Cardiff Records, Volume II, Chapter I
NOTES ON THE MANORS OF THE CARDIFF DISTRICT
Transcribed by Pat Sewell 1995
email: pat.sewell@btopenworld.com
www: http://www.btinternet.com/~pat.sewell/
Last Modified: 9 April 1996
Note: Cartae = G. T. Clark's "Cartae et alia munimenta quae
ad Dominium de Glamorgan pertinent"
MANOR OF PENTYRCH
The manor of Pentyrch constitutes a sub-manor or member of Miskyn,
bounded on the south-east by Radyr.
It has for centuries been in the hands of the Lord of Miskyn, and has long
been regarded as one manor with Clun, under the name of "Pentyrch and
Clun." In the Miskyn Survey of 1638, "the said Jurors do present
and say that all the Lordship and Manor of Pentyrch and Clun, being the
Lord's Manor, doth extend and lie within this Manor of Miskin."
The tenants of this lordship rendered a service called Commorth Glanmai,
on the first of May in every other year.
1262. The manor was at this date granted out ; for the Extent attributed
to this year says that Henry de Sulye holds a fourth (of a knight's fee)
in Pentirech.
1317. Writ of the Escheator to deliver a share of Gilbert de Clare's lands
to Hugh le Despenser mentions the "Hamlet" of "Pentyrgh".
Pentyrch seems thenceforth to have remained continuously in the hands of
the Chief Lord, and is mentioned in several Inquisitions.
1547. July 10. King Edward VI. granted Pentyrch together with Miskyn to
Sir William Herbert.
The Marquess of Bute is now Lord of Pentyrch and Clun.
There are still copyholds held of this manor.
The ancient house of Castell-y-Myneich, long the seat of a branch of the
Mathew family, is within this manor.