The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire ... Illustrated by ... engravings and portraits

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(Efye 31lustrateo fjistory ano -Siograpfyy of -Brecknockshire. 5rom tfye (Earliest Cimes to tfye Present Day. Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions, with the History of the Principal Families, Institutions, and Societies of the County, together with the Parochial History of all the Parishes in the said County, to which is added a Biographical Record of Eminent Inhabitants, History of the Borough and County Parliamentary Representatives, with a Roll of High Sheriffs to the Present Time, Mayors of Brecknock, and many useful Tables of County Information. ILLUSTRATED by SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS and PORTRAITS. By EDWIN POOLE. BEECKNOCK : PEINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1886. GLANUSK PARK, CRICKHOWELL : SEAT OP THE LORD LIEUTENANT, (Efye 3Uustrateo history anc -Biography of 23recknocksbire. 5rom tt?e €adtest (Times to tf?e Present Day.

Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions, with the History of the Principal Families, Institutions, and Societies of the County, together with the Parochial History of all the Parishes in the said County, to which is added a Biographical Record of Eminent Inhabitants, History of the Borough and County Parliamentary Representatives, with a Roll of High Sheriffs to the Present Time, Mayors of Brecknock, and many useful Tables of County Information. ILLUSTRATED by SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS and PORTRAITS. By EDWIN POOLE. BRECKNOCK : PEINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1886. APPENDICES. Pages.

Appendix

I.— Lord Lieutenants of Brecknockshire 378

APPENDIX.

II.— High Sheriffs of Brecknockshire, from a.d. 1539 to 188(3 379—392

APPENDIX.

III. — Parliamentary Representatives of the County and Borough of Brecknock, 1511—1886 393—109

APPENDIX.

IV.— Bailiffs and Mayors of Brecknock, 1556— 1886 410—416 Town Clerks of Brecknock 416 Extracts from old Corporation Records, 1667— 1730 417—422 Visit of Lord Nelson to Brecknock 422

APPENDIX.

V.— List of Judges on the Brecknock Circuit 423—428

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VI.— Magistrates for the Coimty of Brecknock in 16b0 429

APPENDIX.

VII. — Owners of One Hundred Acres of Land and upwards in Brecknockshire 430—435

APPENDIX.

VIIL— Tabular Statement of the Borough and County Charities 436—445

APPENDIX.

IX.— Population Tables for Period 1673— 1881 446—450

APPENDIX.

X.— Agricultural Returns for County of Brecknock from the year 1872—1885 451—454

APPENDIX.

XL— Poor-Law Statistics for the County of Brecknock 455—456

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XII. — Showing Number of Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the County of Brecknock at Different Periods ... ... ... ... ... ... 456

APPENDIX.

XIIL— Rainfall Tables 457—458

APPENDIX.

XIV. — Perambulation of the Chapelry of St. Mary and Upper Division of St. John the Evangelist, Brecknock, in 1819 459 — 461

APPENDIX.

XV. — Books Printed in Brecknockshire, with List of County Authors, 1555—1886 462—469

APPENDIX.

XVI.— In Memoriam: Thomas Prestwood Lucas 470 CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to this Work 475—483 INDEX 485—495 CONTENTS. Pages.

Preface

ix.— xv. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS xvi.— xxm.

Part I

— GENERAL HISTORY. Chapter I. — The Pre-Historic History of the County ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 — 5 Chapter II. — The Roman and Native Rulers of Brecknockshire ... ... ... ... si — 7 Chapter III. — The Conquest of the last Prince of Brecknock by Bernard Newmarch, the Norman ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 8 — 9 Chapter IV. — The Reign of the Lords Marchers ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 — 12 Chapter V. — The Death of Llewellyn at Cefn-y-Bedd, and Brecknock under the De Bohuns 12 — 14 Chapter VI. — Henry IV. Lord of Brecknock, and the Exploits of Sir David Gam, " the Brecknockshire Squire" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 — 16 Chapter VII. — Brecknock under the Dukes of Buckingham. Sir John Price and the Union lsi — 21 Chapter VIII. — Brecknockshire during the Civil Wars ... ... ... ... ... 21 — 24 PAET II.— THE HISTOEY OF THE TOWN OF BEECKNOCK.

Chapter I.— The Castle and Walls of Brecknock 25— 2C Chapter II. — The Municipal Becords. Brecknock one of the most Ancient Boroughs in the Kingdom. Its Charters 26—81 Chapter III. — The Government of the Borough 32 — 33 Chapter IV. — A Descriptive Tour of Brecknock in 1698, from the Manuscript of Hugh Thomas, the Brecknockshire Herald ... ... ... ... ... ... 34 — 36 Chapter V.— History of the Priory Church of St. Jolm : Its Monuments and Inscriptions 36 — 56 Chapter VI. — The College of Christ of Brecknock ... 57 — 66 Chapter VII. — St. Mary's and St. David's Churches. The Memorial (Congregational) College 66—70 Chapter VIII. — Public Buildings. Public Improvements in the Borough during the Present Century ' 70—79 Chapter IX.— Notable Events and Gatherings at Brecknock 79 — PAET III.— A DESCRIPTIVE TOUE OF THE COUNTY : ITS FAMILIES CASTLES, CHUECHES, MANSIONS, "AND ANTIQUITIES.

Pages. Chapter I. — The Natural Features of the County 85 — 88 Chapter II. — The Ancient County Families of Brecknockshire and their Mansions . . . 89 — 97 Chapter III. — County Families now Living on their Estates or Possessing Living Eepresentatives 97 — 118 The Mansions of Brecknockshire 118 — 121 Chapter IV. — Roman and British Remains around Brecknock ... ... ... ••• 122 — 125 Chapter V. — The History of the District around Brecknock 126 — 134 Chapter VI. — The History of the District around Brecknock (concluded) ... 135 — 154 Chapter VII. — Llanwrtyd, Llangammarch, and Builth District 155 — 175 Chapter VIII. — The History of Talgarth, Hay, and surrounding District 175 — 216 Chapter IX. — History of the Parishes in the Hundred of Crickhowell, including Brynmawr 217 — 238 Chapter X. — The History of the District around Defynnock 238 — 262 Chapter XL — County Institutions, Buildings, and Societies ... ... ... ... ••• 263 — 269 PAET TV.— BEECKNOCKSHIRE AS A MILITARY CENTRE.— HISTORY OF THE LINE, MILITIA, AND VOLUNTEER BATTALIONS FORMING THE 24th EEGIMENTAL DISTEICT.

Chapter I.— The South Wales Borderers, 1st and 2nd Battalions (24th Regiment of Foot) 270—275 Chapter II. — History of the Militia Regiment of our County... ... ... ... ... 276 — 281 Chapter III. —The 1st Brecknockshire Battalion of Volunteers ... .. ... ... 281 — 290

PART V.

— THE BIOGRAPHY OF BRECKNOCKSHIRE 291—329

PART VI.

— THE EISE AND PEOGRESS OF NONCONFORMITY IN THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK Introductory .,, ,, 330—332 Chapter I, — History of the Baptist Cause 333 — 342 Chapter II. — The History of Calvinistic Methodism in Brecknockshire ... ... ... 342 — 348 Chapter III. — A Short History of the Independents in the County of Brecknock ... ... 349 — 370 Chapter IV. — Wesleyan Methodism in Brecknockshire ... ... ,., ... ... 371 — THIS WORK IS VTiost Respectfully T)ebkateb, BY SPECIAL PEEMISSION, TO SIR JOSEPH RUSSELL BAILEY, BART., (Of Glanusk Park, in the County of Brecknock,) Lord Lieutenant of the County, AND Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions, BY THE AUTHOR. ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS WORK. Illustration. To Face GLANUSK PARK, CRICKHOWELL Page 1. BRECKNOCK CASTLE Page 25. PRIORY CHURCH, BRECKNOCK Page 41. COLONEL THOMAS WOOD, M.P Page 71.

MAP OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK Page 85, NEWTON, NEAR BRECKNOCK Page 93. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CROMLECHS AND MAEN H1RS Page 140. CRICKHOWELL CASTLE Page 219. PORTHMAWR (THE GREAT GATE) ... Page 223. 1st BARON TREDEGAR Page 281. THE RIGHT HON SIR BARTLE FRERE Page 295. MRS. SIDDONS Page 319. CYFARTHFA CASTLE, the Seat of a Brecknockshire High Sheriff Page 393. 2nd BARON TREDEGAR Page 405. CYRIL FLOWER, ESQ., M.P. FOR BRECKNOCK Page 407.

PREFACE.

. "■^^sr?? GOOD deal has been said from time to time as to the relative fitness of a "stranger" to \4!æ£ write the History of the County of his adoption. Therefore it remains for me in the JK^IL first place to acquaint my readers with the fact that I have been resident in the town of Brecknock for nearly fourteen years ; and being a journalist by profession, I have conse quently enjoyed exceptional facilities for becoming thoroughly well grounded in the past and present history of the county, and know intimately the history of all the social, religious, and other public movements that may be comprised in the public life of a community. It has been my business, times almost without end, to study and collect facts and particulars in regard to the past history of the county, to write biographical memoirs of public men resident therein from time to time, and to set forth the past history of many of its institutions and societies for and at the behest of a discerning public.

What is known as "the general public" may be given credit for possessing pretty shrewd and correct ideas ; and whenever I was called, in my capacity as Editor of the Brecon County Times, to set forth the history of any particular institution bound up in the past history of the county, that discerning public showed its interest therein, and the natural and only conclusion I could arrive at was, that there was a demand for more free and full particulars of the past history of the county in book form. In the year 1876 I put this idea of mine to the practical test, and having procured a copy of that rara avis, Jones's History of Brecknockshire, I summarized the facts contained in the three big folio volumes, and so far as my own knowledge, and knowledge placed at my disposal by kind friends, could do, I connected that summarized history collected from " the great and unapproachable" source with the "living present": the result was that one thousand copies of my initial work* were quickly sold, and the book is now practically out of print.

Stranger though I felt myself to be at that time, I certainly felt highly gratified with the reception given by the good people of Brecknock shire to my little book, and I therefore came to the conclusion that a larger and more ambitious attempt might also receive commensurate acknowledgement at the hands of the inhabitants. I therefore commenced to collect facts and collate information, with the definite object of preparing a County History of sufficient worth and at such a price as would meet the wishes of the people to whom I should have to appeal for support. In the Brecon County Times of December 10th, 1881, I wrote an article sketching out my "Proposed New Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire." I subsequently received letters of a congratulatory and inspiriting nature from several of our local and county public men.

I did nothmg further, however, (except to go on collecting material) until the Spring of 1884, when I issued a prospectus of the proposed work. The response to that prospectus I must acknowledge was very hopeful, and having enrolled sufficient subscribers to put beyond reasonable doubt any monetary loss by the transaction, on August 5th, 1884, was issued Part I. of the work ; and at no stated intervals, the other Parts have been issued up to the present time : they have been just as the ordinary, but by no means light, duties of a newspaper editor and general publisher "'* The People's History of Brecon, Town and County, by Edwin Poole. Brecon : 1876. PEEFACE. X would allow. The liberal and distinguished List of Subscribers that immediately follows this Preface will be a sufficient answer to the unreasonable opinions expressed by the one or two jealous detractors who have indulged in meek winnings about my being a "stranger."

If fourteen years of active business life do not cease to make a man a stranger to a locality, then I do not know what other qualifications will. A further reason why such a timorous mortal as I should undertake this particular work was found in the fact that during my journeys up and down the county I met scores of intelligent and well-read people who were lamenting they could never get hold of a copy of Jones's Brecknockshire. The work has been for many years so scarce that ordinary people could never hope to get a copy of it, and this fact had its due weight in my mind. There was a thirst, but there were no quenching waters at call. I soon ascertained that if the clergyman and the squire in each parish possessed a copy (and I know now that many of the clergy do not possess a copy), they were so well preserved that the general public would never be able to command even a sight of the work, let alone opportunities of perusing its pages.

Therefore I plead that an existing demand for a Popular County History has prevailed for many years, and having a predisposition for the work, I at once ceased to "dream dreams," (although a stranger!) and set myself the task of putting my collected material into book shape. Another equally unreasonable objection to my undertaking such a work has been mentioned, i.e., my ignorance of the Welsh language ! So far as the objection goes, it can be disposed of by my replying that the work is written in the English tongue, for readers who thoroughly understand that language, and that in copying Welsh place-names and certain quotations I have carefully followed the best authorities, no two of whom, however, agree among themselves as to Welsh orthography. I have frequently found, in my experience as a newspaper editor, that one Welsh scholar has his own rules of interpretation, and that another holds quite a different brief.

Theophiius Jones himself felt the "Welsh difficulty" quite as much as I do ; therefore if the greater mind showed signs of diffidence in his references and treatment of the "poetic language," surely I may well be forgiven if I tread with even greater diffidence the same rugged track. I believe that a year or two ago two of the most reputable local Welsh scholars attempted to settle and determine the exact orthographic and etymologic names of the county bridges in Brecknockshire, and in the " County Book of Orders," published in 1884, whT be found the result of then' combined labours : although " Crickhowel " would be the pound of flesh a Welsh Shylock would exact, even those great authorities have had to be content to let their Dr. Owen Pughe-ism evaporate, and bow their heads to public usage, which in this case leaves us still with the old corrupt appellation, "Crickhowel'."

Strictly Welsh it would be " Abercamlas," but general usage gives us " Abercamlais." Who shall decide whether it shall be " Llanhamwlch," " Llanhamlech," or "Llanhamlach"'? Certainly I will not decide the knotty point, but possibly some personages will have less difficulty in this matter. The fact is that precise sticklers for " Welsh, the exact Welsh, and nothing but the Welsh," repeatedly find themselves placed on the horns of a dilemma, and must bow their classic heads to the potent rule of General Usage. If I follow usage, I feel to a certain extent happy and free : for usage is no respecter of crotchets or authors, — aye, or mutual friends ! Therefore I particularly ask my readers to bear in mind that the varied spelling of Welsh place-names in this work is not the fruit of my own inattention or carelessness, — for I maintain that Crughywel, Crickhowel, and Crickhowell, are all linguistically correct, but which of these appellations is the absolutely proper one to use on the day I write, I will leave Dr. Owen Pughe and company to settle amongst themselves.

It appears to me, PEEFACE. XI although I will not dogmatize on the point, that many Welsh appellations and local names have been so long corrupted that it would be affectation to attempt to reform them. These objections to my work may be passed by without further comment. But then, some ubiquitous personage generally turns up who thinks he can do a thing better than anyone else. As regards a County Historian for Brecknockshire, in the name of all conscience I may well ask, where has he been for the last five and eighty years ? I am, I hope, fully conscious that the work now issued in a complete form to the public can be improved upon. Criticism is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways : it is a test of ability when properly used ; the reverse when it is the fruit of jealous-mmdedness. Away with this narrow, fiddling, querulous criticism.

I feel I am addressing an indulgent circle, when I ask you in the words of the great philosopher, Lord Bacon, to " Eead not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider." I really must apologize to my readers for having taken up so much time with these initial matters. But the best answer I can give to such objectors, and I do so with pardonable pride, is to refer them to my List of Subscribers, wliich contains the names of the great and the good, the peer and the peasant. It was the prevailing fashion in the beginning of this century to issue large folio County Histories, sumptuously got up no doubt, but the very expense debarred the average man from participating in the luxury ; and the original Lists of Subscribers to some of these expensive tomes prove that they were published for the few, and thereby to a considerable extent the Authors were necessarily cramped in their ideas : they had the fear of " the great " before them, and we cannot go to these "volumes of old" with a very hearty expectation of finding food for bracing up general political and religious opinion, for politics and religion in those days was all on one side : Liberals were, so to speak, unknown or tacitly tabooed, and Nonconformists were freely despised.

And although I fully appreciate the debt of gratitude I owe to Mr. Theophiius Jones, I cannot lavishly bestow on our old County Historian the credit of being altogether unbiassed ; in fact, the cloven foot of religious and social bigotry goes down with no uncertain tread on many a page of his otherwise valuable work. Writing principally to please a class, I do not wonder that the worthy Author found it a losing game ; for I am told on undoubted authority that Mr. Jones not only gave several years of thought to the Work, but that he was also a money loser to the extent of £400. In a very compre hensive sense we may say of those days — eighty-five years ago — that people were very few and far between who could give their names as subscribers to such an undertaking.* And therefore I am not surprised, and I presume my readers will not be surprised, to know that if they will consult Mr. Theophiius Jones's List of Subscribers, they will find only the heads of county families and some few learned antiquarians supporting him in his publication.

And here it will be necessary to place on record the essential characteristics I thought should be present in a Popular County History, and it is for the reader to judge whether I have succeeded in carefully delineating the same in my work. What should the essential characteristics of a County History be, then ? In the first place, I at once felt that such a work, if it aimed at being an authority, should be correct in its recorded facts ; and equally important, the work should be every-sided, and not one-sided, in the arrangement of those facts. I also thought it undesirable to follow the early fashion of Jones, Fenton, Wilhams, and Meyrick, and like them, burden my work with foho upon folio of pedigree matter : I have accordingly condensed the pedigree pages into succinct paragraphs, which I trust will be found as intelligible to the reader as the " long-ladder " process. Mr. Theophiius * Mr. Theophiius Jones's work was published at £7 19s. 6;/. per complete copy.

PREFACE.

. XII Jones's work is verily overburdened with folios of pedigree records that have, in many instances, ceased to be of any value to the average reader of the present day ; possibly a score of families in the length and breadth of the county are interested in them. Therefore those who consult this work for exhaustive pedigree matter will be disappointed except as regards those of existing families, whose pedigrees are given at great length ; but at the same time full and complete accounts of the early history of the county and of all the old county families will be found in its pages, corrected and brought down to the present day. New sections have been added to this work that will be looked for in vain in Mr. Theophiius Jones's volumes. And now I will trouble the reader with a short syllabus of the contents of the volume Part I. contains the pre-historic and general history of the county.

Of the day when good Prince Brychan ruled the land wisely and well after the manner of those times, down to the exciting period of the Commonwealth, when the cry of "For King" or "For Parliament " almost rent the kingdom in twain, I have recorded all that can be considered reliable. Subsequently the records of our county become more peaceful, though not less interesting. The old feuds and lordly wranglings ceased, and local institutions and local self-government slowly but surely were built up on the older piles of death and bloodshed and court intrigue. The council chamber and the minute book became the arbiters in all the difficulties and aspirations of future generations. The sword, if not literally beaten into a ploughshare, is hung up in the old baronial mansion, never, we trust, to be taken down again.

Part II. deals with the early history of the ancient corporate borough of Brecknock, and many of the chapters are filled with the records of the results of the engineering and social revolutions that have worked such a mighty change on the face of our county since this century dawned. The age of Theophiius Jones knew not the inestimable advantages that would be enjoyed by succeeding generations, when steam-power, gas, sanitary science, and electricity had been brought well-nigh to perfection. A very full account of the grand old Priory Church and its monumental antiquities will be found recorded in this section of the work. Part III. contains a descriptive tour of the County Proper, and all that can be reasonably compressed from Jones, together with information received from original and multitudinous sources, has been welded into ten or eleven chapters.

The modern portion of the parochial history has been written, not on the authority of the Author, nor even on second-hand information, but for the most part from data that have been supplied to me by the clergyman or principal landowner of each parish. Thus the facts stated are both authoritative and reliable. In this portion of the work will be found full particulars of the county families and their mansions, the castles that formerly studded our land of which there are now only small vestiges remaining, and the general antiquities of the county'have been carefully collected and collated. The pedigree notes on the county families have been submitted to and carefully revised by the heads of those families. Thus the information is absolutely reliable. So far, with the exception of certain Appendices, in these three Sections I have covered all the ground touched upon by Theophiius Jones.

PEEFACE. XIII Part IV., if I may so use the term, is quite a new departure in county historical annals. It treats of Brecknock as a Military Centre, and gives a history of the Line, Militia, and Volunteer Battalions forming the "24th Regimental District." In a great measure the history of the old Brecknock Militia has been " made" — that is, there were no official records to be got at for the facts, and it was only by careful searching up and down for facts that I have been enabled to get sufficient material for a chapter. The County Battalion of Volunteers, I regret to say, does not possess a single foolscap page of official minutes or records, and although promised considerable assistance in this chapter from headquarters, I am sorry to say that assistance has been of the most imaginary and unhelpful kind.

This chapter has been composed from a variety of odds and ends that only an enthusiastic chronicler knows how to rake up from a diversity of sources, and it is with feelings of pardonable pride that I place on record the opinion of one who is now no more — an opinion expressed but four weeks before his lamented death : I refer to the Eev. Prebendary Charles Griffith's opinion, to the effect "that the chapter on the Brecknockshire Volunteers shows marvellous powers of painstaking care, research, and general accuracy, and is truly one of the most interesting chapters in our local annals." The succeeding Part ( V-) also contains a new section that will be looked for in vain in Mr. Theophiius Jones's work : I refer to the " Biography of Brecknockshire." And the succeeding section of the work again, " The History of the Eise and Progress of Nonconformity in the County," will be found quite wanting in the older work.

These are new departures and contain much that is deeply interesting, — departures rendered absolutely necessary if the History as a whole aims, as I believe it does aim, at winning the confidence of the general inhabitants of the county, and in some measure hopes to be looked upon as universal and popular. I have studied throughout to write, not for a class, but for a people. The Appendices, especially those giving the history of the High Sheriffs of the County, and the County and Borough Members of Parliament, contain much more than will be found in ordinary appendices ; the biographical notes on the Sheriffs, and the interesting particulars regarding the Parliamentary representatives for a period of over 300 years, with particulars added in many cases showing the number of votes polled at some of the most exciting contests, cannot fail to be of more than passing interest to large numbers of the populace.

The Appendices dealing with the County and Borough Charities, the State of Agriculture, the Population of the County, the Progress of Corn Growing and Stock Bearing, and other useful particulars, will be valuable for occasional reference, every single Appendix having been compiled from and verified with official and reliable data. And now I offer the book to the reader to pass judgment thereon, fairly and honestly, without fear, favour, or affection. But it will, however, be as ungracious as it will be capricious if I pass by the names of ladies and gentlemen who have rendered me valuable assistance throughout the progress of the work. It is on the services of these kind friends that I base the claim that the work I have produced may hope, by reason of the important services thus rendered, to go down to posterity as being a work possessing some amount of authority.

The reader will not peruse the work very long or very far before he will discern some of the effects of the valuable and courteous attentions that have throughout been paid to me by those ladies and gentlemen whose names I must add to this Preface ere I lay down my pen. First and foremost then, I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Joseph Joseph, Esq., F.S.A., of Glamorgan-street, Brecknock, for his readiness at all times to give invaluable assistance to me PEEFACE. either by lending precious volumes or allowing me to transcribe important details, contained in many of the unique and almost priceless works that adorn his choice library of historical, topographical, and antiquarian knowledge. I am also greatly indebted to Thomas Wood, Esq., of Gwernyfed Park, for some very special items of county history contained in this work, and not the least for the loan of a portrait of the late Colonel Thomas Wood, from which is reproduced the engraving contained in this work.

To Lord Tredegar I am also indebted for the portrait of his late and revered father, the sac simile of which adorns my book. To Sir Joseph Eussell Bailey, Bart., of Glanusk Park, I am indebted for similar kind offices ; to the Rev. Prebendary Garnons Williams, of Abercamlais ; to my late esteemed patron, the Eev.' Prebendary Charles Griffith, of Glyn Celyn, whose death we all mourned the other day, I am specially indebted for thoughtful help and encouraging words spoken from time to time, which did much to cheer me in my laborious and responsible work. I am specially indebted to the late land last) Borough Member for Brecknock (Cyril Flower, Esq., M.P., in the present Administration member for South Bedss and one of the Junior Lords of the Treasury) for his munificent patronage of my work.

To the County Member (W. Fuller-Maitland, Esq.) ; to J. P. W. Gwynne-Holford, Esq., of Buckland ; and to F. W. A. Roche, Esq., of Tregunter Park, I am also under considerable obligation for their liberal and kind patronage. I also acknowledge my obligations to the following :— To James Lewis Thomas, Esq., F.S.A of 26, Gloucester street, Warwick square, London, S.W. ; the Eev. Herbert Williams, M.A.| vicar of Brecknock ; Colonel Tongue, South Wales Borderers ; Colonel WiUiam Jones-Thomas, of Llanthomas ■ Colonel Gwynne, of Glangroyney House, Crickhowell; Major Braddon, late of Tymawr, near Brecknock' Miss Gwenllian E. Morgan, Buckingham Place, Brecknock ; J. P. W. Gwynne-Holford, Esq. Buckland' Bwlch ; F. W. A. Roche, Esq., Tregunter Park, near Talgarth ; John Evans, Esq., Mount View Brecknock ; the late Lancelot Powell, Esq., of Brecknock (formerly of the Clydach Ironworks) ■ the late Rev Prebendary Webb, of Hardwick, near Hay ; the late Rev. W. Jones-Thomas, of Llanthomas, near Hay ■ Rev. Thomas Stephens, B.A., Congregational Minister, of Bath (for his faithful translation from Welsh ' works of the notes bearing upon Congregationalism in this county); the Rev. WiUiam WUliams R.D Llandefaelog-fach Rectory, near Brecknock; the Rev. John Jones, incumbent of Abergwessinthe Rev H. T Harris, Llangynidr Rectory, near Crickhowell ; the Rev. Canon Bevan, Hay ; the Rev t\v',l W'l Tag\ BUiltb ; t0 th6 kte JameS VaUghan' Es1" Lla»fa" House, Builth- J. Wilkms Wilhams, Esq., ol 111, Talbot road, Bayswater, London, W. ; Hugh Bold Wvn er F,o ' Brynlnr Tenby Re; J. E. Jenkins, Vaynor, near Merthyr Tydfil; Eev.