PRICE, Ellis (c.1512-94), of Plas Iolyn and Ysbyty Ifan, Denb.

Visitor of rel. houses in Wales 1535; chancellor of St. Asaph diocese c. 1537 – 38, of Bangor diocese 1560; commissary gen. St. Asaph 1538; member, council in the marches of Wales from 1560; Earl of Leicester’s steward of lordship of Denbigh from c. 1564; master in Chancery extraordinary.

J.p.q. Merion. from 1543, Denb. from 1555, Caern. from 1561, Anglesey, Mont. 1564, most Welsh counties by 1575, all and Mon. by 1579; sheriff, Denb. 1548 – 49, 1556 – 57, 1568 – 69, 1572 – 73, Merion. 1551 – 52, 1555 – 56, 1563 – 64, 1567 – 68, 1573 – 74, 1578 – 79, 1583 – 84, Caern. 1558 – 59, Anglesey 1577 – 78, 1585 – 86; custos rot. Merion. from 1559.DWB; Griffith, Peds. 204; LP Hen. VIII, ix. pp. 205, 283, 291; D. R. Thomas, St. Asaph, i. 253; Cal. Wynn Pprs. p. 339; A. I. Pryce, Diocese of Bangor in 16th Cent. 20; Strype, Cranmer (1853), p. 274; CPR, 1560–3, pp. 446–7; Flenley, Cal. Reg. Council, Marches of Wales , 132; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, i. 323; SP12/231/57; HMC Welsh, i. 291–2.