The Ilistory of Carew (Pembrokeshire). By W. G. Spurrell. (Carmarthen
: W. Spurrell & Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—The Vicar of Carew has written an interesting history of his parish, which contains a fine thirteenth-century castle, a church of somewhat later date, and a Celtic cross—perhaps of the ninth century—carved with exceptionally elaborate patterns. Carew was part of the dowry of that much-married Welsh lady, Nests, who by her union with Gerald of Windsor became the ancestress of the Geraldines, of whom we hear much in "Anglo-Irish history. The manor was held by the Carews till Henry the Seventh's reign, when Sir Edmund Carew, who was afterwards killed at Terouanne—not " Touraine " (p. 29)—mortgaged it to Sir Rhys ap Thomas. It passed later to the Perrots and was recovered by the Carews just before the Civil War ; the castle was reduced to a ruin in the Pembroke campaign of 1645. The book is well documented and contains illustrations of the castle, church and cross. -
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