This information is from the PRO records for '1558 - 1579 Llanllwchaern' in Montgomeryshire. This translation was supplied to me by Susan King in Oct 2000. Some words could not be made out. The paragraph breaks are mine, to aid legibility. The original is written in English.

There are a couple of points of particular interest. First, Thomas identifies himself as an English man. Clearly he is a man of substance, describing himself as a yeoman, and with the means to commission a complaint. One wonders if he wrote the original himself, or hired a clerk to do it.

We see a reference to Moryce Gough. Gough is a well established Welsh name (also Irish), but Maurice (Morris) appears as a very common Bebb name. It was clearly established in Wales in this period, carried by a (presumably) Welsh man. Was it just a common name of the period?

Susan wonders:
Is this the same Thomas Bebb of Llanllwchaern mentioned in the goal files in 1545, being resident in the township of Hendidle Manor of Cedewain?

Hard Times of Thomas Bebb Yeoman

To the right honourable Sir Nicholas Bacon, knight, Lord-keeper of the Great Seal. In most lamentable wise complaining shows to your lordship your poor orator Thomas Bebb of Llanllwchaern in the county of Montgomeryshire, yeoman that whereas one Edward ap Pryce late of Newtown in the said county _________? Deceased on his lifetime was ceased in his demesne as of fee of 4 acres of land meadow and pasture and of one piece of meadow ground in Gwestydd in the said county of Montgomeryshire and of one acre and piece of meadow besides lying and being in the said parish of Llanllwchaearn aforesaid and so being there of seized demesne and granted the same to your said orator for the term of twenty one years where of there be yet many years to come and afterwards died there of seized after and by whose death the premises did descend and come and of right ought to descend and come to one ______? Ap Edward yet being an infant and under the age of 21 years.

But it is good lord that one Moryce Pryce Gough of Llanllwchaern aforesaid and Thomas Jenkins clerk parson to the said Newtown being men of a similarititude of honesty and persons with whom the said Edward ap Pryce in his life time used much familiarity now since his death have got into their hands the deeds charters writings and munuments and by colour of having thereof have conveys to themselves certain __________? Interests not only to the disinheritance of the said infant but also thereby have entered into the premises and utterly expelled and rejected your said orator from his lawful interest and possession therefor there of which is like to be his utter undoing for ever without your lordship moved with pity extend your charitable aid as well to the said infant as to your said orator for their release in this behalf.

May it therefor please your Lordship the premisses tenderly considered for as much as the said infant though he is comorant (domiciled) in the City of London is not able for to try his right with the said Morris Pryce Gough and Thomas Jenkins and also for that your said orator is an English man and not able to try with them in Wales for his right where they are so greatly allied and befriended therefor to grant the Queen's Majesties writ of subpoena be directed to the said Morris Pryce Gough and Thomas Jenkins commanding them thereby under a pain and at a certain day in the same _________? Limited not only personally to appear before your Lordship in the Queen's high court of Chancery and there to make answer to the premisses but also to abide your Lordship's order there in to be made as shall seem ________? And agreeable with equity and conscious and your said orator shall pray for your Lordship with much increase of honour long to enjoy.

Sir Nicholas Bacon

Here is some information about Sir Nicholas Bacon, culled from a couple of web sites to add a little context. The time of interest is the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Lady Anne Bacon, painted terra-cotta bust, Sir Nicholas Bacon painted terra cotta bust, 1568

1509–79, English jurist. Called to the bar in 1533, he was made attorney of the court of wards and liveries in 1546 and, although a staunch Protestant, held this office through the reign of Mary I. On the accession (1558) of Elizabeth I, he was appointed lord keeper of the privy seal, possibly through the influence of William Cecil, later Lord Burghley (whose wife’s sister Bacon married). In 1559 he was authorized to exercise the jurisdiction of the lord chancellor. He regarded Mary Queen of Scots as a menace to English peace and opposed any measure of compromise with her. He was the [adoptive] father of Francis Bacon.

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