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LLANTWIT See also:MAJOR (Welsh Llan-Illtyd-Fawr) , a small See also:market See also:town in the See also:southern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:South See also:Wales, about 1 m. from the See also:Bristol Channel, with a station on the See also:Barry railway, 5 M. S. of See also:Cowbridge. Pop. (19o1) 1113. About 1 m. N.N.W. of the town there were discovered in 1888 the remains of a large See also:Roman See also:villa within a square enclosure of about 8 acres, which has been identified as See also:part of the site of a Roman See also:settlement mentioned in Welsh writings as Caer Wrgan. The See also:building seemed to have been the See also:scene of a See also:massacre, possibly the See also:work of Irish pirates in the 5th See also:century, as some See also:forty-three human skeletons and the remains of three horses were found within its enclosure. Etymological reasoning have led some to suggest that the Roman station of Bovium was at Boverton, r m. E. of the town, but it is more likely to have been at Ewenny (2 M. S.E. of See also:Bridgend) or perhaps at Cowbridge. On the See also:sea See also:coast are two camps, one known as See also:Castle Ditches, commanding the entrance to the See also:creek of Colhugh, once the See also:port
of Llantwit. In the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I. a small See also:colony of Flemings settled in the See also:district. The town and See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church derive their name from St Illtyd or Iltutus, styled the " See also:knight," a native of See also:Brittany and a See also:great-See also:nephew of Germanus of See also:Auxerre. Having come under the See also:influence of St Cadoc, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Llancarvan, 6 m. E.N.E. of Llantwit, Illtyd established at the latter See also:place, about A.D. 520, a monastic See also:college which became famous as a seat of learning. He attracted a number of scholars to him, especially from Brittany, including See also:Samson, See also:archbishop of Doi, Maglorius (Samson's successor) and See also:Paul de See also:Leon, while his Welsh students included See also:David, the See also:patron See also:saint of Wales, See also:Gildas the historian, See also:Paulinus and Teilo. The college continued to flourish for several centuries, sending forth a large number of missionaries until, See also:early in the rzth century, its revenues were appropriated to the See also:abbey of See also:Tewkesbury by Fitzhamon, the first See also:Norman See also:lord of Glamorgan. A school seems, however, to have lingered on in ,the place until it lost all its emoluments in the reign of Henry VIII. The See also:present church of St Illtyd is the result of a sequence of churches which have sprung from a pre-Norman edifice, almost entirely rebuilt and greatly extended in the 13th century and again partially rebuilt See also:late in the 14th century. It consists of an " eastern " church which (according to See also:Professor See also:Freeman) belonged probably to the monks, and is the only part now used for See also:worship, a western one used as a parochial church before the See also:dissolution, but now disused, and still farther See also:west of this a See also:chantry with sacristan's See also:house, now in ruins. The western church consists of the See also:nave of a once cruciform building, while in continuation of it was built the eastern church, consisting of See also:chancel, nave (of great height and width but very See also:short), aisles and an embattled western See also:tower built over the junction of the two naves. A partial restoration was made in 1888, and a careful and more See also:complete one in 1900-19o5. In the church and See also:churchyard are preserved some early monumental remains of the See also:British church, dating from the 9th century, and some possibly from an earlier date. They include two See also:cross-shafts and one cross with See also:inscriptions in debased Latin (one being to the memory of St Illtyd) and two cylindrical pillars, most of them being decorated with interlaced work. There are some See also:good specimens of domestic See also:architecture of the 17th century. The town is situated in a fertile district and the inhabitants depend almost entirely on See also:agriculture. Its weekly market is mainly resorted to for its stock sales. St Donats castle, 2 M. to the west, was for nearly seven centuries the See also:home of the Stradling See also:family.
As to the Roman remains, see the See also:Athenaeum for See also:October 20 (1888), and the See also:Antiquary for See also:August (1892). As to the church, see the Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd See also:ser. iv. 31 (an See also:article by Professor Freeman), 5th ser., v. 409 and xvii. 129, and 6th ser., iii. 56; A. C. Fryer, Llantwit-Major: a Fifth Century University (1893).
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