The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ngs, and was well situated to de-fend the promontory of Roos, which they had begun to oc-cupy, after having driven out the natives, as being on thefrontiers of their newly acquired territory, on a navigableriver, and placed so as to give them full command of the moremountainous districts of the county, whence alone they hadto dread an alarm. Haverfordwest had been amply endowed with privilegesby piany of the king
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ngs, and was well situated to de-fend the promontory of Roos, which they had begun to oc-cupy, after having driven out the natives, as being on thefrontiers of their newly acquired territory, on a navigableriver, and placed so as to give them full command of the moremountainous districts of the county, whence alone they hadto dread an alarm. Haverfordwest had been amply endowed with privilegesby piany of the kings of England, particularly by Richard theSecond ; yet James the First, in the seventh year of his reign,granted it a new charter by the style of mayor, sheriffs, bai-liffs, and burgesses of the county of the town of Haverford ;otherwise Haverford without our county of Pembroke, andsituated on our great and famous port of Milford : it ordained,that the town of Haverfordwest should be and remain here-after for ever a free town and county of itself, distinct andseparate from our county of Pembroke, and from our othercounties whatsoever within our lordship of Wales; and that c ^ \. THE CASfLE AT HAVERFORDWEST. tbe several sites of the priory and the friars, and the hill,tailed the priors hill, and priors marshes, and the friarsgardens, situate within tbe limits of the town of Haverford-west, aforesaid be, and for the future shall be, esteemed a»part and parcel of the said county of the town of Haverford-west, within the limits, and liberties, and precincts of tliesame. It appointed twenty-four common-council men, fifteen oftliem aldermen, and the others brethren. The mayor to beelected out of three common-council men : the sheriffs out ofthree likewise, or other honest burgesses. The mayor to becoroner, escheator, and clerk of the market. In the town are three churches—St. Marys, St. Thomass,and St. Martins, besides the church of Prendergast, in thesuburbs ; and in the Bridge-st
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