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ItrjjfcflUgirt CEtttlitntsk NEW SERIES, No. XVL—OCTOBER, 1853. ACCOUNT OF N-EWTON NOTTAGE, GLAMORGAN. CHAPTER III. NOTTAGE. The dread of piratical invasion, which led so long ago as the time of Edward II. to the employment of Hobelers, or light horsemen, as a coast-guard, was doubtless for ages before an inducement to group the farm houses on the coast of Glamorgan in small communities, for mutual aid and defence. Hence Nottage stands on a gentle elevation rising gradually from " the Wain " on the east, to some fifty feet in height.1 This- aspect shelters it in some degree from the violence of the western gales. Traces of a boundary line of some strength may be made out on the verge of the south¬ western slope. This disposition of buildings may have led to the numerous small intersecting lanes generally met with in places anciently surrounded by a line of defence; one of the small streets is still called Heol y Capel. The site indeed of the old Chapel (recently encroached from the road) is well known. The large flat stone, now forming the stile to Nottage Well, with 1 " Et curvas nebula tegente valles, Solus luce nitet peculiari."—Martial, Lib. iv. ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. IV. 2 H