HISTORICAL & ARCHEOLOGICAL RELATING TO MONTGOMERYSHIRE, AND ITS BORDERS. ISSUED BY THE POWYS-LAND CLUB FOR THE USE OF ITS MEMBERS. Br 7491.2 Are 137.1 A Harvard College Library Nov. 27, 1911 From the Gift of "A Ruddy Lion ramping in Gold." The Seal of SIR EDWARD DE CHERLETON, LORD OF Powys, appended to a charter dated 6th July, 7 Henry V (1418), is adopted as the Seal of the Powys-land Club. This remarkable Seal is not quite perfect, the edge having been splintered away, and the figure in the place of the crest having lost its head, which the engraver has supplied. It appears to have been a round seal, surrounded by an inscription, probably "Sigillum Edwardi de Cherleton Domini Powisie", of which only the "g" in the word Sigillum, and "wi" in the word Powisie now remain. The shield in the centre is charged with the red lion of Powys-a lion rampantand is probably held up by another lion rampant standing on his hind legs behind the shield, which is clasped by his fore paws. The side supporters, or rather ornamental figures (for it is said that supporters, in the present heraldic sense of the word, were unknown at that period), are wild men sitting astride of lions couchant.-Mont. Coll., vol. vi, p. 293. MONTGOMERYSHIRE COLLECTIONS. CONTENTS of VOL. VIII. Original Proposal for formation of Club, Rules, and amended Report of Eighth Annual Meeting - - Classified List of articles presented to the Powys-land Museum Alphabetical List of Donors to the Powys-land Museum and PAGE, - xxvi Report of Museum Committee, List of Subscribers to the Library List of Literary Societies with which the Powys-land Club ex- lx Summary of "Montgomeryshire Collections" printed since the lxi Historic Spots. No. V. Cefn Digoll. By Rev. George Sandford, A Decade Ring found near Strata Marcella Abbey. M. C. J. Llanrhaiadr yn Mochnant, its Parochial History and Antiquities (concluded). By T. W. HANCOCK. Chap. VIII. Genealogical The Devolution of the Manors of Montgomeryshire. IV. Bausley |