490 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



himfelf; and Mr. Evans, from the autho- 

 rity of John David Rhys, * to Bleddyn ap 

 Cynvyn, fometime betwixt the years 1066 

 and 1073. The latter now is generally 

 fuppofed to have been in the right. 



Edward I. in the fixth year of his reign, 

 made Bogo do Knovill governor, -f- and the 

 next year granted it to Roger Mortimer, 



Earl of March, to hold to himfelf and his. 



f r 



heirs^the fervice of a knight's fee. J The 



* Johannis Davidis Rhefi Lingua: Cymraecae in- 

 ftitutiones accuratas, quoted in Evan's DifTertatio 

 de Bardis, p. 92. 



t Dugiale's Baronage, II. 5. 



+ Ibid. I. 142. Stow's Annals, p. 200. A 

 knight's fee has been denned to be fo much inhe- 

 ritance, as is fufficient yearly to maintain a knight 

 with convenient retinue ; which, in the time of 

 Henry III. was accounted at ^15. It was made 

 20. by the Statute i. Edw. II. c. i. But Sir 

 Thor*ias Smith, in his Repitb. Angl. lib. I. c. 18. 

 rates it at 40. And Sir Edward Coke, 2. Inft.foL 

 596. fays, a knight's fee contained twelve plow-lands^ 

 or fix hundred and eighty acres 



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