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A20577 The history of the ancient and moderne estate of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornewall, and earldome of Chester Collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and diuers ancient authours. By Sir Iohn Dodridge Knight, one of his Maiesties iudges in the Kings Bench. And by himselfe dedicated to King Iames of euer blessed memory. Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628. 1630 (1630) STC 6982; ESTC S109765 59,203 160

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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 tanquā 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 Oth●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 digit● aureū ac virgam argenteam iuxta morē By a Chaplet of Gould made in the manner of a Garland for the word Sertū 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
yeere of his raigne did after wards by his Charter bearing date at Westminster the fifteenth day of March in the thirty two yeere of his raigne created Edward his sonne borne at Westminster by one and the selfesame patent to be both Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and inuested him therin with the vsuall ensignes of that dignitie as had beene in former time accustomed To haue and to hold the said dignities to him and his heires Kings of England which Charter is recited in the Act of Parliament made for the confirmation thereof by Parliament holden at Westminster the ninth day of Iuly in the three and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of the same King In which act of Parliament is also recited another Charter likewise confirmed by the said Parliament whereby the said King did giue vnto the said Prince the said Principalitie of VVales together with all his Lordships and Lands Castles and Tenements by speciall names aboue mentioned and in the former Charters granted and conuaied to the former Princes and the said fee Farmes and Rents of 113. l. 6. s. 8. d. out of the Lordship and towne of Buelt and the said 56. l. 13. s. 4. d. out of the Lordship Castle and Towne of Montgomery likewise mentioned in the Charters of the former Prince To haue and to hold the same to him and his heires Kings of England By the same act of Parliament also it was enacted because the said Prince was then of tender yeeres there was assigned vnto him a certaine number of seruants to attend on him according to his estate and dignity which should beat dyet in the Kings house vntill the said Prince should accomplish the age of fourteene yeeres and that the King should haue all such summes of money as should cleerely remaine vnto the Prince due of all manner issues and reuenues which the Prince then had in respect of his said Principalitie Dutchie and Earledome vntill the said age of fourteene yeeres the said Reuenues to be accounted for to the King in his Exchequer reseruing vnto the said Prince vntill he should come to be of the age of eight yeeres a thousand pound yeerely and from that age till he come to fourteene yeeres two thousand markes yeerely for his wardrobes wages of seruants and other necessarie expences But sauing alwaies vnto the King the Aduousons of Bishoprickes and spirituall liuings and the gifts of all offices wards releefes and escheats belonging to the said Prince vntill he should accomplish the said age of fourteen yeeres sauing such estate in certaine of the said lands as the Queene had to her before the said time assured vnto the said Prince should be of the said age of fourteene yeeres and sauing certaine particular summes of money in the said Act of Parliament mentioned as were formerly appointed out of the said Lands as well for expence of the Kings of England for their houshold as otherwise during such particular times as are therein declared prouided that all offices formerly granted by the King and needing actuall exercise and the fees due to the same should not be preiudiced by the said Act. Afterwards by another Charter the said King doth release vnto the said Prince all the said grant of the said yeerely summes of money issuing out of the reuenues aforesaid and all things by the said Act granted and appointed vnto the said King reseruing onely for the same vnto the said King yeerely fiue hundred twenty seauen markes foure shillings seauen pence halfepenny to be issuing out of the said Principality and Earledome and feauen hundred sixty seauen markes eleuen shillings seauen pence halfepenny yeerely out of the said Dutchy vntill the said Prince should be of eight yeeres of age then reseruing out of the said Principality and Earledome yeerely vnto the King two hundred seuenty seuen markes foure shillings seuen pence halfe penny and out of the said Dutchy yeerely fiue hundred and seuenteene markes eleuen shillings seauen pence halfe penny vntill the said age of fourteene yeeres of the Prince for the said Dutchy and to be imployed towards the charges of the Kings houshold and not otherwise And the said King by his Letters Patents dated the eighteenth of Ianuary in the fiue and thirtieth yeare of his raigne during the minority of the said Prince ordained the then Archbishop of Yorke the then Bishop of VVinchester Hereford Couentry and Lichfield and the Lord Keeper of the priuie Seale the Earles of Shrewesbury Stafford and VViltes the then Viscount Beamont and also Iohn Sutton and Thomas Stanley Knights to be of the priuie Councell vnto the said Prince enioyning all Officers and Ministers of the said Prince that they and euery of them should be obedient in the execution of all Commandements and Warrants of the said Councellors or at the least soure of them together with the assent and consent of the Queene in all causes and matters concerning the titles rights possessions and interests of the said Prince and that the said Commandements and Warrants should be as auaileable in that behalfe as if the same had beene made or done by the said Prince himselfe being of full age which Commandement in all Leases of the said Princes inheritance was pursued accordingly In the nine and thirtieth yeere of the said King Henry the Sixts raigne he being of the house of Lancaster such is the mutability and so vnstable are all humane things that the said King being a man as the times then were deuout and religious the founder of Schooles and Colledges vertuous and a louer of peace was by the violence of the heires of the house of Yorke put from his kingdome and committed to prison and Edward Earle of March sonne and heire to Richard Duke of Yorke raigned in his stead by the name of King Edward the Fourth But yet behold the hand of God for in the tenth yeere of the said King Edward the Fourth vpon discontentment conceiued against him by Richard Earle of VVarwicke a man more popular and potent then was fit for a Subiect the said Richard with a collected power so pressed the King that he was driuen to flye the Realme and to seeke forraigne aide seeing his homebred subiects proued so vnfaithfull Then King Henry the Sixt after tenne yeeres imprisonment readepted the kingdome and in the said tenth yeere of King Edward the Fourth wrote the fortie ninth yeere of his raigne hauing indured tenne yeeres intermission in the computation of his time as appeareth in the bookes of Law of that age But being thus seated he was yet vnsetled and after much effusion of bloud for in a ciuill warre there is no true victory in as much as he that preuaileth is also a looser King Henry the Sixt was compelled againe to giue place to his aduersary and after to make that part sure was depriued of life hauing lost also Edward his sonne Prince before spoken of the hope of all his posterity in the battell of Tewkesbury
Prince was appointed Gouernour of the Person of the said Prince The creation of Arthure sonne and heire apparant to King Henry the Seuenth to bee Prince of VVales the Copie of the Charter of that creation obserued for the forme and manner of penning thereof and the names of the Councellors that were assigned vnto him After the death of Prince Arthure Henry his brother who was afterwards King Henry the Eight was created Prince of Wales after whose time there are no Charters found of the creation of any Prince of Wales although King Edward the Sixt in the life of his Father and Queene Mary carried the name of Prince generall and the reason why this discourse hitherunto is drawne after an historicall manner After the said historicall discourse Three things are further considered of viz. First in what manner and order the said Principalitie and Marches of Wales were gouerned and directed vnder the Princes of Wales as well before as after the English Conquests thereof wherein by the way are noted the Courts of Iustice of the said principality of Wales the originall of the Baronyes Marchers and when the first Councell was established in the Marches of Wales vnto England and in what manner the same was done and the commodities ensuing thereof which vnion or annexation may serue in some respect as a president in other cases of like consequence The second principall thing proposed is the consideration of the antient and moderne Officers of the said principality seruing the Lord Prince and none others and what fees and sallaries were allowed vnto them The third principall matter is the present reuenues of the principality of Wales as the same was in charge before the Auditors this last yeere past viz. the fortie foure yeere of the late Queene Elizabeth The Dukedome of Cornewall The Dukedome of Cornewall was the first erected Dutchie in England after the Norman conquest and made to be a Dutchie in the eleuenth yeere of King Edward the Third and giuen to his eldest sonne commonly called the blacke Prince who was the first Duke in Cornewall after the Conquest to him and to his first begotten sonnes and heires apparant of the Kings of England and the difference that is betweene the Principalitie of Wales and the said Dutchie At what age of the Duke of Cornewall Liuery may bee made vnto him of the said Dutchy Moreouer touching the said Dutchie of Cornewall three things are considered First what reuenues were bestowed vpon the said Dutchy for the erection thereof both annuall and casuall and the particulars thereof the seuerall natures and differences of them in the construction of the Law together with the Stanneryes and coynage of Tynne and the lawes vsages and customes of the said Stanueryes concerning the managing of Tynne The diuers kindes of Tynners and Tynne and the coynage of Tynne is and for what cause due and payable and the priuiledges that the King and Duke of Cornewall haue in their preemption of Tynne The reuenues of the Dutchie of Cornewall as it is rated by suruey taken in the fifth yeere of King Edward the Third The reuenues of the said Dutchie of Cornewall as it was in the fifteenth yeere of King Henry the Eight The reuenues of the said Dutchie as it was in account vnto the late Queene Elizabeth in the 44. yeere of her raigne which is the last account and the cleere yeerely value thereof as it may be drawne to an estimation annuall appeareth The Countie Palatine of Chester and Flint The third principall reuenue belonging to the Prince as Earle of Chester which Earledome is a Countie Palatine Edward sirnamed the blacke Prince created Earle of Chester by King Edward the Third his Father in the seauenth yeere of the said King Edward the Thirds raigne The totall reuenue of the said Countie Palatine of Chester and Flint as it was in the 44. yeere of the late Queene Elizabeth The antient reuenues of the said Earledome of Chester and Flint as the same were in the fifth yeere of King Edward the Third The reasons why in this History diuers an tiquities not vulgarly knowne are discouered concerning the Principality of VVales Dutchy of Cornewall and Earledome of Chester Inconueniens erit omissis initijs atque origine non repetita atqueillotis vt ita dixerim manibus protinus materiam tractare Ex lege prima Digestorū Iuris Ciuilis titulo de origine Iuris THE ANCIENT REVENEWES OF the Lord PRINCE consist of these three kindes The Principality of Wales Dutchie of Cornewall And Earldome of Chester And therefore of euery of these in order as followeth The Principality of Wales THat part of this Island which is called Wales is thought by some learned to be the same which the Romanes hauing reduced this Island vnder their gouernment called Britannia Secunda of some others it is supposed to bee the same that was called by the Romanes Valentia but howsoeuer the truth thereof be it was anciently called by the Brittaines Cambria who diuided the whole Island of Albion into these three parts Loegria Albania and Cambria The Saxons conquering this Island called the said Territorie into the mountaines whereof the remnant of the Britaines that remayned were fled and not to be ouercome by them Wallia and the people Welshmen that is to say vnto them strangers And the other part those Britaines or Welshmen doe yet in their language call the English Saissons or Saxons It was also anciently diuided into three Prouinces or Principalities the first and principall called by them Guyneth or as they haue written in Latine Venedotia viz that which is called North-Wales The second they haue called in Latine Demetia and is that we call South-Wales And the third Powisia or Powisland and euery of these Prouinces were againe subdiuided into Cantreds and euery Cantred into Comots The Records do diuide the same into three parts also Westwales Northwales Southwales The whole Countrey is now allotted into Shires which are thirteen in number and namely these 1 Radnor shire 2 Brecknock shire 3 Munmouth shire 4 Glamorganshire 5 Carmarthenshire 6 Pembrookeshire 7 Cardiganshire 8 Montgomeryshire 9 Merionethshire 10 Ca●rnaruoushire 11 Denbighshire 12 Flintshire 13 Anglesyshire This Parcell of the said Island called Wales thus possessed by the remnant of those Britaines was no parcell of the dominion of the Realme of England but distinguished from the same as the bookes of the Lawes of this Realme doe testifie and as it were a Realme of it selfe not gouerned by the Lawes of England and was by some of the Saxon Kings diuided from England by a ditch called of the name of the King which caused the same King Offa his Ditch Yet neuertheless was the same Dominion of Wales euer holden in Chiefe and in Fee of the Crowne of England And the Prince thereof being then of their owne Nation compellable vpon Summons to come and appeare in the Parliaments of England and vpon their
Councell established in the Marches of VVales it is conceiued by the best and most probable opinions amongst Antiquaries that the same began in or about the seauenteenth yeere of king Edward the Fourth when as Prince Edward his sonne was sent vnto the Marches of VVales vnder the tuition of the Lord Ri●ers his Vncle by the Mothers side as a●ore hath appeared and at what time also ●ohn Bishop of VVorcester was appointed Lord President of VVales Prince Arthure the sonne of King Henry the Seauenth in the seauenteenth yeere of the raigne of the said King went into VVales at what time Doctor VVilliam Smith was then President of the Councell of the Marches of VVales who was after Bishop of Lincolne and founder of the Colledge of Br●sen nose in the Vniuersity of Oxford This man was also President in the time of king Henry the eight vntill the fourth yeere of the raigne of the same king at what time ●effry Blyth Bishop of Couentry and Lichfield succeeded in the office of President of the said Councell The Lady Mary eldest Daughter of king Henry the Eight and afterwards Queene did carry the title of Princes of VVales for a while although the parent of her creation bee not now to be found vnder whom ●ohn Voysey Doctor of the lawes and afterwards Bishop of Exceter was President of that Councell There succeeded him in the office of President of the Councell of the Marches of Wales Rowland Lee Bishop of Couentry and Lichfield And this was the state and gouernement of the Principality and Marches of Wales in the seauen and twentieth yeere of king Henry the Eight The said king by a Statute made in the seauen and twentieth yeere of his raigne vnited and annexed the Principality and Dominion of Wales vnto the Realme of England altering in many parts the former iurisdiction and gouernement thereof bringing the same to the like administration of Iustice as was and yet is vsuall in England appointing that the lawes of England should take place there and that all Welsh Lawes sinister Customes and Tenures not agreeable to the Lawes of England should be thenceforth for euer abrogated and abolished Of which vnion and annexation first for that there of hath ensued great peace tranquility ciuility and infinite good to the Inhabitants of that Country of Wales Secondly because in some respect it may serue as a proiect and president of some other vnion and annexation by your Maiesty of as much or of more consequence and importance And thirdly because the same vnion doth containe an expresse image of the politique gouernement of the Realme of England I haue presumed with conuenient breuity vpon this good occasion here in this place to expresse the same Therefore whereas in former time there had beene in Wales anciently eight seuerall Shires or Counties besides the County of Munmouth which was the ninth and that some other Territories in Wales were then no shire grounds by reason where of the lawes of England could haue no currant passage therein For all the ordinary Ministers and executioners of the processe of the Lawes of England or which haue Vicountiell iurisdiction are the Officers of particular Shires as the Sheriffes the Coroners the Escheators and such like Therefore by the said Act of Parliament there are erected in Wales foure other new ordayned Shires of the Lands not formerly so diuided namely the seuerall Shires of Radnor Brecknock Montgomery and Denbyh and those also together with the former ancient shires are by that Act of Parliament and by the Statute of 38. h. 8. subdiuided into Cantreds and all the Marche grounds being then neither any part of Wales although formerly conquered out of Wales neither any part of the Shires of England The said king by his said Act of Parliament did annexe and vnite partly vnto the said Shires of England and partly vnto the Shires of VVales next adioyning as was thought then by reason of vicinity of place and other correspondency most conuenient as by the said Acts of Parliament appeareth which the said king was the rather occasioned to doe for most of the said Baronies Marchers were then in his owne hands And for that also diuers murthers rapes robberies and enormities had beene there committed and by reason of the flight of the offenders from one Barony as is vsuall vpon the borders they had escaped due and condigne punishment for their such enormities and odious offences He ordained also that the Countie of Mounmouth formerly being a Shire of Wales should be gouerned from thenceforth in like manner and by the same Iudges as other the Shires of England And for the other twelue Shires he ordained a speciall Iurisdiction and Officers but yet in substance agreable and after the manner of the English Lawes although for the circumstance of time and place and persons in some few things discordant He ordained that out of euery of the said Shires of Wales there should be one Knight and out of euery of the shire Townes of Wales named in the said Act of Parliament there should be one Burgesse elected after the English manner which Knights and Burgesses so selected and duly vpon summons of euery Parliament in England returned should haue place and voice in the Parliament of England as other the Knights and Burgesses of England vsed to haue And for the administration of iustice in the said twelue Shires of Wales there was by the Act of Parliament of 34. H. 8. ordained soure seuerall Circuits Precyncts or Conuentus Iuridicus allotting to euery of them three of those Shires so that the chiefe Iustice of Chester hath vnder his iurisdiction the three seuerall Shires of Denbigh Flint and Montgomery his fee is yeerely 100. l. The Shires of Carnarnon Merioneth and Anglesey are vnder the Iustice of North-Wales whose fee is 50. l. The Counties of Carmardin Pembrooke and Cardigan haue also their Iustice whose yeerely fee is 50. l. The Counties of Radnor Brecknocke and Glamorgan haue also their Iustice whose fee is yeerely 50. l. After by an Act of Parliament made 18. Eliz. cap. 8. one other Iustice assistant was ordained to the former Iustices so that now euery of the said foure Circuits haue two Iustices viz. one chiefe Iustice and a second Iustice assistant Their Jurisdiction THese Iustices in euery of their Circuits haue almost the same iurisdiction that the ancient Iustices in Eyre or Iustices Itinerant had First they had power to heare and determine all criminall causes which are called in the lawes of England The pleas of the Crowne and herein they haue the same absolute iurisdiction that the Iustices haue of your Maiesties Bench commonly called the Kings Bench. They haue also iurisdiction to heare and determine all ciuill Causes which are called in the Lawes of England Common pleas and to take the acknowledgement of all Fines leuied of lands or hereditaments without suing any dedimus potestatem and
same vpon his Minion Pierce de Gaueston but hee being afterwards attainted of Treason and executed the same Earledome was bestowed vpon Iohn sirnamed of Eltam because hee was borne there yonger brother to King Edward the Third who dying likewise without issue it was lastly erected into a Dutchy as hath beene said and conferred vpon Edward afterward surnamed the black Prince in the eleuenth yeere of the raigne of the said King Edward the third his father Therefore the said King Edward purposing to augment the title of his said sonne did in the Parliament holden in the eleuenth yeere of his reigne create not only the said Edward then before made Earle of Chester to be Duke of Cornwall but also to honor that publique proceeding the more did at the same time create diuers and sundry worthy persons and well deseruing to sundry dignities of nobility as by the records extant thereof doth appeare The manner of the first creation of the Duke of Cornwall was very speciall for the said dignity was conferred vnto the said Edward then Earle of Chester and to the first begotten sonnes and heires apparant of him and his heires Kings of England for euer So that it seemeth that the intention thereof was first that none should bee Dukes of Cornwall but such as were eldest sonnes and heires apparant to the Crowne and that when there was any faile of such person then the said dignity should remaine insuspence vntill such son heire apparant againe were extant Secondly that the said sonne and heire apparant without any further solemnity or creation should presently vpon his birth being then heire apparant to the King or from the time that hee is heire apparant to the Kingdome bee also Duke of Cornwall herein much differing from the order of the Principality of Wales which requireth in euery new succeeding Prince a new creation and inuesture and gift of that Principality as hath formerly appeared The truth of this assertion is made most euident by an act of Parliament in the 33. yeere of the reigne of King Henry the 6. the words whereof are these Moreouer the King considering that his said best beloued first begotten sonne at the time of his birth is Duke of Cornwall and ought of right to haue Liuery of the said Dutchy and of all Honors Lordships Signiories Castles Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Possessions Hereditaments with their appurtenances to the said Dutchy belonging or parcell of the same in any wise by the aduice assent and authority c. deliuereth and doth cause to bee deliuered to the said Prince his first begotten sonne the said Dutchy of Cornwall and all Honors Lordships Signiories Castles Mannors Lands Tenements c. with all other things Possessions and Inheritances Profits and commodities with their appurtenances to the said Dutchy annexed vnited pertaining or belonging or parcell of the same in any wise The same was after many likewise verified by the Charter of King Henry the seuenth being the Charter of Liuety made vnto Prince Arthur his sonne whereof some part followeth in these words Hemicus deigratta Angliae Franciae Rex dominus Hiberniae c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos considerantes quod regnum Angliae cuius regni soli●● dei gratia portimur filij primogeniti in ducatu Cornubiae haereditario in perpetuum dicti regni nostriiure sunt successuri atque ex speciali superinde Actu promulgato primo nativitatis suae die maioris atque perfectae praesumitur aetatis fic quod liberationem dicti ducatus eo tum à nobis petere valeant atque de iure obtinere debeant acsi viginti uninius annorum aetatis plene fuissent volentes etiam uti debemus praecharissimo filio nostro primogenito Arthuro ius reddere in nullo eius iure derogare eundemque ducatum Cornubiae cum omnibus singulis suis membris atque iuribus dicto primogenito nostro sicuti caeterorum Principum temporibns bactenus fieri consuevit liberare ex certa scientia mero motu nostro ac●de advisamento assensu Consilij nostri dedimus concessimus liberamus damusque per praesentes concedimus liberamus pro nobis haeredibus nostris bac praesenti charta nostra confirmavimus eidem filio nostro sub nomine honore Ducis dictiloci castra manneria terras tenementa alia subscripta ut ipse statum honorem ducis dicti ducatus decentius generis sui nobilitatem valcat continuare onera in hac parte incumbentia facilius supportare c. By which is proued not only that the sonne and heire apparant of the Crowne is Duke of Cornwall from his birth or when he is knowne to be sonne and heire apparant but that the King his father is by law to make vnto him liuery of the said Dutchy Lands and the hereditaments thereunto belonging although though he be within the age of one and twenty yeeres as if he were of full and perfect age But to returne againe vnto King Edward the third and to consider the bestowing of the reuenewes of the said Dutchy and the managing thereof for orders sake I shall therein observe these generall things First what reuenewes were bestowed vpon the said Dutchy Secondly the yeerly value of the same aswell of ancient time as of latter yeers And lastly to set downe the particular officers of the said Dutchy aswell ancient as moderne by all which the present state of the said Dutchy may best appeare As concerning the former namely the reuenewes of the said Dutchy as it is obserued that the same doe consist generally of these two kindes first the lands and hereditaments that are annuall and secondly the reuenewes that are casuall The reuenewes annuall are of three kindes first the lands giuen by the Charter made in the eleuenth yeere of King Edward the third and were sometimes the ancient of the said Dutchy Secondly certaine Knights fees and other hereditaments g●uen by other letters patents of the same King Edward the third vnto the said Duke which were vnited and annexed by the said latter letters patents vnto the said Dutchy Thirdly and lastly the lands giuen by act of Parliament vnto the said Dutchy and annexed thereunto in liew of other lands that by act of Parliament were afterwards taken from the same againe at sundry times as hereafter shall appeare for in euery of these there is difference of estate and quality The reuenewes annuall giuen by the Charter made by King Edward the third in the eleuenth yeere of his reigne and established for the Dutchy are situate and doe lye first in the County of Cornwall secondly in the County of Devon thirdly in other Shires dispersed within this Realme And first of all in the County of Cornwall are these following County of Cornwall 1 The Castle Mannor and Parke and Borough of Launceston with his appurtenances 2 The Castle and Mannor of Trematon and the Borough of Saltash and the Parke
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 Eastwyve●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 westharptr●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
lesse yeerly and not of one certaine value the Commissioners obserued this course they did make choice of three seuerall yeeres viz. 47. and 48. and 49 of E. 3. and did take out of the seuerall profits of those yeeres and did cast them all into one summe which they againe diuided into three equall parts esteeming only of the said three parts to be the iust yeerly value of the said reuenewes communibus an●i● that is one yeere with another And in this accompt we finde no other charges or reprizes allowed then the Iustices fees only This survey and accompt made aboue 200. yeeres past is here inserted to the end it might appeare what the reuenew of this Principallity alone was besides the Dutchy of Cornwall and Earledome of Chester neere the first certaine erection thereof in the hands of that worthy Prince commonly called the Black Prince The said Prince of Wales surnamed the Black Prince being also Duke of Aquitane Guies and Cornwall and Earle of Chester after many fortunate victories atchieued by him hauing subdued a great part of France and hauing taken Iohn the French King prisoner at Poyteers in France and after that also hauing vanquished Henry at Naue-roit in Spaine and restored Peter King of Arragon he died in Iune being then about the age of forty six yeeres and in the fiftieth yeere of the reigne of his father King Edward the Third leauing behinde him Richard his sonne and heire borne at Burdeaux and thereof surnamed Richard of Burdeaux This Richard surnamed of Burdeaux sonne and heire of the said Edward the Black Prince after the death of his father was created by his grandfather King Edward the Third to bee Prince of Wales at Havoring at the Bower in the County of Essex the twentieth day of Nouember in the fiftieth yeere of the reigne of the said King Edward the third the said Richard then being about the age of eleuen yeeres and vpon Christmas day then next following the said King Edward the third caused the said Prince being his Nephew to sit at his table in high estate aboue all his vncles being the Kings sonnes as representing the personage of the heire apparant to the Crowne and gaue to him the two parts of all the said Principalitie Counties Lordships Castles and the most of the said Lands which belonging to the said Blacke Prince and the reuersion of the third part thereof the possession of the third part thereof then being to the mother of the said Prince Richard for her dowry with a hundred thirteene pound sixe shillings eight pence yeerely rent payable by the Earle of March as a fee farme for the Lordship and Lands of Beult and eighty fiue markes for the fee Farme of the Castle Lordship and Land of Montgomery with the vacations of Bishoprickes excepting the fees of the Baron Marches of VVales which doe alwaies hold of the Crowne in Capite and excepting the auoydance of the Bishopricke of S. Dauids in VVales which anciently also belonged to the Crowne with the like limitation of estate viz. To the said Prince Richard his heires Kings of England It seemeth that these Lordships of Beult and Montgomery being formerly granted to Edward the blacke Prince were before this time giuen away in fee farme rendring the rents here spoken of After the death of the said King Edward the Third which was in the 51. yeere of his raigne the kingdome of England descended vnto the said Richard being his grandchilde and he was Crowned King thereof by the name of King Richard the Second and in the three and twentieth yeere of his raigne he resigned his kingdome or rather more truely was deposed against his will and after by a violent death departed this life without issue Henry of Bullinbrooke Duke of Lancaster and Hereford Earle of Darby Leicester and Lincolne sonne and heire to Iohn of Gaunt fourth sonne to King Edward the Third raigning in his stead Henry of Bullingbrooke by the name of King Henry the Fourth by his Charter dated at Westminster the fifteenth day of October in the first yeere of his raigne created Henry his eldest sonne surnamed of Munmouth Prince of Wales and inuested him with the said Princely ornaments viz. the Chaplet Gold-Ring and Rod or Verge of gold To haue and to hold vnto him and his heires Kings of England And by one other Charter of the same date gaue vnto him and to his heires Kings of England the said Principalitie with the Lordships Castles and Lands before mentioned in the Chartermade to the Blacke Prince together with foure Comots in the Countie of Carnaruon viz. the Comots of Isaph Vghaph Nanconeway and Grewthyn not named before and the reuersion of the Lordship of Hauerford with the prices of Wines there and of the Lordships Newyn and Pughby in North-wales which Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester then held for tearme of his life of the demise of King Richard the Second together also with the reuersion of the County and Lordship of Anglesey in North-Wales and the Castle of Bewmarris and the Comots Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging thereunto which Henry Percy sonne of the Earle of Northumberland then held for terme of his life of the demise of the said King Henry the Fourth and by an Act of Parliament made in the first yeere of King Henry the Fourth whereby the Dutchie of Lancaster is seuered from the Crowne of England The Stile of the said Prince is declared to be this Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitane of Lancaster and of Cornwall and Earle of Chester For the said King Henry the Fourth hauing beene himselfe Duke of Lancaster before his assumption of the Crowne and knowing that the name of Duke being an inferiour dignity would extinguish and bee surrounded in the Crowne as in the Superiour desired as by that Act of Parliament appeareth not onely to separate the said Dutchie of Lancaster and the lands thereof from the Crowne to the intent he might still hold the said Dutchie as his ancient Patrimony if he were put from the Crowne being but his new acquired dignity but also to preserue the said stile title and name of Duke of Lancaster in his posterity which as the said act affirmeth his Ancestors had so worthily borne and sustained Afterwards the said Henry the Fourth died in the fourteenth yeere of his raigne and the said Henry of Munmouth Prince of Wales succeeded him in the kingdome by the name of King Henry the Fift who also in the tenth yeere of his raigne died leauing Henry his sonne behinde him being an Infant of the age of tenne moneths who by reason of his tender age was not as by any record extant can be proued euer created Prince but was proclaimed King immediately after the death of his father by the name of King Henry the Sixt. King Henry the Sixt by the aduice and counsell of his Lords spirituall and temporall giuen to him in his Parliament holden in the thirtie one