Welsh Journals

NOTES ON WEOBLEY. 173 " Monington chapel on the north side to be paved anew." And this portion of the church still bears the name of the Monington aisle. The chapel on the south side, mentioned as belonging to the Ley, was founded to the service of S. Nicholas, not long before the Dissolution, by John Chapman and Alice Baker, who gave the manor of Blackball, with the appurtenances, in the county of Hereford, and part in King's Pyon, and other lands, tenements, for the finding a priest to celebrate mass, and to pray for all the founders. Sir James Morgan was the last priest there. (This is a copy of the Survey, 1 Edward VI.) In 5 Elizabeth (1562-3) it was granted to Sir Chris¬ topher Hatton, who sold it to John King, of Here¬ ford, in 24 Elizabeth (1581-2), being then valued at £6 13s. Id., or according to another statement £6 12s. 8d. There were once two coats of arms on the rail of this chapel,1 Bridges, and2 a coat, which is repeated, and still exists on the roof of the nave. (Sourdevall, or Surdwal).1 Blount thus describes the chapels. " The one, dedi¬ cated to the Blessed Virgin, and appertains to Bridges of Ley, wherein was a monument, the inscription whereof, on a brass lamina, is still preserved, having the arms of Brugge, and other quarterings, and these words, " Hie jacet Kowlandus Brugge de Ley in Com. Hereford gen'et Margaretta Helorn uxor ejus, qui qui- dem Rolandus obiit die . . . Anno Dni—et dicta Margareta obiit 18 Die Novembr. Anno Dni Jhi . . . . quorum animabus propitietur Deus.' The other chapel is dedicated to St. Nicholas,2 which in 1 Bacon, Lib. Reg., p. 375, 6766, 6695, p. Ill, p. 126 ; Harl. 6726, and Topographer, u. s.; also MS. by Mr. Brome, at Belmont, in which it is also stated, but without mention of authority, that fourteen priests belonged to Weobley Church. This MS. calls the chapel the Lady Chapel (p. 66). 2 Blount is clearly wrong in this. The north chapel was the one dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, and the south one to S. Nicho¬ las. (See the Visitation of Bishop Croft supra.)