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Excerpt from Parochiale Wallicanum, or the Names of Churches, Chapels, Etc., Within the Dioceses of St. David's Llandaff, Bangor and St. Asaph, Distinguished Under Their Proper Archdeaconries and Deaneries (as These Were in A. D. 1733): With an Account of Most of Their Dedications, Proper and So-Called, and the Names of Their Several Patrons at the Eve of the Welsh Methodist Revival
Rice Rees, in his Essay on the Welsh Saints published in 1836, added a valuable appendix, containing A list of churches and chapels in Wales, including the county of Monmouth and part of the county of Hereford, arranged with reference to their subordination This list was drawn up in counties, with a view to ascertaining the names of the saints who laid the foundations of the British Church of Wales in about the fifth and sixth centuries, and it was the original intention in this paper simply to revise it. Whilst the revision was being made, it became more and more clear that the arrange ment of these ancient religious foundations in accordance with the present Welsh counties, which are of compara tively recent origin, seriously interfered with the attain ment of the object in View, for to the actual saints these county divisions were unknown, so that their religious establishments could not have been founded with reference to them. It seemed to follow, therefore, that the list should be drawn up in accordance with the secular or political divisions of the country as these were in the time of the saints themselves, a task for which I did not feel equal, notwithstanding the excellent material to be found in Dr. Henry Owen's Pembrokeshire and other publi cations of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. But as it is recognised by scholars that the old ecclesiastical.
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