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190 FRIENDS IN RADNORSHIRE
in Regard it appoints ye Conviction to be by Confession 
or profe, & y* must be before y« Justice, & y* way 
assayed before profes, wch is also not to bee, till after y« 
matter of fact be denyed.
No. 16 onward is in another handwriting. The 
sheet is signed: " Tho: Corbett."3*
n
3N the Inventory for this county, issued by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, are the following 
references to Friends' Meeting Houses and Burial 
Grounds, visited for the Commission by its Assistant 
Inspecting Officer, George Eyre Evans.
BURYING GROUND, parish of NEWCHURCH 
(6in. Ord. Surv. sheet, Rad. 33, N.E.; lat. 52° 8' 29" ;
long. 3° 10' 18*.)
A corner of the field adjoining the farmstead of 
Llanoley is known to have been used as a burial ground 
by the Society of Friends, and the limits of the small 
lot, 16 yards by 10 yards, are still traceable. In the 
Doyhood of the present owner of the farm one of the 
graves was clearly outlined in the soil. The small patch 
of ground is not railed off from the rest of the field.— 
Visited yth March, 1913.
THE PALES : Friends' Meeting House, parish of
LLANDEGLEY. 
(6in. Ord. Surv. sheet, Rad. 23, N.E.; lat. 52° 16'3" ;
long. 3° 15' 48'-)
A Meeting House of the Society of Friends, or 
Quakers, which is probably unique in the Principality
3* Thomas Corbett was the counsel who acted for Friends on various 
occasions. See Carnb. Jnl.
FRIENDS IN RADNORSHIRE 191
as remaining much as it was when erected in the first 
half of the eighteenth century. The building, being 
situated on the side of a hill, has pleasant prospects, and 
is well lighted from the south by several windows, which 
have been modernised. The Meeting House is con­ 
structed of stone, is of only one storey in height, and is 
thatched with straw. Midway in the south front is 
the porch, admitting into a single chamber, 40 feet by 
20 feet, and divided into two equal spaces by an open 
wooden partition, one side being given up to a school, 
which has probably always been attached to the Meeting 
House, the other devoted to the religious service. The 
walls are whitewashed, the floor partly of oak boards 
and partly of stone slabs, the benches, desks, low gallery 
and bookshelves are of oak and severely plain. The 
Elders' bench is placed against the east wall, and runs 
the entire depth of the building. It doubtless represents 
the original arrangement, and some of the benches are 
coeval with the establishment of worship here. One of 
the doors bears the date 1745. The earliest headstone 
in the little Burial Ground is of the year 1838, prior 
interments having no memorials. The attached cottage 
is of comparatively recent date.—Visited 27th July, 
1911.
[Facing this account in the Inventory are two choice 
illustrations of the exterior and interior of the Meeting 
House, from photographs taken on the day of visitation 
by H. C. Jones.]
SUMMER HOUSE, parish of WALTON and WOMASTON 
(6in. Ord. Surv. sheet, Rad. 25, S.W. ; lat. 52° 13' 52" ;
long. 3° 5' 2i\)
A small square summer-house, brick-built and tiled, 
standing on Court Farm, and adjoining the high road 
close to the village of Walton. It is traditionally stated 
to have been used for occasional worship by the Society 
of Friends, and that the poet Wordsworth, when visiting 
at Court Farm, attended service within it. The little 
building is fast falling into decay. Within living memory 
a small day school was kept by Friends in an adjoining 
cottage.—Visited I4th March, 1913.


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