ed to the United States and resumed the practice of law at
Lexington, Kentucky, where he died on the 17th of May 1875.

BRECON, or BRECKNOCK, a market town and municipal borough, the capital
of Breconshire, Wales, 183 m. from London by rail, picturesquely
situated nearly in the centre of the county, at the confluence of the
Honddu with the Usk. Half a mile higher up the Tarell also falls into
the Usk from the south. The ecclesiastical parish of Brecon consists of
the two civil parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary, both on
the left bank of the Usk, while St David's in Llanfaes is on the other
side of the river, and was wholly outside the town walls. Pop. (1901)
5875. There is only one line of railway, over which several companies,
however, have running powers, so that the town may be reached by the
Brecon & Merthyr railway from Merthyr, Cardiff and Newport, by the
Cambrian from Builth Wells, or by the Midland from Hereford and Swansea
respectively. The Great Western railway has also a service of road
motors between Abergavenny and Brecon. A canal running past Abergavenny
connects Brecon with Merthyr.

The Priory church of St John, a massive cruciform building, originally
Norman with Early English and Decorated additions, is the finest parish
church in Wales, and even taking into account the cathedrals it is
according to E.A. Freeman "indisputably the third church not in a state
of ruin in the principality," its choir furnishing "one of the choicest
examples of the Early English style." Previous to the dissolution, a
rood-screen bearing a gigantic rood, the object of many pilgrimages,
stood to the west of the tower. The church was restored under Sir
Gilbert Scott between 1861 and 1875. St Mary's, in the centre of the
town, and St David's, beyond the Usk, are now mainly modern, though the
former has some of the Norman arches of the original church. There is
also a Roman Catholic church (St Michael's) opened in 1851, and chapels
belonging to the Baptists, Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and to
the Congregationalists. In Llanfaes there was formerly a Dominican
priory, but in 1542 Henry VIII. granted it with all its possessions to a
collegiate church, which was transferred thither from Abergwili, and was
given the name of Christ College. Many of the bishops of St David's
during the 17th century occasionally resided here, and several are also
buried here. A small part of the revenues went to the maintenanc