{112} Wilfred Is Mentioned By Browne Willis In His List Of Bishops
Of St. David's, As The Forty-Seventh, Under The Title Of Wilfride,
Or Griffin:
He died about the year 1116.
{113} Maenor Pyrr, now known by the name of Manorbeer, is a small
village on the sea coast, between Tenby and Pembroke, with the
remaining shell of a large castle. Our author has given a
farfetched etymology to this castle and the adjoining island, in
calling them the mansion and island of Pyrrhus: a much more natural
and congenial conjecture may be made in supposing Maenor Pyrr to be
derived from Maenor, a Manor, and Pyrr the plural of Por, a lord;
i.e. the Manor of the lords, and, consequently, Inys Pyrr, the
Island of the lords. As no mention whatever is made of the castle
in the Welsh Chronicle, I am inclined to think it was only a
castellated mansion, and therefore considered of no military
importance in those days of continued warfare throughout Wales. It
is one of the most interesting spots in our author's Itinerary, for
it was the property of the Barri family, and the birth-place of
Giraldus; in the parish church, the sepulchral effigy of a near
relation, perhaps a brother, is still extant, in good preservation.
Our author has evidently made a digression in order to describe this
place.
{114} The house of Stephen Wiriet was, I presume, Orielton. There
is a monument in the church of St. Nicholas, at Pembroke, to the
memory of John, son and heir of Sir Hugh Owen, of Bodeon in
Anglesea, knight, and Elizabeth, daughter and heir of George Wiriet,
of Orielton, A.D. 1612.
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