The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . the Bridge-street there was a house ofblack friars, preachers ; and without the town, on the banksof the river, in a meadow below the Quays, a priory of blackcanons, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Thomas the martyr,founded and liberally endowed by Robert de Hwlfordd, firstlord of Haverfordwest, son of Richard Fitz Tancred, cas-tellan of Haverfordwest under the earl of Clare. The en-dowment consisted of several adv
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . the Bridge-street there was a house ofblack friars, preachers ; and without the town, on the banksof the river, in a meadow below the Quays, a priory of blackcanons, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Thomas the martyr,founded and liberally endowed by Robert de Hwlfordd, firstlord of Haverfordwest, son of Richard Fitz Tancred, cas-tellan of Haverfordwest under the earl of Clare. The en-dowment consisted of several advowsons and titles within hisbarony, and was confirmed by Edward the Third. It wasvalued, according to Dugdale, 26th year of Henry the Eighth,at 1331. lis. Id. and by Speed at 1351. 6s. Id. and grantedat the dissolution to Roger and Thomas Barlow. To Haverfordwest, from its earliest period, there was adegree of consequence attached, which clearly proves the es-timate that was made of it; and no injudicious one if its THE CASTLE AT HAVERFORDWEST. central situation with respect to the county at large, its ad-vantages for commerce, and the healthiness of its air be w«
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