Royal MS 18 A LXXV

'THIS DISSENTT of the moost victorious and Chrysten prynce kyng Edward the sext, sonne and heire of kyng Henry the viiith, that goeth lynyally to Brute, is true lynage and agreith with the best cronycles in Wales, and was at the true examinacion off the same the abbatt of Llyngewestill, maister doctour Even Pole [Owen Pole, canon of Hereford, d. 1509], syr Johan Lyaff, prist, Guttyn Owen, Robert ap Hoell ap Thomas, Johan Kyng, Madoe ap Llywelyn ap Hoell and Gruffith ap Llywelyn Vichan, which hathe founde and proved this good and true lynaige': descent by various lines of Henry VII from Brutus, notices of some of the chief princes being interspersed; said to be findings of a commission consisting of the persons named appointed for the purpose by Henry VII (see Humphrey Lloyds Historie of Cambria, ed. David Powel, 1584 ed., p. 391). A garbled text seems to have been used by Wynne and subsequent editors of Lloyds work, by whom it is printed in the appendix (ed. 1697, p. 331, and ed. 1812, P. 331), cf. Edward Lloyd, MSS. in the Brit. Museum rel. to Wales, i, p. 105. At the end is the scribe's name 'per me Dauid Holand of Rwthyn'. The arms of France and England are roughly drawn on f. 1 b. Paper; ff. 10. Folio. 123/4 in. x 81/2 in. Temp. Edw. VI. Belonged (f. 1) to Humphrey Lloyd and (f. 2) to his brother-in-law [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 168; not in cat. of 1666 or CMA.