INTRODUCTION 



revenues." This alludes to the marriage of 

 Rowland's father, Watkyn, with Joan Parry, 

 daughter of Henry Parry of New Court. 



The manuscript goes on to state that in 

 Bredwardine Church is an effigy of a knight 

 in full armour, supposed to be "by tradition, 

 and that probable," John de Bredwardyne, 

 knighted by William the Conqueror. 



Thus far goes the Harleian M.S. No. 6868. 

 M.S. No. 6726, also Harleian, written in 

 1655, tells us a little more about Bredwardine. 

 It states, "The dwelling-house, very fairly 

 built by Roger Vaughan about the year 1639- 

 1640, was an ancient and strong castle, re- 

 taining that title still. It was called anciently 

 the Castel of Grone ; the lands and tenements 

 belonging to it is still called by the name of 

 the Manor of Grone. Another Lordship in this 

 parish, which is held by the suit and doome 

 in the County Court, and belongs unto the 

 Vaughans, is called the Court of Vaughans 

 (belonging to another branch of Vaughans, 

 viz., Sir George Vaughan), was sold to those 

 Vaughans of Bredwardine about the year 

 1630. There is a small fortified hill, which 

 was for the safeguard of the inhabitants 

 against sudden invasion." 



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