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Irrjj&nlngui Camluettsk NEW SERIES, No. XIII.—JANUARY, 1853. ON THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF CARNO, MONTGOMERYSHIRE. (Read at Ludlow.) A few miles north-east of Plynlimon, on its Montgo¬ meryshire side, in a valley watered by some of the early tributary streamlets that Fall into the Severn at Caersws, is the village of Carno. The church, a plain structure within the village, has been recently rebuilt on the foun¬ dation of the former edifice, which was dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and belonged to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who are said to have had a house near it, and to have possessed the lordship of Carno. As one branch of their duties was the protection of their fellow-creatures from violence and rapine, it is very pro¬ bable they might have had a station for the protection of travellers, and for hospitality, in that rude and remote district wherein they owned property, and claimed the seigniory, and which, according to Pennant (vol. iii. p. 194) was long filled with a lawless banditti who infested the passes of the neighbouring mountains, and levied arbitrary exactions alike on the wayfarer and on the peaceable inhabitant. These knights were sometimes called Hospitallers,1 from an hospital built at Jerusalem 1 Tanner's Notitia Monastica j Burns' Ecclesiastical Law, ii. p. 451. ARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. IV. B