Nicholas, who was the last who filled the place. He also married, like his father. This, perhaps, will be the right place to mention, as we do not know the exact dates of the different grants, that the lords of Mold were great benefactors to the abbey. In the Harleian collection of MSS. there are abstracts of deeds whereby they conferred on it several donations. Pennant specifies the Marsh of Saltney, near Chester, in particular, as having been granted by Robert, lord of Mold, to the monks, for pasturage.1 Another event, the date of which we have not succeeded in ascertaining, is the grant of a fair and a market, which the monks obtained for the town of Holywell.2 Basingwerk abbey was dissolved in 1535, when the gross sum of its revenues, according to Dugdale, amounted to £150 7s. 3d., that is, temporalities £120 16s. 2d., spiritualities £29 11s. 1d. per annum. Speed, however, reckons them at £157 15s. 2d. The following are the particulars, according to returns preserved in the First-fruits and the Augmentation offices: No. IV.3 VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. TEMP. HEN. VIII. TRANSCRIPT OF RETURN 26 HEN. VIII.- FIRST FRUITS OFFICE. The Monastery or Abbey of Basyngwerk in the Deanery of Tygyngel, in the County of Flint. VALUE IN TEMPORALITIES IN THE COUNTY OF FLINT; THE DOMAIN OF HOLYWELL, FULBROKE AND Grenefeld. £ s. d. Value in Rents and ferm of various lands and tenements in the same place per annum... Ferm of two corn mills in the same place per ann..... Court perquisites at the same place..... ....... ....... 10 13 4 000 32 8 4 143. 2 Ib. p. 57. llis. 01. 1. This is probably an error in Dugdale, (Edit. Ellis) as appears from 3 Dugdale, Monast. Angl. vol. v. p. 263-4. Edit. the sum. It should be £10 6s. 8d. IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITFORD AND WACK. Value in Rents of various lands and tenements in those places per ann.... IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER, TOWNSHIP OF NEWbolde. Value in Rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann..... Ferm of a windmill for corn, in the same place, per ann. 4 14 4 3 3 4 2 0 0 5 3 4 DOMAIN OF WESTKYRBY. 2 0 Value in Rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann. 401 6 Ferm of a windmill for corn, in the same place, per ann. ........................... 64 Bushels of wheat of the measure of the city of Chester, out of the rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann. at 18. 8d. per bushel .... 68 Bushels of barley of the aforesaid measure at 18. per bushel, out of the rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann.... 48 Bushels of peas of the aforesaid measure, at 10d. per bushel, out of the rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann. Court perquisites therein.... 20 5 6 8 2 8 0 20 2 0 0 0 0 22 0 10 TOWNSHIP OF NORTHWICH. Value in 8 cronocks of salt, at 48. per cronocke, out of the rents of various lands and tenements therein, per ann.. Ferm of various lands called "Le Lache," within the Liberty of the aforesaid city, per ann. CITY OF CHESTER. THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF THE SAME. Value in Rents and ferm of various lands and tenements in the aforesaid city, per ann... COUNTY OF DERBY.-DOMAIN OF GLOSSOP DALE and the RECTORY OF THE SAME PLACE. Value in Yearly Ferm thus set to the Earl of Shrewsbury4 ... 100 ...... 1 This appears from the addition of the items, to be an error in Dugdale, (Edit. Ellis) for £10 6s. 2d. 2 This seems to be meant for 48 bushells. 3 Query, Is this the same land as that called Lec by Gilbert Pipard? ARCHAÆOL. CAMB. VOL. I.] K Value in Ferm of various lands and tenements therein, per ann. thus set to Robert ap Res 1 16 8 126 8 10 Rectory of Holywell, in the Deanery of Tegyngell. Tithes of corn and other produce in the township of Brymford, thus set at an annual rent of Tithes of corn and other produce in the township of Colshull, thus set at an annual rent of . Tithes of corn in the township of Great Bakely, thus set at an annual rent of Tithes of corn in the township of Little Bakely, thus set at an annual rent of Tithes of corn of Kelleston, thus set at an annual rent of.. 210 400 Thence to be deducted in re-payments, viz. from TEMPORALITIES. Rent paid to St. Bewnon,2 per annum, without the domain of Fee of Edward Pennant, steward of the aforesaid domain of Holy- Rent paid to the king for the aforesaid lands in Whitforde &c... Fee of Thomas Barrowe, receiver of the aforesaid lands in the · ....... SPIRITUALITIES. Annual Procuration paid to the Bishop of St. Asaph, per ann.......... 0 17 8 0 11 9 05 10 1 15 3 £7 78. 11d. 1 This sum includes the temporalities as given in Dugdale. Clear Value.......... .150 7 3 viz. from Temporalities 120 16 2 29 11 1 Thence to be deducted for the tenths to the king.. 15 0 9 No. V. COMPUT' MINISTRORUM DOMINI REGIS. TEMP. HEN. VIII. (ABSTRACT OF ROLL, 28 HEN. VIII.-AUGMENTATION OFFICE.) BASINGWERKE; LATE MONASTERY.-COUNTY OF FLINT. Basyngwerke-Ferm of domain lands Hollywell Fulbroke and Grenfeld, Rents of lands held at will... Hollywell-Rents from tenants, as well by lease as at will, with Whitlonde and Walke1- Rents from tenants, as by lease as at will Newboll-Rents from tenants by lease, with a mill at the same West Kyrby-Rents from tenants by lease and at will Commot of Penllyn- Rent from three tenements..... ST. WENEFRID'S CHAPEL. ..... 0 Revenues from oblations, and other profits of the same place 10 0 0 According to Browne Willis (St. Asaph, vol. i. p. 299,) the whole or part of the property of this house was given, like that of Beddgelert, to the Benedictine priory of Bysham, in Berkshire; but this latter monastery was itself dissolved at the time of the great and final spoliation in 1539. In 1540, the house and lands in the neighbourhood were 1 Query, Whitford and Wacke, mentioned above in No. IV ! granted to Henry ap Harry, of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew; whose only daughter, Anne, by her marriage with William Mostyn, Esq., of Talacre, conveyed them into that family, in which they now remain.1 In 1553 there remained in charge £4 in annuities.2 The institution seems to have temporarily revived in the reign of Queen Mary, for we learn that, through the interest of Thomas Goldwell, bishop of St. Asaph, it was then furnished anew with pardons and indulgences, to sell to the devotees who visited the well of St. Winefred.3 Even so late as the year 1647 the spot was occasionally visited by members of the Roman Church for the purpose of burying their dead, as appears from an epitaph, published by Pennant, on the tombstone of George Petre, Esq., son of William, Lord Petre, who married the widow of John Mostyn, Esq., and died A.D., 1647. He was possessor of Greenfield Hall, close by the abbey, probably in right of his wife. The east window of Llanrhaiadr church, near Ruthin, on which is delineated the Genealogical Tree of Jesse, and the beautiful oaken roof of Cilcain church, near Mold, are reported to have once belonged to the abbey of Basingwerk, and to have been removed there subsequently to the dissolution. The latter, which had become much dilapidated, is now undergoing a thorough restoration under the direction and superintendence of Ambrose Poynter, Esq. It is a magnificent hammer-beamed roof with supporting angels, of about the same date apparently as that of Westminster Hall. H. L. J. J. W. 1 Pennant i. 39. 2 Willis's Abbeys, i. 312. 4 The saving of this roof from destruction is originally owing to the mention made of its sad condition in the Archaeological Journal, and to the activity of the Committee of the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. We have also the satisfaction of knowing that the attention of several persons has been turned to it by the few words said about it in No. I. of the Archeologia Cambrensis. The gentry of the county of Flint should subscribe liberally towards so good a work. |