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Page 32 - Controversies, and several of the Classicks. There had been a Library before the Civil Wars in the Church : but it was dispersed by the Rebels, and part of it burn'd, with a great Heap of Common Prayer Books, at Cardiff, whither the Cavaliers of the County, and the wives of several sequester'd Clergymen, were invited to the Castle, on a cold Winter's Day, to warm themselves by the Fire, which was then made of the Books that were there burnt.
Page 33 - ... to have rebuilt a house where they might meet for their rent audit. Bishop Davies had given them a small library to replace that which was dispersed during the wars. " This, sir," said the writer when he concluded his sketch, "is the best account I could procure of the cathedral church of Llandaff, in which, if there were not prayers read every day, and the ecclesiastical courts and offices thereunto belonging constantly held in and kept in the village just by, there would be very small signs...
Page 32 - ... had survived. The next matter of interest with reference to Cathedral books to which we would call attention is a statement by Browne Willis, on page 52 of his Survey of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, written in 1717, that " North West of the Church, near the Corner of the Churchyard, is a House which is of late Rebuilt and fitted up for the Reception of the Chapter, when they come to the Audit. In an upper Room in this House, there is a small Library, founded by Bishop Davies since the Restoration....
Page 20 - The arms of the see here are sable, a sword and two keys in saltire, or on a chief, vert three mitres of the second. His own arms are parted per chevron in fess, or and vert, between a M sable below and a falcon or above.
Page 177 - Book, as already observed, was begun to be made in the Year 1573. Another Book is, as I am told, the Old Register, or Liber Landavensis, referr'd to in the Monasticon, called Tilo, said to be compiled by Bishop Urban : and the third contains some Orders made by Bishop Blethin.
Page 26 - Chapel, two young Men in Armour, and one young Woman : On the North Side are two Angels in the Middle, as on the South...
Page 33 - Its Neighbourhood to Cardiff, which is a Mile off to the East, makes its decay'd Condition the more remarkable. The Inhabitants of that very elegant Town, have within these few Years, beautify 'd their Church and furnish'd it with an Organ, at their no small Expence.
Page 172 - Statute de Terris & Tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito non obftante...
Page 25 - Mary's chapel, between thal and the nortli aisle, is a noble altar monument about nine, feet in length, on which are two images finely wrought in alabaster : the man is in armour, with a collar of SS's about his neck, and a coat of mail under his corslet; by him lies a woman witli laced head clothes, and the lace of the lappets gilt.
Page 34 - ... cannot but believe, if those whose immediate Concern the World will judge it to be, would set themselves about it with Vigour and Application, but the Gentlemen of these two flourishing Counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, which constitute the Diocese of Landaff, would, in like manner as their Ancestors did on the erecting the primary Structure, willingly contribute to make its ancient Cathedral once more appear with a Lustre equal, at least, to that which it ever had. " I am with due Respect,...