ejusdem Hospitalis, volumus concedimus et ordinamus per presentes quod de cetero in perpetuum sit et erit unus Preses et unus Guardianus deti Hospitalis Christi in Ruthyn ac possessionum terrarum tenementorum hereditamentorum reventionum et bonarum ejusdem hospitalis et ad offici predict bene et fideliter exercend et occupand eligim noiavim assignavimus et constituimus ac per presentes eligim noiavim assignam et constituimus modernum Episcopum Bangoriensem et Successores suos protempore existen fore et esse Presidentem ac Eubolum Theloall in Artibus Magistrum ac verbi Dei Predicatorem fore et esse primum et modernum Guardianum predti Hospitalis Christi in Ruthyn ac omnium et omnimodorum possessionum terrarum tentor hereditament reventionu et bonora ejusdem hospitalis. Et ulterius de amplior gra nra spiali et ex certa scientia et mero motu nris volumus concedimus ordinamus et stabimus per psent pro nobis hered et successor nris qd idem Preses et Guardian pdti Hospitalis Xti in Ruthyn ac possessionum terr temtom et hereditament reventionu et bonom ejusdem Hospitalis et Successor sui de cetero sint et erunt in re facto et noie unm corpus carporat et politicum per idem nomen in ppm duratur realit, et ad plenm creamus origin ordinam facim constituim et stabilim pro nob. hered. et successoribus nris per present Quodq. per idem nomen perpetuis futur-temporibs cognoscentr vocabuntr appellabuntr et noiabuntr heantq, successionem ppetuam et quod idem nomen sint et erunt psone habiles apte et in lege capaces ad pquirend hend et recipiend bona et catella maner terr prat past pastur reddit reventoes reversiones et hereditamenta quecunque, non tent de nob hered et successorib nris immediate in capite nec aliter de nob hered vel successor nris seu de aliquo alio per servitiu militare, sibi et Successor suis in ppm seu aliter tam de nob hered vel successorib nris qm de pfato Gabriele Goodman et hered vel assignat suis vel de aliqua alia psona sive de aliquib aliis psonis quibuscunque ad sustentatoem et relevamen Hospital pdict. Et preterea volum et pro nob hered et successorib nris p psentes concedimus pfat Presidi et Guardiano Hospital Christi in Rutbyn et successoribus suis quod de cetero in ppm heant commune Sigillum ad negotia sua premissa et quamlibet seu aliquam inde parcellam tantummodo tangentia seu concernentia deservitur. Et qd pred Preses et Guardianus et Successores sui p nomen Presidis et Guardiani Hospitalis Christi in Ruthin placitare et implicari prosequi defeudere et defendi respondere et responderi possint et valeant in oibs et siugulis causis querelis sectis et actioibus quibuscunq cujuscumq generis

sive nature fuerint in quibuscunq locis et Cur nris hered vel successom nrom ac in placeis locis et Cur aliom quorumcunq ac coram quibuscunq Judicibus aut Justiciar infra hoc regnum Angl aut alibi et ad ea ac ad omnia et singula al faciend agend et recipiend eodem modo quo ceteri ligei nri persone habiles et capaces in lege infra idem regnum nrum Angl faciant vel facere valeant sue poterint in Cur. placeis et locis predtis et coram Justiciar et Judicibus supradtis. Et ulterius de uberiore gra nra ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nris dedimus et concessimus ac per presentes damus et concedimus pro nob hered et success nris prefacto Gabrieli Goodman plen potestat et authoritatem de tempore in tempus duran vita sua natural eligend noiand et appunctuand Guardianum et pauperes pdti Hospitalis quandocunque et quotiescunque necesse et oportunum fuit ac etiam tam pred Eubolum Theloall, M. A. Guardian Hospital pred quam oes et singul pauperes ejusdem Hospitalis de tempore in tempus amovend et expellend ac al sive aliu in locos seu loc humoi sit amot vel expuls noiand assignand et constituend p ut melius sibi videbitur expedire. Ac etiam qd idem Gabriel Goodınan de tempore in tempus duran vita sua naturali faciat et fare valeat et possit idonea et salubria statuta et ordinotoes in scriptis electoem ordinatnem gubernatoem directoem correctoem et expulsioem Guardian et pauper Hospital pred p tempore existen, necnon stipend et salar eordem Guardiani et pauperum ac al quecunque idem Hospital seu Guardian fel pauperes pred ac ordinatoem presentatocm et dispositoem bonom possess reddit revent ad sustentatoem ejusdem Hospital concedend assignand vel appunct quovismodo tangen et concnen. Que quidem Statuta et Ordinatoes sic ut prefert faciend volum et concedim et per present p nob hered et Success nris precipim immotabiliter observari de tempore in tempus in ppm. Et ulterius de uberiori gra nra dedim et concessim et p presentes dam et concedim prefat Presidi et Guardiano et success suis licentiam spialem liberamque et licitam facultatem potestatem et authoritat pquirend obtinend et habend ad perpetuam sustentatioem et maintenioem hospital predict tam de nob hered et Success nois quam de pred Gabriele Goodman hered Executor vel assign suis vel de aliis quibuscunque personis quecumque Maneria mesuagia tras tenta Rector Decimas et al hereditamenta quecunque infra Regnum nom Angl non tent de rob hered vel Success nris immediate in capite nec aliter de nob hered vel success nris seu de aliquo alio per servitium militare ac dummodo omia non excedant clarum annum valorem centum librar. Et etiam damus et concedimus

p nob hered et Success nris oibs et singulis corporibs politicis et al psonis quibuseumq et cor cuilibet licentiam spialem et plenam liberam et licitam facultatem et authoritatem per present qd ipi et eor quilt sive eor aliquis vel aliqui maner mesuag terr tent Rector decim et al hereditamenta quecumque que non tenent de nob hered vel Success nris immediate in capite vel p servitium militare nec aliter quovismodo per servitiu militare de nob hered et Successoribs nris seu de aliqua alia persona quacunque et que non excedunt clarum annum valorem centum librorum pfat Presidi et Guardiano hospital pred et Success suis pred sicut pred est in ppm dare concedere vendere et alienare possit vel possint sine aliquo bvi de ad quod dampnu aut aliqua inquisitione in hac parte habend seu faciend, Statut de terr et tent ad manuin mortuam non ponend aut aliquo alio statuto actu ordinaoe seu provisione aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in contrarium inde habit fact edit ordinat aut provis in aliquo non obstaut. Et volumus et p presentes ordinamus qd omn exitus et reventoes omn predict terr tent hereditament et possession in posterum ad perpetuam sustentaoem et maintentoem pred Hospital daud et assignaud convertantur dispenantur et expendantr ad sustentatoem Guardiani et pauper hospital pred p tempore existen et ad sustentatoem maintentoem et reparotoem domorum terrarum et possession pred scdum statuta ordinatoes per predictum Gabrielen Goodman in scriptis ut prefertur faciend et non aliter nec ad aliquos alios usus aut intentoes. Volumus deniq ac per presentes concedimus prefatis Presidi et Guardiano dict Hospital qd habeant et habebunt has literas nras patentes sub magno Sigillo nro Anglie debito modo faciend et sigilland absq aliquo fine seu feodo magno vel parvo nobis in hanaperio nro seu alibi ad usum nrm proinde quoquo modo reddend solvend vel faciend. Eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de aliquo alio valore vel certitudine premissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nrorum prefato Gabrieli Goodman ante hec tempora fact in psent minime fact existit aliquo statuto actu ordinaoe provisione proclamtione sive restrictoe in contrarium inde antehac habit fact edit ordinat seu provis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium quarto decimo die Augusti anno regni uri tricesimo secuudo. HA. GERRARD.

Per breve de privat sigillo et de dat pred authoritate parliamenti.

ADDENDA TO THE NOTES.

PAGE 1.-Mr. Edward Thelwall, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Tutor.

THE passage in the Life of Edward Lord Herbert referred to is as follows: "After I had attained the age of nine, during all which time I lived in my said Lady Grandmother's house at Eyton, my parents thought fit to send me to some place where I might learn the Welsh tongue, as believing it necessary to enable me to treat with those of my friends and tenants who understood no other language, whereupon I was recommended to Mr. Edward Thellwall, of Place-ward in Denbyshire: this gentleman I must remember with honour, as having of himself acquired the exact knowledge of Greek, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish, and all other learning, having for that purpose neither gone beyond seas, nor so much as had the benefit of any Universities: Besides he was of that rare temper in governing his choler, that I never saw him angry during the time of my stay there, and have heard so much of him for many years before: when occasion of offence was given him, I have seen him redden in the face and after remain for a while silent; but when he spake, his words were so calm and gentle, that I found he had digested his choler, though yet I confess I could never attain that perfection as being subject ever to choler and passion, more than I ought, and generally to speak my mind freely, and indeed rather to imitate those who having fire within doors, choose rather to give it vent than suffer it to burn the house. I commend yet much more the manner of Mr. Thelwall, and certainly he that can forbear speaking for some time will remit much of his passion, but as I could not learn much of him in this kind, so I did as little profit in learning the Welsh, or any other of those languages that worthy gentleman understood, as having a tertian ague for the most part of nine months, which was all the time I staid in his house."

The family of the Thelwalls is perhaps the oldest in North Wales of English extraction, and was so connected with the parishes of Ruthin and Llaurhydd, and

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with the Goodmans, that a brief account of them will be an appropriate appendage to the foregoing Memoirs, in addition to what has been said of them in the Note to page 45. The Patriarch of this family was John Thelwall, who came to Ruthin in the service of Lord Grey de Ruthin about the middle of the fourteenth Century, and derived his name from his native place in Cheshire, which is thus described by Leland in 1545. "Thelwall was sometime a Havenet and little Citye as it appearith by the Kinges Recordes, so caullid becawse it was wallid abowte with great logges, or timber postes--it stondith two myles from Warington." This John bore on his Coat Armour Gules, on a Chevron Argent three trefoils sable, between three boars' heads couped of the second. To this Coat was afterwards added the Crest of a Stag proper armed and unguled Or, upon a Wreath of his colours on a mount proper, wounded with an arrow or feather'd Arg. which is accounted for in the following words by Sir John Wynn, of Gwydir, in his History of his own Family. "The Thelwalls of Ruthyn being antient Gentlemen of that Country, who came into it with the Lords Grey, on whome King Edward the 1st bestowed the Country of Dyffryn Clwyd, were at contention with a Septe of that Country called the Family of Gryffydd Gôch. These being more in number than the Thelwalls, (although the Thelwalls carried the whole offices of the Country under the Lord thereof, the Lord of Kent then Treasurer of England) drave the Thelwalls to take the Castle of Ruthyn for their defence, where they beseiged them until the seige was raysed by John ap Meredith, his sonnes and Kindred, to whom the Thelwalls sent for ayde, and in that exployte Robert ap John ap Meredith was slain with an arrow in a Wood called Coed Marchan." Upon which exploit, the Thelwalls assumed as their Crest a Deer pierced with an arrow, and from this conceit, so frequent in the annals of Chivalry, that Meredith and his Kindred having secluded himself in the Wood and Thickets of Coed Marchan, had acquired among the vulgar the denomination of the outlying Deer.

This original John Thelwall married Felice the daughter and heir of Walter Cooke, alias Ward, of Plâs y Ward, near Ruthin. His descendants continued there, connecting themselves with the best families of the Principality, and in turn serving the office of Sheriff of the County for three hundred years, when finally the