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~~The earliest lords of Stackpole of whom we find any mention came of a Norman family who had styled them- selves de Stackpole, but the records are so scanty that it is not possible to say with any certainty what relationship they bore to each other. The first of whom we hear is Elidor de Stackpole, who had for his seneschal, according to Gerald, ‘an evil spirit who spent his nights in the pool at Stackpole mill.’ Elidor founded the church of Stack-pole Elidor or Cheriton (so-called to distinguish it from Stackpole Bosher or Bosherston), and, like other founders, was afterwards held to be the patron saint; there is no authority for Fenton's statement that he went on Arch-Bishop Baldwin's crusade, or that the tomb in Stackpole church is his;'' he lived in the earlier part of the 12th century. The successor of Elidor was his son Robert, who, between 1180 and 1190, gave to Slebech two messuages and two bovates of land in Stackpole,' and to St. Davids, for the repose of his own soul and that of Milo de Cogan, the church of Trefduant (St. Edryn's).

~~The de Stackpoles 25 The Lords of Stackpole. Eviddently held lands in the episcopal lordship of St. David's, for Bishop Peter de Leia acknowledged by Charter the rights of Elidor, brother of Robert, at Hen- drewen, which charter was confirmed by King John in 1206/ William, presumably another brother, granted to Slebech a carucate of land at Alleston, and it is worthy of note that the knights of Slebech retained their grants in a way which the Bishops of St. David's would have done well to follow. For example, Gerald accuses Bishop Peter afore- said with having sold lands of the see at Burton to Philip, another brother of Robert, for " Irish gold"." It was this Philip who joined in the Pembrokeshire invasion of Ireland in the time of Heniy II, to which reference has been made in the previous papers, and founded the well- known famOy of Stackpole in County Clare. There is in the wi-iter's possession a print of one " Sir Richard Stackpole of Pembrokeshire," stated (although his looks belie it) to have been "highly respected in the year 1091". There is beneath the print a long and entirely inaccurate account of Sir Richard and of his descendants. Sir Richard had no existence. The print, and that of a priest of the same family, together with the genealogical details, were invented for a certain Count Stackpole, of the Irish family, who lived at Paris at the close of the 18th century. After Elidor and his four sons we find nothing recorded of the de Stackpoles until 1247, when a Philip de Stack- pole held four knight's fees of the Earl of Pembroke, and in 1268 this Phihp (or a son of the same name) passed by a fine to Robert de Crespjoig* and Matilda his wife, for thirty marks of silver, a carucate of land in Merlynchf * t See at the end of this article.