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The church of the holy Saint Ishaw is situated on the left bank of the little 

 rivulet Nant Mair, or Mary's Brook, a name which he probably gave to it in 

 honour of the Blessed Virgin. One spring which issues from the ground near the 

 bridge to join its waters is called " Ffynnon Ishaw," the holy spring of St. 

 Ishaw. It is walled in, and small square spaces are left in the walls seemingly 

 for votive offerings. The water was deliciously cool and pure, and the wild 

 flowers around, and within it even, very pretty and appropriate. A nightingale 

 was singing in a little cluster of low bushes by tlie Nant Mair, and the members 

 halted to listen to its varied notes. 



The visitors were received at the church by the Rev. T. Jones, the rector of 

 Llanbedr and Partricio, with great kindness and courtesy. Mr. Jones brought 

 with him some MSS. and other books of the highest antiquarian interest. They 

 formerly belonged to, and were written or collected by, that celebrated anti- 

 quary, Archdeacon Payne, who was rector of the parish at the end of the last 

 and beginning of the present century. The only regret was that a day or two 

 could not be spent there to properly e.xamine them. 



The visitors examined for themselves all the many objects of interest— the 

 font, the rood loft, the several altar stone.s, and the grim skeleton on the walls 

 within the church ; and without, the yew tree of many centuries, half dead, with 

 a vigorous young mountain ash growing from its hollow centre, about six feet 

 from the ground ; and the shaft of the cross of the 1.5th century, on the north side 

 of which a strong oak beam was cramped witli iron to the upper step, the object 

 of which was a complete puzzle. The oUovviug paper was then read : — 



