Note 253 — Chapter III · THE PEASANTRY (continued)

MS. Transcript by A.N. Palmer of “The Presentment and Verdict of the Jury for the Manor of Hewlington,” 1620 (Wrexham Free Library, Ancient Local Records, vol. ii.): “Which decay (as by the ancient records appeareth) did growe by reason of the great mortalitie and plague which in former tymes had been in the reign of Edward III., and also of the rebellion of Owen Glendower and trouble that thereupon ensued.”