A history of the county of Brecknock: In two . Priory house called the Doctor du. This 1 thought proper to note, least after ages, in anothersurvey, might mistake themselves in presuming the Priory to have been a Roman building, and thatthey were first dug up there. It was the opinion of the very learned Mr. William Plulips, the townclerk, whose great labours, were they not buried in oblivion, but made public to the world, wouldnot only shew his great merit, but redound much to the honour of the nobility of all Wales, thatCaer vong might rather be Caer Mong or Monach, so called by t
A history of the county of Brecknock: In two . Priory house called the Doctor du. This 1 thought proper to note, least after ages, in anothersurvey, might mistake themselves in presuming the Priory to have been a Roman building, and thatthey were first dug up there. It was the opinion of the very learned Mr. William Plulips, the townclerk, whose great labours, were they not buried in oblivion, but made public to the world, wouldnot only shew his great merit, but redound much to the honour of the nobility of all Wales, thatCaer vong might rather be Caer Mong or Monach, so called by the monks of the Priory, monk town,but I beUeve it must have some older signification, neither can it enter my thoughts, that a people 1 The insoription and stone given in plate V, fig. I, is copied from the writer of the Notitia Cambria BritaiiiUca, iu theBadmington Library, who made the drawing on tlie spot, from a careful examination and views of the stone. :^JL ^z ^ fi J ^%> •v^ i ^r?5 -^? i 2^ c Z r^^^ 2 m C C3 O ^ 35 /\ /7^. 2. PLATE V. (From o Brmnng bii llie liei: Jricr.)I) Ancient stone from tlie Gaer. (2) Ohi Town Hull : THE HLSTORY OF BRECKNOCKSHIRE. 133 so learned as the monks of all ages have been, should give the name of a town to a place that wasdestroyed before there was a monk at the Priory, or before ever the Priory was thought of, as we findin Giraldus Cambrensis. Here then is an unquestionable statement, as to the time and manner of the removal of thisstone, by one of the actual proprietors of Gaer, which continued in the possession of the linealdescendants of Bleddin ap Maenarch, until the time of William John Prosser, sheriff of Breconshirein 1554 and 1561, who left only a daughter or daughters, from whom it was purchased by RogerWilliams, the second son of Sir David Williams the judge, whose monument in the Priory churchhas been noticed, and the younger brother of the first Sir Hem-y Williams of Gwernyfed, anotherbranch from the same co
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