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for monks of the Benedictine order, and made it a cell to the same abbey. It was afterwards seized by Edward III into his own hands; restored by Henry IV; again seized by the crown, 19 Hen. VI, and granted to the Duke of Gloucester, who made his new foundation a cell to St. Alban's (Fenton, p. 373). If, then, it is a prior's house, and correctly assigned to the fourteenth century, it must have been the house of the Benedictine prior.

The house consists of two portions at right angles to each other; that portion which runs parallel with the street consisting of only one story, while the other has an additional one, reached by an internal newel stair. In neither of the two portions, however, is there any direct communication with the basements, which are vaulted in the usual manner, except that the western basement is groined, as at Carew, Manorbier, Stackpole, Elidur, and Gumfrestone, as well as in the central crypt at Stackpole Court. There are no signs of tracery in any of the windows, but, as suggested by the author of the Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages, wood tracery, as at Tenby, may have been used. Some alterations appear to have been made since the view given in that work was taken, as there are at present no small dormer windows in the eastern portion of the house. The room to which the exterior staircase leads would in an ordinary house be the common hall, which in the present instance communicated with the other apartments, the arrangement of which cannot be clearly made out owing to partition walls apparently of later date.

The rear of the building is difficult of access, and is only approached through a stable. On this side is the doorway, probably used by the prior and his attendants, as leading direct through the park or paddock to the church, so as to avoid going by the public road. In Fenton's time this park was well walled round, and contained a dove-cot, the customary appendage to a house of importance.

In the upper part of the building, projecting at right angles, is an opening, which is evidently a doorway, but

where it led to it is difficult to conjecture. It is reached by a newel stair, which starts from an upper room resting on a vaulted basement. From the remains of corbels beneath it is evident that there was some small stage or gallery, which must have been of wood, as there is not the least indication of any external stone structure. It could not have been intended for hoisting heavy articles to the upper chamber, as it would not have opened on such narrow stairs, but on the level of the apartment. Unless by means of a ladder, or something of the kind, access to the apartment was intended, the use of this opening is not easily explained.

The chimney stack, already alluded to (p. 196) is one of the best, if not the best, existing specimen of the

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slender elongated shaft as distinguished from the shorter and more massive ones so common in parts of this district, and which have been the subject of so many theories as to their origin and builders. Very few examples of the Moncton class are known to exist. Perhaps they were never so much in fashion as their more sturdy brothers, and probably only used in more important houses. The one at Moncton is certainly creditable to the prior's taste. Another example may be seen at the back of the house in Pembroke already alluded to (p. 197). It is considerably out of the perpendicular, and is so closely surrounded by various mean buildings that a good view of it is not to be easily obtained. The small shafts surmounting portions of the opposite castle may be, perhaps, ranked with this division of Pembrokeshire chimneys.

Nearly opposite St. Mary's Church in the town of Haverfordwest is a transition-Norman substructure of a house, which was visited by the members during the Haverfordwest meeting.

The ancient vicarage of Castle Martin, now used as a cottage, has a pier of the thirteenth century, with two arcades; but further notice of them is adjourned for the present, as illustrations of them and the adjoining church will probably appear in an early number of this Journal.

In the neighbouring parish of Nangle, too frequently of late called Angle, still exist evidences of the former importance of this district, so much greater than it possesses at present. At a time when the ordinary and most easy communication to this part of the country was by Milford Haven, a secure occupation of its entrance must have been of considerable importance, as it is at this day, when strong works are being erected along the shores, one of which has been built on the site of a primitive earthwork.

The most remarkable of the structures in Nangle village is a square defensive tower, which, from its internal arrangements, however, may be placed among domestic edifices. Fenton, p. 401, seems to allude to it,

and states it to have been the principal residence of the Sherburnes, the lords of the place.

It appears from The Golden Grove Book that Robert Sherburne, in the reign of Edward the Third, married Isabel, daughter and heir of Stephen, son of Philip de Nangle; but, if Fenton is correct, the property thus acquired could have remained but a very short time in the Sherburne family, for, according to the same historian of Pembrokeshire, Robert Cradock, of Newton in Rhos, married the coheiress of the Sherburnes; and, as he was an ancestor of Sir Richard Cradock, more usually known as Richard Newton, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who died in 1444, it is clear that Robert Cradock must have been nearly cotemporary with the Sherburne who married the heiress of Nangle. Fenton, however, may be as incorrect in this statement as he undoubtedly is in the very next sentence, when he calls the wife of Richard the Chief Justice the heiress of Jestington or Eastington, which she certainly was not (Arch. Camb., 1865, p. 25). The estate, including the whole of the parish of Nangle, with the exception of the church property and one small farm, was purchased early in the present century by Mr. Mirehouse, the great grandfather of the present owner.

Fenton has also given a wrong account of this building when he states that in his time it was an inn. The inn was the present farm-house near the tower. Although this house is of comparatively modern date, yet the adjuncts of a moat, and the medieval detached outbuildings still retaining those curious triangular apertures, so numerous in Manorbier Castle, indicate that the present house is the successor of an earlier and more important one. A little in the rear is the ancient dovehouse, which is very similar to the one near Manorbier Castle. It is singular, therefore, that two houses of such importance should have been built so close to one another, unless the singularity may be explained as suggested by a gentleman residing near Nangle, and who has always taken the greatest interest in the preservation of the square tower, that both buildings form, in

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