petty sessions for the upper division of the hundred of Uske. The only native manufacture is that of japan ware.

The river is famous for trout, particularly salmon trout

"So fresh, so sweete, so red, so crimpe withal,"*

which, in conventual times, afforded an ample supply to the numerous religious communities on its banks, to whom a carneous diet was only permitted as an occasional indulgence. Epicures confirm the ancient reputation of the river in this respect; and during the season, the disciples of Isaak Walton, and the readers of Sir Humphrey Davy's "Salmonia," are constant visitors to the banks of the Uske, which, by way of climax, is said to produce better sport for the angler than any other river in Wales—or even the Severn-a quality which has become proverbial.

“Though bright the waters of the Towy,

The Wye, the Severn, and the Tivy;
Yet, well I wot, they cannot shew yo
Such salmon as the Uske can give yel
It was- (we choose not to go farther)-
The favoured dish of bold King Arthur;
Who, when he chose like king to dine,
Went down to Uske with rod and line,
And there drew slily to the bank
Such trout as best became his rank;
Sometimes by twains, at others singly,
But always with a twitch so kingly,
The salmon seemed as much delighted,
As if they really had been 'knighted!'
No wonder, for they quickly found
An entrée at the Table Round,
Where, seated with his gallant knights,
Those heroes of a hundred fights;-
'Leave,' quoth he, acorns in the husk,
Here's glorious salmon from the Uske!'" &c.

portreeve is chosen at a court-leet, on a day previous to St. Luke's day, or the 29th of October. The recorder is appointed by the lord of the borough. Four constables are chosen at an annual court-leet of the lord of the manor of Uske, who is also lord of the borough, although the latter is no part of the manor. The quarter-sessions are held alternately here and at Monmouth. The town-house, erected by the Duke of Beaufort, is a handsome building. There are monthly fairs, and the inhabitants, besides the japan ware already mentioned, are occupied in the salmon fishery and agriculture. A free grammar-school for boys was founded here in 1621, by Roger Edwards, with alms

houses for twelve poor persons, and an exhibition at
Oxford. These almshouses, forming three sides of a
quadrangle, have been recently rebuilt. In the main
street the houses are much scattered, and ornamented
by intervening gardens, which give an air of healthy
cheerfulness to the place. The Wesleyans, Inde-
pendents, and Roman Catholics, have all their meeting-
houses or chapels.-Parl. Gaz.

*Or in the elegant lines of Ausonius:—
"Nec te puniceo rutilantem viscere salmo

Transierim, latæ cujus vaga verbera caudæ
Gurgite de medio summas reseruntur in nndas."

PEMBROKE CASTLE,

Pembrokeshire.

"Hic exarmatum terris cingentibus æquor,

Clauditur, et placidam descit servare quietem,"

"In agro totius Wallis amœnissimo, principale provinciæ municipium Demetiæq. caput, in Saxosa quadam et oblonga rupis in capite bifurco complectitur. Unde Britannis Dembro dicitur, quod caput marinum sonat, et nobis Pembroke."-Gyrald,

Earldom.-"There have been divers Earls of Pembroke," says Camden, "out of sundry houses. As for Arnulph of Montgomery, who first wonne it, and was afterwards outlawed, and his castellan Girald, whom King Henry the First made afterwards president over the whole country, I dare scarcely affirm that they were Earles. The first that was styled Earle of Pembroke was Gilbert, surnamed 'Strongbow,"* son of Gilbert de Clare, in the time of King Stephen. This Gilbert, or Gislebert, de Clare, let it unto his sonne, the said Richard Strongbow, the renowned conqueror of Ireland, and descended, as Gyraldus informs us, "ex clara Clarenium familia"-the noble family of Clare, or Clarence. His only daughter, Isabel,† brought the same honour to her husband, William, surnamed the Mareschal, for that his ancestours had beene by inheritance mareschals of the King's palace, a man most glorious in war and peace, and protector of the kingdome in the minority of K. Henry the Third,§ concerning whom this pithie epitaph is extant in Rodburne's Annales: "Sum quem Saturnus,' &c., which is thus done into English

Whom Ireland once a Saturn found, England a sunne to be;
Whom Normandie, a Mercury, and France, Mars,—I am he.'"*

"After him," continues our authority, "his five sons were successively, one after another, Earles of Pembroke; namely, William, called the younger; Richard, who, after he had rebelled against King Henry the Third, went into Ireland, where he was slain in battle; Gilbert, who, in a tournament at Ware,* was unhorsed, and so killed; Walter and Anselm, who severally enjoyed the honor but a few daies; and all dying without issue, the King invested in the honor of this earldome William de Valentía, his brother by the mother's side, who had to wife Joan, daughter of Gwarin de Montchensí, by the daughter of the foresaid William the Mareschal,"

Of this Earl Valence we read, shortly after this, that the King, solemnizing the festival of St. Edward's translation, in the church at Westminster, with great state, sitting on his royal throne in "a rich robe of Baudekyn," and the crown on his head, caused this William de Valence, with divers other young noblemen, to be brought before him, and so girt him with the sword of knighthood.

In a tournament held at Bruckley, it is said that he much abused Sir William Adingsells, a valiant knight, through the countenance of Richard, Earl of Gloucester. The following year he was signed with the cross, together with the King himself, and divers other noble persons, in order to an expedition to the Holy Land; and at the same time he obtained the King's precept to Robert Walrane, to distrain all such persons as did possess any of the property belonging to Joan his wife, one of the cousins and heirs to Walter Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, to perform their suit to the county of Pembroke, as they had wont to do in the time of that earl.†

This Earl Valence was present at the battle of Lewes, some particulars of which have been detailed in the first volume of this work. "When he had lost the day, and with the Prince was made prisoner, William de Valence, then called Earl of Pembroke, though not before, as it is thought, being a principal commander in the van of the King's army, seeing the day lost, with the Earl of Warren and some others, escaped by flight, first to the castle of Pevensey,

* Gilbert Mareschal, a principal and most potent peere of the realm, proclaimed here a Disport of running on horseback with launces, which they called Tourneaments, under the name of Fortunie, making a scorne of the King's authority, whereby these Tourneaments were inhibited. To which place, when a great number of the nobility and gentry were assembled, it fortuned that Gilbert himselfe, as he ranne at tilt, by occasion that his flinging horse brake bridle and cast him, was trampled under foote, and so pitifully died.-Chronicle. † Among his other feats "of spirit and prowess," the following, recorded by the grave monk of St. Albans, is sufficiently "characteristic: "-About this

time, William de Valence, residing at Hertfort Castle, as it is said, rode to the parke of Heathfeld, belonging to the Bishop of Ely, and there, hunting without any leave, went to the bishop's manor-house; and there readily finding nothing to drink but ordinary beer, and, swearing and cursing the drink and those who made it, broke open the butlery doors. After all his company had drunk their fills of the best wines in the bishop's cellars, he pulled the spigots out of the vessels, and let out the rest upon the floor; and then a servant of the house hearing the noise, and running to see what the matter was, they laughed him to scorn, and so departed.—Dugd. B. 774, Paris, 855.