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RAD-KNIGI-ITS. See Rkdmaxs. 



RADL, in Geography, a mountain of Stiria ; eight miles 

 S.S.W.of Landfperg. 



RADLER See, a lake of Carinthia ; fix miles N. of 

 Saxenburg. 



RADLSTEIN, a town of tlie duchy of Carnolia ; fix 

 miles W. of LaiuUlrafs. 



RADLSTHAL, a town of Aullria ; nine miles E. of 

 Krottau. 



RADMANS. See Redmaks. 



RADMANSO, in Gengrapby, a finall ifland in th- Baltic, 

 near the coail of Sweden. N. lat. 59" 4;'. E. long. 



x8'44'- 



RADNAGUR, a town of Bengal ; 32 miles S. of 



Burdwan. 



RADNITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of I'illcn ; 

 10 miles N.E. of Pilien. 



RADNOR, New, or Maes-TfeiU a borovigh and market- 

 town in the cwmwd of Swydd Wynogion, Cantref y Clawdd, 

 (now called the liberties of the town of New Radnor, ) county 

 of Radnor, South Wales, is fituated near the river Somcr- 

 gill, at the diilanceof feven miles N.W. from Kington, and 

 156 miles W.N.W. from London. In remote times, this 

 town was a place of great importance, as appears from its 

 having given name to the county, but it has now dwindled into 

 comparative poverty and infignificance. Caradog informs 

 lis, that about the year 990, Meredydd ab Owain di-lh-oyed 

 Radnor, in a ferocious contcll with his nephew, who had 

 been affilling the Engliih to ravage South Wales. It re- 

 covered, however, from this difallcr, and continued to flou- 

 rifh till the union of Wales with England, when it began to 

 decline, in confequence of its ceafing to be fortilicd and gar- 

 rifoned as a frontier town. Before that period, it was lur- 

 rounded by a lofty wall,_ and a deep moat, loine remains of 

 which are dillinftly vifible on the weft and fouth fides. The 

 walls, when Handing, ai-e traditionally laid to have been of 

 great height. The area inclofed by them was an oblong 

 Iquare, containing about twenty-fix acres of ground, laid 

 out into three longitudinal ftreets, which were interfefted 

 by five tranfverfe ones. Of thefe at preient feveral have no 

 buildings ; and others are only foot paths. But though 

 thus decayed, Radnor flill preferves its privileges as a bo- 

 rough. The corporation confilts of a bailift, twenty-five 

 capital burgeffes, two aldermen, a recorder, a coroner, a 

 town-clerk, and other inferior officers. The bailiff and 

 aldermen are chofen annually from among the capital bur- 

 geffes, and are jullices of the peace. The baiUff of the pre- 

 ceding year is alfo a jultice of the peace ; and there are be- 

 fides three additional perfons nominated out of the capital 

 burgefles, who are invefted with fimilar authority. The 

 dillrift over which they prefide, and fupcrfede the jurifdic- 

 tion of the county magiftrates, is confiderable ; compre- 

 Iiending a circle round the town nearly ten miles in diameter. 

 The bailiff's courts and the petty fefiions are regularly held 

 every Monday, when the bailiff, aldermen, and town-clerk 

 attend to tranfaft bufinefs relating to the borough, and have 

 power to determine all fuits for lums under forty Ihillings. 

 The quarter-feffions for the borough are held on the Mondays 

 after the county quarter-feffions at Prelleigne ; and the 

 fheriff's county courts for the recovery of fmall debts, are 



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holdcu every alternate month liere, and at the tOivn taft 

 mentioned. Tlie reprefentative for the borough is chofeii 

 by the burgeffes of New Radnor, in conjuiiftion with thofe 

 of the boroughs of Knighton, Rhaiadar, Cefn Llys, and 

 Cn wclas ; the bailiff' being tiie returning officer. As nothing 

 but the circumftance of receiving parochial relief difquali- 

 fies any pcrfon from becoming a burgefs, the number of 

 voters is confiderable ; thofe of New Radnor arc fuppofcd 

 to exceed 300, and the whole number, including thofe of the 

 contnbutary boroughs, is eftimat-d to be about 1300. To be 

 a capital burgefs of New Radnor, however, adlual refidence 

 within the iurifdiclion is effential, which is not the cafe as to 

 the contributary boroughs : and if a capital burgefs becomes 

 non-refident he lofes his privileges as fuch. A benefit fo- 

 ciety,eilablifliedhere in 1778, at prefcnt cOnfiftsof above lOO 

 members, v,ho hold their annual meetings on the 6th of 

 January. 



Weekly markets were formerly held here on Tuefdays, 

 but thefe are, at prefent, only noniuial, notwithdanding fome 

 late attempts to rcllorc them. There arcitill, however, live 

 annual fairs, and there is alfo an annual wake on the third 

 Sunday in the month of Augult. The parifh of Radnor is 

 divided into three portions, of which the town of New 

 Radnor is the principal, containing, according to the par- 

 liamentary returns of 181 1, 75 houfcs, and 380 inhabitants. 

 The public buildings here are the town-hall, the prifon, and 

 the church. The lafl confifls of a nave, fouth aifle, and 

 chancel, with a tower at the weft end. 



Radnor caftle flood on an eminence commanding the town. 

 Of this once majeftic pile, a few fragments of walls only 

 rcm.iin, but the entrenchments are ftill entire ; the outer 

 ward, called Baili-Glas, or the Green Court -Yard, is yet 

 diftincl from the inner one, or keep, and is nearly in 

 its original form. In 1773, on digging within the area 

 of this caftle, fix or feven fmall " Gothic arches of 

 good mafonry were difcovered," befides a variety of an- 

 cient inftruments. The forefl of Radnor extends feveral 

 miles to the north of the town, covering the flope of a lofty 

 eminence, from the funimit of w hich are very extenfive 

 profpetls. The principal feats in the vicinity are Downton- 

 hall, the feat of Percival Lewis, efq. and Harpton-court, 

 a feat belonging to Thomas Frankland Lewis, efq. Both 

 thefe manfions are furrounded by beautiful fcenery, and are 

 highly ornamental to this diftrift. About two miles weft- 

 ward from the town is a celebrated water-fall, called Water- 

 break-its-neck, fsventy feet in perpendicular height ; but it 

 is extremely defective in water, except during the time of 

 floods, when the effeft produced is truly grand. At the 

 weftern extremity of the parifh is an intrenched dyke, 

 which formerlv extended acrofs the whole vale of Radnor. 

 War-clofe, a field to the eaftward of the town, is traditi- 

 onally faid to have been the fcene of fome mihtary conteft, 

 but no particulars refpefting it arc preferved. 



Old Radnor, or Pen-y-Craig, is a fmall village, fituated 

 about three miles to the fouth of New Radnor. Camden 

 fuppofes it to have been the Magnos of Antoninus, which 

 was garrifoned by the Phacienfian regiment in the reign of 

 Theodofius the younger ; and there feems every reafon to 

 believe that it was a place of note in the Romo-Britifh pe- 

 riod. Tiie Roman road paffed clofe to the bafe of the hill 

 upon which the village Hands. The church here is a vene- 

 rable old edifice of ilone, with a maffive fquare tower at 

 one end. A curious fcreen, richly carved in wood, extends 

 aci-ofs the nave and fide aifles. Here are various monuments 

 to the memory of members of the Lewis family of Harp- 

 ton. Carlifle's Topographical Diftionary of Wales, 4to. 

 1 8 13. Lipfcomb's Tour through Wales. 



U u Radnor, 



