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 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 357 His name appears amongst the tenants of the Honour of Dunster, and he had Coyty from his mother, the coheir of Turherville. His sister Gweuhau carried East Orchard to the StradUngs, and Sir WiUiiim, the next witness, was probably her son. The rest are ecclesiastics, and unknown. IV. Sir John Stradling, SiierifF in 1421, and as such a witness to the Earl of Worcester's Cardiff chai-ter, was no doubt the seneschal of Havod-y-Porth, Margan H25, and Kenfig 14G0; a cadet of St. Donats, and ancestor of the Stratllings of Wilts. Sir Edward was his elder brother. Sir John St. John was ])robably the great grandson of Sir John St. J. and Elizabeth Unifraville. Watkyn Morton was probably an English burgess of Cardiff with Welsh connexions. Jenkin ap David ap Llewelyn vachan seems to have been the great grandson of the Llewelyn vachan already mentioned. Of the Mathews, there were three brothers, David, Robert, and Lewis Mathew, of Llandaff', the first gene- ration who adopted that surname. Robert was ancestor of the Mathews of Castcl-y-Mynach, and David, then knighted, is said to have been standard-bearer to Ed. IV., at least forty years after the date of this charter. Howell ap Grono ap Ivor was of Llansannor, which, on his death childless, passed to Elinor his sister, who married Richard ap Howel (Herbert) of Perthir and had John Gwyn, ancestor of the Gwyns of Llansannor. Llewelyn ap Jevan Madoc seems not unlikely to be the Llewelyn ap Jevan Mady of the AVelsh pedigrees, si.xth in descent from Madbc ap Je-styn. He was of Abergorky. Morgan ap Llewelyn ap Jevan was pi-obably seventh in descent from Madoc ap Jestyn, and his elder representative. He was of Radyr, and married Eva, daughter of Evan Gethyn. Catherine, their daughter and coheir, seems to have carried Radyr to her husband Thomas Mathew. In the containing charter of 1424, the Sheriff, Sir Oliver St. John, knighted before 1421, is of Foumon, and probably brother of the next witness. Of the places named in these charters Llantrissant, guarded by its triple hagiocracy, still remains, perched high up in a notch l)etween two still higher summits, much resembling a Greek town in its position, its white exterior, and in some other particulars within. One fragment of the castle still predominates over the whole, and the meadow is still pointed out where Edwai'd II. was captiued. The town retains some- thing of the constitution granted by its ancient Lords, and preserves its one remaining parchment with religious care. To it, as to its sister borough of Cowbridge, has been accorded a share in the somewhat doubtful advantage of, with Cardiff, returning a member to Parliament. Formerly the parish was of vast extent, but by degrees the chapels have hecome churches, and the Vicar of Llantrissant is responsible for a dimi- nished though not unimportant area. Glyn Rothne or Rhondda and Miskyn are two extensive Lordships granted to the Herberts by the Crown, and still held by Lw'd Bute. Llwyn-Crwn is the present name of two houses upon the northern boundary of the borougii, and the ALanor of Clun i-emains to its south-west. Housbote and heyliote and the right of pannnge in tiie woods of Miskyn are no longer of value, the woods having been exhausted by the infant manufactory of iron in the reign of Elizabeth. 'J'he boundaries of the borougii are not followed out in tiie usual VOL. XXI. . 3 E