Welsh Journals

the widow of the first lord of Cemaes, and such being the case there seems no reason to discredit the popular tradi- tion that both parents of Robert Fitz Martin, as well as himself and his wife Maud, were buried in medio choro of the newly erected church. Of the many possessions of the Abbey we need only state here that they included the manor of St. Dogmaels, which extended from the little stream called Breuan or Piliau1 to the mouth of the Teifi; the chapelries of St. Dogmaels, Llantood, Monington, Moylgrove, Eglwyswrw, Bayvil, Maenclochog, Monachlog-du, Fishguard and Llan- deilo; the isle and subsidiary priory of Caldey (Geva's gift) the rich cell of Pill Priory on Milford Haven and the valuable manor of Rattrey in South Devon, which English estate was retained by the Abbey till its dissolu- tion. Of the two cells, Caldey paid the annual sum of £ 5 10s. lid. to the Abbey, and Pill £ 9 6s. 8d. This last mentioned cell was founded towards the close of the twelfth century by the de la Roche family, and had a considerable private revenue of its own. In addition to Caldey and Pill, the Abbey also owned the small Tironian cell of Glascareg in co. Wexford, which paid annually to the mother house £ 3 6s. 8d., though the last abbot of St. Dogmaels declared to the Royal commissioners in 1534 that his Abbey had received no payment from this Irish source for forty years past. The record of the Abbey's existence of over four cen- turies seems on the whole to have been prosperous and uneventful, if we except the successful raid carried out by Scandinavian pirates at the estuary of the Teifi in 1138, when the newly founded Benedictine Abbey suffered con- siderably. Of its many abbots the names of eleven only 1 This stream flows into the Teifi at Castell Sidan, a little to the east of Cardigan station.