tion. Under the roof eaves is an Early English corbel table, continued upon the transepts. On the east gable is an excellent cross fleury within a circle in stone. The north transept is in part of the date of the chancel, but part is Decorated. The north window has a flat segmental recess. Its three lancets may be modern, on an old pattern. To the west is an Early Decorated window, now filled up. A plain Norman arch leads into the aisle. The ceiling is Tudor, panels of plaster in an oak frame. The south transept has a large but poor south window, very modern, but in a Decorated recess. To the east are two lancet windows of the chancel pattern and date. On the west a drop arch, with plain chamfered ribs, opens into the aisle. There is a small plain Decorated piscina with a hood in the south wall, along which is a stone bench. The font seems Decorated. It is composed of an octagonal bowl, upon a shaft to match. In the churchyard is the shaft of a cross upon a lofty stepped base.

MONUMENTS.

Chancel. - William Edmonds, rector, died 2nd August, 1724, aged 44. Edward Davis, A.B., rector for 43 years, died 8th March, 1842, aged 76. Edward Thomas of Pwyllyvrach (son of Robert Thomas) gent., died 14th September, 1717, aged 62. He married Ann Morgan, heiress of Pwllyvrach, and had seventeen children, of whom fourteen are provided for. William Thomas, A.M., his eldest son, died 14th March, 1737, aged 58. His brother, Edward T. of Tregroes, Esq., died 15th January, 1766, aged 78. Morgan T. a son of E. and A. Thomas of Tregroes, A.M., rector of Oxwich and Loughor, died 18th November, 1771, aged 76. Ann, his widow, died 8th September, 1795, aged 86. Edward T. of Tregroes, son of Morgan T., died 18th October, 1822, aged 79. William T. of Tregroes and Little Bromley, Essex, died 18th September, 1840, aged 69. Arms and crest. Jestyn. Motto, "Nil Desperandum, Christo duce." Catherine Gamage, wife

of Robert Thomas, M.A., rector, died 8th June, 1612. Master Edward, eldest son of Robert Thomas, rector, died 1st October, 1645, aged 47. Elizabeth, wife of Robert Thomas, M.D., died October 1680. Also in the chancel is a small rude, half-length effigy, recumbent : round it, William, son of Robert and Barbara Fleming [1591?]: near it, Edward Gamage, rector, and archdeacon of Llandaff; died 1685, aged 74. A male effigy, rude, in flat relief, upon an altar; costume, age of Elizabeth. Thomas Evans, clerk, parson of Coychurch; died 2nd April, 1591. Ann, eldest daughter of Morgan Thomas, clerk, and Ann, his wife; died 19th March, 1822, aged 86. Mary, second daughter, died 5th April, 1804, aged 64. Martha, third daughter, died 26th March, 1822, aged 81. Joseph Davies of Tregroes, died 3rd March 1824, aged 64. Elizabeth, his wife, sister to the above ladies, died 17th May 1835, aged 86. Anna, wife of Edmund Gamage, rector, daughter of Edmund Jenkins of Cowbridge, gent., buried 29th November 1693, aged 37. Upon the wall, painted in rude fresco, is the following coat of arms: Per pale baron and femme. Baron; quarterly of four. 1. Sidney. Or, a phæon argent. 2. Argent, two bars, in chief three squares sable. 3. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Aaron's rod in bend proper, 2 and 3, gone. 4. A chevron. Femme; quarterly of four. 1. Argent, three chevronells sable, a file of three points. 2. Argent on a bend sable, three lozenges of the field. 3. Argent, three lions sable. 4. Barry of eight argent and sable, a lion rampant brochant. Crest defaced. This coat seems intended for the Rev. Edmund Gamage, who may have been a natural son of one of the Sidneys, but the quarterings do not belong to that family. In the north aisle is an altar-tomb with a male figure, probably of the Edwardian age. In the nave, Rev. J. Llewelyn, rector of Marcross, died Sept. 26,1832, æt. 37.

RECTORS.

Thomas Evans, died 2nd April 1591. Robert Thomas, M.A., married Catherine Gamage, who died 8th June,

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1612. John Sudbury was presented 4th July 1646, by Robert Earl of Leicester. Edward Gamage, Archdeacon of Llandaff, died 1685, aged 74. Jenkin Lloyd presented 15th December 1705, by John Earl of Leicester. William Edmonds, 20th August 1708, by the Leicester trustees, died 2nd August 1724, aged 44. Daniel Durell, 1st November 1723, by Chas. Edwyn. Morgan Thomas, probably rector in 1736. James Stillingfleet, 11th April 1767, by Lady C. Edwyn. Edward Davis, 22nd July 1768, by the same, died 8th March 1812, aged 76. John Harding, 5th May 1812, presented by Thomas Wyndham. He was father of the late Sir John Dornay Harding, Queen's Advocate.

THE INSCRIBED ROMAN STONE AT ST. HILARY, CORNWALL.

THE community of archæological interest, and the mutual relationship which bind together Wales and Cornwall, are a sufficient reason for drawing particular attention to this inscribed stone, which may be justly considered the most important monument of the sort hitherto found in this county. It is valuable as one of only four or five such monuments of the same Emperor found in Great Britain;' especially interesting as being the only record yet discovered in Cornwall, and that a dated one, of settled occupation of our western district by Imperial Rome; and, perhaps, still more interesting from its character as a milestone, and the inferences to be drawn from it, of which I shall say something presently. "On the 25th March (Lady-day, 1853, which was also Good Friday), the church of St.

1 Prof. Hübner enumerates forty of these milliary stones found in Britain, distributed among eighteen emperors, from Hadrian to Constantine the Younger.