Welsh Journals

Srrjj&ntagia Camtoeii THIRD SERIES, No. XIII.—JANUARY, 1858. HISTORY OF RADNORSHIRE. By the late Rev. Jonathan Williams, M.A. No. X. (Continued from page 332, Vol. III.) discoed. This name is written in Domesday Book Discote. The right orthography of it is Iscoed, which signifies, " beneath the wood." The land is described in Domesday as a manor, or lordship, situated in the hundred of Hezetree, in the county of Hereford, and containing three hides. It then belonged to Osbern, the son of Richard, who came with the Norman conqueror into England, or rather preceded him, being the son of Richard Fitz-Scroope, governor of the Norman garrison of Hereford in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The lordship of Discoed was afterwards annexed to the monastery of Wormesley, in Herefordshire. The parish of Discoed is situated near the river Lug, and bounded by the parish of Presteigne on the south, and by Whitton on the north. llanfihangel-nant-melin, or nant-moylyn. This parish is bounded on the east by New Radnor, on the west by Llandegla, Glascwm, and Colva, on the south by Gladestry, and on the north by Llandegley. It con- ARCH. CAMB., THIRD SERIES, VOL. IV. B