14th January 1402 Guy, Bishop of St. David’s wrote to the Abbot “…And because we found that from the excessive wandering of the lay brothers among secular persons and dishonourable frequenting of unlawful places, to wit taverns, very great evils and scandals have resulted to the same monastery in persons and things, by necessity of which things we are bound to find a fit remedy for the future, we for this cause enjoin on you under the penalty written below that none of you go to the said town of St. Dogmells into any tavern, nor make drinking bouts with any one, outside the bounds (nor also at Cardigan), except it be for some honest matter and for a cause which can be approved of…”

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