Welsh Journals

OF BRAMPTON BRYAN CASTLE. 243 p'vide and place an able, godly, and well app'ved minister (so soon as the sayd church shal be capable thereof) to officiate and discharge the work of ye ministry, and to take and receive for his own pp. use and benefit all ye p'fitts and emolumts be¬ longing to ye sayd rectory, and growing, arising, due, or pay¬ able out of ye same unto me, the sayd Stanley Gower, at any tyme since ye demolishing of ye sayd church and town, and for so long tyme as such minister shall continue to be resident there by virtue of ye sayd Coll. Harley's order and ap¬ pointor*. And all ye interest y1 I have, or may claym to the p'fitts and tithes of ye sayd rectory, I do hereby assign and set over unto ye sayd minister, so to be placed as aforesayd, giving and granting unto him full power and authority to sue for and receive the same for his own use and benefit, as amply as I my self might or could do by virtue of my presentation. In wit¬ ness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seale the fourth day of March, in ye year of or Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and three. " Witnesses hereunto, \ ^T w " f ' ( William White. > " Stanley Gower, l.s." J Richard W. Banks. AN ACCOUNT OF A BARROW WITH KIST-VAEN, IN THE PARISH OF SANCREED, CORNWALL. The Cornish cromlech may be described as consisting simply of a quadrangular kist-vaen, with a large flat covering stone. The structure is sometimes found slightly elevated above the natural level of the ground, and, in a few instances, there are traces of encircling rings of stones, which have been considered to be the bases of barrows in which the cromlechs may have been buried. No other remains of the barrows are, however, now to be seen, and it would be difficult to account for the removal of such large heaps of earth and stone, though there can be little doubt that in some cases they did actually exist. It would, therefore, ap¬ pear that cromlechs, such as those at Chun and Mulfra,