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Abbey aisle appear appurtenances arches ASTOR bedstead one feather belonging Blanche blancketts one rugg Brecon building Cardiff Carne's carpett castle Cell of Ewenny Chamber chancel chapels chayre choir Church of Ewenny cloath COITY CASTLE Colwinston County aforesaid County of Glamorgan court cupbord curtaynes daughter died east end Elizabeth EWENNY PRIORY feather bedd Glamorgan Gloucester High Sheriff hundred acres Item one bedstead John Carne Kidwelly King Henry Knight land late Cell late Monastery LENOX Llandough Llanmihangel Llantwit Major Lord Manor Margam Margam Abbey married Martha Maurice de Londres messuages monastic monks nave Norman north transept Ogmore owner parish church payre of blancketts Pembrey Picton Pope Presbytery present PRIORY CHURCH Priory of Ewenny prized at Summa repair Richard Turbervill roof side Sir Hugh Wyndham Sir John stone Summa patet Thomas Carne Thomas Picton tomb tower transept Turbervill unto Welsh wife William Carne
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Page 32 - ... good man be ? — By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn, Under the twigs of a young birch tree ! The oak that in summer was sweet to hear, And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year, And whistled and roared in the winter alone, Is gone, — and the birch in its stead is grown. — The Knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust ; — His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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Page 8 - Ewenny presbytery is one of the rare instances in England of Romanesque vaulting on so large a scale. Over the three western bays is a barrel vault, but the eastern bay has groined cellular vaulting. The object of the difference clearly is to allow of the presence of windows in the eastern bay. The two bays of the barrel vault are divided by square-edged arches rising from square pilasters, whose capitals are connected by a string forming a sort of stone wall-plate. These pilasters are corbelled...
Page 36 - Londres and his son, Maurice de Londres. It was completed before 1141. In that year it was handed over to the Abbey of Gloucester by Maurice. The record of his gift reads as follows : — " In the year 1141 Maurice de Londonia, the son of William de Londonia, gave to the Church of St. Peter of Gloucester, the Church of St. Michael of Ewenny, the Church of St. Bridget, with the Chapel of Ugemore de Lanfey, the Church of St. Michael of Colvestone with the lands, meadows and all other things belonging...
Page 45 - ... joint messenger, sent by the King to the Earl and the Earl of Chester, cost 1 5«. In this year the Earl joined the Earl of Cornwall against the King. In 1227, 16th February, William, Earl of Devon, was dead, and the Earl had licence to hold his lands. In this year the Welsh burned the Margam grange of Pennuth, with many animals, and killed many men ; also the grange of Rossaulin, with many sheep, and drove away eleven cows, and killed a farm servant. Also they cleared the grange of Theodore...
Page 45 - ... such as to cause great anxiety to its lord, its ecclesiastical magnates, its barons and knights, and its inhabitants generally, whether Welsh or English. The land was wasted, the houses burned, the cattle driven off, the borough towns and religious houses sorely bested. The clergy were in arrears with their tithes, the bishops and monastic bodies with their dues, and the landlords of all ranks with their rents and the produce of their demesnes. Treaties and truces between the English and the...
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