MALPAS, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of WENTLLOOG, county of MONMOUTH, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Newport, containing 169 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeacpnry and diocese of Llandaff, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the pa- tronage of Sir C. Morgan, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome structure in the later English style, with a tower embattled and crowned with pinnacles .- it has a lofty ceiling of wood, richly carved; and in the chancel are some ancient oak stalls. A small establishment of Cluniac monks, a cell to the priory or Montacute, in Somersetshire, was founded here about the time of Henry I., the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £15. 6. 8.