Medieval Welsh Divorce.- Record by Lewis Myvot, Bachelor of Canon & Civil Law and ?commissary in Powys and the March, at the conclusion of which David ap Madoc of Oswestry is divorced from Anne wife of John ap Roger, as he has had carnal intercourse...

Medieval Welsh Divorce.- Record by Lewis Myvot, Bachelor of Canon & Civil Law and ?commissary in Powys and the March, in a case of divorce, of the hearing which took place in full chapter at Oswestry on the penult. day of April 1487, at the conclusion of which David ap Madoc of Oswestry is divorced (has his marriage formally broken) from Anne wife of John ap Roger, as he has had carnal intercourse with Anne wife of Jankyn Lite, as is testified by witnesses, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 12 lines, remains of red wax seal, folds, slightly creased, 104 x 282mm., April 1487.

⁂ Extremely scarce. Divorce or annulment was rare, but not unknown in medieval England, and such matters were settled in church courts. Under medieval Church law, there were only a few, very specific reasons which could allow men and women to ask for a divorce, one of which included adultery.

Myvot is recorded as Bachelor of Canon and Civil LawL by Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxford, II, p. 1335, in 1456.