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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



in the Civil 

 War. The 

 Royalists had 

 arranged a plan 

 by which the 

 entrance of the 

 Scots into 

 England was to 

 be a signal for 

 a simultaneous 

 rising in every 

 quarter of the 

 kingdom, but the 

 zealoftheWelsh- 

 m e n d i d n o t 

 brook delay, and 

 a force of 8,000 

 men quickly 

 gathered. C hep- 

 stow was sur- 

 prised, Carnar- 

 von besieged, 

 and Colonel 

 Fleming 

 defeated, but 

 success led 

 on the Welsh to 

 towards Pemb.oke 



A SUNNY CORNER. 



tluir ruin. Lauahern was hastening 

 (in May 8th, when, at St. Pagan's, lie 



encountered the Parliamentary forces under Colonel Morton, 

 who had been sent by i romwell to enforce disbandment. A 

 hard-fought engagement took place, in which the Welsh werj 

 defeated with great slaughter and the loss of many prisoners. 

 Of St. Pagan's parish alone sixty-five inhabitants were sl.'in, 

 and it was impossible to reap the next harvest for want of men. 



The Parliamen- 

 tary tide flowed 

 on to P e in- 

 broke, where 

 a siege ensued, 

 which detained 

 Cromwell's 

 forces for six 

 weeks before the 

 place s u r - 

 rendered. 



In the seven- 

 teenth centurv 

 St. Pagan's 

 C is le, or manor 

 house, passed 

 into the hands 

 of the family of 

 Lewis of the 

 Van, and by the 

 marriage of Miss 

 Lewis with the 

 tnira Earl of Ply- 

 mouth, who died 

 in 1732, it came 

 to a family new 

 to the district. The Earls of Plymouth did not reside much at 

 St. Figan's, and the castle appears to have fallen into disrepair. 

 Part of it was, in fact, u ed as the village school, but t.ie late 

 Bironess Windsor give it as a residence to her son, the Hon. 

 Robert Windsor-Ciive, after his m Triage with Lady Mary 

 Bridgeman. '1 his gentleman largely restored the old house, 

 and furnished it with excellent taste, col.ecting the old ok 

 and fine tapestry and china which it now co.. tains. A great 



MARBLE VASES ON THE TERRACE. 



