benefactors to the church of the blessed Mary and St. John Baptist, and the canons regular of Llanthony, and confirming the same, signed the 30th of July, in the first year of his reign (1199). 3. The charter of Walter de Lacy, reciting and confirming divers charters and lands in Ireland, given by his father Hugh to Llanthony in Wales. 4. The charter of King Edward II., reciting and confirming the grants and concessions of Walter de Laci and John FitzReginald, and renewing their lapsed privileges. Signed the 26th day of January, in the 18th year of his reign (1325.) 5. A licence from King Edward IV. to unite the Priory of Llanthony the first, in Wales, and the Priory of Llanthony near Gloucester. The chapter of St. David's sent letters to the Prior of Llanthony and his brotherhood (A.D. 1200 circa) as members of the church of St. David's, not to interfere in the election of Geoffrey, Prior of Llanthony, to the vacant see, pending the appeal of Giraldus Cambrensis to Rome, for the assertion of the rights of the metropolitan see of St. David's, and for the ratification of his own election.-Sir R. C. Hoare's Life of Giraldus, p. xxxiv. Llanthony had to pay annually 20lbs of wax (ceræ), or 10s. to the cathedral church of St. David. A charter, in the British Museum, of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, recites and confirms Walter de Lacy's charter, "de valle in quâ ecclesia de Lantoniâ sita est," "concerning the valley in which the church of Llanthony is situated;" the manors of Cwmyog, Walterstow and Newton, together with the rectories of Clodock, Cwmyoy, and Llansilow, are especially mentioned as having been conveyed to Llanthony. The lordship of Ewyas was included in the Welch Marches. The castle stood in the parish of Clodock; scarcely a trace of it now remains. The derivation of the word Ewyas is from Gwyas, or Gwias, signifying, in the British language, "a place of battle;" and describing, in all probability, the turbulent state of warfare in which the district was always plunged, owing to the clannish and family quarrels of the British among themselves, even before they contested with the Norman Baron, upon that spot, the pass into the mountainous counties, the citadel of their freedom. According to the Taxatio of Pope Nicholas, circa 1291, the Prior of Llanthony had as follows: Tax: Eccles: Pap. Nicholai. p. 170. HEREF' TEMP'. Bona Tempal' Prior' Lanton' p'me. Idem h'et apud Fabyleye duas caruc' tre p'c' cuj' tb'.............. De p❜to octo acras p'c' acre De ann' redd' T'a molend' p'c' Ite' id' h't apud Fromã tres caruc' terre p'c' cuj' tb' De redd' ass ibid' cu' opacoibus custum'. De uno molend'................ £ s. d. 0 13 4 006 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 De p'to sex acras p'c' cuj' tb' De quad' pens' ibid' It' idem h❜t apud Moneketon quatuor caruc' terre cuj' tb' 0 12 De reddit' ann' ibid'. Duo molend' aquatica p'c' cuj' tb' Ite' 'id' habet apud Hodenac' piscar' que valet per annu'... 6 3 13 4 Ite' h❜t unum molend' ext Hereford apud la Mare p' c.... Do. Do. p. 283 LAND' TEMP'.-Prior de Lantony in Wall' het. apud Bergaven' de annuo redd'...... Et unam libr' pipis vel...... Tanner, in his Notitia Monastica, p. 328, gives the valuation of Llanthony, in Wales, 26 Hen. VIII., thus:— £87 9s. 5d. MS. C.C.C. (Corpus Christi, Cambridge.) 71 3 2 Speed. 112 O 5 Summa inde, MS. Val. The site was granted 38 Hen. VIII. to Nich3 Arnold. In the records of the First Fruits Office the total value is £79 3s. 2d., clear value £71 3s. 2d. In Stevens's Supplement the summa inde is £112 Os. 5d. (as in MS. Valer,) and summa clara, as in Dugdale, £99 19s. 01d. But in a note appended to the last edition of Dugdale, the following is given as the correct valuation: Llanthonia Prioria: Valet in temporal et spiritual . Et remanet ultra de claro valore...... £112 Os. 5d. 12 1 4 89 19 01 (Dugd. Monast., vol. vi., p. 570.) Prioratus Llanthoniæ, in agro monumethensi. Comput' ministrorum Di Regis temp Henr. VIII. (Abstract of Roll, 31 Hen. VIII. Augmentation office.) Lanthoniæ Primæ nuper Prioratus Cella Lanthoniæ Secunda. Com' Monm' &c. Aburgevenny-Redd' ten' Staunton in Guenth-Redd' cust' ten' Rubeum Castrum-Maner' cum rector'. Oldecastell-Frument' &c .. Oldecastell et Waterston-Firma rectoriarum.... Comyowte S. Martin', Ewyas Lacy S. Cleddoc', Trewyn Capell' S. Martin'-Firma xmar .... L. s. d. 47 2 0 0840006 2 12 0 17 6 .12 O Foxley-Maner' 5 3 0 3 3 0 6 1 10 0 7 0 0 3 6 8 Overbrinsop et Netherbrinsop-Portiones xm' Stretton-Portio xm' IV. ARMS OF LLANTHONY.-In the last edition of Dugdale's Monasticon the arms of Llanthony are given as follows: |