Writ of Venire Facias for a jury, 8 January 1548
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Writ of Venire Facias for a jury.
'The sheriff is ordered to summon twenty four men from the neighbourhood of Llangïan to appear before the Justices at Llangian on Tuesday, February 5th, to inquire if Owen ap Tudur Fychan of Llangian, gentleman, and other malefactors forcibly entered upon a certain messuage and tenement lying in a place called Mynyth Myniffo which lately belonged to Gutyn Llewelyn ap Eingion in the township aforesaid and was in the possession of Lewis ap Gutyn Llewelyn and David Lloyd ap John Gruffydd, whom they expelled and disseised therefrom.The writ is tested and signed by Eliza Morys and Gruffydd ap Robert Fychan, esquires, Justices of the Peace. Endorsement: vera; per me Johannem Smythe, deputatum Clerici Pacis.'
Source: W. Ogwen Williams (ed.), 'Calendar of the Caernarvonshire Quarter Sessions Records' (1956), pp. 57-8.
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