. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . eing damaged by the snow or rain, pent up or confined,Avhile at the same time it added a singular lightness to the building.* This Drawing was made Anno 1774. ST. DONATS CASTLE, GLAIMORGANSHIRE. JL HIS Castle stands on an eminence near Nash Point, five miles westof Cowbridge. The exact time of its erection is not known, but it occurs in history asearly as th^ fourth year of the reign of William Rufus, when
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . eing damaged by the snow or rain, pent up or confined,Avhile at the same time it added a singular lightness to the building.* This Drawing was made Anno 1774. ST. DONATS CASTLE, GLAIMORGANSHIRE. JL HIS Castle stands on an eminence near Nash Point, five miles westof Cowbridge. The exact time of its erection is not known, but it occurs in history asearly as th^ fourth year of the reign of William Rufus, when in thedivision of the lands in Glamorganshire by Robert Fitzhamon, amongthe Norman Knights who assisted him in the Conquest, Caradoc, in hisHistory of Wales, says, Item, to Sir William le Esterling, alias Strad-*• ling, he gave the Castle and Manor of St. Donats, or St. Denwits, being one Knights fee, now parcel of the possessions of Sir Edward* Stradling, Kn. It continued in the family of the Stradlings for684 years. It is not to be understood that the present edifice, as it now stands, * Vide Tour thiougli Monmouthshire and Wales, &c. by Henry Penrudock Windham,Esq. was. o «J//* Y ^y* • SIJDOKATS CASTILE 9uf, Ocinltrn- ij FBiyt/,.
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