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CASTLES AND ABBEYS OF ENGLAND.
[Carew Castls.
Nile; commanded the Britannia in Lord St. Vincent’s action, and on boardwhose ship Nelson shifted his flag at the battle of Copenhagen. He bnilta magnificent mansion near the site of the old house. (Sllllljn and its extensivedemesnes became the property of the LLltlCtfjcinS of Golden Grove—whoseancestors were successively Lords of Mollingar, Earls of Carbcry, and Lords ofEmlyn—and are now the property of Lord Cawdor, as devisee of the late “ J.Vaughan, of Golden Grove, Esquire.”
(L'(11 flu, with its castle and barony, was granted by leases, for specified terms,to Sir J. Perrot and others, the remainder of which terms was purchased bySir John Carew, kinsman of Sir Edmund above-mentioned, to whom Charlesthe First restored the fee simple and inheritance, from whom it descended tothe present owner.*
MARGAM ABBEY,
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** llow many hearts have here grown cold,
That sleep these mouldering stones among!IIow many beads have here been told—llow many /Batins here been sung!"
CBf this renowned Abbey the existing remains convey but a very inadequateidea. The parish church is formed out of part of the original abbey-church;of the chapter-liousc the walls only remain; and of the ruins scattered around,the original use, size, and distribution have not yet been ascertained. Thatit w'as an extensive edifice, and exhibited in its style and proportions all thehigher characteristics of Cistercian monasteries, may be taken on the credit ofwhat remains. The foundation is fixed in the year 1147, and the process oferection must have been contemporaneous with that of Tinteme—a temple ofthe same Order, whose taste and affluence, during that and the following cen-tury, have left so many gorgeous monuments in England and Wales .