Editing Colwinston (section)

===Middle Ages and after===
By 1340, Sir Roger de Bavant had become the owner of the remainder of the Manor. In 1344 (for reasons unknown) he gave his property to the then King of England, Edward III, who (again for reasons unknown) endowed the property upon the Dominican Nuns at Dartford Priory in Kent.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris Hawker|title=Colwinston: a historical journey|publisher=Cowbridge History Society|year=2018|isbn=9781999687403}} p. 16.</ref> Tithes and rents were paid to the two Priories, with the right to appoint the Vicar being with Ewenny Priory.  Henry VIII famously seized all monastery lands in 1536, [[Sir Edward Carne]], a commissioner during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]], was able to lease [[Ewenny Priory]] from the king, eventually purchasing it in 1545 for £727-6s-4d.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300011249-ewenny-priory-house-ewenny |title=Ewenny Priory (house) |website=British Listed Buildings |accessdate=4 September 2017 }}</ref> He also purchased the Dartford priory land at Colwinston<ref>Williams, G. The Ecclesiastical History of Glamorgan 1527-1642 in Williams, G. (ed) Glamorgan County History Vol IV, pub: University of Wales Press p. 197</ref> creating a single 'Manor of Colwinston'.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris Hawker|title=Colwinston: a historical journey|publisher=Cowbridge History Society|year=2018|isbn=9781999687403}} p.18.</ref> By 1539 English law had been extended to cover Wales and the County of Glamorgan was formally established as an administrative unit.  Colwinston remained a pocket of [[recusant|recusancy]], with priests continuing to administer the sacrament according to the Roman rite.  Even into the 17th century, [[Philip Evans and John Lloyd#John Lloyd|John Lloyd]], a local priest under the protection of the Turbevilles at Penlline, was arrested and hanged, drawn and quartered on the Heath at Cardiff in 1679 at the height of the hysteria caused by the 'Popish Plot'.