A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton.

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1811
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Credit: A historical tour through Pembrokeshire / By Richard Fenton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with which, by the bounty of the different princes of the country, the church of St. David’s was endowed, and, as abounding with grain of every kind and sheep, and, from its maritime exposure for two-thirds of its extent, with fish of various sorts, as well as from involving the foresty tract of Priskilly and Trefgarn, amply sup- plied with venison and other game, had long been appropriated as a grange to the see for the better maintenance of its splendid establishment, till (b) bishop Bernard, a proud ostentatious Nor- man, in order to conciliate the homage of his powerful countrymen then just settled there, and panting for translation, most wantonly and unprofitably prostituted his possessions in Pebidiawg and elsewhere, leaving a very scanty allowance towards the support of the prebends and the episcopal table. This hundred is divided into three comots; Mynyw, which is that part occupied by St. David’s and its immediate dependencies; Pencaer, which includes the line of coast from Abercastle to Good wick; and Pebidiawg, the more inland and much the largest division, bounded by Cemaes, Daugleddau, and R6s. Wishing to lead the traveller through such parts of the country as most intimately connect themselves with its history, and afford the most interesting objects, whether viewed with the eye of a picturesque tourist or a profound antiquary, I shall frequently have occasion to abandon the main road, and now in my outset, (b) Totum namque Cantaredum de Pebidiauc quern Menevensi Ecclesiae devotal Principum Sudwalliae largitione collatum invenit sicut & alias terras plurimas, Comi- tibus, Baronibus, nobilibusque patriae viris, quatinus magnum sibi per magnatum hominia dominationis nomen & famam compararet, minima Praebendis terrarum portiuncul& data, modicaque mensae Pontificali portione retenta, dicto quippe trans- lation^ ambitu, vitioque pariter pompositatis adjuncto, malum hoc totum operante, nimis indiscrete divisit. Giral. Camb. de jure & statu Menev. Ecclesi®.
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