Welsh Journals

neath a gothic canopy and bearing on its bordure the legend, S. COMUNE. SANTI. DOG[MAE]LIS. DE. KEMMEYS." It did not take long to disperse the estates of the Abbey whose revenue is variously stated at figures which in one instance are put so low as £ 68 and in another place are described as amounting so high as £ 120 and over, so that probably the commonly quoted rental of £ 96 derived from the Valor Ecclesiasticus may be accepted as fairly correct. Of the Pembrokeshire estates it is sufficient here to mention that the manor of St. Dogmaels and the monastic buildings and grounds, otherwise called the Llandre, were, together with Caldey Island, acquired by purchase from the King in 1543 by John Bradshaw of Presteign for the sum of £ 512 odd.1 This grant did not, however, include the patronage of the parish church of St. Thomas at St. Dogmaels, and its chapelries of Llan- tood and Monington which remained with the Crown. In all probability large portions of the abbey were now pulled down and utilized for the building of the Bradshaw manor house, which remained the residence of this family for over a hundred years. The Bradshaws whose early pedigree is given in Lewys Dwnn's Visitations (vol. i, p. 257) are mentioned in local annals for some four or five gener- ations, one of them, John Bradshaw, being High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1571. This man, who was either the son or the grandson of the original purchaser from the Crown, is almost certainly the John Bradshaw whose monumental slab still exists.2 He died in 1588,3 and was 1 West Wales Hist. Trans., vol. iii, p. 281. 2 The full inscription on the stone is given by most writers. however that is now left are the words IOHANNE I ARMIGER 0 DIE MINI 1588. 3 Dean Allen, High Sheriffs of Pembrokeshire, p. 13.