THE KILLIGSEW MANUSCRIPT. 189 



Thomas, Esq., or of his assignee or assigns, that is to say, 

 one parcell of land cal'd the common moor, one tenement 

 and divers lands thereunto belonging, call'd Adams (AdamVa) 

 Downs, and (^otiTer"^) other parcell of ground, call'd the new 

 grounds, one other parcell of ground, containing about 

 3 acres, adjoining to the said new ground, ( g^f^as ) 

 one other parcell of land call'd Barber's Close,* also 

 Tanners Mead, John Eobert's Mead, Wastell's Mead, 

 Gastin's Mead, Tenant's Mead, New Bark, The Furlongs, 

 about 5 acres in James's Grround, Howell's Mead, together 

 with all such parcells of meadow and pasture, lying in 

 Portman's Moor, otherwise Splott Moore, as they or late 

 were fallen into the hands and possession of the said 

 "William Earl of Pembroke by the death and decease of 

 the Eight Honourable Mary, late Countess Dowager of 

 Pembroke, late mother of the said Earl, together also with 

 all such other parcells of land, meadow, or pasture as the 

 said William Bowdropp thenbef ore held ( th^V^totoeLfheid ) 

 and enjoyed, situate, lying and being within the said 

 West Moore at CardifPe, (^ca^dfffaM.O by and under the 

 grant of the said Countess ; and they the said William 

 Earl of Pembroke and Philip aforesaid, &c. — amounting 

 to a good £300 a year, and hold myself excusable in 

 my recitals from so extraordinary an act of greatness of 

 mind in the said Earl William, of which Earl Philip 

 succeeding his said brother in the Honour and Estate, 

 proved a wretched copy. 

 \^Paffe 275, line 8, after tells, &c.*] who escaped to Carisbrook, 

 Isle of Wight, and was imprisoned by the Governor of the 

 Castle for and on behalf of the Parliament. ('I^iirciau^e") 



* MS. — " One other parcel of meadow or pasture called John Robert's Mead, 

 one other parcel of meadow or pasture called Gastin's Mead, one other parcel of 

 meadow or pasture lying in Tenants' Mead, one other parcel of meadow or 

 pasture called by the names of the New Bark — one other parcel of meadow or 

 Pasture called the Furlongs, one parcel of meadow or pasture lying in James's 

 Ground containing about 5 acres, one parcel of meadow lying in John Howell's 

 Mead." 



(The abridged form of this extract from an indenture, given in the text, 

 proves that Mr. Wade's copy, from which it is printed, was not the original MS. 

 aa he believed,— H. M. J,) 



