ABSTRACT
The record of the activities of the successive bishops of St Davids during most of the fifteenth and the early years of the sixteenth centuries is piecemeal: no episcopal register survives from the years 1410-82, and among those that do from the period 1397-1518, others are incomplete. The cathedral church, dedicated to St Andrew and St David, was situated at the extreme western point, at what W. L. Bevan called 'the 'Land's End' of Wales'. One monk, David Lloyd, had lapsed from his vows. David H. Williams believes that it did so 'in the certain knowledge they would be honoured by the Crown after dissolution'. The herald of the change was to be the new bishop of St Davids, consecrated, it is believed, as no record survives, in June 1536: William Barlow. According to George Barlowthe family had been ruined by complicity in the intrigues surrounding the pretender Perkin Warbeck.
