a vaulted arch which forms the roof of the porch and the floor of the chamber above. This was cut away; then we removed the plaster from the walls of the upper chamber, and discovered that the newlyfound window was in a gable-end, which had been immured in the south wall of the south aisle, and the porch had been built against it. The window was then cleared from the inside, and found to have an exceedingly deep splay. It is quite plain, and in my opinion was part of the church rebuilt or restored by Warine de Mountchensey about 1250. The gable-end is so perfect that the stone on which a finial stood is plainly to be seen. The wall of the south aisle is quite distinct from the gable and largely made-up of window fragments, formed either of Caen or Bath stone. The porch is not bonded to the church. Cambrian Archaeological Association. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT HAVERFORDWEST, PEMBROKESHIRE, ON MONDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1897, AND FOUR FOLLOWING DAYS. President. F. LLOYD PHILIPPS, Esq. President-Elect. SIR OWEN SCOURFIELD, Bart. Local Committee. Chairman-DR. E. P. PHILLIPS, Haverfordwest. Ven. Archdeacon HILBERS, Haverfordwest. Rev. C. F. HARRISON, Haverfordwest. Rev. S. SHRIMPTON, Haverfordwest. Rev. R. H. JONES, Wiston. Rev. D. E. WILLIAMS, Lawhaden. Rev. Preb. D. PUGH EVANS, Lampeter Velfry. Rev. JAMES PHILLIPS, Haverfordwest. Rev. F. N. COLBORNE, Haverfordwest. JOHN JAMES, Esq., Haverfordwest. T. L. JAMES, Esq., Haverfordwest. H. W. WILLIAMS, Esq., Solva. F. P. GREEN, Esq., Haverfordwest. Dr. BRIGSTOCKE, Haverfordwest. R. T. P. WILLIAMS, Esq., Haverfordwest. Hon. Local Secretary. J. W. PHILLIPS, Esq., Haverfordwest. General Secretaries of the Association. Rev. Canon R. TREVOR OWEN, M.A., F.S.A., Llangedwyn, Oswestry. Rev. C. CHIDLOW, M.A., Llawhaden Vicarage, Narberth, S. Wales. EVENING MEETINGS. MONDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1897. COMMITTEE MEETING. A Meeting of the Committee of the Association was held at the Castle Hotel, at 8.30 p.m., to receive the Reports of officers, and for the transaction of other business. A meeting of the Committee for the Archæological Survey of Wales was held subsequently at the same place at 9.30 p.m., to receive the Report on the Pembrokeshire Section of the Survey, submitted by Mr. Edward Laws, F.S.A., and Mr. Henry Owen, F.S.A. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17TH. PUBLIC MEETING. On Tuesday a public meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, under the presidency of Sir Owen Scourfield. There was a large and appreciative audience. While the arrival of the main body of excursionists was being awaited, the Ven. Archdeacon D. R. Thomas passed the time by a review of the day's doings. He was followed by Mr. F. C. Penrose, who remarked on a few points more particularly of architectural interest. Capt. Lloyd-Philipps, the retiring President, said, last year he had the honour of being elected President of the Society, and he could not resign that office without alluding to the great loss the Association had suffered this year by the death of two members. He referred to the late Lord Bishop of the Diocese and Dean Allen. To Bishop Basil Jones the existence of the Society was probably due, for he was the means of its resuscitation at a time when it was failing, and was twice its President. They all knew of the good work done by Dean Allen on behalf of the Society. Sir Owen Scourfield said he must apologise for having the presumption to occupy the chair which had been held by such distinguished men. His late father took great interest in archæology, and like him he did so too, but unlike his father he knew nothing about it. He knew Pembrokeshire was an archaeologists' paradise. The remains of British, Roman, and Flemish architecture were strewn about on every side. In fact, nature seemed to have intended Pembrokeshire for an archæologists' paradise, because it had such very old natural formation as though it began in the very early days. of the world, and it would be hard if they had nothing old now-adays. Indeed, interesting archæological memorials were so thickly strewn about that when the Society came down they did not realise how long it took to explore an apparently small portion. That day the part of the county mapped out had very much exceeded the time at their disposal, and he believed the afternoon's proceedings had to be hurried over so as to get back in time for that meeting. He would suggest that a smaller district should be allotted, for that day they had undertaken three days' work. He now had pleasure in calling upon Mr. Edward Laws to read a paper he had prepared on the "Antiquities of Pembrokeshire." Mr. Edward Laws said: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,— At this, our Fifty-first Annual Meeting, the powers that be have decided upon a somewhat grave innovation. They have relieved you, Mr. President, from a work you were very competent to have most excellently performed, and laid your burthen burthen on the shoulders of an inoffensive private member of their Association. They have decided to introduce a course of papers dealing with general local archæology, which are to be read at the annual meetings in lieu of the presidential address. I am, of course, impressed by the honour they have done me by asking that I should read the first of these papers, but at the same time I am bound to say I would much rather hear my friend, Sir Owen Scourfield, give us a good old-fashioned presidential address. We men of West Wales, half in jest, have christened Pembrokeshire "The Premier County,' and are each and all of us ready with innumerable reasons to justify the appellation; but I think it must be admitted by the most wrongheaded man, say out of Glamorgan, that from an archæologist's standpoint there is no more interesting district in Great Britain than the dear old county of Pembroke. With such a varied menu as we have to offer, the difficulty is what to choose. As you know, the Archæological Survey of Wales has been commenced in Pembrokeshire, and it seems to me that would make rather a good framework for a paper, not exactly giving a recapitulation of what has been written on the sheets, but rather scraps of information that have been acquired, and ideas that have suggested themselves to those engaged in that survey. I will begin, like charity, at home, and read a few notes on Tenby. The medieval administration of the borough towns in Pembrokeshire seems to have been carried on in a dual fashion. The Mayor and bailiffs, at first nominees of the Earl, and subsequently the elected of the burgesses, had two duties. to perform, viz., to collect the burgage rents, issues, fines, amercements, and other dues owing to the Earl, and to keep the peace. But there was another officer whose duties were totally distinct from these, and over whom the Mayor and burgesses had no control-"The Governor." We assume that his duties were purely military, but in truth we know little or nothing about him. From lists of mayors, genealogies, burgage rent-rolls, presentments to the various courts and other documents, we are enabled to tell pretty |