A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. $1 



This inftrument is without a date, but 

 was given fometime about the year 1220. 

 The heirs of Hugh Dutton claimed fo late 

 as the reign of Henry VII. " de qualibet 

 " mzretrice infra commitatum Ceftritz et Infra 

 " Cejlriam manente, et officium fuum exer- 

 " cente" an annual payment "of fourpence. 

 They alfo claimed, from antient cuftom, 

 that all the minftrels of Chemire and the 

 City of Chefter mould appear before them, 

 or their ftewards, every year, on the feaft of 

 St. John the Baptift, and there prefent four 

 flaggons of wine and a lance, and each of 

 them to pay for their licence fourpence- 

 halfpenny. This latter claim is, I believe, 

 in fome meafure continued till this prefent 

 time.* 



* Dugdale's Baronage, I. 101. Blount's Tenures, 

 by Beckwith, 300, where are quoted Sir Peter Lei- 

 cefter's Antiquities of Chefhire, 141, 142, 151, and 

 Burn's JufHce, tit. Vagrants. 



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