Cardiff Records, Volume II, Chapter I
NOTES ON THE MANORS OF THE CARDIFF DISTRICT
Transcribed by Pat Sewell 1995
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Last Modified: 9 April 1996
Note: Cartae = G. T. Clark's "Cartae et alia munimenta quae
ad Dominium de Glamorgan pertinent"
MANOR OF CAERAU
Caerau is a parish on the north-western spur of the Leckwith range,
and is bounded on the south by Wenvoe and Michaelston-le-pit. Towards the
close of the sixteenth century, Merrick wrote that there were in the chapelry
of Caerau two little manors "besides that which is within the lordship
of Llandaff"
At this same period Sweldon was an ancient mansion in this manor, inhabited
by a junior branch of the Mathew stock. In 1731 it paid tithes to Cadoxton-juxta-Barry.
1596. "The tenants doe theire suite of coort at michellston" together
with the tenaunts thereof they are free tenaunts and coppy houlders."
It belonged to the Earl of Pembroke. (Abbreviate.)
1601. The manor of Kayry is mentioned among the possessions of Henry, Earl
of Pembroke, in the Inquisition on his death.
In 1678 the manor of Cayre belonged to the Earl of Pembroke.
This manor, under the term "Mr. Mathews' manor of Caire," is referred
to in the will of Admiral Thomas Mathews of Llandaff, dated 1749 and proved
in London 1751.