INTRODUCTION 



Chefe moorrner at her funerall the Lady 

 Hawkyns, and there servyd Clarencieux, 

 Kinge at Armes and Blew Mantle. In 

 witness whereof I have sett hereunto my 

 hand the day and yere abowsaid." 



In 1609 we find Rowland joining with his 

 son John in the sale of the manor and lands 

 of Wormebridge, in Turneston parish. This 

 property Rowland had bought from Sir 

 Christopher Hatton, who had received it as 

 a grant from Queen Elizabeth. After one 

 intermediate generation this property passed 

 into the hands of the Clives of Styche (in 

 Shropshire), who in 1800 bought out some 

 descendants of the New Court Parrys, who 

 still had Wormebridge place, and pulled down 

 both houses, building in their stead their 

 present seat of Whitfield. 



The last page of Rowland's book contains 

 a formal acknowledgment of a debt of forty 

 shillings. Of the four copies to which I have 

 had access, only three have the acknowledg- 

 ment, and only one has any name filled in. 

 The name has been carefully erased, not so 

 carefully, however, but that we fancy we can 

 decipher it as William Powell, in the parish 

 of Llywell, in the county of Brecknock, 

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