. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . n truth ! Innk. In what way ? Con. He worships the saints best, who is most suc-cessful in following their examples. The Pilgrims Tombs at Llanfihangel aberCowiN, CO. Carmarthen. In the churchyard of Llanfihangel aber Cowm, in thecounty of Carmarthen, are three contiguous gravestones,which are known, from popular tradition, by the nameof the Pilgrims Tombs. The annexed engravings re-present the super-incumbent slabs, together with theirhead and foot stones. Two of them are rudely sculpturedwith the human figure, each si
. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . n truth ! Innk. In what way ? Con. He worships the saints best, who is most suc-cessful in following their examples. The Pilgrims Tombs at Llanfihangel aberCowiN, CO. Carmarthen. In the churchyard of Llanfihangel aber Cowm, in thecounty of Carmarthen, are three contiguous gravestones,which are known, from popular tradition, by the nameof the Pilgrims Tombs. The annexed engravings re-present the super-incumbent slabs, together with theirhead and foot stones. Two of them are rudely sculpturedwith the human figure, each signed on the breast with across; the third, which is ridged en dos dane, and or-namented with cable mouldings, has a cross inclosed inlike mouldings on its headstone. These crosses seem to ADDITIONAL NOTES. 247 imply that the persons were cruce signati, or such ashad undertaken a vow of pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Welsh, who were always superstitious, weregreatly attached to enterprises of pilgrimage. Theshrine of saint David was a favourite object of
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