Welsh Journals

A book of parchment wherein are registered the names of all persons married, christened and buried and a transcript thereof is yearly given to the Register's office. Our minister doth read service every Sunday [these last two words deleted], with the second service as it is prescribed on Sundays and holy days [these last three words deleted]. No hospitals, almshouses, schools, schoolmasters, physitians, chyrurgeons and midwives in the parish. I du sweare that there is a quantity of bread and wine provided according to the quantitie [this last word deleted] number of Com- municants, but no strangers use to preach at our church, but our own minister always [last five words added in the minister's handwriting]. I [the churchwarden] answeare that I have taken sufficient tyme to draw this presentment before the Visitation, and have consulted with our faithful [these last two words deleted and me their overwritten by the minister '] minister therein." John Evan, Minister. Phillipp Sandbrook, Churchwarden. The communion cup or chalice with a cover of silver and a flagon of pewter" have disappeared. According to the Rev. J. T. Evans in his Pembrokeshire Plate (p. 62), there is now only a two-handled chalice of plated metal and a pewter plate of Birmingham make. The parchment register has also gone; the earliest register begins in 1784. An interesting presentment as showing the patchwork of "mini- ster and his churchwarden. Morvill. July 31, 1684. The names of y6 Dissenters within if parish, David Younge and Mary, his wife. Robert John, Ch. Warden. Robert John, Ch. Warden. Theo. Price, CI. The name of Theo. Price adds another to the list of rectors as given in the list of Pembrokeshire Parsons in the Transactions of the West Wales Historical Society (Vol. II, p. 306). Moylgrove. July 31, 1684. Churchyard out of repair. We have a sexton, but he can neither read, write or sing. Henry Mills, John Griffith Ch. Wardens. Hugh Thomas } The administration of Mills's effects, granted at Carmarthen on April 7, 1691, describes him as clerk of the parish of Moylgrove."