Duneleis; Dore Abbey as Dora; Pistlebrook as Pistel; the Maescoeds (a hamlet of Clodock of which the Welsh origin is clear) as Maischoit; Clodock as St. Cladack (the name of a Welsh Saint). The neighbouring parish of Llangua appears as Languen; and the Bradleys, a farm in the parish of Kentchurch, as Braddelee. There are also interesting local notices of Ewyas-Harold itself, of the limits of the churchyard, for example. There are two peculiar names of lands at Ewyas-Harold, which, though not occurring in the Cartulary, as far as I have observed, are curious. 1, King Street, the name by which one of the farms in the parish is now known, and which I have seen in a copy of an old paper as Kyge Street; and 2, Temple Bar, the name of a field. Can this latter have belonged to the Templars at Earway? To return to the Cartulary, amongst the witnesses to the several deeds, in addition to the frequent mention of the Chaplain, and the Seneschall or Constable of the Castle, and of brothers of the Priory, occur the names of the neighbouring lords of castles; in three instances, names still connected with the neighbourhood, William and Walter de Scudemor, Simon de Pateshull, and William le Miners. We find also Roger de Marcle, and Hugo de Kilpec or Culpec. The first of this series of documents is a grant from Haraldus de Ewyas, the first known possessor of the Castle, of certain lands and immunities to the Benedictine monastery of Gloucester for the founding of a religious house of Ewyas-Harold. After this, come no less than five grants, or exchanges of tithes or lands, to the monks at Ewyas, from Robertus de Ewyas, his son and successor, filius Haraldi, as he styles himself.1 This Robert seems to have been a great benefactor to the church. He is said to have founded the Cistercian Abbey at Dore, and it is probably a cor

1 He grants a piece of land for the building of a church at EwyasHarold, in addition to the monastery, and also "totam fossam quæ claudit terram illam cum piscibus illius aquæ." We have thus the date of the interesting tower of Ewyas Harold church,—an instance of the transition from Norman to Early English.

rect tradition which assigns to him a statue of a knight in armour still to be seen in Abbey-Dore Church. Next in the Cartulary comes a grant from a Robert de Ewyas, son of the Robert first mentioned, dated 1195. Next a grant from a John de Ewyas, whose connection with the others mentioned we have no means of ascertaining. Then follows another grant from Robert, second of that name, previously referred to. With him the male line of this family seems to have ended. His daughter, Sibilla, is mentioned in this, his last grant, as his heiress. She married Robert de Tregoz, who, probably then on a visit to the castle as her suitor, appears as a witness to one of the grants. This was a distinguished Norman family, traces of whom remain in the affix of Tregoz to the parish of Lydiard-Tregoz in Wiltshire (connected with the Bolingbroke title). This was their property, and is referred to in subsequent documents in the Cartulary; exchanges, and other transactions being recorded between the Abbot of Gloucester and the Rector of Lydeard-Tregoz. We find Robert de Tregoz executing various deeds in his own name, and his wife Sibilla one in her own. He is followed by his son Robert de Tregoz, second of the name, who was killed in the Battle of Evesham (1265) fighting on the side of the Barons, and acting as a Standard-bearer. To him succeeded John de Tregoz, who died 1290. There are deeds executed by him in the Cartulary, as well as by his father Robert. With this John, third in succession, the male line of this family became extinct, as far as Ewyas-Harold is concerned, and an heiress carried the lordship again into another family. John de Tregoz had married Juliana, the daughter of Lord Cantilupe, and sister of St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford. By her he had two daughters, the elder of whom, Clarice, married Roger Delawarre. (It is interesting here to call to mind that the titles of Cantilupe and Delawarre have been united since, Cantilupe being the second title of the Earls Delawarre.) The second daughter of this John

de Tregoz was named Sibilla; the name of the Saxon heiress, daughter of Robert de Ewyas, who first brought the castle and lordship into the Tregoz family, being thus kept up. This Sibilla married William de Grandison. Through the elder of these two daughters, Clarice, the castle and domain of Ewyas-Harold passed to the family of Delawarre. It is conjectured, from the date of the dress, that an interesting effigy under a carved canopy in the chancel of Ewyas-Harold church is that of this Clarice. It is probable that she died away from her birth-place, perhaps in Sussex, to which her husband's family belonged, and that this is one of those cases of heart-interment which have of late years been brought to light; the heart alone being sent, in those days of difficult transport, for interment under the effigy, in the church to which the person had some especial ties. This effigy is well executed, of life-size, and in good preservation. She holds in her hands, which repose on the breast, such a vessel as might be supposed to contain a heart. On raising the effigy, some years since, I found just under the place occupied by the hands, a stone in which was a cavity about five inches in diameter. In this cavity were fragments of a metal vessel that had been lined with a woven fabric, forming a bag in which, no doubt, the heart had been deposited. A thin slate, like stone, covering this cavity, was painted on the under side, in white, with the form of the vessel.

But to return to the Cartulary. Between the grants. made by the Tregoz and the Delawarre families are grants made by various members of the De Lacy family, lords paramount of the whole district, probably,-the hundred of Ewyas-Lacy being so-called after them. Following one of these grants we have a very interesting document. It is a confirmation of a grant by King Henry III, the witness to the king's sign-manual being St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and Lord High Chancellor, brother-in-law, as we have already seen, of John de Tregoz, last of the name. The con

cluding series of deeds in the Cartulary are from the Delawarre family. The first of these is the solitary one in French, to which I have already referred. It is an indenture executed between Roger Delawarre and the Abbot of Gloucester, and gives as its date "May 7, l'an de regne le roy Edward tierce puis la conquete trentisme secunde," i.e. 1358. (It is probable, from this date, that this was a Roger Delawarre, second of the name.) The purpose of the indenture is the recall of the monks of Ewyas-Harold to the parent monastery at Gloucester. It appears there were at this time only a prior and two monks left at Ewyas-Harold, besides a chaplain to officiate in the chapel of St. Nicholas within the castle, which had been a condition made in the original grant of land for the founding of the Priory here. The next deed is entitled a license from the same Roger Delawarre for recalling the above-mentioned monks to Gloucester and maintaining them there. It recites that his predecessors in the lordship of Ewyas, Harold of Ewyas and Robert his son, had intended to found and endow sufficiently, at Ewyas-Harold, a Priory, and the church of St. Michael; that now the property belonging to the Priory was not sufficient to support them suitably, considering the immoderate concourse of people flocking to partake of their hospitality, and that the monks of Gloucester had for some years been obliged to furnish them with food and clothing, lest they should be reduced to mendicancy; that the zeal in the country for religion, which existed at the time of the first establishment of the monks at Ewyas-Harold, had now become lukewarm. Next follows the episcopal confirmation of this document, dwelling also, with much expression of grief, upon the degeneracy of the age in respect of religious fervour. This document closes the Cartulary.

From the Delawarre family the castle passed to the Grandisons (a family of Burgundian origin, into which we have seen the other co-heiress of the Tregoz family, Sibilla, had married).

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A William de Grandison was Bishop of Exeter from 1327 to 1369. From the Grandisons the lordship of Ewyas-Harold is said by Leland to have passed by purchase to Johanna Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny, who, there is some reason to believe, was by birth a Cantilupe, and so connected through the Tregoz family with those of Delawarre and Grandison. We read that in the year 1403, in the reign of Henry IV, during his contest with Owen Glendower, the king was at Hereford giving orders to William Beauchamp,—probably one of the family to whom the castle of Ewyas-Harold had now fallen, to "take his rebels about Abergavenny, (the Beauchamps, we have seen, were Lords of Abergavenny), and Ewyas-Harold, into the grace." From this date, the beginning of the fifteenth century, we seem to lose sight of the Castle of Ewyas-Harold. Leland, writing in the reign of Henry VIII, speaks of it as a ruin. He says: "Great part of Map harald Castle yet standeth, and a chapel of St. Nicholas in it." Now nothing remains but the marks of the foundations, the fosse, and the artificial mound on which the keep seems to have been built, with loose building stones scattered over the whole area.

Coming down from the reign of Henry VIII to that of Charles I, we have interesting notices of EwyasHarold. 1. An extract from Symonds' MS. Diary, kept by a follower of Charles I, and now in the British Museum. Under date of 1645 he notes that on the 11th September the king, attended by his guards, rode from Hereford to Abergavenny. Their direct road would be through Ewyas-Harold, which is just half-way between the two towns. They seem to have made their midday halt there, for the writer makes the following entry: Ewyas-Harold Church-under an arch against the north wall of the chancel lies a statue of a woman very old, holding between her hands either a peare or a heart. (This is the effigy, supposed to be that of Clarice, daughter of John de Tregoz). He goes on: Upon an altar tomb in the church-yard, very faire, an inscription

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