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THE PLACE-NAMES OF DEVYNOCK HUNDRED II CRAI This paper is the second of a projected series forming a detailed study of The Place-names of Devynock Hundred in the former County of Brecknock. The first, which appeared in Brycheiniog XXI, 73, contains an Introduction describing the whole project and the Abbreviations, Bibliography & Sources used through- out. To this list must be added the following. ABBREVIATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES (Continued) CARW Records of the Court of Augmentation Relating to Wales & Monmouthshire by R. A. Lewis &J. Conway Davies (UWP, 1954). EHE An exact survey of part of the Estate of Hugh Edwards Esq. 1744 by Meredith Jones (West Glamorgan Record Office). EPCW Exchequer Proceedings Concerning Wales by E. G. Jones (UWP, 1939). HWC Houses of the Welsh Countryside by Peter Smith (HMSO 1975). PAE Plans of the Abercrave Estate the property of Matthew Gwyn Esq, c1815 (West Glamorgan Record Office). PEL Particulars relating to Endowments, etc., of Livings, Diocese of St Davids, Vol IV: Archdeaconry of Brecon (Carmarthen 1907). VSB Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae by A. W. Wade-Evans (UWP 1944). 2.0 CRAI: community from 1974; civil parish c1880-1974; Hamlet/Township of the Parish of Defynog 17/18cent c1880; ecclesi- astical district from 1881; Chapelry of the Parish of Defynog ?1881; village (REL. Brych IX, 109, HPD 3, TD 260). Crai/Cray OSM, 1771 HBB 250, et al. Hamlet of Capel Llanilid or Crai 1878 AC IX, 221, hamlet of Cray 1850, 1807 DP, 1744 WP, 1740 GFB 52. Crai/Cray, a chapelry 1833 TD. Quartercray, Devynock 1760 WP. division of Cray 1754 DP. Craie 1614 DP. Crai(?) cl6cent HB IV, 240. Cray 14cent SWB. Lordship of Bolgoed and Crai(?) c12cent SHB 37. All the above units take the name of the river of the same described in 2.4. Other forms of the name will be found in the latter, 2.12, 31 and 50. For the village of Crai, v. 2.2 7.