Welsh Journals

A TERRIER OF THE REGISTERS, CHURCH PLATE AND DOCUMENTS IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF MONTGOMERY, By Archdeacon THOMAS, M.A., F.S.A. SINCE the year 1856 no Official Return has been made of Church goods and endowments corresponding to the old Terriers. Those records were exceedingly valuable although, as a rule they only repeated each other with the necessary omissions and additions required from time to time, by means of which we are enabled to gauge the progress, or other condition, of the several parishes and to ascertain approximately the dates of different benefactions and changes not directly recorded. The earliest of those in the Arch- deaconry date back to the first half of the seventeenth century, such as those of Llandrinio, c. 1630; Llandysilio, 1630 to 1650, and Llanerfyl, 1638. A few date from the latter part of the century the majority are of different dates in the 18th century some churches have only that of 1856, and some none at all. From 1576 to 1844, the Archdeaconry was held in commendam by the Bishop, but during that interval the Rural Deans carried out their Visitations, and from some of their Reports it is evident that they bestowed considerable pains on this duty of their office. Since the restoration of the Archdeaconry and its sub- division into those of St. Asaph and Montgomery, the Archidiaconal function of Visiting the Churches has been carefully attended to, first by Archdeacon Clive, 1844 to 1861, and then by Archdeacon Ffoulkes, 1861 to 1886. Since my own appointment in 1886 I have visited every parish several times, most of them