CRAY (CRAI), a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of DEVYNOCK, county of BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 94 miles (W.) from Brecknock, containing 576 inhabitants. It is situated at the junction of the small river Crai with the Usk, which latter is here crossed by a bridge. The common of Little Forest, in this chapelry, was anciently attached to the Great Forest of Brecknock, but on the attainder of the Duke of Buckingham, as lord of Brecknock, it was separated from the latter, and granted, by Henry VIII., first to Lord Seymour of Sudley, Lord High Admiral, and again, on his attainder, to another favourite, whose descendants afterwards disposed of it to various purchasers. The proprietors of this portion of Crai are exempt from a feudal practice which anciently prevailed in the parish of Devynock, whereby the other tenants were obliged to resort to the lord's mill, to have their corn ground, but it is not now so strictly observed as it was formerly. There are several respectable residences in this chapelry, more especially in that part adjoining the vale of the Crai. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Brecknock, and diocese of St. David's, endowed with £ 1600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Devynock. The chapel, dedicated to St. Bid, and sometimes called the chapel of Llan Ilid, stands higher up the vale, on the eastern declivity of an eminence, and close to the left bank of the Crai rivulet. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. In 1626, Sir John Davy, the owner of this property, bequeathed a portion of the tithes, amounting to £40 per annum, for erecting five almshouses and a free school; and a sum of £12 per annum was devised by Morgan Watkin, in 1699, for the benefit of the poor. Some vestiges of ancient barrows are still discernible, and of carneddau on the adjacent hills. This chapelry is separately assessed for the support of its poor: the average annual expenditure amounts to £244. 2.