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 PENARTH
Penarth parish embraces the bold headland in the Bristol Channel,
west of the mouth of the river Ely.
1189-1199. John, Earl of Mortaine (afterwards King) confirmed to the Augustine
Canons (inter alia) "and by the gift of Osbert of Pennard the land
of Pennard with its appurtenances and liberties."(Dugdale's Monasticon.
)
1290 (c). "The land of the lord of Pennarth" is mentioned in a
charter by which Henry Worgan granted to William Wallot a messuage and 20
acres of arable land and wood, &c., lying at a place called Nordon within
the fee of Pennarth. (Cartae I, p. 204 ; also II., p. 304)
1291 (c). Pope Nicholas' Taxation shews that the Abbot of St. Augustine's
of Bristol had three ploughlands at Pennard, with rents of assize, and a
dovecote. No doubt this was the manor. He also had the pasture of the Holms,
not, however, part of the manor.
1600 (c). Sir William Herbert seems to have held Penarth under the Dean
and Chapter of Bristol, probably by lease.
1635. A new pound was made at Penarth, "for the Lord of the Mannor
and his Tenants."
(Excheq. Dep.)
On the suppression of the monasteries, Penarth was given to the Dean and
Chapter of Bristol, and was sold by them to Lord Windsor's family in 1853.
Lord Windsor is Lord of the Manor.