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Cathedral, as in Figs. 33, 36, and 37; and, on the other hand, we have a much ruder and apparently an earlier type of work, as in

Restoration of Central Octagonal Shaft.

Figs. 34 and 35. We have fragments at the Abbey illustrating both styles, see Fig. 19, plate 5, and Fig. 25, plate 7.

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It is quite impossible to say how the various types of Sculpture were applied in the Nave. Possibly the East end may have been first completed, and the men who had worked at Lincoln might have been employed at Abbey Cwmhir; then, as the Nave extended westward, the work may have fallen into other and less competent hands. However this may be, here we have side by side two distinct classes of work, surmounting the same shafts and bases throughout.

Plate No. 12.-On this is illustrated the only inscribed Monumental Slab found at Abbey Cwmhir, Fig, 38, now placed in the churchyard there, on the north side of the church; Fig. 39 is a fragment apparently of a tombstone, with a moulded edge.

NOTE.-Mr. Edward Owen has very kindly furnished the following extract from Stephens' Literature of the Kymry of a poem of Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch on the death of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, in which it appears that his personal escort was eighteen men when he visited Aberedw Castle, and that all these were slain when their retreat upon the main body of Llewelyn's army was cut off by Helias Walwyn :—

POEM OF GRUFFYDD AP YR YNAD COCH ON THE DEATH OF
LLEWELYN AP GRUFFYDD.

"It is my lot to complain of Saxon treachery,

It is mine to complain of the necessity of dying,

It is mine to despise myself because God

Has left me without him.

It is mine to praise him without interruption or silence,

It is mine henceforth to meditate on him,

It is mine while life lasts for him to mourn,

It is mine to grieve, mine to weep.

A lord I have lost-well may I mourn—

A lord of a royal palace, slain by a human hand,

A lord righteous and truthful: listen to me!

I soar to complain. Oh that I should have cause!

A lord, victorious until the eighteen were slain.

A lord who was gentle, whose possession is now the silent earth,

A lord who was like a lion, ruling the elements,

A lord whose disfigurement makes us most uneasy,

A lord who was praised in songs, as Emrys predicted;
No Saxon would dare to touch him," etc.

The Welsh line about the eighteen is :—

"Arglwydd llwydd cyn lladd y deunaw."

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