THE ARCHIVE AND PEMBROKESHIRE ‘CONNECTION’ OF THE PAKINGTONS OF WESTWOOD

THE ARCHIVE AND PEMBROKESHIRE ‘CONNECTION’ OF THE PAKINGTONS OF WESTWOOD
By Roger Turvey

Part Two

The  majority  of  the  more  influential  Pembrokeshire  gentry  families  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries  were  of  long  standing  – Barlow of Slebech, Laugharne of St. Bride’s, Owen of Orielton , Philipps of Picton , Stepney of Prendergast and Wogan of Wiston and Boulston  – but  the Pakingtons  were  newcomers.  If the  reception   that  greeted  the  introduc­tion of e Campbells_ (in  1698) and Hamiltons  (in  1758) to  county society was typical  of  the  attitude  of  the  established  gentry  to  the  incomers,  then the Pakingtons may not  have  been  openly  welcomed  to  Pembrokeshire. Like the Campbells before them and  the  Hamiltons  after,  the  Pakingtons came  to  the  county  by  means  of  securing  an  advantageous  marriage  with a  local  heiress.  However,  although   Sir  John   Pakington’s   wife   Hester bore the surname of Perrot, a family with an ancient association  with  the county, her roots and those of her father Sir Herbert, lay not in  Pem­brokeshire but  across  the  border  in  Herefordshire.  Sir  Herbert  had  Sir James Perrot to thank for his introduction  to  the  county  when  the  latter  made him his heir. Indeed, much of what we know  of  the  Perrot  family’s landed fortunes after the death of  Sir  John  in  1592  is  furnished  by documents  housed  in  the  Pakington   archive.  It  is,  therefore,  ironic  that the Worcestershire-born   Pakingtons’ connection  with  Pembrokeshire came by means of the Herefordshire-bred Perrots, a fact that requires some explanation.
The Perrots of Morton and  Haroldston

Unlike the Perrots of Pembrokeshire , the Perrots of Herefordshire can scarcely be described as gentry of the first rank . They were in origin no more than tenants of the  prebendaries  of  Hereford  on  whose  property they settled at Morton-on-Lugg sometime during the reign of Henry VII. Their founder John (d. 1526) appears to have taken little part in the affairs of the county, seemingly content to remain a leaseholder of Morton while purchasing  properties in  adjoining  parishes. However, it is not  until  the second half of the sixteenth century, during the lifetime of John ‘s grand­son Richard , that they acquired free possession of Morton, also presum­ably by purchase, and there they proceeded to build a fine mansion, complete with a stone sculpted coat of arms, to serve as the family seat. From such humble beginnings they were able to pass to their heirs a modest but growing estate consisting for the most part in parcels of land scattered throughout the southern portion of the county of Hereford. Patrimonial inheritance aside, the Herefordshire Perrots strove by what­ ever means possible to improve their lot: they contracted advantageous marriages, dabbled in the land market and secured posts in public administration. But they were also men of business with an  academic  bent and the family could count among its members merchants, grocers, ship-owners, university trained clerics, clerks and lawyers. In short, they were aggressively ambitious and acquisitive with an instinct for self­ preservation, self-aggrandizement and  self-promotion.1

Of course, these characteristics are not peculiar to the Perrots of Morton and may be applied to the gentry as a whole, but for an undistinguished minor gentle family on the make they had a sharper edge. The Perrots may have been as ambitious as their gentle compatriots but they were self-consciously so. They were aware that their wealth came mainly from trade and what influence they enjoyed came largely through marriage; they were a family for whom the issue of their social  status, perhaps their very claim to gentility, may have been a sensitive one. Indeed, if the attitude of commentators , contemporary and later, is anything to go by then the Perrots of Morton had every right to be sensitive for while they tarried in Herefordshire few paid them any heed but when Sir James of Haroldston , the last of the long and distinguished line of Pembrokeshire Perrots, adopted one of their number, Herbert (b. 1617), as his heir, people took notice. Then as now, commentators were swift to dismiss any link between the Perrot families of Haroldston and Morton. Although we may be sceptical of the Rev. E. L. Barnwell’s belief that Sir James Perrot ‘s bequest to Herbert Perrot of his entire landed possession was made on account ‘of similarity of name’ and for no other reason, the fact that they were challenged by their contemporaries  to prove  their claim  ‘to be of  his blood’ shows how little was known of them and, perhaps, the con­tempt in which they were  held.2

Robert Perrot, father of Herbert, a man known to Sir James by means of their shared interest in genealogy and antiquarian  studies,  was  wise enough to realise that once his son ‘s benefactor  was  dead  he  could  expect to be subjected to some form of litigation by angry and resentful relatives of the deceased. It was not long in coming. In December 1639 Robert Perrot, his son and heir Herbert, and  the latter’s uncle,  Francis,  were publicly accused of falsely claiming the arms and name of the Perrots of Pembrokeshire.3 The accuser was Thomas Perrot, a London merchant, and someone who could easily prove his familial link with the Perrots of Haroldston by being directly descended from Sir Owen  (d. 1521), grandfather of the illustrious Sir John Perrot (d. 1592). The libel alleged that the plaintiff alone had the right to bear the arms of the well known but, upon the death of Sir  James  (d.  1637),  recently  defunct senior Perrot line.4 The defendants were summoned to appear before the Earl Marshal’s High Court of Chivalry and challenged to exhibit proof of their right to claim kinship with Sir James Perrot and his ancestor  Sir Owen. Unfortunately, the judgement of the Court of Chivalry is missing  but that Robert and his co-defendants won their  case  is  not  in  doubt. Their victory may be inferred from the fact that they were allowed to continue using  the Perrot  arms and did so thereafter  unmolested.5

The crucial piece of evidence that secured them victory at the Court of Chivalry was undoubtedly an elaborate pedigree, over ten feet long and near two and a half feet wide, drawn up and submitted for judgement by Robert Perrot. Stung by the inference that they were socially inferior and unworthy of claiming kinship with their armigerious cousins from Pem­brokeshire, the Herefordshire Perrots seem to have convinced  the  court that though they were not descended from Sir Owen Perrot, they could prove to be descended from a junior line, namely the Perrots of Scots­borough near Tenby. This would have been sufficient for them  to claim  the legal right to bear the name and arms – borne equally by the Scots­borough branch of the family – of the Pembrokeshire  Perrots.6  Having  won this case the Herefordshire Perrots were again the subject of a legal challenge in 1641, this time in the Court of Great Sessions held in Pembroke, and on this occasion it was of a more serious nature than the mere display of arms; it involved property .7 The action was brought by John Laughame  of  St.  Bride’s,  a  nephew   of  the  deceased   Sir  James Perrot and youngest son of Rowland Laugharne and Lettice Perrot, half­ sister of the former.8 The plaintiff claimed that by the terms of a docu­ment sealed by Sir James in December 1609 certain named properties should have descended through his mother to him but that on the death of Sir James in [637, these were taken by the defendant Herbert Perrot. The defendant countered by claiming that in April 1622 the deceased, Sir James, cancelled the arrangement with Laugharne in favour of a new grant recognising him, his children and members of his family as heirs to these and other of his properties. The judgement of the court is unknown but it seems that the Herefordshire Perrots were again successful since the disputed properties remained in their possession.

The case is important since it provides evidence of a legal relationship between Sir James Perrot and his ‘cousins’ from Herefordshire , involv ­ing the entailing of his Pembrokeshire properties , as early as April l622. Clearly despairing of ever having children of his own, the fifty-one-year­ old Sir James was taking steps to ensure that his property was appor­tioned according to his wishes . He made clear hi s intention to bequeath his properties in survivorship to each of the Perrots of Herefordshire, beginning with Herbert (b. 1617) and his children . It was an arrangement that Sir James saw fit not to change and it remained in force, confirmed later in his last will and testament, until his death fifteen years later. With the exception of his nephew and godson, Thomas Laugharne, who was given property in Dale, there was no place for his closest relatives among those chosen to inherit his estates , namely, his nephews Essex and John Laugharne, Thomas Butler and Peter Morgan of Abergavenny. They at least (with the curious exception of John), together with a number of nieces, were mentioned in their uncle ‘s will, enjoying a cash bequest amounting to some £250. This is more than can be said of Sir James’s kin, Thomas Perrot of London (b. c. 1602), the petitioner in the Court of Chivalry, who did not even rate a mention in the will despite being ‘placed in the Inns of Court ‘ by the deceased with whom he had enjoyed an apparently close relationship .9

In truth , Thomas Perrot had every reason to feel aggrieved since his kinship with Sir James Perrot was closer than that of the   Herefordshire Perrots and he at least, unlike them, could claim unequivocally ‘to be of his blood’. Had the estates been bequeathed strictly according to family descent then he, rather than Herbert, should have been the main or sole beneficiary. However, documents survive which strongly suggest that Sir James was motivated by factors other than family sentiment, that his decision to dispose of his properties was based on his having formed a close personal relationshjp with his Herefordshire  kinsmen  centring for the most part on the London-based merchant Francis Perrot, brother of Robert and uncle to Herbert. By September 1633, fully three years before his death, Sir James had evidently invested Francis with a significant portion of his Pembrokeshire estates where  he can  be observed  issuing and ratifying leases and other similar land grants in Ambleston, Wood­stock and Castlebythe. 10  It  is clear from  Francis  Perrot ‘s will, drawn  up in March 1638, that the manors of Ambleston and Woodstock had been granted to him outright and that upon his death in November 1642 they were left to his nephew Herbert, the object of his special affection, thus completing the transfer of the entire landed possessions of the Perrots of Pembrokeshire to the Perrots of Herefordshjre. 11

Although never named as a beneficiary either in the transaction  of  1622 or under the terms of the will of Sir James, Robert Perrot was keen to safeguard his eldest son’s considerable inheritance and  to  this  end  he may have set himself  the  task  of  compiling  a  genealogical  record detailing the familial link between Sir James, himself and their joint-heir, five-year-old Herbert. That the pedigree was largely completed within a year to eighteen months (1623/4) of the sealing of the agreement of 1622 recognising Herbert as heir to the Perrots’ Pembrokeshire properties is instructive. That they (Sir James, Robert and Herbert Perrot) may be linked is suggested by two references in the pedigree, where it is  written

Sir James havinge noe issue conveyed his mannor of Harroleston to  Herbert  Perrotte  in  this  pedigree  sonne  of  Robert  Perrotte  of Morton countie of Hereff. (m. I ). Herbert Perrotte his eldeste sonne upon whome Sir James Perrotte knighte sonne of Sir John Perrotte knighte made and conveyed his  mannor  of Haroldston  and other lands in the countie of Pembroke (m. 3).12

The pedigree then may be regarded as one of the ways in which Robert Perrot hoped to assert the property claims of his son by making clearer their foundation and thereby establishing their legitimacy. In this he was no different to countless others of his class who initiated or commissioned pedigrees to spearhead or support court actions over disputed property. Thus, the pedigree served to facilitate Robert’s aim to move from among the ranks of the gentry still rising to join those already risen,  like his more illustrious cousins from Pembrokeshire. Largely as a result of Sir James Perrot’s generous bequest Herbert fulfilled his family’s long­ cherished social and political aspirations.

Although Robert may have continued  to live in Morton-on-Lugg  until  his death in 1657, his son transferred the family seat to nearby Welling­ton. An altogether grander house than the one in which he was born, Herbert’s new home became the nerve-centre of the family patrimony, with properties stretching across the greater part of two counties – Pem­brokeshire and Herefordshire. That he did  not  neglect  Pembrokeshire may be seen in the fact that the first two of his three wives, Jane Lloyd of Cilciffeth and Hester Barlow of Slebech, hailed from the county. 13 Nevertheless , it is not until 1643 that Herbert devoted more than a few weeks of his time to his properties in Pembrokeshire . During the Civil War he was to be found in the county where he declared his loyalty  to  the Crown being a founder member of the Royalist Association of like­ minded gentry in the three counties of the south-west. 14 In early in 1643 Haroldston was garrisoned by Royalist troops sent there by the king’s commander of Crown forces in south-west Wales, Lord Carbery. It may be presumed that this was done with the consent of Herbert Perrot since there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. However, all was not well for in 1645 Herbert changed sides and deserted the king’s cause for that of Parliament. Given the disintegration of the Royalist cause, Herbert ‘s defection proved timely and saved him from financial ruin and his mansion house at Haroldston, occupied by Parliamentary forces in Feb­ruary 1644, from destruction. Thereafter, Herbert prospered and spent much of the Interregnum in Herefordshire (he acted as a Sequestration Commissioner) but not before he had  settled his younger brother James at Haroldston. Charged with running the Haroldston estate and super­vising the Perrot properties in Pembrokeshire, James proved an able   and trustworthy steward. When he died he was buried next  to  Sir  James  Perrot in the church  of St. Mary’s,  Haverfordwest.

At the Restoration Herbert showed his usual instinct for survival by sup­porting the return of  Charles  II. His  reward  was  a knighthood  bestowed by a grateful king in August 1660. He also embarked on a Parliamentary career, serving as Member of Parliament for Weobley in Herefordshire in 1659-60. In 1677 he transferred his  political  interests  to  Pembrokeshire and was elected  to represent  Haverfordwest.  He  served  as High  Sheriff of both Herefordshire (1662) and Pembrokeshire (1666) and, towards the end of his life, such was his relationship with his adopted county that he expressed his desire to be buried in the church of Haroldston St. Issels should he die at Haroldston. In the event, he passed away in August 1683 while residing at Wellington and was subsequently buried there. His place of burial is marked by a fine monument  complete  with  sculpted  Perrot coat of arms in the local church. 15

The Pakingtons  in Pembrokeshire

The death of Sir Herbert’s only son, Herbert junior, in 1678 left his teen­ age daughter, Hester, as his sole heir. In his last will and testament Sir Herbert makes clear his intention  towards  his daughter ‘s future:

I charge and commend my daughter Hester to be fully and wholly ruled by the directions of her said mother Susanna Perrot in all things and not to marry without her  consent. 16

Thus, the teenage Hester was made subject to the will of her step-mother Susanna who, less than a year into her widowhood, married Sir  Cyril Wyche (d. 1707). As a consequence of his marriage Wyche also became Hester’s guardian during her minority though they appear to have spent precious little time together. Wyche, a man  of  science and President  of  the Royal Society in 1683, was a busy public servant and his duties as secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the duke of Ormond, and his parliamentary responsibilities as member for Saltash in the West Country took him away from home. In her  husband’s  absence  Susanna  spent  much  of her  time  with  her family, the Norris’s, at their home  at Weston-on-the-Green in Oxfordshire . Hester accompanied her step-mother  and she spent her formative years in the company of ‘the somewhat brainless ladies of the Norreys family’.17 Such was her love  of  Weston-on-the­ Green and so close had Hester become with her  step-family  that  she chose to be married in the church there in the autumn of 1700. The death  of her step-mother and principal  guardian  early  in  1690 enabled Hester to take charge of her own affairs. Documents in the Pakington archive clearly show her leasing and disposing property in Pembrokeshire from August 1690. For the next ten years she conducted her affairs in the county with the able assistance of her steward and  kinsman  Owen  Edwards. That she had the habits of a wealthy woman may be discerned from a bill for £118 submitted  to her for payment  in  1701 by  a clothier  in London. That she could afford to be extravagant  is suggested  by  the fact that in the five years after the death of her father, between 1683 and 1688, the coal mine at Freystrop alone yielded a profit of   £1,086.

Why Hester should have remained a spinster for the  best part  of  ten years after the end of her minority is impossible to explain. However, a clue as to her personality and temperament may be gauged by the fact that it took four months of hard bargaining before she accepted Sir John Pakington’s proposal of marriage. In a letter to Christopher, first Viscount Hatton, Sir Charles Lyttelton offered his opinion on the marriage:

I was this week with Sir John Pack  (sic), and I hope  he  may  be like to have made a better  match than  was expected. He tells me  he finds her fortune so that it is a good £1,100 a year . . . She appears to be a discreet woman, and does not want for wit to apply it nor make too much show of it. Her person not  disagreeable. The reason, he tells me, it being so long was because he could  not bring her to make any settlement, which  before  she married  she yielded to.18

In July  1701, some eight months after the marriage, Lyttelton  wrote:

Sir J. Pak (sic) has been with his wife upon her estate in Here­fordshire, the condition whereof I find him well satisfied in, as he told me he brought 500 guineas of the revenue thereof with  him. 19

What Sir John Pakington made of his wife’s estates in Pembrokeshire we have no way of knowing since Lyttleton declined to mention Wales in his correspondence . Pakington was an energetic politician who took his duties as member for Worcestershire seriously. He represented the county for thirty four years (1690-5; 1698-1727)20 and, as his letters show, he spent much of his time in London . Inheritance and marriage had placed at his disposal the use of three substantial mansions – Westwood in Worcester­ shire, Wellington in Herefordshire and Haroldston in Pembrokeshire – and, to his credit, he made and effort to stay for at least part of the year in each. Haroldston appears to have been visited annually in the  Spring, a visitation that continued even if Sir John was away in London on Parliamentary business. His wife, Hester, saw to it that Pembrokeshire was not neglected by the family though it nearly cost her life and some considerable jewellery when , in April 1705, her coach was waylaid by thieves somewhere on the road between Haroldston and Wellington. The letters of sympathy from friends and relatives indicate the seriousness of the incident for Hester was not alone in the carriage being accompanied by her three-year-old son, Herbert Perrott. 21

Born in the Spring of 1702, quite possibly at Haroldston (his Welsh nurse Grace Griffiths may have hailed from the county), Herbert Perrott Pakington or Mr. Poll as he came to be known from an early age, was named in honour of his maternal grandfather. 22 Hester’s fondness for Haroldston drew her to Pembrokeshire on a regular basis and we find her in residence even in the Winter months whilst her husband remained at their London house. In a letter dated 4 November 1704, Sir John ‘s London housekeeper, Mrs. Hall, wrote to Hester at Haroldston to say that ‘Sir John is very well, but can not well sleep without his Bedfellow ‘.23 They evidently missed each other’s company! The strengthening of the link between Hester and Haroldston seems to have made an impression on  her young son who developed a fascination for Pembrokeshire and his Perrot forbears, especially Sir John . Nor was Hester’s husband immune to the family ‘s developing attraction for Pembrokeshire for in 1705 Sir John was seriously considering contesting the county seat in the forth­ coming election. He was dissuaded from doing so by his Welsh friends, principal among them John Edwardes of Little Trefgam, Francis Edwardes of Haylett, Sir George Barlow of Slebech and Thomas Lloyd of   Grove. To have taken on the most powerful families in the county – Laughame of St. Bride’s, Owen of Orielton and Philipps of Picton – would have been most unwise .24

In Pembrokeshire the Pakingtons relied on the  integrity  and efficiency of their steward , William Beavan of Fresytrop, to run the Haroldston estate. Indeed, in a remarkable period of service that stretched for well over a century, members of the Beavan family, male as well as female, had  been  employed  by  the  owners  of  Haroldston   both  as    personal servants  and estate managers.25 In a letter to Sir John, dated 3  December 1703, Beavan painted a grim picture of the damage to Haroldston  cause by a recent storm:

I received sometime since a letter from my Lady Pakington in which she is pleased to intimate of your coming yearly in the spring into Pembrokeshire; but must ·acquaint you that the house is much out of order at present for your reception , the kitchen lying almost stripped , the roof besides of the house by  a  hurricane , in which no less than 11 trees were blown down in the grove, two of them being oaks, one of them as large as will make  a running beam for a mill, so that if you please to give your order for the working of the same.
I must acquaint you that the hedges of Freystrop, the orchard and hopyard , is much out of repair, so that they will for ever be ruined except speedily put in  repair.26

Besides letters from their estate managers and workers in Pembroke­ shire, the Pakington archive also contains personal letters sent by their tenants . One regular correspondent was one Constant Phillips who regu­larly complained about the injustices of life.21 In a letter, dated January 1706, he wrote to Hester at Haroldston  stating his intention  to give up  his tenancy because he had been unable to make a decent living – less than £30 per annum – at Dredgman Hill. In dramatic fashion he wrote:

So farewell Dredgemanhill (sic), on which I have laid out most of my substance – I may say hundreds of pounds, which makes my heart  to bleed  to think  on, hoping  the times  would  mend. But find the old proverb verified – while the grass grows the horse starves. I have met with nothing here these many years but losses, crosses, and dreadful disappointments. I have lost in one year above fifty pounds worth of stock, as was supposed by witches and other misfortunes  . . .28

Phillips was not alone in complaining of his tenancy, for William Beavan’s letters to his master Sir John reveal  the difficulties he was encountering  in collecting rents and other debts. In October  1714 Beavan wrote:

I am almost ashamed to presume to write to you, being so long getting in of money and the people so very backward in their payments . I had thought to send your Honour this hundred pounds bill with the fifty pounds bill now inclosed  which  is dated  the 19th of August past , which bill is payable long past.29

Discontented tenants proved  to be the least of Hester’s problems  when ,  in January 1712, her husband, Sir John, received a letter at his London residence to inform him that a French privateer  was  operating  off  the coast of Pembrokeshire and disrupting trade:

The country about Fisguard (sic), which I am told is part of your estate, is in arms, upon account of a French Privateer that has lain off that coast for above a week and has taken 3 or 4 vessels, amongst the rest one in which some people in this town [Haverfordwest] have some share and which was ransomed for £520.
The people are very clamorous that they have not a ship in the harbour or cruising. The colliers, which I am informed were laden at your quay are afraid of sailing till such time as a Man o’ war come in. This neglect , I am afraid, will prejudice your affair, as well as the County in general.30

In April 1715 Hester died and with her death the link between Pembroke­ shire and the Pakingtons was severed. Henceforth the Pembrokeshire estates would be regarded only as a cash-cow for the family who made little effort to visit either Haroldston or the county. Within months of Hester’s death Haroldston  was leased out thereby marking the  beginning of its decline. Several leases later the house was so dilapidated that it  was reported that it should either be repaired at great cost or it should be stripped of valuable materials and allowed to fall into ruin. That the latter decision was taken may be gauged by the woeful state of Haroldston today.

Given the financial problems that beset the Pakingtons in the 1720s, the decline of Haroldston was probably inevitable. Sir John’s marriage with Hester Perrot had temporarily relieved the dire financial position he had found himself by the close of the 1690s – his account book for 1696 shows that he was in debt to the tune of £625.  31  However, rising costs, falling rents and the demands of a busy and expensive political career were taking their toll on the family ‘s finances. Luck also seems to have deserted the Pakingtons for in a twelve year period beginning in 1712 Sir John lost his eldest son and heir, John, from his first marriage, his second wife, Hester, and his second son Thomas, also from his first marriage. Herbert Perrott alone survived to succeed his father as heir to the Pakington estates but as the late Lords Hampton , Humphrey and Richard Pakington, wrote of their ancestor ‘Sir Herbert was a selfish and feckless individual, who brought little but discredit on the family name’ .32 To be fair Sir John had died in 1727 heavily in debt so that his twenty-five­ year-old son had to contend with the demands made on him by his late father’s many creditors. Within a year of his father’s death in 1728, Sir Herbert Perrott had sold the family properties in Herefordshire which sale eased his financial plight but did not solve them. In 1729 he was sued  by  a coachmaker  for  non-payment  of  a bill  amounting  to some £460, Sir Herbert ‘s response was to cut down the woods on the Haroldston estate and hope the sale of the timber would cover the debt. That he succeeded is suggested by the fact that he avoided a costly court appearance.

Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington’s short life was marred by problems both personal and financial. He was a weak character who lived beyond his means and when the going got tough he fled abroad to escape his creditors. In October 1748 Berrow’s Worcester Journal announced the death, ‘at Utrecht in Holland [of] Sir Herbert-Perot Packington , Bart. of Westwood, near Droitwich  in this county ‘; he was 46 years old.33  In  spite of his being ‘selfish and feckless ‘ we have  Sir Herbert  Perrott  Pakington to thank for the wonderful painting of his much admired forbear the statesman and one-time Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir John Perrot.34 His admiration for Sir John may account in part for the fact that when forced into selling part of his estate, that consisted of ‘a wide acreage in four counties ‘,35 namely Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Pembrokeshire and Buckinghamshire , he should chose to offload Wellington in Hereford­shire. His son and heir Sir John did not have the luxury for such senti­ment and in less than six months after the death of his father he was forced into mortgaging the Pembrokeshire estates in order to raise £6,000. The next ten years proved difficult for the family and in September 1761 Sir John was forced into selling half his  properties  in  Pembrokeshire . The sale of the manors of Ambleston , Woodstock and Hook to Admiral Thomas Tucker of Sealyham raised £5,864 much of which  Sir John  used  to pay  his creditors.36

Sir John died prematurely in 1762 and was succeeded by his younger brother Sir Herbert who found the cost  of maintaining  the  mortgage  on his remaining Pembrokeshire estates too much to bear. Consequently, in May 1763 he sold ‘all part and parcel of the demesne  lands  of  Harold­ston, all in the parish of Haroldston St. Issels ‘.37 Thus, Haroldston passed out of the ownership of the Pakingtons and into  that  of  Philipps  of  Picton, the representative of whom, Sir John Philipps, set about asset stripping his new purchase. The mansion house of Haroldston was stripped of its slate, lead, timber and glass some of which was sold whilst the rest was conveyed to Picton castle. Although the Pakington’s retained owner­ ship of the lucrative coal mines at Freystrop and other scattered properties in the county their association with Pembrokeshire was  all but  severed. The last great sale of Pakington  properties  in Pembrokeshire  took place  in or around 1902, less than two years after the family, through straight­ened circumstances , had been forced to part with their ancestral home of Westwood in Worcestershire. 38

Today, Haroldston is a ruin in need of care and consolidation while Westwood remains proudly displaying its outward glory to the casual visitor. However, looks can be deceptive for the glory that  was West­ wood  within  is  no  more  for  the  once  great  Tudor  mansion  has   been divided into flats and much of the internal decoration has been swept away. The Pakington family, Barons Hampton , continue to this day and until relatively recently, the head of that family, the late Richard Pakington, Sixth Baron Hampton, lived in the county of his ancestors at Palace Hall Farm, Upton-on-Severn.
The Pakington  (Hampton) Archive

The Pakington family archive, also known as the Hampton archive after their elevation to the peerage in 1874, is a rich source for Pembrokeshire historians. The calendar of documents published here for the first time consists mainly of deeds and related property conveyances but the archive also has a vast collection of private letters and other materials with Pembrokeshire references but these have yet to be fully calendared in sufficient detail to be included here.

1. MISCELLANEOUS

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484063 -date: 1624-38
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Abstracts of several leases of lands and premises belonging to the Perrot Family in Castlebythe, Ambleston and Woodstock in the county of Pem­ broke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481027 -date: 31May, 1584
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Appointment by Sir John Perrot, knt., Lord Deputy of Ireland, of Sebastian Turke, William Morgan and James ap Rydderch (Rethroughe), gents., as attorneys to deliver possession to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, William Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England, Robert, Earl of Leicester, Walter Mildmay, Sir Francis Walsingham, knt., Privy Coun­ cillors, Henry Jones, Sir Drew Drewry, knt., Sir William Herbert of Swansea, knt., David Lewis, Doctor of Laws, Thomas Fanshaw, John Pryce, John Wogan of Boulston, co. Pembroke, Maurice Cannon, Charles Calthorpe,  Arden  Waferer,  esqs., Philip Williams,  Richard  Donsey and Charles Russell, gents., of the Manors of Laugharne, alias Tallaghame, Eglwys Gymun and Roche and other lands, tenements and appurten­ ances in co. Carmarthen, and the Manors of Carew, Walwyns Castle, Syke and Cosheston, Eastington , Popton, Hilton, Benton , Fletherhill in Rudbaxton], Haroldston , St. Issells, Nolton , Robeston, Honeyborough, Castlebythe, Woodstock, Ambleston, Rinaston and Ysceifiog and other lands, tenements and hereditaments in co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481029 – date: 18 July, 1611
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Indenture between Thomas Lloyd of Cilciffeth, in Llanychaer, co. Pem­ broke, esq., David Lloyd of Morvil, co. Pembroke, gent., and Robert Bowen of Llanychaer, co. Pembroke, gent., determining the uses of a grant dated I August, 1598 from the said Thomas Lloyd and Margaret,  his wife, to Owen Jones of Trecwn, co. Pembroke, gent., and Richard Phillipps of Woodstock , co. Pembroke, of messuages, lands and premises including two water mills in Sutton in the parish of Lambston , Steynton, Bicton in the parish of St. Ishmaels, Robeston , Llanychaer, Llanllawer, Llanychlwydog , Nevem , Newport, Talbranog, Puncheston, Dinas, Moyl­ grove, Bayvil, Morvil , Llandysilio, Jordanston , Llanrhian, [Kinheydre?] in the parish of Fishguard, lands near the town of Haverfordwest, and in Pontfaen and messuages and appurtenances in Llawhaden, and in the parish of Whitchurch, all in co. Pembroke].

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484056 – date: 5 November, 1631
Contents
Inquisition post mortem of David Lloyd of Cilciffeth in the parish of Llanychaer, co. Pembroke, gent., proving that he held on the day of  his death  various estates  in the county of  Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482667 – date: 26 May, 1668
Contents
Bargain and sale from Sir Herbert Perrott  of  Haroldston,  co. Pembroke, knt., to Vincent Arncott of Grays Inn, London, esq., of the Manor of Haroldston and appurtenances , the rectory  of  St. Issells,  two  water  mills in Haroldston and tenements in the parishes of Haroldston St. Issell’s, Freystrop, Steynton and St. Thomas in Haverfordwest,  all in co.  Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482673 – date: 28 June, 1669
Contents
Grant from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembroke , knt., to Vincent Amcott of Grays Inn, London, esq., to the use of John Lort of Stackpole, co. Pembroke, knt., and bart ., Thomas Tomkins of Manning­ ton , co. Hereford , knt., John Barneby of Cannon Pyon , co. Hereford, esq., and John Lort of Castlemartin , co. Pembroke, esq., on condition that the said Sir John Lort, Sir Thomas Tomkins, John Barnby and John Lort, esq., pay to the said Sir Herbert Perrott the sum of £12,000, of the Manor of Haroldston with appurtenances, the rectory of Haroldston St. Issells, two water mills in Harold ston and tenements in the parishes of St. Issells, Freystrop, Steynton, and St. Thomas in Haverfordwest , all in co. Pembroke .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484505 – date: 1 July, 1672
Contents
Copy of deed poll whereby Sir Herbert Perrott of Wellington , co. Here­ ford, knt, acknowledges the receipt from Mary Norreys, daughter of Sir Francis Norreys of Weston-on-the-Green , co. Oxford, deceased , of the sum of £700, being the consideration money for a bargain and sale of the Manors of Woodstock , Ambleston and Castlebythe, co. Pembroke.

FILE  – ref. 705:349/12946/484501- date: 2 June, 1673
Contents
Deed poll whereby Mary Norreys, one of the daughters of Sir Francis Norreys, late of Weston-on-the-Green , co. Oxford, deceased, acknowl­edges the receipt of the sum of £300  charged  upon  the  Manors  of Wellington , co. Hereford, and Woodstock , Ambleston and Castlebythe, co. Pembroke, from Sir Herbert Perrott of Wellington , knt., and coven­ants to convey the said Manors to the assignees of the said Sir Herbert upon the further payment of £400.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484064 – date: 26 March, 1684
Contents
Terrier of all the rents in Pembrokeshire due and payable to Madam Hester Perrott.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484058 – date: 29 September, 1705 – 25 March, 1707
Contents
Account of money received from the tenants of Sir John Pakington , bart., for lands and premises in Wallis, Llanychlwydog, Moylgrove and Haver­ fordwest,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484057 – date: May, 1707
Contents
Rental of the lands of Sir John Pakington , bart., in the Manor of Haroldston and in Freystrop, the Hamlets, Haverfordwest, Woodstock , Ambleston, Wallis, Castlebythe , Llanychlwydog , Newport and Nevern , co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484059 – date: 29 September, 1711
Contents
Account of arrears of rent owing to Sir John Pakington , bart . for lands i n the Manor of Haroldston and in Freystrop, Steynton, Haverfordwest , Ambleston, Woodstock , Castlebythe, Llanychlwydog and Nevern , co. Pembroke .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483345 – date: 16 September, 1722
Contents
Draft copy of indenture between Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart ., Herbert Perrott Pakington , esq., his son, John Steward of Little Milford , co. Pembroke, gent., and Charles Steward, gent., his son, being a deed to create a tenant for a recovery of the Manors of Harold­ston, Freystrop , the Hamlets, Ambleston, Woodstock, Castlebythe, New­port, Nevern , Moylgrove and Llanychlwydog and lands and premises in Steynton and in the parishes of St. Thomas and St. Mary,  Haverfordwest.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/502996 – date: 3 May, 1749
Contents
Grant from Sir John Pakington of Westwood , co. Wore. , bart ., to Sir Charles Mordaunt of Walton , co. War., bart., of the Manors of Harold­ ston, Freystrop, the Hamlets, Ambleston , Woodstock , Castlebythe, Newport, Newport Town, Nevern , Moylgrove , Steynton  and Llanychlwydog  with messuages, lands, tenements and appurtenances  in the said Manors and  in the town of Haverfordwest, all in co. Pembroke, upon trust to raise by sale or mortgage the sum of £6,000 for the portions of Herbert Perrott Pakington, Hester Pakington and Elizabeth Pakington, children of Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington, deceased, and brother and sisters of the said Sir John Pakington.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484055 – date: 26 June, 1798
Contents
Indenture between Sir John Pakington of Westwood Park, co. Wore., bart., and Thomas Jacob White of Witley, co. Worc., gent., being a deed for the use of lands and premises in the parishes of Freystrop, Steynton and St. Thomas in Haverfordwest, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/4003/i/l – date: 1854
Contents
Plan and sections of Little Milford Colliery [Pembs.], the property of  Sir J. S. Pakington. Scale: 1 inch to 196 feet.

FILE – ref. 705:349/4003/ii/1 – date: c.1854
Contents
Plan and section of Timber Vein , Little Milford Colliery [Pembs.], the property of Sir J. S. Pakington. Scale: l inch to 3  chains.

FILE – ref. 705:349/3835/4/ii/1-22 – date: 1373-1829
Contents
20 deeds and other papers relating to property in Droitwich, Ombersley, Hampton Lovett, Salwarpe and Westwood, and in Aylesbury, Bucks., Haroldston, and Freystrop, Pembs.

FILE – ref. 705:349/3835/5/i/1-26 – date: 1522-1726
Contents
26 deeds relating to property in Aylesbury, Bucks., and in Ambleston, Castlebythe, Freystrop, Haroldston St. Issells, Woodstock, Newport and Haverfordwest, Pembs.

FILE – ref. 705:349/3835/6/ii/1-10 – date: 18th -19th cents.
Contents
10 office copies of deeds relating mainly to Pakington estates in Pembs. but including a copy of the grant of Westwood to John Pakington by  King Henry VIII.

2. HAROLDSTON  ST. ISSELLS

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481034 – date: 28 September, 1638
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Herbert Perrott of  Grays  Inn, London , gent., to Dame Mary Perrot of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, widow, of  the rectory  and  tithes of  Haroldston  St. Issells, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482679 – date: 13 March, 1684
Contents
Counterpart of lease for seven years from Dame Susanna Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, widow, to Morrice  Williams of  Freystrop, co. Pembroke, clerk, of lands in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482670 – date: 13 March, 1684
Contents
Counterpart of lease for seven years from Dame Susanna Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembroke , widow, to Robert Prust and John Barron of Haverfordwest , co. Pembroke, gent., of lands in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482675 – date: 20 March, 1684
Contents
Counterpart of lease for seven years from Dame Susanna Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke , widow, to Moses Longman of Freystrop, co. Pembroke , gent., of lands in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482684 – date: 2 March, 1691
Contents
Counterpart of lease from Hester Perrott of Haroldston , co.  Pembroke, spin ster, to Edward Marrow of Freystrop, co. Pembroke, butcher, of part of the dwelling hou se of Haroldston and lands occupied by the said Edward Marrow until one year after hi s death.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482678 – date: 28 October, 1691
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ ston, co. Pembroke, spister, to Moses Longman of Freystrop, co. Pem­broke, gent., of lands together with a thatched hou se called Darby House in the parish of Haroldston St. lssells, co.  Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482677 – date: 23 October, 1695
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Owen Edwards of Haver­ fordwest, co. Pembroke, steward and agent for Hester Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, to Walter Seagar of the parish of St. Thomas in Haver­fordwest, baker, of a messuage and two water mills called Haroldston Mills.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484060 – date: 1697-1716
Contents
Receipts and accounts for the sale of coal and culm drawn from mines in Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke, and  district.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482695 – date: 8 January, 1698
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-nine years from Hester Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, spinster,  to  Francis  Edwards of  Haverfordwest, gent., of two messuages and lands in the parish  of  Haroldston  St. Issells, co.  Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482687 – date: 26 March, 1699
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-six years from Hester Perrott of  Haroldston in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke, spinster,  to Moses Longman of High Freystrop, co. Pembroke, gent., of a messuage called  the Darby House and lands in the parish of St.   Issells .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482685 – date: 13May, 1699
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Hester Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pem­ broke, spinster, to George Phillipps of  Haverfordwest,  co.  Pembroke, gent., of a messuage and lands in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482686 – date: 1699
Contents
Counterpart  lease as 482685 .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482683 – date: 23 May, 1699
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ ston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to John David of Haroldston  St.  Issells, tailor, of a messuage  and land in the parish  of St.  Issells.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482859 – date: 21 February, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Packington of Westwood, co. Wore ., bart ., to John Gribble of Haverfordwest, tallow chandler of lands  called  Tump  Park  and  Maudlins  [Merlin’s] Park,  part of the demesne of Haroldston in the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke, together with a stable and other  premises  adjoining  Harold­ ston House.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482858 – date: 9 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart ., to John Leigh of Freystrop, co. Pem­broke, clerk, of a messuage and lands in the parish of  Haroldston  St. Issells,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482851- date: 9 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Rachell Aubrey of Haverfordwest, widow, of part of the dwelling house of Haroldston  and  lands  in  the parish of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke. With inventory  of  the  goods and furniture of Sir John  Pakington  at Haroldston   annexed.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483318 – date: 9 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas Owen of  Haroldston  St.  Issells, co. Pembroke, miller, of the water  corn  mill  called  Haroldston Mill.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482849 – date: 23 March, 1718
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Edward Kingley of Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke, of a messuage and land on the west side of a lane leading  from Maudlins  Bridge  [Merlin’s Bridge]  to Pembroke Ferry.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482846 – date: 3August, 1719
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to William Roach  of  Haroldston  St. Issells, co. Pembroke, mason, of the house and garden occupied by the said  William Roach.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483326 – date: 10 August, 1723
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Stephen  Nash  of  Haroldston  St. Issells,  co. Pembroke, carpenter, of a messuage and land near Maudlins Bridge [Merlin’s Bridge]  in the parish  of  St. Ishmaels.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484052 – date: 6 June, 1741
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart. , to John Higgon of Haverfordwest, alderman, of a messuage and lands at Maudlings Bridge [Merlin’s Bridge, in Haroldston St. Issells, co. Pembroke].
Not executed.

3. HAVERFORDWEST

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481028 – date: 15 April, 1608
Contents
Counterpart of lease from Sir James Perrot of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Anthony Parry of Dredgman Hill, co.  Pembroke,  carpenter, Margret Parry, alias Drinkewater, his wife, and Edmond  Parry,  their  son, of a messuage, lands and premises in  Dredgman  Hill,  for  the  term  of their lives.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481050 – date: 17 September, 1638
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Herbert Perrott of Grays Inn, London, gent., to Morris Roberts of Dredgman Hill, co. Pembroke, miller, of a water mill and lands in the parish of St. Thomas in Haverfordwest, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481033 – date: 24 May, 1642
Contents
Bargain and sale from John Michell of  Haverfordwest ,  yeoman ,  to Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, gent., of a messuage and premises  in Haverfordwest.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482671 – date: 6 June, 1682
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Peregrine Phillips of Dredgman Hill, co. Pembroke, gent., of messuages and lands in Dredgman Hill.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482672 – date: 1682
Contents
Counterpart. Lease, as  482671.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482688 – date: 9 February, 1698
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-five years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ ston, co. Pembroke , spinster, to Constant Phillipps of Dredgman Hill, co. Pembroke , gent., of messuages and lands in Dredgman Hill in the parish  of St. Thomas in Haverfordwest.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483346 – date: 16 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart  of  lease  for  twenty-one   years  from  Sir  John   Pakington of Haroldston , co. Pembroke , bart ., to Mark Edmund of the parish of St. Thomas,  Haverfordwest ,  of  a  messuage  and  land   in  the  parish   of St. Thomas.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483352 – date: 3 March, 1719
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to William Tasker late of Crundell  [Crundale] in the parish  of Rudbaxton, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of Lhe hou se occupied by the said William Tasker in the parish of St. Mary, Haverfordwest , co. Pembroke .

Note: This lease has been revised apparently to form a draft for a lease from Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington to William Tasker,  dated  3  June, 1741, of the same property.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482855 – date: 2 September, 1723
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart. , to Richard Saies of the parish of St. Thomas in Haverford­ west, co. Pembroke , butcher, of two messuages and lands at Dredgman Hill in the parish  of St. Thomas.

 

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482856
Contents
Counterpart. Lease, as 482855.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484043 – date: 3 June, 1741
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott Pak­ ington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Peregrine Phillips of Dredgman Hill in the parish  of  St. Thomas  in  Haverfordwest,  co. Pembroke,  gent., of a messuage  and lands at Dredgman   Hill.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483354 – date: 3 June, 1741
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert  Perrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to William Tasker late of Crun­ dale in the parish of Rudbaxton, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of the house occupied by the said William Tasker in the parish of St. Mary, Haver­ fordwest,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484046 – date: 6 June, 1741
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to David Mens of the parish of  St. Thomas in Haverfordwest , co. Pembroke, clothier, of a tucking  mill  and land in the parish  of  St. Thomas and land at Dredgman   Hill.

4. FREYSTROP

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482674 – date: 20 March, 1684
Contents
Counterpart of lease for seven years from Dame Susanna Perron of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, widow, to John Beavans of Little Milford. co. Pembroke, yeoman , of a messuage and garden in Freystrop. co. Pem­broke.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482692 – date: 14 March, 1695
Contents
Lease for nine years from Hester Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to Moses Longman of Freystrop, co. Pembroke, gent.,  of  a  house,  storehouse. wharf  and appurtenances at High Freystrop.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482693 – date: dated 1694
Contents
Counterpart, lease (unsigned) as 482692.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482838 – date: 10 October, 1704
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, bart. , to Moses Longman  of  Llangum , co. Pembroke, gent., of two messuages and land in High Freystrop, co.   Pembroke.
Not executed.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482837 – date: 9 September, 1707
Contents
Articles of agreement between Moses Longman of Freystrop , co. Pem­broke, gent., and Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart. , concerning the sum of £13 due to the said Sir John Pakington under the terms of a lease of coal mines at High  Freystrop.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/511529 – date: 16 March, 1716
Contents
Declaration by David Rowland of the parish  of  Rosemarket ,  co.  Pem­broke, and others, denying that William Beavans, agent to Sir John Pakington, bart., was instrumental in hindering the sinking of an air shaft  for a new  level  at  Freystrop,  co. Pembroke.
Seal of Haverfordwest [ co. Pembroke ] – damaged.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483320 – date: 23 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of Lease for t wenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, County Pembroke, bart to John Warlow  of Little Milford in the parish of Freystrop, co. Pembroke , labourer, of a house and garden in the parish of Freystrop.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484050 – date: 8 October, 1753
Conents
Counterpart  of  lease  for  ninety-nine  years   from   Sir  John   Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Caesar Mathias of Hook in the parish of Llangum, co. Pembroke,  gent.,  of  messuages  and  lands  in  the  parish  of Freystrop, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483348 – date: 1753
Contents
Copy of original lease, as  484050.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484053 – date: 4 April, 1774
Contents
Indenture between George Roch, the elder, of Clarbeston in the parish of Freystrop, co. Pembroke, esq., George Roch , the younger,  of  Clarbeston, esq., his son, Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington , bart., and Caesar Mathias  of Little Milford in the parish of Fryestrop being a lease  to  the  said  Sir  Herbert of streams  i n  the  parish  of  Fryestrop  with  covenants  for  a  right of way  from Clarbeston  to Little  Milford Quay.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484054 – date: 6 September, 1774
Contents
Lease from Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington  of Westwood, co. Wore., bart.,  to Wyrriot Owen of Great Nash, co. Pembroke, esq., of a drain called Fryestrop Level  in the parish of  Freystrop, co. Pembroke.

5. AMBLESTON

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481031- date: 21 October, 1626
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir James Perrot of Haroldston,   co.  Pembroke,  knt.,  to  David   Hooper  of  Ambleston,   co. Pembroke, husbandman, of a messuage, lands and premises  in  Amble­ston.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481035 – date: 1 September, 1627
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir James Perrot of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to William Bowen of Wallis, co. Pembroke, yeoman of a messuage  in  the parish  of Ambleston,  co. Pembroke.
Signature cut away.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481030 – date: 19 September, 1633
Contents
Lease for thirteen years from Francis Perrott of London , gent., to Henry Mathoe of Wallis in the pari sh of Ambleston, co. Pembroke,  husband­ man , of a messuage, lands and premises in Wallis.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481049 – date: 10 September, 1678
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, knt., to Howell William of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands in Ambleston .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481051 – date: 24 August, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, knt., to David Morgan of Woodstock in the parish of Ambleston , co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land in Woodstock.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481055 – date: 24 August, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Griffith Lewis of Woodstock in  the parish of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land in Woodstock.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482668 – date: 18 October, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Thomas John of Llanstinan , co. Pem­ broke, miller, of Wood stock Mi ll and land i n  the parish  of Ambleston , co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482669 – date: 20 October, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to George Grimon of Ambleston , co. Pembroke,  yeom an ,  of  the  messuage  occupied  by   the  said  George Gri mon  and a moiety of the land thereto belongi ng.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481042 – date: 20 October, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Eli nor Llewelli n of Ambleston , co. Pembroke, widow, of the messuage occu pied by the said Elinor Llewellin and a moiety of the land thereto  belongi ng.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481047 – date: 8 November, 1681
Contents
Counterpart of lease for thirty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembrok e, knt., to David Rice of Ambleston, co. Pem­ broke , clerk, of a messuage and  land in  Ambleston.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481043 – date: 16 April, 1682
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Thomas Owen of Pontfaen, co. Pem­ broke, brasier, of a messuage and land in Woodstock i n the parish of Ambleston, co. Pembrok e.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481052 – date: 26 May, 1682
Contents
Counterpart  of  lease for twenty-one  years  from  Sir Herbert  Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to William Hugh of Woodstock in  the  parish of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land i n Woodstock.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482691 – date: 13 August, 1690
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Lady Hester Perrot of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, to David Rice of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, clerk, of two messuages and lands in Ambelston.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482682 – date: 2 March, 1691
Contents
Counterpart of lease from Hester Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to Howell William of Woodstock, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land in Woodstock for the term of the lives of  the  said  Howell  Wi l liam, Lettice, his wife, and Edward,  thei r son.

FI LE – ref. 705:349/12946/482835 – date: 20 October, 1711
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ounterpart of  lease  for  twenty-one  years  from  Sir  John  Pakington  of  Ha roldston , co. Pem broke, bart., to  Hugh  Phil pi n  of  Ambleston,  co. Pem broke, yeoman , of land  in Ambleston .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483327 – date: 2 March, 1717
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Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Jane Rice of Ambleston, co. Pem­ broke, widow, of messuages and lands in Ambleston.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483330 – date: 12 March, 1717
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Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Lewis John of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of Woodstock Mill and appurtenances in the parish of Ambleston.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483338 – date: 1717
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Counterpart. Lease, as 483338 .
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483325 – date: 14 February, 1724
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Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to David  Jenkins  of Woodstock  in  the parish  of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, carpenter, of a messuage and lands in Wood­ stock.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483349 – date: 26 June, 1728
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Lease from Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to James Morgan of Woodstock, co. Pembroke, yeoman , of three messu­ages and land i n Woodstock to hold for the lives of the said James Morgan, Katherine, wife of Griffith Griffith, and James, son of the said James Morgan.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484048 – date: 7 September, 1728
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Counterpart of lease from Sir Herbert  Perrott  Pakington  of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Francis Llewhellin of Ambleston, co. Pembroke, yeoman , of land in Ambleston, to hold for the lives of Martha,  wife of  the said Francis, and Thomas and Francis, his  sons.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483347 – date: 7 September, 1728
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Counterpart of lease from Sir Herbert Perrott  Pakington  of Westwood,  co. Wore., bart., to Hugh  Philpin of Ambleston, co. Pembroke,  yeoman, of land in Ambleston, to hold  for the lives of John  Grunno,  stepson  of the said Hugh Phillpin, and John Grunno and Ellinor Grunno, son and daughter of the said John.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484051 – date: 7 September, 1728
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Counterpart of lease from Sir Herbert Perrott  Pakington  of  Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Phillip Thomas of Ambleston, co. Pembroke,  yeo­man, of a messuage land and premises in Ambleston, to hold for the lives of Mary, wife of the said Phillip, David, his son, and Anne, his daughter.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484049 – date: 14 February, 1729
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Counterpart of lease from Sir Herbert  Perrott  Pakington  of  Westwood , co. Wore., bart., to Edward Williams of Ambleston , co. Pembroke , gent., of messuages and lands in Wallis and Woodstock in the parish of Ambleston, to hold for the lives of Mary and Anne, daughters of the said Edward, and Edward Bowen , son of William Bowen of Lewiston, co. Pembroke .

6. CASTLEBYTHE

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481036 – date: 9 September, 1624
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Counterpart of lease from Sir James Perrot of Harold ston , co. Pembroke, yeoman knt., to Willi am Morice of Rudbaxton , co.  Pembroke, yeoman, and John and Maurice, his sons, of messuages and appurtenances in Castlebythe, co. Pembroke, for the term  of  their  lives.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481039 -date: c.1625
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Copy of grant by way of exchange from Sir James Perrott of Haroldston ,  co. Pembroke , knt., to Margaret Symyns,  alias  Gwilym ,  of  Martletwy, co. Pembroke , widow, and John Symyns of Martletwy, gent., of lands i n Upper and Lower Longhook, i n the pari sh of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke. Undated .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481032 – date: 24 October, 1626
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Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir James Perrot of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to Jevan Jenkin of Castlebythe, co. Pem­ broke, of  a messuage and  premi ses in Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481046 -date: 29 September, 1677
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Counterpart of lease for  twenty-one  years  from  Sir  Herbert  Perrott  of  Wellington , co. Hereford, knt., to Thomas Harding of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke, yeoman of messuages called Longhook and lands in Castle­ bythe .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481053 – date: 10 September, 1678
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Lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, knt., to John Llewellin of  Castlebythe,  co.  Pembroke,  yeo­ man, of a messu age and land in  Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/481040 – date: 10 November, 1681
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Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, knt., to Richard Adam s of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and l ands i n Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482690 – date: December, 1691
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Counterpart of lease for thirty-one years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ ston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to Thomas Harding of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke,  yeoman,  of  messuages and  tenements called  Longhook  and l ands in the pari sh of Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482840 – date: 16 August, 1707
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Writ of covenant between John Edwards, esq., pl ainriff , and John Pakington , bart., and Hester, his wife, deforciants, of two  messuages, lands and premi ses in Castlebythe , co. Pembroke.

FILE -ref. 705:349/12946/482843 – date: 19 August, 1707
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Lease for a year from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., and Dame Hester, his wife, to John Edwardes of Treffgarn, co. Pembroke , esq., of two messuages, lands and premi ses in  Castlebythe, co. Pembroke .
Not executed .
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482841- date: 20 August, 1707
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Indenture of mortgage from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pem­ broke, bart., and Dame Hester, his wife, to John Edwardes  of Treffgarn, co. Pembroke, esq., of two messuages, lands and premises in  Castle­  bythe, co. Pembroke.
Not executed.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482842 – date: 1707
Contents
Another copy of indenture of mortgage,   482841.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/511528 – date: 4 October, 1707
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Fine between John Edwardes, esq., plaintiff, and John Pakington,  bart.,  and Hester, his wife, deforciants, of messuages, lands, and premises i n Castlebythe,  co. Pembroke.
Not executed.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483343 – date: 9 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Ann Vaughan of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke,  widow, of a messuage  and lands in Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483324 – date: 28 February, 1724
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to James Lewis of Castleythe, co. Pembroke, yeoman,  of messuages  and lands in Castlebythe.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484044 – date: 30 May, 1741
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Perrott Paking­ ton of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to George Adams of Castlebythe, co. Pembroke, husbandman, of a messuage and lands near the village of Castlebythe.

 7. LLANYCHLWYDOG

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482689 – date: 3 March, 1696
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ ston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to James Harry of  the Forrest  in  the parish  of Newport, co. Pembroke, husbandman, of messuages, tenements and lands in the parishes  of Newport  and Llanychlwydog,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483336 – date: 4 April, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke , bart.,  to David  Rosser of Newport,  co. Pembroke,  yeoman, of a messuage, lands and premises in Newport and Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483322 – date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart.  Lease, as 483336 .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483335 – date: 10 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston , co. Pembroke,  bart.,  to  Henry  James  of  Newport,  co. Pem­broke, yeoman, of messuages and lands in the parishes of Newport and Dinas, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482864 – date: 28 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of articles of agreement between Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., and Thomas Knolles of Wennal l t, co. Pembroke, esq., concerning the rents and profits of Forrest  Mill  in  the  parish  of  Dinas,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482694 – date: 29 September, 1695
Contents
Counterpart  of lease for twenty-one  years from  Hester  Perrott  of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to Henry Lewis of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke,  yeoman,  of  a  messuage  and  lands  in Llanychlwydog.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482839 – date: 15 October, 1711
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., and Dame Hester, his wife, to John Thomas of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, gent., of three messuages and lands i n Llanychlwydog .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483317 – date: 8 March, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Packi ngton of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas Phi l l i ps of Ambleston, co.  Pembroke,  yeo­ man,  of  a messuage  and  lands  i n  Llanychlwydog,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483333 – date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart.  Lease,  as 483333.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483321 – date: 28 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Packi ngton of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart. , to John Will iam David  of Llanmarchan i n the parish of Llanychlwydog , co. Pembroke, of the messuage and lands called Llanmarchan.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482845 – date: 30 March, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Henry Thomas of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land in   Llanychlwydog.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482853 – date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart.  Lease,  as 482845.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483319 – date: 30 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to John Roberts of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land i n  Llanychlwydog .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483334 – date: 18 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Henry  R ichard  of  Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and  lands in  Llanychlwydog .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483337 – date: 18 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Paki ngton of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, bart. , to  William  Harry  of  Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, carpenter, of a messuage and  lands in  Llanychlwydog .

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483332 – date: 26 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Paki ngton of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas Havard  of  Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands i n   Llanychlwydog.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482850 – date: 23 June, 1718
Contents
Counterpart of articles of agreement between Sir John Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., and John Laugharne of Pontfaen, co. Pem­ broke, esq., for the sale of timber growing on lands belonging to the said Sir John  Pakington  in Llanychlwydog,  co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482844 – date: 28 June, 1732
Contents
Lease from Sir Herbert Parrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart.,  to Thomas Havard, senior, of Llanychl wydog, co. Pem broke, yeoman, of a messuage and land  in Llanychlwydog  to hold  for the term  of  the lives of Thomas Havard , ju nior, David Havard and Will iam Havard, nephews of the said Thomas Havard , senior.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482847 – date: 30 June, 1732
Contents
Lease from Sir Herbert Parrott Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to John William of Llanmarchan in the parish of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and land in  Llanychlwydog.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484047 – date: 9 December, 1737
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir Herbert Parrott Pak­ ington of the parish of Hampton Lovett, co. Wore., bart., to William Laugharne of Llanychlwydog, co. Pembroke, clerk, of a messuage and lands in Llanychl wydog.

8. NEWPORT

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482680 – date: 14 June, 1695
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Hester Perrott of Harold­ston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to James Owen of Newport, co. Pembroke, carpenter, of three messuages and lands in  Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482676 – date: 14 September, 1696
Contents
Lease for twenty-seven years from Hestor Perrott of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, spinster, to David Thomas of Newport, co. Pembroke, of a messuage and land in Newport.
Not executed.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482681 – date: 1696
Contents
Another copy of lease, as 482676.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482852 – date: 1March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Ann Hellier of Newport, co. Pem­broke, widow, and Thomas, her son, of a messuage and land in  Newport.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483340 – date: 14 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas David of Newport, co. Pem­broke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands in  Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482863 – date: 15 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to James Owen of Newport, co. Pem­ broke, husbandman, of two messuages and lands i n Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482854 – date: 23 March, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to William Morris of Dinas, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of two messuages and land in Newport, co.  Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483323 – date: 26 March, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to George Lloyd of Newport, co. Pem­ broke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands in  Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482848 – date: 2 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to James John of Newport, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands in  Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483316 – date: lO April, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Paki ngton of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas Patchell of Newport, co. Pem broke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands i n Newport.
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483339 – date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart. Lease, as  483316.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483328 – date: 23 April, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Jane William of Newport, co. Pembroke, widow, of a messuage and lands in Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483341- date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart.  Lease,  as 483328.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483331-date: 23 April, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart ., to William Jenkin of Newport, co. Pem­ broke, yeoman, of two messuages and lands in   Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483344 – date: 3 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart. , to William Lloyd of Penpedwast, co. Pembroke, esq., of two messuages  and lands in Newport, co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483329 – date: 4 May, 1717
Contents
Lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart., to Francis Vaughan of Nevern,  co. Pembroke,  yeoman , of a messuage and lands in the parish of Newport,   co. Pembroke.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482857 – date: 1717
Contents
Counterpart. Lease, as 483329. 64

The Archive and Pembrokeshire ‘Connection’ of the Paki ngtons of Westwood
FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483342 – date: 27 May, 1717
Contents
Counterpart of lease for twenty-one years from Sir John Paki ngton of Haroldston , co. Pembroke, bart., to Phi llip Wi lliams of Newport, co. Pembroke, husbandman , of messuages and  lands in Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/482860 – date: 28 May, 1717
Contents
Grant from Sir John Pakington of Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart. , to Thomas Knolles of Wennalt, co. Pembroke, esq., of lands in  Newport , co. Pembroke, by way of exchange for other lands in   Newport.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483350 – date: 20 June, 1732
Contents
Counterpart  of  lease  from  Sir  Herbert  Perott  Pakington   of   Haroldston, co. Pembroke, bart. , to Oliver Llewhel in of Newport , co.  Pembroke,  yeoman , of two messuages and land  i n  Newport,  to hold  for the  lives  of the  said Oliver Llewhelin,  John,  his  son, and  Elizabeth,  his daughter.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/484045 – date: 29 June, 1732
Contents
Lease from Sir Herbert Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to John Lloyd of Tregadifor in the parish of Newport, co. Pembroke,  husband­ man, of the messuage and lands called  Tregadifor.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483351 – date: 30 June, 1732
Contents
Lease from Sir Herbert Pakington of Westwood, co. Wore., bart., to Lewis David of Newport, co. Pembroke, yeoman, of a messuage and lands i n Newport, to hold for the lives of the said Lewis David, David Lewis, his son, and Thomas Vaughan , son of Francis Vaughan of Nevern , co. Pem­broke, yeoman.

FILE – ref. 705:349/12946/483353 – date: 30 June, 1732
Contents
Counterpart of lease from Sir Herbert Perrott  Pakington  of  Haroldston , co. Pembroke, bart., to Thomas  David  of  Newport,  co.  Pembroke,  yeoman, of a messuage and lands in Newport, to hold for the lives  of  the  said Thomas David, Elizabeth David , his wife, and  David  Thomas  David, his son.

Notes

I wish to acknowledge the support and encouragement given to me over the years  by the late Rich ard Pakington , Sixth Baron Hampton (d. 2003).  I  wish  to thank the Worcester Record Office for permission to reproduce the  calendar of  Pem­ brok eshire documents contai ned i n the Pakington archi ve.

I. For further details on the history of the Perrots of Hereford shi re, see R.  K.  Turvey, ‘NLW roll 1 35: A Seventeenth-century  Pedigree  Roll  from  Hereford­ shire ‘, National  Library  of Wales Journal, 30 ( 1 998), 373-408.
2. E. L. Barnwell, ‘Notes on the Perrot Fami ly’, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd Series, XII  ( 1 866),  1 24.  Based on  a comm u nication  from  a  fellow  antiq u ary a M r. Le Hunte of Astramont, Wexford i n Ireland, Barnwell  wrote  that  Sir Herbert Perrot ‘s inheritance was ‘not i n  consequ ence  of  a:ny  blood  relation , but m erely from the similarity of n ame. This information  M r.  Le  Hu nte  obtained from an ancient collection  of  pedigrees  some ti me entrusted  to  hi m , but which i s bel ieved to be now somewhere in north Wales’. Id em., Arch Camb., 3rd Series, XI ( 1 865), 14, 59; G.D. Squibb,  Reports  cd’  H eraldic Cases in the Court of Chivalry 1623-1732 (Harleian Society, vol., I07, Lon­ don, 1 956), 44. In 1 983 M . W. Hel ms and E. Rowlands wrote, ‘it is dou btful whether  he  [HerbertJ  really  belonged  to  the   well-known   Pembrokeshi re family whose estates he inherited ‘, in B.D. Henning (ed.), History  of  Parlia­ ment: The Commons, 1660-90, Ill, 229. On the other  hand,  the  l ate  A.  H.  Dodd and P. W. H asler were prepared to entertain  the  possibility,  however  distant, of a connection between the two families. P. W. Hasler, Hist. Par/., 1558-1603 , III,205.
3. G. D. Squibb, R.H.C.C.C., 44-46. Although born in Bristol, Thomas descended from the Perrots of Brook in Carmarthenshire who were cousins to Sir James Perrot with whom they (especially the plaintiff ‘s father also named Thomas) were on good  terms.
4. The pl aintiff , Thomas Perrot of London , formerly of the Brook, was lineally descended from Sir Owen Perrot’s fourth son John (d. c. l 560s).  Under  the terms of a deed of settlement of his estates issued by Sir John Perrot in 1 584, Thomas’s father had been n amed as a benefici ary in the event of th e death s  of the issuer’s sons namely  Sir Thomas (d.  1594), William  (d. c. 1 587)  and Sir  James  (d.  1637). After  Sir Joh n  Perrot’s  attainder  for  treason  his estates were forfeit to the Crown and  from  1 594- 1 608  Sir  J ames and  Thomas (plaintiff ‘s father)  worked   together  to  recover  them.
5. It i s noteworthy that the Perrot s of Morton were allowed to  use th e Perrot  coat – Gules three pears pendant or on a chief argent a demi lion i ssuant sable – without either a banaster sinister or cadency mark . I n the v i sitation of London in 1634 Francis Perrot had been allowed to register the Perrot coat of arms but only with the addition of a cadency mark  which  suggests that  the  full coat could only be borne by those descending through his brother R obert, father of  Herbert. College of Arms, MS. C. 24 f.   323.
6. G. D. Squibb, op. cit., 46. That  the Scotsborough  branch  of  the  fami l y  bore  the usual Perrot coat of arms may be confi rmed by the heraldry on the ap Rhys monument in Tenby church. The elaborate monu ment with i ts ei ght colourfully painted coats  of  arms,  was  erected  in  1 610 for  Margareta  M ercer by her husband Thomas ap Rhys, who was the son of Catherine  Perrot daughter  and  heiress of John  Perrot  (d .  1 569) the  last  of  the Scotsborough  li ne.
7. I n this  particular  i nstance the properti es concerned  amounted  to  1 1  messuages, 2 mi lls, a rectory and other lands in St. I shmaels, Freystrop and  St. Thomas. NLW, Great Sessions Records, Plea Rolls (County Pem broke), Wales 25/156 ; ibid., Facsimi lie 34 1 : Francis Green , Will s and Notes, vol., 24,  1 37-38.
8. Established in the county of Pembroke si nce the fourteenth century, the Laugharn e family only came to promi nence i n the sixteenth.  John  Laugharn e was sheriff of the county in 1 631. For detai l s, see Henry  Owen ,  Old  Pem­ broke Families (London , 1 902), 97-103; Di llwyn Mi l es, The Sher!ff.i · cd’ the County of Pembroke (Haverfordwest , 1974), 28.
9. G. D. Squibb, R.H.C. C.C., 45. It i s  possible  that  at  some  stage  Thom as  and Sir James Perrot may have h ad a falli ng out  but  there  i s  no evidence  to sup­port  this.
I0. Worcestershire  Record  Office (Worcester),  Hampton  Collection  (Paki ngton),
B.A. 3835/705:349/5 m. 5 [17 Sept. 1633]; Birmingham Reference Li brary, Caendar of the Hampton Collection, 417 : 481030 [19 Sept. 1 633]. It is to be noted that Sir James Perrot’s trusted servant, Thomas Stephens, acted as a witness to both transactions. Listed first among his servants in hi s wi ll , Sir James left Stephens £3 in cash to be paid two months after his decease. Barn­ well, Arch Camb., 3rd Series, XI ( 1 865), 490.
11. Prerogative Court of Canterbu ry,  PROB.  1  1 / 1 90. 1 2. NLW, Roll   135/1/3.
13. See F. Jones,  ‘Lloyd  of Cilciffeth’, The Pembrokeshire  Hist orian, no. 4 ( 1 972),
59-60.
14. For Details of Sir Herbert Perrot’s exploits i n Pem brokeshi re during the Civi l War, see A . L. Leach , The History of the Civil War in Pembrok eshire (Lon­  don ,  1 937), 20, 21 , 39, 41 , 58, 59, 60, 73, 89,  1 29,  1 40, 220.
1 5. B.  D.  Henning  (ed .), Hist . Par/.,  / 660-90, Ill, ‘228-9; W.  R.  Wi lli am s, The Parliamentary History of the County of Hereford , 1213-1896 (Brecon, 1 896), 158-9.
16. E. L. Barnwell, Perrot Notes  (London,  1867), 210.
17. H. & R. Pakington , The Pakingtons of Westwood (Worcester, 1975), 49.
18. ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Stuart Handley, ‘Sir John Pakington ‘ (fourth baronet, 1671-1727), New DNB,
Online edn.
21. Pakington, Pakingtons  of Westwood, 56.
22.  Ibid., 53.
23. Ibid. , 55.
24. Roland Thorne, The Political Scene, 1660-1815’ in D. Howells (ed.), Pem­ brokeshire County History, vol. l/1: Early M odern Pembrok eshire, 1536-1815 (Haverfordwest,  1 987), 333-59.
25. In hi s will Sir James Perrot left twenty shillings to ‘Ann Beavan my servant the daughter of John Beavan ‘. Barnwell , Perrot Notes,  191. A  John  Beavan had  been  i n  service to Sir John Perrot.
26. Pakin gton,  Pakingtons of  Westwood, 54.
27. Constant Phil l i ps was the son of the Independ ent mi nister Peregrine Phill i ps (d. 1 691 ) the so-called ‘apostle of Pembrokeshi re ‘. The fact that Constant’s father was described in Sir Herbert Perrot ‘s wi ll as ‘my lovi ng friend . . . of Drenchman’s Hill ‘ suggests that the son felt he had a special bond with Hester Perrot to whom  he  wrote  in  often  familiar  terms.  Barnwell ,  Perrot  Notes, 213. For  Peregrine  Phillips, see  The Dictionary  of  Welsh Biography,   761.
28. Pakington, Pakingtons  of Westwood, 62.
29. Ibid., 78.
30. Ibid., 71 . 31 . Ibid., 48.
32. Ibid ., 93.
33. Ibid., 96. E. A. B. Barnard states that Sir Herbert Perrott Pakington died in Leyden . Idem., ‘The Pakingtons of Westwood’ , Transactions of the Worcester­ shire Archaeological  Society, ns, 13 (1937 for 1936),  49.
34. I intend to explore the origin of the portrait  of Sir John Perrot   elsewhere.
35. Ibid., 93.
36. C. 0. Higgon  and F. Green,  ‘The Tuckers  of  Sealyham’ in  F.  Green  (ed.),
West Wales Historical  Records, vol. VIII (1919-20) , 183.
37. Pembrokeshire Record  Office, Haverfordwest,  D/RTP/H,  1763.
38. In 1902 Henry Owen could still write ‘Part of the Haroldston estate  still remains in the Packingtons (sic) (now Lords Hampton)’ but,  unbeknown  to  him at the time of writing, the sale of the remaining acres of the family’s possessions in the county was already in the process  of  completion.  Owen, Old Pembroke Families, 60.

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