NOTICE. SYLVANUS URBAN requests bis Friends to observe that Reports, Correspondence, Books for Review, announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c., received after the 20th instant, cannot be attended to until the following Month. PARENTS OF HUBERT WALTER, ABP. OF CANTERBURY. SIR,-The Rev. Mr. Graves, I regret to find, is not acquainted with Dr. Hook's "Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury," or at p. 585 of vol. i. in that work he would have found references to Dugdale's "Baronage," the prime authority in the matter, and to Hoveden the historian, and all the facts now ascertainable with respect to the parentage of Archbishop Hubert. The Dean of Chichester, I know, bestowed especial labour on the memoir of this primate, drawing it up from original sources, and so anticipated the information which Mr. Graves now cites from Carte, and might have found also in Foss's " Judges," ii. 128. Mr. Brewer merely (although not with his usual and widely appreciated accuracy) says, "No record has been preserved of his parents," but proceeds to mention Theobald Walter, the Primate's brother. I am, &c. (Notit. Monast., Norfolk, xxi., sub roc. West Dereham) assigns 1188 as the date of the foundation of the abbey. And Blomefield, "as an old MS. says, on the feast of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin in 1188." (Norfolk, vii. 331.) Ralph de Glanville signs the charter as witness, but without the addition of Justiciar, which he became in 1189. (Foss's Judges, i. 381.)—I am, &c. F. H. ARNOLD, M.A. Appledram, March 12, 1864. WELSH GENEALOGICAL QUERIES. SIR, I shall be glad if any of your Cambrian readers will favour me with replies to any of the following queries: 1. What relation was Rhys ab Madoc ab David, Prince of Glamorgan A.D. 1150, to Jestyn ab Gwrgant, King of Glamorgan A.D. 1091? What were his arms? (Jestyn bore, Gules, three chevgenealogy will oblige. ronells argent.) Any particulars of his 2. What is the tradition connected with the very peculiar arms borne by the family of Davies of the Marsh, MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A., F.S.A. Shropshire, descended from Celynin, HUBERT, FOUNDER OF WEST DEREHAM ABBEY. SIR,-As every exact writer is desirous that the least speck in the eye of chronology should be cleared, Mr. Brewer will pardon me for adverting to a blemish of this nature in his Giraldi Cambrensis Opp., vol. iii. xxi. It is there stated that "Hubert, when Dean of York (A.D. 1169), founded a Premonstratene [Præmonstratensian?] house at West Dereham." From the foundation charter in Dugdale (Monast., vi. 899) it appears that he did so when Dean of York; but this he did not become till 1186 (Le Neve's Fasti, ed. Hardy, iii. 120). This foundation must have therefore occurred between 1186 and 1189, as in the latter year Hubert was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury. Tanner Lord of Llydiarth in Powys, viz., Sable, on a mount vert a goat argent, attired or, guttée de larmes standing on a child proper, swaddled gules, and feeding on a tree vert? 3. Who was Sir John Davies, Marshal of Connaught temp. Eliz.? He possessed large grants of land in that province, and is believed to have been a Shropshire man. What were his arms? He was not the celebrated AttorneyGeneral of that name and period. CYRWM. In the Obituary notice of Capt. Frere, R.N., (p. 396,) it is erroneously stated that he left no issue. The sentence should read "and left three children, a son and two daughters." Several Reports, Reviews and Obituaries, which are in type, are unavoidably postponed. The Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. NOTES ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND.-IV. AGHADOE. THE ruins of Aghadoe, which consist of a church, a round tower, and a castle, stand on a bleak hill exposed to every wind that blows, but which, sloping gradually down to the borders of the lake, commands a magnificent view of Killarney, with its mountains, its lakes, and its islands, among which is "sweet Innisfallen." Standing in this desolate churchyard, with the shattered trunk of the round tower on one side, the GENT, MAG. 1864, VOL. I. 3 D ivy-covered ruins of the church on the other, the boulder-built castle in front, and the mountains of Killarney, on which the clouds rest, in the background, it is almost impossible to conceive anything finer or more impressive. The first object of interest is the round tower, which stands on the extreme edge of the cemetery and partly on the outside. Only a small portion of the tower remains, but it is sufficient to shew its construction. It is built of large pieces of sandstone in irregular courses, but accurately fitted together, with the joints sometimes perpendicular and sometimes oblique, without regard to regular courses or parallel beds, the usual characteristics of the earlier examples of the round towers. It is faced with thin irregular ashlar, inside as well as outside. The material is the same as that of the earlier part of the west end of the church, to which it was probably the belfry. The church, as is in general the case in Ireland, is of two or more dates, the nave being the earliest and the choir built on to it. The nave appears to have been originally of smaller dimensions, and to have been afterwards enlarged. A portion of the original masonry, which consisted of large blocks of stones with oblique joints and not regularly squared, similar to that of the round tower, still remains on the northern portion of the west end, and is continued on the north side. The enlargement took place in the twelfth century, as is evident from the details of the doorway, but as much as possible of the old church was allowed to remain. The west end of the church has been lately repaired, to preserve the beautiful west doorway, which is probably of 1158, the "finishing" spoken of by Lanigan (see p. 416). A great part of this west front seems to have been destroyed, and all the northern portion consists of modern repairs, made up of fragments of the Norman work with common masonry intermixed. The gable has not been completed, but the new work has been carried up to meet the old gable, giving it a very awkward and uneasy appearance at the end. The west doorway is very fine, and equal in detail to English work of the same period. It consisted of a semicircular arch of four "orders," the inner of which is quite plain. The jambs are perfect, but the external order of the arch has been destroyed; this order projected before the wall, and was probably finished above the door by a gablet or canopy. In the modern repairs some fragments of the enrichment of this outer arch have been preserved: there is a chevron and a large chamfer having balls or pellets, with much the effect of the ballflower. Very nearly the same ornament occurs at Iffley, Ox fordshire, and other places at about 1150 to 1160. The whole character of this doorway is very much like that in the nave of Kirkstall Abbey, which is rather late Norman work, built between 1152 and 1182. The second order has a rich ornament, consisting of pellets with bands of bead-work between, with enriched jamb-shafts and carved capitals, all which will be best understood by the annexed figure (see p. 413). The third order has a rich and bold zigzag or chevron. On the jamb of this arch the ornament is changed into the double embattled ornament mentioned before at Glendalough. It is very singular, and seems to be almost peculiarly Irish, though some specimens very similar occur among the fragments of the Norman buildings at Windsor Castle. Plan of Cathedral and Round Tower, Aghadoe. Scale, 50 feet to an inch. The church is about 90 ft. long, a simple parallelogram, but the eastern part is constructed of smaller stones than the western, and of different workmanship, which shews that the church has been lengthened. The architectural features confirm this, for the western part has two side windows, not more than three or four inches wide outside, well splayed inwards, with semicircular heads and inclined jambs, all in cut stone, and probably of the end of the eleventh or early part of the twelfth century; but the east end has a pair of lancet windows 9 ft. 6 in. high, about 6 in. wide Ornaments on the East Window, Cathedral, Aghadoe. |