XXI.-Carta Henrici Episcopi Landarensis. H. dei gratia Landavensis ecclesie minister humilis universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit salutem et benediccionem. Universitati vestre significamus quod cum quedam contencio inter dilectos filios nostros monachos de Margan et Johannem Kairus et heredes illius super pastura totius terre sue preter segetes et prata que dudum prefatis monachis pro quodam magno excessu suo concesserat verteretur tandem predictus Johannes et Milo filius ejus prenominator monachos nolentes injuste molestari memoratam pasturam monachis de Margan imperpetuum libere et quiete reddiderunt Et predictus Milo coram nobis tactis sacrosanctis juramento firmabit se predictis monachis de Margan et omnibus rebus suis semper fore fidelem et obedientem et predictam pasturam contra omnes pro posse suo warentizaturum His testibus Urban decano de Landavia Nicholas capellano Magistro Mauricio Rudulpho de Wincestria clerico W. de Sancto Donato Roberto de Berchele et multis aliis. The family, afterwards called Wilkins, and recently De Winton, were anciently De Wintonia, and have been settled in the Vale of Glamorgan from a very early period, and, in one branch, still are found there. Ralph may have been of that family, or he may have come himself from Winchester. De Wincestria and de Wintonia would at that time be only two forms of the same name. W. de Sancto Donato was probably an ecclesiastic from that village, and Robert de Berchele from that of Berkeley. It is not probable that he was of the Berkeley family, who never had an interest in Gla morgan. XXII.-[Cotton MS. Cleop. A. vii, 85. N. Mon. II, 77.] Carta H. Landavensis episcopi concedentis domui de Morgan ecclesiam de Kenefet cum capellis, terris et omnibus pertinentiis suis assensu et petitione W. Abbatis et conventus Theok. solvendo domui Theok. annuatim x marcas; quinque infra octavam Paschæ, et quinque infra octavam sancti Michaelis. As King John's charter is silent as to this acquisition, it probably came between 1205 and 1218. Kenefet is Kenfig in Pyle, the parish next south of Margam, and which reaches to the sea-shore. Much of it has long been covered up with drift sand, but under the Normans the village was a borough town, and the parish part of the demesne of the chief lord. A slender remain of its ancient castle rises through the sand, and it is celebrated for its pool. It is also a contributory parliamentary borough to Swansea, but this is solely in compliment to its former prosperity. XXIII.-[Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 H. III, 1216, Memb. 25.] Rex Majori et probis hominibus Bristolli salutem. Mandamus vobis quod sine dilacione plenam saisinam habere faciatis Magistro Michaeli de Londonia de domibus suis in Bristolli quas emit de Abbate de Morgan unde injuste dissaisitus est ut dicitur. Catalla etiam sua quæ in iisdem domibus capta fuerunt eidem Magistro Michaelo sine dilacione reddi faciatis. quam etc. Teste apud Bristollum, xx die Novembris. Per Comitem W. Mar. Et This, no doubt, relates to the Burgage given by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and confirmed by King John. It is one of the royal documents issued by the Earl Mareschal as "Rector Regis et regni." XXIV.- Conventio indentuta inter H. de Umframville et Monachos de Margan. [Harl. Cart. 75 D. 14.] Sciant presentes et futuri quod ita convenit inter Henricum. de Umframville et monachos de Margan anno incarnacionis domini m°ccxvijo quod scilicet idem Henricus remisit totam calumpniam quam habuit adversus eos de terra de Bedingtone cum pertinenciis suis, et idem Henricus recepit pre manibus totam firmam suam viginti annorum de eadem terra. De quibus xx annis octo anni tunc fuerunt elapsi, et duodecim anni adhuc erant venturi, unde predicti monachi quiti sunt usque ad terminum duodecim annorum futurorum perimpletum, nec reddent predicto Henrico aliquam firmam pro eadem terra ante passca anni supradicti incarnacionis m°cc°xxx et si forte aliquis dirationaverit illam terram de predictis monachis infra predictos xij annos prenominatus Henricus vel heredes sui, redditum cujuslibet Anni de predictis xij annis reddet eis quamdiu illam non poterunt warantizare. Hiis testibus Deno [Oeno] decano, Magistro Radulpho Mayloch Willielmo de K[R]enny, Raimundo de Sull', David de Brehull' tunc vicecomite de Kaerdif, Roberto Sampsonis, Willielmo de Lichefeld, Nicholao et Waltero monachis de Margan, Gaufrido monacho de V[N]eht et multis aliis. (Endorsed).-Cirografum H: de Umfravilla. A small circular seal of green wax remains attached, bearing the device of an open flower. Legend-SECRETVM HENRICI. [A.D. 1215.] MAELOG OF LLYSTALYBONT. The Welsh genealogists, with their usual neglect of dates or evidences, contain the following notices of this family ; Sir RALPH Maelog or Mayloc, Lord of Llystalybont, a manor by Cardiff in Cibwr Hundred, was father of MAUD, who married Einon ap Cadogan. Sir WILLIAM Maelog, temp. H. III, Lord of Llystalybont, Wysam and Maelog's fee, married his cousin, a daughter of Rhys ap Griffith ap Ivor Bach, and had 1, a DAUGHTER, married Llewelyn ap Cynvrig; 2, a DAUGHTER, married Howell ap Cynvrig Madoc; 3, ANN or ENVIN, married Sir Gwrgi le Grand or Grant. RALPH Maelog, 17 Ed. II, married Gwirvil, daughter of Llewelyn, and had 1, WILLIAM Maylog, Lord of Littlebone [Llystaly bont] temp. E. III; and 2, Roger Maylog. Maeloc, married Joan, daughter and heiress of Thomas le Eyre, by Margaret, daughter of David Cantelupe. They had 1, Richard; 2, WILLIAM; 3, GILBERT. RICHARD Maeloc, married Alson, daughter of Berkerolles, and had ROGER Maeloc, married Margaret, daughter of John Dawbeny, and had JOAN Maeloc, daughter and heiress, married William Chicheley. There was a PHILIP Maelog, temp. H. VI. The following particulars are supported by evidence. Magister Radulphus Maylock, or Maelog, was an ec 3RD SER., VOL. XIV. clesiastic and a member of a family who appear in the early records of the county, and were extant as late as the reign of Henry VI. As Magister Rafe Mailoc, he tested a charter by Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex [N. Mon. iv, 634], and an Umfraville charter of 1217 [75 D. 14]. His name also appears in the Annals of Tewkesbury as holding the church of Llanblethian apparently in farm. He died 2nd June, 1231, and about the 15th September following the Bishop of Llandaff; Thomas, Dean of Hereford; Peter, Abbot of Tewkesbury; Maurice, Archdeacon of Llandaff; the Rector of Thornbury, and others, met at Striguil to dispose of the church of Llanblethian. The result was the sending of Eustace, a Tewkesbury monk, to take seizin of the church. On his arrival the keys were removed to the hills, and he could only take seizin of the porch, and protest against those who opposed the rights of his convent, confirmed by the Bishop of Llandaff. So little effect had this in his favour that the people stopped him on the highway and held him three days in the hills. Upon which Bishop Elias excommunicated all and sundry in full chapter, and presented his sentence. to the Justiciar Hubert de Burgh. Further, the Abbot of Tewkesbury excommunicated J. Grant with his accomplices, who did the deed. How the matter was then settled does not appear. Probably by the continuance of the Mayloc interest, for 25 July, 1242, during a Welsh riot in the county, the Abbot of Tewkesbury went to Llanblethian to receive the "mission" of that church, under the mandate of the Prior of Winchcombe, sub-delegate from the Pope, on account of the deprivation of Roger Mayloc, upon his non-payment for the farm of the church. But the Archdeacon of Llandaff, sede vacante, had put in Thomas Pennarth, which could not be allowed. On this Thomas resigned the vicarage, and was again presented by the Abbot, with all the emoluments save tythe sheaves, and did homage. Mayloc then petitioned to hold the church to farm, as he had held it, but the Abbot refused this, and in the court at Cardiff declared that if he or his suffered injury he should impute it to Mayloc. Finally, however, on the petition of Rhys, Roger's uncle, and of others, Roger was allowed five marks per annum. He was dissatisfied with this, and an extra mark added to it, at the instance of Richard de Clare, who gave him letters of defence to the Sheriff. The contumacious Roger Mayloc entered the benefice, seized the wheat, ground it, and carried it off, adding divers threats against the Tewkesbury monks, and, in short, made himself so obnoxious that the Abbot had to buy him off with twelve marcs per annum until he should obtain a benefice. The proceedings must have been rapid, for the Abbot's first visit was made 25 July, and 8 Sept. Thomas, vicar of Llanblethian, had his papers sealed, and did homage. Little else is certainly known of the Mayloc family beyond Ralph, who tested a Bonville Charter about 1260 [75 B. 17], and appears to have been an ecclesiastic, and Rhys in one generation, and Roger in another. William Maylocke, no doubt of the same family, appears in the Extent of 1264 as holding half-afee "in capella valet xx solidos," and is, therefore, probably the ancestor of William Maylocke, who at the survey of 1320 held half a fee as Lord of Llys-tal-y-bont by Cardiff. There is also a mountain called GarthMayloc near Llantrissant. XXV.-Carta Willelmi Episcopi Landavensis. [Harl. Cart. 75 A. 16.] W. Dei gratia Landavensis Episcopus Archidiaconis Decanis personis vicariis totius diocesis sue ad quos presentes littere pervenerint salutem gratiam et benedictionem. Et si omnibus in nostra constitutis ditione nostram pro juribus nostris debeamus defensionem domum tamen de Margan intuitu religionis qui in ea domino cooperante florere dinoscitur speciali amplectimus dilectione et servis dei in ea domino militantibus et possessionibus eorum quas intra nostram habent diocesim quatenus possumus ubique per nos et nostros protectionis et custodie specialem volumus exhibere gratiam. 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