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Thi^ee Olci Founciations. 99 Archdeacon's attitude in like conditions at other places, would not altogether be disconcerting to his conscience or sense of the fitness of things. By the time of Henry VIII this had actually been realised. From the " Yalor Ecclesiasticus "^ we find that the three Chaplains to whom attention has ah-eady been called were in addition incumbents of the daughter churches in which Clynnog had an interest. These were :— 1. Capella de Llan ünda et Llan Vaglan. 2. Capella de Llan Gelynyn [in Merioneth]. 3. Ecclesia de Llan Keynwen et Llan Kaffo.^ This is why the five clergymen in connection with Clynnog were called portionists. Superficially it appears quite simple, but when the position is examined it opens out difficulties of all kinds. A. Neobard Palmer in the " Archaeologia Cambrensis "^ has written very lucidly and at great length on the anomalous position of a portionist. All the five were portionists of Clynnog, and were insti- tuted by the Bishop as vacancies occurred. One was called the Praepositus, another Vicar, and the other three Chaplains. This institution by the Bishop covered the three daughter incumbencies which are mentioned above, and so no record of any separate institution to the daughter churches are to be found. Time and space do not permit of a survey of Clynnog as given in the " Valor Ecclesi- asticus " it ; would be interesting though complicated. The references in the " Valor " are many in number. The importance or rather the value of the patronage of Clynnog is apparent as it involved five appointments. When the Commission of 1537 adjudicated the patronage of Clynnog to be in the possession of the King, naturally it would not be acceptable to the Bishop, and so in 1541 we » Yalor, XX. ^ 1886, 5th series, vol. iii, p. 175. '^ Broione WiUis. p. 202. H 2
loo Three Old Fonndations . find Bishop Arthur Bulkeley petitioning the King^ to permit him to appeal to the Court of the Marches on the question. The Bishop was personally concerned in the decision for he had been admitted in 1537 by Bishop John Capon of Bangor as a prebendary of Clynnog.^ When Bulkeley became Bishop in 1541 he forthwith petitioned. It was ultimately decided to uphold the finding of the Commission and we find that the Earl of Pembroke became patron, but whether by purchase or favour is not known. Before the court had finally given its verdict in favour of the King, there were vacancies in two of the daughter churches in 1543, and Bishop Bulkeley appointed John Puleston to Llanwnda,^ and Edward Keble to Llangelynin ^"^ but we discover that the Earl of Pembroke afterwards made good his rights for he appointed to Llanwnda in conjunction with Clynnog in 1564,^ and also like- wise to Llangelynin.'^ It is much to be regretted that the questionable transactions which unmistakably took place at this time in such matters as Church patronage, not only at Clynnog but throughout England and Wales, were general, and deserve every stricture and condemnation possible. It was an age which was golden in more senses than one. The glories of the times were many, and the misdeeds were equally as numerous. Even as late as 1829^ i Browne Willis, p. 260. " Letter from Sir Richard BulTceley to Thomas Cromwell, dated May 8th, 1537 ". In letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, xii(i), No. 1154. Browne Willis {Bangor), p. 101, gives August 8th, 1525, as the date of Bullteley's institution as Prebend of Clynoc Vachan, but we find that this should have been August 7th, 1537 (see " The Diocese of Bangor in the Si.rteenth Century, p. 8). ^ The Diocese of Bangor in the Si.rteenth Century, p. 10. '» Ibid., p. 9. " 6 ii)ici_^ p_ 18. 7Ô2ÍÍ., p. 18. ^ This information is found in an interleaved copy of Mona Antiqua which belonged to the Rev. J. H. Williams, Rector of
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