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Continuing with the Meyrick family of Pembroke, we find by 1597 that Gelly Meyrick’s friend and patron, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex was…

The lost village of Chart: Settlement possibly demolished due to disease only remembered due to curious artifact  |  No-one knows exactly what happened to the village of Chart. Mentioned as a manor in the Domesday Book, it was clearly once an important place with a right to hold a market every Tuesday granted by Royal Charter from Edward II in 1310 and a three-day fair to celebrate St John the Baptists day. Chart existed in Anglo-Saxon times: re-enactors Janet and Bob Connelly It seems to hav...