Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    days. Onacommon near Blaynport, lie a great many large stones; among the rest, one standing perpendicu- larly on one end in the ground, and another large one leaning upon it, and two others, one on each side the leaning stone; these stones they call king Arthur’s quoits : under the leaning stone is a stone with little grooves upon it. ‘These seem to have been some ancient monument of the Britons or Saxons, viz., a trophy for some victory, or stones reared upon some great person’s corpse. ‘The like stones we saw upon St. David’s head ; and they told us that, in other places of the mountains, the like were to be seen. We also passed by thereabout a bank, over which they throw the wooden ball that get the victory over other of the men of the high and low country of Cardigan. ‘This contention and sport for the wooden ball is yearly on the Monday in Whitsun-week. We were told of a great stone in a plowed field, which hath this antient inscription, Corbulensis hic gacet Ordous ; but this we saw not. Mr. Lewis hath a pretty house at Cardigan. Mr. Barry is owner of Cardigan Island. From Cardigan we rode to a poor village called Fishgard, where we were put to it for a lodging. ‘Thence we pro- ceeded to St. David’s, where we viewed an old cathedral, therein divers ancient monuments, viz., that of the earl of Richmond, father of king Henry VII, in the choi. Owen ‘Tudor’s, and another of the Tudors, bishop Vaughan’s, bishop Anselme’s, &c. Behind the choir a handsome chapel of bishop Vaughan’s, where sitting, he had windows so contrived into another chapel behind, called St. Mary’s chapel, that he might see five masses said together, at five several altars. ‘The steeple is taken into the choir, and the bell ropes hang down into it; and of the wings of the church are made chapels. The Welch have a proverb, that it is as good to go to St. David’s twice; as to Rome once. ‘There are also in this church the tomb of St. David, and one Wogan, a gentle- man. This town is now a poor place; not far hence, on the sands, stood old Menew, whence the bishop is styled