Coedcanlas - St. Mary.

This benefice was originally a free chapelry. Whether it ever belonged to the Knights of St. John at Slebech is uncertain. It does not figure in the list of the possessions of that house, but as will be seen from the extract from the Valor Eccl. given below, an annual pension of 2s (£0.10) a year was payable to the Preceptor of Slebech. However this may have been, the chapel belonged in 1535-6 to John Butler of Coedcanlas. By 1594, it had been acquired by purchase by . . . . . . Benston, and the edifice was then 'in decaye'.---Owen's Pem. The chapel afterwards came into the possession of the Owens of Orielton.

'Coadcanlass Chap., having laid 60 years in ruins, was neatly built on the Old Foundation, and endowed by Sir Arthur Owen, Bart., anno 1718.'.---M.S.Browne Willis.

At the present time the chapel is again in ruins.

Libera Capella de Coidakinles.---Libera capella ibidem as donaclonem Johannis Butler patroni ibidem unde Philippus Lloid est inde custos. Et valet per annum liij iiij. Inde sol' in sinodalibus et procuracionibus quolibet anno ij ix. Et in quadam pensione sol' preceptori de Slebeche quolibet anno ij. Et valet clare 48s 7d (£2.43). Inde decima 4s 10½d (£0.24).---Valor Eccl.

Under the heading ' Not in Charge ':---Coadcanlass Chap. in Martletwy Parish. John Butler, Patr., 1535; Si John Owen, Bart.---Bacon's Liber Regis.

Perpetual Curates.

Graham Davies, Ó 2000.

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