Welsh Journals

then lately introduced by St. Bernard d'Abbeville at Tiron in the Diocese of Chartres. The charter records the gift as follows Dedit iisdem monachis mater mea insulam Pyr, quce alio nomine Caldea nuncupatur, quam a domino meo rege mihi datam matri mece dederam" (Dugdale, Monasticon, iv, 130; Baronia Anglicana, i, 27). The Priory, in consequence, became a cell of St. Dogmaels, and it so remained until the dissolution of the Monasteries, when the island, called in the grant The Manor of Calde, in the County of Pembroke, was, with St. Dogmaels, and various church lands, aliened by the King to one John1 Bradshawe of Presteign (Pat., 35 Hen. VIII, Part 4). The Bradshawes held it until 1612, when it was sold by the great-grandson of John Bradshawe of Presteign to Walter Philpin, Mayor of Tenby, and his son Griffith. In 1653 it passed by sale from the Philpin family to one Reeve Williams, of Llanridian, and Robert Williams, of Loughor.2 In 1786, John Williams, a great-grandson of Reeve 1 He is called by Owen {Pembrokeshire, i, 110) Roger, and by Fenton (Historical Tour, Ed. 1903, p. 252) George, but his name was really John, as Fenton elsewhere correctly gives it: see Lewys Dwnn, Welsh Visitations, i, p. 257, Radnorshire, who gives a pedigree of seven generations of the Bradshawe family; the grant also itself reads Carta Johannis Bradshawe. Fenton (Hist. Tour, Ed. 1903, p. 281) says that he was buried at St. Dogmaels, and that the inscription on his tomb ran thus Hicjacet Johannes Bradshaw, Armiger, qui obiit ultimo die Maii, Anno Domini 1588. But this refers, not to John Bradshawe the elder, whose will, dated August 4, 1567, was proved in 1580, but to his son John. These Bradshawes were only remotely connected with the regicide. 2 Edward Lhuyd, one of the fathers of the Bodleian Library, dates from Caldey, March 26, 1698 it had also been visited in 1662 by John Ray, who gives a list of the rarer plants he noticed growing there, including the tree-mallow, the golden samphire, the vernal squill, the sea-spleenwort, and a kind of Tithymalus." (See Saturday lieview, June 30, 1906.) On St. Margaret's, Ray, and his companion John Willoughby, found the nests of the "puits and gulls and sea-swallows lying so thick that a man can scarce walk but he must needs set his foot upon them." The kind of Tithymalus" was probably the Portland spurge, a small and uncom- mon species, still abundant in Priory Bay.