edge. The slab has been inaccurately engraved, both in Sir R. Colt Hoare's Itinerary of Baldwin, and Dr. E. L. Cutts' Sepulchral Slabs, the foliage being most carelessly drawn. An illustration is now given, taken from a rubbing photographed on to the wood-block by Mr. Worthington G. Smith.

Outside the church is a cross slab inscribed

+ HIC IACET... DE LON(DRES).

This might with advantage be placed under cover within the presbytery. There is also the recumbent effigy of a knight, which has been conjectured by some to be the monument of Sir Paganus Turbervill, and by others to be that of Sir Roger de Remi.

Ewenny Effigy. Half-inch Scale.

Having thanked Colonel Turbervill for the courtesy shown to the Association, the party left for Coity, which is a mile and a half north-east of Bridgend, and about three miles from Ewenny. Here luncheon was provided in the school-room, and, when the wants of the inner man had been attended to, an adjournment was made to the church and Castle.

Coity Church and Castle.-The architecture of Coity Church has been done full justice to in Mr. E. A. Freeman's paper in the Archæologia Cambrensis (vol. iii, Ser. 3, p. 101), and the ritual arrangements are described in the Ecclesiologist (vol. viii, p. 251). Both the church and Castle were visited during the Bridgend Meeting. At Ewenny we had an instance of an almost unaltered cruciform church of the Norman period; at Coity we see a structure designed on the same lines by an architect of the fourteenth century. Dr. Freeman says: "On the whole this church is an excellent one, and in fair preservation; but few of the windows have been robbed of their tracery, nor has any special devastation of any other kind been perpetrated. It has but little ornamental detail, but its picturesque outline and its fine series of windows would attract notice anywhere; and as a thoroughly Welsh church, exhibiting the local half-military type on a larger scale and wrought with more finished workmanship, it ranks especially high. It is, however, decidedly outshone by its neighbour (Coychurch), which I have next to describe."

Before entering the sacred edifice we pass a fine old yew-tree, casting its deep shadows athwart the path, and, glancing up at the

tower, the extraordinarily quaint gargoyles are seen standing out against the blue sky, long-jawed beasts, armed with rows of teeth like those of a crocodile. Inside the church is preserved a curious oak-chest, apparently constructed out of old materials intended for some other purpose. Mr. Banks' photograph shows its form and the style of the carved decoration, which consists of flamboyant tracery, together with four panels, enclosing the following emblems of the Passion: 1. Cross with crown of thorns; ladder and spear; three boxes of ointment carried by "les trois Myrrhophores". Cross, with five wounds in hands, feet, and heart. 3. Pillar against which Christ was bound during scourging; cock of St. Peter; bag containing thirty pieces of silver. 4. Three nails on shield; spear and sponge; scourge; hammer and pincers.

There are two effigies in the north transept, one that of a female in flowing robes, with hair banded and hands folded in prayer, inscribed in Lombardic capitals

...DE PAYN TURBE VILLE GIT ICI
DEU DE LALME EI...

and the other that of a child. The communion-plate is Elizabethan in style, but is dated 1633. There are six bells, recast one hundred years ago. The registers begin from 1720. The old font is left out in the churchyard: it should certainly be taken more care of, as neglect of this kind does not redound to the credit of the Church.

The following singular epitaph on an old woman of eighty-five, killed by lightning in the last century, is remarkable for its orthography, and affords a proof that the terror of this kind of death in the popular mind lies more in the noise of the thunder than in the actual electrical shock:

" Awake Dvll Mortals See yr Dubiovs stay

Frail is OVR make and Life soon pasts away
Myriads of changes take away OVR breth
And Myltefariovs ways there are to death
Beneath lies one esteemed for life and age
By Thunder forced to qvit this worldly stage
Tremendous death so suddenly to be

From Life's short scene moved to Eternity."

Coity Castle has been described by Mr. G. T. Clark in the Archæologia Cambrensis (vol. viii, Ser. 4, p. 1), and in his Mediaval Military Architecture (vol. i, p. 487). Coity was granted by Fitzhamon to Sir Pagan de Turberville, and the present Castle was in all probability built by his great-grandson, Gilbert de Turberville, in 1207. The land on which the Castle stands now belongs partly to Lord Dunraven and partly to the Nicholls of Merthyr Mawr. The plan consists of an approximately circular inner ward 48 yards in diameter, constituting the original castle, with a rectangular outer ward 68 yards long by 43 yards wide, forming a sort of tail added at a later period, the whole being surrounded by a ditch 100 ft.