7. d. Now aliened away from the said c. 42 The fee farme of the Mannor of Tinton 63. l. 6. s. 7. d. The Receiuer accompted for 13. l. 6. s. 8. d. Summa totalis 130. l. 2. s. 5. d. q. The Boroughs in Cornwall 1 The Borough of Liskerd of the rent of 18. l. 2 The Borough of Grampound 12. l. 11. s. 4. d. 3 The Borough of Helston in Kerier 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. 4 The Borough of Bossymy 11. l. 16. s. 9. d. q. 5 The Borough of Lostwythiell of the rent 11. l. 19. s. 10. d. ob 6 The Borough of Camelford of the rent 4. l. 5. s. 4. d. q. 7 The Borough of Saltash of the rent 18. d. 8 The Borough of Launceston of the rent 10. l. 8. s. 8. d. 9 The Borough of Eastlow of the yeerly value of 20. s. The summe totall of the rent of the Boroughs in Cornwall 93. l. 15. s. 4. d. ob The Hundreds in the County of Cornwall and the profits thereof belonging to the said Dutchy 1 The Hundred of Kerier the issues were 8. l. 5. s. 2 The Hundred of Pewith the issues 3. l. 19. s. 6. d. 3 The Hundred of Powder the issues 10. l. 4. s. 5. d. 4 The Hundred of Pyder the isues are 9. l. 8. s. ob 5 The Hundred of East the issues whereof 4. l. 3. s. 4. d. 6 The Hundred of West the issues were 8. l. 5. s. 4. d. 7 The Hundred of Stratton the issues 58. s. 8. d. ob 8 The Hundred of Trigshire the issues 5. l. 1. s. 4. d. 9 The Hundred of Lesâ—ewith the issues 58. s. Summa totalis of the Hundreds amounteth 55. l. 3. s. 8. d. The Profits of the office of the Sheriffe which are casuall and vncertaine and not accompted for vpon the last Receiuers accompt The profits of the Hauenor the profits of whose office were this last yeere 38. l. 5.
of Chester 1082. l. 21. d. The County of Flint The profits of the Mannor of Hope and Hopedale 63. l. The profits of the Mannor of Ellow and of the Mynes of Coles there 6. l. The profits of the office of Constable of Rothlan whereof he was countable 8. l. 14. s. The rent of the towne of Flint 56. l. The rent of the towne of Colshull 4. l. 7. s. 10. d. The rent of the towne of Carourse 22. l. 6. s. 8. d. The rent of the towne of Bagherge 14. l. 3. s. 4. d. ob The towne of Veyuoll yeerly 13. l. 6. s. 8. d. The towne of Rothlan and rent thereof 72. l. 9. s. 2. d. The towne of Mosten and rent thereof 15. l. 6. s. 8. d. The profits of the office of Escheator of Englefield 56. l. The Bloglot of the County of Flint which consisteth of the profits of the hundred Courts within the said County 72. l. 11. s. 9. d. ob The perquisits of the Sessions in Flint 30. l. The profits of the Escheator in the said County 8. l. Summe totall of the reuenews of the Earldome rising in the County of Flint 442. l. 19. s. 5. d. The rents of the Borough of Macklefield 31. l. The profits of the Hundred of Macklefield 31. l. 14. s. The profits of the Forrest of Macklefield 88. l. The accompt and profits of the store of Macklefield 13. l. 6. s. 8. d. The herbage and agistments of the Parke of Macklefield 6. l. Summe totall of the Lordship of Macklefield 170. l. 8. d. The summe totall of all the reuenew of the said Earldome of Chester in the said Counties of Chester and Flint and the Lordship of Macklefield 1694. l. 9. s. 8. d. Out of which totall summe there was deducted these summes following Pentions in almes of the said Earledome 61. l. 6. s. 8. d. To Sir Richard Stafford the summe of 129. l. paid vnto him as due of a rent out of the said Earldome 129. l. The fee of the Iustices yeerly 100. l. Which being deducted the whole reuenew of the said Earldome remaining not allowing any other fees to officers amounted vnto 1304. l. 15. s. 4. d. The reuenews of the same Earldome as they now stand in charge to your Maiestie are in this manner The County of Chester The fee farme of the City of Chester 22. l. 2. s. 4 d. ob The escheated Lands with the same City 7. s. The rents of the Mannor of Dracklow and Rudeheath 26. l. 2. s. 6. d. The farme of the towne of Medywick 21. l. 6. s. The profits of the office of Mara and Modern 34. l. 9. d. The profits of the Mannor and Parke of Stotwick 23. l. 19. d. The Fulling M 〈…〉 vpon the riuer Dee 11. l. The annuall profits of the Mannor of Fordsham 48. l. The profits of the Hundred of Macklefield 6. l. 20. d. The farme of the Borough of Macklefield 16. l. 13. d. The profits of the Forrest of Macklefield 85. l. 12. s. 11. d. ob q. The profits of the Escheeter of Chester 24. l. 19. s. The profits of the office of the Sheriffe of the said County 43. l. 12. s. 3. d. The profits of the Chamberlaine of the County of Chester 55. l. 14. s. Samme totall of the revenewes in the said Earldome of Chester in the County of Chester 418. l. 14. d. q. The County of Flint The yeerly value of Ellow 20. l. 8. s. The farme of the towne of Flint 33. l. 19. s. 4 d. The farme of Cayrouâ—e 7. l. 2. s. 4. d. The Castle of Ruthlan 5. l. 12. s. 10. d. The rents and profits of Mosten 7. l. The rents and profits of â—olshill 54. s. 16. d. The rents of the towne of Ruthlan 44. l. 17. s. 6. d. The Lands in Englefield in yeerly value 23. l. 10. d. The profits of Vayuoll 5. l. 9. s. The profits of the o 〈…〉 ce of the Esche 〈…〉 6. l. 11. s. 9. d. The mynes of Cole and Wood within the Mannor of Mosten 10. s. The office of the Sheriffe in rents and casualties 120. l. The mynes and profits of the faires of Northope 3. l. 9. s. 2. d. The totall summe of the said reuenue in yerely rent 244. l. 5. s. 4. d. In casualties was lastly 37. l. 8. d. The totall in the whole 281. l. 6. s. The fees of the Officers of the said Earledome The County of Chester The fee of the office of the Escheator 10. l. 10. s. The fee of the Iustices of Assizes in the Counties of Chester and Flint 100. l. The fee of the Attourney generall 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. The fee of faure Sergeants at law in the said County 14. l. 6. s. 8. d. The fee of the Chamberlaine of Chester 20. l. The fee of the Sheriffe of Chester 20. l. The fee of the Constable of the Castle of Chester 18. l. 5. s. The fee of the Constable of the Castle of Flint 10. l. The fee of the Ranger of the Forrest of Mara 4. l. 11. s. 3. d. The fee of the Porter of the Castle of Flint 6. l. 1. s. 8. d. The fee of the Porter of the said Castle and of the Bailiffe itinerant there 9. l. 2. s 6. d. The fee of the Gouernour of the Forrest of Macklefield 12. l. The fee of two Clarkes of the Exchequer at Chester for euery of them 4. l. 11. s. 3. d. 9. l. 2. s. 6. d. The fee of the Surueyor of the workes within the said Countie Palatine 6. l. 20. d. The fee of the keeper of the Gardens of the Castle of Chester 4. l. 11. s. 3. d. The fee of the Cryer of the Exchequer at Chester 3. l. 15. s. The yeerely fee of the Master Carpenter 9. l. 12. s. 6. d. The fee of the Controller of the Counties of Chester and Flint 12. l. 3. s. 4. d. The yeerely fee of the Pregnatory 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. The fee of the Master Cementer 8. l. 12. s. 6. d. The fee of the Chalpaine of the Castle of Chester 40. s. The fee paid vnto the Deane and Chapter of Chester 19. l. 10. s. To the Master of the Hospitall for his fee 4. l. 11. s. The summe of this charge in Chester amounteth vnto 310. l. 9. s. 9. d. Which summe of 310. l. 9 s. 9. d. being deducted out of the former totall summe of 699. l. 7 s. 2 d. q. there doth remaine 388. l. 17. s. 5 d. q. which is the cleere remaine of the Earledome of Chester and Flint 388. l. 17. s. 5. d. q. Hitherto haue beene expressed the reuenues of the Principality of Wales Dutchie of Cornewall and Earledome of Chester and the state of them as well antient as moderne which moderne estate is much impaired in the reuenue of the land and so greatly diminished from his former amplitude that I may fitly say thereof Quantum mutatus aâ—â—llo for the reducing whereof to the pristine dignitie there