335 



Nights. Miles. 

 Hereford, Supper, Monday, the 15th, we marched half way to 

 Bramyard, but there was Leo in itinere, and so back to Hereford 

 again 3 10 



Wednesday, the 18th, the Rendesvous was at Athurstone, 

 there dined, 10 miles, to Hamlacy, Supper, Lord Scudamore's ... 1 26 



Thursday, the ISth, to a Eendesvous, five miles from 

 Hamlacy, with intention for Worcester, Poins, and Roscesier on 

 the Passage, whereupon we marched towards Hereford, so to 

 Leominster, then to Webky, thence to Prestine, there halted at 

 Mr. Andrew's ; this March lasted from Six in the morning till 

 midnight, &c 1 ^^ 



Friday, the 19th, ia Newton, Mr. Price's, a long March 



O 11 



over Mountams 



This no doubt was the visit to which the entry in Register refers, and shows 

 the King rested one night at Presteign. Possibly, while his attendants halted at 

 Mr. Andrew's, his Majesty may have found more comfortable and secluded 

 lodgings at the Lower Heath, some mile and a half from the towTi, and may have 

 remained there a second night, catching up liis army before they reached the end 

 of their long march over the mountains. 



The following note by the same rector records a matter for which no doubt 

 he had reason to feel grateful, and which clearly shows his loyal sympathies — 



" The Rev. John Scull* was in the year 1611 presented to the Vicarage of 

 Presteigne and to the Rectory in the year 1640. In the time of the Rump 

 Parliament he was deprived of all the emoluments of his living and died in 

 poverty in the year 1652. The income of this Rectory was, by a set of hypocritical 

 parliamentary Rascals, under the influence of Oliver Cromwell, given to one 

 Knoweles, an Anabaptist, and Lucas, a London Taylor, and enjoyed by them till 

 the day that Oliver's Carcass was exhibited at Tyburn. By Mr. Scull's having, at 

 a considerable expense, and by the friendly assistance of Lord Willowby, procured 

 the grant of the Great Tythes from Charles the first. He became the greatest 

 Friend to this Church that it has had since its foundation." 



WW. Rr. 



The extracts above quoted were taken direct from the register some eight 

 or nine years ago, but the writer has been indebted to a valuable paper read at 

 the Kington Meeting of the Cambrian Archseological Society in 1863 by the late 

 Dr. Davies, which will be found in " Archseologia Cambrensis" for 1864, and to 

 Williams's "History of Radnorshire" for much useful information. Readers 

 who feel interested in the subject are referred to those works for fuller details 

 than can be given within the limits of this paper. 



» The Rev. John Scull belonged to a family connected with the counties of Brecon and 

 Hereford from a very- early period, and he obtained the living at Presteign through the interest of 

 Sir Gilbert Cornwall, Baron of Burford, who then lived at Stapleton Castle, in the county of 

 Hereford, the ruins of which still remain within a mile of the town of Presteign. 



