married Ela Dutton of Dutton in Cheshire; at Haulton by his son John,' whose wife was Ankareta,

quod nos auctoritate et potestate nobis per ipsum metuendissimum dominum nostrum Regem et patrem commissis suscepimus ad gratiam predicti domini nostri Regis et patris, Jenkin ap Jenkin canonicum de Bardesey, Cadogan ap Griffith, Griffith filium Johannis Hanmer, David filium Ievan Hanmer, Ll. ap Madoc ap Ll., Rys ap David ap Howell, Meredith ap David Vaghan, Ll. ap Madoc, Ll. ap Jenkin, David ap Wilcock, Madoc ap Jenkin ap Madoc, Hoel Saer [cum pluribus aliis in cartâ regiâ nominatis], et eis perdonavimus nomine ejusdem domini nostri regis et patris sectam pacis sue que ad ipsum dominum nostrum et patrem versus prefatos pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus, insurrectionibus, rebellionibus, incendiis, feloniis, adhesionibus, transgressionibus, mesprisionibus et malefactis quibuscunque per ipsos Jenkin, Cadogan, Griffith, David [et alios] in partibus et marchiis Wallie ante hec tempora factis sive perpetratis, unde appellati existerint. Ac etiam utlagarie si que in ipsis hiis occasionibus fuerint, firmam pacem ejusdem domini regis et patris eis inde concedimus per presentes. Ita quod stent recte in curiâ dicti domini nostri regis et patris, si qui versus eos loqui voluerint de premissis vel aliquo premissorum. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Datum sub sigillo nostro apud Westmonasterium duodecimo die Julii anno regni dicti metuendissimi domini et patris nostri regis Henrici quarti post Conquestum undecimo.

Inrotulatum ad sessionem teñ apud Flynt die post festum Beate Marie Virginis, anno regni Regis Henrici quarto post Conquestum undecimo.

1 John of Haulton made a feoffment of his manor there, and

daughter of Sir Thomas Barre, by Alice, sister of John Talbot, the first Earl of Shrewsbury; at the

of his lands in Bronington and Gredington and elsewhere in Maelor, dated at Haulton, on the Monday before the Feast of St. John Baptist, 27th Henry VI. 1448. One of the witnesses was of great distinction: "His testibus, Ric' le Strange Milite dño de Knokyn, Johanne Talbot milite filio et herede Johannis Comitis Salop', Ranulpho Brereton Arm', Griffino Kynaston Arm', Rogero Puleston Arm', Rico Yonge de Croxton, et multis aliis; the second witness is "Young John Talbot," of Shakespeare's play, and of the field of Chatillon, where he fell with his father 1453. John of Haulton's house was burned to the ground by John Duke of Norfolk and Lord Powis, he having gone over to the Lancastrian side 7th January, 1463; afterwards, 22nd April, the same year, 4th Edw. IV., he submitted to that King, and swore allegiance to him at Blackmere. He was one of the persons who, 1st Edw. IV., were petitioned against in Parliament for holding Harlech Castle against the King, "to the use and behove of hym that he calleth his soverayn lord Henry Sixt." (Rolls of Parliament, vol. v. P. 483.) "Shewen unto your grete wisdomes the pore tenaunts and commynes of the ground of North Wales that where many and divers of them have been daily taken prisoners and put to fine and ransome as it were in land of war, and many and divers of them daily robbed and spoiled of their goods and cattle by David ap Ievan ap Eynyon and many others of that kindred, and by John Hanmer, Morys ap David ap Griffith, and several others. . Pray that the said misdoers shall deliver up the Castle of Harleigh, and render themselves at the town of Caernarvon, on a day certain, or be attainted as traitors." This John Hanmer of Haulton died Thursday, 16th March, 1480. Hengwrt MSS.

Fens by his son Edward, who married Margaret, daughter of Morys ap Ievan Gethyn of the line of Einion Evell, son of Madoc ap Meredith, Prince of Powis; at Bettisfield by Richard, who married Joan Tudor, of Penmynydd. At Hanmer, Richard was the son of Griffith, and married Margaret Kynaston of Hordley, and their household coat on stained glass was long in a window of Hanmer Church, where I shall place it again, as I hope, this summer. Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was a Knight Banneret of the French journeys of King Henry VIII., was their son.

At the Fens, Griffith' was the son of Edward, and his wife was Margaret Lloyd of Llwyn-yMaen, whose coat-armour was the Imperial eagle, given to one of her ancestors by the Emperor for some feat of arms at Acre in the last Crusade: as I find in the curious (if incorrect) book of pedigrees by Reynolds of Oswestry. Their son was John

1 Griffith Vychan Hanmer of Fens died 31st March, A.D. 1500. Hengwrt MSS., communicated by my friend W. E. Wynne, Esq., their present owner.

2 Chaucer gives the Imperial blazon correctly, as it was borne by these Lloyds of Llyn-y-Maen, in the "Monk's Tale "— The feld of snow with the egle of blak therein.

The terms, it is true, are not exactly heraldic.

or Jenkin Hanmer of the Fens, who married Margaret Dymock of Willington: she was lineally descended from David ap Madoc ap Ririd, whose monument I have before mentioned. Richard before mentioned was the rebuilder of Hanmer Church, the stone for which was quarried near Threapwood, on the other side of the long windings of the Wych Valley. Notwithstanding this, he had a dispute, I do not find on what grounds, with his cousin William of Haulton, about the nomination to the vicarage, which was the subject of the following award, A.D. 1488, 4th Henry VII.:

AWARD of SIR WILLIAM STANLEY,1 Knt. K.G., between WILLIAM and RICHARD HANMER.

To all crysten people to whom this present wrytyng indented shall come, William Stanley, knt. Chamberlayne to the King our sovereign lord, sendeth greeting: Where controversy and debate late hath byn hadde and moved betwene William Hanmer, Esquier, of the one parte, and Richard Hanmer, Esqueir, of the oder parte, of and for the nomination to the Vicarage of the church of Han

1 This was the well-known and historic Sir William Stanley of Bosworth Field, beheaded in 1494, by King Henry VII., whom he had crowned there. The remains or site of his Castle of Holt were purchased by the second Lord Kenyon, and belong now to his successors.

mer, in the countie of Flynte, and for a dede of graunte of the nomination to the said vicarage, for the appeasynge whereof the said parties have submitted themselves, and either of them is bounden to order to obey the awarde and judgment of me in the same; Whereupon I, takynge upon me to awarde in that behalf, as well by the advyce of my counsell, as by the assent and desyre of the same parties, awarde, ordayne, and deme of and upon the premysses in the forme ensuynge (that is to say), that the said Richard shall name to the Abbot of Hamonde at this present avoydance of the said vycarage such a pryste and none oder as the said William shall appoynte and name to hym, except P. Morys late named by the said William to the same; and if the same pryste for any resonable cause be refused by the Ordinarie in that behalf, that then the said Richard shall eftsoons name to the said Abbott such oder pryste as the said William shall appoynte and name to the said Richard, and so as ofte as nede shall be as for thys present avoydance only, unto the tyme one of the same prystes so appoynted and named by the said William be admytted, instituted, and inducted into the said church, and on thys I awarde and deme that the nomination of and to the said vycarage be graunted and made sure to the said Richard and to the heyres of his body comynge, and for defaute of such heyres to remayne or come to the said William and to the heyres of his body comynge, and for defaut of such issu to the right heyres of John Hanmer, grandfather of the said Richard and William, in such forme and by such way as shall be advysed by the counsell of the same Richard and William, and that eyther of them cause his counsell to applye and do that in hym and his counsell