It is with pleasure that I take this opportunity of offering my warmest thanks to all the Rectors and Vicars of Cardiganshire for the facilities so cordially afforded me for examining the Eucharistic Vessels of their respective parishes.

Preface.

The drastic order of Edward the Sixth in the Injunctions of 1547, directing that all 'monuments of superstition' were to be utterly defaced and destroyed, was followed by the appointment of a Commission, dated Feb. 14, 1548, authorised to survey, for the purpose of confiscation, the revenues of all Chantries, Colleges, Stipendiary Priests, Free Chapels, &c.

Introduction.

ABERPORTH (S. CYNWYL) - In 1833, when Samuel Lewis issued his Top. Dict. of Wales, this church, then a 'small plain structure of great antiquity', possessed a 'Sacramental Cup highly ornamented, with no date or inscription'.