352 LALES'l'ON, SOUTH WALES, [KELLY'S David Thomas, Rock house Jenkins William,Mackworth ArmsP.H Rees John, blacksmith Deacon Miss. Laleston cottage John Rees, grocer Stenner Alfred, shoe maker Harries Rev. Thomas RA. curate John Thomas. farmer, Caia Glaishon Stew Thomas, farmer Thomas Miss. The Parsonage John William. farmer. Pant-y-L1ewy~ Thomas David&;Jn. frmrs. Tyn-y-Caia drew, Laleston Higher Thomas Edward. farmer, Llangewydd COMMERCIAL. J ones Edward, relieving &; school in- court, Laleston Higher Austin John, blacksmith quiry officer; Bridgend district Thomas Elizabeth (Mrs.). farmer. David Thomas, farmer. Cefn farm, Jones Joshua. builder &; wheelwright Pant Rosle. Laleston Higher Laleston Higher Jones William, farmer. Holly house Thomas. John. farmer. Broadway Davies Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer, Loosmore Eli. New inn Thomas Margaret (Miss). farmer, Laleston Higher Loveluck James George, farmer. Llan- Laleston farm Francis William. butcher &; farmer gewydd farm, Laleston Higher Webster Thomas, farmer. Brynback, JeRkins Morgan, grocer, Post office Rees Jenkin, Bell inn Laleston Higher LAMBSTON is a parish in the county of Pembroke, 3 ston West. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. miles west from Haverfordwest station on the Great The land: is mostly held by small freeholders; the soil Western railway, in Roose hundred and petty sessional is rab; subsoil, stone and the land is mostly pasture. division, union and county court district of Haverford~ The area is 1.611 acres; rateable value. £1,265; and the west, and in the rural deanery of Roose, and archdeaconry population in 1891 was 181. and diocese of St. David's. The church (dedication un- Portfield Gate, one mile south. is a hamlet. known) is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English Post Office, Portfield Gate (Railway Sub-Office. Letters style, consisting of chancel and nave and a western turret should have RS.O. l"embrokeshire added).-Charles containing one bell: the font is coeval with the church: J ones, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7 a.m.; dis- there are 50 sittings. The registers of baptisms and patched, 6.15 p.m. week days only. The nearest money burials date from the year 1737, marriages, 1741. The order &; telegraph office is at Haverfordwest living is a perpetual curacy. annexed to the rectory of A School Board of 5 members was formed 17 April. 1877; Ha1"Oldston West, tithe rent-charge (Lambston) £121, James Keith Sime, Swan square, Raverfordwest, clerk average £90, joint net income £173, with 13 acres of &; attendance officer glebe, in t,he gift of Pembroke College, Oxford, and held Board School (mixed). built in 1877 for 75 children; since 1880 by the Rev. John Meares RA. of Rrasenose average attendance, 45; Miss Beatrice H. E. Williams, College, Oxford, and surrogate, who resides at Harold- mistress Thomas John Whittow, East Hook Lewis Francis, New inn. Portfield gatE' Lewis James, Berry hill Williams Miss Roberts Ann (Mrs.),cowkpr.&sextoness Roberts George, Sutton hill Williams Mrs. Portfield gate FARMERS. Roch Thomas. West Lambston Evans John, Ashvale Thomas Elizabeth(Mrs.),West Hill fold COMMERCIAL. Rowells Evan, Walesland (letters Thomas John Whittow, East Hook Harries Jas.PenryArmsP.H.Prtfld.gte through Camrose. Haverfordwest) Thomas William, Honeyhook James Benj. blacksmith. Portfield gate Hughes John, Sutton lodge Thomas William, Sutton west J10nes Charles, shopkeeper. &; post John James, Lambston farm Williams Frederick, Sutton Qffice, Portfield gat& John Thomas. Mergam Woolcock Thomas. Portfield gat& LAMPETER. or Lampeter-Pont-Stephen, originally May 7th and 8th(horse fair),Saturday before E:lster, WhIt "Llanbedr" (the church of St. Peter), is a parish and Wednesday, June 16th. July loth. August 15th, Septem­ municipal borough and assize town, in the county of Car- bel' 19th. October 19th, and the Saturday following the Emlyn, here every Friday. A handsome fount~in was erected in in the hundred of Moyddyn. petty sessional division of Harford square in 1862 by the late J. S. Harford esq. ot Upper Moyddyn, rural deanery of Lampeter,archdeaconry Peterwell. Higbmead-Llanybyther is the residence ot of Cardigan and diocese of St. David's; it stands on th~ Herbert Davies Evans esq. lord lieutenant of the right bank of the river Teify, which, at-the end of Bridge county. The principal landowners are Mrs. and John street. is crossed by a bridge supposed to have been built Charles Harford. The area of the parish is! 6.204 acres; in the 12th century. The town is lighted with gas by a rateable value of the parish £5,733; the population ot company formed in 1867. and supplied with water by the the parish in 1891 was 2,006, including 33 officers and Corporation from a reservoir ab Troedhriw, with a inmates in the workhouse. The area of the municipal capacity of 40,000 gallons. The earliest charter of in- borough is 1,754 acres; the population in 1891 was 1,569. corporation is that of Henry VI. which recites others of Parish Clerk, James E,dwardi. the reign of Edward n. The borough was scheduled in the" Municipal Corporations Act, 1883" (46 and 147 Vict. St. David's College. c. 18), as a place to which the" Municipal Corporations St. David's College. begun in the year 1822, & opened Acts" might be applied. but it continued to be governed March 1st. 1827. is an extensive qUi)drangular struc­ by a confirmatory charter of George Ill. dated 1814. until ture, erected chiefly by the exertions of Dr. Thomas 1884 when the town received 8 new charter of incorpora­ Burgess. Bishop of St. David's from 1803 to 1825; tion dated 15 July in that year, and the corporation now George IV. while Prince Regent. gave £1,000; a grant consists of a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. who was also obtained from Parliament of £6,000. the re­ also act as the urban district council. The church of St. mainder being chiefly collected through the instrumen~ Peter is a building of shme, in the Early }~nglish style, tality of the Bishop. The College. which is incor­ oonsisting of chancel. nave. south aisle and a western porated by Royal charter, has the power of conferring tower surmounted by a short steeple and containing one the degrees of B.A. & B.D. &; has attached to it one bell, and has five stained windows: there are 370 sittings. scholarshiP of £50. twO' of £30 each. three of £27 IOS. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the yeal' two of£22 I8s. 4d. six of £22,& other.s ranging in value 1695; marriages, 1739. The living is a vicarage, tithe from £20 to £8 yearly; there are also three entrance Tent-charge £176. average £133. net income £300, with exhibitions of £10 each, tenable for one year, in aid of 80 acres of glebe and residence. in the gift of the Bishop poor students. An AfIiliation Studentship Fund has of St. David's, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Daniel been formed with the view of assisting deserving J ones M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. and roral dean of students, who wish to avail themselves- of the Affiliation Lampeter. The Congregational chapel will seat 400 per­ Scheme t() the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. tlons. the Wesleyan 350, Calvinistic Methodist 400, Baptist From the W. Dillwyn Llewelyn Memorial Fund. en­ 260 and Unitarian 400. The Town Hall. in High street. dowed by Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, of Penllergare, a erected in 1881-2. at a cost of £4,000. is an edifice of brick sum of £100 a year is Bet apart for this purpose; and and stone and the private property of the Harford family: the Earl Cawdor most generously contributes £25 a it is fitted up with a court house and the usual offices. year to help the scheme. The studentships maintained The Cardiganshire County Council hold their meetings by their generosity will for the future be known re­ here. A market is held at the back: the building is sur­ spectively as the" Dillwyn Llewelyn Memorial Student­ mounted by a small tower containing & clock with foul' ships" and the" Cawdor Studentship." On June ISt, dials. The market is held on Friday; a cattle market is 1880, the college was admitted to the privileges of an held on the last Monday in each month. and there are also affiliated college of the University of Oxford, by which several fair! (principally cattle) taking place on the fol­ any person who has completed a. course of three years lowing date,,: January nth, February 6th. March nth. at the college &i obtained honours at its second or fllial