. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures. wellbe defigned from fomething lil^e what Hogarths print has given ; and withmany of thofe we fee in pictures of Roman faints may help to countenancemy opinion: fo perhaps may thefe drawings of fome afhen ones collected bythe writer of this letter, who gladly contributes what he can to the {lores inyour curious Repertory. W. Gostlixg. [No. 3, 4, 5, Carved branches of aflu—6. Lituus from Rofinus.—7. Paftoral llafF, from a print.—8. Common fhephe
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellany intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains of old times : adorned with elegant sculptures. wellbe defigned from fomething lil^e what Hogarths print has given ; and withmany of thofe we fee in pictures of Roman faints may help to countenancemy opinion: fo perhaps may thefe drawings of fome afhen ones collected bythe writer of this letter, who gladly contributes what he can to the {lores inyour curious Repertory. W. Gostlixg. [No. 3, 4, 5, Carved branches of aflu—6. Lituus from Rofinus.—7. Paftoral llafF, from a print.—8. Common fhepherds crook.] P. S. In page 29, line iS, of your 14th Number, the word originally fhouldhave been left out. Canterbury had long ago a fupply from fprings belong-ing to St. Auguftines Monaftery, (an eftate of the Halesfamily) but thepipes being decayed by age and negleft, Sir John Hales was at the expenceof laying new ones to a very elegant conduit in the city, built for receivingthefe waters by archbidiop Abbot, who died 1633. In 1754 this conduit was taken away, for improving the Areet, and thewater conveyed to cifterns at St. Georges Orhyru \red Irom (ut -yroocnaL ^rau/Ln/j THE ANTIQJJARIAN PvEPERTORY. St. DONATs castle, GLAMORGANSHIRE. THIS Caftle ftands on an eminence near Nafli Point, five miles weft ofCowbridge. Tlie exaft time of its eredion is not known, but it occurs in hiftory asearly as the fourth year of the Reign of William Rufus, when in the divifionof the lands in Glamorganfhire by Robert Fitzhamon, among the NormanKnights who affifted him in the conqueft, Caradoc, in his Hiftory of Wales,fays, Item, to Sir William le Eflerling, alias Stradling, he gave the Caftle* and Manor of St. Donats, or St. Denv>its, being one Knights fee, now parcel of the pofTeffions of Sir Edward Stradling, Kn. It continued inthe family of the Stradlings for 684 years. - ? It is not to be underftood that the prefent edifice, as it now ftands, wasthe building here mentioned;
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