the fee and reversion from Morris and Phillips, who must have been grantees of the Crown thereof, and their title seems to have been confirmed by the suit last above stated. Of the connexion or dependence of Our Lady's Mill on the chapel at Aberystwyth, no notice is taken in the latter two documents. The following address and observations were prefixed to a list of subscribers towards the erection of the first Chapel of St. Michael at Aberystwyth :-“ To all well disposed persons to whom these presents may come. “WHEREAS the town of Aberystwyth in Cardiganshire has many years ago been deprived of its church by the sea gradually undermining it. We, the inhabitants of the said town, justly lamenting the want of a place properly adapted and consecrated for Divine worship, and truly sensible of the spiritual benefit we might reasonably expect from having a church or chapel erected here, but perceiving, by the lowest calculation, that the same cannot be commodiously built, and a decent provision made for the minister, without a fund or stock of five hundred pounds, and being utterly unable to raise such a contribution amongst ourselves, are necessitated to have recourse to this method of humbly requesting your generous aid and subscription, to enable us to carry on and complete our well meant and salutary design. John JONES, Mayor of Aberystwyth. RichD. EDWARDS, &c. &c. “There are several persons now living who have been married in the churchyard formerly belonging to the church at Aberystwyth. The next church to the said town is Llanbadarn-fawr, above a mile distant, and the way to it extremely wet and disagreeable, so that the old and infirm cannot attend the public worship of God, and that at a time of life the most probable they would profit by it. Of a dry, pleasant Sunday, many hundreds of souls go to Llanbadarn-fawr from Aberystwyth, but of a wet day, sometimes, not two dozen. We know no town in Great Britain so large and populous as this, and yet so distant from any church, and all its inhabitants, without exception, of the Established Church of England. These considerations, it is humbly hoped, will induce every benevolent Christian, who delights in promoting the interests of religion, and to whom application shall be made in this behalf, to contribute according to his ability, in order to enable us, the said inhabitants, to build a church here, the important services of which (with the blessing of God) are too evident to need any farther exhortation.” As their deprivation of their church “by the sea gradually undermining it” is assigned by the inhabitants as the main ground of their appeal to the public for aid, by subscription, to build another, it can scarcely be doubted that the former church, before it was swept away by the sea, served as the place of Divine worship for the inhabitants of the town; and it is said by them that at that time, 1762, there were persons living who had been married in the churchyard belonging to the demolished church at Aberystwyth. It appears to have been dedicated to St. Mary, and to have been situate in front of the Castle House, some distance seaward, as far probably as the present westernmost point of the Castle Green, called Trwyn Cwnhingen, on a spot first undermined and then swept away by the sea, 1 The defences on the north side of Aberystwyth Castle terminate in a tower at the north angle, and a ditch projecting about fifty yards beyond, in a n. N. W. direction, and terminating in an indentation of the cliff. The position of the ditch, now only four or five feet from the edge of the main cliff, and the direction of the loop-hole of the tower, which points about due north, and fires obliquely across the projecting ditch, clearly show that the object was to protect ground which existed in that direction when the castle was built. The smooth stratification of the rocks below, shows that these formerly supported a cliff projecting in this direction, from n. w. to N. E., affording a site for the chapel and yard. The cliff which has now been worn away to the verge of the ditch, has become a defence to the castle, being inaccessible from the sea, while the ditch no longer avails, being positively detrimental to the defence of the castle. No ancient military architect would have excavated the ditch in a position so close to a cliff nearly perpendicular.-F. D. W. 1 a and it seems probable that the terrace and walk walled in at the front of the Castle House, formed part of the yard or burial-ground belonging to it, for whenever there has been occasion to open any part of that ground, human bones and fragments of tombstones and of coffins have been almost invariably turned up in digging. When it was first used for Divine worship does not appear. Whether it was ever regularly endowed and consecrated is a question, as no express deed of endowment is known to exist, but the dedication to St. Mary and the name of “Our Lady” being given to the town mill of Aberystwyth, argues a connexion and dependence of the latter upon the former, more particularly as provision is to be made for Divine service from the profits of the mill. T. O. MORGAN. LLANWRTYD, BRECKNOCKSHIRE. It would be very desirable if some one in every parish, having a taste for antiquities, would furnish the pages of the Archeologia Cambrensis from time to time with a brief account of the archæological curiosities of his neighbourhood. By such means, no doubt, several relics of which we have now no record, would be brought to general notice, and the proprietors be induced to preserve them from that destruction to which they are now rapidly tending. Every parish can boast of some stone, tumulus, or cave, associated with times past. There is in every nook and corner of our land some historical anecdote or legendary tale, which has been handed down from father to son for several generations, and which would illustrate many a local event. It would be a pity, even traitorous, to let these perish. The following are some of the antiquities of the parish of Llanwrtyd : MEINI HIRION.-There were, within the memory of man, four, if not more, of these upright monuments standing in different parts of the parish. They have all, however, been prostrated, except one tall stone, which, we believe, still stands in a field called Cae'r Maen, the field of the stone. ROMAN ROADS, &c.—A road is pointed out, which is still called a Roman road, leading from Abergwesin over the summit of a mountain named Top y Garn, and thence crossing Nant у Cerddin in the direction of Llangammarch. There is also a plain, which is called Gwaen y Gwaed, the Bloody Plain, where, according to tradition, occurred a great battle, but between whom, and at what period, is not known. A CAVE.—On the farm called Llwyngwychwyr, in the rock of Gallt y Waen is shown the cave of Rhys Gethin, who, according to the tradition of the natives, was a notorious robber, as well as a ready and skilful versifier, in former days. He was not satisfied with merely pillaging the king's subjects, but he heaped insult and reproach upon the king himself in the following couplet : " Y Brenhin biau 'r holl ynys, Ond yr hyn a ranwys i Rys." Except what has been apportioned to Rhys. The inhabitants of Llanwrtyd do not tell us who the king was, or at what time he reigned; but they do say that his majesty came to Llanwrtyd to see what outrage the parishioners had suffered at the spoiler's hands. Rhys was forthwith summoned before him, and was accused of several offences, such as pilfering and thieving. “And besides all this,” said the king, “I hear that thou hast been reproaching me also in songs of treason. Let me hear them immediately." “Indeed answered the trembling robber, “I composed nothing but this, "Y Brenhin biau 'r holl ynys, A chyrau Ffraingc, a chorph Rhys.'” The corners of France, and the body of Rhys. “O well, then," observed the king, “ if that be all, give Rhys bis discharge.” ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. V. K Beviews. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ST. DAVID's. By WILLIAM BASIL JONES, M.A., Fellow of University College, and EDWARD We have much pleasure in announcing the appearance of the third part of this very valuable work. Of the first part we have given a somewhat lengthened notice, which we purposed to have continued as each successive part should appear. On consideration, however, we have thought it better to defer any detailed remarks till the work is complete, as the subdivisions of the subject to which the different chapters are allotted, are so mutually dependent, the one on the other, that it is nearly impossible to give a correct view of a part, without having some acquaintance, at least, with the whole work. We shall, however, run no risk of error in stating that the more we see of the work, the more favourably are we impressed with its merits, and the more convinced are we that it will rank high among the standard works on local Archæology and History, The part which we have already reviewed contained three chapters. The first devoted to a “General Description" of the district; the second to its “Primæval Antiquities ;” and the third (to which our attention was chiefly directed to the "Architectural Description" of the Cathedral. The fourth chapter treats of the “ Archæology of the Cathedral," embracing its ritual arrangements, with the changes they have undergone, including the Chapels, Altars, Chantries, Shrines, &c., &c.; its Monumental Remains, which are numerous and interesting, and often involved in uncertainty, which leads to much interesting speculation ; also its Painted Glass, Encaustic Tiles, Heraldry, and other objects of Antiquarian interest. The fifth chapter, probably the most important which the work will contain, consists of the “Architectural History" of the Cathedral. This is a branch of Archæology which has never been brought to any degree of perfection till our own day, and owes its advance mainly to one man- -Professor Willis— whose admirable essays on the English Cathedrals, and especially that on the Cathedral of Canterbury, have supplied us with the types of the manner in which an Architectural History should be treated. Messrs. Jones and Freeman have skilfully applied this mode of treatment to the subject of their work, and, by the joint use of documentary evidence and that furnished by the changes of detail and construction as seen in the building itself, have given so minute a history of the erection of |