Welsh Journals

counties aforesaid and for the execucon herof in all points as apertayneth as they and everie of them tender our pleasure and will answere the contrarie at their uttermoste perrille PROVIDED allwaies that this our present Commission or anything therin conteyned shall not in anie wise extend to the Countie of Gloucester, the Citie of Gloucester or county of the same City or to any of them or to the Countie Palatine of Chester or to the Citie of Chester or to any parte therof, or to the Counties of Glamorgan or Monmouth or to any of them or to anie parte of them or any of them IN WITNES wherof we have caused these our letters to be made Pattents witnes ourself at Westminster the four and twentieth day of November in the fifteenth yeare of our raigne of England, Fraunce and Ireland, and of Scotland the one and fiftieth. [Signed] W. Compton BOOK REVIEW THE CHURCH AND PARISH OF OLD RADNOR By W. H. HOWSE, F.S.A. (2/6d.) At Old Radenor ther' is yet a very fair Chirch, and welle servid wrote Leland (about 1538). This attractively produced little book is devoted in the main to what is probablythe handsomest and certainly the best known of Radnorshire Churches, the parish church of St. Stephen at Old Radnor. The author takes the reader on a conducted tour of the building and discusses each feature of its fabric clearly and concisely, dwelling particularly on the screen and the unique late medieval organ case. The latter forms the subject of an excellent photograph, as does the much-discussed font, which is certainly at variance with the structure as a whole which has, for Radnorshire, almost an air of aesthetic sophistication. Mr. Howse's monograph contains several nice touches, including his glimpse of that most earnest of eminent Victorians, Sir George Cornwall Lewis, as well as a great deal of information, and will delight the many people who have visited Old Radnor. It is a pity that it was not possible to provide a plan of the building, but once again it can be observed (in a rather different sense) that the Church is welle servid." C.W.N. (Part of the proceeds from the sale of this book, which carries a Foreword by the Archdeacon of Hereford, the Ven. A. J. Winnington- Ingram, are for the Church Fabric Fund).