The town, called in later times _Chepstow_ by the English, and sometimes _Cas Gwent_, or _Castell Gwent_, by the Welsh, is clearly _Strigul_ (as shown in Lhwyd's _Commentariolum_, p. 102. edit. 1731, and _Archæologia_, vol. xxix. p. 31.); but these names are not precisely equivalent. In early documents the Town, Vill, or Burgh is thus variously named, and the style of the present Court Baron is, "the Honour of Chepstow, _alias_ Striguil;" but in old charters and chronicles the Lordship Marcher, the castle, and the honorary description of its lords, are usually designated by the word "Strigul" (variously written) only; and of this "Hooker _alias_ Vowell" was perhaps ignorant. Giraldus himself is correct, as shown above. As to the style of "Earl of Strigul," Dugdale admits the use of it by Richard Fitz-Gilbert, who occurs as "Comes Strigulensis" above, and as "Ricardus Comes de Striguil Dermuciigener," in Ralph de Diceto (p. 590.). His descendant Gilbert Marescall is also termed "Counte de Strogoile" in the petition of Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Brotherton, at the coronation of Richard II. (Vincent's _Corrections_, p. 345.) There is a stronger instance in Selden's _Titles of Honour_ (p. 617. edit. 1631), correctly cited from Hoveden, and mentioning the fact of William Marshall and Geoffrey Fitz-Peter being severally girded "_gladio Comitatus de Striguil_ et gladio Comitatus de Essex," at the coronation of King John, with remarks on their previous rank as earls, their administration of earldoms, but their non-investiture, and their sitting at the royal table in consequence of this investiture. Nevertheless, it is laid down in the third _Report on the Dignity of a Peer_, p. 146., that such expressions are to be considered vague. It refers, for instance, any description of Roger de Montegomeri, as Earl of Arundel (if such exists), to _residence_; adding, "that is, he was an earl, and from his _residence_ was denominated Earl of Arundel, _as the Earls of Pembroke were denominated Earls of Strigul_, a castle which appears to have been built by William Fitz-Osborn, Earl of Hereford, and which had _no connexion_ with the county of Pembroke." As to the immediate parentage of Earl Richard Fitz-Gilbert, proof will be readily found in the Foundation Charters of St. Neot's Priory and Tintern Abbey, in Gorham's _St. Neot's_, p. cv.; _Monasticon_, vol. v. p. 267. GEO. O. S. P. near Chepstow. DEATHS FROM FASTING. (Vol. v., p. 247.)