‹ E-CIPM 21-884: JOYCE AND JOAN DAUGHTERS AND HEIRS OF EDWARD CHARLETON OF POWIS, KNIGHT ›

Holdings

The following were allotted to Joyce: in the castle of Welshpool: the keep and the east part of the ward between a tower called `le dortour' and the tower in which Roger Charleton was accustomed to lodge on the west; the moat next the town of Welshpool on the east, and all towers, chambers, chapels, buildings and gardens within that area with free ingress and egress by way of the castle gate next the town of Welshpool on the east; in the manor of Welshpool: a dovecot, a barn, 3 messuages, 3 ponds, an orchard, a garden and other lands and tenements extending in length between the great pond and the castle moat on the west and the path which leads to a lane called `Castellone' on the east and in breadth between a small park and the castle on the north and the demesne lands on the south; all those demesne lands with meadows, pastures, woods, water, ponds and paths which lie in length between the castle, park and `Castellone' on the north and the river Severn on the south and in breadth between the path which leads from the great pond to the wood called `le Fryth' and then by the upper end of the wood to the river Severn on the west and the outer boundary of the demesne lands against the town of Welshpool on the east, an old park called little park anciently enclosed with ditches and a part of the great park as bounded by an oak and other marks on the west and in breadth between a way over the farthest point of the great park on the south and the field called `Kay Gobert' on the north; in the commot of Machynlleth: the manor of `Grenehall' with its park; the commot, lordships, townships and manors of Arwystli Iscoed and Arwystli Uwchoed, Cyfeiliog, Llangurig, Llanidloes and Machynlleth with all regalian rights, franchises, liberties, suit of court, wards, marriages and reliefs, and a knight's fee in Lydham which John Fitzpiers holds and the advowson of the prebend called `Davyd' in the church of St. George, Pontesbury. The following were allotted to Joan: in the castle of Welshpool: the tower called `le dortour' and the tower in which Roger Charlton was accustomed to lodge, and the entire wood west of the castle in length from the keep on the east and the outer bridge of the castle on the west, with all towers, chambers and buildings in the ward; in the manor of Welshpool: a great pond on the south against the ward; all those demesne lands with meadows, pastures, woods, water, ponds, mills, ways and paths extending in length between the castle and the great park on the north and the river Severn on the south and in breadth between a path which leads from the great pond to a wood called `le Fryth' and then along the upper and western boundary of the wood to the river Severn on the east and the outer boundary of the demesne lands on the west of the great park except that part of the park from the small park as far as Joyce's portion as bounded by an oak and other marks and ditches; the commot, lordship, towns and manors of Caereinion with 13s. 4d. rent in ?Moughtrey, Mechain Uwchoed and Mechain Iscoed, Mochnant, Llanfyllin and Pontesbury with the same liberties as above, except the manor of `Grenehall' with its park, part of the commot of Machynlleth, and the prebend called `prebend Davyd' in the church of St. George, Pontesbury, both of which were assigned to Joyce. Joan's purparty remained in the king's hand. By a writ of 20 July 1422 [CFR 1413- 22, p. 442] the escheator was ordered to put Joan and her husband John Grey, knight, into possession.