Henry VII. 1507 John Thomas

........

Willm. Aspole; Morgan Tucker.

1508 John Mary Church ...John Hunny; David Griffith.

Henry VIII. 1509 William Clon al. Tanner..Jenk: Thomas al. Bidder; Richd.

1513 Jenk: Thomas al. Bidder.. Richd. Locker; David Clon.

......

........

1514 John Lloyd

..John Rogers; Willm. Thomas.
..John Lewis; Nicholas Garrett.
..John Barrett; John Rogers.
. Eynon A. Powell; Nicholas Genins.
Patrick Canton; John Teyler.

John Walter; John Hemings.

..Howell Lawrence; David Morris.
..John Hopkin; Thomas Gough.
..Jno. Davy; Jno. Bledry; David
Canton.

"Lewis Dwnn, i. p. 68.

The following account of his son is taken from Halliwell's Connexion of Wales with the Early Science of England:

"The first original writer on arithmetic in English; the first on geometry; the first person who introduced the knowledge of algebra into England; the first writer on astronomy in English; the first person in this country who adopted the Copernican system; the inventor of the present method of extracting the square root; the inventor of the sign of equality; the inventor of the method of extracting the square root of multinomial algebraic quantities:-all these claimants for fame and the respect of posterity unite in Robert Recorde, M.D., physician to Queen Mary, a native of Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, and a man whose memory deserves a much larger portion of fame than it has hitherto met with. The particulars which I have been able to collect relative to Recorde's life are few. It seems that he went to Oxford about 1525, where he publicly taught rhetoric, mathematics, music and anatomy, and was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1531. He was resident in London as early as 1547. According to Fuller, he was of the Protestant religion. Kennet says that he died early in 1558, but he does not give his authority; though it is probable that he did not long survive the making of his will, which is dated the 28th of June, 1558, and where he styles himself Robert Recorde, Doctor of Physicke, though sicke in body yet whole of mynde.' This document is preserved in the Prerogative Office, and furnishes some facts. To Arthur Hilton, Under-Marshal of the King's Bench, where I now remaine prisoner,' his wife, and the other officers and prisoners, he gave small amounting to £6 16s. 8d.; to his servant John, £6; to his mother, and his father-in-law, her husband, £20; to Richarde Recorde, his brother, and Robert Recorde, his nephew, his goods and chattels, out of which his debts and the expenses of his funeral were to be discharged. In a codicil to this will, made on the following day, he gives directions that his law books should be sold to Nicolas Adams, a fellow-prisoner, for £4. The works of Recorde are all written in dialogue between master and scholar, in the rude English of the time. All his writings considered together, Recorde was no common man. It is evident that he did not write very freely at first in English, but his style improves as he goes on. writings continued to the end of the century to be those in common use on the subjects on which he wrote, though we must gather this more from the adoption of ideas and notation than from absolute citation."

sums

His

1528 David Clon al. Tanner....Jenk. Lloyd; Willm. Horton.

............

....

1529 John Lloyd

1535 Willm. Sutton

....

1536 Thomas Lougher

1537

( John Lloyd

.Griffith Lloyd; Lewis Pricked." ...Griffith Prickard; Willm. Sutton. Thomas Barrett;8 Jenkin Barrett.

Owen Lloyd; David Bidder.
John Water; John Gough; George
Rey.

..... Philip Dey; Philip Gibb.

Thomas Lougher1....

}

. David Germin; John Gronno.9
Richd. Record; John Thomas.

Thomas Gryffy; Thomas Brown.

1538 Richd. Clon als. Tanner ..John Collins; Edward Waddin. 1539 Thomas Lougher ........William Colle; Mathew Davy

1551 Richard Clon als. Tanner. John Rastall Ar; Nicholas Crew. 1552 John Rastall: Ar...

1553 John Rastall Ar

1554 James Barrett, Ar

........

...

1550 Thomas Lougher

1555 Phillip Mathoe...

1556 John Lloyd

1557 John Perrott.

Griffith Lloyd; Thomas Latch. ..John Philkin; John Kethin. ..Jenkin Morgan; George Chaplin. . John Canton; Harry Thomas. ...Griffith Gwin; Griffith Howell. Richard Phillipps; John Stafford. 8 Ibid. pp. 68, 146.

1 George Owen in his MS. History of the County of Pembroke, contained in the British Museum, Harleian Collection, No. 6250, folio 12, gives the following account of the son of the above Thomas:

"Robert Lougher, Doctor of Lawes, borne in Tenby, was for his learninge of great estimaion, and held the cheyre in Oxford for many yeares, beside other chief places in the Universitie, till worthielye he was advanced to be Chancellor of York, holdinge wch place he dyed, the 3rd of June, 1585, at Tenby, where he was borne." 2 Lewis Dwnn, i. p. 147.

.William Ffrench; Roger Arley;
Morris King.

Ho: Howell; Wm. Young.

Richd. Barrett; Jno. Thomas als.
Saunders.

.. Thoms. Mason; Griff: Gibbon.

1582 Rees Prickard Senr....... Roger Barry; Thomas Prendergast.

1578 Griff: Howell

er.

1579 William Ffender

1580 Griff: Howell

...

William Barrett; Thos. Moore.

Robt. Record; Robt. Benson.

Wm. Fferrior;8 Wm. Askott; Walter
Brown.

.Davd: Palmer; Geo: Griffith.

Wm. Massy; Jams: Maggott.

Jno: Edwards; Jno. Byrren.
Richd. Jyllian; Jams. Prickard.
..Richd. Wallis; Dav: Bidder.

Dev: Barrett; Anth: Woodward.
Wm Shepheard; Thomas Dunsterfield
.Tho: Welche; Lewis Elliott.
..Jno. Cole; Griff: Brynn.

..Jno: Rogers; Dav: Gibbon.
...........Tho: Griffyth; Robt. Bryn.

3 Richard Recorde is mentioned among other alchemical writers in an old poem called "Bloomfield's Blossoms," written in the reign of Henry VIII.Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, p. 309.

* Lewis Dwnn, i. p. 67.

5 Ibid. p. 67.

"Ibid. p. 66.

6 Ibid. p. 177. 8 Ibid. p. 64.

9 The following extract from the Minute Book of the Corporation of Tenby,

NOTE ON THE LIST OF MAYORS AND BAILIFFS OF TENBY.

Although the list contains but few names that are
evidently Flemish, such as De Wilkin, Adlard, Fernand,
Yencks, and Jenkin, it is probable that many of the other
surnames are of the same origin. As the appearance of
some of these surnames in the early records of the
settlers in the south-east of Ireland may be taken in
proof of their remoter antiquity in South Wales, the

inserted during the Mayoralty of David Hammond, may not be without interest to
some of our readers :-"Wee whose names are underwritten hereby undertake that
Mr. Thomas Wyatt shall bee paid him for Gown powther and shott and mach
which he has bought for the use of the Towne by the 1st of November next ensuing
being the sum of ffive Pounds nine shillings & elevenpence.

Abraha. Barrowe.

The 22d of September 1642.

DAVID HAMOND, Mayor.

7 Thomas Rogers, as well as " David Hammond" and "John Protheraugh," are
mentioned in the Register of Marriages of the Parish of Gumfreston, as Mayors of
Tenby, by whom, during the time of the Commonwealth, it would appear from the
following extract from the said Register, and other similar entries, that the
Marriage ceremony was often performed:-" John Lloyd & Anna Williams both
of the p'ishe of Gumfreston, were married by Thomas Rogers, one of the Justices of
the Peace for the Town of Tenbie, upon the first day of November 1655.
THOMAS ROGERS, §§ Maior.
John Rice
Morgan Bowen."

In the presence of-Arthur Russel

William Lewis

ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. IV.

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