Cymmrodorion Record Series Volume 1, V. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... Haroldston West. In the Extent of Sir John Perrott's lands (taken after his attainder in 1592) found in Lansdowne MS. Ixxii he is said to have held 'the Mannor of Harroldston' and ' ix Carucates of Lande with divers Landes and tenementes in Southill Weston, Drichmerhill alias Drichmanhill alias Dreymn' hill see p. 378, above, note 6, Heylot alias Haylot now Haylett, in the parish of Haroldston St. Issell's, and Boiden, with Haroldston Mylles' (fos. 36-7). The values of the respective lands, appended to each in the MS., have been omitted in this citation; the original shows that Southill Weston is one place (not two places). It was apparently so called to distinguish it from other Southills; of which one is in the parish of Talbenny. With the name Boiden may perhaps be compared Baiden or Baydon, near Tondu, Glamorganshire. 80 See p. 378, above, note 6; the manor of Roches, near Laugharne, is mentioned on fos. 49b and 8i-of Lansdowne MS. Ixxii, in conjunction with those of EgleTvyskymcn and Laugharne. The manor of Eglwys Cymmyn was granted to John de la Roche by Thomas Wallensis, Bishop of St. David's, 1248-56 (see the De la Roche Charters, Arch. Camb., II, iii, 259). 81 If this name is Welsh, Tal means' end', and benni is apparently the same element as we get in Bannium, the Roman station near Brecon, called Benni in the Cottonian MS. Vespasian, A, xiv, fo. iot, and Benny in Inq. p. m., lo Edw. Ill, no. 62, Skin 9, a name which now survives on the spot as Y Fenni. Or the benni of Talbenny may possibly be an old plural or aggregative from E E ban, 'high', or 'a height', so common in Wales under the form Y Fan (written Fun or Van). Taly Fan is rather a common combination (there are places of that name, for instance, in Marros and Llanddowror parishes). I...