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A JL T E S SCiENTIA VEKlTAf 



THE HISTORY *%»j, 



or 



THE PRINCES, THE LORDS MARCHER, 



AND THB 



ANCIENT NOBILITY 



or 



POWYS FADOG, 



▲WD 



THE ANCIENT LORDS OF ARWYSTLI, CEDEWEN, 

AND MEIRIONYDD. 



r • ' * ' BT 



J. Y. W. LLOYD, OF Clochfaen, Esq., 



M.A., K.S.G. 



VOL. 111. 



LONDON : 
T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C. 

1882. 



s 

.'3 



T. BICHAIing, PmirTFH, ^7, GRViT QniKK CITIIMFT. 



s%<lSoo.-o\^ 



CONTENTS. 



I^Ianor of Esolys or Esclusham — 

Cristionydd Cynwrig 

Cefh y Fedw 

Cefn y Carneddau, or Tir y Collach . 

PI as Kunaston and Woodhouse 

Jones of Pen y Bryn 

Lloyd of Coed Cristionydd 

Pulest^n of Plis Uchaf 

Puleston of Plas Isaf 

AVynn of Tref Fechan 

Roberts of Esclusham 

Bersham of Bereham 

John Wynn ab William ab Madog Croch of Fron Dog. 

Wvnn of Bers . 

Tudor of Bcttws y Mhers and Bersham 

Roberts of Ty Cerrig 

Power of Plas Power 

Lloyd of Bers . 

Puleston of Pl&s y Mhers 

Rhys ab Tudor ab Goronwy of Tref Gaian 

Wynn of Bodfel 

Thomas of Coed Helen 

Trafford of Treffordd 

Lloyd of Esclys 

(Jrutfydd ab Dafydd Goch of Nant Conwy 

Grutfydd of Bryn Bwa and Plas y Bold 

Jones of Croes Foel 

Plas Cadwgan . 

Roberts of Hafod y Bwch 

Lloyd of Hafod Unnos 

Parr}' of Tref Rhuddin^ Llwyn Yn, and Nant Clwyd 

Pryse of Llwyn Yn 

Holland of Hendref Fawr 

Manor of Eqlwisesolb — 

Description of the Manor . 
H ughcs of Llanerch Rugog 



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CONTENTS. 



Lloyd of Plaa Uwch y Clawdil 

Lloyd of Pentref Clawdd and Llwyn Owain 

Edisbury of Erddig 

Erddig of Erddig 

Pl&s ym Machymbyd 

Macs MacD Cymro 

Jones of Fron Deg 

Ellis of Y Groes Newydd. (*S'^^ also Addenda. 

Jeflfreys of Acton 

Edwards of Stansti 

Maredydd of Stansti 

Tegin of Fron Deg 

Manor of Is y Coed— 

Description of the Manor, with tliose of Hcin and Cobham 

Isgocd 
Hafod y Bwch . 
De Weild of Borashani 
Brereton of Borasham 
Ipstone of Ipstone 
Plas Llanenrgain 
Cantref of Rhus . 
Powel of Glan y Pwll 
Mynachlog Rhedyn 
Borasham of Borasham 
Davies of Erlys 
Erlys of Erlys . 
Koydou of Is y Coed 

Manor of Wrexham — 

Description of the Manor . 

Puleston of Hafod y Wem 

Bady of Rhiwabon and Stansti 

Jones of Fron Deg 

Elis of Maelor Gymraeg 

Martyrdom of Mr. Richard Gwyn, alias AVhitc, of Llau 

idloes 
Religious persecutions by Jews and Christians 
Theism 

Description of the Wrexham Gentry . 
The True Gentleman 

Manor of Burton — 

Description of this Manor, and the Manors of Pickhill and 
Seswick ..... 

Sutton of Sutton and Gwersyllt 
Robinson of Gwersyllt Uchaf 
Trcvalun ..... 



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CONTENTS. 


V 


Trevor of Trevalun 


. 196 


Langford of Trevalun 


. 208 


Plas yn Horslli . . . . . 


214 


Lloyd of Yr Orsedd Goch . . . . 


. 215 


Aylmer of Aimer and Pant locyn 


217 


Puleston of Trevalun . . . . 


219 


Alunton of Alunton or Tref Alun 


220 


Trefalun of Trefalun . . . . 


221 


Jones of Derlwyn . . . . 


221 


Griffith of Trefalun . . . . 


. 222 


Davies of Trefalun . . . . 


222 


Symon of Coed y Llai . . . . 


223 


Maredyth of Trefalun . . . . 


224 


Wynn of Y Groesffordd . . . , 


226 


Sanddef of Mortyu . . . . 


227 


Burton and Lewys of Burton 


228 


Billott of Burton . . . . 


231 


Morton of Morton 


. 233 


Papers relating to Bromfield and lal 


234 


CoMOT OP Merffordd — 




Penarth Halawg or Hawarden 


. 237 


Ewlo Castle .... 


. 241 


Stanley of Ewlo Castle 


. 242 


Llovd of Pentref Hobyn . 


. 243 


Pl&s yn Horslli, Powel of . 


. 248 


Ancient British Races and Monuments — 




Cromlechs and Tumuli 


. 257 


Ancient Inhabitants of Britain 


. 258 


Ancient Kings of Hereford and Gloucester 


. 264 


Cowydd i Sion ab Rhys ab Maurice o Llangurig 


. 265 


Meini Hirion .... 


. 270 


Huw Arwystli .... 


. 270 


Ancient Camps .... 


. 271 


The Legend op St. Curig — 




Curig Llwyd .... 


. 271 


St. Curig and St Julitta . 


. 273 


Martyrdom of SS. Curig and Julitta 


. 275 


Welsh Poems in praise of St. Curig . 


. 283 


Maelgwn ab Rhyswallawn, King of Arwystli 28 


7, 292 


Llanelidan .... 


. 288 


Llangurig, Description of the Parish of 


. 289 


Martvrdom of St. Curig, Description of the 


. 291 



Ancient Welsh Ethnology — 

Caves at Cefn and Perthi Chwareu 



'2dd 



VI 



CONTENTS. 



The Ancient Iberians or Biiscpies 
The Celts 

Fifty Million Years Ago 

Religious Persecutions 

The Law of Nations and Egypt 

Lordship of Maelor Saesneg — 

Bangor Is y Coed 

Pelagins, the Doctrines of 

Christianity 

Egyptian liccords 

Religion of the Jews 

Theism 

The Ashera or Grove 

Gbneatx)gies — 

Eyton of Eyton Isaf 

Broughton of Broughton . 

Ellis of Alrhey . 

Powel of Alrhey 

Kenrick of Xantclwyd and Plas Cemiogaii 

Parry of Tref Rhuddin and Llwyn Yu 

Lloyd of Br}Ti Lluarth 

Pryse of Llawesog 

Jones, Wilson of Gelli Gynon 

Pryse of Derwen Anial 

Powel of Henllan 

Lloyd of PlAs Llanynyg 

Hughes of Ystrad and Segroid 

Gethin of Plas Cerniogau . 

Eyton of Maes Gwaelod 

Castle of Overton Madog . 

Wynn of Gwem Haulod 

Wynn of Llwyn 

Lloyd of Halchdyn 

Lloyd of Bryn Halchdyn . 

Lloyd of Halchdyn 

Fowler of Llys Bedydd and St. Thomas's Abbey 

Lloyd of Tal y Weni 

Bodylltyn in Rhiwahon 

Lloyd of Willi ngt on 

Yonge of Sawcrdeg 

Pennant Family 

Da vies of Dungrcy 

Lordship of Y Dkkf Wen or WniTTiNOTON — 
Description of the Lordship 
Goronwy ab Tudor ab Rhys Sais, »nd his Descendants 



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. 335 

. 338 

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. 355 

. 355 

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. 369 

. 373 

. 374 

. 376 

. 377 

. 379 



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CONTENTS. 



Vll 



The Castle of AVhittington 

Sir Fulk Fitz Warine 

<iut jii Owain of Traian 

David ab leuan ab lorwertli. Abbot of Valle Crucis 

Fulk Fitz Warine of Whittingtoii 

Lhtiierch Banna in Maelor 

Llanerch Banna, Penley 

Dyiiiock of Penley in Maelor Saesneg 

Goch of Maelor .... 

Sir Matthew Goch, a Poem in Praise ot 

E3'ton of Peptref Madog . 

Wynn of Pentref Morgan . 

Llovd of Ebnall 

Powel of Whittington Park 

Lloyd of y Dref Newydd . 

Addenda — 

Holt Castle 

Ellis of Croes Newydd 

Fowler of Abbey Cwm Hir 

(rrant of the Abbey 

Tref Gaian 

Arms of Gervys of Rhiiddin 

Wrexham 

LlaDgurig 

Can tref Meirion 



384 
r.84 

387 
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398 
401 
403 
404 
405 
400 



408 
409 
409 
409 
411 
411 
411 
411 
411 



HISTOEY OF POWYS FADOG. 



MANOR OF FABRORUM. 

HarL 3696, fo. 236. 

Fabeobum M^brium Tenbntes p' Dimissiones, etc. 



Bates, Hugh (Morton Ang*) . 

Bromfield, - Edward 

Brought oQy John d'd (Coed Xpion- 
eth) .... 

David ap John ap Roger (Coed 
Xpioneih. 

David ap Owin (Morton Ang') 

David, Wiirm (Coed Xpioneth) 

David, Kenriok (Morton Ang') 

Edward ap David ap Edw' (Coed 
Xpioneth) 

Edward ap John (Coed Xp'). 

Edward ap John David Groz (Coed 
Xpioneth) 

Edward ap John ap Edw' (Morton 
AngO .... 

Edward ap Randle 

Edward ap WUFm (Mor' Ang*) 

Edwards, John, gen' (Coed Xpio- 
neth) . . . . . 

Edwards, Jo' de Eeuen y Weme 
(Thos' ap d'd Walker) Coed 
Xpioneth. . . . . 

Ellis, Dorathe vid' (Mor* Ang') . 

Eyton, Edward (Coed Xpioneth) . 

Ejton, Gerrard, esq. . 

Eyton, Roger, gen' (Coed Xp') 

Gouldsmith, Tbos' (Morton Ang') 

Hope, Edw' (Morton Ang*) . 

Hope, Thomas . . . . 

leu'n ap Ho'ell (Coed X'p') . 

leu'n, Richard (Mor* Ang') . 

VOL. III. 



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HISTORy OF POWVS FADOO. 





Acres. 


Valae 


• 


Bent 8. d. 


John ap Hugh ap d'd et d'd ap 
















John filins chis 


8 


3 


4 


10 








10 8 


John ap leu'n .... 


1 


3 


1 











1 4i 


John ap John Wynn iur* ux* (Coed 
















X'pioneth) .... 


25 


2 


13 








1 


2 


John, Roger ap d'd Uoyd (Coed 
















X'pioncth) .... 


3 





1 


13 


4 





1 3 


John, Samucll .... 


1 


3 20 


1 


3 


4 





8 


Johnson, John (Coed X'p') . 


3 





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2 2 


Jones, Kmanuell (Mor' Ang') 


6 


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11 9 


Lewis, Rob't (Coed X'p') . 


6 


20 


3 











8 


Lloyd, John ap llichard (Coed 
















X'pioneth) . . . .59 


2 


19 


6 


8 





18 4 


Lloyd, Watkyn (Coed X'p') . 


2 





1 


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1 10 


Manley, Cornelius, gen' (Morton 
















Ang'l) 


16 


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6 


13 


4 





18 


Richard ap d'd lloyd (Coed X'pio- 
















neth) 


3 


1 


2 











3 8 


Richard ap Robert (Mor' Ang') 


13 


1 


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IG 


Robert ap d'd ap W'm ap d'd 
















(Coed X'pioneth) 


11 





5 











8 4 


Robert ap John Rob't (Coed X'p') 


22 





9 








1 


1 2 


Roger ap d'd ap lle'n (Mor* Ang'). 


6 


1 20 


3 


6 


8 





4 10 


Roger ap WiU'm (Coed X'p') 


14 





8 











17 2 


Thelwall, Bevis, esq. (Morton Ang') 


10 





1 


4 


10 





10 


Thomas ap d'd Walker 


ruw. Jo* Kd- 
wards. 












Thomas ap Edw' (Morton Ang') . 


11 


2 


5 











12 


Thomas, John (Coed X'p') . 


3 





2 











8^ 


William ap John Edw' 





10 





6 


8 





3 


William, W'm .... 


1 


5 


1 











1 10 


Williams, Margaret vid' (Coed 
















X'pioneth) .... 


19 


1 


10 











4 6 


S'maRedd' . 


22 


18 2 



B8CLUSHAH OR KHIJLYS. 




MANOR OF ESCLUSHAM OR ESCLYS.— TOWNSHIP 
OF CRISTIONTDD OYNWRIG. 
Earl MS. 4181 ; Add. MS. 9865. 

The township of Cristiouydd Cynwrig lies in the parish of 
Rliiwabon, of which it constitutes the third part, and is di- 
vided into the parochial townships or hamlets of Coed 
Cristionydd, Y Dref Fawr or Tref Cristionydd Cynwiig, 
and Y Dref Fechan or Tref Cristionydd Fecban. 

Hoedliw, Lord of Criitiotiydd, fifth eon of CytiwriK ab Ithiwallawn,=p 
Lord of Haelor Ojnuraeg. SmUtu, a lion ranipuiti $ablt, armed and I 
lan gged fula . | 

Cfnwri^ ab=T=QwUdfa, daa.and oo-heirofOra^dd, third bod of Meilii-Bjton, 
Hoedliw Lord of Eyton, Erlys, fttid Bwraa or BoraBhAm. Ermine, a 

' " ' lion rampant, luura. 

Her mother was Angharad, dan. and beireea of Uf welyn 
ab Uenrig ab Candog ab leatTii ab Owrgant, Pnnce of 
Qlamorgau. GnUi, three ohevronells, orient. 

CjDwriK Ff-=n=Hft^aret, dan. of Howel ab Hoi«iddi^ ab Sanddef Hordd or 
chanof Cria- I the handaome, Lord of Morton or Burton and Llai, Ytrl, 
tionjdd. I Bemi of broomslips, a lion rampart, or. 

Howel ab Cynwrig of Cristionydd.^ Madog ab Cynwrig of CrJHtionydd.f 



I 



J 



How el Fychan of CriatJonydd.^ 
lenan of Criationydd.^ 



Howel of Criationydd.^ 
Qrai^ dd of Criatio nydd .^ 



Howel of Cria-^ Myfanwy, ux.Ienaf 
tionydd, | ab Add* ab Awrof 
I Llya Trevor. 

Bothahoand her 

husband are buried 

in the church of 

Valle Cmcia 









H owel = f 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



David of= 

Cristion- 

ydd. 



.|6 \e 

Angbarad, ux. lorwerth Madog Gk>cb of Cae Madog Qoch, 

Qocli of Cristionydd in Crystionydd. 
Cynwrig, ab Llywelyn 

ab Ednyfed Llwyd ab | 

lorwerth Pychan ab leuan of Cae=f Eva, dau. of Einion 



T 
I 



lorwerth ab Awr. (See Madog Goch. 
vol. ii, p. 192.) 



ab leuaf Gooh ab 
Llywelyn. 



I 



Angharad, heiress, ux. Maredydd ab 
druffydd, second son of Adda ab 
Howel of Llys Trefor. 



Mado^ of=T= 
Cristion- 
ydd Cyn- 
wrig. 



1 2 

dan. of louan ab=f=Angharad, dan. of 

John ab David ab 



Howel ab leuan 
Bach of Bhiwabon 
ab leuan ab Einion 
Gethyn of Cris- 
tionydd. 



Llywelyn ab Edny- 
fed Llwyd of P1&8 
Madog. 



Edward of=jF 
Cristionydd. I 

Gruffydd. =f= 



Bandle. 



Gruff: 



ydd. 



I 
leuan. 



T 



I 

leuan. =f= 



rid of 



David of Cristionydd Cynwrig.=T=Mar8lli, d. of Gruffydd ab David 



John ab David. 



TjMMJkmiu., u. ui vrruu^uu »U UVkW 
ab Madog ab leuan ab Deicwa. 



David of Cris-=j=Elizabeth, dau. of Howel ab Edward ab Y Badi Llwyd of 



tionydd. 



T 



Cefii y Bedw in Cristionydd. 



Gruffydd of=f=Jane, dau. of Edward Edward of Dinbryn=7=Anne, dau. of 



Cristionydd. 



Davies of Llan y in Llangollen. 
Cofau in Overton. 



Matthew Trevor 
of Llys Trevor. 



I I I 

MargtEtret, co-heir, Mary, ux. Francis Jane,ux. 

ux. John Thomas Chambres of Lop- Thomas 

of Caernarvon. ping^n, oo. Salop. Bailey. 



fDi] 



Bichard of Dinbryn. 



T 



John of Dinbryn, in the 
parish of Llangollen in 
Nantheudwy. 



E8CLDSHAM. 




ESCLUSH AM.— TOWNSHIP OP CRISTIONTDD 

CYNWRIG CEFN T BEDW. 

Earl. MS. 2299. 

Einion OeU^ of CriatioirTdd, ab Einion ah Tenui ftb Orniiydd at 

Cynmig Efell, Lord of T Qlwjaegl. Gula, on ft bend argtnt, a lion 

pMSant, lable. 



'^ 



leam ab Einion of Criationydd.^ 



lorwerth: 
•b leDBn 
ofCiia- 
tionTdd. 



=pllfargaret, dan. of lenaf ab MndOK ab Cadw- 
~ f^an Ddd of Bhuddallt in Bhiwabon. Sablt, 

on a cheT. iaMr three goat'a heads erased 

or, t)ire« tTefoils of the field. 



lenan ab Howel of Bhiwabon.=p 



lenau of Crittionydd.^ 
Oniflydd.^ lladog.=T 



rBadi 



Oroliydd of Cristionydd. 



Llwyd of CrJBtionydd.q' 



GoeDhwyfM ni. 
Edward ab David 
ab Dio. 



nrel ab 1 



Hoiwel ab Edwaid^Angbaiad, 

of Cefta J Bedw i dati. of 

in CristioaTdd. j Thomaa. 



Dand^ Catherine, John ab^ 
ab I d.of £obert Howelof 
Ho»d. lab David ab Cefti 
I John. J Badw. 





John. 


Gfiydd. 


Anne, d. of 


GwenUion, 


Catherine, 


Edward ab 


oi. DaTid 


ui David 


HoweU ab 


Lloyd ab 


Lloyd of 


Kdword ab 


David ab 


Pentrof 


HadoK 


Matthew 


Clawdd in 




of Overton 


MortonVwch 


Trefechan. 


Madog. 


y Cluwdd. 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOfi. 



Catharine, in. Julin ab John 
ab Uad<^ nli Icuan ab 
Hadog of Khuddallt. 



Eliiabelh, ui. David leuan ab Ornffjdd, 
ab £dvard ab Darid ab Qrufiydd of 
CristioDjdd. £rmin«, a lion ramp., tabU. 



CEFN T FEDW. 

Cae Cyriog MS. 

Darid Lloyd of Cefh j Fedw.=p 

Edward Lloyd of Ce fn y Fedy .f 

' Edward Lloyd^ane, dan. of John ab Bogar of Naot 
of Hafod in I Hir. She matriud. secondly, Hattbaw 
Cri ationydd. | ah Bandle ab John of Y (JoedUdd. 

[. John ab Handle ab Jobn 



Thomaa Lloyd of Cefn y — EliziilH.'tL, dau. and beiTOBs of John ab Bandle, 
Fodw. He sold a |;n>at ab Kiirbard of Acre Fair. Her mother was 
partof his lunda to Ellis Jane, dan. of Hiindle ab John ab David ab 
Lloyd of Ptn j Ian. Llywelyn ab John of Pen j Bryn. 





KSCLL'SHAM.— lOAVNSIIir OF ClUSTIONYDD 

CYNWRIti. 

Ckfn y Carnkddau aUng Tm t Ccll&ch. 

Car Cijr!o<j MS. 

t{o);er Kyton of Cefn y Cameddau. alia* Tir y Cellacb, second a 

Edward y ' " ' " ' "=■' - "' " " " " ' 

ill' John a 



PLAS KYNASTON. 






CAtherine, co-heir. She had Cefa y 
Carneddau, and married Boger 
Kynaston, attorney at Ladlow, ab 
Hamphrey Kynaston, second son 
of Boger Kynaston of Morton, 
CO. Salop, second son of Hamphrey 
Kynaston of Uordley, ab Sir Boger 
Kynaston, Knight, ab Qmffydd 
Kynaston of Stoke. Boger Kynas- 
ton, the husband of Catherine, 
built the house at Cefn y Car- 
neddau, now called Plis Kynaston. 



I 2d 
Mary, co-heir. She married Gmffydd 
ab John of Gaerddin, who pur- 
chased land there from John ab 
John of Qaerddin, who was the 
possessor of it in the time that 
Norden's Survey was taken in 1620. 
Gruffydd ab John afterwards sold 
this land to Sir Thomas Myddle- 
ton of Chirk Castle, Knight. 

The above-named Gruffydd of 
Gaerddin was the son of John ab 
leuan ab Edward ab Bhys. 







PLAS KYNASTON. 
Harl MS, 2299. 



B^vgCT Kynaston, attorney at the Court of Marches at=i=Anne 
Ludlow ; second son (by Jane, his wife, dau. of Oliver 
Lloyd of Llai) of Humphrey Kynaston, second son of 
Boger Kynaston ab Humphrey Kynaston of Morton. 
Ermine, a chevron, gules. 



dau. and 

co-heiress of 

Boger Eyton of 

C^fn y Car- 

neddau. 



John Kynaston of PlaLS=j=£lizabeth, dan. and heiress of Oliver Lloyd^ of 
Kynaston and jure I Bryngwyn in Llanfechain. and Ffrances his wife, 
t uorix of Dr yngwyn. | dau. of Sir Bichiurd Hussey of Crugion. 

John 
Kynas- 



I 



Boger 
Kynas- 
ton, oh. 

t, p. 



Humphrey =f=Martha, d. and 



I 



Kynaston of 

Bryngwyn 

and PlAs 

Kynaston, 

17'(». 



eventual heiress 
of Bobert Owen 
of Woodhouse, 
CO. Salop. 



Bichard 
Kynas- 
ton of 
London. 



I 



ton. 



Charles 
Kynas- 
ton. 



Martha Kynaston, heiress of Bryngwyn and Plas Kynaston, married 
William Mostyn ab John Mostyn ab William Mostyn, third son of Sir 
Roger Mostyn of Mostyn and of Llys Pengwem in Nanheudwy, Knight. 



1 Oliver Lloyd of Bryngwyn, in the parish of Llanfechain, ab David 
Lloyd ab John Lloyd ab Robert Lloyd ab David Lloyd ab Howel ab 
John ab leuan Fychan of Br}'ngwyn, ab Howel ab Maredydd ab 



HISTOKY OF POWYS FAIKK!. 




PLAS KYNASTON AND WOODHOUSE. 

Sir Bofrer Mostyn or Moxtyn^Maiy, dau. of Sir John Wynn of Owydir 
ia Tegeingl, and Ll;s | in Llanrwet, Kni|fht ; abo died kbout 1667, 
Pecgwem in Nonheudwy. and was bnried at Llanrwat. Verl, Uu«e 
eagleH, diaplkjed in feis, or. 



eirTbomaaHoatjnof 
Mostyii and Uya 
Fengwem, Knigljt. 
His BOD, Sir Boger 
Host;D,«Bfl created 
a Baronet A.tig. 3, 



|a 13 

John William MoHt7ii,=T=Aiii]e, daa. and heir 

Hostyn, Kectorof of John Lewjs of 

ob. ChrVBletou. Bodowyr in tho 

*. p. Archdeacon of | pahBh oi Llanidan 

fianeor. | in Cwmwd Menai 

in M6n. 



|1 
Thomas 

Hoatyn, HoBtj^, 

ob. H.A., 

1. p. Beotorof 

CaBtell. 




I 



I 



of Dol j dau. of Fryse of Lewys of 

Tny». Owem Fory» 

EigTon. Cillvyn. 



John Mostyn of Segrwyd^Jane, dan. and co-heir of John Dolben of Segr- 
and Cap«l Onyddelwen, wyd in the Comot of Ctinmeirch. SabU, a 
HiKb Sberifi' for CO. Den- helmet cloaed, inter three pheona pointed 
bi gh in 1749. | to tho centre, argent. 

John Hoetyn^Anna Maria, daughter and co-heiresa of Heorig Meredith nf 
of Segrwyd. i Peugwcm Llanwnda and Lleweeog in Ceinmeirch, and Jane, 
I hia wife, dacgbter and co-beiress of Ffoulke Lloyd of Bryn 
I Lluartb in Cynmeireh and Cileti in Edeyrnion. 

John Meredith = Cicilia Margaret, Anna Maria, ui. Colonel John Lloyd 

Moetyn of dau. of Henry SaluBbury of Qallt Faenan ; she 

Segrwyd and Thrale of Bach died Bth Deo, 1846, and was buried 

Lleweeog. y Graig. at Henllan. 



GrufTydd ab Tudor ab Madog ab Einioa ab Madog ab Gnjiawg ab 
Eginir ab Lies ab Idncrth Ucnfras, Lord of Mneabrwg. ArgttU, a 
cross flory engrailed table, intor four Coruiiih choughs, ppr., on n chief 
aturt, a boar's head couped of the field, tuaked or, and laiigucd gvtu. 
■^Add. MS. 9865. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



WiUiftm HoBt^n, jwa uzorii of=^lfuthm, iaa. mui heirsBS of Hnrnphrer 
BiTD^wfii and PUa Kjaaaton. I KyiiMtoii of BrjngwyD and Pita Kj- 
I Dftaton. 



William OireD of WoodhouM and PUb KynutOD.^Bamet Eliubetfa, 
Arjenl, a lion rampant and canton, $able. He aold j dnu. of H^jor T. 
Bryngwyn | Camming of Bath. 



IK 



.M 



, |2 



, I? 



Edward Henry — Elizabeth, daii.of Bebecca, FranceB Harriet, 

Hoatyn Owen, Bev. Henry ni. John Haria, nx. ni. John 

Bector of Hinchcliffe of Houphiiefl lUchard Myttou 

Connd, CO. BartbomI]', oo. of Noel, of 

Salop. Chester. Llwyn. Lord HalatDn. 

Bernick. 






. 1^ 



,1 \-i |3 |4 |G |1 

WtDiam Hoa- Arthur Charles Fraacis Bemy Sarah Harriet, 

tn OiTMi of Mostyn Hoetyn Hoatyu Moatyn dx. Edward 

WoodbODSa Oven. Oven. Owen. Owen. Hosier Williama 

and FUs of Eaton 

gyn aston- Masoott. 



|a 



Eloisa. 



I* 




ESCLUSHAM.— TOWNSHIP OF CRISTIONYDD. PEN 

Y BEYN. 

Cae Cyriog ifSf,' 

John ab David ab Llywelyn' ab John, of Pen y Bryn, 

married, in 1587, Angharad, daughter of John ab David 

' This pedigree waa kindly seat to me by the Kev. William Mndog 
Williams. * Llywclyn vaa ft son of Juhn ab David of Pins Madog. 



10 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

ab Edward ab Maredydd of Fron D6g, by whom he had 
issue, one son Randal, his successor, and three daughters, 
Catherine, Alice, and Elizabeth. 

Randal ab John ab David of Pen y bryn, married, first, 
in 1605, Margaret Lloyd, daughter and co-heiress of 
Gruffydd Lloyd of Ty Cerrig, and sister of Gwenhwyfar 
Lloyd, the mother of John Lloyd of Coed Cristionydd, 
(from whom Ty Cerrig came to him), by whom he had 
issue one son, Edward, of whom presently, and two 
daughters, Jane and Catherine. Randle ab John, married, 
secondly, Anne, relict of William ab Matthew of Rhiwabon 
and daughter of Edward ab John ab David, whose son 
and heir was Edward ab William ab John ab David^ of 
Pen y Ian in Dinhinlle Isaf, whose daughter and heiress 
married Ellis Lloyd, previously an Attorney at Ludlow, 
son of the Rev. Edward Lloyd, who in his latter days had 
the living of Llangower. By this second marriage, 
Randal ab John had issue two sons, John and Matthew, 
and two daughters : 1, Angharad, ux. Richard Evans ab 
Evan ab David ab Morgan ab Rhiwabon, and 2, Mary, 
ux. Hugh ab William ab Hugh of Cyssylltau. 

Jane, the eldest daughter of Randal ab John ab David, 
married John ab Randal ab Richard of Acre Fair, by 
whom she had issue one only daughter and heiress, 
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Lloyd of Cefn y Fedw 
(son and heir of Edward Lloyd of Cefn y Fedw, ab 
William ab Edward ab David Lloyd of Cefn y Fedw), 
who sold much of his land to Ellis Lloyd of Pen y Ian. 

Catherine, the second daughter of Randal ab John ab 
David, married Robert ab Randal of Dinhinlle Uchaf in 
Cristionydd. They had a daughter and heiress, Anne, 
who married Richard Jones, son and heir of John ab 
John ab Edward of the Nant in Dinhinlle Uchaf, who 
sold his own lands as well as his wife's to Ellis Lloyd of 
Pen y Ian. 

John, the second son of Randal ab John ab David, mar- 
ried Jane, daughter of Edward Lloyd (brother of William 
Lloyd ab Edward ab David Lloyd of Cefn y Fedw), and 



ESCLU8HAM. 1 1 

by her had issue four sons : 1, Randal ; 2, Edward ; 3, 
Matthew ; and 4, David ; and two daughters, Mary and 
Margaret. 

Matthew, the third son of Randal ab John ab David, 
was of Rh6s Sion ab Madog, and married, first, Mary, 
daughter of Antony Griffith of the said Rhos, by whom 
he had issue, John, William, Mary, and Anne. He 
married, secondly, Anne, daughter of John ab Hugh ab 
Edward of Rhiwabon, and sister of Thomas Hughes, 
of Pennant y Belan, 1697. 

Edward of Pen y Bryn, the eldest son of Randal ab 
John ab David, married Margaret, daughter of the above- 
named William ab Matthew of Rhiwabon, by whom he 
had issue one son, John ab Edward, and three daughters : 
1, Anne, who died young ; 2, Cicily, ux. Thomas Twna 
of Clai in Bangor parish ; and 3, Elizabeth, ux. John 
Roberts, ab Robert ab Edward of the Caeau. 

John Edwards of Pen y Bryn, son and heir of Edward 
ab Randal ab John, married, in 1669, Sarah, daughter and 
heiress of John ab Richard Francis of Cristionydd 
Cynwrig, and Margaret his wife, daughter of Richard ab 
David (and sister of Robert ab Richard, the father of 
Richard Roberts of Dinhinlle Uchaf) by whom he had 
issue four sons : 1, Randal Jones ; 2, Edward ; 3, John ; 
and 4, William ; and two daughters, Margaret and Sarah. 
The Cae Cyriog MS. ends here, and the following portion 
of the pedigree was compiled by tlie Rev. William 
Maddock Williams, late Rector of Llanfechain. 

Randal Jones of Pen y Bryn, Attorney-at-Law, Re- 
corder of the Lordship of Bromfield and Idl, son and heir 
of John ab Edward, married, first, in 1703, Elizabeth 
Wynn, natural and adopted daughter of Sir John Wynn 
of Watstay, Bart., by whom he had issue seven sons : 
l,John Jones; 2, Thomas ; 3, William ; 4, Robert; 5, 
Edward ; 6, Elis ; 7, Randal. He married, secondly, 
Martha, daughter of Jones of Pont Twthil, Wrex- 
ham (grandfather to the late Longueville Jones of Oswes- 
try), by whom he had no issue. 

John Jones of Pen y bryn, eldest son of the above 



12 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Randal, married Barbara, eldest daughter of Edward 
Hughes of Coediog and Pl&s Draw in Dyffryn Clwyd, 
and by her had issue, three sons : 1, Randle, oh. s. p.; 
2, John ; and 3, David ; and three daughters, Margaret, 
Elizabeth, and Catherine. 

John Jones of Pen y Bryn, the second son, succeeded 
his father, and married in 1770, Mary, sole daughter and 
heiress of Roger Maddocks of Frees Henlle and Day well 
in Whittington, co. Salop, and was High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1788. He had issue one son, John Maddock, 
who succeeded him, and five daughters: 1, Eleanor, of 
whom presently ; 2, Mary ; 3, Barbara ; 4, Elizabeth ; 
and 6, Henrietta. 

John Maddock Jones of Pen y Bryn, Major of the 
Royal Denbigh Militia, married Margaret Maria Isabella, 
eldest daughter of Major-General Robert D'Arcy, Royal 
Engineers, by whom he had no issue. He dissipated and 
sold all the estates of his father and mother, excepting 
the property left to his father at Penley in Flintshire, 
which was left him by his kinsman, Roger Hanmer of 
Maes Gwaelod, and a tenement in Fen y Bryn, bought 
from Mostyn Owen of P1S.S Kynaston, which he, John 
Maddock, was not permitted to enjoy, but was entailer' 
on William Maddock Williams, his nephew. 

Eleanor, the eldest daughter, and eventual heir of blood 
of John Jones of Pen y Bryn, married William Williams, 
Canon of St. Asaph, and Rector of Ysgeifiog, by whom 
she had issue, William Maddock Williams, Rector of 
Llanfechain, and two other sons, who died in their infancy, 
and two daughters: 1, Henrietta Maria, ux. Rev. H. W. 0. 
Jones of Wepra Hall, co. Flint, and 2, Eliza, ux. Thomas 
Murhall Griffith of Wrexham and Ash Magna, co. Salop. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



13 



ESCLUSHAM.- COED CRISTIONYDD. 

Cae Gyriog MS, 



John Lloyd=y=G 
ab Richiuxl 

of Coed 
Cristionydd, 
living 
1620. 



wenhwy&r, third daughter and co-heirees of Gmffydd 
Lloyd of Ty Cerrig in Cristionydd Cynirrig ; she had Ty 
Cerrig in Pen y Bryn« and " rhan o faing yn gafell Eglwys 
Bhiwabon'*. By her Will, dated in 1641, she left 7 
acres, roods, 36 perches, for the poor of CMstionydd 
Cynwriff and Coed Cristionydd, at three shillings each, 
to be distribated at Christmas by her son John Lloyd 
ab Richard, then by the Vicars and Chordiwardens. In 
1737, some lands adjoining were purchased with Poor's 
money for £140, consisting of 9 acres, 2 roods, 2 perches. 
Both are now let in one farm under the name of Tai Nant. 



Edward Lloyd=f=I>orothy, d. John Lloyd^ of=f=Elizabeth, dau. 
of Bhiwabon, 
a wise and 
prudent man. 



of Qeorge Coed Cris- 

Moor of tionydd (called 
Wrexham, John IJoyd 
Merchant, ab Richard). 



of Edward 
Lloyd of PUs 

Madog ab 
William Lloyd. 



Gruffydd 

Lloyd, Clk., 

Parson of 

Ludlow. 



|1 |2 

John =7=£lizabeth, d. Simon 



Lloyd of 

Coed 
Cristion- 

ydd, 

liTing 
1697. 



of Edward Lloyd. 
Dymoke of 
Sonlli Her 
brother Joseph 
sold his inherit- 
ance to Joshua 
Edisbury of 
Erddig. 



13 |4 

Peter ■> d. of Cornelius 

Lloyd Thomas Lloyd of 

of Daviesof Oswestnr, 

Wrex- Wrex- married 

ham, ham. Mary 

living Eynas- 

1697. ton, 

1698. 



|5 

Elizabeth, 

ux. Roger 

Davies of 

Rhiwabon 

ab David 

ab Robert 

ab Stephen 

of Bryn y 

Wiwair. 



John Lloyd. 



Elizabeth, 



Phoebe. 



Other children. 



|1 

Edward 

Lloyd, 

o(. f. p. 



|2 
Joseph 

Lloyd 
of Cae 
Einion, 

mar. 
and 

died 
in Lre- 

land. 



• •• ■ • U« 

of 

"of" 

Castle 

Lyons 

in 

L». 

land. 



|3 
Owain Lloyd'^f' 
went to Lreland 
and returned to 
Rhiwabon and 
died at Wrex- 
ham, 1698. 



Alice, ux. leuan 

Evans of Y 

GlwysegL 



|4 
Simon Lloyd. 

He had lands 

in Rhiwabon 

Parish near 

Rhos Llanerch 

Rcifir<>fir> which 
he sold to Sir 
John Wynn of 
Wateay, Knt. 

and Baronet. 



I 

ux. 

John 

William 
of Pron 
y Pien. 



|a 



\h 



'\c 



^ He lefty by his will dated in 1670, £20 for sixteen of the poorest 
in the parish of Rhiwabon, to be distributed by the Vicar and Church- 
wardens at Christmas. 

2 By his wUl dated 1684, he left £20, to be distributed at Christ- 
mas to the poor of Rhiwabon. 



14 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOO. 



Joseph 

Uoyd 

had 

lands in 

Ireland, 

and was 

livinfir in 

1697^ 

I 



\h \e 

William Lloyd. He had his father's land9=pAnne, d.^f Edward 
in Khiwabon parish, and some in Ire- 
land. Ho built the hoase now called 
Plas Beinion. at the end of the field 
called Cae Einion, in 1085, bat there had 
been an old house there before. His will 
is dated in 17o7, in which he left £V) to 
the poor of the parish of Rhiwabon. 



Lloyd of Flas Madof^ 
ab Edward ab Ed- 
ward ab William 
Lloyd. Buried at 
Bhiwabon, March 
21, 1708. 



Edward Mary , heiress^ Georgfe 



Lloyd, 

ob, 

$, p. 



of Plas 

Beinion 

and 

Trefynant. 



Mears of 
Pennar, 

CO. Pem- 
broke. 



I 



Arthar Mears of Huj^h 
Pennar, co. Mears, 

Pembroke and ob. 

Plas Bennion, «• p. 

mar. Margaret, 
second daughter and co- 
heiress of Thomas Lloyd 
of Trevor Hall, and relict 
of Edward, son and heir of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas 
Madog, Esq., ob. ». p. 



I 



Anne Lloyd, b. 1607, -Edward Lloyd 
ob. Sept. 28, 1745, of PlAs Madog 
buried at Rhiwabon. ab Samuel 
By her Will, date un- Lloyd ab 
known, she charged Edward Lloyd 



a small farm called 
Caer Llwyn, in the 
parish of Qwytherin, 
with the yearly pay- 
ment of JBl, to be dis- 
tributed to the poor 
on St. Thomas' Day. 

The proprietor of 
Caer Llwyn is 90W 
Mr. Fitz Hugh of 

Plas Tower, near 
Wrexham.^ 



ab Edward 

ab Edward 

ab William 

Lloyd. 




BSCLUSHAM.— CRISTIONYDD CYNWRIG. Y PLAS 

UCHAF. 

Cae Gyriog MS. ; Earl. MS, 2299. 

Madog Puleston of Bers^ second son of Robert npAngharad, dan. of David 

ab Goronwy ab lorwerth 
of Burton and Llai. Vert, 
aemi of broomslips, a lion 
rampant, or. 



Puleston ab Richard Puleston ab Sir Roger 
Puleston of Emeral in Maelor Saesneg. 
Argent, on a bend Mohle, three mullets of 
the field. 



I 2c 



I Id 



Report of the Charity Commiuionen. 



GSCLUSHAM. 



IS 



I 2c 
Edward Paleston^plsabel, daa. of Sir Bandle Brere- 
of Cristionydd. ton of Malpas, Knight. Argent, 

|1 



two bars, sable. 



John Puleston =j=Maud, dau. of David Lloyd 
of Plds Uchaf ab Tndor Lloyd ab leuan 
in Cristionydd. | of Bodidria yn Idl. 



I a 



I Id 

John Puleston of 
Bers and Hafod 
y Wem. 



Howel ab Edward Pule- 
ston of PlAs Isaf in 
Cristionydd. 



David Llwyd of=y=Janet, dau. of John Eyton ab Elis Eyton of Bhiwabon. 

PlA s Uchaf. I Ermine, a lion rampant, azure. 

I 3 oo-heir. 

Elen, ux. Bichard 

Tegin ab Edward 

Tegin of Fron 

Ddg. 



I 1 co-heir. 
Catherine. She had PlAs 
Uchaf and married John 
Sonlli' of Sonlli ab Bobert 
Sonlli of Sonlli. Ermine, 
a lion rampant, sable. 
They had 13 children. 



I 2 co-heir. 

Elizabeth, ux. John 

Wvnn ab Edward 

of Trefeohan ab 

Howell ab Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



Y PLAS ISAF IN CRISTIONYDD. 



Howel of Pl^s=f=Gwenllian, dan. of Ithcl=T=2, Margaret, dan. and heiress of 



Isaf, second 

son of Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai 

in Tstrad Alun. 

Azure, a chevron inter 

three dolphins naiant 

embowed, argent 



leuan ab Howel ab leuan Bach 

of Bhiwabon, ab leuan ab 
Einion Gethin in Cristionydd. 



Edward ab Howel of Trefechan. 



I 



John ^Isabel, dan. of David =f= Agnes Bandle =f=Lili, daughter of 



Wynn 

of PlAs 

Isaf. 



I 



Edward ab Ed- ab 
ward ab David Howel. 
ab Madog ab 

Llywelyn ab GmffVdd 
ab lorwerth Fychan 



Catherine, 

heiress, nx. ab lorwerth ab lenaf 
Edwwrd 9i> Nyniaw ab 

Eyton of Cynwrig ab Bhiwallon. 
Watstay. 



dan. of 

*ab" 
Madog 

Isgoed. 



ab 
Howel. 



I 
Bichard Ann, ux. 

Dayies of Thomas 

Erlisham. Evans 

See Erlys. of 

• Bhiwabon. 



Bobert Sonlli 

of Sonlli ab 

Bobert Wynn 

Sonlli ab 

Morgan 

Sonlli. 



Bichard. 



>nn 



Jol 
of 
Wrex- 
ham. 



I I 

William. Jane, ux. Catherine, 

Boger nx. David 

DavieSyConstable ab leuan ab 

of CastellDulyn Edward of 

(Dublin Castle). Cristionydd. 



John Sonlli died in 1576, and was buried in Oxford. (See vol. 



ii, p. 144.) 



14 



HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 



\a \b \c 
Joseph William Lloyd. He had his father's land8=7=Anne, d.j>f Edward 
Lloyd in Khiwabon parish, and some in Ire- 
had land. He built the hoose now called 
lands in Plas Beinion. at the end of the field 
Ireland, called Cae Einion, in 1685, bat there had 
and was been an old house there before. His will 
living in is dated in 1707, in which he left Xlo to 
1697, the poor of the parish of Rhiwabon. 



Lloyd of Plas Madog 
ab Edward ab Ed- 
ward ab William 
Llo^d. Buried at 
Bhiwabon, March 
21, 1708. 



Edward Mary, heires8=j= George 
Lloyd, of Plas Mears of 

oh, Beinion Pennar, 

«. p, and 00. Pern- 

Trefynant. broke. 



I 



I 



Arthur Mears of H ugh 
Pennar, co. Mears, 

Pembroke and ob. 

Plas Bennion, «. p. 

mar. Margaret, 
second daughter and co- 
heiress of Thomas Lloyd 
of Trevor Hall, and relict 
of Edward, son and heir of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas 
Madog, Esq., ob. t. p. 



I 



Anne Lloyd, b. 1607, — Eklward Lloyd 
ob. Sept. 28, 1745, of PlAs Madog 
buried at Rhiwabon. ab Samuel 
By her Will, date an- Lloyd ab 
known, she charged Edward Lloyd 



a small farm called 
Caer Llwyn, in the 
parish of Owytherin, 
with the yearly pay- 
ment of JBl, to be dis- 
tributed to the poor 
on St. Thomas' Day. 

The proprietor of 
Caer Llwyn is 90W 
Mr. Fitz Hugh of 

Plas Tower, near 
Wrexham.* 



ab Edward 

ab Edward 

ab William 

Lloyd. 



f 




ESCLUSHAM.— CRISTIONTDD CYNWRIG. Y PLAS 

UCHAF. 

Oae Oyriog MS. ; Earl. MS. 2299. 

Madog Puleston of Bers, second son of Robert=f=Angharad, dau. of David 

ab Qoronwy ab lorwerth 
of Burton and Llai. Veri, 
sem^ of broomslips, a lion 
rampant, or. 



Puleston ab Richard Puleston ab Sir Soger 
Puleston of Emeral in ifaelor Saesneg. 
Argent, on a bend $abU, three mullets of 
the field. 




lid 



Report of the Charity Commissioners. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



15 



|2e 
Edward Pnle8ton'=T=lBabeI, dan. of Sir Bandle Brere- 
of Cristionydd. ton of Halpas, Knight. Argent, 

|T 



two bars, sable. 



John Puleston =j=Maud, dan. of David Llojd 
of Plds Uchaf ab Tudor Lloyd ab leaan 
in Cristionydd. | of Bodidns yn lAl. 



I 2 



I Id 
John Puleston of 
Bera and Uafod 
y Wern. 



Howel ab Edward Pule- 
ston of PlAs Isaf in 
Cristionydd. 



Davia Llwyd of=T=Janet, dau. of John Eyton ab Elis Eyton of Bhiwabon. 
PUa Uchaf. [ Ermine^ a lion rampant, 



I 1 co-heir. 
Catherine. She had PUs 
Uchaf and married John 
SonUi' of SonUi ab Bobert 
Sonlli of Sonlli. Ermine, 
a lion rampant, $able. 
They had 13 children. 



<uure. 

I 2 co-heir. 

Elizabeth, uz. John 

Wvnn ab Edward 

of Trefechan ab 

Howell ab Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



3 co-heir. 

Elen, ux. Bichard 

Tegin ab Edward 

Tegin of Fron 

Deg. 



Y PLAS ISAF IN CRISTIONYDD. 



Bowel of PUg^Gwenllian, dau. of Ithel=p2. Margaret, dau. and heiress of 



Isaf, second 

son of Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleeton. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai 

in Tstrad Alun. 

Ature, a chevron inter 

three dolphins naiant 

embowed, argent. 



leuan ab Howel ab leuan Bach 

of Bhiwabon, ab leuan ab 
Einion Gethin in Cristionydd. 



I 
Edward ab Howel of Trefechan. 



I 



John ^Isabel, dau. of David =f= Ag^es Bandle =f'^i^i> daughter of 



Wynn 

of PUs 

fsaf. 



I 



Edward ab Ed- ab 

ward ab David Howel. 
ab Madog ab 

Llywelyn ab GruflVdd 
ab lorwerth Fycnan 



Catherine, 

heiress, ux. ^ lorwerth ab leoaf 
Edwfml ab Nyniaw ab 

Eyton of Cynwrig ab Bhiwallon. 
Watstay. 



dau. of 

* "ab" 
Madog 

Isgoed. 



ab 
Howel. 



Bichard Ann, ux. 
Davies of Thomas 
ErUsbam. Evans 
Sm Erlys. of 

• Bhiwabon. 



Bobert Sonlli 

of Sonlli ab 

Bobert Wynn 

Sonlli ab 

Morgan 

Sonlli. 



Bichard. 



Jonn 

of 

Wrex- 

ham. 



I I I 

William. Jane, ux. Catherine, 

Boger ux. David 

Davies,Con8table ab leuan ab 

of Castell Dulyn Edward of 

(Dublin Castle). Cristionydd. 



^ John Sonlli died in 1576, and was buried in Oxford. (See vol. 



ii, p. 144.) 



14 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 



a 

Joseph 

Lloyd 

had 

lands in 

Ireland, 

and was 

living in 

1697. 



|6 |c 

William Lloyd. He had his father's lands^Anne, d._of Edward 
in Khiwabon parish, and some in Ire- 
land. He buut the hoose now called 
Plas Beinion. at the end of the field 
called Cae Einion, in 1685, but there had 
been an old house there before. His wiU 
is dated in 1707, in which he left £V) to 
the poor of the parish of Rhiwabon. 



Edward Mary ,' heire88=f George 



Lloyd, 

oh, 

f . p. 



of Plaa 

Beinion 

and 

Trefynant. 



Mears of 
Pennar, 

00. Pern- 
broke. 



I 



I 



Arthur Mears of Hugh 
Pennar, co. Mears, 

Pembroke and ob. 

Plas Bennion, «. p. 

mar. Margaret, 
second daughter and co- 
heiress of Thomas Lloyd 
of Trevor Hall, and relict 
of Edward, son and heir of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas 
Madog, Esq., ob. ». p. 



Lloyd of Plas Madog 
ab Edward ab Ed- 
ward ab William 
Lloyd. Buried at 
Bhiwabon, March 
21, 1708. 



Anne Lloyd, b. 1697, « Edward Lloyd 
ob. Sept. 28, 1745, of PUs Madog 
buried at Rhiwabon. ab Samuel 
By her Will, date nn- Lloyd ab 
known, she charged Edward Lloyd 



a small farm caUed 
Caer Llwyn, in the 
parish of Owytherin, 
with the yearly pay- 
ment of £1, to be dis- 
tributed to the poor 
on St. Thomas' Day. 

The proprietor of 
Caer Llwyn is yow 
Mr. Fitz Hugh of 

Plas Tower, near 
Wrexham.* 



ab Edward 

ab Edward 

ab William 

Lloyd. 




ESCLUSHAM.— CRISTIONYDD CYNWRIG. Y PLAS 

UCHAP. 

Cae Oyriog MS, ; Earl MS, 2299. 

Madog Puleeton of Bers, second son of Bobert=T=Angharad, dau. of David 
Puleston ab Bichard Pnleston ab Sir Roger ab Goronwy ab lorwerth 
Puleston of Emeral in Maelor Saesneg. of Burton and Llai. Veri, 
Argent, on a bend eable, three mullets of sem^ of broomslips, a lion 
th e field. rampant, or. 



* Report of the Charity Committioner*. 



E8CLUSHAM. 



15 



I 24; I Id 

Edward Pule8ton=T=l8abel, daa. of Sir Randle Brere- John Puleston of 
of Cristionydd. ton of Malpaa, Knight. Argent, Bers and Uafod 



two bars, sahle. 



J Wem. 



John Puleston =j=Maud, dau. of David Lloyd 
of Plds Uchaf ab Tudor Lloyd ab leuan 
in Cristionydd. | of Bodidns yn lAl. 



I 2 



Howel ab Edward Pule- 
ston of PlAs Isaf in 
Cristionydd. 



Davia Llwyd of=T=Janet, dan. of John Eyton ab Elis Eyton of Bhiwabon. 



PlAe Ucbaf. f Ermine^ a lion rampant. 



asur«. 



I 1 co-heir. 
Catherine. She had PlAa 
Uchaf and married John 
Sonlli' of SonUi ab Robert 
Sonlli of Sonlli. Ermine, 
a lion rampant, sable. 
They had 13 children. 



I 2 co-heir. 

Elizabeth, uz. John 

Wvnn ab Edward 

of Trefechan ab 

Howell ab Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



3 co-heir. 

Elen, ux. Richard 

Tegin ab Edward 

Tegin of Fron 

D^g. 



Y PLAS ISAF IN CRISTIONYDD. 



Howel of PU3=f=Qwenllian, dau. of Ithel=f=2, Margaret, dau. and heiress of 



Isaf, second 

son of Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai 

in Tstrad Alun. 

Ature, a chevron inter 

three dolphins naiant 

embowed, argent. 



leuan ab Howel ab leuan Bach 

of Rliiwabon, ab leuan ab 
Einion Gethin in Cristionydd. 



Edward ab Howel of Trefechan. 



I 



I 



John =^Isabel, dau. of David =f: Agnes Randle =f=Lili, daughter of 



Wynn Edward ab Ed- ab 

of PUs ward ab Darid Howel. 
Is af. ab Madog ab 
I Llywelyn ab Gmfiydd 

Catherine, *l> lorwerth Fychan 
heiress, ux. ^ lorwerth ab lenaf 
Edward ^ Nyniaw ab 

Eyton of Qynwrig ab Rhiwallon. 
Watstay. 



dan. of 

"ab" 
Madog 

of 
Isgoed. 



ab 
Howel. 



Richard Ann, ux. 
DaTies of Thomas 
Erlisham. Evans 
See Erlys. of 

• Rhiwabon. 



Robert Sonlli 

of Sonlli ab 

Robert Wynn 

Sonlli ab 

Morgan 

Sonlli. 



Richard. 



)im 



Jol 
of 
Wrex- 
ham. 



I I I 

William. Jane, ux. Catherine, 

Roger ux. David 

Davies,Constable ab leuan ab 

of Castell Dulyn Edward of 

(Dublin Castle). Cristionydd. 



1 John Sonlli died in 1576, and was buried in Oxford. (See vol. 



ii, p. 144.) 



14 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



a 

Joseph 

Lloyd 

had 

lands in 

Ireland, 

and was 

living in 

1697. 



William Lloyd. ITe had his father's land9=f=Anne, d _of Edward 
in Khiwabon parish, and some in Ire- 
land. He built the house now called 
Plas Beinion. at the end of the field 
called Cae Eiuion, in 1685, but there had 
been an old house there before. His will 
is dated in 17o7, in which he left £V\ to 
the poor of the parish of Khiwabon. 



Edward Mary, heire88=j= George 
Lloyd, of Plae 
oh, Beinion 
ff. p. and 
Trefynant. 

r 



Mears of 
Pennar, 

00. Pern- 
broke. 



Arthur Mears of Hugh 
Pennar, co. Mears, 

Pembroke and ob. 

Plas Bennion, «. p. 

mar. Margaret, 
second daughter and co- 
heiress of Thomas Lloyd 
of Trevor Hall, and relict 
of Edwaxd, son and heir of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas 
Madog, Esq., ob. $. p. 



Lloyd of Plas Madog 
ab Edward ab Ed- 
ward ab William 
Lloyd. Buried at 
Bliiwabon, March 
21, 1708. 



Anne Lloyd, b. 1607, » Edward Lloyd 
ob. Sept. 28, 1745, of HlAs Madog 
buried at Khiwabon. ab Samael 
By her Will, date nn- Lloyd ab 
known, she charged Edward Lloyd 



a small farm called 
Caer Llwyn, in the 
parish of Qwytherin, 
with the yearly pay- 
ment of £1, to be dis- 
tributed to the poor 
on St. Thomas' Day. 

The proprietor of 
Caer Llwyn is yow 
Mr. Fitz Hugh of 

Plas Tower, near 
Wrexham.* 



ab Edward 

ab Edward 

ab William 

Lloyd. 




ESCLUSHAM.— CRISTIONYDD CYNWRIG. Y PLAS 

UCHAP. 

Cae Oyriog MS. ; Earl. MS. 2299. 

Madog Puleeton of Bers, second son of Bobert=T=Angharad, dan. of David 
Puleston ab Richard Pnleston ab Sir Boger ab Goronwy ab lorwerth 
Pnleston of Emeral in Maelor Saesneg. of Burton and Llai. Vtrt, 
Argent, on a bend tabU^ three mullets of sem^ of broomslips, a lion 
th e field. rampant, or, 

I Id 



Report of the Charity Commisnoners, 



E8CLUSHAM. 



15 



124; 
Edward PaIe8ton=jFlsabeI, daa. of Sir Bandle Brere- 
of Cristionydd. ton of Malpas, Knight. Argeni, 

~i ~ 



two bars, sable. 



Id 

John Puleston of 
Bers and Uafod 
y Wem. 



John Puleston =f=Maad, dan. of David Lloyd Howel ab Edward Pule- 
of PlAs Uchaf ab Tudor Lloyd ab leuan ston of Pl&s Isaf in 

in C riationydd. | of Bodidns yn lAl. Cristionydd. 

Davia Llwyd of=j=Janet, dan. of John Eyton ab Elis Eyton of Bhiwabon. 
PlJB Uchaf. I Ermine^ a lion rampant, ature. 



I 1 co-heir. 
Catherine. She had PlAa 
Uchaf and married John 
Sonlli^ of SonUi ab Bobert 
Sonlli of Sonlli. Ermine, 
a lion rampant, sable, 
lli^y had 13 children. 



I 2 co-heir. 

Elizabeth, uz. John 

Wynn ab Edward 

of Trefechan ab 

Howell ab Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



I 3 co-heir. 

Elen, uz. Richard 

Tegin ab Edward 

Tegin of Fron 

Deg. 



Y PLAS ISAF IN CRISTIONYDD. 



Bowel of Phls=i=Qwenllian, dau. of Ithel=f=2, Margaret, dan. and heiress of 



Isaf, second 

son of Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai 

in Tstrad Alun. 

Anure, a chevron inter 

three dolphins naiant 

embowed, argent. 



leuan ab Howel ab leuan Bach 

of Bhiwabon, ab leuan ab 
Einion Gethin in Cristionydd. 



Edward ab Howel of Trefechan. 



I 



J 



John =^Isabel, dau. of David =f' Ag^es Bandle =f=Lili, daughter of 



Wynn Edward ab Ed- ab 
of PlAs ward ab David Howel. 
Js af. ab Madog ab 
I Llywelyn ab Qruffydd 

Catherine, *l> lorwerth Fychan 
heiress, uz. ^^ lorwerth ab lenaf 
Edwitfd ab Nyniaw ab 

Eyton of Qynwrig ab Bhiwallon. 
Watstay. 



dau. of 

"ab" 
Madog 

Isgoed. 



ab 
Howel. 



I I 

Bichard Ann, uz. 
Davies of Thomas 
ErUsham. Evans 
See Eriys. of 

• Bhiwabon. 



Bobert Sonlli 

of Sonlli ab 

Bobert Wynn 

Sonlli ab 

Morgan 

SonlU. 



Bichard. 



>nn 



Jol 
of 
Wrez- 
ham. 



I I I 

William. Jane, uz. Catherine, 

Boger ux. David 

Davies,Constable ab leuan ab 

of Castell Dulyn Edward of 

(Dublin Castle). Cristionydd. 



^ John Sonlli died in 1576, and was buried in Oxford. (See vol. 



ii, p. 144.) 



14 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



a 

Joseph 

Lloyd 

had 

lands in 

Ireland, 

and was 

living in 

1697. 



h \e 

William Lloyd. ITe had his father's land9=pAnne, d. of Edward 
in Khiwabon parish, and some in Ire- 
land. He built the hoose now called 
Plas Beinion. at the end of the field 
called Cac Einion, in 1685, bat there had 
been an old house there before. His will 
is dated in 17(>7, in which he left jBIm to 
the poor of the parish of Rhiwabon. 



Edward Mary, heire88=^ George 
Lloyd, of Plafl 

oh. Beinion 

ff. p, and 

Trefynant. 



Mears of 
Pennar, 

00. Pern- 
broke. 



I 



I 



Arthur Mears of Hugh 
Pennar, co. Mears, 

Pembroke and oh, 

Plas Bennion, «. p. 

mar. Margaret, 
second danghter and co> 
heiress of Thomas Lloyd 
of Trevor Hall, and relict 
of Edward, son and heir of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas 
Madog, Esq., ob. «. p. 



Lloyd of Plas Madog 
ab Edward ab Ed- 
ward ab William 
Lloyd. Buried at 
Bhiwabon, Ifurch 
21, 1708. 



Anne Lloyd, b. 1697, » Edward Lloyd 
ob. Sept. 28, 1745, of PlAs Madog 
buried at Khiwabon. ab Samnel 
By her Will, date an- Lloyd ab 
known, she charged Edward Lloyd 



a small farm called 
Caer Llwyn, in the 
parish of Qwytherin, 
with the yearly pay- 
ment of £1, to be dis- 
tributed to the poor 
on St. Thomas' Day. 

The proprietor of 
Caer Llwyn is yow 
Mr. Fitz Hugh of 

Plas Tower, near 
Wrexham.* 



ab Edward 

ab Edward 

ab William 

Lloyd. 




ESCLUSHAM.— CRISTIONYDD CYNWRIG. Y PLAS 

UCHAP. 

Cae Oyriog M8. ; Earl. MS. 2299. 
Madog Poleeton of Bers, second son of Bobert=f=Aiiirharad, dan. of David 



Puleston ab Bichard Paleston ab Sir Boger 
Paleston of Emeral in Maelor Saesneg. 
Argent, on a bend gable, three mullets of 
the field. 



ab Goronwy ab lorwerth 
of Burton and Llai. Vert, 
sem^ of broomslips, a lion 
rampant, or. 



Report of the Charity Committioneri. 



E8CLUSHAM. 



15 



\2e 
Edward Pule8ton=T=l8abeI, daa. of Sir Randle Brere- 
of Criationydd. ton of Malpaa, Knight. Argent, 



two bars, sable. 



John Paleeton =j=Maud, dan. of David Lloyd 
of PlAs Uchaf ab Tudor Lloyd ab leaan 
in Criationydd. | of Bodidns yn Idl. 



I 2 



I Id 
John Puleston of 
Bers and Uafod 
y Wem. 



Howel ab Edward Pule- 
ston of PlAs Isaf in 
Cristionydd. 



Davia Llwyd of=7=Janet, dan. of John Eyton ab Ells Eyton of Bhiwabon. 
PUa Uchaf. [ Ermine, a lion rampant, 



I 1 co-heir. 
Catherine. She had PUs 
Uchaf and married John 
Sonlli' of SonUi ab Bobert 
Sonlli of Sonlli. Ermine, 
a lion rampant, $abU, 
They had 13 children. 



ature. 

I a co-heir. 

Elizabeth, uz. John 

Wvnn ab Edward 

of Trefechan ab 

Howell ab Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



3 co-heir. 

Elen, ux. Richard 

Tegin ab Edward 

Tegin of Fron 

D6g. 



Y PLAS ISAF IN CRISTIONYDD. 



Howel of PUs=j=QwenlIian, dau. of Ithel=p2, Margaret, dau. and heiress of 



Isaf, second 

son of Edward 

ab Madog 

Puleston. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai 

in Tstrad Alun. 

Agure, a chevron inter 

three dolphins naiant 

embowed, argent. 



leuan ab Howel ab leuan Bach 

of Bhiwabon, ab leuan ab 
Einion Gethin in Cristionydd. 



Edward ab Howel of Trefechan. 



I 



J 



John =T=l8abel, dau. of David =f: Ag^es Bandle =pLili, daughter of 



Wynn Edward ab Ed- ab 

of PlAs ward ab David Howel. 
fs af. ab Madog ab 
I Llywelyn ab GmflVdd 

Catherine, *l> lorwerth Fychan 
heiress, nz. ab lorwerth ab leuaf 
Edward *^ Nyniaw ab 

Eyton of Qynwrig ab Bhiwallon. 
Watotay. 



dan. of 

"ab" 
Madog 

Isgoed. 



ab 
Howel. 



Bobert Sonlli 

of Sonlli ab 

Bobert Wynn 

Sonlli ab 

Morgan 

Soidli. 



Bichard Ann, uz. 
Davies of Thomas 
ErHaham. Evans 
See Erlys. of 

• Bhiwabon. 



Bichard. 



>im 



Jol 
of 
Wrez- 
ham. 



I I I 

William. Jane, uz. Catherine, 

Boger ux. David 

Davies,ConstabIe ab leuan ab 

of CastellDulyn Edward of 

(Dublin Castle). Cristionydd. 



^ John Sonlli died in 1576, and was buried in Oxford. (See vol. 



iiy p. 144.) 



16 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



TREFECHAN IN CRISTIONYDD. 
Oae Oyriog MS. ; HarL MS. 2299. 

Y Drefechan, cdias Criationydd Fechan. Note that 
this part of the parish of Rhiwaboa is called Cristionydd, 
and contains Y Dref Fawr or Cristionydd Cynwrig, Y 
Dref Fechan or Cristionydd Fechan, which is now called 
Dinhinlle Uchaf, and Coed Cristionydd. Cristionydd 
contains about a third of the whole parish. 

Edward ab Howel ab £dward=jsAlice, dan. of John ab leuan ab Deicws 
of Trefechan, ab Madog ab Deio of Lanerch Rugog. Ermine, a 



Puleston. 



T 



lion rampant, sable. 



|1 
John Wynn of Trefechan,=^£Uzab6th, dan. and 



1663. He had with his wife 

two portions of lands in 

Cristionydd Cynwrig, 

which he called Pl&s 

TyMawr. 



|2 
Edward. 



co-heiress of David 

Llwyd ab John 

Puleston of Pl&s 

Uchaf. 



Anne, nx. John 

ab Howel ab 

Edward of 

Cefii y Fedw. 



Richard of=f3Mary, dan. of 
William Edis- 
bury of 
March wiail. 



Trefechan. 



Anne Wen, nx. David ab 

leuan ab John ab 

leuan Llwyd of Pentref 

Cristionydd. 



Catherine 

Wen, 
ob. ff. p. 



I 
Robert 

Wynne 
of Tre- 
fechan, 
1620. 



^Margaret, d. 

of Ricluurd 

Hughes of 

Llanerch 

Bugog. 



I 



Gruffydd =7=Elizabeth, dan. of John 
Wynn Sonlli of Cord in the parish 
of Wrexham, fourth son of 
John Sonlli of Fron Deg. 
Her mother was Elizabeth, 
d. of Edward ab Bhys of Bhiwabon. 



of Bryn 
yr Owen. 



Bichard 

Wynn, 

went to 

Kent. 



Jonn 
Wynn, 
ob, 
ff. p. 



Robert Thomas Elizabeth, ux.Bichard 

Wynn, Wynn, Holland of Wrexham, 
went went to son of William 

abroad. Mary- Holland of Armstrie 
land. in Lancashira 



I 



Jane, ux. Joseph 

Bromfield of 

Wrexham, son 

of Bromfield 

of Eglwys Wen. 



I 
Robert =i=Jane, dau. of Owain 

Wynn Lloyd of P14s y 

of Drain in the town- 
P1&8 ship of Morton 

Isaf in Uwch y Clawdd, 
Tre- son of David Lloyd 
fechan. of Pentref Clawdd 
in the same town- 
ship, ab John ab 
Bobert ab David. 
Des. from Ithel 
Pelyn. 



John Wynn, 

married 

Elizabeth, 

dan. of Roger 

ab David 

Goch of 

Pentref 

Crystionydd, 
and died 
ff. p. 1683. 



Matthew Wynn 
of Pentref Cris- 
tionydd, married 
Catherine, dan. 
of John ab 
Richard of Y 
Glewysegl ab 
leuan ab Owain 
of Pen y Ian in 
Dinhinlle 
Uchaf. 



WiUiam 

Wynn, 

ob, 

ff. p. 



I 



b 



|e 



l<» 



ESCLDSHAM. 



!* 



IDorotl^, mu. Jobti, 
Mconit wm of John 
ab Bdvud of Brjn 
Ueireiii, by whom 
I aha had a daoEhtec, 
I Jane, nz. John 
I Willinni of Bryn. 



M 
Jana, mamed John ab 
Edwaid ab William of 
Pentref Cristionydd, 
bj whom ihe had tbrea 
■ona, Jamea, Samoeli 
and William, 



DINHINLLE UOHAF. PEN-T-LAN. 
Bicbard ab Ignan ab Owain of Pepylan. =T= • 
Jcha ab Richard of Y Qliryaegl.^ 



Kchftrd ab John of Feuylan.^ 



I 



Haiiaa, heiresa of Fenylan in DinhinUe Uchaf, She married Bobert Jones 
of tb« I^riah of Chirk, and this Eobert Jonea, and Harian, hie wife aold 
Panybin in Dinbinlla Uehaf, to Ellis Lloyd of Penykn io DinhinUe 
lakf, 1697. 




ROBERTS OF ESCLUSHAM. 

BieliMd ab Darid ab Kichard ab lolyn ab leuan Foe] ab Madof* Qooh=f 
ab Hadog, eighth aon of lenaf ab Nyniaw ab Cynwrig ab Bbiwallawn, | 

Srm ne, a lion rampant, wtU. ^j 

i I 

Bobort ab Blcbard.=p Harf 



HISTOKY OF P0WY8 FADOO. 




MANOR OF ESCLTS OR ESCLTJSHAM, BBRSHAM OF 

BERSHAM, AND WTNN OF FRON DEG. 

Earl. MS3. 1972, 2299, 4181. 

QmSydd of Bers or Benhaiii,^E&, dnti. and heiresa of Bledrwa ab Ed- 
second SOD leaaf t-h Nyniaw aowuii Bendew. Argtnt, a cbevron, gulti, 
ab Cynwrig ab Rbiwallawn. | inter thrae boar'a liaiKia oonped, lablt . 

lorwertb ab Qruffudd of Berflbam.^Margaret, d. of Cynwrig HoweL — 
GuUi, tiro lions passant in pale | Fjchan ab Cj^nwrig ab 
argent \ Hoe<tliw of Cristionydd. 



1 OruJ^dd, 



wt embowed, ardent.' 




Maqpttflt. IK. lenan Qethio. 1470- 



A^es, flnt 
wife of lor- . 

Fychan ab 

lorwerth ab 

A«r. 



Margaret, uz. Ithd 
Lloyd ab Itbel Qam, 
Lord of Mostyn in 

Teeeingl ab 

Maredydd ab Uch- 

dryd ab Edwyo ab 

Ooronwj, 



Sic Boger 
de Powya. 



1* 

Alice, ox. 
lorwertb ab 
Orufl;yddab 

Heilitt ab 



ESGLUSHAM. 



19 



leaAn Ddik=pErdd7lad, dan. of lenan ab Howelab Oraflydd ab Howel=f= 
of Ednyfed ab Howel ab Ednyfed. | 



Graffydd 



Fychan.=j= 



I 



Gruffydd Ddft.=f= 



Madog ab Gniffydd.=T = 
Graffydd ab Madog. 



I 
Jenkyn ab Grnflydd.=i= 



John ab Jenkyn. =f: 
Bobert ab John. 



Gmf ^dd ab lenan of Ber8ham.=T= 

I 
Howel ab 6raf[ydd=f 

of Bersham. 



Howel ab lenan. =p 



Jolm.=T= 



DeiowB ab Howel.=T^ 



David ab John. 



lenan ab DeicwB.=T= 



John ab lenan. 



William ab Howel=T= 
of Bersham. | 



Jo; 



fhn. 



I I 
Madoff Goch of=f= Catherine, nx. John ab 
EscluBham. lenan ab Deicws ab 
I Dio of Llanerch Rngog. 



William^ ab Madog=pLowri, relict of Jenkyn ab Etis, and John Boger. 

'^ ' " ~ ' dan. of John Wynn of Caer Ddinog Wynn. 

or Caerddinen in Llanfair Dyffryn 
Clwyd, ab David ab Graffydd ab Howel ab Graffydd 
ab David ab Goronwy ab Meilir ab Owain ab Edwyn 
ab Goronwy. 



Goch of Fron D^g 

in Esclnsham. On 

Grand Jnry, 4th 

Eliz., 1562. 



* 



John Wynn of Fron«Mawd, 6th dan. of 

Dftg in Wrexham John Koyden of 

Parish in Esclnsham. Holt and Is y Coed, 
One of the Grand Jniy and M awd his wife, 
30tli Elizabeth, 1688. dan. of Sir Boger 

Pnlestonof 



I 



U(h 



Till- 



Roffer nz. Lancelot ab 

of David Goch ab 

Fron David ab Esclus- 
D^g. ham. ab Robert ab 
Gruffydd ab Howel 
of Croes Foel. 



Emeral, Elnt. 



John ab William=f=Angharad, dan. of Matthew ab David ab Gruffydd ab 



of Bersham. 



T 



David ab Bad! or Madog of Croes FoeL .Ermine, a lion 
rampant, whit. See Hi5bd y Bwoh. 



John Ber8ham^=Gwen, dan. 
of Bersham. of Elia 



Elizabeth, nz. Owain ab 
ab leuan ab Deicws ab 
Bugog. 



Hugh 
Dio of 



ab John 
Llanerch 



I 
Biehaid 
Benham. 



iffa< 



Gmffudd. 
Bersham 



L 



John 
Bersham. 



L 



Bobert 
Bersham. 



I I 

Margaret. Jane. 



I 
Catherine. 



I 
Mary. 



2 2 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 




ESOLTJSHAM.— TOWNSHIP OP BEES. 
Barl. MS. 4181. 

Omfi^dd ab Einion ab Ednyfed ab CTDwrii^ ab Bhiwallawi).^An|;barad, dan. 
Sraiiiu, a lion aUtant f^rdant; gfiUi, for Bdnyfed ab I of ThomoBab 
Cy crrid. Lord of Bron g hton. I Y Owion. 

I 

Qn]flydd=i=Jane, dan, of Henry de Laai, Earl of Lincoln, and Ijord of Den- 

Fycban. I bi|tb, by Joaona. hia wife, dan. of William Martin, Baron of 

Cemaes in South Wales. [Harl. Jf.9. 1972,) Henry de Laci, died 

I in 13iO. Jane waa the relict of Cyn«ri|r ab lorwertli ab Cas- 

I wallawn ab Hwfa ab Ithel Felyn, Lord of lil 

I 



Ednyfed^=Giren, dan. of Cadw^aii Oocb ab T Owion Ooronwy. Hadof^, 



ab Hvfa ab Ithel Felyn, Lord of Ul. 
Sahlt, on a cbev. inter three goat's heads 
eraaed, or, three trefoils of the field. 



= daa. of IOTwerth= 

ab David ab Qoronv; 
of Burton and Llni. 
Vert, %eaii of broom- 
■lipa, a lion rampant. 



Margaret, d. of Lly- 
welyn ab Orufiydd ab 

Cadwgan, Lord of 
Eytoa. £rtniii«,alian 

i 

Qmffydd . 



rnffydd=p 
Oocb 

of 
B era. | 



OraSydd = 






QwenUian, ni. 




of Holcbdin in Maelor 


Llywelyn 


Ooronwy ab leuan 




Saesneg, eldest son of 


•b lorwerth ab 


ab David Llwyd 








of Hafod y Bnch 




Pengrem in Kanhen- 


On. Brmine, a 






dwy. Party per bend 


lion rampant 


Ermint, a lion 




sinister. Ermina and 








«rmtn«i, a lion ratnpt. 







ESCLUSHAM. 



21 



a\ h 

leaan ab^Gmffydd^pLacy, d. and co-heir of David ab Y Gwion Llwyd, 

Baron of Tr Hendwr in Edeymion, ab David ab 
Madog ; Baron of Hendwr. Argent, on a chev. gules, 
three neur-de-lys or. 



of Bers. 



I 
Kobert ab=f=Margaret, d. of Tador ab Heilin Frych of 



Onifiydd. 



I 



Berain in Llanefydd. Oulee, a lion 
rampant argent. 



Margaret, sole heir, nz. Ednyfed ab Madog ab Graff- 
I ydd Qoch of Brooghton . 

i i [ 

Howel ab =f= 1st. Fhilippa, =p 2nd. Alice, d. David Angharad. She 



leaan of 
Bers. He had 
an illegiti- 
mate son 
named lenan 
ab HoweL 



d. of Sir Handle 

Brereton of 

Malpas, Knt. 

Argent, two 

bars $able. 



r 



and heir of ab married, first, 

Howel ab Qo- leuan. Bobert'ab Gruffydd, 

ronwy ab leuan ancestor of the 

of Hafod y Joneses of Plas Cad- 

Wern. Sable, wgan; and secondly, 

three lions ' Goronwy ab leuan 

passant in pale ab David LXwyd of 

argent, Hafod y Bwch. 



David =f=Elizabeth, d. of Begi- 
ab nald Conwy of Llys 

Howel Bryn Euryn. Or, a 
of Bers. griffon gulee. 



Alice, sole heiress of Hafod y Wem, nx. John Puleston of 
Bers, ab Madog Poleston. 



Angharad. She married, first, John ab 
David ab Llewelyn ab Rdnyfed Llwyd 
of Plas Madog in Bodylltyn; secondly, 
Dsvid ab Bobert ab Gruffydd ab Howel; 
and thirdly, Edward Pryse of Y Glwy- 
segl. 



L 



John Wynn =f<rane, d. of John Pule- Eleanor, uz. Graffydd Jones, Con- 
of Bers. I ston of Tir M6n stable of the Castle of Aber Conwy, 

I and Hafod y Wem. and father of Sir William Jones. 

Agnes, sole heir, nx. John Poleston ab Bobert Puleston of Plas y Mers. 
Argent, on a bend $ahle, three mullets of the field. 



BERS. 

lenan, illentimate son^Angharad, d. and co-heiress of leuan ab lorwerth 
of Howell ab leuan ab I ab Llywelyn Sais ab Llywelyn ab Madog ab 
Gruf^dd ab Madog J Einion ab Madog ab Bleddyn ab Cynwrig ab 
Pabo. I Ehiwallawn. 

Howel ab Ienan.=p£lixabeth, d. of Richard Yonge of 

Bryn lorcyn. 



leuan ab leuan. 



Joiin 



I I ! 

ab HoweL David or Edward ab Howel. lenan Llwyd. Eleanor. 



HISTORY OP P0WY8 FADOG, 




Harl. MS. 4181. 

Sidan alias Ithel, son of Ednyfed Goch of Bers, 
married Alice, daughter of Maredydd Dhii of Mwssoglen 
in Cwmwd Menai ab Goronwy ab Maredydd ab lorwerth 
ab Llywarch ab Bran, Lord of Cwmwd Menai [argent, a 
chev. sable inter three Cornish choughs, with spots of 
ermitie in their bills ppr.) by whom he had issue three 
sons; 1, David, of whom presently; 2, leuan, who had 
a daughter, who married Gruffydd ab David Llwyd of 
Bera, by whom she had a son leuan Deccaf, whose 
daughter and heiress, Marsli, married Thomas Sutton ab 
David ; and 3, Llywelyn ; and seven daughters, 

1. Alice, ux. Ist, Robert ab Howel of Abyntbury ; and 
2ndly, leuan ab David y Rhug. 

2 ux. David Llwyd ab Madog ab Llywelyn ab 

Gruffydd of Hafod y Bwch and Borasham. 

3 ux. Howel Fychan ab Howel Wyddel ab 

Einion ab Ithel ab Eunydd, ancestor of the Lloyds of Yr 
Orsedd Goch. 

4 ux. Madog ab lorwerth Goch. 

5 ux. E<^lrauQd Holland, son of Sir John Hol- 
land, Lord High Admiral of England, temp. Henry IV. 

6 ux Sheriff of London, by whom she 

had four daughters ; one of whom married Abbot 

of Westminster, another married Lieutenant of 

the Tower of London ; married a captain in 

France, anil married, first, a captain that was a 



E8CLD3HAM. 23 

companion of her brother, aod, secondly, Captiun Mat- 
thew Goch of Maelor. 

David ab Sidin, the eldest Bon, married Margaret, 
daughter of David ab Ithel ah Goronwy, hy whom he 
had a son and heir, 

Richard ab David, who married Margaret, daughter of 
Madog ab Llywelyn ab lorwerth ab Grufiydd, by whom 
he had ao only daughter and heiress, Eva, who lived 
with John ab Elis Eyton of Rhiwabon, who fought in 
the army of King Henry VII at the battle of Boaworth 
in 1485, and by him had a eon, Roger Eyton, who 
married Gwenhwyfar, daughter and heiress of Edward ah 
Madog ab Deio ab Madog Llwyd of Bodylltyn, ancestor 
of the Eytons of Bodylltyn. 



ESCLUSHAM.— TOWNSHIP OF BEKS OR BERSHAM. 
TY BELOTS. BETTWS Y MHERS. 
Earl. MSS. 1972. 2299, 4181. 
Ka iog xh Einion ab Madog ab Bleddyn ab Cynwrig ab Bhiwallawn,^ 

U ywelya ab Madog.^ d. of lorwerth ab YCodeBlawd . leoan. 

Ithal Goch.^ Llywelfs Sua. 



Urwalaii ab Ithel Qoch.^Aiigband. d. of David ab leaan ab lorwerth ab 

' ^ I ™ ■r*__ra ^t r\ r t» l j ti„: 



Darid ab Qoronwj of Barton and LlaL 



JankTii ab Lljwel]Pn.^4wenUJaii, d. and heires* of lenan of Bhuddallt in 
1 Ehiwabon, abHadog Llwjd ab Orafftdd of Haeloi 
I Saein«g,ieoondion of lorwetthFoel, Lord of Chirk, 

1"^ 



24 



HISTORY OP P0WY8 FADOG. 



lenan ab Jenkyn.^ 



Mad 



Tador=T=Coii8tan8, d. of Ghnffydd ab Lly- David ab Thomas ab Madog. 

ab welyn ab Ednyfed Llwyd ab Jeuan. leaan. 

leuan. | lorwertb Fychan ab lorwerth 
I ab Awr. See vol. ii, p. 192. 

Margaret, uz. David Gk>oli ab David of EsdoBHam, 
ab Bobert ab Qrojfl^dd of Croes FoeL 



John ab Tador.=|= 



Edward Tudor of 1^ Belots in Bettws y Mher8.BMary, d. of John Guttyn. 
Ty BeloU is now called Plas Power. 



BERSHAM. 

Davi d ab lenan ab Jenkyn ab Llywelyn ab Ithel Goch.=f = 

Ed ward ab David.=f= « Howel ab David. = rMargaret, d. of Bobert. 

John ab Edward.=f=Angharad, d. of Edward ab Morgan John ab HoweL=f: 

I ab David ab Madog of Brymbo. | 

I John ab John. 



Richard' 

ab 

John. 



'Deili, d. of Robert ab Edward ab Gruflfjrdd married— let, Mawd 

Howel ab Madog ab Howel ab Wen, d. of John Wyn ab 

leuan ab Madog ab Einion ab David, and relict of John 

Madog ab Bl^dyn ab Cyn- WynnSanddef; 2nd, Mary, 

wrig ab Khiwallawn. d. of Maredydd ab Elis. 



John ab=pSibil, d. of Morgan ab 
John. Robert ab Gruffydd 

I Fychan. 



John Fychan married 
Gwenliian, d. of Hugh 
ab David Goch. 



Hugh»..., d. of 
Jones Huffh ab 
of Robert 
Bers- of 

ham. Wrex- 
ham. 



Elizabeth, 

ux. 

Richard 

Lloyd ab 

Hugh ab 

John. 



Sibil, ux. Hugh 

ab David Qodi 

ab David ab 

Robert ab 

Gruffydd of 

Croes Foel. 



Marg^aret, 

ux. 
Llywelyn. 



John ab Richard =* Catherine, d« of John Puleston Sarah, nz. John ab 
of Bersham. of Plas ym Mhers ab Robert Hugh ab John ab 

Puleston. Howel. 



Maud, ux. Hugh ab Llywelyn: Anne, ux. Hugh ab Robert Angharad. 
ab Guttyn of Bers. ab Howel of Mwyng- GwenlUan. 

lawdd. Joan. 

Elizabeth. 
Margaret. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



^5 



TY CERIG IN RHIWABON. 
Earl. MSS. 1972, 4181. 

Thomms of Bhiwabon ab leaan ab Jenkjn ab Lly welyn ab Ithel Gk)ch.=f = 

i I j 

leaan ab=j= Bobort ab Thomas Margaret, uz. Qeoffrey Bromfield of 

Thomas | of Aberconwy. Bryn y Wiwair. 



Booert ab =T=MaTearet, d. of John Alice, uz. William LUi, nz. leuanab 
leoan. | Erddig Hen of Erddig. 

John Boberto of Ty Cerrig, 1632. 



ab leoan. 



Bandle. 




ESCLUSHAM. — TOWNSHIP OF BERS. 

Plas Foweb^ fobmebly called Ty Belots. 

Cae Cyriog MS. 



■ |1 |2 

Sir Henry Power of BerB,«>Gri8Bel,d.of SirBichard John =?= Elizabeth, 



Ejiiffht Mareschal of Ire- 
hin{ Constable of the 
Castle of Maiyborongh. 
Created Visooimt Yalen- 
tia» let March 1620, 18th 
James I. 06. a,p,, 25th 
May 1642. Oulea, a 
crescent or, on a chief 
argent, three mallets 
pierced foMg. 



Balkelv of Baron Hill, Power 
Beau Maris in M6n; of Bers, 
and Agnes, his wife, ob, 27th 



d« of Thomas Need 
ham of Cheshire. Qris- 
sel died 8th Sept. 1641, 
and was barieid at St. 
Patrick's in Dublin. 



March 
1659. 



d. of Sir 
George 

Qonter of 
Bacton, 

CO. Sussez, 
Ent. 



Cynwrig 
Power. 



Elea 



Boburt Power of Bers and PlAs War-=T=Dorothy, d. of Sir Cynwrig Eyton of 
r en, eo. Salop, ob. 26th Dec. 1675. I Eyton, Knt. Arming, a lion ram pt. 

John =7=. . . , d. of Captain John Booert 
Power Manley of Wrez- Power, 
of Bers, ham, brother of Sir 
1697. Francis Manley of 
[ Yr Bistog, Ent. 

Many Children. (See Burke's Landed Gentry.) 



az. 

2 I 8 |4 

ileanor. Mary. 
Elizabeth. Susannah. 



26 history of p0wt8 fadoo. 

Inscbiption ih Wrrshah Chdrch. 

** Here lieth the body of Sir Henry Power of Bersham, 
Knight, created Viscount Valentia in Ireland by patent 
dated Ist March 1620, Anno Jacobi Regis decimo octavo, 
who married Gressel, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of 
Beaumaris in Anglesey, and deceased without issue 26th 
May 1642." 

John Power, his brother and heir, was twice married, 
first, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Gunter of 
Bacton, CO. Sussex, Knight, by whom he had issue ; 

secondly, to Catherine, daughter of Harden of 

Bedfordshire, who survived him. He died 27 March 
1659. 

Robert Power of Bersham, in the county of Denbigh, 
Esq., son and heir of the aforesaid John Power, married 
Dorothy, daughter of Kenrick Eyton of Eyton, Esq., by 
whom he had issue three sons and four daughtetB, viz., 
John, Robert and Kenrick ; Eleanor, Elizabeth, Mary, 
Susannah. He died 26th Dec. 1677. 




LLOTD OP BERS. 

Earl MSS. 1972, 2299. 



Kohftrd, nktnr&l lOii of Lewys Llo;d of Moelfri, eecond •on^yElIubeth, A, of 
of Darid Llo;d of Bodlith, ab Hovel nb Uknrice Oethin DKvid ab John 

" - ■ ■ ~ I Kb Maredydd 

I ofUednxL 



ftb I«DMi Oethin ab Madog CyfiEn. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



27 



QTag ydd=f =Elen^ d. of Thomas Jones of Yscawennant. 

I 
Humphrey Lloyd of BerB,=f=lst Elizabeth, d- of Foalke-2nd. ..., d. of 
Attorney-at-Law, and one Myddleton of Bodlith, Hiffh Captain 

Sheriff for co. Denbigh in ~ 
1619. Seventh son of Richard 
Hyddleton, Qovemor of Den- 
i high Castle. 



of the Coandl for the 
Court of the Muches^ 
28th Oct 1641. 



Ffoulke Uoyd, aged 13 
in 1641. 



Boger Myd- 
dleton of 
PUsCadp 
wgan. 



I 



Margaret^ ux. .. Chambers of Flis Chambers ; 

oh. Not. 1671. 




ESCLUSHAM.— TOWNSHIP OF BERS. PLAS T MERS. 
Cae Cyriog MS. ; Lewys Dvmn, vol. ii, p. 359. 

Madog Puleston of Bers {argenty on a bend sdble^ 
three mullets of the field), was the second son of Robert 
Puleston of Eineral in Maelor Saesneg, ab Richard ab Sir 
Roger Puleston. He married Angharad, daughter of 
David ab Goronv^ry of Burton and Llai, who, as well as 
his daughter Angharad, was living in 1415 ; by this lady, 
Madog had, besides a daughter, Angharad, the wife 
of Elis Eyton of Rhiwabon, a son and heir, 

John Puleston of Bers. He married Alson, daughter 
of Howel ab leuan ab Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Goch of 
Bers (ermine^ a lion statant gardant, gules) ; and Alson, 
his second wife, daughter and heiress of Howel ab 
Goronwy of Hafod y Wern {sable, three lions passant, 
in pale argent), by whom he had issue a son and heir, 

John Puleston of Bers and Hafod y Wern, who 
married, first, Elen, daughter of Robert ViTiitney ab Sir 



28 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Robert Whitney, Knight, ab Sir Robert Whitney, Knight; 
and, secondly, Alice, daughter of Hugh Lewys of Tir 
M6n, by whom he had a son, John Puleston of Tir M6n, 
who had Hafod y Wern, and was High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1544. By his first wife, Elen Whitney, 
John Puleston had issue five sons ; 1, Sir John Puleston, 
of whom presently ; 2, Robert Puleston, Parson of Gres- 
ford ; 3, Huw Puleston, Vicar of Wrexham, and Parson 
of Llanrhaiadr in Mochnant ; 4, Richard Puleston, who 
had lands about Croes Madog ab Llywelyn; and 5, 
Lancelot ; and three daughters ; 1, Elizabeth, ux. Sir 
Roger Salusbury, of Lleweni, Knight; 2, Jane, who 
married, first, Robert ab Maredydd ab Hwlkyn Llwyd of 
Glyn Llufon, in the parish of Uandwrog, in the comot 
of Uwch Gwyrfai, and, secondly, she married Sir William 
Gruffydd of Penrhyn, Knight, Chamberlain of Gwynedd; 

and 3, who married, first, John Eyton Fychan 

of Rhiwabon, and, secondly, John Erddig of Erddig. 

Sir John Puleston of Bers, Knight, the eldest son, was 
Chamberlain of Gwynedd, and Constable of the castle of 
Caernarvon, and died in 1551. In the Cambrian 
Quarterly Magazine, vol. v, p. 276, is a curious in- 
ventory of the stores in Caernarvon Castle, taken after 
his death, on the 25th February 5th Edward VI. He 
married, first, Gainor, daughter of Robert ab Maredydd 
ab Hwlcyn Llwyd of Glyn Llufon, in the parish of 
Uandwrog, in the comot of Uwch Gwyrvai, descended 
from Cilmin Droetu, Chief of one of the Noble Tribes, 
who lived at Glyn Llufon in the time of Mervyn Frych, 
King of the Isle of Man (Mervyn was slain in 843), 
being his brother's son. He bore, quarterly, 1st and 4th, 
argent, an eagle displayed, with two heads sable ; 2nd 
and 3rd, argent, three fiery ragged sticks gules, over all, 
on an escutcheon argent, a man s leg, coupe k la cuise of 
the second. Sir John married, secondly, Janet, daughter 
of Maredydd ab leuan ab Robert of Cesail Gy varch, who 
purchased Gwydir, where he subsequently resided (vert 
three eagles, displayed in fess or), by whom he had issue, 
besides one son, Hugh, who married Margaret, daughter 



ESCLUSHAM. 29 

and co-heir of Hugh Llwyd of Llwyn y Cnotiau, and 
was ancestor of the Pulestons of that place, three 
daughters ; Jane, ux. Rhys Wynn ; Ann, ux. Edward 
Conwy ; and Margaret, ux. . . . Royden. 

By his first wife Gainor, Sir John Puleston had issue 
five sons; 1, Robert, of whom presently; John and 
William, who died s. p. ; 4, Rowland Puleston of Caer- 
narvon, High Sheriff for Caernarvonshire in 1575 ; and 
5, John, ob. s. p. ; and five daughters ; 1, Elizabeth, 
nx. John Wynn^ ab Hugh of Bodfel in Lleyn, Lord of 
Ynys Enlli, High Sheriff for Caernarvonshire in 1551 
and 1560, sable, a chevron inter three fleurs-de-lys, 
argent^ quartering also; 2,. or, a lion rampant regardant 
sabhy for N^st, daughter and co-heiress of Gruffydd ab 
Adda ab Gruffydd ab Madog ab Cinillin ab Cadivor 
ab Gwaethfoed ; and 3, gules^ a lion rampant inter 
three helmets, argent^ with the difference of a crescent, 
gules y for Gwerfyl or Gwenhwyfar, the daughter and 
heiress of Rhys ab Tudor ab Goronwy of Tref Gaian, ab 
Tudor ab Goronwy ab Ednyfed Fychan (see Tref Gaian) ; 
2, Sibil, ux. Elis ab William Lloyd ; 3, Elen, ux. Maurice 
ab Elis ; 4, Jane, who married, first, Edward Gruffydd of 

^ The following notice of John Wynn, Esq., occurs in Memoirs, 
hy Sir John Wynn of Gtoydir, of several of his Contemporary Country- 
men. " The memorable services of John Wynn ab Hugh, bom at 
Bodfel, in Lleyn, whereof he was Lord, now in this tract are not to 
be forgotten. He was standard-bearer to John, Earl of Warwick, and 
afterwards Duke of Northumberland, in the great field fought be- 
tween him and Kett and the rebels of Norfolk and Suffolk, near Nor- 
wich in Ekiward YFs time (in August 1549) ; his horse was slaiu 
under him, and himself hurt, and yet he upheld the great standard 
of England. There is mention of this (the) shot made at the great 
standard of England in the Chronicles of that time, for which service 
the Duke of Northumberland bestowed upon him two fine things in 
Lleyn, viz., the Isle of Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) and the demesne house 
of the Abbot of Bardsey, near Aberdaron, called the Cwrtwith. The 
honourable mention made of his service in the grant, which I have 
seen and read : a rare matter to find so good a master.'' John Wynn 
was the son of Hugh ab John ab Madog ab Howel ab Madog ab leuan 
ab Einion ab GrufiFydd ab Howel ab Maredydd ab Einion ab Gwgan 
ab Merwydd ab Collwyn ab Tangno, Lord of part of Lleyn, Eivionydd, 
and Ardudwy. — See voL ii, p. 136. 



30 HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 

Penrhyn, ab Sir William Gruffydd, Chamberlain of Gwy- 
nedd ; and, secondly, Rhys Thomas of Coed Helen/ co. 
Caernarvon, High Sheriff for Caernarvonshire in 1574 
(argent^ on a cross sable, five crescents 07\ in the dexter 
chief, a spear's head erect, gules, for Sir Gruffydd ab 
Elidir, Knight of Rhodes) ; and 5, Margaret, ux. William 
Lewys of Persaddfed, in the parish of Bod Edeym, de- 
Bcended from Hwfa ab Cynddelw of Presaddved or Per- 
saddved, one of the fifteen Noble Tribes of Gwynedd 
{guleSy a chev. inter three lions rampant, or). 

Robert Puleston of Bers, the eldest son, married Elen, 
daughter of William Fychan ab William of Cwchwillan 
in Llechwedd Uchaf, descended from Heilin ab Sir Tudor 
ab Edn3rfed Fychan o V6n, by whom he had issue five 
sons ; 1, John ; 2, Rowland ; 3, Huw ; 4, Edward ; and 
5, Richard ; and two daughters ; 1, Mary, ux. Edward 
Gruffydd, and 2, Anne. 

John Puleston of Bers, living 1583, married Anne, 
only daughter and heiress of John Wynn ab David ab 
Howel ab leuan ab Gruffydd ab Madog ab Ednyfed 
Goch ab Cynwrig of Bers (e?7nin6, a lion statant gardant 
gules), by whom he had issue two sons ; 1, Roger ; 2, 
John, who was living in 1604, and six daughters; 
Catherine ; Jane ; Mary ; Dorothy ; Elizabeth ; and 
Anne. 

^ Rhys Thomas of Coed Helen, was the son of Sir William Thomas 
of Aberglasney, Knight Banneret, High Sheriff for Caermarthenshire 
in 1539, ab Thomas ab Rhydderch ab Rhys ab Gruffydd ab Llywelyn 
Voethys ab Llywelyn DdA ab Owain ab Sir Gruffydd, Knight of 
Rhodes, ab Elidir ab Owain ab Idnerth ab Llywelyn, Lord of Buallt, 
ab Cadwgan ab Elystan Glodrhudd, Prince of Fferlis. — See yoL ii, p. 
323 ; and Burke's Landed Oentry^ art. '* Hughes of Pl&s Coch". 



ESCLUSHAH. 




-TRAFFORD OF TREFFORTH. 
Harl. US. 4181. 






QrafCydd ftb^Lleuei, dan. of lenaf ab Llywelyn ab Cynwrig Efell, 
lonrerth. Lord of T Glawjtegl. OuUt, on ft bend, argsnt, » lion 



IJ7we»7ii = 




MJog = 


pAniiest, d. 




DaTidab 


Ddn. 


oflenaftb 


anojdd. 


lenanab 




HwTaab 




lorwerth ab 




Madog yr 




David Kb 












See ToL ii. 




Bnrtonand 




p. 138. 




Llii. 







lorwerth ^^weDllian, dan. of 

ab I LljwtJyn Pjchan 

Hadog. ab LlyvelyD ab 

I QoniDwy Pyetian 

! ab Goronwy ab 

[ Ednyfod Fyoban. 

David ab ^Catherine, dan. and 



Howel of 
CroesFoel, 
ancMtorof 
theJoneaea 

of Croes 

Foel and 
Pl£s 

Cadwgan. 



Jenkyn ^QwUdya Hoel, d. 
Deccaf. of Howel ab David 
Uwyd of Llech- 
wedd. 



David Oooh, 
ancestor 
of the 
Bobertaea 
of Eafod 



yn=f=a' 
»f. of 

I" 



Hargant, dx. 

Uadog ab 
Marredydd ab 



heir of David ab 
Omfilfdd Fychanab 
Qrufiydd of Bhiwlo, 

•on of Hwfa ab 
lonrerth of Hafod ablorwerthFt 

J Warn. Lord of Chirk. 

I 



ab Idadog Llwyd 
ab Qrufl^dd of : 

Maelor Saeanect 



Uai^Caret, ni. Owyn ab 
Ooronwy ab Gwilvm ab 
aUredydd of Yr H6b. 



Owen, oo-lieir, ux, 
David ab GruHydd 
Fychan ab Uadog. 



HISTOBY OP P0WY3 FADOO. 



Darid >b=FQweiihw7fu', dan. of TArweljn ab Adda ftb Howel mb lenaf *b 
Mad og. 1 Adda ab Am of LIfs Tre* or in Nanheodwy. 



\~i jaT8 il najs 

Edward. ^Hargarst, d. and Rei^allt. Uargaret, qx. leuon Catherine. 
I heir of Darid ab Uaradydd. »b £>bert ab Qruf- Gwenllian. 
JsokynabMadog fjrdd ab Howel ab 

ab lenaC GrafTydd ab lorwarth Fyobati ab 

loTwerth ab lenaf ab Nini&w. 



I : r 

Robert ^^Jane. dan. David — Isabel, dan. and Taabel, dt. 

ab of Bandle ab heiressofleiianab JohnWTiiii 

Edward. Breietoa Edward. Uywelynab Howel ab Howel 

of of Coed J Llai ab ab Edward 

BOTsabam. lorwerth Fvchau of PIbb Isaf in 

ab lorwertb ab Crietioaydd. 

Awr. Vol-ii.p. 191. 




Laoeelot. 
'William. 

Bagh and Franca. 



EUiabetb, mar., lat, John 
Wynii of the Tower, 2nd, 
John »b Ithel Wjna of 



Thomas Trafford, Reoaivf 
of North Wales, 
Ob. A.i>. ISM. 



pAlice, dau. of Boser Bady of Bhiwubon, and 
' ' I wife, dau. of Edward Brereton of 
Add. Ua. 9864. 



roFYAlice, dau. of 
Jane, his wii 
I Boraabam. 




ESCLUSHAM.— TOWNSHIP ESCLYS. LLOYD OF 
^' ESCLYS. (See vol. i, p. 192.) 

David Goch of Pea Machno, in Nant Coawy, who 
bore, sable, a lion rampant, argent, in a border eograiled 
or, was the natural son of David, Lord of Denbigh and 
Frodsham, whose trial and crael death at Shrewabuiy in 



ESCLUSHAM. 33 

1283 has been already related in a previous chapter. 
David Goch married Angharad, daughter of Heilin ab 
Sir Tudor ab Ednyfed Fychan, by whom he had issue a 
son and heir, 

GruflFydd ab David of Nant Conwy. It appears from 
the Extent of Nant Conwy, in the Record of Caernarvon^ 
or Great Extent of North WaleSy as it is also called, 
taken 26 Edward III (1352), that Gruffydd was the 
foreman of the jury for taking that Extent. He was 
buried in the Church of Bettws Wyrion Iddon, or 
Bettws y Coed, where his tomb is to be seen, with his 
effigy recumbent in armour, with the following inscrip- 
tion : " Hio iacet grufud ap david goch. agnus dei 
MISERERE MBi." A full description of this tomb has 
been given by Mr. Bloxham, in the Arch. Camhr. for 
1874, p. 128. He left a son and heir, 

GruflFydd Fychan of Nant Conwy, who was the father 
of two sons, Howel Coetmor and Rhys Gethin ; 1, Howel 
Coetmor, commonly called the Baron Howel Coetmore, 
who bore azure, a chevron inter three fleurs-de-lys 
argent. He owned Gwydir and other large estates in 
the parish of Llanrwst, but generally resided at Castell 
Cefel Ynghoedmor, in the parish of Llanrwst ; this 
castle, according to GruflFydd Hiraethog, formerly be- 
longed to Peredur ab Efrawg. He was buried at Llan- 
rwst, and his tomb still remains, on which his sepulchral 
eflBgy is represented recumbent, in plate armour, with a 
tab^Hl of his arms, with this inscription : " hic iacet 

HOEL COETMORE AP GRVFF VYCHAN AMN'' (scC Arch. 

Cambr., April 1874, pp. 128-131). He was the ancestor 
of the Wynns of Clynog Fawr ; Owens of Talwrn in 
Eivionydd ; Lloyds of Pen Machno ; and the Wynns of 
Glyn Llugwy. 

Rhys Gethin, the second son of GruflFydd Fychan, 
lived at Hendref Rhys Gethin, in the parish of Bettws 
Wyrion Iddon, or Bettws y Coed. He was the father 
of Howel, the father of Rhys Goch, the father of 

Robert ab Rhys of Pen Machno, who married Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Owain ab Meurig ab Llywelyn ab 
YOL. m. 3 



34 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Hwlcyn of Bodeon, in the parish of Llan Veirian in 
Cwmwd Malldraeth, descended from Hwfa ab Cynddelw 
of Presaddved, in the parish of Bod Edeyrn. (gules, a 
chev., inter three lions rampant, or), by whom he had a 
son, 

Howel Lloyd of Pen Machno, who married Jane, 
daughter and heiress of Robert ab Howel ab David 
Fychan ab David Goch ab leuan Tegin of Dulassau in 
Caernarvonshire, who was living in the time of Edward 
III, and descended from Ednyfed Fychan, who bore, 
guleSy a chev. ermine inter three Englishmen's heads, 
couped at the neck ppr. ; by whom he had issue two sons, 
1, Evan Lloyd, of whom presently ; and 2, Richard 
Lloyd. 

The second son, Richard Lloyd, D.D., Vicar of Rhiw- 
abon. Justice of the Peace and Quorum, 1614, married 
Jane, daughter of Roderick Hughes, son of Richard 
Hughes of Maes y Pandy, in the parish of Tal y Llyn 
Mcingul, in Meirionydd, descended, through Einion 
Sais, from Caradog Freichfras, King of Brycheiniawg, 
(quarterly 1st and 4th argent, three cocks, gules, for 
Einion Sais, 2nd and 3rd sable, a chevron inter three 
spear's heads, argent, imbrued gules), by whom he had 
issue, besides a daughter Elizabeth, who married Peter 
Ffoulkes of Eriviad, in the parish of Henllan {gules, 
three boar's heads erased in pale argent), eight sons ; 1, 
Samuel Lloyd, Vicar of Gresford ; 2, Evan Lloyd, Vicar 
of Tref Ffynnon ; 3, Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., Vicar of 
Rhiwabon 1653, and Dean of St. Asaph in 1663, who 
married Jane, daughter of John Gruffydd of Lleyn, and 
relict of Edward Brereton of Borasham, who died 8th 
July 1644— Jane died 10th Oct. 1689 ; 4, John Lloyd, 
Vicar of Marchwiail ; and Rhys, Edward, Thomas, and 
Gerard, who all went to London. 

Evan Lloyd of Dulassau, the eldest son of Howel 
Lloyd, married, and had issue, besides a daughter 
Barbara, w^ho married William Wynn of Melai and 
Maenan Abbey, Colonel in the army of Charles 1st, who 
was slain at Wem, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, 



ESCLUSHAM. 35 

two sons; 1, Sir Richard. Lloyd, of whom presently, 
and 2, Howel Lloyd of Croes locyn, the father of 
leuan Lloyd of Croes locyn, who was living unmarried 
in 1697, 

Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclys, in the Lordship of Maelor 
Gymraeg or Bromfield, and ofDulassau,in the county of 
Caernarvon, Knight, Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit, 
and afterwards Chief Justice of North Wales, Governor 
of Holt Castle during the time of the Great Rebellion, 
and a faithful subject of King Charles I, whom he re- 
ceived at Bryn y Ffynnon in Wrexham in 1642. In 
connection with the King's visit to Wrexham at that 
time, the following anecdote appears in Ormerod's 
Cheshire^ General Introduction, vol. i, p. 35 : 

"Upon October 7, 1642, the King, having come over from 
Shrewsbury to Wrexham to meet a commission from the city 
of Chester, and intending to return the same day, appears to 
have taken up his quarters at Sir Richard Lloyd's house, who 
is said to have urged the length of the day^s journey, and the 
nnseasonableness of the weather, and to have pressed his royal 
guest to stay till the next day at Wrexham ; and the King to 
have dismissed him and the other gentlemen with these 
pathetic and simple words : ' Gentlemen, go you and take to 
your rests, for you have homes and houses to go to, and beds 
of your own to lodge in ; and God grant that you may long 
enjoy them ! I am deprived of these comforts ; I must attend 
my present affairs, and return this night to the place whence 
I came.'* 

Sir Richard Lloyd married Margaret, daughter of 
Ralph Snead of Brad wall and Keele in Staffordshire, by 
whom he had issue one son, Robert, and three daughters. 

Robert Lloyd of Esclys and Dulassau, the only son of 

Sir Richard, married Frances, daughter of Sir Robert 

Williams of Penrhyn, in the county of Caernarvon, 

Knight and Baronet, and heiress of her brother. Sir 

Gruffydd Williams, Bart. ; by whom he had issue a son 

and heir, Richard, who was one year old at the time of 

his father's death, which occurred Nov. 4th, 1675; and 

the son Richard died 9th April 1683. Frances, his 

mother, married, secondly, in 1688, Lord Edward 

32 



36 HI3T0HY OF POWTS FADOO. 

Russell, son of William, Duke of Bedford, and died s. p. 
30 Juoe 1714, aged 72. 

Jane Lloyd, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard, 
married Lewis Owen of Peniarth, in Meirionydd, and is 
now represented by W. W. E. Wynn of Peniarth, Esq. 

Mary, the second daughter, married Sir Henry Conwy 
of Bodrhyddan, in TegeingI, Knight and Baronet 

Anne, the third daughter, married, firsts Edward 
Eavenscroft, son and heir of Thomas Ravenscroft of 
Brettou in MerflFordd, Esq., and, secondly, John 
Grosvenor, third sod of Roger, son and heir of Sir 
Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, Bart. 

Sir Richard Lloyd died the 5th of May 1676, in the 
71st year of his age, and waa buried in lead under a 
monument in his own chapel in Wrexham church.' 

The crest of this family is a demi-Uon rampant, argent, 
issuing &om a coronet. 




MANOR OF ESOLUSHAM.— 6BUFFTDD OF 

BRTNBWA OR BRYMBO. 

Harl. M8. 2299; Add. MS. 9864. 

D&vid Qoch of Mortyii, serenth bob of Darid HAn=pQweDllian, dan, of John 
ab QoroiHvy ab lorwerth of Moityn (Barton) and ab Morgui »b LI7- 
Llai. Vert, gatai of broomilipi, » lion nunpant, welyn. Lord of St. 
or, anned and langaed gvla. | Clean. 



' I/arl. MS. 2180. 



ESCLUSHAM . 



I« 



Madog ab I>avid.=T=Aiiiie8t, daughter of Hwfa ab Adda. 



DeicwB ab=pMallt, dan. and heiress of Dio ab David ab Madog Ddd of 
Madogof Brynbw, ab Gruffydd ab lorwerth Fychan ab lorwerth ab 
Bxynbwa. leoaf ab Nyniaw ab Cynwrig ab Bhiwallawn. Argent, an 

ivy branch erected in pale verf, inter three owls or crows. 

Her mother was Angharad, daughter of Madog ab Lly* 
welyn Ddi^ ab Gruffydd of Maelor Saesneg, second son of 
lorwerth Foel. ^ee p. 31. ^^ 



Morgan ab Deicws^fMargaret, dau. and heir of Geoffrey Whit- 



of Brynbwa and 
PUs y Bold. 



ford and Janet, his wife, dau. and heiress 
of Richard Bold ab Sir Richard Bold of 
Pl&s y Bold, in the township of Caer 
Qwrli in Yr Hob, Knight. 



Madog 

ab 
Deicws. 



I 
Edward ab Morgan=fJane, dau. of Gruffydd ab 



of Biynbwa and PliLs 
y Bold. 



Catherine, ux. David ab 

Madog Cyffinab Madog 

Goch, ancestor of the 

Vaughan-i, Earls of 

Carbury. 

Chru^ydd of=pCatherine, dau. of Janet, uz. John Angharad, ux. John 



Nicholas of Coed y Llai 
in Ystrad Alun. Gules, 
on a bend, argent, a lion 
passant, table. 



iffvdd of=F 



Brynbwa 

and Plas y 

Bold. 



Piers Hope of 

Hawerden, and 

Elizabeth Salus- 

bury, his wife. 

Argent, three 

storks, table. 



ab David ab 

Robert of Plas 

Cadwgan. 



ab Edward ab 

David ab louan 

ab Jenkyn ab 

Lly welyn ab Ithel 

Goch. 



William =T=Gwen, dau. of Robert =f=Catherine, d. of John 



Gruffydd. 



I 



William ab Gruffydd 
John Wynn. of 

Brynbwa. 



Dorothy, ob, t. p. 



1620. 



Eyton ab John Eyton 
of Coed y Llai. Gules, 
on a bend argent, a lion 
passant, sable. 



I 
Roger 

Gruffydd 

of 

[Plds y 

Bold. 



John Gruffydd=f=Mary, dau. of Thomaer Wynn of Dyffryn Aled and Catherine 



of Brynbwa. 



r 



his second wife, dau. of John Wynn Thelwall of Barthafam 
Park. Gules, a Saracen's head erased at the shoulders, 
wreathed, argent and sable. 



John Gruffydd of Brynbwa.=f=Jane, dau. of Captain Roger Myddleton of 
] PlAs Cadwgan. 

Robert Gruffydd of Brynbwa, High= dau. of Holland 

bheriff for co. Denbigh, 1685. of Teirdan. 



HISTORY OF P0WY3 FADOQ. 




JONES OF CROES FOEL. 
Harl. MS, nS]. 



Uowel of Croea Foel, ab Qmff^dd 
lorworth F;chaii ab lorwertb ab 
leuaf ab Niniaw ab Cfnwrig ab 

Bbiwallawii. Ermine, a lion 
pant, labU. 



.b^FDygwB, dan. of Hadog Llwyd ab 
*" QnuTfdd of Haelor SaeBoeg, second 
aon of lorwerLh Poel, Lord of Chirk, 
Haelor SaeancK, and Nanbeudwy. 



Gni&ydd ab^Angharad, dau. and heiroBB of Robert ab Howel ab Hwfa ab 
Howel of Qruf^ddofBUnlo, third Boa of Hwfa ab lorwertb of Uafod 

Croes Foel. | j 'Wem. Sabtt, three lions paasant in pale argenl. 

liobort ab=f=Elen, daa. of Gniffydd ab Gruffiidd=p&nKbarad, d. of louan ab 
Oruff;dd ab Llewelyn Saia nb Grufi^dd ab I Qnitfydd ab Madog Pabo 
of Croefl Madog ab Edoyfed ab Urion. ab £dn;fed GoSi of 

FoeL I " ' 



John of =f Catherine, dau. of Mi 
■ all 



Robert Lloyd 

David ab Bledd;n 

all Gniffudd of 

Ffem in Glyn 

Berbrwg in Yatrad 



'.adog.'j^... 



. dan. of Qvenhwyfar, 



Howolnlj lei 

ab Lljwelyn 

I ab Gruffydd 

I ab lorwarth 

f^chan- 



E^ward 
ab Howel ab 
Lljweljn 
Ll;i I'rei 



_l 



AJari^aret, iiolo beir, ni. John Llojd ab David Lloyd of Plaa 
y Bada in the ti'wnship of Morton Anglicorum in " 
Manor of Fftbronmi. 



ESCLUSHAM. 



39 



\a \b 

Hugh Jone0=f= David 

of ab 

Cro es Foel. | John. 

Bichard Jones. 



lUii 



\d \e\f 

: Margaret, d. of Gwenllian, uz. Anne. 

Thomas ab ax. Edward Nicholas Jane. 
John ab leoan ab Howel TresswelL 
ab David of of 

Owinnlon« Wrexham. 



Bobert ab Gmffydd ab Howel ab=f=Aneharad, dan. of lenan ab Gruffydd 
Gruffydd of Croes FoeL I ab Madog ab Ednyfod Goch of Bers- 

I ham; second wife. 



leoan ab Bobert.=T=Margaret, dan. of Edward ab David ab Madog ab Lly 
I welyn ab Gruffydd ab lorwerth Fyohan. 



Howel ab leoan. =Fjanet, dau. of Richard Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr Hob, 
^1 ab Maorice ab Jenkyn. 



Margaret, heiress, ox. Robert ab David ab Grofiydd of Croes Fool, ancestor 

of the Bobertses of Hafod y Bwch. 



Robert ab Groffydd ab Howel o^Angharad, d. of leuan ab Gruffydd ab 
Croes Foel. | Madog of Bersham. 

I 
David ab Robert=F=Catherine, d. and co-heir of leoan ab lorwerth ab Lly< 



of Ksclys or 
Escloshara. 



welyn Sais ab Llywelyn ab Madog ab Einion ab Madog 
ab Bleddyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallon. ^^ 



I 
John. 



David= 
Ooch. 



'Marearet, d. of Tudor ab leuan ab Jenkyn of Bettws y 
Mhers, ab Llywelyn ab Ithel Goch ab Llywelyn ab Ma- 
dog ab Einion ab Madog ab Bleddyn. 



Edward.=|=Gwen, d. of Madog ab Margaret, ux. Edward 
I Gruffydd ab leuan ab Howel ab Madog 
I ab Adda ab Awr. of Bersham. 

I 



k 



John, a Elizabeth, d. Sir David, Vicar of Elizabeth. 
of Madog. Rhiwabon. 



I ^ 
Lancelot ab=j=..., d. of William ab Madog Goch of Fron Deg, ab Howel ab 

David Goch. ] Gruffyd ab leuan Ddu of Bersham. OuLes, two lions 

passant argent. 



Hugh ab— Isabel, d. of John ab Catherine, ox. 

David Edward ab David David Brogdyn 

Goch. ab leuan ab Jen- ab Robert 

kyn ab Llywelyn ab Fycban. 

Ithel Goch. 



I 
John. 



Annest, 
ux. Ma- 
dog ab 
Robert 
Fychan. 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



f 



•> A /, 




PLAy CADWGAN. 

J'lliTi n.1' David of Eb-=p Junet.d.ofEilwardRbMorgnnor BrynbwHorBryro- 

clfH iir Kscliubarn, i bo, and of Visa Uold in t.'aer Qirrli, nb David ab 
ab Jtobert ab Oryff- Madc^, aecoDd bod of David Ooch, ab David ab 
ydd ab Hovel of Qoronwy ab lorwerth ab Howel ab Moreiddig ab 
CroeB Foci. | Sapddef Hardd, Lord of Barton and LlaL 



I 
Edward = 
Jones of 
PUa Cad- 



Jane, d. and CO- 
hairese of John Wynn 
Deocaf of Bhwyton in 
the Manor of Rhiw- 



lian. d. of Eleanor, 
John Efton ab ni. Bar- 
John ab Elii Ey- tholo- 
too of Bbiwftbon. maw 



William Jone»=f Susanna, ui. Hnapbtay Pips Dorothy, ui. Humphrey 
of PloH ab !SiT Richard Pipe, Lord EUis of Alihey. She 

Cadwjjan. Mayor of London, " ' ' " 



1 
Edward Jones of Plae Cadwgan, Hizh Sheriff tor ix „ . , 

1576. Eiecated by Elizabeth in London, 8^. £1, 1686, for 
joining with Babbington in trying to place Idary, Queen of vtiuon. 
Scots, on the throne. The estates were forfeited, but the 
house and eome of the lands were given to his daugfhter^nd 
h eireaa. Anne, by Eliz.ibetb. ^ 

Anne Jones,=j=Cnptain Roger Myddleton, second son of Richard Myddleton 

heiress of I of Llansilln, eldest son of Richard Myddleton, Governor of 

Pl&di'ad- Denbigh Castle in the time of Edward TI, Mary, and 

wgiiD. Elizatwth. Argtnl, on a bend vtrt, three wolf's heads 

I erased of the field. The mother of Captain Roger Myddle- 

j ton was Jane, danfchter and heirees of John ab Rhys ab 

I Edward ab Bel of Wepra. 

..., co-heir, ux. Humphrey Lloyd 
of Bars, Attorney, and one of 
theConncilfor tbeConrt of the 
Marches ; son of OrulTydd ab 
Richard, illegitimate son of 
Lewys ab David Lloyd, of Bod- 
lith; Uving S8th Oct. 1641. 



Elizaleth,^ 


rPfoulk Myd- 




heiress of 


dleton of 


heir, nx. 


Plas Cad- 


Gwaunynog 


Ellis Mare- 




ab John ab 


dydd of Pon- 






tref Bychan. 




Myddleton. 





BOBRRTa OP HAFOD Y BWCH. 



Tiiiiotbj Myddleton o^Anno, 4 and lieiraaBjof — Cooke of Stepney, 
Pl&a C&dwzM), 1660. Dsar Londoti.inercbaiit. Sbe married aecondlj. 
He bonitht Pant locyn. | Sir Thomas Powel of Plia yn Horali, Bart. 

Anne, only cbild, beireu of Plls^pjobn Robingou of Qwenyllt, Sigh Sbariff 
CadwganMii) Pant locyn, I for co. Denbif^b. 1690, H.F.forc( " 



high. 170S-iro7. 



John BobinsoQ of Qvenyllt, PUa Cadw^n,.. Eliiabetb, 
rant locyn and Acton. Mnrried 1708. Ria eldest daughter 
trustees sold Pant locyn and Actou to Ellis and heiress of 
ToDge of Bryn lorcyn, and in 1783 these Sir Gniffydd 
estates were purchased from Mr. Tonge's Jeffreys of 
trustees, by Sir Foster Gnaliffe, Bart. Acton. 



Willuu 




EGBERTS OF HAFOD Y BWCH. 

EaH. MS. il8l. 

David ab Bady or Madog ab Dartd Ooch ab Omffydd of Croes Foel al. 
lonrertb Fycban ab lorwerth ab lenaf ab Niniaf ab Cynwrig ab Rhi- 
ira Uon. Brmint, a lion rampant, lablt. 



^ 



OraHydd'^Margaret, dan. and co-heir of lenan E^chan ab Deicws of 

of leuan ab Howel y Gadaii of Cadair Benllyn, Llanerch 

Croes I ab OruS^dd ab madog ab lorwerth ab Madog Bngog. 

FoeL Rhirid llaidd, I^ord of PenUyn. Vtrl, a chev., 

I inter three wolf's beads erased, argenl, langned gult*. 

Darid ofy=Hargaret, dan. and co.heir of Madog ab Llprelyn ab Ednjfed 
Croes { ab Omffydd ab Einion Ooch of &inlli Ermine, a lion ram- 
Foel. I pant, taiU, 



Croes 

Foel^ 
I* 



'Hai^aret, dan. and heiresa of Howel ab lenan, seoood 
■on of Robert ab Gruffydd ab Howel ab Oruffydd of 
Cross Foel ab lorwerth Ffchan ab lorwerth ab 
lenaf ab Kiniaf ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallon. See p. 39 



Hatthaw. 



42 



HISTOBY OP POWYS PADOG. 



|6 2 

John Wynn Bobert8^T=Janet» dao. of John Poleston of=j=£lizabetb, d. and 
"" ^ ^ ^ rpijp jj^^jji nn^ HafordyWem. — ^-'- -' " — 

Argenit on a bend, 8abU, three 
mallets of the field. 



of Croes Poel, Yeo- 
man of the Crown 
and afterwards Ser- 
geant at Arms. 



John Boberts, 
o6. «. p. 



co-heir of Hum- 
phrey Pymokeof 
Willmgton. 



Janet, nx. Owain ab Hagh ab 

William ab Madog ab Lly- 

welyn of Acton. 



II 
Hagh Bobert0=j= daa. and co- 



of Hafod y 
Bwch, oh. SOth 

June 1607, 
bnried in Wrex- 
ham Choroh. 



heir of John 
Wynn of Llangyr- 
niew, son and heir 
of leaan Llwyd of 

Hafod Unnoe. 

Sable, a stag 

trippant, argent, 

attired or. 



|2 
William 

Roberts 

of 

Croes 

Foel. 



|3I4|6|6 
Edward. 
Robert. 
Gilbert. 
Richard. 



1|2|3 
Margaret. 
Catherine. 
Elizabeth. 



Rol 



John Roberts of Hafod y Bwch, J. P., oh, 23rd June=T=I>orothy, daa. of Ham- 
1630, buried in Wrexham Church. j phrey Ellis of Alrhey. 



Rol 



Hugh Roberts of Hafod y Bwch, oh. 12th=r=Catherine, daa. of of Dudle- 

January 1672. | ston, oh. 1637. 



Hugh Robert8=f Anne, sister and heiress of Bichard Jones, alias Wynn of 



of Hafod y 
Bwch. 



y Bwch and Plas 

Newydd. Hi^h Sheriff 

for CO. Denbigh, 1704, 

M.P. for Denbigh 

Boroughs, 1710-16, 

mar. at Abergeleu, 

1693, died at Pl^s 

Newydd, 1731. 



PlAs Newydd in the parish of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, 
who died, a. p., August 24, 1666, son and heir (by Douce, 
his wife, dau. and co-heir of John Williams of Ruthin, 
D.D.; argent t a chevron inter three boar's heads couped, 
sable) of Richard Wynn Jones of Plats Newydd, son and 
heir of John Wynn Jones of PlAs Newydd and Jane, his 
wife, dau. of Gabriel Parry Bach, D.D., of Buthin, son of 
Thomas Parry Wynn of Ruthin. {Harl, M8. 1 977.) 

Mary, ox. 
David Lloyd 

ofYr 

Hendwr in 

Edeymion, 

married at 

Llandrillo 

in 1694. 



John Roberts of Hafod=7=Susannay sister and heiress of David 



Parry of Llwyn Yn near Ruthin, 

High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 

1695 and 1697,who died at Llwyn Yn 

in 1706, and dau. of William Parry 

of Llwyn Yn, High Sheriff for co. 

Denbigh in 1668. Argent, three 

boar's heads couped, sable, langpied 

gulee, and tusked or. She di^ at 

PlAs Newydd in 1721. Her mother was Catherine, 

dau. and heiress of Roger Holland of Hendref 

Pawr in the parish of Abergeleu. 



Hugh David, Roger, 
Roberts, «. p. «. p. 
b. 1691. 

oh. 8, p. 



Catherine,heiress=f=Humphrey Parry of Anne. 



of Hafod y Bwch, 

Plas Newydd, 

Llwyn Yn, and 

Hendref Fawr, 

mar. in 1714, died 

in 1761, and was 

buried at Cwm. 



|e" 



Pwll Halawg in the 
parish of Cwm in Tegeingl 
and Llanrhaiadr Hall, High 
Sheriff for co. Flint, 1736, 
oh. 1744, aged 58, and was 
buried at Cwm. Oules, on a 
bend, argent, a lion passant, 
sable. 



HAFOD UNNOS AND LLANGKRNIEW. 



43 



Sobert Parry of Pwll Halawg, Hafod y Bwch, Has^Miss Hart Cotton, 
Newydd, Llwyn Yn, Hendref Fawr and Llanrhaiadr heiress of Warfield 
Ha U, High Sheriff for co. Flint, 1757, 1797. ) Hall in Berkshire. 

Edward Parry, 
o6. s. p. 



lard 



Richard Parry of Warfield Hall; he sold Hafod=^Mary, d. 



of Dr. 
Thomas, 
Dean of 
Ely. 

I I 
Richard Parry of Warfield Hall, sold the PUs heire88=p... Haygorth 

Newydd estate, ob, 1834 or 1836, ». p. of Llwyn Yn. 



y Bwch, Hendref Fawr, PwU Halawg, and Llan- 
rhaiadr Hall. 

Hafod y Bwch was sold to Mr. Bowen, and was 
subsequently purchased by Mr. Yorke of Erddig. 



Esq. 



Colonel Haygarth of Llwyn Yn. 




HAFOD UNNOS AND LLANGERNIEW. 

Earl. MS. 2288. 

Bleddyn Llwyd Hdn ab Bleddyn Fychan ab Bleddyn ab Y Qwion ab Rad-=T= 
▼ach ab Asar ab Gwrgi ab Hedd Moelwyog, one of the Fifteen Noble 
Tr ibes of Gwynedd. Sable, a stag argent, attired or, | 

Cynwng ab Bleddyn of Hafod Unnos, in the=r= Meurig Llwyd of Llwyn y 
parish of Llangemiw. | Maen. 



Gmffydd 

of 

Hafod 

Unnos. 



..., d. of Cynwrig ab Rotpert ab lorwerth ab Rhirid ab Madog ab 
Ednowain Bendew, one of the Noble Tribes of Gwynedd. Her 
mother was Angharad, d. of Madog Llwyd of Bryn Cunallt, 
son and heir of lorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk, Maelor, Saesneg, 
and Nanheudwy. Argent, a chev. inter three boar's heads 
couped aahle, tusked or, and langpied gules, for Ednowain 
Bendew. 



David =f=Gwen, d. of Gmffydd Goch of Pentref Goch, ab leuan ab David 



Llwyd of 
Hafod 
Unnos. 



Fychan ab lorwerth ab David ab Cowry ab Cadvan. Argent, 
three boar's heads sable, tusked or, and langued gules. 



44 



HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 



Mared- =f=Morfydd, d. of Howel ab Rhys Oethin of Hendref Rhys Gethin, 
ydd of in the parish of Bettws Wyrion Iddon, or Bettws y Coed, ab 

Hafod Oroffydd Fychan ab Grufifydd^ ab David Gooh of Nant Conwy, 

UnnoB. illegitimate son of David, Lord of Denbigh, son of Gruffudd ab 

Llywelyn ab lorwerth Drwyn Dwn, Prince of Wales. Sable^ 
a Uon rampt argent, in a border engrailed or, for David Goch 
of Nant Conwy. 



David of =7=Mallt, d. and co-heir of Gruffydd ab Madog ab Llywelyn Fychan 
of Llwyn Dyrus in Lleyn, ab Gruffydd ab lenan ab Sir Gruffydd 
Llwyd of Tref Gamedd and Tref Nant Bychan in Mon, Ent. 
Qule$, a chief ermine, and chevron or, 

i 



Hafod 
Unnoe. 



1 I 2 

Lowri, d. of Howel=rIeaan Llwyd' of Hafod Unnos.=f= Alice, d. of Robert ab 



ab David ab Meu- 

rig ab Howel Selyf, 

Lord of Nannau. 

Or^ a lion rampt. 

€uure. Her mother 

was Elen, d. of 

Robert Salusbury 

of Llanrwst. 



John ab Meorig. 



|6 |7 

Henri, of Hafod=FJane, d. and co-heir of leaan, 
Unnoe. | Roger ab Howel ab ob, a.p. 
I Rhys ab Maredydd. 

Roger Lloyd, an- Qulea, a lion rampt. 

cestor of the argent. 

Lloyds of Hafod 
Unnos. 



|8 
Geoffrey Lloyd of Dyff- 
ryn Krethlyn, Bard 
and Antiquary, an- 
cestor of the Lloyds 
of Palaa. 



«r 



I 

Mallt, ux. John ab Rhys 
Wynn of Ffynogion in Llan- 
fair Dyffiyn Clwyd. Qulea, 
a chev. inter three stag's 
heads cabossed argent. 



f\ 



9\ 



hi 



^ Gniffydd ab David Goch is at Bettws y Coed, where his eflSgy is 
still to be seen recumbent, in armour, with the following inscription : 

"HIO IACET GRUFUD AP DAVID GOCH. AGNUS DEI MISERERE HEX." A 

full description of this tomb has been given by Mr. Bloxham, Arch. 
Cambr., 1874, p. 128. It appears, from the Extent of Nant Conwy, 
in the Record of Caernarvon^ or Great Extend of North Wales, as it is 
also called, taken on the next Monday after the trapslation of St 
Thomas the Martyr, 26th Edward III (1352), that Gruffydd was the 
foreman of the jury for taking that Extent. David Goch, his father, 
was a natural son of David, Lord of Denbigh, who was tried at 
Shrewsbury, and brutally murdered by Edward I, the King of the 
English in 1283. See p. 33. 

2 Besides these five sons enumerated above, leuan Llwyd had six 
daughters:— 1. Mallt, ux, Robert ab Richard ab Maredydd; 2. An- 
nesta, ux. Robert ab Maredydd ; 3. Elizabeth, ux. John Wynn Salus- 
bury of Ruthin, son of Parson Ffoulk Salusbury, third son of Piers 
Salusbury of Rdg and Bachymbyd; 4. Gwenhwyfar, nx. John Panton, 
ob. s. p. ; and 6. Catherine, ux. Humphrey ab Thomas. 



TREP RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



45 



ell 

John Lloyd: 

of Llan- 

gemiw, 

ob. V. 



:Caiherizie, d. of Mare- 
dydd ab (Joronwy ab 
GruflFydd Gethin^ of 
Dyfiryn Aled in Llan- 



sannan. 



/|2 ^13 h\4, i 

Hugh William Lloyd, David 
Lloyd, ancestor of the Lloyd, 
Lloyds of Erw Vicar of 
G wyddeL ' Llanger- 

niw. 



|5 
Richard Lloyd, iur0=- Afirnes, d. and heiress of John ab 
uxorU of Bach Gniffydd Llwyd of Bach Eirig, in 

Eirig.* Llanfair Dyflfryn Clwyd. 



I 

Alioa co-heir, Jane, nz. John 

nz. Robert ab David 

Vaughan ab Llwyd ab John 

Richard of of Llangwm. 

Llanfair. 



I 
Catherine, uz. 

John ab Howel 

Fychan of Y Per- 

kin in Eivionydd; 

descended from 

Collwyn ab 

Tangno. 



J 

Elen, uz. 

WilLam ab 

Richard 

of Pias 

Isafl 



LoUux. 

Hugh 

Roberts of 

Hafody 

Bwch. 




TREF RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 
Earl. MSS, 2299, 4181. 

David fychan of Ceinmarch, ab David ab lorwerth ab David of Cein-= 
march, ab Cowryd ab Cadvan, Lord of Ceinmarch (Gwehelaeth Cein- 
march), ab Gaelawg Gawr ab Iddig, lineally descended from Cadell 
Deymllwg, King of Powys. Argent, three boar's heads couped, sable, 
tnaked or, and langpied gulea, for Cowryd ab Cadvan. See ArehcBologia 
Caml^enns, Jnly 1876, p. 170. 



li 



* Gruffydd Gethin ab David Llwyd ab Ednyfed ab Tudor ab 
Dwywg ab Gwilym ab Rhys ab Edryd ab Euathan ab SiaflTeth ab 
Carwed ab Marchudd Lord of Uwch Dulas, Abergeleu, and Biyn 
Ffanigl, Chief of one of the Noble Tribes. Gules, a Saracen's head 
erased proper, environed about the temples with a wreath argent and 
^es. He was the ancestor of Piers Wynn of Dyffryn Aled, whose 
danghter and heiress, Diana, built the present mansion, and was the 
mother of Piers Wynn Yorke of Dyfifryn Aled. 

^ See Archceoloffia Cambrensisy January 1877, p. 35, note. 

* Ibid., January 1877. 



46 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



\i 
leaan. o6=r=ETa, daa. of Madog ab Gruffydd, or, according to others, Eva, 

Celn- daa. of David ab Philip Goch of Faenor in Aber Bhiew in 

march. Cydewaen, ab Howel ab Lly welyn ab Meilir Qrdg, Lord of Tref 

Gynon and Westbury. Sable, three horse's neads erased, 

argent. 



I 
Gniffydd Goch of Pen tref Goch neaF=j=Gwlady8 or Mallt, daa. of lea an ab 



Bhuddin. He bailt the Charch of 
Gyffylliog, in the Comot of Llan 
eroh as a Chapel-of-ease to lian- 
ynys. 



Lly welyn ab Gruffydd Llwyd of 
Bodidris yn lAl. Her mother was 
Malli, dau. of Tudor ab Gruffydd 
Llwyd ab Heilin Frych of Berain 
in Llanefydd. 



I 



Sir John, Parson of LUnyny8.=pMargaret, daa. of Cynwrig ab Einion 

Gethin. 



J 



Harri of Tref Bhaddin.=fJanet, dau. of Bichard ab Jenkyn ab Gruffydd 

ab Bhys. 



.=T=Ji 



John ab Harri of=f=Janet, dan. of Edward Thelwall ab Eubule Thelwall, 
Tref Khuddin. | of Plas y Ward. 



ri of=T=Jane 
Lin. of 



Thomas Parry Wynn'= 
ot Tref Rhuddin. He 
married, first, Mar- 
garet, daa. of John ab 
Harri Qervys ab John 

Gervys ab Thomas 

Gervys ab Gerard 

GochofTrefBhaddin. 

Esq., who bore, sable, 

an arming sword, 
argent, hilt and pomel 

or^ a buckle of the 
second. She died a. p. 



^Margaret, daa. of Bichard ' 
John Gruffydd of Parry 
Chichli in Tin- of Tref 
daethwy, son of Bhuddin. 
Sir WiUiam 

Griffith of Pen- 

rhyn. Knight. 



^Margaret, 

d. of John 

Pryse of 

Derwen. 

Argent, 

six bees 

ppr. 3, '2, 1. 



|3[4 

Ham 

Parry. 

John 

Llwyd 

Wynn. 



John Parry Wynn = Elizabeth, d. of John Wynn 
of Llanbedr. Ffoulkes of Eriviad. OuUs, 

three boar*8 heads erased in 
pale argent, first wife ob. May 
5, 1622. buried at Rhuddin. 



l\ 



m 



^ Thomas Parry Wynn had issue by his second wife, besides the 
three sons mentioned above, three daughters: 1. Elizabeth, ux. 
Richai-d Laugford of Trefalun and Tref Rhuddin, High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1640. She died at Chester, 12th December 1657, and 
was buried at Gresford, aged 78 years, having had twenty children. 
2. Dorothy, ux. Robert Lloyd ab Richard Lloyd of Bacli Eirig, in the 
parish of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, fifth son of leuan Llwyd of Hafod 
Unnos ; and 3. Grace, iix. Piers Mul of Rhuddin. Sable, two lions 
rampant in fess argent 



TKEP RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



47 



Simon Parry of=f=Jane, daa. 

Gray'sInn.Barris- 

ter-at-Law. He 

boagbt Pont j 

Gof or Nantclwyd 

from Peter Ellis. 

Ob July 7, 1627. 



of John 
Thelwallof 
Llanrhudd. 



Thoina8==j=Grace, daa of Bobert 
Parry of Lloyd ab Edward 
Ponty Lloyd of Plas is y 
Gof. Clawdd yn Y Waun. 



I |3 
Gabriel Parry Bach, 
D.D., Head Mas- 
ter of Buthin 
School, 1607; S.R. 
Llanrhaiadr in 
Mochnant, 1608; 
Vicar of Henllan, 
1609; V.of Aber- 
geleu, 1013; S R. 
L1an8annan,ini6; 
S.B. Llausant- 

ffraid yn 

Mechain, 1617; 

B. Llangynhafal 

and Precentor 
of Bangor, 1632. 



I 



William Parry of Ponty Gof OF=T=Martba, d. of Simon 
Nant Clwyd.1 Thelwallof theCourt 

I of Arches, and son 
I of John Wynn Thel- 

Mary. nx. Eubule Thelwall, wall of Llanrhudd. 
Barrister of Gray's Inn. 

i 

TVilUam Parry of=7=Catherine, dan. and heiress of Bo^er 



m] 3 

Mary, eldest Daniel 
daughter of Parry. 
Edward Pryse 
of Llwyn 
Yn, High 
Sheriff for 
CO. Denbigh, 
1627, and 
co-heir of 
her brother 
John Pryse 
of Llwyn 
Yn. 



Llwyn Yn and 
Llanrhudd. High 

Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh, 1668, 

married 1613. 



Holland of Hendref Fawr in the Parish 
of Abergelen, High Sheriff for uo. 
Denbigh in 1634, son and heir of Daniel 
Holland of Henref Fawr. She died in 
1705, and was buried in Abergelen 
church, where a monument is erected 
to her memory. Azure, seme of fleur- 
de-lys, a lion rampant gardant, argent. 



Jane, nx. John 

Wynn Jones of 

Pias Newydd 

in Llanfair 

Dyffryn 

Clwyd. 



.] 



David Parry of Llwyn 
Yn, High Sheriff for 
CO. Denbigh in 1 695 and 
1«97; ob. at Llyn Yn, 
1706, s. p. 



Sasanna, heiress of Llywn Yn and Hendref Fawr ; 
married, in 1693, John Boberts of Hafod y Bwch, 
and Pl&s Newydd. She died at Pl&s Newydd 
in the parish of Llanfair Duffryn Clwyd in 
1721. 



^ His daughter and heiress, Mary, married Eubulo Thelwall, the 
second son of John Thelwall of Bathafam Park and Plas Coch in the 
parish of Llanrhudd, by whom she had a son and heir, Thomas 
Thelwall of Nantclwyd, the father of Eubule Thelwall of Nantclwyd, 
whose daughter and heiress, Martha, married Andrew Kenrick of 
Woor Manor in Shropshire, Esq., ancestor of the Kenricks of Nant- 
clwyd and Mcrtyn. 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOfl. 





LLWTN YN IN THE TOWNSHIP OP TREP EYARTH 
IN LLANFAIR DYFPRYN CLWYD. 

Earl. MS. 1969 

£diTin. ab Qoronwy, Prinoe^Ewerjdd, Bister of Bleddjn abCynfyn, Prince 
of TaaevagL Argmt, k of Powys, and dan. of C;tifjii ab QinTstan 
cross flory engruled table, \ ab Owaethibed. Vert, a lion rampant, arjent, 
inter four Coniisli cbongha i bead, feet, and tail, embrued, for Qwr^Btau, 
p pr. Slain in78. ! Lord of Powya 

Owain ab Sdwin, Prince o^Moifydd, dau, of Ooronw;, sou of Ednowain 
Tegeinffl, elected Prince of Bendew, of L1;b Coed y Mynydd in Bod- 
North Wales in 1096. Died van. Chief of one of the Noble Tribee. 
ofconsumptioninllOS. Gv,U*. Argent, a chevron inter three boar's heads, 
three men's legs conjoined at icAle, tasked or, and laogued gvtlei. 
the thighs, in briangle, nrgmt. 



12 

Heitir, slain b; Cadwallon^ 
ab Qruffydd ab Cynan, 

in 11£3. I 



Ooto nwy ab Meilir.'T= 
Darid ab Qoronwy,^ 
Grni ^dd ab David.^ 



Omfi^dd ab HoweL^Annest, dau. of Jenkyn Qoch ab Cynwric; ab Uadog 
ab Qruffydd of Qarth Oynan in Llanlair Dyffryn 
1 Clwydd. 

David ab ^=Owetillian, d. of leoan ab Ltyweljn Fychan of Llanveris, in the 
Q ro^ydd. t Manor of Llys y Cil, ab lolyn ab Ithel . 



LLWYN YN. 



49 



\a 



John =T=Janet, d. and co-heir of David ab Gruffydd, one of the sons of leuan 
Wynn. 1 ab David ab Cynwrig ab leuan ab Graffydd ab Madog Ddu of 
I Copa'r Golenni in TegeingI, ab Rhirid ab Llyweljn ab Owain ab 
Edwyn ab Goronwy. PaBi of six pieces, argent and sable, for 
Madog Ddd. 



i i 

Shya. He bore=pElizabeth,d. of Piers Salis- Edward, 



his mother's coat 
of arms in the 
first quarter in- 
stead of his 
lather's. See 
Levrys Dtonn, voL 

ii, p. 349, 
"YKaerddinog^ 



.1) 



bury of Bachymbyd, and married 
also of K(^, in right of Margaret, 
his wife, Margaret Wen, d. of Gruff- 
daughter and sole heir of ydd ab 
leuan ab Howel ab Rhys Twna of 
ab David, Lord of Rftg. Tref 

Eyarth. 



I 
Lowri. She mar- 
ried first, Jen- 
kynabElis;and 
secondly, Wil- 
liam ab Madog 
Goch of Fron 
Deg, near 
Wrexham. 



I 



John ab Rhys of =<=Mai7, d. of the Baron Lewys ab Owain of Cwrt PlAs yn 
Caerddinog or j Dref, Dolgellau, who was murdered at Dugoed Maw- 
Caerddineu. | ddwy, 11th Oct. 1555. 



I 1 |2|3|4 

Edward =Su8an,^ sister of Godfrey Goodman, Rhys. 



rse of I 
Lwyn 



Pryi 

Llwyn 

Yn, 

High 

Sheriff 

for CO. 

Denbigh 

in 1627. 



D.D., Bishop of Gloucester, and d. of John. 
Godfi^y Goodman, third son of Ed- Thomas, 
ward Goodman ab Thomas ab Ed- 
ward ab Thomas ab Edward ab John 
Goodman of Rhuddin. Party per 
pale ermine and ermtnot«, an eagle 
displayed with two heads or, on a 
canton azure, a martlet of the third. 



Anncst, ux. 
Robert ab 

Morgan ab 
Robert ab 
Morgan of 
Llanaber. 



I 

Gwen, ux. 
Richard 
Parry, 
DD., Bis- 
hop of St. 
Asaph. 



Joan, 

ux. 

Hugh 

Jones. 



Jane, ux. John 
Davies, D.D., 
Vicar of Mall- 

wyd, author of 

the Welsh Dic- 
tionary. He 

was a native of 

the parish of 

Llanveris. 



Catherine, 
ux. Evan 
Morgan, 
B.D., Par- 
son of 
Llanveris, 
1616. 



Mar- 
garet, 
o6. s.p. 



John " 
Piyse of 
Llwyn 
Yn. 


>Elen, d. 

of 

Thomas 

Good- 


Mary, 

heiress of 

Llwyn Yn. 

ux. Gabriel 


ob. s.p. 


man, 
Esq. 


Parry 
Bach, D.D. 



Anne. She was the 2nd 
wife of Charles Ghood- 
man^ of Glanhespin, 
High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1666, who 
died 14th August 1693. 
Anne died 8Ui Decem- 
ber 1684. 



Martha, ux. 

Richard Yonge 

of Bryn lorcyn. 

She died Dec. 

18, 1654, and 

was buried at 

Corwen. 



* Susan was the niece of Gabriel Goodman, D.D., Dean of West- 
minster, the founder of Christ's Hospital and the Grammar School at 
Ruthin. — Sec Hist, of the Diocese of St Asaph. 

- Charles Goodman married first, Rebecca, daughter of Richard 
Langford of Trefalun, High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1 640, by whom 
he had a daughter and heiress, Penelope, who was married to John 
Lloyd of Drefnewydd, co. Salop. Charles was a younger son of 

VOL. III. i 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 




HOLLAND OP HENDREF FAWR, IN THE PARISH 

OF ABERGELEU. 
Sir ThomM Holland, Knt-^Joyee, d. of Sir Jasper Croft, Knt. 



Ld.=Fjan 



Bo ger HoUBTid.^ =Jaiie, d. of Sir Boger Troatbedie ab Sir Williimi TFoatbeche. 

HoeegTn BoIUnd-^Margaret, d. of David Chwrth. ab David ab Gro^dd ab 
( Caradog ab Thomaa ab Eoderig ab Onia GwTnedd. 

Eobin Holland, aupported Owain'^Antia, d. of Uaredydd ab Bhvs ab Gichard 
aijndy^dwf, 10 Hen. IV. ab Cadwaladr, deeoeuded from QiaSjdi 

; I ab Einion, 

Darid Holland.^DyddyMi d. of Jenkyn ab David Gk>ob, deac. from Marchudd. 



David Hol-=p2nd wife, Alice, d. of Sir William Qnifr;dd=plBt wife, Joyce, d. 
land of of Penrhyn, Knt., Chamberlain of North of BobertKnowea- 

Fn irdref. ] Wales. | ley of Denbigh. 

I I 

■Maruftret, d. and beirew John =f=Catherine, d. of Pfers Con- 
of Tbomaa Daviea, Holland wj, Arsbdeacon of St. 

Bishop of St. Asaph. of Aatqib. 

Hendtef Fairdrcf. 

F awr. ] 

I- I* 

ThomaB Goodman of Plas Uchaf in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, High 
Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1613, who died in 1633, second son of 
Giiwcn Goodman ab Ednard ab TliOTiias ab Edward ab Thomas ab 
Edward ab John Goodman of Rbuddin. By his second wife, Anne, 
Charles Goodman had issue a daughter and co-heircss, Susan, who 
married Gabriel Goodman of Rhuddin, a lawyer, son of Edward Good- 
man ab Gabriel Goodman ab Edward, eldest son of Gawen Goodman 
of Rhuddin. 



MANOR OP Y GLWYSEOL. 



51 



^ers Holland 7 Sioned, d. of 
of Hendref Holland. 

FawT. I 

I 



Daniel Holland of 7 Elizabeth, d. of 



16 

Pyers 7 Catherine, d. and heiress of 
Holland Bichard ab leuan ab David 
of Kin- ab Ithel Fychan, by Alice, 

mael, d. and heiress of Qruffydd 

06. 1552. Lloyd of Kinmael. 



Hendref Fawr. 



I 



Maurice Eyffin. 



I 



David Holland Humphrey Holland 
of KinmaeL of Teirdan, 06. 1612. 



I 



Boger Holland of Hendref Fawr, High 7 Jane, d. of Bichard Parry, Bishop 



Sheriff for co. Denbigh 1634. 
1642, and buried at A^rgele. 



06. 



of St. Asaph ; buried at Abergeleu, 
1641— Hart. MS. 2180. 



Catherine, heiress of « William Parry Boger^ ob, s, p. Anne, uz. Bichard 
Hendref Fawr, ob. of Llwyn Yn. Harl. MS. 2180. Parry of Ck)ed Mar- 
1700. Chan.— Harl. MS. 

218a 



COM. DENBIGH, MANERIU* DE EGLVISEGLE. 

Earl 3696, /o. 223, et seq. 

Nomina Jubatoeu'. 



Edwardns ap d'd Uoyd. 
Crr. ap John ap Edward. 
Hugh Gwyn ap Jo. Rob't 
Johannes ap Edward. 
Will'us david Madock. 
David ap John ap MaM'd. 
Johannes Bromfield. 



Edwardns ap dM ap Edw\ 
Will'mus Erthig. 
Griffith ap Hugh. 
Robertas Griffith. 
Johannes Broughton. 
Johannes Lloyd. 



To the first article they say they are altogether ignorant 
toDchinge the boundes of the said manner, for that it is inter- 
mixt in and amongst other manners. 

To the second they say they have no demesnes within the 
said mannor. 

To the third article they referre themselves to their booke 
of entries both for landes and rents (except Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd), 
whose lands and rents are to them unknown. And as for 
fee-fermors within ye said mannor there are none to their 
knowledge. 

To the fourth article they likewise referre themselves to 
their bookes of entries both for lands and rents. 

To the fift article, as touchinge custumary tennantes, they 
have none but such as holde by lease. 

To the sixt article as touching their commons, they are 
enter commons with other manners within the Lordshipp of 

42 



52 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 

Bromfield in a common called Myndd vcha, as for ye quantity 
they are not able to express it. 

To the seavonth article they say they have no woode 
w'in that manner, onlie vpon their ffreeholdes. 

To the eight article they say they have no parke Vin the 
manner, nor never had to their knowledge. 

To the ninth article, as touching incrochements, they say 
they have none to their knowledge. 

To the tenth article they p*sent,that they have no copie or 
customarie landes within that manner, but they are helde 
from fortie yeares to fortie yeares, and they are els where sett 
downe. 

To the eleaventh article as touching quarries of stone they 
have but vpon their freeholdes. As for mynes of cole and 
leade they are graunted in lease vnto S'r Richard Grosvenor, 
knight ; and as for chalke or marie they haue none. 

To the twelveth article they say that they have no ffree- 
holdes that hath died without heire generall or speciall within 
that manor to their knowledge. 

To the 13th article they say they have no towne corporate, 
etc. 

To the 14th article they knowe none yt have exchaunged 
copie or leased landes for free to their knowledges. 

To the fifteenth they say that they have no customarie mill 
within yt manner. 

To the sixteenth article they say that they have within that 
manner vppon the high moore, peate, turfe, furse, and ffeame. 
And that the ffreeholders and leaseholders have them for their 
several uses, not paying anything for them, or ever did to 
their knowledge. 

To the seaventeenth article they say that they have no 
viewe of ffranckpledge, leete, or lewsday, within that manner, 
but they are to doe their service both at leete and Court 
Baron, vizt., at the Court leete twice in ye yeare, where it 
shall please ye Steward to appoint it ; and at the Court Baron 
as often as they are required. As for common ffyne, etc., they 
pay none. 

To the eighteenth article they say they knowe of nee howses 
that are fallen downe or decayed. 

To the nyneteenth article they say that for ought they 
knowe or hath hearde, the Prince hath all waifes, estraies, etc., 
within that manner. 

To the twentieth article wee say that they have no ffishing, 
etc. 

To the one and twentieth article they say that they have 
neither markett nor ffaires. 



MANOR OF Y GLWYSEOL. 



53 



To the twoe and twentieth they knowe of none. 

To the three and twentieth article they pay nothiDg to any 
other manor. 

To the twenty flfowreth article they say they have onely a 
baylie to receave ye Princes rents, by whose appointm't is to 
YS ynknowne. 

To the fiyve and twentith article they can say nothing. 

To the six and twentith article they have the pole or perch 
to the custom of ye countrie. 



LIBBBI TZNBNTX8. 



Allington, John (Jo' Randall and heirs to 

pay the rent) 
Bady, Owen 
Bellot, Edward 
Bromfield, Edward . 
David, John 

DavLes, Edward (Rob't Lloyd de Ruabon) 
Davies, Richard 
Davies, Rob't 
Edward ap John Mathew 
Edward ap Richard Phillip 
Edward ap William . 
Edwards, Ralph and John 
Erthig, WUliam 
Goodman, Gabriell . 
Griffith ap Hugh 
Griffith, Robert 
Griffith, Robert, of Brimbo 
Griffith, Roger, of Eytou 
Howell ap Edward . 
Howell ap Howell 
Hugh ap Robert 
Hughes, Richard, heres 
Hughes, Thomas 
John ap Hugh ap Edward 
John ap John ap Edward 
John ap John d'd Lloyd 
John ap John ap John lle'n 
John ap John Madock 
John ap Richard ap Ue'n 
John David ap John Thomas 
Jones, Emanuell 
Jones, Michaell et Katherinc, v 
Jones, Owin (late the lands of leuan D*d) 
Jones, Roger 
Lewis, John and D'd (late the lands c 

Edwsurd ap Randall) 



id' 



ACBB8. 


j& 


8. d. 




3 .. 


no rent given 


. 72 . 





15 


. 12 . 





2 4 


. 50 . 


.. 


8 10 


6 . 


.. 


6 


). 20 . 


.. 


10 oi 


. 120 . 


.. 


12 2 


6 . 





12 


8 . 


.. 


10 


8 2 . 





1 5 


. 15 . 





1 9 


. 39 . 


.. 


3 


. 50 . 


.. 


5 6 


. 38 . 


.. 3 


3 8 


. 64 .. 


. 


3 8 


. . 60 .. 





5 3 


. 10 .. 


. 


1 


3 0.. 





4 


5 0.. 


. 


1 4 


2 0.. 





6 


5 0.. 





1 6 


. 290 .. 





16 


4 0.. 


. 


2 


. 10 .. 





2 


. 30 . 





10 


. not Kiven. , , 


. 


1 2 


. 12 .. 


. 


5 


. 10 .. 


. 


8 


1 2 .. 


. 


2 


8 . 


.. 


2 


4 .. 





2 4 


3 . 


.. 


10 


24 . 


.. 


1 8 


4 . 





1 4 


)I 

. 36 . 





2 4 



54 



HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 







ACBB8. 


£ 


8. d. 


Lloyd, D*d . 43 .. 


1 


4 5 


Lloyd, Gabriel], esq. . 




. 257 .. 


1 


7 8 


Lloyd, Robert 




. 343 .. 


1 


6 10 


Lloyd, Thomas 




. 160 1 .. 





6 7 


Mathew, D*d 




4 0.. 





1 


Mathewes, GrifF' 




22 .. 





1 


Mercddeth, Edward . 




1 .. 





1 


Mereddeth, Hugh 




. 30 .. 





2 3 


Mereddeth, W'm, esq. 




. 286 .. 


2 


8 


Pate, Thomas 




3 0.. 





1 6 


Powell, Thomas 




7 0.. 





3 8 


Puleston, Edw', esq. . 




30 .. 





3 2 


Handle ap Ellis de Knowlton (fa 


leres) 


8 0.. 





1 8 


Handle, John, jun'r . 




8 0.. 





2 


Handle, John, sen'r . 




8 0.. 





10 


Robinson, VVill'm, esq. 




32 2 





12 U 


Salsbury, Roger, esq. 




. 30 .. 





6 8 


Sonlle, Rob*t, esq. 




. 300 .. 


1 


1 


Trafford, Tho's, esq. . 




. 4tent'eto. .. 


1 


10 


Warburton, Richard (late th( 


3 lands ( 


)f 






D*d Mathew) 




. 20 .. 





2 


Wilkinson, John 




2 0.. 





3 


Wynn, Tho's 




19 .. 





1 10 


Sm' Redd* laboru* tenen' 




0.. 


. 16 


10 1 


4" Eliz* 


• 


0.. 


. 17 


16 U 


There wanteth the rent of W*m Meredith for 46 acres of land. 


YALUS. 


] 


KENT. 


TbNSNTSS FSB DIXI88IONS8 ACRES. £ 8. d. 


£ 


8. d. 


Bady, Owm . . 15 ... 


4 


... 


11 


Breerton, Owin . 14 ... 


6 6 8. 


... 


6 2 


Edward, John . . 18 2 ... 


8 10 


... 


1 5 


Edwards, John . . 62 ... 


30 


... 


3 6 


Gouldsmith, Thomas . 2 ... 


15 


... 


2 0^ 


Goz, John . .30... 


1 3 


... 


2 


Hughes, Richard . .40... 


1 10 


... 


2 


Lloyd, John . . 21 3 ... 


11 


... 


1 


Meroddith, W'm, esq. •. 11 ... 


4 


... 


5 


Powell, Thomas . .20... 


16 


... 


1 10 


Trevor, Rich' Kn't, and Thos. 






Trafford, esq. . .600... 900 


... 1 


13 4 


(Sir Ric' holdeth 2 thirds, and Thomas 1 third 


part) 




Sm* redd* tenen* ad volunt* et p' dimiss' 


64s. 


8Jd. 


With the rent of Hanody Wirger. 




4a 


In toto 


• 


. £19 


14s. 9id. 



MAHOR or y ULWYSEGL. 




T GLWTSBGIi.— MORTON UWCH Y CLAWDD, 
LLANERCH RUGOG. 

Gae Cyriog MS. 

Dio of Llanerch Rugog, second son of David ab 
Madog ab David Goch of Croes Foel, married Angharad, 
daughter of Maredydd ab Llywelyn Dhfl ab Gruffydd 
ab lorwerth Foel ab lorwerth Fychan, second son of 
lorwerth ab leuaf of Llwyn On, by whom he had issue 
a son, 

Deicws ab Dio of Llanerch Rugog, who married 
Lleuci, daughter of Tegin ab Madog ab lorwerth Goch 
ab Frondeg ab Ednyfed Foel ab leuaf Fychan ab leuaf 
Nyniaw, by whom be had issue three sons ; 1, leuan ; 
2, Madog ; and 3, David ab Deicws of Cae Cyriog. 

leuan ab Deicws of Llanerch Rugog, the eldest son, 
married Gwenhwyfar, daughter of leuan ab Llywelyn ab 
Grufiydd, second son (by Lleuci, his wife, daughter 
and co-heiress of leuan ab PhUip ab Maredydd ab 
Gruffydd ab Madog Danwr, Lord of Llangurig), of 
Ednyfed ab Gruffydd ab lorwerth ab Einion Goch ah 
Einion, Lord of Sonlli and Eyton Uchaf, by whom he 
had issue a son and heir, 

John ab leuan of Llanerch Rugog, who married 
Catherine, daughter of Howcl ab Gruffydd ab leuan 
DdO of Bers, ab Howel ab Hwfa ab lorwerth ab Gruf- 
fydd of Bers or Bersham, second son of leuaf ab Nyniaw 
ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn {gules, two lions passant in 



56 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

pale argent, for lorwerth ab Gniffydd of Bersham), by 
whom he had issue a son and heir, Hugh, and four 
daughtera ; 1, Elizabeth, ux. William Lloyd of Plas 
Uwch y Clawdd {argent, a lion rampant sable, armed, 
langued, and crowned gules) ; 2, Angharad, ux. Randle 
ab John ab David ab Llywelyn of P14s Madog; 3, 
Marsli, ux. John ab John ab Kobert ab Gruflydd ab 
Howel of Croes Foel ; and 4, Alice, ux. Edward ab 
Howel of Tref Fechan in Cristionydd, second son of 
Edward ab Madog Puleston. 

Hugh ab John ab leuan of Llanerch Rugog, married 
Catherine, daughter of John Eyton of Watstay, ab John 
ab Elis Eyton, by whom he had issue four sons ; 1, John 
ab Hugh, of whom presently ; 2, Roger ab Hugh, who 
married Myfanwy, daughter of John, second son of 
Edward ab Maredydd of Fron Deg, in the parish of 
Wrexham, son of Gruflfydd ab Adda ab Howel of Llys 
Trevor, by whom he had issue, David,^ Charles, Alice, 
Elen, and Catherine ; 3, Owain ab Hugh, who married 
Elizabeth, daughter of John Bersham of Bersham, ab 
William ab Howel ab Gruffydd ab leuan DdA of Ber- 
sham {^ides, two lions passant in pale argent), by whom 
he had a daughter and heiress, Marsli, who married John 
Sonlli ab John Sonlli of Fron D^g, fourth son of Ex)bert 
Wynn Sonlli of Sonlli ; and 4, Eichard ab Hugh, who 
married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of John ab Edward, 
by whom he had issue John and Gwen ; he married, 
secondly, Alice, daughter of Randle ab David, by whom 
he had issue three sons, Edward, Thomas, and George, 
who were all living in 1607, and six daughters, of whom 
Margaret, the eldest, married Lancelot Lloyd of Yr 
Orsedd Goch {azure, a lion salient or). Hugh ab John 
ab leuan of Llanerch Rugog, had likewise two daughters ; 
1, Catherine, ux. Edward Erddig of Erddig, ab John 
Erddig ; and 2, ux. Hugh Wynn of Bryn Owain, 

^ David married and had issue two sons: 1, Edward of Cristionydd, 
who sold his estate to Ellis Lloyd of Penylan ; 2, Robert of Cristion- 
ydd ; and two daughters : 1, Elizabeth, ux. Edward ab Hugh of 
Cristionydd, and 2, Catherine ux. William Herbert. 



MANOR OF Y GLWYSEGL. 57 

third son of David Eyton of Eyton Uchaf {ermine, a lion 
rampant sable). 

John ab Hugh of Llanerch Rugog, the eldest son, 
married Gwenhwyfar or Gwenllian, daughter of John 
Erddig ab David Goch of Erddig, by whom he had issue 
one Bon, Richard Hughes, and four daughters ; 1, Cathe- 
rine, ux. Handle Davies ; 2, Elen, ux. Walter Panton, 
Vicar of Tirveccan, in Ireland ; 3, Mary, married, first, 
John ab Edward, and, secondly, Gruffydd ab Edward ; 
and 4, Jane, ux. Richard Lloyd, third son of William 
Lloyd of P14s Madog. 

Richard Hughes of Llanerch Rugog, married Jane, 
daughter of David ab Matthew Wjnu ab David of Llys 
Trevor in Nanheudwy, by whom he had, besides two 
daughters — 1, Elizabeth, and 2, Margaret, ux. Lancelot 
Hughes of Gorsedd Goch — a son and heir, 

Edward Hughes of Llanerch Rugog, who married his 
cousin, Jane, daughter of Richard Hughes of Cadwgan 
Fechan, by whom he had issue two sons; 1, Roger 
Hughes, who died s. p. ; and 2, Richard Hughes, and 
one daughter, Pamel, the heiress of her brother. 

Richard Hughes, the second son, went to Virginia, and 
on his return succeeded to the Llanerch Rugog estate. 
He was living in 1620, and married Maig, daughter of 
Lancelot Lloyd of Yr Orsedd Goch, living in 1604, ab 
Thomas Lloyd, and relict of John Rathbone of Chester, 
by whom he had no issue ; and at his death he was 
succeeded by his only sister, 

Paruel Hughes of Llanerch Rugog. She married John 
Payne of Morton, in Flintshire, attorney-at-law, and, 
dying in 1696, left an only son and heir, 

John Payne of Llanerch Rugog. He married a lady in 
London, by whom he had an only daughter and heiress, 
Mary Pajrne, who married William Higgons of Shrop- 
shire, by whom she had an only daughter and heiress, 
Elizabeth Higgons of Llanerch Rugog, who died without 
issue and unmarried, April 19th, 1811. The Hugheses 
of Llanerch Rugog are therefore extinct ; but the estate 
now belongs to a family of the name of Jones, who came 



S8 



HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 



from Chilton Hall in Shropshire ; but vhether they be- 
came possessed of Llanerch Rugog by purchase or by 
gift is not known. — (Cae Cyriog MS.) 




Y GLWTSEGL.— MORTON UWCH T CLAWDD. 
PLAS UWCH T CLAWDD. 



Cae Cyriog MS. ; Harl MS. 19C9 j Add. MS. 9864. 



Ednyfed ab Qtnffydd ab David ab Bhys Frchan ab BIijb Qifigr 
Lord of LlauTindoferi, ab Yr Arjjlwjdd KhyB, Prince of Souih 
Wales. Jrgrat, a lion rampant table, armed, langued and 
crowned gvUt. Bee p. 32i, note. 



Arddun, d. 

of leuaf ab 
Cynwrig 
ab Khiw- 



Ithelab 

Bdnjfed. leuaa 

I Ystrad Ainu, Quia, 

Ma dog ab Itbel. =p 



d, of Llywelyn ab Mado^ Poel, Lord of T Glwyeeitl ab 

ID ab Llywelyn ab dravmg Efell, Lord T aiwjnegl, and 

' " ~ " ' a bend argent, a lion pOBsaut table. 



-Angharad, d. of John Puleaton ab Bobert Puleflton ab Kchard 
i^leston of Bmeral. iSoile, three mulleti ardent. 

Her motber was Owenllian, d. of David ab David ab Tenan ab 
lorwerth ab David ab Qorouwy ab lorwarth ab Howel ab Morei- 
ddig ab Banddef Haidd or the Handsome, Lord of Uorton or 
Burton and Llai. 



David =i=Angharad, d. and co-heir«BB of Modog, eon of Lly- John Wynn of 
IJojd. welyn ab Ednjfed of BonllL Madog died in Escluaham. 
I 1481. Ermint, a, lion rampant table. 

■William Lloyd of Plie ITwcliYEUEabeth, d. of John ab John Lloyd of Plis 
J Clawdd, A twin with his j leuan ab Deicws of ; Bada. A twin. 
brother John Lloyd. | Llanerch Bugog. 



MANOB OF T OLWYSEOL. 



ThomftB Lloyd of Plls^DoTothy, d. of Bobert Lloyd of the Bi2m, L 
Uwclk J Clawdd. I pyiBh of Huiiuei, one of the QuArd to ( 
I Elizabeth. 

John Lloyd of Plia Uwoh y Clftirdd.'^M] 
liTJng in 1620. | 

Thoniaa Lloyd, died yoang, Eleii, died young, Elizabeth, died yonng. 



|2 
Jane, ^Thomas Elizabeth, a 



of FUa 
Uwchy 
CUwdd. 



Jonea, John Wynn, Par- 

yoQUger eon of UaogMi- 

brother hafal, ab David 

of Wynn ah 

Bichafd Thomaa ab John 

Jones of Wynn. 
Westyn 

Bbyn. 



Elen.'ai. Bichard 

ab John ab David 

ab Edward of 



Anne, married 
lat, ... Wynn 
of Oveiton ; 



Llanfiuiben. Wilde of Wrei. 



£leanor, married Ffrancia Ediabury of Hafod y Bwch, 1630, second son of 
BJ«bard Ediabmy of London, second eon of Cynwiig EdiBbnry, alUu Wil- 
kinaon of HarcbwiaiL 




T GLWTSEGL.— MORTON UWCH Y CLAWDD. 

PENTREF CLAWDD. 

Cae Gyriog MS. 



Joh n ab Bob«tti of Pentref Clairdd.^ 



60 HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 

David Lloyd of Pentref Clawdd,=T=Catherine, d. of Howel ab Edward ab T 



which place he sold to Eenrick 
Edisbury of Street yr Hwch in 
Marohwiail, and it now belongs 
to Mr. Yorke of Erddig. 



Badi Llwyd of Cefh y Fedw in Cris- 
tionydd, ab Madog ab Owain ab Gruff- 
ydd ab Cynwrig Efell, Lord of Y Glwy- 
segl. Oules, on a bend argent, a lion 
passant sable. 

Owain Lloyd of Plas yc Barbara, d. of Henry Williams of Cochwillan, 

Drain, afterwards and Jane, his wife, d. and heiress of Thomas 

called Llwyn Owain, in Salusbary of Denbigh, third son of Sir John 

the township of Morton Salusbary of Lleweni, Knt. Henry Williams, 

Uwch y Clawdd. who sold Cochwillan to the Earl of Pembroke, 

Buried at Rhiwabon July was the son and heir of William Williams of 

19th, 1671. JVynn^tay Cochwillan, co. Caernarvon, and Barbara, his 

MS,; Harl, MSS. 1969, wife, daughter of George Lumley, and sister 

4181. and heir of John, Lord Lumley, and relict of 

Humphrey Llwyd.— Harl. MS, 4181; Wynrutay 
MS. 



EDISBURY OF ERDDIG AND WREXHAM. 

This family derives its name from Edisbury Hall in 
the hundred of the same name in Cheshire, where there 
was once an ancient castle, built by Ethelfleda, Queen of 
Mercia. 

The next we learn of this family is from two monu- 
ments in Chatham Church in Kent. The first is to the 
memory of Robert Wilkinson Edisbury, Gent, of March- 
wiail, CO. Denbigh, who died Sept. 1610. The second 
monument is to his son, Kenrick Edisbury of Bedwal, in 
the parish of Marchwiail, who was Surveyor of His 
Majesty's Navy. He died Aug. 27, 1638, leaving issue 
by his wife Mary (daughter and heiress of Edward 
Peters, alias Harding, of Rochester, Gent.), two sons ; 1, 
John, of whom presently ; and 2, Richard, who was one 
of the persons afterwards taken prisoner with Sir Gerard 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, at Eyton, by Colonel Mytton in 
1643. This Richard, who was of London, was father of 
Francis Edisbury of Hafod y Bwch, who married Eleanor, 
daughter of Thomas Johnes of PI^s Uwch y Clawdd, in 
the township of Morton Uwch y Clawdd, or Morton 
Wallicorum, younger brother of Richard Jones of Weston 
Rhyn, by whom he had three children, Richard, John, 
and Anne. 



EDISBCRY OF ERDDIG AND WREXHAM. 61 

John, the eldest son of Kenrick Edisbury, was born at 
Chatham in 1601. At his father's death in 1638 he 
came to Wales, and settled at Pentref Clavvdd, in the 
township of Morton Uwch y Clawdd, which place his 
father had bought from David Lloyd ab John ab Robert 
ab John, who was descended from Ithel Felyn, Lord of 
VaL Soon afterwards, John Edisbury bought the Erddig 
estate. His eldest son, Joshua, who was Churchwarden 
of Rhiwabon in 1661, built the present house at Erddig 
in 1678, and was High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1682. 
He resided at Erddig till his death. In 1715 the estate 
was sold under a decree of Chancery to John Mellor, a 
Master in Chancery, of the family of Mellor s Chapel in 
Derbyshire, who bequeathed it to his nephew (son of his 
eldest sister), Simon Yorke, Esq., first cousin to the Lord 
Chancellor, the Earl of Hardwicke. 

The Edisburys, who were ardent Royalists, lost their 
estates in the Great Rebellion in the seventeenth 
century. 

Joshua's eldest son managed to retain Bersham Hall 
(built by his father in 1698), and resided there. He 
died, leaving it to James, born Nov. 16th, 1735, and he, 
dying Nov. 4th, 179i^, left it to his son Charles, who 
was bom in 1772, and died in 1848, and was succeeded 
by his son James, born Feb. 7th, 1803, who dying 
Sept. 29th, 1859, left it to his son James Fisher Edis- 
bury, the present owner, who was born Oct. 13th, 1837 ; 
and married, in 1867, Minnie, second daughter of T. C. 
Jones, Esq., M.P. for the Borough of Wrexham, and has 
issue two daughters, Minnie Adeline, born Aug. 3, 1868, 
and Phillis May, born Sept. 27, 1870. 



HISTOKY OF POWyS FADOG. 




MANOR OF T GLWTSEGL.— TOWNSHIP OF ERDDIG. 

ERDDIG OF ERDDIG. 

Fabish or Gbesfobd. 



SVohuL 



rertby] 



IJjwel}ni.'^ETa, d. of David David Gocli, ai 
ab lenui ab lor- ceator of the 
wertb ftb David 
ab Ooronw; of 
Saiton and 



-Llenci, d. of leoaf ab Llywelyn ab Cynwrig 'EMI, 
Lord of T Qlwyaogl. QmUi, on a bind argntt, a 
lion paaaant laHt 



Llai. 



Bobertaea of 
Croea Foel and 
Hafod y Bwcb. 



Howal of Croea Madog 
Foel, ancestor Ddu. 
of the Joneaee 
of Croea Foel 
andPluCad- 



Ieuaii.=f Angharad, d. of Mados ab lorwerth Qocb ab lor- VLtAog, ancea. 

wertb FychoD of Maen Owjnedd, descended tor of the 

from Idnerth Benfraa. Lord of Macsbrwg. Her Trafforda of 

mother waa Owenllian, d. of Y Teg Fadog', Benea- Esdnahom. 
ohal of Oraffydd, Lord of (^lyndyfrdwy, and son 
of Madog ab OmS^dd ab Owain Brogyntjn. 



. I 



Tmaohymbyd (Bacbymbyd). ab Maredydd ab lilywelyn ab 
Madoe ab Einion ab Maredydd ab Uohdryd, Lord of Cyfeiliog, 
son of Edwyn ab Qoninwy, Prince of Tegain^l. Argent, a crooa 
^oiy enifcailed $abU, inter fonr Cornish chougha, ppr. 



Edward^..., d. of Euifh ab John ab lenan ab Qwenllian, ui. John ab 

Erddig j Deicwsof Llanerch Kugos- Ermine, Husb ab Jobnab leuan 

-' - i;-^ j^mpajit laUt. ab Deicns of L1aiier«h 



of a U< 

Irddig. I 



BACHYMBYD. 



63 



Joh n Wynn Erddig of Erddig.= p 

John Erddig=pjudith, d. of David Lloyd ab John ab Robert ab David ab 



of Erddig, 

ob. 1653, 

»t. 59. 



John of Pentref Clawdd. Her mother was Catherine, d. of 
Howel ab Edward of Cristionydd, ab Y Badi Llwyd ab lor- 
werth ab leuaf ab Einion Gethin of Cristionydd ab Madog 
ab Owain ab Gmffydd ab Cynwrig Efell, Lord of Y 
Glwysegrl. 



)DertEr-=i=^ 



Robert Er-=pJoan, d. of John 



ddig of 
Erddig. 



Hendor of Hen- 
dor in Cornwall 



Margaret. 



I 
Mary. 



Edward Er- =j= Eliza- 
ddig, ob, 15th both. 

March 1658, 
aged 29. 



Jane, ux. Ed- 
ward Williams 
of Pentref 
Pelyn. 



I 
Elizabeth. 




BACHYMBYD. 

In the Comot of Cynmbiech in the Cantrep of Ystbad, and 

IN THE Parish op Llanynys.^ 

Myvyrian MS. 15.045. 



Llywelyn ab Madog of Plas ym Machymbyd, ab Einion ab Maredydd ab' 
Uchdryd ab Edwyn ab Goronwy, Prince of TepjeingL This Llewelyn ab 
Madog owned Y Plas ym Machymbyd, and the neatest part of Tref Maes 
Maen Cymro, and Tref Bryn Caredig, and he had lands also in Gyffy- 
lliog and Derwen Anial. ^ 



Mare dydd of PlAs ym Machymbyd.=7= 

Hi 



I 

Madog. 



|6 



^ The parish of Llanynys contains six townships : Tref Maes Maen 
Cymro, Tref Bryn Caeredig and Tref Fechan in the comot of Llanerch 
in Dyffryn Clwyd, Rhydonen in the comot of Dogfeilin in Dyffryn 
Clwydy and Bachjmbjd and Ysgeibion in Cynmeirch. 



64 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



Mado^ of PU8=i= 
ym Machy- 
mbyd« 



I*. 

David=T= 



Einion.: 



These two shared the lands in Gy£^lliog, 
Bryn Caredig, and Maes Maen Cymro. 



I 
Gruffydd, ofYPl&8=r 

ym Machymbyd. I 



Ithel.=j= David, ob. 8.p., and his lands went to 

I Edward ab Ithel, his nephew. 

Eldward ab Ithel, oh. s. p., and his lands went by 
escheat to the Lord, from whom they passed to 
Sir John Holland, who levied fines upon them, and 
sold the same and David ab Einion's part to John 
Salnsbury. 



Howel, had lands in Tref- 
Maes Maen Cymro. 



David, had lands = 
in Tref Maes 
Maen Cymro. 



Madog of Y PUs ym Machymbyd. t 



lenan of Y= 

Plas ym 

Mach- 

mbyd. 



=Angharad, d. of Howel Coetmor ab Gruflfydd Fychan of Nant 
Conwy, ab Gruffydd, son of David Goch, Lord of Denbigh, 
illegitimate son of David, Lord of Denbigh, second son of 
Gruffydd ab Llewelyn, Prince of Wales. Arms, quarterly, 
1st and 4th, cuure, a chev. inter three fleurs-de^lys argent, for 
the Baron Howel Coetmor; 2nd and 3rd, sable, a Uon rampant 
argent, in a border engrailed or, for David Goch, Lord of 
Denbigh. ^^ 



Madog of Y PlA8=FCatherine, d. of Gru£fydd ab Lleuci, ux. Howel ab leuan 



ym Machymbyd. 



Lly welyn ab Gruffydd. 



ab Lly welyn ab Gruffydd 
ab lorwerth Fychan of 
Erddig. 



ii 



1=* 

David Lloyd.=j= 

Ri chard Lloyd .=f= 

1 : 

Harri Lloyd.=f=Margaret, d. of Eichard Wyrrall. Margaret. 



Hugh ab Madog. He sold Pl&s ym 
Machymbyd to Mr. John Salus- 
bury. 



John Lloyd of Gwem y To.=f=..., d. of Tudor ab Bobert of Segrwyd. 

V 



The township of Bachymbyd contains eight hundred 
and forty acres, three roods and a half of land, wood, and 
waste, in the holding of free tenants. Thereof Ralph ab 
Maredydd and leuaf ab Maredydd held the third part of 
the township, which third part fell "entire" to the lord, 
as so much escheat, because all the tenants rose contrary 
to the peace in two wars. And the sixth part of the 
township was in the tenure of the descendants of Gruf- 



MAES MAEN CYMBO. G5 

fydd ab Maredydd. And thereof one-half fell to the 
lord as escheat, by reason of the aforesaid insurrections. 

And there are also sixty-two acres of land and wood 
of which the lord takes no profit. 

And there is a certain water-mill there, rendering 
thirty-four shillings and fourpence annually in season. 
Extenta Castri et Honoris de Denbeigh, facta per Hugo- 
nem de Beckele, 1334. 



MAES MAEN CYMRO. 
Earl MS. 1969. 

Howel of ICaes Maen Cymro ab Madog ab Maredydd ab Llywelyn ab=f 
Madog ab Einion ab Mar^ydd ab Uchdryd. | 

j 

Cy nwrig of Maea Maen Cymro.=^ David Trevor.=7= 

Mad og of Maee Maen Cyinro.=T= Twna, 06. s,p. Cynwrig. 

Lly welyn. =pAng]iarad, d. of Owain ab Howel o f Llanynys. 

1| 2] 31 4 I 5 I I 

Sobert.=j=Anne Cotton, sister Madog. John. Gwenhwyfar, ax. Llywel' 

of Sir Hugh Cotton Thomas, yn^ ab Einion ab Madog 

of Combermere, HoweL of lAanganhafal, ab lor- 

Knt. werth Goch ab Madog 

I Goch ab Heilin Fyohan 

Symon-TCatherine, d. ofBobertabRhysab ab HeiHn ab leuaf ab 

Llywelyn ab Hwloyn. Qrnffydd ab Ooronwy ab 

Owain ab Edwin. 



I 
Robert ^Margaret, d. of Robert ab Rhys of Ffynnogion in Tilanfair Dyffiryn 

I Clwyd. 

I 
Symon Roberts of Maee Maen Cyniro.=f'Cicilie, d. of Edward Goodman of 
^1 Ruthin. 

TUlHam Roberts of Maes Maen Cymro, D.D., Bishop of Bangor, 1637. 



MAES MAEN CYMRO. 

David Lloyd ab John Wynn ab Madog ab Llywelyn ab Madog ab Cynw rig-T-» 
ab Howel, second son of Madog ab Maredydd of Plto ym Machymbyd. [ 

Ho gh sl> DaTJd Lloyd.=f » Elen, d. of Richard ab Gruffydd ab John of Llanynys^ 
Band Lloyd. 



^ Llywelyn of Llangynafal had a son named Gniffydd, the father 
of Robert, the father of John Wynn, whose son Richard was father of 
Richard Wynn of Llanganafal. 

▼OL. III. 5 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 



MAES MAEN CYMRO. 



Da TJd, third iod of Madi^ ab Maredydd of Plia yn Maohrmb7d.T 
Gnif^dd. 7Lleae;, d. of Uadog Rb Oniffjdd Fycham. 



Or ngydd Qoeb, who killed Ednyfed ab Y DaLT 



Sdwftrd^F^aif^aret, d. of QniSydd ab SirThomai^or-^Huy, nater of 

I John Gml^dd 
ab Thomas of 
Tre'r Cefa in 



Thomu ab John ab Belya gao, Clk., Ticar J 

ab ab Goionwy ab of Ciloain. 

EinioD of Cilcain. 



John of 
Haes 



I 



,1 



, I . 



ThoiDBB= Catherine, John = Qrace, Harris 

Hor^a. d. of John Morgan d. of Mof. 

ab BhfB ab Vicar of Bich- gmn. 

Earn of Nann- ard Vicar 

Maea y erch. Moetyn of 

Qroea. of Pen Cil- 

y 0«lli. oain. 



I Q wenhwyfar, d. 

of Bobert Mor- 
gan of Llana- 

ber (ab Bobert 
Morgan), by 
Annest, d. of 
Jolin Fiyee of 
LlwynTn. 




MANOR OF Y GLEWYSEGL.- TOWNSHIP OP 
BROUGHTON.T-JONES OP PRON DEG. 

Oae Cyriog MS. ; Earl. MS. 4181. 

Oraffydd, second aon of Adda ab^Angliarad Fechan, d. of Llywelynab 
Howel ab leuaf ab Adda ab Awr of | Owain ab Qruffydd ab Owain, eon 
Llya Trevor in Nanheudwy. of Bleddyn ab Owain Bn^yntyn, 

I r.nrd of D i nm ael. 



MANOR OF Y OLEWYSEGL. 



I I 

MaredyddabrfrAngharad^ d. of leuan ab Madog 
Oroffydd. Goch of Cae Madog Coch in Cris- 

tionydd. Ermine, a lion rampant 
sable. 



I 



&| 2 e 

Edward. He went 

from Trevor to 

Llanfair Dyffiryn 

Clwyd. 



BobertofPentref 
Cohelyn in Llan- 
fair Dyffryn 
Clwyd. ancestor 
of the Lloyds of 
Berth and 
Bhagad. 



|4 I I 

lor- Gwen,uz.Maredydd 
worth. ab leuan Llwyd, 
ancestor of the 
Pryses of Derwen 
Anial. Argent, six 
bees, ppr. 3, 2, I, 



..., uz. 

leaan ab 

Gwyn 

Llwyd. 



Edwardof FronD^g, nearWrez.^Myfanwy, d. of Rhys ab leoan ab Mare- 
ham, and of Cristionydd; living dydd, olios Y Goch ab leuan Ddu. 
2 0th Henry VII. Gules, a lion rampant argent. 

M [2 i 

Howel ^Angharad, d. of Howel ab John of Y Goedladd ...,ux. Ralph 



of Fron 
D*g. 



I 



David ab Gruffydd of Mar- in Bhiwabon. 

chwiaiL Ermine, a lion See voL ii, p. 895. 
rampant asure. 



ab Robert* 



David of Fron Ddg. 7 Janet, d. of Boger Deocaf of Bhwytyn. Ermine, a lion 
^1 rampant oiure. 

Edward ab David of 7 Margaret, d. of Elis ab David ab Bobert of Gnoltyn in 



Fron Ddg, oft. 13th 
March 1655. 



Overton Madog, ob. 13th January 1622. 



II 
John ab 

Edward 

of Fron 

Dig- 



2 1 2 

=pMary, d. of Balph Boger ab»...,d. of Boger absElen, d. of 
I Wynn ab David Edward, William ab Madog John 
I Wynn ab Edward s, p, Goch of Fron Brereton. 

I of Wrexham. D£g. 



Edward 

Jones of 

Fron Dig. 



Alice, d. of Gruffydd Lloyd 
of Llanarmon yn liX. 
Sable, on a chev. inter 
three trefoils of the field, 
three goat's heads erased 



Bondle 
Jones, 
ob. s. p. 



Elizabeth, uz. 

Edward WU- 

liams of Fron 

D^. 



Sarah, 

uz. 

Ed. 

ward 

Jones. 



or. 



\ 



Mary Jones, heiress of Fron Dig, married her cousin Gruffydd Lloyd, eldest 
son of Gabriel Lloyd of Llanarmon yn lAl, ab David ab Thomas ab David 
Lloyd ab David ab Bhys ab Gruffydd ab Gwilym ab Ithel ab Y Gwion 
0am ab lenaf ab Howel Foel or Hwfa Foel of Cymo in the parish of Llan- 
dysilio in lill, ab Hwfa ab Ithel Felyn, Lord of Iftl and Ystrad Alun. 
Maiy Jones died young in 1690, and her husband, Ghruffydd Lloyd, also died 
yoon^ the same year, leaving two children, Edward Lloyd of Llanarmon 
in lu and Fron D^, and one daughter, Margaret Lloyd. The above- 
named Edward Uoyd married Barbara, daughter of Edward Elis of Coed 
yCra. 



52 



HISTORY OF POWys PADOO. 




ELLIS OP GROES NEWYDD. 

Elii ab Graflydd ab Owyn ab Goronwy ab OwilTm ftb Haredndd of Tt Hob=f= 
ab Gra^dd ab Llywelfn ab Howel ab Moreiddig ab Sanddef Hatdd, I 
L ord of Morton. ^| 

Kc hard ali Elie of Hopa.=p GwenliwyEar, d. of John Ithel Wynn of Goody LlaL 

Elis ab Bichard.^Anne, d. of Hugh Vychan ab David ab William. Her 
mother was Catherioe, d. of Thomas Qrifflth of Pant 7 
I liongdn. 



Gr nfl^dd Elia of Fron Deg.^ 



Peter Elie of Wrexham, 1636. 



Thomas eW, QoTemor of the leland of 
^Barbadoeo, 




Y GLWYSEGL. — TOWNSHIP OF ACTON. 
JEFFRIES OF ACTON. 
Cae Ct/riog MS. 
Biehard ab lenao, third » 



Bo bart B^chan T -Mai^aret. d. of John B;ton. 



Y GLWYSEGL. 



69 



l« 



Hugh ab 7 Janet, d. and co-heir of Madog Llwydd ab Llywelyn ab lolyn ab 
Robert. David ab Deicws ab leaaf ab lolyn Foel ab Madog Goch ab 
Madog ab leoaf ab Nyniaw ab Cynwrig ab BhiwaUawn. Er- 
mine, a lion rampant Boble, 



mej=Y 



Jeo: 

ab 
Hagh. 



Catherine, d. of Bichard ab Richard ab Howel, second son of 
John ab Einion ab lolyn ab lorwerth of Borasham, fourth son 
of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd ab Cadwgan, Lord of Eyton, Erlys, 
and Borasham. Ermine, a lion rampant oiure. 



I 



John Je£EreyB of Wrexham, one=pMargaret. d. of William Lloyd of Halchdyn, 



of the Judges of North Wales, 
o&. Idth May 1621; buried 
in Wrexham Church. 



I 



in the parish of Hanmer. She married 
secondly, Thomas Lreland, Chamberlain 
of Chester; and thirdly. Sir Edward 
Trevor of Bryn Cunallt, fint. 



John Jeffirevs of Acton, High Sheriff 7 Margaret, d. of Sir Thomas Lreland 
for CO. Denbigh, 1655. He out- of Bewsey in com. Lancaster, Ent., 
Hved all his sons. ab Thomas Lreland. 



|1 
John Jeffreys, z Dorothy, d. 



died in his 
father's life- 
time, 1670, 
aged 34. 



of Sir Gruff- 
ydd Wil- 
liams of 
Penrhyn, 
Bart. 



Ed- 
ward. 



3 I 4| 5 

Thomas. Charles. 

William. 



I|6 
Sir George 
Jeffireys, Knt. 
and Baronet. 



7 18 I 

Jemrey Jeffreys James Jeffreys, Margaret, ux. Robert 
of T GlwysegL D.D. Betton of Shrews- 

bury. 



Sir Gruffydd Jeffreys of Acton, Knight, High Sheriff 7 Dorothy, sister of Ro 



tor CO. Denbigh, 1683, in which year he was mar- 
ried. He buSt a new house at Acton in place of 
the old one. He was knighted in 1687, and died 
4th March 1694, and buried at Wrexham.^ 



bert Pleydell of Am- 
ney Holyrood, Esq., 
High Sheriff for co. 
Gloucester in 1682. 



Robert Jeffireys of Acton, Elizabeth, heiress of her brother Robert, mar- 
oh, ».p. ried John Robinson of Gwersyllt ab William 

Robinson. 



2 I 3 

MargiEhret, ob. t. p, Frances, married to Philip Egerton of Acton, ob. t. p. 



Ellis Yonge of Bryn lorcyn purchased the Acton 
estate from the trustees of the said John Robinson ; and 
in 1785 Acton was purchased from Mr. Yonge's trustees 
by Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart. 

Thomas, the third son of John Jeffreys, the High 
Sheriff for Denbighshire in 1655, resided for a long time 
in Spain as British Consul at Alicant and Madrid. He 
was made a Knight of Alcantara, and for the honour of 

* His will waa dated March 6th, 1694, and proved May 30th, 1696. 



70 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

the descendants of Tudor Trevor, from whom the 
Jeffreys are sprung, the proofs of his descent were ad- 
mired even by the proud Spaniards. He rendered 
himself so acceptable to the Spanish ministry as to be 
recommended to our Court to succeed Lord Lansdowne 
as British Envoy ; but the revolution put a stop to his 
promotion. Fine full-length portraits of him and his 
brother George were removed from Acton to Erddig.^ 

George, the sixth son of the above named John Jef- 
freys, was bom at Acton in the year 1548, and educated at 
Shrewsbury, St. Paul's, and Westminster. He was entered 
of the Lower Temple, May 19th, 1663, was Recorder of 
London at the age of thirty, and was appointed solicitor 
to the Duke of York. He was made a Welsh judge in 
1680, knighted and made chief justice of Chester, and 
in 1681 obtained a baronetcy. In 1683 he was ap- 
pointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and on 
the accession of James II in 1685, was raised to the 
peerage by the title of Baron Jeffreys of Wem, in the 
county of Salop. After the defeat of the Duke of Mon- 
mouth he was placed at the head of the special commis- 
sion appointed to try the rebels, and his ready zeal 
in carrying out the sanguinary directions of the king, 
obtained for him a notorious celebrity not soon forgotten 
by the reader of Lord Macaulay's account of the '* Bloody 
Assize". In 1685 he was appointed Lord Chancellor, 
and in 1689 (1st William and Mary) was committed to 
the Tower on a charge of high treason, and died there 
April 19th, 1690, at the early age of forty-two.* He 
married first,^ Mary, daughter of Thomas Needham, M.A., 

1 Pennant*8 Tours in Wales, i, 406, 408. 

* The details of his life may be found in his Memoirs, by Woobrych; 
Lord Campbeirs Lives of the Chancellors ; Fosse^s Jvdges ; and Macau- 
lay's History. 

^ Pennant thus describes the manner in which this marriage was 
contracted : " About this time he made clandestine addresses to the 
daughter of a wealthy merchant, in which he was assisted by a young 
lady, daughter of a clergyman. The affair was discovered, and the con- 
fidante turned out of doors. Jeffreys, with a generosity unknown to 
him in his prosperous days, took pity and married her. She proved 
an excellent wife, and lived to see him Lord Chief Justice.^ 



Y GLWYSEGL. 71 

by whom he had issue — ^besides two daughters : 1, Margaret, 
married to Sir Thomas Stringer, and 2, Sarah, married 
to Captain Harnage of the Marines — a son and heir, John, 
Lord JeflFreys, who succeeded to the title and the estates, 
but dying in 1703, without male issue, the title became 
extinct. By his wife. Lady Charlotte Herbert, daughter 
and heiress of Philip, Earl of Pembroke, he had issue an 
only daughter and heir, Henrietta Louisa, who was mar- 
ried to Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret. 

George, Lord Jeffreys, married secondly, Anne, daughter 
of Sir Thomas Blodworth, Knight, and relict of Sir John 
Jones of Furman \in Gloucestershire. 

James, the seventh son of John Jeffreys, the High 
Sheriff in 1655, was a Canon of Canterbury, and grand- 
father of Dr. Jeffreys, Rector of Whitford, and Residen- 
tiary of St Paul's. The Canon died of a broken heart, 
at the sad conduct and character of his brother.^ 



DAME DOEOTHY JEFFREY'S WILL. 
From William Teevoe Pabeins^ Esq. 

Dame Dorothy Jeffreys of Acton, whose good deeds entitle 
hep to be remembered in Wrexham and the adjoining pa- 
risheS; was the widow of Sir GriflBth JeflFreys, eldest son of 
John Jefl&eys — eldest brother of the Chancellor — and his wife 
Dorothy, daughter of Sir GriflBth Williams of Penrhyn, in 
Carnarvonshire. Sir GriflSth JeflTreys was knighted by James 
the Second at Whitehall, on the 13th of May 1687, and died 
in 1693. He rebuilt the house at Acton, and his name ap- 
pears in the list of SheriflFs for Denbighshire in 1683. 

Lady Dorothy did not long survive the execution of her 
will, which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canter- 
bury by the two daughters, Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Egerton, 
on the 29th of December 1729. Mrs. Egerton had no child- 
ren, and, in consequence of thie deaths of William, the only 
SOD of Mrs. Robinson, and his daughter Elizabeth, who died 
in infancy, the five daughters of Mrs. Robinson became even- 

^ Pennant makes this youngest son to be a Dean of Rochester, and 
states that his death occurred " on his road to visit his brother, the 
Chancellor, when under confinement iu the Tower." 



72 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

tually the only representatives of Sir Griffith Jeffiieys and Lady 
Dorothy. The three youngest of these ladies died anmarried. 
Dorothy, the eldest, married Ellis Yonge, and sncceeded to 
the estate of Acton, but left no children to inherit it; while 
Anne, the second one, became the wife of Cawley Humber- 
ston Cawley of Gwersylt, whose descendants have resumed 
their original name of Humberston. W. T. P. 

• 

'' In the Name of Ood Amen. 

'* I Dame Dorothy Jeffreys of Acton in the County of Den- 
bigh widow being in health of body and of perfect mind and 
memory (thanks be to God) do make this my last will and 
testament in manner following First and principally I commend 
my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator in hopes 
of Eternal Salvation through the merrits and intercession of my 
only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ my body I commit to 
the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Ex- 
ecutrixes herein after named and as for that worldly estate 
wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I give devise and 
dispose thereof as follow eth First I will that my debts and 
funeral expences be paid and satisfyed And whereas my late 
daughter Margaret Jeffreys by her last will and testament 
dated the thirtieth day of September one thousand seven hun- 
dred and eleven did bequeath to the poor of the parish of 
Wrexham in the said County of Denbigh the sum of one hun- 
dred pounds and also the sum of twenty pounds for the School- 
ing of Poor Children my mind and will is that the said lega- 
cies shall be paid and discharged as by the said will is directed 
And whereas by my deed dated the second day of September 
one thousand seven hundred and fifteen I have obliged my 
heirs executors and administrators to pay or cause to be paid 
the sum of four thousand pounds in such manner as by the 
said deed is directed being part of the marriage portion of my 
daughter Frances Bgerton wife of Philip Egerton of Acton 
aforesaid Esquire whereas alsoe I have by my deed dated the 
ninth day of May one thousand seven hundred and twenty 
eight further obliged my heirs executors and administrators to 
pay or cause to be paid the sum of four thousand pounds as 
an additional fortune to my daughter Elizabeth Robinson wife 
of John Robinson of Gwersilt in the said County of Denbigh 
Esquire as b}' the said deed is directed Now I do hereby 
ratifye and confirm my said several acts and deeds and my 
mind and will is that the same shall be duly paid according to 
the true intent and meaning thereof by my Executrixes here- 
after named out of my personall estate and in deficiency thereof 



DAME DOROTHY JEFFREY'S WILL. 73 

ont of my Real Estate (by mortgage sale or otherwise) which 
I do hereby charge with the payment of my said debts and 
also the several bequests and legacies hereafter mentioned 
Tizt. I give devise and bequeath unto the parish of Bangor 
in the said County of Denbigh the sum of five hundred pounds 
to be raised out of my said estate within six months after my 
decease and laid out to interest on land security and the inte- 
rest thereof to be applyed yearly for ever for the teaching to 
read and write and instructing in the Catechism according to 
the Church of England set forth and also for the putting out 
apprentices such and soe many poor children of the said 
parish of Bangor and in such manner as my said sons in law 
John Robinson and Philip Egerton and their heirs succes- 
sively for ever shall direct order and appoint but in default of 
such direction and appointment by them or any of them then 
such nomination direction and appointment of such children as 
aforesaid shall be by the rector or minister and churchwardens 
of the said parish of Bangor for the time being. Item I doe 
give and bequeath unto the said parish of Wrexham the sum 
of four hundred pounds (over and above the said legacies be- 
fore mentioned to be bequeathed by my said daughter Mar- 
garet) to be raised within six months after my decease and 
laid out to interest on land security and the interest thei*eof 
applied for the teaching and instructing and putting out ap- 
prentices such and soe many poor children of the said parish 
of Wrexham in such manner as my said sons in law and their 
heirs successively shall direct and appoint and in default 
thereof in such manner as the Vicar or Minister and Church- 
wardens for the time being of the said Parish of Wrexham 
shall direct and appoint. Item I bequeath unto the parish of 
Gresford the sum of fifty pounds to be raised within six 
months after my decease and laid out to interest and the yeo 
(sie) interest thereof yearly for ever applyed for the teaching 
and instructing such and so many poor children of the said 
Parish of Gresford in the Charity School there settled (over 
and beside the children that are or shall be appointed to be 
taught by virtue of the said Benefaction) and in such manner 
as my said sons in law and their heirs shall appoint and in 
default thereof in such manner as the Vicar or Minister and 
Churchwardens for the time being of the said parish of Gres- 
ford shall appoint Item I give unto the parish of Holt the 
Bum of Thirty Pounds to be raised within six months after my 
decease and laid out to interest and the interest thereof yearly 
for ever applied for the teaching and instructing such and so 
many poor children of the said parish of Holt in such manner 



74 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

as my said sons-in-law and their heirs shall appoint and in 
default thereof in such manner as the Minister and Church- 
wardens for the time being of the said parish of Holt shall 
direct and appoint Item I leave unto the parish of Marchwiel 
the sum of Twenty Pounds to be raised within six months 
after my decease and laid out to interest and the interest 
thereof yearly for ever distributed to such most necessitous 
poor of the said parish (exclusive of such as are or shall be in 
the Poors booke) and in such proportions as my said sons in 
law and Jbheir heirs shall order and appoint and in default 
thereof in such manner as the Rector or Minister of the said 
Parish of Marchwiel and the Churchwardens for the time 
being shall order and appoint Item I do further leave unto 
such poor house keepers as my executrixes shall order and ap- 
point who shall be living at the time of my decease on or 
about Rhosnesny in the said parish of Wrexham the sum of 
twenty pounds to be paid them within one month after my 
decease in such proportions and shares as my said Executrixes 
shall direct. 

" Item My mind and will is and I do hereby order that 
my said Executrixes shall pay to such Churchwardens of the 
said parish of Wrexham as shall be in such office at the time 
of the erecting a new Church in the said Parish for the per- 
forming Divine Service and Sermon in Welch the sum of one 
hundred pounds towards the erecting the said Church pro- 
vided the same shall be built within the space of seven years 
after my decease otherwise this my said bequest to be void. 

" Item I give and bequeath unto my said son in law John 
Robinson the sum of fifty pounds and to my said son in law 
Philip Egerton fifty pounds to my Grandson William Robin- 
son ten broad pieces of gold and to my niece Elizabeth Hughes 
five broad pieces of gold to be paid them severally within one 
mouth after my decease Item I do hereby give and be- 
queath unto my said daughter Elizabeth Robinson all my plate 
belonging to my Dressing Table as also my Crimson velvet 
Twilight Item I bequeath unto my said daughter Frances 
Egerton my diamint buckle and my gold watch with the 
chain and what thereto belongs and I commonly use there- 
with I also give unto her my Chariot Harnesses and Mares 
Item I give devise and bequeath unto my servant Sarah 
Hughes the yearly sum of ten pounds to be paid her quarterly 
during her life Item I give devise and bequeath unto the 
several persons hereafter named the several sums hereafter 
mentioned to be paid them severally within twelve months 
next after my decease (vizt.) To Mr. Price late Vicar of 



DAME DOROTHY JEFFRF.y's WILL. 75 

Wrexham aforesaid twenty guineas To Mr. Jones present 
Vicar of Wrexham aforesaid twenty guineas To such Curate of 
the said Parish of Wrexham as shall be officiating there at the 
time of my decease five guineas To William Jones the present 
Clerk of the said Parish of Wrexham two guineas To my god 
son Charles Hughes eldest son of my Nephew Robert Hughes 
of Trostry in the county of Monmouth Esqre twenty guineas 
To my god daughter Jane Jones the daughter of William 
Jones Esqre three guineas To Mrs Mary Yeude widow of Mr 
Thomas Yeude deceased three guineas To my godson Thomas 
Yeude eldest son of the said Mary Yeude five guineas To 
James Yeude the younger son of the said Mary Yeude one 
guinea To Alisha Yeude daughter of the said Mary Yeude one* 
guinea To my Cousin Beata Hudson spinster three guineas 
To my Cousin Clipsome two guineas To Mrs Price of Derwen 
one guinea to buy her a ring To my God daughter Dorothy 
Price daughter of John Price late of Wrexham deceased two 
guineas To my Coachman John Aston five guineas if living 
with me at the time of my decease To my Servant Elizabeth 
Wright two guineas To William Howell and Hannah Wright 
servants of my said son and daughter Egerton and to each of 
them one guinea and to such other servants of my said son 
and daughter Egerton as shall be living with me at the time 
of my decease forty shillings to be divided among them in 
such proportions and shares as my Executrixes shall think fit. 
" Item I give devise and bequeath after the payment of 
my debts legacies and funeral expences the one moiety or 
halfe part of all my messuages lands tenements and heredita- 
ments with their and every of their appurtenances in the 
several Parishes of Wrexham Bangor Gresford Holt and 
Marchwiel in the said County of Denbigh or elsewhere in the 
Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and all my 
right interest and title thereto to my said daughter Elizabeth 
Robinson for the term of her life and from and after her de- 
cease to my Grandson William Robinson son of the said John 
Robinson and Elizabeth Robinson and the heirs of his body 
lawfully issuing and in default of such issue to the second third 
and all other sons of the body of the said Elizabeth Robinson 
by the said John Robinson begotten or to be begotten suc- 
cessively and the heirs of such sons lawfully issuing and for 
default of such issue To the eldest daughter of the said Eliza- 
beth Robinson by the said John Robinson and the heirs of 
such eldest daughter lawfully issuing and for default of such 
issue to the second third and all other the daughters of the 
said Elizabeth Robinson by the said John Robinson succes- 



76 HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 

sively and the heirs of snch daughters lawfully issuing and in 
default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Eliza- 
beth Bobinson and in default thereof to the said William 
Robinson and his heirs for ever. 

" Item 1 give devise and bequeath after the payment of my 
debts legacies and funeral expences as aforesaid the other 
moiety or one halfe of all my said messuages lands tenements 
and hereditaments and all my right interest and Title thereto 
to my said daughter Frances Egerton for and during the term 
of her naturall life and from and after her decease to the first 
son of the body of the said Frances Egerton begotten or to be 
begotten and the heirs of such first son lawfully issuing and 
in default of such issue to the second third and all other the 
sons of the said Frances Egerton successively on her body be- 
gotten or to be begotten and the heirs of such sons lawfully 
issuing and in default of such issue to the eldest daughter of 
the said Frances Egerton and the heirs of such eldest daughter 
lawfully issuing and in default of such issue to the second 
third and all other the daughter and daughters of the said 
Frances Egerton successively and the heirs of such daughters 
lawfully issuing and in default of such issue to the said Wil- 
liam Robinson my Grandson and his heirs for ever. 

''And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my said 
daughters Elizabeth Robinson and Frances Egerton Execu- 
trixes and residuary Legatees of this my last will and Testa- 
ment revoking and disannulling all former wills by me hereto- 
fore made and I doe hereby publish and declare this to be my 
last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto 
put my hand and seal this third day of October in the second 
year of the Reigne of George the Seconde of Great Britain 
&c. King Defender of the Faith &c. Anno que Domini 1728 

" DoEOTHY Jeffreys.^' 

" Signed sealed published and declared by the Testatrix to be 
her last will and Testament contained in two sheets of paper 
in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses 
hereto in the said Testatrix presence. 

" Frances Egerton, '* Mary Egerton. 

"Tho. Davies.'' 



Much curiosity has been expressed about this Lady, who is 
deservedly remembered as the founder of several charities in 
Wrexham and the adjoining parishes. She died in 1729, 
having survived her husband, Sir Grifl5th Jefi'reys of Acton, 
for a long period, and her will was printed in Bye-gones for 



DAMfi DOROTHY JEFFREY'S WILL. 77 

April 1876. Her 'maiden name is omitted in the notice of Sir 
Griffith in Le Neve's Knights, and is not given in the Cae 
Ceiriog Book, Questions as to her family have been asked 
frequently, but have never, I believe, been answered. 

I have now before me a copy of Sir Griffith's will which 
effectnally clears up this uncertainty about " Dame Dorothy". 
I send it as likely to be interesting^ to many of those who read 
Byegones, And the following short statement of her parentage, 
for which I am indebted to the kindness of a friend, will 
shew exactly who she was, and explain several portions of both 
wills : — 

Robert Pleydell of Holyrood Amney, 7 Elizabeth, dau. of John Saanders, 



CO. GloQcester, Esq., oh. anno. 
1675, mtat. 58. 



M.D., ProTOst of Oriel College, 
Oxon. 



Elizabeth, wife of Dorothy, wife of Robert Pleydell, = Sarah, dan. of 
X^harlesHufs^hesof Sir Griffith only son and heir, Philip Shephard 

Trostry, oo. Jeffreys of Acton, Justice of the of Minching 

Monmoath, Esq. co. Denbigh, Et. Peace, and D.L., Hampton, co. 

CO. Monmouth. Gloucester, Esq. 

I may add that this branch of the widely- spread family of 
Pleydell is now represented by Lord Downe. The brother of 
Lady Dorothy Jeffreys was succeeded at Amney Holyrood by 
his only son, who was also Robert; and Charlotte Louisa, 
daughter and heir of this Robert Pleydell, married in 1724 
John Dawnay, eldest son of the 2nd Viscount Downe. Henry 
Pleydell Dawnay, and John Dawnay, the sons of this mar- 
riage, were successively 3rd and 4th Viscounts ; and the title 
still continues in the family of the latter. '^Pledwell^' the 
spelling of the name in Sir Griffith's will, is most probably the 
mistake of a lawyer or his clerk. W. T. P. 

Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate, 
Diyorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. 

In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 

'' In the name of God Amen this ninth day of March Anno 
Domini One thousand six hundred and ninety four and in the 
seventh yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord King 
William over England etc. I Griffith Jeffryes of Acton in the 
County of Denbigh Knight being weake in body but of per- 
fect memory (thankes bee to God) Doe make this my last 
Will and Testament revoking all other Wills heretofore by 
mee made. First I bequeath my soul into the hands of 
Almighty God my heavenly Father by whom of his meere 
grace I trust to bee saved through the meritts and death of 



78 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

my only Saviour and Redeemer Jesns Christ And my body to 
be buried in Christian buriall att the discretion of my over- 
seers and Trustees hereafter named and touching the dispo- 
sition of my worldly estate with which it hath pleased God to 
bless me I dispose thereof in manner following My debts and 
funerall expences being first paid and deducted And first 
whereas by certain marriage articles bearing date the twenty 
sixth day of July in the thirty fifth yeare of the reigne of our 
late Sovereign King Charles the Second Anno Domini one, 
thousand six hundred eighty three I covenanted agreed and 
promised to make a Settlement of Four hundred pounds per 
ann. if the said Marriage took effect cleare and free from all 
taxes and impositions whatsoever (public taxes only and always 
excepted) upon ' Dorathy Pledweir (sic) my then intended 
wife which said marriage was afterwards compleated and 
whereas by the said Settlement accordingly made it is men- 
tonM and declared that the intent and meaning thereof is only 
for the setlinff and securing to my deare Wife the yearly rent 
of Three hundred and fifty pounds per annum during her Ufe 
in lew and recompense of her dower joynture and meaning 
faithfully to fulfil keep and perform the said Articles I doe 
hereby will devise and bequeath unto my said dear Wife Fifty 
pounds yearly out of such part of my estate as is unsettled to be 
clearly and yearly paid her during her life as a rent charge by 
my executor hereafter named (publick taxes only excepted) to 
the intent that the said Articles may bee fully compleated and 
performed Item I give and bequeath unto my three daughters 
Elizabeth Margaret and Frances or if more bee liveing at 
the time of my decease the sum of six thousand pounds to be 
equally divided among them and two or more survivors of 
them or in case there happen to bee but one daughter then my 
will is that shee have the sum of Five thousand pounds only 
paid her And touching the time of payment of the said 
porc^ons my will is that my Executor doe pay the said portons 
to my said daughter or daughters as they shall respectively 
attaine the age of eighteen years or at the day of marriage 
which shall first happen Provided always that such marriage 
shall bee contracted by and with the consent of their Guardians 
hereafter named or the major part of them. And as touching 
my said daughters my will is that immediately from and after 
my decease towards their present maintenance and education 
my said executor shall pay yearly and every yeare the sum of 
Fifty pounds per ann. to each of them till such time as the 
porc*ons before mentioned shall be paid and my further will is 
that if my said Executor shall marry without the consent of 



DAME DOROTHY JEFFREYS WILL. .7 

his Gnardians hereafter named and the major part of them 
that then he shall stand charged with the payment of Ten 
thousand poands porc'on for my said daughters or daughter to 
bee payable to and devided among them as aforesaid and the 
better to enable my executor hereafter named to pay my debts 
discharge my funeral expenses and the legacyes hereby be- 
queathed (or which shall bee mentioned and expressed in a 
schedule or codicil to this my Will annexed and subscribed 
with my hand) I doe hereby give grant devise and bequeathe 
to my said executor all the Best and Residue of my estate reall 
or personall within doores or without (other than such part of 
my estate as by the said articles or settlement are already dis- 
posed of) whether it bee houses lands tenements heredita- 
ments leases mortgages rents arrearages of rent estates of in- 
heritance or purchased in the County of Denbigh or Elsewhere 
and all my household goods chattells and Cattell Whatsoever 
and all bills bonds and debts due to mee by law and equity 
from any person or persons whatsoever To have and to hold 
all the said houses lands tenements and hereditaments and 
other the premises to my said executor and the heires males of 
his body lawfully begotten and for want of such issue the re- 
mainder thereof to my right heirs for ever Item I give de- 
vise and bequeath to my Cosen Thomas Gardner late Fellow 
of All Souls CoUedge in Oxon the sum of Twenty pounds 
yearly dnreing his life to bee paid by my executor desireing him 
Joyntly with my Wife to take care of the tuic'on education 
and government of him dureing his minority Item I bequeath 
to Mr. John Price Vicar of Wrexham the sum of twenty 

Sounds Item I give and bequeath to my mother and to Dr. 
eflBreyea's widow and her son each of them Ten pounds to buy 
them mourning Item I give devise and bequeath to Mrs. 
Judith Matthews of Acton the yearly sum of Twenty pounds 
during her Ufe if she live with my children after mine and my 
wife's decease or else but ten pounds per annum And I doe 
hereby nominate and appoint my son Robert Jefferyes sole 
Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I doe 
make order and ordaine my said Wife and my brother in law 
Robert Pledwell (sic) of Holyrood Amney in the County of 
Gloucester Esqr Doctor Jonathan Edwards Principall of Jesus 
Colledge Oxon Peter Ellis of Crosnewydd in the County of 
Denbigh Esqre and the said Thomas Gardner Trustees of this 
my Will And I nominate my said Wife together with the 
said Peter Ellis Esqre and the said Thomas Gardner to be 
guardians to my said Executor Robert Jeffreys and to my said 
daughters Elizabeth Margaret and Frances until they severally 



80 



HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 



attaine the age of one and twenty yeares or bee married. In 
witness whereof I have to this my last Will sett my hand and 
seal the day and year first above written 

"Griffith Jeffbets 

*' Signed sealed and published in presence of us 

" Tho Bbadshaw " William Beavan 

JoNATH Stanton Edward Williams 

'' Tricesimo die mensis Maii an'o dom^ milPmo sexcen*mo 
nonagesimo sexto emanavit Com*o D*na3 Dorotheae Jeffreys 
viduaB Petro Ellis Armiger' et Thomas Gardner Gen' gardianis 
sive tutoribus Testamentariis in Test'em^n^o nominatis D'ni 
Griffith Jeffreys Militis defuncti habentis &c Ad administrand^ 
bona jura et eredita dicti defuncti juxta tenorem et effectum 
Test'm'i ipsius defci in usum et beneficium et donee et qnousque 
RoVtus Jeffreys Ar minor filius dicti defuncti et Executor in 
d'c'o Testamento nominatus vicesimum primum setatis suae ann^ 
compleverit de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad Sancta 
Dei evangelica (vigore Comconis juratis)/' 




Y GLWTSEGL.— STANSTI VILLA. EDWARDS OF 

STANSTL 



Edwin ab Goronwy, Prince of=pBwerydd, 
TegeingL Argent, a cross flory 
engrailed BobU, inter four Cor- 
nish choughs ppr. Slain in 
1073. 

Owain ab Edwin, Prince of=i=Mor7ydd, d. of Qoronwy ab Owain Bendew 



sister of Bleddyn ab C>mfyn, 
Prince of Powys, and daughter of Cjn- 
fyn ab Gwrystan ab OwaeUifoed. Vert, 
a lion rampant argeni, head, feet, and 
tail embrued. 



Tegeing], and elected Prince 
of Qwynedd in 1096. Died 
of consumption in llns. 
Gules, three men's legs con- 
joined at the thighs in tri- 
angle argent ^^ 



of Llys Coed y Mynydd in the parish of 
Bod Vari in Tegeingl. Chief of one of the 
Noble Tribes. Argent, a chev. inter three 
boar's heads couped Boble, tusked or, and 
langued gules. 



6|1 



c |3 



d| 4 



Y 0LWY8EGL. 



81 



a\ 2 

Meilir ab Owain, 8laiii=7= 
by CadwaUawn ab 
Omffydd ab Cynan, 
in 1125. 



6|1 
Goro]i-=p Gtenilles, d. 



wy. 



David T= 
ab 
Mei- 
lir. 



Goronwy ab 

Heilir,anoe8- 

tor of the 

Pirysesof 

J2jwjn Yn, 

in Tilanfair 

Dyffryn 

awyd. 



1 



of Hoedliw 

ab Ithel ab 

Edryd. 



Cadw^an, ancestor of 

the Lloyds of Hersedd, 

of Fferm in Glyn Ber- 

brwg and Jjlwyn Yn in 

Ystrad Alun. 



e I 3 
Llywelyn, an- 
cestor of Ma- 
dogr Ddh of 
Cop'ar Gk>lea- 
ni in Tegeiuf^l, 
who bore paHi 
of six pieces 
argent and 
sable, 

Clwydd, who 
danghters, co< 
See vol. iv. 



d|4 
Bhirid, 
ancestor 

of 

Thomas 

ab Hofs^er 

of PlAs 

Einion, 

in Llan- 

fair 
Dyffryn 
had four 
•heiresses. 



I 



lor werth ab David.= p 
Maao^ ab lorwerth. 



le nan ab Madog.=T= 

I 
Jenkyn ab IenaD.=f= 

I — — 

Bo bert ab Jenkyn.=T =Marfipufet, d. of OrufPydd ab Madog ab Adda. 

I 
David ab Bobert.=j=Janet, d. of Philm ab Y Badi of Overton Madog, ab 

I Howel ab leuan Fychan ab leuan Gethin. 



I 

Edward ab David.=^Margaret, d. of John ab David Llwyd ab leuan Fychan 
I ab leuan ab Maredydd ab leuan. 

^vid ab=f=Cicile, d. of Bobert Jones of Chester, ab John ab Llywelyn ab 
David ab Llywelyn ab lorwerth Fychan ab lorwerth ab 
Howel ab Moreiddig ab Sanddef Hardd or the Handsome, 
Lord of Morton (Burton) and Llai. 



Edwaid. 



John Edwardi=pJanet, d. and heiress of Edward Jones ab John of Fron D^g. 
of Stansti, I Ermine, a lion rampant aable. See p. 66. 

ob, 1635. I 



David : 
Edwards 

of 
Stansti, 
ob. 1685. 



: Dorothy, 
d.of 
Thomas 
Goldsmith 
of Wrex- 
ham. 



2 I .3 
John. 



Ed- 
ward. 



|1 |2 |3 

Elizabeth, nx. Susan, uz. Jane, ux. 

John Bogers, ab Edward ab William ab 

John ab John David of David ab 

ab Roger of Y Glwy- John of 

Bersham. segl. Crogon. 



John =T= 
Edwards 

of 
StanstL 



|4 |5 

Catherine, ux. Watkin Ky£Bn Margaret, ux. John Jones ab 

ab Gmffydd Kyffin of Cae Thomas ab John ab leuan. 
Coch. 

Ffrances, relict of Edward, son of Sir William Norris of Speke, 
00. Lancaster, and daughter of Sir Thomas Powol of Plas yn 
Horslli, Bart, and Catherine, his wife, d. of Sir John Egerton 
of Egerton, Knight. 



VOL. m. 



HISTORY OF P0WY3 FADOO. 




MAREDITH OF STANSTI. 
Burke's Extinct Baronetage. 

Richard Maredith of Pentref Bychan, second son of 
John Maredith ab Rawlyn Maredith of "ftefalun, married 
Jane, daughter of Morgan ab David ab Robert, by whom 
he had three sons, 1, John Maredith, 2, Sir WiUiam, of 
whom presently, and 3, Hugh Maredith of Pentref 
Bychan. 

Sir William Maredith of Stansti and Leeds Abbey in 
Kent, knight, treasurer, and pj^master of the army, 
temp. Elizabeth and James I. He married Jane, daugh- 
ter of Sir Thomas Palmer of Wingham, Bart., and by 
this lady (who married, secondly, John, Earl of Carbury), 
he had issue two sons, 1, Sir William, hia successor, 
and 2, Thomas, ob. s. p. ; and two daughters, 1, Anne, 
who married, first, Sir Eobert Bassett, and, secondly, 
Francis, Lord Cottington, and 2, Jane, ux. Sir Peter 
Wyche. 

Sir William Maredith of Stansti and Leeds Abbey, 
created a baronet I3th August 1622. He married Su- 
sanna, daughter of Francis Barker of London, by whom 
he had issue, besides a daughter Elizabeth, ux. Sir Henry 
Oxenden of Dean, in Kent, two sons ; 1, Sir Richard ; 
and 2, Roger Maredith, one of the Masters in Chancery, 
who married Anne, daughter of Sir Brocket Spencer of 
Offley, CO. Herts, Bart 

Sir Richard Maredith, second, baronet, of Stansti and 



ESCLYS nWCH Y CLAWDD. TEOIN OF FRON DEO. 83 

Leeds Abbey. He married Susanna, daughter of Philip 
Skippin of Tobsham, co. Norfolk, a Major-Gcneral in 
Cromwell's army; by whom he had issue six sons. 

I. Sir William Maredith, third baronet, of Stansti and 
Leeds Abbey, 06. s. p. 1682. 

II. Henry Maredith, a colonel in the army, who mar- 
ried Mary, daughter and heir of Walter Attwood of 
Hackney, co. Middlesex, by whom he bad an only 
daughter and heiress, Susan, of Leeds Abbey, which she 
inherited on the death of her uncle, Sir Roger. She died 
8. p., and Leeds Abbey was sold in 1765-6 to John Cal- 
craft of Ingress. 

III. Sir Richard, fourth baronet, ob. s. p. 1 723. 

IV. Thomas, M.P. for co. Kent, ob. s. p. 

V. Philip, ob. s. p. 

VL Sir Roger Maredith, fifth baronet, of Leeds Abbey, 
M.P. for CO. Kent, 1727. He married Mary, daughter 
of Francis Tyssen of Shacklcwell, and died s. p. 1 739. 




ESCLYS UWCH Y CLAWDD. TEGIN OF FRON DBG. 

Harl. MSS. 1972, 4181. 
lo rwerthQoch ob Madog ab leuaf ab UyniBiW ab Cynwrig ab BhiwaUawn.^ 

lorwerth. i ab Gmff;dd ab Einioa ab Ednyfed, Locd of Brochdyu of 
) BroQgbtoo. Bnnint, a lion Btatuit gardant guU*. 

Tegin ab Madog. ^ 



84 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



David ab Teipn.^ 



|6 
TJeaci, ax. Deicws ab Dio of Uanerch Bugog. 



Bobert Te(^n=FAgn68, d. of Tudor ab Howel ab 



of Fron D6g. 



T 



leuan ab Ednyfed Gam. 



Madog ab David. =f= 
Edward ab Madog. 



^iCDf 



Bicnard Tegin,* Catherine, d. of David ab Gmffydd Fychan of Barton, ab 
Serffeant-at- Madog ab lorwerth Fychan ab lorwerth ab David ab 

Arms. Goronwy of Barton and Llai. Sable, three roses argent. 



MANERIUM DE ISCOTD. 
Earl 3696, /(?. 262. 

LiBERE TeNENTES. 

Acres. 
10 



Allington, John . 

Barker, Hugo ap Robt* (Ra' ap Hugh) 

Billet, Edw' 

Brereton, Owen . 

Broughton, Edw' miles varia mess 

Brougbton, Randall, gen' . 

Calveley, John . 2 mess', 2 tent 

Chester, mayor & citizens . 1 tent 

Davis, John . . 2 mess 

Dodd, Gwyne . . 1 mess 

Dodd, Wiirm . 

Edgeburye, John 

Edward ap David 

Edward ap John de Etton . 

Edward ap lle'n . . 1 mess 

Edward ap Rondell . 1 mess' 

Ellice, Dorothys 

varia tent', etc 



4 0. 

18 . 

385&lmes's. 

105 0. 

not given . 

96 ., 

54 . 

212 0., 

0.. 

0.. 

0.. 

0.. 

0.. 





3 

4 
2 
1 
3 
6 







10 2 10 

1 1 

440 

not given 

57 

6 

1 



Eyton, Edw* 
Eyton, Gerrard . 
Eyton, John, gen' 
Goldsmith, Tho*8 
Griffith, John . 
Griffith, John ap John de Garthen 1 tent' 50 
Griffith, Tho's (Joh'es ap leu'n Maddock) 12 
Hugo ap Will'm . . . 

Humfrye, John . . 1 mess' 

Jefferyes, John . 1 tent', 1 mess* 

John ap Edw* ap leu'n 
John ap Rob't ap John ap leu'n (Sir 
E. Broughton) . 1 mess' 

Jones, Owen . . 1 mess' 

Kenrick, John . 



12 

4 

55 

40 



20 .. 

34 .. 

per terris lib'is.. 



£ 8. d. 

3 2 

8 

1 



2 


13 


3 


2 



2 

1 


5J 
3 





19 


8 


1 


7 





1 


16 


8 








10 





2 








2 










1 


10 





1 


10 





1 


9 








2 





11 


8 



1 10 2 

9 

5 8 

OJ 

10 

10 

3 

1 

7 3 

10 

2 2 

4 7 

2 



MANEBIUM D£ ISCOYD. 



85 



Kenrick ap Robt et d'd (Sir E. 

Broughton) . 
Langford, Richard 1 mess' 

Lewes, Richard . . 2 mess* 

Leighton, Richard (Sir E. Broughton) 
Lloyd, David 

Lloyd, John (Sir E. Broughton) 
Lloyd, John ap Richard 1 mess 

Lloyd, Rice 

Lloyd, Robert . 1 tent' 

Maddock, John Will'm 
Mai^garet, v' Robert . 1 mess' 

Parry, Ric' ep*ua Asaphen'. 

1 mess', 4 cott 
Payne, Oliver John 
Phillip, Will'm . . 1 mess 

Price, Samuell . . 1 mess 

Puleston, Edw' . . 8 mess 

Randall, John . 1 mess 

Richard ap John ap Edw' . 

Richard ap Robert 

Richard ap Will'm 

Robert ap d'd . 

Roger ap Roger (Gerrard Eyton) 

Roydon, Roger . . 6 mess 

Santhye, aPs Sandy, Rob' . 

Sonlley, Rob' 

Sutton, Roger . 

Taylor, John . . 1 mess 

Taylor, Thomas . 

Thomas, David (Will'm Pate) 1 mess 

Thomas ap d'd ap leu'n ap lle'n 

Thomas ap John ap Edward 

Vaghan, WiU'm . 

Warburton, Sir Peter . 1 mess 

Wells, Lawrence 

William, Henry . . 1 mess 

William ap Hugh 
William, John ap John Griffith 
Wright, Edw' . 



S'ma Redd' lib'oru tenen' 

4o Eliz' 
Thomas Powell per terr' lib'is 



Acres. 

not given 
20 
60 

4 
12 

2 

11 
not given 

12 
2 

5 



X 8. d. 

... 10 

...0 5 2 

... 10 
...080 

...0 5 7 

...0 4 

... 16 4 

... 3 OJ 

...0 3 7 

• • • rent not given 

...0 2 4 



110 

4 

1 
20 
28 

6 

70 
12 

8 

4 
not 
181 

1 
18 

2 
26 

1 



not 
40 
not 
17 
50 






















given 



2 









2 1 
given 


given 







20 








7 








1 








50 









1 





4 
3 




2 



9 
4 
2 

4 
4 

2 6 
1 10 
3 








7 
3 



1 
2 



1 19 

4 

3 


1 





7 
7 
6 

8 
8 
4 
2 



10 
6 8 
3 6 

18 8 

Sr. H.SaleRbury 
• payes tlie rent. 

.017 
, 2^^ 
, 1 16 7 



25 
25 





1 5} 

7 




6 



86 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



TeNENTES p' DIMI88IONE8. 















Bent. 




Acres 


. 


Vftlai 


». 


£ 8. d. 


Broughton, Edw., miles 


45 








16 19 


8 


2 12 6} 


Broughton, John, d'd, Ruyton . | 24 








13 




16 


Breerton, Edw'Owen, Cackadnttou , 44 








13 6 


8 


1 6 5 


Caueley, John, Sutton 


3 








1 6 


8 


10 


Chester, Villa de, Cackadutton 


2 








1 





2 9 


David ap John Eoger, Ruyton 


6 








2 13 


4 


3 10 


Davies, John de Erlirs or Erlist, 














Byestou Iscoyd 


6 








2 6 


8 


5 


Cackadutton 


1 


2 





1 6 


8 


3 2 


Eton 


I 


2 





15 





2 10 


Davies, John, gent, Cackadutton . 


4 








1 10 





3 2 


Dodd, Owen, Sutton 








3 


3 


4 


2 


Dodd, Wm. and Owen, Sutton 


2 








13 


4 


8 


Edgebury, John, Eton . 


diveriM terr' 






8 


Edwai-d ap d*d, Cackadutton 


10 








4 13 


4 


10 6 


Edward ap John ap Edward, Sutton 


1 








6 


8 


1 4 


Ruyton 





1 





2 


6 


6 


Eton, Edward, Ruabon . 





2 





4 





6 


Eton, Jerrard, Eton 


6 


2 





2 





8 


Eton, Thomas, Sutton . 


1 








10 





1 


Fletcher, Hugh, Cackadutton 


1 








7 


6 


2 4 


Griffith ap Tuder, Ruyton 


2 


2 





1 6 


8 


2 


Goldsmith, Thos., Cackadutton 


1 








8 





1 


Gongh, John, Cackadutton 


1 


2 





13 


4 


2 10 


Heres of John ap Edw* ap d'd ap 














Mad', Ruyton 


3 








1 3 


4 


2 


Heres of Meredeth ap Ellice 














(Will'm Launcelot), Ruyton 


4 








2 6 


8 


3 4 


Heres of Thomas ap Will'm ap 














John, Cackadutton . 





2 





6 


8 


2 8 


Howell ap lle'n, Eton . 


1 


2 





1 6 


8 


1 8 


Hugh ap Thomas, widow of, Sutton 


3 


1 





1 13 


4 


4 8 


Jerrard, Jane, Cackadutton 


3 








1 6 


8 


4 


Ieu*n ap Shone, Christ K. 


2 


2 





1 10 





1 8 


John ap Edw. ap John, Ruyton . 


7 


1 





3 





6 4 


John apEdw. ap D'd ap Mad* Eyton 


3 








1 10 





2 


John ap Edw' ap d*dap Mad*, vide 














heres. 














John ap Robt', Sutton . 


5 








2 12 


8 


5 1 


John, Robert, Sutton 








2 


5 





2 


John, William, ap Jo' Griffith, 














Sutton 


13 


3 < 


20 


6 15 


10 


9 4 


Jones, Hugh, Erlisham. 


10 


2 





3 10 





7 


Jones, Owen, Byeston Iscoyd 


22 





0' 8 


4; 


1 9 8 


Gowrton Iscoyd 


8 


3 





3 


Oi 


5 1 



1 



) 



MANERIUM DE 18C0YD. 



8 















Kent. 




Acres. 


Value 


• 


i; B. d. 


Leighton, Rich', Suttou 


6 


1 10 


3 


6 


8 


4 2 


Lewes ap Edw', Sutton . 


a 


3 





4 





2 


Llojd, John, ap Ric, Cackadutton 


7 


2 


13 


4 


13 4 


Lloyd, Hugh, Eton 


4 





1 


13 


4 


3 


Lloyd, Hugh, ap Mad', Eton 


3 





1 


10 





4 4 


Madock, Sara, Sutton . 


Cott', &c. 








4 


Margaret, v* Robt., Eton 


4 





2 


6 


8 


4 2 


Margaret, v* Robt' ap d'd ap Grono, 














Iscojd Abimbery 


13 





12 








15 


Meredeth, widow of Lewes, Cacka- 


1 


2 20 


1 








3 9 


dutton 














Mjnshaw, John, Sutton 


1 








6 


8 


1 OJ 


Pierce, Win*, Cackadutton 


2 


2 


1 








3 4 


Pierce, Wm' et Tho's, Cackadutton 





2 20 





8 





8 


Powell, John ap John, d'd, Cacka- 














dutton 


2 





1 


6 


8 


5 6 


Powell, Tho's, Cackadutton 


5 


2 


2 


13 


4 


9 


Poleston, Edw', Cackadutton 


26 


3 


12 


10 





1 18 8 


Sutton 


2 








13 


4 


I 8 


Randall, John, Rujton . 


2 


2 


1 


6 


8 


1 4 


Randle, Agnes, v' Christioneth 














Kenrick 


4 


1 


2 








3 2 


Richard ap Edw', Christioneth 














Kenrick 


1 


3 


1 


6 


8 


1 1 


Richard ap Ellis, widow of (Thomas 














Evans), Ruyton 


5 





3 


6 


8 


3 4 


Richard ap Rob't 


29 


3 10 


16 


12 


4 


2 1 1 


Roydon, Roger 


51 


3 30 


24 


10 





1 6 3 


Salisbury, Henry, Cackadutton 


12 


3 


6 








7 3 


Sutton Inhabitants, Sutton 


G 





1 


16 





4 


Taylor, Jo' et Kenrick Ey ton, Sutton 


8 


1 


3 








1 6 5 


Thelwale, Beuis, Ruyton 


20 





10 








16 9 


Thomas ap d'd ap John, Ruyton . 


5 





1 


13 


4 


3 


Thomas ap John Griffith, Beyeston 














Iscoyd 


6 





2 


6 


8 


5 4 


Thomasap Maddock, Byeston Iscoyd 





4 





6 


8 


6 


Vernon, Ric', Cackadutton 


1 








7 





7 


Wells, Lawrence, Byeston Iscoyd . 


Tent, <kc. 


Novaluegi 


veu 


5 


William ap Hugh ap Griffith, Sutton 


9 


20 


4 








11 


Wright, Edw. Sutton . 


12 


2 20 


5 


10 


0' 


13 6 


Wynn, assign of Robt', Ruyton 


1 








16 





1 1 


Wynn, Robt', Sutton . 





2 





4 





6J 


S'ma Redd' tenen' ad volunt' et ] 


d' demiss' 




• 


27 17 4 


4o Eliz' 


• 




• 


26 6 3 


Redd' in toto 




• 






• 


52 18 9 



88 



HISTOET OF P0WY8 FADOO. 



HEIN MANERIUM. 



Liber Tenen& 






Comes de BniDGEWATER (Ric*us Trevor, miles) 80 aorrr £7 lOs. 6^d. 


Rent. 


Tjbnbmtxs fib Dikissionsk. 


Acres. 


Valne. 


£ B. d. 


Hugo ap VViirm 


3 1 


1 6 8 


4 7 


Jones, Edw* . 


2 2 


1 10 


5 6 


Jones, Hugo . 


10 3 20 

• 


6 


5 6 


Kenrick, William 


12 20 


8 


13 3 


Mottershed, Eliz' 


3 3 


1 13 4 


3 9 


Richard, ap Will'm 


6 3 16 


3 13 4 


8 11 


S'ma Redd* ten* ad volunt' et p* demisa' 


2 9J 


4oEliz* 


27 6 5" 


The rest is conveyed away in fee simple vt 




dicitur. 







COBHAM. 
Earl. 8696, fo. 290. 

The presentment and verdict of the Jurie for the Manor 
of Cobham Iscoyd whose names are herevnder writ- 
ten, viz. : — 

George Bostock, esq. 
Dauid Speed, gent. 
Thomas Calcott, gent. 
Thomas Pate, gent. 
William Wyld, gent. 
Frauncis Pickering, gent. 
John Yardley, gent. 
John Wilkinson. 



Thomas Wilkinson. 
Thomas Palford. 
Roger Edgworth. 
John Wright. 
William Batha. 
George Wright. 
Richard Vernon. 
Roger Greene. 



Randolph Hutchins. 

The said jury vppon their oathes do p'sent that ye persons 
vndor named are his highnes customarie tennants or tenaunts 
by leases for ffortie yeares within ye said manner, and pay for 
the landes in their severall tenures and occupations. The 
rents vpon their names appearinge, and doe further pay and 
perfourme all other duties, payments, and services specified in 
their said leases, and due and accustomed to be aunswered, 
paid, and perfourmed for landes of yt nature, which landes in 
auncient tymes, in ye begining of ye raigne of the late Queene 
Elizabeth of famous memorie, and long since before were helde 
by the tennants thereof and their auncestors as their inherit- 



COBHAM. 



89 



aance, and claymed by them as discendible to them and their 
heires. As well by coppies of court roUes as by ye custome of 
ye countrey, and so by them held and enioyed vntill ye flTourth 
yeare of the said late Queene Elizabeth her rai^ne, as in the 
preamble for ye mannor of Hewlinf^ton more perticulerlie is 
menconed and more plainly appeareth. 













Bent. 




Acres. | 


Value 


• 


JB 8. d. 


Bostock, George 


13 





6 





1 3 7 


Brewerton, Owen, esq. . 


13 


2 


4 3 


4 


1 3 8 


Broughton, Edw', miles 


42 


2 


18 10 





5 4 8 


Calcott, Thos. 


14 


1 


6 





1 16 8 


Caluerley, John 


16 





5 16 


8 


2 1 4 


Chester, Mayor, Ac., of . 


6 


2 


3 5 


4 


10 2 


Criie, Edw' . 


1 





10 





2 


Davies, John, of Erchlisham, gen* . 


4 


2 


2 8 





9 


Edwardes, John 





1 






2 


Fletcher, Hugh 


3 





1 6 


8 


6 3 


Gettyn, Humfrey 


4 





2 3 


4 


7 2 


Goldsmith, Thomas 


1 





10 





1 


John ap John Gethin 


3 





1 10 





5 2 


Jones, Hugh 


3 


&C. 


1 6 


8 


2 2 


Jones, Owen 


1 


1 20 


18 





2 8 


Jonet y* Hugh 1 mess' 


2 





1 10 





2 1 


Lloyd, John . 


8 





3 16 


8 


14 2 


Meredeth, heres of Jo' . 


6 









13 4 


Mynshaw, Jo' 


2 





1 





2 1 


Pate, Tho's . 


12 


1 


5 





1 5 9J 


Puleston, Edw' 


1 





15 





2 2 


Puleston, Rob' 


6 









13 4 


Bead, John . 


3 





1 13 





1 2 


Richard ap Robert 


5 


2 20 


3 8 


6 


13 4 


Trevor, Jo', miles 


1 


1 20 


18 





2 8 


Wilkinson, Jo' 


2 





1 





2 8 


William ap Hugh 


3 





1 10 





5 2 


Wright, Edw' 


2 


1 20 


2 





4 10 


Wyn, Robt . 


3 


1 


1 3 


4 


8 3 


The rent of Cobham Isco 


yd ai 


ad Gobi 


bam Aimer 




was 4o Eliz' 


• 


• 




• 


22 15 4^ 


Now, as the tennantes s\ 


vomc 


) have { 


5y ven it 


in 




by the p'ticulars, it coi 


mes 1 


)ut vnt 


o 


• 


18 5 H 


Shorte of the 


fonr 


ler 




• 


4 10 3 



Bat I find the landes belonging vnto one manor to lie gener- 
ally within another, so as the baylie of one manor gathers 
rentes in dyuers manors. So that thowgh the rentes come 
shorte in one it is payde in some other, as will appear in the 
total. 



HISTOBY OF POWYS FADOfl. 



Cobham Isoojd demisable is . 


16 11 


H 


demean 


33 


« 


S'ma .... 


17 5 





S'ma redd' ad h'mie diem 


19 7 


6 


4-EJiz' . 


22 15 


4i 


The rest is soulde. 








MANOR OP ISGOED.— TOWNSHIP OF BWRAS. 

HAPOD Y BWCH. 

Ilarl. MS. il8i. 

DBvid Llwyd of Hafod y Bwch and Bwraiham, second sonof Madog^^LIanc 
ab Llywelyn ab Qrafiydd ab Cadirgan, Jjord of Eyton, Erliaham, d. ol 
and Boraaham. Srnine.m lion rampt, murt. See »ol. ii. 



lenan ab David Uwyd^ 
of Hafod 7 Bwcb. Hia 
eatatea were forfeited 
to the king for bis 
baving joined Owain 
Glyndwt. He had a 
natural daDfchter mar- 
ried to David ab Jaoan 



■Eva, d. and heir of Gra- Bowel ab 
ff;dd ab Qruffydd DdQ David 

BbaruffTddFychanab Llwyd. Hia 

Qniffydd ab Howel ab eatatai ware 

Hwfa ab lorwertb ab fotfeited to 

Om^dd ab lenaf ab king in ooa- 

ifyniaf. GnUt, two Heqaence of 

liona passant argmt, his having 






OoTonwy ab^QweoIlian, d. of lenan ab QrnK>dd Qooh of Ben, ab Madog 
lenan of Pabo ab Edujfed Ooch (ermttM, a lion atatant gardant 

Hafbd 7 7ulu)> and relict of Bobert ab Ornil^rdd ab Howel ab QnifT- 

Bwch. I jdd of Croes FoeL 



Hallt. i 



.. sole daagbteT=f David Lloyd ab Tudor IJoyd of Bodidris ya I&L 
and heiress of Halod v aula, three palea or, in a border of the third, aeme 
y Bwch. 



MANOR OP IS Y COED. 



91 




MANOE OP ISGOED.— DE WEILD OF 

BORASHAM. 

John de Weild or Wylde of Holt Argent, a chevron $ahle, on a chief of=f= 
the second, three martletta of the field. | 



Bichard 
WeUdof 
Holt. 



deppMargaret, d. of John Lowther of Holt Or, aeven annnlets 

$able» 



I 
Daridde 

Weild of 

Holt 



=Margaret, d. of John Maredydd ab Bowland ab Maredydd of 
Trefalun. Azure, a lion salient or. 




I 



Kchard dcFpAngharad, d. and co-heir of Jenkyn ab lenan Llwyd of Allt 

Weild of IJwyn Dragon, now called PlAs yn lil, ab Llywelyn ab Gruff. 

Holt ydd Llwyd of Bodidris yn lAl, ab Maredydd ab Llywelyn ab 

1 nyr of lAl. Qules, three pales or, in a border of the third 

seme of o^^ressee. 



I 



Jenkyn de=f Ueaci, d. and heiress of David Llwyd of Crew, ab David Llwyd 

'* * * ab Thomas ab Bhys ab Hwfa Qitf ab Hwfa ab Sanddef ab 

£lidir ab Bhys Sais. Ermine, a lion rampant in a border 



Weild of 
Holt 



oMure. 



Thomas de Weild or Wylde of Borasham. He parchased=f Tibet, nz. David 
from the Lord of Bromfield the house and lands in 
fioniaham, after the attainder of Howel and leuan, 
the eons of David Uwyd of Hafod y Bwch and Bora- 
sham. 



Thelwall of 
PUs y Ward. 



|1 |2 

Catherine, Ist co-heir, nz. William Margaret, 2nd co-heir. She married 

Brereton, Jwre WDorie of Borasham, first, William Alunton ab David ab 

seoond son of Sir Handle Brereton Qruffydd of Alunton; and secondly, 

of KalpaSy Knight. Edwurd ab Howel of Llwyn On. 



HISTORY OF POWYa PADOG. 




MANOR OF IS Y COED.— BRERETON OP BORASUAM. 

Ornierod's SUt. of Cheshire j Cae Gyriog MS. 

William de Brereton, Lord of Brereton, in the Coanty Palatine ot^ 
Chflgter. HaS. Argent, two bare table. j 

Wi lliam da Brereton, Lord of Brereton .=f 

Sir Bolpli de Brereton, Knt., Lord of Breretoa.^=CiciUe, d. of Sir Oeorge St. 

^_^^^__ I George, Eut. 



Sir Balph or Baiidol-=i=Tbe Lady Ada, fourth daughter and oo-heiresB of 



plius de Brereton, 
Knt. He married, 
secondly, Margaret, 
daD|;hter and co- 
heiress of ^ir Ehy- 
dderch Oroes. Knt. 



David, Earl of Hnnting£>n in Enj^land, B 
Henry,' Crown Prince of Scotland, son of David, 
first King of Scotland, and relict of Heniy de 
Bastings. Bei mother waa Maud, d. of Hugh 
Cyfeiliog, Earl of Cheater. It waa in the Bnits of 
the PrincesB Maude that Sir Bondolph de Brer»- 
ton went to Scotland. 



r 



I- 

' Henry, Crown Prince of Scotland, married AleliDe, daughter of 
Williftm de Warrenne, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, by whom he 
had isaue three sous ; 1, Malcolm, King of Scotland, who died s. p. 
in 1165 ; 2, William, Bumamed the Lion, King of Scotland, and 
father of Alexander II, King of Scotland ; and 3, David, Earl of 
Huntingdon, who married Maud, daughter of Hugh Cyfeliog, Count 
Palatine of Chester, by whom he had foiir daughters, co-heirs; 1, 
Margaret, who married Adam, Lord of Galloway, by whom she had 
two daughters, co-heirs, Devorgila, ux, John de Baltol, and Mar- 
jory, ux. John the Black I'umyu, Lord uf Badenoch ; 2, Isabel, ux. 
Kobert Bruce ; 3, Maud ; and 4, Ada. 



MANOR OF IS Y COED. 



93 



iJL{ 



n- 



) 



Sir WUliam de Brereton, Ent., Lord=f=Boe8ia, d. of Sir Balph de Vernon, 
of Brereton. j Knt., Baron of Sheproc. 

I 
Wi lliam de Brereton, oh. vito pofrt<.= f=Margaret, d. of Bichard Bosley. 

Sir William de=|=l8t, Elen, sister and co-heir of David Eger-=^2nd, Marga- 



// 



Brereton, Knt., 
Lord of Brere- 
ton. He had 
the moiety of 
the Barony of 
Malpas. 



ton. Baron of Malpas, son and heir of Sir 
Philip de Malpas, Knt., and Elen, his 
wife. d. of John de Sancto Petro, son of 
Urien de Sancto Petro, by Idonea, his 
wife, d. and co-heir of David le Clerk, 
Baron of Malpas. 



ret, d. of Sir 
John Done 

of Utkinton, 

CO. Chester, 

Knt 



U 



Sir William de Brereton, Knt., Lord Sir Randle^Alicia, Lady of Ipstones, 



of Brereton. He served in Nor- Brereton, 
xnandy. He died, and was buried of Malpas, 
there. His tomb, with his arms Knt. 

Saarterly on it, is to be seen in 
tie chnrch where he was buried, 
to this day, 8a3r8 Lewys Dwnn. 
He left jBIO to be paid yearly for 
the repairs of the church and his 
tomb, that it might be a memorial 
of him. He married Andella, dau. 
of Sir Hugh Venables, Baron of 
Einderton {paykrt, two bars a.rgtni)t 
and was the ancestor of Sir William 
Brereton, Knt., Lord of Brereton, 
1591. 



d. and heiress of Wil- 
liam Ipstones, Lord of 
Ipstones, son and heir 
of Sir John Ipstones, 
Knt., Lord of Ipstones 
in Cheshire. 

1. Argent, a chev. inter 
three crescents gules, 

2. Or, two ravens ppr. 
for Corbet of Wattles- 
borough. 

3. Sahle, an Escarbunole 
of eight rays or, for 
Tirret. 



llliam 



William Brereton=f=Catherine, d. and co-heir of Thomas de Wyle of Bora- 



of Boraaham, 
1450. 



sham. Argent, a chevron sable, on a chief of the second 
three martletts of the field. 



Edward 
Bropo- 
tonof 
Bora- 
aham. 



2^. 




Ist, Elizabeth, d. of JohnBoydon of Pulford,= 
and Maude, his wife, d. of Sir Boger 
Puleeton of Emrall, Knt. Vert, three 
buck's heads erased in bend or, in 
dexter chief a rose of the second, Boydon. 



=2nd, Dorothy, second 
wife, d. of Richard 

Hanmer of Hanmer, 
and Margaret, his 

wife, d. of Sir Boger 
Kynaston, Knt. 



I 

Thomas Bre-= 

reton, Sector 

of Llaneur- 

nin, 1539; 

V. of Llan- 

drinio, 1557; 

V. of Gres- 

ford, 1566. 



^Margaret, d. 

of Ithel ab 

Qruffydd ab 

Belyn of 

Nercwys. 

Palii of six 

pieces argent 

and sabU. 



Elizabeth, 

ux. James 

Eyton of 

Eyton. 

Ermine, a 

lionrampt. 

azure. 



Joanna, 
ux. Cyn- 
wrig ab 
Bichard 
of Pen- 
achlech. 



Cathe- 
rine, ux. 
Launce- 
lot Lloyd 
of Yr Or- 
seddGoch 
Trefa- 



m 



lun. 



I la 



Peter Brere- 
ton, M.A., 
Vicar of 
Llanfihan- 
gel, 1597. 



Jane, d. of 

Owain ab John 

ab Howel 

Fychan. 



i i I 
Hugh, 

s. p, 
John. 

Ban. 
dolp h. 

j 25 



I 
Dorothy, 

ux. William 

Lewys of 

Wrexham. 



Mary. 



94 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



I!« 



I ^ 



Randolph Gk>ch=pMargaret. d. of Elis ab John =-. Margaret, d. and 



Brereton of 
Borasham. 



r 



tills Eyton of Rhiwa- Brere- 

bon. Her mother was ton of 

Berrenet, d. of Thomas Boras- 

Bulkeley. Ermine, a ham. 
lion rampant azure. 



Jane, daughter and heiress, married Robert ab Ed- 
ward ab Edward ab David ab Madog ab Llywelyn, 
ancestor of the Traffords of Treffordd. (She was 
also the wife of Robert, son of Edward Poleston 
of Esdusham.) Ermine, a lion rampant sable. 



ux. 

Thomas 

ab John. 



heiress of Richard 

ab leoan ab David 

ab Ithel Fychan 

of Llaneurgain. 

Argent, a chevron 

inter three boar's 

heads couped eable. 

Seep. 



I 
Jane, married Ist, 

Edward Bwras ; 

2nd, Cynwrig ab 

Howel of Q]An j 

PwU* in Borasham. 



Owain 
Brereton 

of 
Borasham. 



Elizabeth. She married 1st, 
John Oaurden, by whom 
she was mother of Richard 
Canrden, Dean of Chiches- 
ter; 2nd, John ab Madog 
ab lenan ab David; Srd, 
Robert Wynn ab Morgan of 
SonlU. 



The above named Owain Brereton of Borasham, was 
High SheriflF for the county of Denbigh in the years 
1581 and 1588. He married, first, Elizabeth, only daugh- 
ter of John Salusbury of Llyweni, Chamberlain of Den- 
bigh, and M.P. for Denbigh in 1554, and Catherine, his 
wife, daughter and heiress of Tudor ab Robert Fychan of 
Berain, in Llannefydd. He married, secondly, Catherine, 
daughter of Harri Goch Salusbury of Llywesog, in the 
parish of Llanrhaiadr, and relict of John Lloyd of 
Bodidris yn ML 

By his first wife Elizabeth, Owain Brereton had issue 
nine sons and five daughters. 

1. Edward Brereton, of whom presently. 

2. John Brereton of Esclusham, who married Marga- 
ret, relict of Robert Empson of London, and daughter of 
Hugh Wynn of Wigfair, in Meriadog, vert, three eagles 
displayed in fess or, by whom he had four daughters, co- 
heirs ; 1, Elizabeth, oh. Feb. 26th, 1656, ux. Thomas 
Bulkeley of Coedan, in Anglesey ; 2, Jane, who married, 
first, John Ffachnallt of Ffachnsdlt in Tegeinngl, by whom 
she had a daughter Jane, who married Richard Evans, 
Parson of Cilcain ; and, secondly, she married Owain 
Lloyd, second son of William Lloyd of PlAs Madog, in 
Rhiwabon ; 3, Dorothy ; and 4, Elen. John Brereton, 
died 24th Jan, 1622, and was buried at Wrexham. 



MANOR OF IS Y COED. 95 

3, Thomas ; 4, William, a Captain in the army ; 5, 
Owain, a Captain in the army ; 6, Edward ; 7, Randle, a 
Lieutenant in the army ; 8, Andrew, a Lieutenant in the 
army ; and 9, Roger. 

The five daughters were ; 1, Mary, who married, first, 
Cynwrig Hanmer of Caer Fallwch, in Llaneurgain, ab 
Pyers Hanmer, ab Richard Hanmer, ab Howel ab David 
ab Ithel Fychan,^ and, secondly, she married Harri Jones ; 
2, Elen, ux. George Kywr of PlAs Cadwgan ; 3, Dorothy, 

ux. Robert Trevor of ; 4, Catherine, ux. William 

Lloyd of Pl^ Madog, in Rhiwabon ; and 5, Sarah, ob. 
8. p. 

Edward Brereton of Borasham, the eldest son of Owain 
Brereton, held an Eisteddfod in 1597, and was High 
Sheriff for Denbighshire in 1598, in which year he died. 
He married Anne, daughter of John Lloyd of Bodidris, 
in lAl, High Sheriff for Denbighshire in 1551, and 
Catherine, his wife, daughter of Harri Goch Salusbury of 
Llanrhaiadr, by whom he had issue three sons ; 1, Owain, 
of whom presently ; 2, Edward ; and 3, Roger ; and 
three daughters ; 1, Catherine, ux. John Lloyd of Ar 
Ddwyfaen, in Dinmael ; 2, Jane, ux. Roger Bady of 
Stansti ; and 3, Margaret. 

Owain Brereton of Borasham, married Sarah, daughter 
and heiress of Edward Eyton of Ey ton, who had all her 
father's lands, except Park Eyton. She married, secondly, 
Ralph Egerton, Esq. Owain Brereton died in 1603, 
leaving issue a son and heir, 

Owain Brereton of Borasham, who died in 1648. He 
had a son and heir, 

Edward Brereton, who died on the 8th of July 1645, 
in his father's lifetime. He married Jane, daughter of 
John Gruffydd of Lleyn, co. Caernarvon {azure, a chev. 
inter three dolphins, naiant, embowed argent), which lady 
married, secondly, Humphrey Lloyd, Vicar of Rhiwa- 
bon and Dean of St. Asaph, and died 10th October 
1689. By his wife Jane, Edward Brereton had issue two 
sons. 

* Ithel Fychan of Llaneurgain ab Cynwrig ab Rotpert ab lorwerth 
ab Rbirid ab lorwerth ab Madog ab Ednowain Bendew. 



96 HISTORY OP P0WY8 FADOG. 

1 Brereton of Borasham, who died without 

issue in December 1657. 

2. Edward Brereton, who succeeded to the Borasham 
estates on the death of his brother. In 1689 he was 
chosen to represent Denbigh audits contributory Boroughs 
in Parliament ; and, after a contested election with Mr. 
Williams, son of Sir William Williams, the Speaker of 
the House of Commons, was again elected in 1690. He 
was appointed Alderman of Denbigh Aug. 11, 1693, and 
re-elected member for the Boroughs in 1698. 

In 1 70 1 Thomas Cotton contested the Boroughs with 
Mr. Brereton, but the latter was again successful. 

He married a daughter of Sir Thomas Lake of Can- 
nons, in Middlesex, Knt., by whom he had issue two 
sons ; 1, Edward ; and 2, John Brereton. 

Humphrey Brereton of Borashaifi, Esq., died between 
the years 1725 and 1735, in which last year his sister, 
Madam Anne Brereton, was assessed for the estates. 

John Robinson Litton was assessed for these estates 
from 1748 to 1764. Mrs. Robinson Litton's name ap- 
pears in 1764, and she was succeeded in 1765 by John 
Twigge, Esq., who was High Sheriff for Denbighshire in 
1785. 

Lord Kenyon bought the Borasham estate from John 
Twigge about 1790. 

John ab Howel Brereton, by his will dated 18th 
March 1537-8, proved 28th AprU 1539, desires that his 
body may be buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and 
leaves to his nephew, John Wynn ab David, all lands, 
etc., within Bromfield, the town of Wrexham, 141, Edeyr- 
nion, Maelor Gymraeg, Maelor Saesneg, " rents of Llan- 
gerniw due to me, Vaynor Dymeirchion, my farmours of 
Baklonds, my farmours of my vicarage of Long Stanton 
(in Cambridgeshire)". 

I have not been able to discover who this John ab 
Howel Brereton was; but there was a John Brereton, 
Canon of the Royal Chapel of St. Stephen's, Westminster, 
who was living in 1536. 



MAltOR OF IS Y COED. 97 

Elizabeth Brereton, daughter of John Brereton, Esq. 
Her will was dated 24th March 1543, and proved in 
1545. She appears by her will to have married, first, 
John Courden ; secondly, John ab Madog ab leuan ab 
David; and, thirdly, Robert Wynn ab Morgan of 
SonUi. 



CYWyDD I MAISTYR OWAIN BRTRTWN FWRAS, 

8I0N TUDYB AI CANT. 

Y mae genyf ym ganwyl 
T Maelor wen ym ler wyl 
A He i ynill llawenydd 

A lies y rhawg a llys rhydd 
A llys hynod lie i sonion 
A Hew sydd yn a Uys hon 
Owain gwr enw a gerir 
Ymwras ail Emrys hir 
Barwn o Frywtwn* ai fraint 
Barwn henfro brenhinfraint 
Bu wirflfawd heb i orflTen 
Bu rad Duw 'n nhae Bryrtwn hen 
Awn f gler enwowglew oedd 
At Owain yn fihteioedd 
At lew Ifainc teulufaidd 

ryw o gras lywiog glan 
Rhodd i'r aur rhydd ar Arian 

Y carw Ifanc arafwych 

At fedd gwr arafiad gwych 
Siriol glew sy reiol glan 
Sadrwydd yn pwyso oedran 
Gwr o waed y w gorau y del 
Gwraidd iachau pob gradd uchel 
A myng o radd Mynwair aur 
Ir mwnygl aerwg manaur 
Dun hael da iawn i helynt 
Dwyn iawn gwrs Ednowain* gynt 
Dysgod i feilch dasg hyd fedd 
Dyn a rhediad o anhrydedd 

1 iach oil uwch i Haw 

Y llwybr oedd He i bu'r eiddaw 



^ Brereton. ^ Ednowain Bendew. 

VOL. lu. 7 



i>8 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Iddo i rhoed da i gwedd f rhawg 
Orau enerch wyr y enarchawg 
Elsbeth* air odieth rydeg 
Lan doetli o Ijywcni deg 
Nid yw hael onid ^ hi 
Nid iaelbris nod Salbri^ 
A gwaed Penrhyu^ yn unwedd 
Gadwynawg waed o Wynedd 
Merch h6n Sion^ ymraych hwn sydd 
Merch Ann Mawr y w i chynydd 
Sereu yw sy orau yn wir 
Salbri^ waedol sel brodir 
Olwen ddjTi law ddiannael 
Eigr a Sion ai gwr sy hael 
Duw ai gwyddiad da i gweddau 
Da ddawn lys a deuddyn lan 
Cyd euro cerdd cyd roi i caid 
Cyd gynal cadw i gweiniad 
Cyd wych wrthel cyd chwerthin 
Cyd lawgWT cyd lenwi gwin 
Cyd talu brig gwaed dilyth 
Cyd euro beirdd cyd roi byth 
I glod aeth ef ai wraig lan 
Dros led dagar sy lydan 
Da dros dadl di drawst ydy w 
Dryd ar Sais di rodres yw. 
Owain sydd eineoes iddo 
Uchaf yw i iachau fo 
Teg waed Maelor waed digoU 
Teg Angel waed Tegeingl oil 
Ais gref Ysgwier Ifainc 
A bery draw ef awr drainc 
Iw lys gwrol is gorallt 
Ymwras draw ymrcst yv allt 
Yno fydd iawn yw i fod 
ndd Ifanc o iawn ddefod. 



^ Elizabeth was the daughter of John Salusbury, Esq., heir of 
Llyweni, and Catherine, his wife, daughter and heiress of Tudor ab 
Robert Fychau of Berain in Llannefydd. ^ Salusbury. 

' Sir Thomas Salusbur}*^ of Llyweni, Knt., who died, and was buried 
in the chapel of the Carmelites at Denbigh, in January 1505, married 
Janet, only daughter by his first wife of Gwilym Fychau of Penrhyn, 
Chamberlain of North Wales, ab Gwilym ab GruiFydd ab Gwilym ab 
GrufFydd ab Heilin ab Sir Tudor ab Eduyfed Fychan. 



TP8T0NE OF IPSTONE. 



99 




IPSTONE OF IPSTONE, IN THE COUNTY PALATINE 

OP CHESTER.! 

Earl MSS, 1396; 5529, fo. 31; 6128, fo. 60. 
Lewys Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 353. 

Sir John de =f Elizabeth, dan. and heiress of Thomas Corbet of Wattles- 
Ipstone, 

Lord of Ip- 

stone, Ip- 

stones, or 
Ipstanes, ob. 

A.D. 1394. 



J 



borough, eldest son and heir of Sir Bobert Corbet of Morton 
Corbet and Wattlesborough, Knight. Thomas Corbet died 
A.D. 1375. He had two younger brothers. Fulke, whose 
only daughter and heiress married John Lord of Mawddwy, 
son and heir of William Lord of Mawddwy, fourth son of 
Gruffydd ab Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Upper Powys; and 
Sir Roger Corbet of Morton Corbet, Knight, ancestor of 
the Baronet family of Corbet of Morton Corbet. 



William Ip- =f Maude, d. and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, d and heir of Sir 



stone. Lord 
of Ipstone, 

ob. I H. IV, 
A.D. J3d9. 



William OhriBtian. 

Ipetone, 
died 
issue- 
less. 



Nicholas de Becke, Knight) of Sir Bobert de Swinnerton, 
Knight, son and heir of Sir Bobert de Swinnerton, in cool. 
Stafford, Knight. Maude married, first. Sir John Savage 
of Cheshire, Knight ; secondly, Sir Piera Leigh ; thirdly, 
William de Ipstones ; and fourthly, Richard Peshall. 

I 



Alice, Lady=f=Sir Banulph or Bandulphus Brereton 



of Ipstans 
or Ipstones. 



de Malpas, Knt., second son of Sir 
William Brereton de Brereton, Knt., 
Lord of Brereton. Argent, two bars 
sable. 



J 



2iid son, William=f=Catherine, d. and co-heir of Thomas de Wylde of Bora- 



Brereton of 

Boraaham, Esq., 

1450. 



sham, Esq. Argent, a chev. aahle, on a chief of the 
second, tbiree martletts of the field. 



Edwaid 
Brere- 
ton of 
Bora- 
sham, 



==lst wife, Elizabeth, d. of John Boydon=f=2nd wife, Dorothy, d. of y / 
of Pnlfnrd. Eaa.. and .... his wife. d. Richard Hanmer and // ^ 



of Puiford, Esq., and ..., his wife, d. 
of Thomas Hanmer of Llys Bedydd 
or Bettisfield, Esq. Vert, three roe- 
buck's heads erased in bend or, in 
dexter chief a rose of the second. 



Richard Hanmer and 
sister of Sir Thomas 
Hanmer, who was knight- 
ed at the taking of Ter- 
win and Tournev. 



X 




i» 



\c 



\d 



HistOTjf of Id<mgurig, p. 359. 



7» 



100 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOQ. 



\b [e 

Thomas Brere-= Margaret, £liza- 



ton. Rector of 

Northope, 1539; 

of Llandrinio, 

1557 ; and of 

Qresford, 1566. 



d. oflthel beth, uz. 

ab Gruflf- James 
ydd ab Eyton of 
Belyn.^ Eyton, 
Esq. 



d 

Joanna, 

ux. Cyn- 

wrie ab 

Sicnard 

of Penach- 

lech. 



Cathe- 
rine, ox. 
Lancelot 
Lloyd of 
Tref 
Alun. 



John firere- = 
ton of Bora- 
sham, Esq. 



I 

Owain Brere 

ton of Bora- 

sham, High 

Sheriff for co, 

Denbigh, 

1580 and 

1588. 



=pMargaret, d. and heiress of Kichard ab leoan ab David ab 
Ithel Fychan of Llaneurgain, Esq., descended from Kd- 
nowain Bendew, Chief of one of the Noble Tribes of Wales. 
Argent, a chev. inter three boar's heads couped sable. 



-=7=lst wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John— 2nd wife, Catherine, d. 
Salusbury, Esq., heir of Lleweni, of Harri Goch Salas- 
M.P. for Denbigh, 1554; and 
Catherine, his wife, d. and heir- 
ess of Tudor ab Kobert Fychan 
of Berain, Esq. 



bury of Llewesog, Esq., 
and relict of John Lloyd 
of Bodidhs, Esq. 



|1 
Edward Brereton of Borasham, High Sheriff for co. 

Denbigh, 1598, in which year he died. 



18 
John Brereton of Esclu- 
sham. See p. 273. 




PLAS LLANEURGAIN IN TEGEINGL. 
Lewys Divnu, voL ii, p. 325. 



Ednowain Bendew, Chief of one of the Noble=j=Gwerfyl 
Tribes. He lived at Llys Coed y Mynydd 
in the parish of Bodvari in Tegeingl. 
Argent, a chev. inter three boar*s heads 
coupod sable, tusked or, and langue<l gules. 



d. of Lluddoccaf, ab 
Tudor Trevor, Lord of Chirk, 
Whittington, Oswestry, Nan- 
heudwy, and Maelor Saesneg. 



h' 



1 Belyn settled at Nercwys in Ystrad Alun, and was one of the 
sons of David ab Cynwrig ab leuan ab Gruffydd ab Madog Ddu of 
Copa'r Goleuni in Tegeingl, who bore palii of six pieces, argent and 
sahle. Madog Ddu was the son of Rhirjd ab Llewelyn ab Owain 
ab Edwin, Prince of Tegeingl. 



PLAS LLANBUBOAN IN TEOEINGL. 



101 



Madogab 
Ednowain. 



:Arddi^D, sidter of Ednowain ab Brad wen. Lord of Tstum 
Aner and Tal y Bont in Cantref Meirion. Gules, three 
snakes ennowed in a triangular knot argent lie lired at 
Llys Brad wen. 



I 



lorwerth ab =pArddim, d. of Llywelyn ab Owain ab Edwin ab Gtoronwy, 
Madog. I Prince of Tegeingl. 



I 

Rhirid ab =f=Agne8, d. of Sir Bobert Pulford of Pulford, co. Cestna, Knt. 
lorwerth. | Sable, a cross patonce argent. 



I 
lorwerth ab =y'Ne8ta, d. of lorwerth ab Goronwy ab Kinion ab Seisyllt, 

Lord of Matbafarn. Argent, a lion passant sable, inter 
three flenrs-de-lys gules. 



Bhirid. 



Kotpert ab 
lorwerth. 



Adleis, d. of Ithel Fychan ab Ithel Llwyd, Lord of Mostyn, 
ab Ithel G^m ab Maredydd ab Uchdryd ab Edwyn ab 
Goronwy, Prince of Tegeingl. 

Ithel Fychan lived at Ewlo Castle.. In 1301, he did 
homage for his lands in Llaneurgain and other parishes, to 
Edward, Prince of Wales. He bore ature, a lion statant 
argent, and was buried at Llaneurgain. The mother of 
Adleis was Alice, d. of Bichard ab Cadwaladr ab Gruffydd 
ab Cynan. See p. 106. 



Cynwrig ab =7=Angharad, d. of Madog Llwyd of Rryn Cunallt, eldest son of 



Kotpert of 
Itlaneurgain. 



I 
Ithel Fychan' 

of 

Llaneurgain 

and 

Ysgeifiog. 



lorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk, Maelor Saesneg and Nan- 
heudwy. Party per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion 
rampant or, in a border gules. 



=f=Angharad, d. and sole heiress of Bobert of Holt ab David of 
Holt, younger son of Howel ab David of Ystum Cegid, ab 
Oruffydd ab Carodog ab Thomas ab Bodeng ab Owain 
Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales. Vert, three eagles dis- 
played in fees or. 



I 



David ab 

Ithel of 

Llaneurgain. 



=j=Angharad, d. and sole heiress of Cynwrig Fychan of Wepra, 
ab Cynwrigab Madog ab lorwerth ab David ab Cadwgan 
Llwyd of Wepra, ab Gwgan ab Cynan ab Ithel Llwyd ab 
Cadwgan ab Llywarch Fychan ab Llywarch Goch, ab Lly- 
welyn Holbwrch, Lord of Meriadog. 

Her mother was Gwladys, d. and heiress of Ithel ab Cyn- 
wrig of Mynachlog Bhedyn in Llaneurgain, ab Bleddyn ab 
Ithel Anwyl of Llaneurgain, ab Bleddyn ab Ithel Llwyd ab 
Ithel Gam ab Maredydd ab Uchdryd ab Edwyn ab Goronwy. 

Arms — 1. Vert, a stag trippant regardant argent, attired 
and unguled or, for Cynwrig Fychan of Wepra. 2. Party 
per pale or and gules, two lions rampant addorsed counter- 
changed, between them a sword pointed downwards argent. 
Ithel Anwyl of Llaneurgain. See p. 106. 



Ic 



Id 




102 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



/ 



Ithel ab=r=Marg^aret, d. of David Lloyd 
David of ab Bleddyn of Heraedd in 
Llaneur- Tetrad Alan, ab Qra£fydd 
gain. ab Heilin ab Bleddyn ab 

Madog ab Bhirid ab Einion 
ab C^wgan ab Qoronwy 
ab Owain ab Edwin ab 



\c \d 

Qroff- ==p Maijory or Mar- lenan. 



yddab 
David. 



sill, d. of John 

aer Conwy Hen 

of Bodrhyddan 

ab Jenkyn 

Conwy. 



See p. 
104. 



Goronwy, Prince of Tege- David.^ Pyers Gruffith of Caer- 
ingl. I wys. 

Harri. He had two wives and thirty children, one of whom 
was Dr. William Parry, MP. for Qaeensboroa^^h, who was 
executed for high treason by Qaeen Elizabeth in 1584. 



leaan ab Ithel » Margaret, d. of James Conwy of Sychdin in Llaneorgain, 

of Llaneur- and Bhuddlan, son of John Aer Conwy of Bodrhyddui ab 

gain. John ab Jenkyn Conwy. Sable, on a bend ar^^ent, cottised 

by two bendletts ermir^e, a rose between two annolets 

gules. 



leuan ab Ithel of LlaneurgaiD, had issue by his wife 
Margaret, besides three sons, two daughters ; 1, Catherine, 
ux. John Wynn of Llwyn Egryn ; and 2, Elizabeth, ux. 
John ab Rhys ab David. The three sons were : — 

1. Elis Evans of P14s Llaneurgain, who married 
Gwenhwyfryd, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Hack- 

luit, and , his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas 

Latchett, Esq., by whom he had a son and heir, Thomas 
Evans of Plfis Llaneurgain, who by Jane his wife, daugh- 
ter of John Mytton of Rhuddlan, son of Pyers Mytton, 
Sergeant-at-Arms, had a son and heir — Thomas Evans of 
Pills Llaneurgain, who was High Sheriff for co. Flint in 
1624, and married Joan, daughter of Richard Puleston, 
Clk. This family is now represented by Edward Pryse 
Lloyd of Glansevin, Esq. 

2. Sir James, Vicar of Boduan. 

3. Richard ab leuan of Llaneurgain. He married 
first, Jane, daughter and heiress of William Glegg of 
Gayton, in Cheshire, Esq. (safeZe, two lions counterpassant 
argent y collared gules), and Margaret, his wife, daughter 
and heiress of William ab Madog ab Llywelyn ab Madog 
Foel of March wiail {ermine, a. lion rampant, in a border 
azure), by whom he had an only daughter and heiress. 



^ 



PLA8 LLANEURGAIN IN TEOEINGL. 103 

Margaret Wen, who married John Brereton of Borasham, 
Esq. 

Richard ab leuan married, secondly, Alice, only 
daughter and heiress of Grufiydd Lloyd of Cinmael, son 
and heir of leuan ab Rhys ab GrufFydd Llwyd ab Robert 
ab Rhys ab Rotpert, ab Gruffydd of Cinmael, in the 
comot of Is Dulas and cantref of Rh6s, ab Sir Howel, 
Knight, ab Gruffydd of Henglawdd, ab Ednyfed Fychan 
of M6n, Baron of Bryn Ffanigl, in the parish of Bettws 
Wyrion Wgan, in Is Dulas, and General and Prime 
Minister of Llywelyn ab lorwerth, Prince of Wales. 
Arms — 1, sable, a chevron inter three mullets argent^ for 
Rhys ab Rotpert ; 2, gules, a chevron inter three mullets 
or^ for Rotpert ab Gruffydd of Cinmael ; 3, gules, a 
chevron ermine^ inter three Englishmen's heads, couped 
in profile, ppr., for Ednyfed Fychan ; and 4, gules, a 
Saracen's head erased, gardant, bearded ppr., wreathed 
about the temples argent and azure, for Marchudd of 
Bryn Ffanigl, Lord of Uwch Dulas, in the cantref of 
Rh6s.* By this marriage Richard ab leuan had a daugh- 
ter Catherine, heiress of Cinmael, who married Pyers 
Holland of Fairdref, in the parish of Abergeleu, High 
Sheriff* for co. Denbigh in 1578, son of John Holland ab 
David ab Gruffydd Holland. 

* The cantref of Rhus contains the comots of Uwch Dulas, Is 
Dulas, and Crenddyn. The parishes of Llauddulas and Llanelian 
are in Uwch Dulaa The parishes of Abergeleu, Cegidog, and Bettws 
Wjrion Wgan, are in Is Dulas. 



104 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 




IS Y COED.— TOWNSHIP OP BWRAS. POWEL OF 

GLAN Y PWLL. 

Cae Cyriog MS.; Lewya Dvmn, voL ii, p. 311. 



David ab Ithel Fychan of Llaneurgain. See p. 101.=f= 



I 
Ieuan=7= 

ab 

David. 



Gkruffjdd, ancestor Lewya. 
of the Griffiths of 
Caerwys. 



Jonn, ancestor 
of John Lloyd 
of Ysgeiviog. 



Ithel of 
Llaneur- 
gain. 



Howel ab Ieuan.=f=Margaret, d. of Bichard ab Howel ab leuan Ychan. 



John sAnnest, d. 
Wynn, of Hyw ab 
eldest £hys ab 
son. Howel. 



|5i 13 "14 

Kobert s^Annest, d. Thomas =pCatherine, Hyw. 
Wynn. of Kobert ab 

ab Howel. 
Maurice. 



d. of 
Thomas 

ab 
leuan. 



Cynwrig 
Powel of 
of Glany 
PwU ym 
Mwras. 



> Jane« dau. of Harri 
John Brere- PoweL 
ton of 
Bwras. 



8| 



41 5 I 61 7 I 




Richard =T=Jane, dau. of 

I. Jenkyn ab John. 



Powel. 



Jenkyn of Thomas. 
Llanelwy. Edward. 



>hn 



John Powel of Eilystryn.B Margaret, d. of Edward Pnleston 

of Trefalun. 



Catherine, uz. Marg^aret, ux. Elizabeth, uz. Rhys Ffachnallt of 
Harri Griffith. William Jones. Ffachnallt. Argent^ a chev. inter 

three boar's heads couped saJble, 



MYNACHLOG KHEDYK. 




MTNACHLOG KHEDYN. 
Earl. MS. 1969. 

Qttroxcwj, Prince of Tegeingl, aeooiid son of Emi(»i.=pEtbel9ecla, d.aod heir- 
ftb Owen ftb Bowel Dda, King of Wales. He esaof Edwin, Earl of 
obUUDed tbe contref of Te^^ingl, which, contains Marcia, and relict of 
th« eoinots of Cynsyllt, PruHtatyn and Khuddlan, Edmund Iroueide, 
throagh hie maniage. | King of England. 

EdwTii aUt Goronwf, Prince of Tegeingl, Chief of=fEweiydda, 



e of the Noble Tribes. He lived at LI;sEdw: 
in tha pariah of Uaneurgain, and at Caatell Ed- 
win, in the piiriBh of Llanaeaph. Be was slain by 
Bhya ab ^hydderch ab Owoin in 1073. and was 
buried at Llaneurgain. Ehual, near Mold, was 
tbe residence of Edwin when he died, for it is re- 
corded that " Edwin of Shuai wse buried at Llan- 

^in in 1073". Ar^eni, a cross flory eugnuled 

I. inter fonr Cornish choughs ppr. 



XTchdrrd. Cadwgan ab Ble-=^ 
ddyn, Fiince of Powys, 
gate him the cantreCs of 
Virion, Penllyn, and the 
oomot* of libwddw; and 
CTfeilioff. He married first, 
Neata, i. of Llywelyn Enr- 
dorcbog, Jiord of liX and 
Tttnd Alan. 



Bleddyn ab Cynfyn, 
ab Owry Stan, Prince 

ofPowya. Or, a lion 
rampant gule*. 



Angharad, Owain, Prince of TegeingL 
In 1196 he was elected 
Prince of North Waies by 
Hugh Lupus, Etui of Ches- 
ter. He died of consump- 
tion in 1103. Qulei, three 
men's lege cot^oined at the 
thighs in triangle argeni. 



=2, Angharad 
d. of Mared- 
ydd ab Bledd- 
yn, Prince of 



Itbal Oam, Lord=^ Einion. Ha bad Madog. He Ooronwy ofTre- 

of Hoetyn and | Bacbymbyd and a had lands in try A, ancestor of 

Uaaenrgain, I great part of Maea Maee Maen the Edwardses 

bring in 1237. | Uaen Cymro. Cymro. ofCaerFallwcb. 



Ithel 
Uyyd. 

Lord of 

BleddTii 



HISTORY OF P0WY5 FADOG. 

^fMumret, d. of Rwfa ab lorwerth of BenhAm (jvla, two lions 
puBaot in pala ardent), abOruffudd ab lausfab Niniaf ab C^- 
«rig ab Bluirallawa. 

\i 
. ^=GirenUiaD, d. Ithel Ffcbati, Lord of M(wt7n.= Alice, daa. of 

' of leuaii ab He did homage for his Unde Bichard ab 

in Llaneurgain and other Cadwaladr ab 

pariabes to Edward, IVince of Qrnffydd ab 

fTalea, at Cheater in 1301. Cynan. 
Ature, a lion statant argent. 



ruBydd ab 
MadogDdl^ 
I of Copa'r 
I Qolenni. 



I 



! 



Ithel Anwyl. He lived at Ewlo Caatle, and was one^ Bleddyn Davidab 

of tbo captains of Tageingl, to prevent the English I Fjchui. Bleddjn, 
from iDvading the country. He was baried at | Binhop 

Llaneurgain. He bora part; per pale or and gulei, of St. 

two lions rampant oddorsod, counterchanged, be- I Asaph. 

tween them a sword pointed downwards argent, I 

h ilt and pomel or. 

.1.. 



Ble ddyn Llwyd.=r 

Cynwrig ab Bleddyn of My-= 
nachloK Bhedf n. He died 
in Harlech C^tle, aiding 
David ab leuan ab Eiuion. 

ItbeL Ha had two natural iona^Lowri, d. of lenan ab Omffjdd ab 
named Cwnnwa and Y DaL Modog ab lorwerth ab Madog ab 
I Rhirid Flaidd. 



'Anghorod, d. of Maredydd Ithel of Myna- 

of Yr Hob ab Qrafiydd ab chlog Bhedyn, 

Maredydd ab Llywelyn ab in L^nenrgain. 
Ynyr of lil. 




IS Y COKD.— TOWNSHIP OF BORASHAM. 

Harl. MS3. 1972, 2299, 4181. 

Llywalyn ab Gruffydd ab Cadwgan.^Owenlltan (second wife), d. of Owain 
Lord of Eyton, Erlisham, and ab Ti-ahaiain ab Ithel ab Eunydd 
Borosham. Ermine, a. Uon rampt, ab Gwernwy, Lord of Tref Alun 
aiurt. See vol. ii, p. 15S. | and Y Groesffordd. 



MANOR OF IS Y COED. 



107 



lorwerth. He had lands in BoraBham=f=Margaret, d. of lorwerth ab David ab 
and Bhnddallt. | Goronw j of Burton and LUL 



lolyn of BoTa8ham«=F..., d. of Badi ab Llywelyn ab Bleddyn Madog of Bha- 

ab Ednyfed. ddaUt. 

Einion of BoraBham.=j=Angharad« d. of lenan ab Llywelyn ab Qrof^dd 

Llwyd ab Maredydd. 



T 



iin of =7= 



Jo: 

Bora- 
sham. 



=Gwenllian, d. of Badi ab 
Llywelyn ab Bleddyn. 



I 



I 



i 



Ieaan.=^Lleaci, dau. and heir of T 
Battwr ab Madog abGruff- 
ydd ab leuan ab lorwerth 
ab Einion ab Ithel ab Ean- 
ydd, Lord of Trefalun. 

I 



HoweL=f= William of=FElizabeth, d 



Borasham. 



I 



of John ab 
EUs Eyton 
of Watstay. 



12 |1 

Angharad, co-heir, nx. Margaret, 

Jenkyn ab David ab co-heir, uz. 

Qruffydd ab David ab Howel ab 

Llywelyn ab David ab Jenkyn ab 
Qoronwy. John 

Llwyd. 



r 



Bichard.=r William =t= Jane, dan. of 



Bora- 
sham 
of Bora- 
sham, 
s.p. 



John Brere- 
ton of Bora- 
sham. 



|2 |3|4 

Sir John Richard. 
Bora- David, 
sham, 
Vicar of 
Bhiwa- 
bon. 



Angnarad, nz. 

Lewys ab 

Robert ab 

David ab Gmff- 

ydd of Gwer- 

sillt. 



I>avid.=T= 

I 



Margaret, uz. Howel ab John ab David Catherine, uz. Jeffrey ab 
ab Ithel of Cristionydd. Hugh of Wrexham. 

See Acton. 



Margaretf nz. John ab Hugh ab Edward ab Madog Catherine, ux. Maud. 
ab Grnfi^dd ab Madog ab Addu. James Lewys. 



108 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 




MANOR OF IS Y COED.— TOWNSHIP OP ERLYS. 

DAVIES OF ERLYS. 

Madog Puleston of Bers, second son of Bobert=f=Angbarad, d. of David ab 



Goronwy of Burton, ab 
lorwertb ab Uowel ab 
Mareiddig ab Sanddef 
Hardd, or the Handsome, 
Lord of Morton or Bur- 
ton and Llai 

|1 
Edward Puleston of Cri8-=7=Isabel, d. of Sir Handle Bre- John Poleston of 



Puleston of Emeral, ab Richard Puleston, 
who was Seneschal of the Lordships of Maelor 
Gymraeg and Maelor Saesneg, 47 Edward III, 
son of Sir Richard Puleston of Emoral, Knt. 
Argent, on a bend table, three mullets of the 
field, for Madog Puleston. 



reton of Malpas, Knight. Bers and Havod 
Argent, two bars table. y Wem. 



tionydd, in the Manor 
of Esclys or Esclu- 
sham. 

Howel ab=p]8t, Owenllian, dau. of Ithel=f='<2nd, Margaret, d. and heiress 



Edward of 

Plas Isaf 

in Cris- 

tionydd. 



Wynn of Coed y Llai or Lees- 
wood. I 



of 



4 

Edward ab Uowel 
Trefechan 
in Cristionydd. 



11 



John Wynn=j= Isabel, d.of Edward 
of Plas I ab Edward ab David 
I ab Madog ab Lly- 
welyn ab Gruffydd 
ab lorwerth Fy- 
chan ab lorwerth 
ab leuaf ab Niniaf 

ab Cynwrig ab 

Rhiwallon. Ermine^ 

a lion rampant 

tabU. 



Is af. 

I 
Catherine, 

heiress ux. 
Edward 
Eyton of 

Watstay. 



|2 

Davids^gnes, 

ab d. of 

Uowel ... ab 

ab Madog 

Ed- of Is- 

ward. goed. 



of leuan ab Howel ab leuan 
Bach of Rhiwabon, ab leuan 
ab Einion Gtethin of Cristion- 
ydd, ab Einion ab leuan ab 
Gruffydd ab Einion Efell, 
Lord of Y GlwysengL Quiet, 
on a bend argent, a lion 
passant table. 

~ "I 3 

Rondle=i=Lily, daughter 

ab of Robert Sonlli 

Howel. of Sonlli ab 

Robert Wynn 

Sonlli. Ermine, 

a lion rampant 

table. 



Richard. 
John of 
Wrex- 
ham. 
William. 



a 



Janet, ux. Catherine, 
ux. David 
ab leuan 
ab Ed- 
ward of 

Cris- 
tionydd. 

T6 



Roger 

Davies, 

Constable 

of Castle 

Dulyn. 



MANOR OF IS ¥ COED. 



109 



J" l» 
Uicbafd ^Eloanor, d. of John Rojdon of lagoed. Vert, Ann.ui.Thonuu 
Daviea of three roebuck's beada erased at the neck in Erans of 
Erlja. bend or, in the deiter canton a rose of the Ehiwabon. 
1 second. 

John Darieaof Erlya-yJane, d. of Cynwrig Eyton of Eyton, £r»iin«, a lion 

I rampant oitir*. 

ii |2 

John Daviea of Erlja, Bojier ^pCatberine, d. of Thomaa Powel of Plaa jn 

ob. I. p. Daviee. Horalli, High Sheriff for co. Denbigh, 



Catherine, co-heir.^ 




MANOR OP IS Y COED, -TOWNSHIP OP ERLTS. 

ERLYS OF ERLYS. 

Sari. MS. 2299. 



lenan, fifth son 

lorwerth ab 

DaTid. 



ofc=l 



'Ha^aret, d. of David ab Madog, Boron of Handwr. 



H18T0HY OF P0WT8 FADOO. 



I Llwydof GreHfordideeceiidfldtTomEimjrddkbOwflni*;. 




MANOR OF IS Y COED.— TOWNSHIP OF ERLYS. 

ERLYS OF ERLYS. 

Gae Cyriog MS. 

Ujwelyii Foel of Horchwiail ab Madog: Foel &b lorwerth ftb Hwb i^cluui^ 
ab Hwfa QTttg ab Sanddef of Marcbwiail, foartb bod of Elidir sb Bhya 
Saia, Lord of E;ton, Erliaham, and BoraBham. Srmiiu, a lion rampant I 
in a border aiure, | 

David ab Llywelyn.^f^OweDUian, d. and heireES of Lladog ab lenftf of Erlys, 
1..,....^^. ^t gnh gon of Hwfa ab lorwertb of Havod y Wem. 

BabU, three liona paaeant in pale argent. Her mothar 
waa Eva, d. of Mad og Gloddaath of Crenddyn. 
! I 

I«nan ab David of Erlya. The=^ 
Harl. MS. 2299 States that this 
leuan waa the aon of David ab 
David ab leuan ab lorwerth ab 
David Hen ab Qoronwy ab lor- 
werth ab Howel ab Horeiddig 
ab Sanddef Hardd, Lord of 
Burton and Llai, 



David ab Isnan ab lor- 
werth ab David Hen ab 
Gtoninwy. 



M adog ab leuan of Frlya.'T ' 



MANORS OF IS Y COED AND HOLT. 



Ill 



\a 



Edward ab Ma-=f=Margaret, d. of William ab Orn£fydd ab Robert of Cwch- 
d og of Erlys. j willan. 

John Erlys of Er-=i=Margaret, d. of Robert ab Edward ab Howel ab Graffydd 
lys. I of Llwyn On. Ermine, a lion rampant sdble, 

John Erlys of Er-=pCatherine Llwyd, d. of William Llwyd ab Gruflfydd ab 



lys. 



I 



lolyn Uwyd of Yr Orsedd Goch in Gresford, ab David 
ab leuaf Llwyd ab Uowel Fychan ab Howel Wyddel 
ab lorwertb ab Einion ab Ithel ab Eunydd ab Gwer- 
gygwy ab Gwaeddgar. 



Edward Erlys of=pMargaret, d. of Robert ab Howel ab David of March wiail, 
Erlys, 1599. ab Gruffydd ab Llywelyn ab Madog Foel of MarchwiML 

I Ermine, a lion rampant in a border azure. 



I 1 
John =T=Elizabeth, d. of 



Erlys 

of 
Erlys, 
1599. 



James Eyton 
ofEyton. Er- 
mine^ a lion 
rampant azure. 



|2 
Owain 
Erlys. 



Robert 
Erlys. 



4 

David 
Erlys. 



5 I 6 

William Hugh 

Erlys. Erlys. 



I 



I I I 

Catherine, uz. John ab Margaret, nz. John Ann. 

John ab Grafiydd. ab Robert Fychan. 



Bichazd Erlys. Edward Erlys. 




MANORS OF IS T COED AND HOLT. 
ROYDON OF IS T COED. 

Earl MS. 1971, fo. 65b. 

Bichard Roydon, who was a native of Kent, came to 
Bromfield, or Maelor Gymraeg, with the Commissioners 
of the Lord Abergavenny, Lord of the moiety of Brom- 
field, temp. Henry VI. 

By Isabel his wife he had issue three sons : 1 , Hugh, 
of whom presently ; 2, William Roydon, Receiver of 
Bromfield, who was father of John Koydon of Talwyn, 




112 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

father of William Roydon of Talwyn, who had, besides a 
daughter Elen, ux. Roger Wynn Sanddef of Mortyn, 
and a younger son Ralph, a son and heir, Roger Roydon 
of Talwyn, whose daughter and co-heir Alice married 
Thomas Yale of P14s yn Ml, who was living in 1598. 

Hugh Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed in Maelor Gym- 
raeg, married Catharine, daughter and heir of Gruffydd 
ab Madog ab leuaf Llwyd ab Howel DdA ab Madog ab 
Heilin ab Einion Goch ab Ithel ab Eynydd, Lord of 
Trefalun and Y GroesfFordd (azure, a lion salient or), by 
whom he had issue three sons : 1, John, of whom pre- 
sently, 2, Sir William Roydon, Parson of Gresford, and, 
3, Sir Hugh Roydon, a priest ; and two daughters, 
Catherine, ux. Grufiydd ab Madog ab John Deckaf of 
Sutton, and Elizabeth. 

John Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed, Sergeant-at- 
Arras. He married Gwenhwyfar, daughter of Richard 
Tegan ab David of Is y Coed, and had issue a son and 
heir, John Roydon, and four daughters: 1, Jane, ux. 
Hugh Eyton of Eyton (ermine, a lion rampant azure) ; 
2, Gwen, ux. Gilbert Malavery ; 3, Sibyll, ux. William 
Woodhall of Holt ; and, 4, Ciatherinc, ux. David Sutton. 
By his will, dated 1513, he leaves certain "copy landes 
and tenementes of fee simple, the which I have within 
the Lordship of Bromfield, except the copy landes in the 
town of Wrexham, to my wife Roos, Catherine Roden, 
my^'sister". He likewise mentions John Roden, his 
on ; Maude, his son's wife ; his daughters, Elizabeth, 
Sibill, and Catherine: and his brother. Sir William 
Roden. 

John Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed, married, first, 
Mary, daughter of Richard Hanmer of Llys Bedydd, and 
Jane, his wife, daughter of Tudor Fychan, by whom he 
had no issue. He married, secondly, Mawde, daughter 
of Sir Roger Puleston of Emrall, Knt., by whom he had 
issue three sons: 1, Roger, ob. s,p,; 2, John, of whom 
presently ; and, 3, Thomas, oh, s. p, ; and seven daughters : 
1, Elizabeth, who was the first wife of Edward Brereton 
of Borasham {argent, two bars sable) ; 2, Jane, who 




^\f [^\ 



MANORS OF IS Y COED AND HOLT. 113 

married, first, Richard Jones of Drithwys, and, secondly 
John Davies of Middleton ; 3, Dorothy, ux., first, Roger 
Eyton, and, secondly, she married Bartholomew Fitton 
of Garden ; and, 4, Alice, ux. John Maredydd of Trefalun 
{azure, a lion salient or) ; 5, Joanne, ux. John ab William 
ab Madog Goch ; 6, Elizabeth, ux., first, John Davies 
of Erlisham, and, secondly, Thomas Trence of Holt ; 
and, 7, Sibill, contracted to John Langford of Rhuddin. 

John Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed, married, first, 
Anne, daughter of Richard Chambres of Sussex, by 
whom he had issue three sons : 1, Roger, his successor ; 
2, Thomas, ob. s, p. ; and, 3, John, who died s. ^^. ; and 
three daughters : 1, Joanne, ux. Edward Crewe of Holt ; ^ y // 
and Rose and Elizabeth, who both married in London. J^^ ' 
He married, secondly,' Margaret, daughter of Morgan ///u • -^^^ 
Broughton, by whom he had four daughters : Dorothy, J^c^*-^^^ 
ux. Thomas Forster of Trefalun, Margaret, Alice and Anne. ^ ^ ^ ^ 

Roger Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed, a Captain in ^^^ '"^^ 
the Royal Army. He married Jane, daughter of Thomas y>^ 
Powel of PIjIs yn Horslli, by whom he had issue, besides ^ 

three daughters, 1, Anne, ux. Richard Deane of Wyr- /4^^^ 
ral, 2, Dorothy, ux. Edward Alton of Golborn Bellew, /^ / 

and, 3, Elizabeth, who died young, seven sons — 1, John, /^^^ 

his successor; 2, Thomas Roydon, who married Cath- ^,y 

erine, daughter of Roger Wynn of Purley, by whom he 
had a son, John ; 3, Samuel, oh. s. p. ; 4, Pauleyn, ob. . j(/ 

8. p. ; 5, Roger Roydon of Bristol, who married and had //? v^ 
issue seven children ; 6, James, who went to the Low — 

Countries ; and, 7, William Roydon, who married Jane, 
daughter of John Lancelott of Wrexham, by whom he 
had issue two children, Samuel and Margaret. 

John Roydon of Holt and Is y Coed, ob. 20th March 
1666. He married Eleanor, daughter and heir of Ed- 
ward Maurice^ of Lloran Uchaf in Cynllaith, and relict 

^ Edward Maurice of Lloran Uchaf, ab Maurice ab Maredydd ab 
leuan ab Rhys ab Howel ab Gruffydd of Llorau Uchaf, ab leuau 
(^ethin ab Madog Cyffin ab Madog Goch of Lloran Uchaf and 
Moeliwrcb, ab leuaf ab Cuhelyn ab Rhun ab Einion Efell of Llwyn y 
Main, Lord of Cynllaith. ^^^ ^ , 



114 HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 

of Daniel Maurice of Lloran, ab Hugh Maurice, second 
son of Maurice ab Maredydd ab leuan of Lloran Uchaf 
(party per fess sable and argent, a lion rampant counter- 
changed). The mother of Eleanor was Blanche, daughter 
of Thomas Corbet of Lee. By this lady he had issue 
five sons: 1, John, of whom presently; 2, Roger; 3, 
Maurice of Wolverhampton ; 4, Charles of London ; and, 
5, Arthur ; and four daughters : 1, Jane ; 2, Dorothy, oh. 
s.p.; 3, Anne, ux. John Lloyd of Goban in Sutton ; 
and 4, Eleanor. 

John Roydon of Is y Coed married Mary, daughter of 

Hanmer of Kenwick in Com. Salop, by whom he 

had issue two sons, 1, John, and 2, Charles, who mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of William Speed of Holt ; 
and three daughters, Catherine, Frances, and Dorothy. 

John Roydon of Is y Coed married Elizabeth, daughter 

of Whitehall of in Com. Derby ; she died 

13th February 1674, leaving issue one son, John, aged 
one year in 1674. 

Other members of this family were, William Roydon, 
Collector Antiquaru' Eschet de Englefeld, 24 Henry VL 
Idem, Wiirm, Eschetor, 25 at 38 Henry VL This 
Englefeld is now called Eglwyegl. (See p. 66.) 

Richard Roydon of Holt married Anne, daughter of 
Thomas Powell of Horslli, Esq., by whom he had six 
daughters — Dorothy, Maud, Mary, Anne, Alice, and 
Jane, ux. Lancelot Bostock of Holt. 

The arms of the Roydon family were vert, three roe- 
buck's heads erased at the neck in bend or, in dexter 
chief a rose of the second. 



WREXHAM MANOR. 115 



WREXHAM MANOR. 

Harl 3696. 

SuPBBUisus Makebii de Wrexham in Comit' Denbigh per 

JOHANNEM NOBDEN SeNIOBEM. 

no'i'a jubatobum. 

Hago Meredith^ armiger. Daaid Thomas. 

Robertas Puleston, armiger. Joh'es Jones. 

Nicolaas ap Jon. Edward. Richardus Beniamin. 

David ap Jon. Robert. Radalphas ap Ellis. 

Hago Griffith. Rogeras ap Richard. 

Dauid ap Daaid. Will'us Griffith Smyth. 

Joh'nes ap John. Owen's ap Robert. 

Joh'es Daaid Thomas. Richardus Hall. 

Qai dicant saper sacramenta sua vt seqaitar^ vizt. : 

To the first article they say that the manner or towneship of 
Wrexham is bounded from Wrexham churchyard to the foote 
bridge south of the said churchy leaning the landes of the 
right honourable the Lord Wootton vpon the right hand of 
the lane to the baimes in pen y bryn westward^ and thence 
along the lane to the westend of Glyn parke^ (excepting one 
field called Owen, w'ch is parcell of the Court farme belonging 
to the manner of Valle Crucis, and two closes, one of Mr. 
Jefireys, and thother of Thomas Lloyd). And so from the said 
westend of Glyn Park along eastward to the landes of Robert 
Puleston^ Esquire, neere the Prince his highness water mill 
called the Velyn newydd or newe Mill. And we doe further 
say and present that so much of the said Glyn Park as ex- 
tendeth from the said westend thereof along to the river 
Clewedog^ w'ch runneth through the said parke eastwards to 
the said landes of Robert Puleston, neere the said Mill, to be 
within this manner of Wrexham, for that being conuerted into 
arrable land, the tithe thereof is gathered w^h the towneship 
of Wrexham ; and that the tenaunts there doe their seruice 
w^th the tenants of Wrexham. Then from the eastend of the 
said parke along the River to the bridge called Pont Yuelin 
newydd; and thence a brooke called Gwen fro, and compasseth 

* A plan of Glyn Park is here given. The manor of Wrexham 
Abad was granted to the Abbey of Valle Crucis by Madog ab Gruflf- 
ydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog, in a.d. 1200, and was subse- 
quently the property of the Lord Wootton. See I&l. 

8-' 



116 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 

the lands of Robert Puleston northward to the Mores called 
Owem dunck^ and so along northward by Bryn Tanck and the 
Kae Mawr^ and thence to the farthest end of Kae wad^ by the 
towneship of Acton, and so along by Gwern Acton westwards 
to Gwayn y tecuyn by the towneship of Acton, neere the house 
of Jo'n ap Hugh ap Ed. Stantie ; and then compassing Gwayn 
y tecu}Ti and the lane to Tal y geifer, along by the towneship 
of Stanstie, to a place called Clawdd Wad, westward ; and so 
along Clawdd Wad to the brook Gwenfro sonthward; then 
along the said brooke, Bryn y ffynnon ; and then to a garden of 
Robert Sonllye, Esq. ; and by the gardens of Ed. Crewe, gent., 
and Edward Dauies ; and so by Dauid ap Hughe, silk weaver, 
and so into Streete yr Abad ; then ouer the way to the house 
of Robert ap Hughe, butcher, being the Lord Woottons land ; 
and so through the gardens, westwards, to the stile of Bryn y 
Fynon ; and thence along the brooke, leaning it on the right 
hand ; and so to the west stile againe, to the churchyard of 
Wrexham, where we began, and nowe doe end. 

MM' that there is a smithie and a litle parcell of ffreehold 
land of Robert Puleston in Pentre yr velin Abad belonging to 
this manno' of Wrexham, and also certeine cottages and a 
crofte in Lampyat, w'ch is the landes of Thomas Trafford, 
Esq., and out of this manno' ; and one cottage and bame in 
th'east end of the Beaste markett, and two parcells of land in 
Kae pants and in bron pull yr vwd, w'ch are also out of this 
manno*, w*ch are the lands of Margarett Verch Robert, widowe. 

To the second article this Jury sayeth that there is no 
demesne land in this manno' to their knowledge, sane that 
Parke of Glyn Park, as they thinke, Vch is sett downe in the 
boundes of this manno'. 

To the 3, 4, and 5 articles the said Jurie say that the ffree- 
holders names within this manno* are sett downe in this booke, 
their landes and rentes, to their knowledge ; and that there 
are leaseholders and customary tenants from 40 yeares to 40, 
and likewise their names and what they holde, and their rentes, 
as neere as they could leame and sett out, sett downe also at 
large in the booke of the surueyours perambulac'on. And 
that the customary tenaunts to the Prince his highnes doe pay 
at the taking of newe leases for 40 yeares, and so from 40 to 
40, two yeares rent of their said customary landes for a ffine, 
according to the composition made betweene the late Queene 
of famous memorie and the tenauntes of Bromfield and Yalle. 
The effect of w'ch composition is sett downe more at large in 
the presentments of the Juries of Hoult, Burton, Ruabon, and 
others, whereunto this Jurie referro themselves. And this 



WREXHAM MANOR. 117 

Jnrie doe not knowe of any ffine paid or dae to be paid by the 
said tenanntes at the marriage of their daughters. 

To the 6^ 7^ and 8 articles they say that there is no common 
of waste within this manner, and that there is neither woods 
nor vnderwoodes in the said manno', bat a fewe vnderwoods 
in Glyn Park of hasell^ alders^ withie, and thornes, and such 
like^ wch the tenants there doe take and vse for tinsell as 
need requires ; and that there were some oakes in the said 
Farke^ as it seemes^ but gone many yeares agoe^ and now a 
few scrubbs standing. And that there is no parke of deare or 
warren of conies within the said mannour. 

To the 9, 10^ and 11 articles the said Jury say that there is 
DO incrochment within this manno'^ but about one acre called 
Pull yr Vwde, w'ch was taken by lease dat' xviii° Martii a° 
Eliz. 23, graunted to Robert Sonlley, Esq.^ as this Jury is in- 
formed^ and nowe in the occupac'on of Margarett ve' Robert^ 
widd\ And that the landes holden from 40 yeares to 40 
yeares are sett downe in the book of presentment by this 
June, as also by the surveyo' ; and that there are not quarrs 
of stone^ mines of cole^ leade, marle^ or chalke^ to their know- 
ledge. 

To the 12, 13, and 14 articles they say that they doe not 
knowe of any ffreeholder that died without heire^ and that 
ihey do not heare of any bastard or alien that doe enioy any 
landes within this mannour; and that there is no towne cor- 
porate or burrowe within this manno', to their knowledge; 
and that they doe not knowe any copieholder or leaseholder of 
40 yeares that have exchaunged or vnlawfully incerted any 
landes for freehold^ or have incerted any such into their cus- 
tomary land. 

To the 15 and 16 articles they say that the Prince his High- 
ness hath a custome water mill in this mannour^ called y 
vellyn Newydd, or Newe Mill, whereat the tenauntes and in- 
habitantes of this manno' of Wrexham and of other towne- 
ships are bounde to grinde; and that Roger Bellot, gent., 
hath a lease of the same mill (amongst other thinges) vnder 
the great seale of England, for three Hues in beings at the 
rate of ten poundes^ six shillings^ eight pence, p' ann'^ and 
nowe in the tenure of Robert Puleston^ Esquire, who had the 
same at the hands of the said Roger Bellot^ and is kept in 
very good reparac'on ; and that there is neither pete, turfe, 
fnrze, or such like, in this mannor, save in the fields by the 
hedge-side there bee some fearne w'ch poore people doe gather. 

To the 1 7 article they say that this manno^ is a member of 
the lordshipp of Bromefield, and that the tenauntes doe scrue 



118 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

at the Leete and Lawe days of the said Lordshipp, as they are 
bound to doe ; and that they pay no fines, headsiluer, or king- 
siluer ; bat they pay their rentes^ ffines of alienac^ons^ amer- 
ciamentes of courtes mizes, and all sach paymentes as other 
the inhabitantes of the said lordship doe^ as often as the same 
are dae and required. 

To the 18 article they say and present that Hughe Mere- 
dith, Esquire^ hath two houses of the Prince his landes out of 
reparac'cUi and say that the said Hughe hath timber brought 
into the said towne readie to build^ amend, and repayre the 
said house. And they further present that Owen Brereton, 
Esquire, hath a house fallen downe in Hope Street within the 
said mannor ; and that Edward Dauies^ gent., hath a house in 
the tenure of Mary Treuor a Htle out of reparac'on; and 
Henry Salisbury, Knight, hath one house of the Prince his 
landes a litle out of reparac'on, adioyning to the house of 
Edward Bailie. 

To the 19 and 20 articles they say that they knowe not 
whether wayfes, estraies, and other casualties menc^oned in 
this article, be due to the Prince his highness or to the Kinges 
Ma'tie, as they happen ; and that there is neither ffishing nor 
fowling in this manour, to their knowledge. 

To the 21 they say that vpon Mundays and Thursdays mar- 
ketts are kept within the towne of Wrexham ; and that there 
are three ffayres kept in the said towne yerely, viz., upon the 
xijth of March, the fifte of June, and the viijth of September ; 
and that Roger Bellot, gent., hath the toule, pickage, and 
stallage of the same by lease, but what it is worth they knowe 
not. 

To the 22 and 23 they say that they know not of any rent 
or land concealed or w'thheld without right in this mannor, 
nor of any reprises or payments to issue out of this mannor ; 
but that the Bayliff of the said mannor, for gathering the 
rentes thereof, hath a certaine ffee from the Prince his 
Highnes. 

To the 24 article they say that there are presented and 
made at MicVas Leete yerely, by the Jurie of this mannor, 
two cunstables w'ch doe seme the yeare following. And that 
the chief Steward of this mannor and the whole lordshipp of 
Brom field and Yale (as this Jurie haue credibly heard) is the 
right honourable John Earle of Bridgewater ; and that John 
Jeffreys, Esquire,^ John Dauies, and Thomas Foster, are his 

^ John Jeffreys of Acton, Esq. Ennine, a lion rampant sahUy 
armed and langued gules. 



MANUK OK WKEXHAM. 



119 



depntiea; and that Thomas Trafibrd, Esquire, Receauour.* 
But what Sees they or either of them baue, this Jurie knowebh 
not. 

To the 25 they say they bnowe not of any aduoasona or 
beneficies that the Priuce his Highues hath or ought to have 
within this mannor. 

To the 26 they say that, aa farre as they can learne or finde 
out, that the olde and accustomed acre vsed in theise partes 
oonteynetb a clz pertches, and that evei^ perche conteyneth 
24 foDte. 




MANOR OF WREXHAM.— HA FDD Y WERN. 
Harl. MS. 4181. 



Hv& ftb lorwertli of Eafod ; Went, 5aIi[«,=pUar^ret, d. of Cynwrig ah 



three liona paaaant in pale argent. 

Be niBTTied, Beooiidly, Tangwystl, d. of 
Owkin, Lord of Hechain la j Coed, son < ' 
Madog ab Maredydd, Prince of Fonya. b 
whom he had a dauzhter Oenema, who mai 
ried, firtl, Bleddyn iJwyd ab Bleddyn Fycba 
of HaTOd UiiDosi and secondly, Goronwy 
f^chan ab Qoronwy. 

Hwfa ab lorwerth married, thirdly, Eva, d. 
of Llywelyn ab Ynyr of lil, by whom he had 
four aons, 1 , Madoff J Athro of Yr Bisto^ ; 



dangbtam. Llenei apd Myfanwy. 



Hoedliw of Criationydd 
Cynwrig in the Manor of 
EsclyB or EBCluabum, fifth 
aon of Cyuwrig ab Bhi- 
wallon. Lord of Maelor 
Gymraeg. ^Tiiiiia, a lion 
lampout table. 

The mother of Mar- 
garet was Owladya, d. 
and co-heir of Gruffjdd, 
third aon of Meilir EytoD, 
Lord of Eyton, Erlya, and 
Bwraa or Boraahatn. Kr- 
«i{n<, a lion rampant aturt. 



' Thomas TiufTord of Treffordd in Esclusham, Esq. Ermine, a lion 
rampant laUt, aimed and laugued guta. 



120 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



OoroiiwTabHwfa=F , d. and co-heir of lecuui ab Howel ab Maredydd of 

of Uafod 7 Wern. | Henllys in Cefn y Ffarm in Lleyn, descended from 

Collwyn ab Tang^o, Lord of Eiyionydd and Ardndwy. 



T 



I 

leaan ab Ooron-=j=$h?ddylad, d. and heiress of lorwerth Gk>ch, foorth son of 
wy of Hafod y Madoff ab Llywelyn ab Omf^dd, Lord of Eyton, Erlys 

Wern. or ErBsham, and Borasham. Ermine, a lion rampant 

azure. 



\ 



Ooronwy abIcuan=r=Alise, d. of Cynwrig ab Maredydd Ddt of M6n. 
of Hafod yWem. | 



Howel ab Goron*=f=Ne8t, d. of leoan ab lorwerth ab Madogr Maelor, ab 
wy of Hafod y 
Wem. 



Thomas ab Owain ab Bleddyn ab Tudor ab Bhys 
Sais. 



Alice, co-heir.=p 
She had Hafod 

y Wern, and 
was the second 

wife of Howel 
ab leuan. 



'Howel ab leuan ab Gruff- 
ydd of Bersham, ab Ma- 
dog Pabo ab EdnyfedGoch 
ab Cynwrig ab Gruffydd 
Fychan ab Gruffydd ab 
Einion ab Ednyfed, Lord 
of Broughton or Bro^din, 
second son of Cynwng ab 
Bbiwallon. Ermine, a lion 
statant gardant gules, for 
Ednyfed, Lord of Brough- 
ton. 



Alice, sole heir- 
ess of Hafod y 
Wem. 



Gwerfyl, co-heir, nx. Tudor, ab 
Robert alias Hob y Dili of Caer 
y Dmdion, ab Tudor ab Einion 
ab Cynwrig ab Llywarch ab 
Heilin Gloff ab Tegid Farffog 
ab T&ngno, alitu Cadwgan ab 
Ystrwyth ab Marchwystl ab 
Marchweithian of Llys Lly- 
warch, Lord of Is Aled, and 
Chief of one of the Noble 
Tribes. Gules, a lion rampant 
argent. 



John Puleston of Bers, eldest son of Madog Puleston of 

Bers. 



V. 




PULESTON OF HAFOD Y WERN. 

Madog Puleston of Bers, second son of=i=Angharad, dan. of David ab 



Robert Puleston of Emeral in Maelor 
Saesneg, ab Richard Puleston ab Sir 
Roger Puleston of Emeral, ab Sir Rich- 
ard Puleston ab Sir Roger Puleston of 
Emeral, Knipfht, who was slain by the 
Welsh in ] 294. Argent, on a bond sable, 
three niullots of the field. 



la 



Goronwy of Burton and Llai, 
ab lorwerth ab Howel ab 
Moreiddig ab Sanddef Hardd 
or the Handsome, Lord of 
Morton or Burton and Llai. 
Vert, sem^ of bromslips a 
lion rampant or. 

! 2h 



PULESTON OP HAFOD Y WERN. 



121 



I la I 26 

John Poleston of=f=Alice, d. of Howel ab lenan ab Qroff- Edward Poles- 

ydd of Ben, and heiress of her ton of Cristion- 

mother Alice, daughter and co-heir- ydd in Esclu- 

ess of Howel ab Goronwy of Hafod y sham. 
Wem. 



Bers, mndjure 

uxorU of Hi^Tod y 

Wem. 



J<An Pnleston of^lst, Elen, dan. of=f:2nd, Alice, d. of Hugh ab Lly 



Bers and Hafod y Bichard Whitney 
Wem. See FlAs ab Sir Robert 

ym Mhers. Whitney, Knight. 



JTohn Pnleeton of=FCatherine, dan. of 



lir Mon and Hafod 

y Wem, Hieh 
Sheriff for oa Den- 
bigh, 1544. 



Piers Stanley of 
Ewlo Castle. * 



welyn ab Hwlcyn ab Howel ab 
lorwerth Ddu of Presaddfed in 
the parish of Bod Edym in 
Mdn ab lorwerth ab Gnifi^dd 
ab lorwerth ab Maredydd ab 
Mathusalem ab Hwfa^ ab Cyn- 
ddelw, one of the Fifteen Noble 
Tribes. Chiles, a chev. inter 
three lions rampant or. 



Bichard « Jane, d. of Gruffydd ab 
Poles- Edward ab Morgan of 
ton. Brynbw. 



|3 
Roger of El- « Dorothy, dan. of 
tham. Thomas Cowel. 



Emma, nx. 1st, 
John Lewys of 

Owersyllt; 

2ndly,JohnBre- 

reton; Srdly, 

Wm. Hooker. 



|2 
Jane, nx. John 
Wynn ab David 

ab Howel ab 
lenan ab Gruff- 
ydd ab Madog 
Pabo of Bers. 



I* 
Eliza- 

beth, nx. 

Robert 
SonUi of 

Sonlli 



|6 

Emeline, ux. 

John Wynn of 

Gresford, ab 

David ab 

Robert ab 

David Sutton. 



7 

Cathe- 
rine, ux, 
Owen 
Rose of 
Malpas. 



|1 
Piers =f=Oatherine, d. of Sir 



Pnleston 
of Hafod 
y Wem. 



Thomas Hanmer 

of Hanmer, 

Knight. 



Lili, nx. Roger 

Deccaf of Rhwy- 

tyn. 



|3 
Janet, ux. John Wynn 
Roberts of Croes Foel. 
Ermine, a lion rampant 
sable. 



>hn 



John =i=Jane, d. and 



Poles- 
ion of 
Hafod 

Wem, 



co-heir of 
John Almor 
of AJmor, ab 
John Almor 
ab John Al- 
mor ableuan 
ab David of 

Almor. 

Ature, a lion 

salient or. 



Rich- 
ard 

Poles- 
ton. 



'Jane, d. of 

Gruffydd 

ab Edward 

ab Morgan 

of Osryn- 

bw. 



Edward. 
Nicholas. 
Roger, a, p. 
John, 8,p, 
Harri, 8, p. 
William, 
8. p. 



I I 

Elen, Mar- 

ux. garet.ux. 

Wil- Khys ab 

liam Richard. 
Al- 
mor. 



I" 



Dorothy, ox. John Wynn Lloyd of Plas y Bada, in the Jane, 
township of Morton Anglicomm in the Manor of Fab- 
rorom. Argent, a lion rampant eable, armed, langued, 
and crowned gules, 

\b [e \d \e 



* Rowlands, in his Mona Antigua, says, " that Hwfa ab Cynddelw 
of Presaddved, held his estate in fee, by attending on the Prince's 
coronation, and bearing up the right side of the canopy over the 
Prince's head at that solemnity", and cites the following extract, from 
a MS, of one Lewys Dun, out of the Gloddaith Library : " Yr Hwfa 



122 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



a \b \c \d \e 

Robert =f=Sa8ann,d. of Hagh Mare- Ermine. Elen. Alice. Catherine. 
Puleston dydd of Pentref By- 

of Hafod chan, near Wrexham, second son of Sir Richard Maredydd of 
7 Wem. Pentref Bychan ab Rowland Maredydd of Trefalon. Azure, a 
lion salient or. 



I 



Robert Pnleston ofyJane, d. of John Wynn of Copa*r Ooleuni in TegeingL 
Hafod y Wem. f Palii of six pieces argent and sable, 

John Puleston of Hafod y Wem.=r=Helen, d. of Sir Cynwrig £!yton of 



Bom 1603, and appointed to be 
one of the Knights of the Royal 
Oak, ob, 1674. 

John Puleston of Hafod y=i=Dorothy, d. and co-heir, by Dorothy his wife, of 



Eyton, Ent., ab Sir Gerard Eyton^ 
of Eyton, Knight Banneret. Er- 
mine, a lion rampant azure. 



Wem. Bom 1658; mar- 
ried 1692; 06.1722. 



John Lloyd of Ferm, co. Flint, ab ithys Lloyd ; 
ob. Sept. 1741. Sable, a lion rampant argent^ 
in a border encrrailed or. 



^icnard 



I 



Bicnard Pnle8ton=f=Mary, d. of Rev. Philip Egerton, D.D., John 



of Hafod yWern; 

ob. Dec. 9th, 

1745. 



third son of Sir Philip Egerton of Pales* 
Oulton, CO. Chester, Knight; ob. ton. 
Nov. 2nd, 1764. Argent, a lion 
rampant gulez, inter three pheons 
sable. 



'Dorothy, 

third d. of 

Eubule 

Thelwall 

of Nant- 

dwyd. 

Philip Puleston of=i=Mary, youngest sister and co-heir of Ffranoee, ob. 

Haibd y Wem. John Davies of Gwysanneu and Nov. 14th, 

Bom 1742; buried Llanerch Park. Buried in Wrexham 1804, aged 69. 

in Wrexham Church, Sept. 22nd, 1802, aged 63. 

Church, April 10th 

1776, aged 34. 



Ffrances Puleston, sole=fBryan Cooke of Owston, co. York, Lieutenant in 



heir of Hafod y Wem. 
Married 18th Dec. 1786; 
buried in the chancel of 
Owston Church, 8th Jan. 
1818. 



the Boyal Horse Guards, Colonel of the Srd 
West York MiUtia, M.P. for Maldon; ob. 1820; 
son of Anthony Cooke of Owston, son of Henry 
Cooke of Owston, third son of Sir Henry Cooke 
of Wheatley, co. York, Bart. 



L. 



Philip Dayies Cooke of Hafod y Wern, Gwy-=i=Lady Helena Caroline 



sanneu and Owston, J P. and D.L , F.L.S., 
F .G.S., F.Z.S. Bom 1793; o6. 20th Nov. 1853. 

L 



King. d. of George, third 
Earl of Kingston. 



Philip Bryan Davies Cooke of Hafod y Wem, Owston, and Gwysanneu. 

Bom 2nd March, 1832. 

hwn a'i Etifeddion hynaf a wiscant y Dalaith am ben y Twjsog gyda 
Esgob Bangor, ac y dydd cyntaf y cyssegrid y Twysog yn y Dalaeth 
yr oedd i Hwfa, y par dillad a fai am y Twysog wrth wisgo y Dalaith 
am ei ben. A hyn oedd wasanaeth Hwfa ab Cynddelw." — Cambrian 
Register J vol. i, p. 145. 

^ Sir Gerard Eyton of Eyton, was a zealous and distingiiislieil 
Royalist in the time of the Civil Wars, and was in arms against the 
Commonwealth in the Castle of Denbigh when it surrendered to the 
Parliamentary forces. He comi)uunded for his property, which was 
sequestered. See vol. ii. 



BADY OF RHIWABOK AND STAMSTI. 




BADY OF RHIWABON AND STANSTI. 

Harl. MSS. 1972, 1481, 2299. 

John »b DftTid ab leiuui ab Bady ett lenan Foel ab HadoR Oocb ab Madog,=fs 
«ightli M>D of lOQaf ab Nyniaw ab Cjnwiig ab Bhiwallawn. 



^MiT^aret. d. of Roger Deccaf ab David Deccof of Bbwytyn, 
I in the Honor of Bhiwabon and pariah of Bangor la y Coed. 
Ermine, a lion rampant oturg. 



B^«z Bad7 of Btonsti and=f=Jaiie, d, of Edward Brereton of Boraeham, High 
FlM ja J Delff, in Sheriff for oo. Denbigh in 1693. 

Bhiwabon, 1600. | 



lobertB 



HIOTOEF OF POWYS FADOG. 




JONES OF PRONDEQ. 
Barl MS. 1972. 



leoaf ol 



hJc 



Llywelyn ab lolyn.^y ^ 
log Llwydd.=fCatherine, d. of Gnig>ld ab Hw fit Qooh. 



£l«i, m. Hngli 
Ditviea of 
□ John JaSrejB of Wreibftm, Wrezhani. 
the &tber of John Jettreje of Aoton. 

John o^YOwBDlIian, d. of David ab Llywelyn ab Hon 
Pron- Ednyfed Llwyd of PIbh Hadog. ob 

dig. I I6« 

Edwftrd Joiie«EyJMiet, d. of Boger Deccaf ab David Deo- 
of li'rondeg, f . oaf of Ehwytjn, and relict of David ab 
I Howel ab Edward, 



E. John Edwarda of Stanati. 



ELIS OF MAKLOR OYHRAEG. 




ELIS OF MAELOR GYMRAEG. 
Earl. MS. il&\. 

I«ttkf SycbMi ftb Itntt lit If jnUw ab CTiiwrig ftb BhimtUawi). f rmiiM, Kf 

Hon rampant tabla. [ 

Ed ajfed Forf.T = *.igi,.i»ii Qx. lorwerth ab Edayfed ab Heilir. ' 

loTwertb Ooch.=y= 

Madog >b=f=AgnM or Annest, d. of David ab laoati ab lonrarth ab David 
lo rwerth. | ab Goronwy of Bartop a nd Llai. 

lenas FoeL^ Dand, Tioar of Teg7n=p AngliM«d. m. leaaf ab Lly- 

IBhiwabon. u wel^ ab OruSydd ab lor- 
Madog. I worth Fycban of Eiddjg. 
Dawd. Richari. 

Ba dy or Madog.=T' l olyn ab Ieuap.=f 

loljn ab^ lenau ab=p Qniffydd ab DaHd ab Biohard ab 

B ady. 1 B ady. | Bady. lolya. lolyn. 

I I 

David ab lenan. 

Or gfljfdd ab lorwerth. ^ Margarat, d. of Oraffydd ab David ab Howel. 
Elia ab Oro fiydd ^Margawt. d. of Maredydd ab Edward or lorwarth. 



abElU. 



Anne, d. of Uaredydd ab Elia, EdwaiiL Catherine. 

Robert married, and had Rimon. Owen. 

Atnery of two daaKbtere, John. Elizabeth. 

Cheater. co-bein. Roger. 



n pi is i f 

iiliam — Bom, d.of Bicbard John Elis. David Ella, Elizabeth. Anne. 



HISTORY OP POWya FADOG. 




Njnisv ah CjrDirig ab Bhiwftll- 







MAELOR. 
Harl. MSS. 1972, 4181. 
lenaf ab Sladog ib Bladrwa, twelftb son of Cynwrig Kb 

leoaTDdQ^f £fa, d. of lenaf ab Adda ab Awr of Trevot. 

. I 




Ma dog fcb HoweL=T = 

H ftwel »b Madog= p— . d. of Haredydd ab BhjB ftb Qniffydd of BMwabon. 
Ed ward ab Howel.T =Majgaret. d. of David %h Bobert ab Qroffydd ab Howd. 
Robert ab Edward.^ 



|1 , 



iwenman. a. <>i xiowei Hagb =p Bobert 
ab leaan ab Bhya of Boberta. Boberto. 

T QlwyMgl. ( 

David ab Hugh. 



Rifajl, Di. Hai7, nx. Eliza- Jane, ui. Annie, Margaret, az. { 
Bobert ab Hugh Ej- beth, ai. John ax. John Llojd of I 

Edward ab tonof Bryn Peter ab John Bow- Staoati ab John 

E diraird- yr Ooea. Fowler, ab Roger. land. Lloyd. | 

J . 



128 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



A TRUE REPORT OF THE LIFE AND MARTYRDOM 

OF MR. RICttARD WHITE, 

SCHOOLMASTER, 

Who suffered the 15th day of October, an, Dom. 1584.^ 

I have received your letters, my dear friends, dated the 
17th day of November, wherein you renew your old suit unto 
me to lay down in a brief discourse the lingering martyrdom 
of Mr. Richard White, the which had been done before this 
day, had I not hoped that some other man of greater skill 
and experience would take in hand so good a matter, answer* 
able to the weight and worthiness thereof; but understanding 
that those who are better able than myself to do it are either 
employed to other business of greater importance that they 
can have no leisure, or else hindered by the iniquity of the 
time that they can have no opportunity, I have presumed 
here, as it were with a coal, rudely to draw the portraiture of 
his great patience and constancy, rather than that the me- 
mory of so glorious a martyr should perish, referring the 
polishing and painting thereof in colours to a more cunning 
workman. 

Therefore you shall understand that he was bom at Llanyd- 
los in Montgomeryshire, and descended of honest parentage, 
bearing the surname of Gwin; but after his coming to the 
University, some of his acquaintance, perceiving the Welsh 
word to signify White in English, termed him White, by the 
which name he was ever afterward known and called. Of his 
younger years there is nothing memorable, saving that he 
was twenty years of age before he did frame his mind to like 
of good letters ; at which years, following the counsel of the 
wise philosopher (who saith), Quod nunquam sera est ad bones 
mores via, he gave his mind to repair to such places as he 
knew most famous for learning. 

First he travelled to Oxford, where he made no great 
abode ; from thence he resorted to Cambridge, and there 

^ The following is printed from a contemporary MS. that was 
found some time ago in the Mission House of the Catholic Chapel, 
Holywell. It agrees in the main with the long account of the death 
of the ** Protomartyr of Wales" given by Dr. Bridgewater (from 
which Dr. Challoner drew up his brief memoir), but is an independ- 
ent production, entering into many more details than are giveu in 
the published account. 



' MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 129 

made choice of St. John's College, where he lived by the 
charity of the said College, and chiefly of Dr. Bullock, then 
head of the household, his very good benefactor. But when 
alteration of religpion compelled sundry principal men of both 
Universities to leave their rooms and livings, the said Dr. 
Ballock, amongst the rest, left also his house and country. 
Afterwards, a new governor being placed in his stead " who 
knew not Joseph'^ need and poverty compelled this young 
man to become a teacher before he could perfectly lay the 
foundation to be a learner ; and when he had bestowed some 
few years in the University, God put in his mind, by persua- 
sion of friends, to return towards his own country ; and so he 
placed himself in Maelor,^ where he bestowed his poor talent 
among the youths of that country, and, in the end, his life and 
blood for their further benefit. A happy return to the whole 
conntry, if the miserable blind people would consider of it ; 
much they are beholden unto him for the offices of his life, but 
much more for his glorious death and martyrdom. 

The whole time he remained there was about sixteen years, 
the which he so divided that all Maelor and every part thereof 
might fare the better by him. First, he placed himself in 
Orton Madock,^ where he spent most of these years ; from 
thence he removed to Wrexham (where he spent his life as 
you shall understand hereafter), and so he went to Grosford, 
then to Yswyd, and last of all to Orton again ; by reason of 
which public charge in all these places he was greatly ac- 
quainted, his company of the better sort much desired, and 
of the people generally loved for his diligence in teaching and 
other good parts known to be in him. His moderation and 
temperance in his life and conversation were such, that his 
adversaries could never to this day charge him with any notable 
crime, or any other fault than the following of his faith and 
conscience (which now-a-days is accounted madness), for tes- 
timony whereof I appeal to those places where he hath con- 
versed. During this while .he so profited by his own private 
study in knowledge of good literature, that it was wonder to 
them that knew him before to see in the man so great ripeness 
from so late a beginning. He was not unskilful in most of 
the seven liberal sciences, and in histories very well seen ; 
but now, in his latter time, he gave his time wholly to the 
study of divinity. As for his knowledge of the Welsh tongue, 
he was inferior to none in his country, where he hath left to 
the posterity some precedent in writing, eternal monuments 

^ Bromefield iu Denbighshire. ^ Overton Madog. 

VOL. III. 9 



130 HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOO. 

of his wit, zeal, virtae, and learning. A little before his coming 
to Orton this latter time, he married thence a young girl by 
whom he had six children, whereof he sent three to heaven be- 
fore him in their infancy, the other three he left with their 
mother. And so being the second time placed in Orton among 
his wife's friends, Mr. Downam, the named Bishop of Chester, 
and his officers, began to molest him for refusing to receive 
at their communion-table. In the end, after some troubles, he 
yielded to their desires although greatly against his stomach, by 
the earnest persuasion of a gentleman (Roger Puleston), who 
had then, and hath now, a great part of that country at com- 
mand ; and lo, by the providence of God, he was no sooner 
come out of the church but a fearful company of crows and 
kites so persecuted him to his home that they put him in great 
fear of his life, the conceit whereof made him also sick in 
body as he was already in soul diseased ; in the which sick- 
ness he resolved himself (if God would spare his life) to be- 
come a Catholic, the which good purpose, afterward having 
recovered his health, he performed accordingly. 

But the enemy of mankind, envying his well-doing, and 
fearing lest the example of so good a man, being a jmblic 
person, would do much harm to his cause, incited the minds 
of such as were (in the parish) before infected with heresy to 
molest him, who never gave over their malice until they had 
banished him out of the country and diocese. From thence 
he went over the river of Dee unto Erbistock, where, in an 
old baru, he exercised still his former profession of teaching ; 
but the spiteful heretics made means to expel him thence 
also, and to despatch him at length out of the whole country ; 
for, indeed, they were unworthy to have among them so 
blessed a man. 

Then he travelled abroad to seek relief and comfort among 
strangers which was denied him by his own countrymen at 
home, who were most beholden unto him. In the end it 
pleased God to deliver him to the hands of his adversaries, in 
that town where he afterwards suffered. The next day after 
his' apprehension being Thursday, the justices of the peace 
met him in the said town to determine of him ; in the mean 
time the prisoner escaped, for that Thursday was not yet come 
wherein, in the same place, he should glorify God by his con- 
stant death. And before two years were expired (July 1580) 
lie was apprehended again by one David Edwards, a mercer, 
not far from the place whence he had made the escape, who 
laid violent hands on him in the highway, having neither 
commission from superior magistrates nor any special quarrel 



MARTYRDOM OP MR. RICHARD WHITE. 131 

to the party himself but of a foolish blind zeal^ being a hot 
Puritan, and of spiteful hatred to the man's religion. Now 
the servant of God having the second time fallen into the 
hands of his enemies^ was first carried to the mercer's house 
(who took him)^ and both his legs were loaded with heavy 
bolts. Afterward conveyed to the black chamber (Siambar 
ddu), a vile and filthy prison, where he lay on the cold ground 
two days and two nights, fed, etc., thence brought before 
Robert Puleston^ to be examined, who (being an enemy to the 
Catholic religion) returned his commitment for vehement sus- 
picion of treason ; so he was sent to Ruthin (for there the 
gaol remained), both arms being made sure with strong hand- 
bolts^ where, at his first coming, the gaoler entertained him 
with a huge pair of bolts on both heels, the which continued 
the first Quarter. Marry, towards the second quarter, the 
gaoler, being now better acquainted with the man^s beha- 
viour and innocency, remitted some part of his former rigour 
towardii him. And here I may not omit to tell you a strange 
accident which chanced to a gentleman (John Salusbury of 
Rfig) of good account in the country a little after the prisoner's 
coming to town, who, passing by the gaol in company with 
one Goodman, Dean of Westminster, and perceiving the 
prisoner to stand in the door, first paused a while beholding 
him, then shook his head upon him, saying, " Oh, White, 
White, thou art an unprofitable member of the common- 
wealth V^ the which words he spake in hearing of this preacher, 
to maintain a little credit he was in with him and other heretics, 
but plainly against his own conscience and knowledge; for all 
the country knew him to be inclined in mind unto the same reli- 
gion for the which the other man sustained imprisonment and 
irons even in his presence. But see what followed : the gen- 
tleman returned home sick, and was never seen abroad after 
this word until he came to be buried ; a sore word to the man 
himself, and a good example to all dissemblers, especially in 
credit and authority, to take heed what they say or do against 
their own conscience. Another chance happened, no less 
strange than the former, unto a preacher, one Ithel Thelwell, 
son to Simon Thelwell (who afterward, as you shall hear, pro- 
nounced sentence of death upon the martyr). This minister, 
being Master of Arts and a preacher of no small account, 
having entered unto his sermon (before the judges and all the 



* This gentleman was a continual enemy to the prisoner, and 

busy at his iudictment, but never lived to see his death, ending his 

own life miserably. 

9« 



132 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

worship of the shire, in the assize week^ which no doubt 
he had provided against the Catholic religion and this holj 
confessor), suddenly fell dumb, that the judges themselves 
were fain to call him out of the pulpit with shame enough ; 
whereupon there wanted not some who aflBrmed that Mr. 
White had bewitched him ; but many reported that this good 
man's imprisonment was the cause of the preachers dumb- 
ness. But what think you ? were the magistrates moved at 
the sight hereof to take compassion on their prisoner ? 
Nothing less : " Induratum enim erit cor Pharaonis ne demit- 
terit Israel/' — Israel should not depart. (Exod. x.) 

In this first assize, kept at Ruthin about Michaelmas a.d. 
1580, he had not much said to him, saving that the judges 
were earnestly in hand with him to accuse his benefactors and 
forsake his religion, wherein God so assisted him that they 
could not prevail. Towards Christmas, the gaol was removed 
unto Wrexham, where a new gaoler received him with a great 
pair of shackles, the which he was compelled to wear both day 
and night all the year following, by the special commandment 
of the sheriff (Owen Brereton), an enemy to all good men, and, 
namely, to this man of God, even to his last breath and after. 

Now, the second assize being kept at Wrexham, in May 
A.D. 1581, the adversaries were busy to make him relent, so 
far, at the least, as to hear an heretical sermon, for they did 
imagine that his fall would give the Catholic religion a sore 
blow, especially in Maelor, where the people depended much 
upon his virtue and learning. But when the magistrates saw 
that fair means and gentle persuasions could take no place, 
they began to extend towards him plain violence; for, pre- 
sently, six of tho sherifPs men were commanded to carry him 
unto the church, who took the servant of God upon their 
shoulders, with his heels upward, and so bare him in proces- 
sion-w^ise round about the font (a very strange spectacle to the 
beholders), laying him along under the pulpit, where a preacher 
was ready to welcome the poor man with a railing sermon. 
But all this while ho so stirrod his legs that, with the noise of 
his irons, the preacher's (Thomas Jones) voice could not be 
heard ; whereat the judges and sheriff were in a great rage, 
commanding to carry him thence into the stocks. But he 
told them that it needed not, for he offered to go with them 
quietly to any punishment for his conscience — yea, to the gal- 
lows, if they would have it, but to their schismatical assem- 
blies, he told them, he would never go or come quietly. And 
thus he was locked in the stocks, both legs, from ten o'clock 
before noon until eight at night, vexed all the space with a 
rabble of ministers. 



MARTYRDOM OP MR. RICHARD WHITE. 133 

In the end he was turned loose toward his gaol, halting all 
the way as he went by reason of stiffness in his legs over- 
charged with stocks and fetters, which rueful spectacle tho 
uiercer beholding, brake forth into a great laughter ; a lewd 
nature of a malicious heretic, to feed himself in such wicked 
malice upon the cruel affliction of the poor man. In the mean 
time the magistrates, consulting how they might collect matter 
enough out of that day^s work to make him away, caused a 
jury to be impannelled, men for their own purpose, haters of 
the Catholic faith, to whom was no store made of his demean- 
our in the church, and words to the justices. But the jury, 
perceiving that the evidence against him did not bear weight, 
found a bill for the disturbance of divine service, and, there- 
upon, he was lined by Judge Bromley in a hundred marks ; 
a most wicked verdict and sentence against all law of God 
and man, and a pretty stratagem, first, to do open violence to 
his body, and then to bring him under the danger of their law 
— I dare say contrary to the intention of the law-makers them- 
selves, who could not conceive a man in his case violently 
carried to their church upon men^s shoulders. Well, howsoever 
they conceive, I am sure that many who were present at this 
device complained of tho injustice done unto him that day, the 
which even God Himself, to the honour of His servant, showed 
presently before the bar, by an evident miracle ; for when 
James Garm, the pronotary or primitary, should have read the 
bill of his indictment, he was stricken blind, as we read of 
Elymas the sorcerer to have been by the sentence of 8t. Paul 
(Acts xiii), and whereas the judge called upon him twice or 
thrice to read the bill, the said pronotary, opening his breast 
in great rage, confirmed with an oath that he was stark blind ; 
whereunto iSir George replied, " Speak softly, lest the Papists 
make a miracle of that.'^ And thus the bill was turned over 
to be read by another clerk that stood by. 

The assize being kept at Denbigh in September follow- 
ing, there was no great matter done against him, saving 
that Sir George Bromley caused him to bo indicted in seven 
score pounds for not coming to church, upon the penal statute 
of twenty pounds a month, then lately enacted ; a ridiculous 
thing thjvt a poor man lying close prisoner many years to- 
gether, and at the command of his gaoler, should, notwith- 
standing, be guilty of the statute before it was devised. But 
equity and conscience can have no place where corrupt and 
bhnd affection reigneth. After that he was fined in this 
double mulct, viz., at the assizes before in a hundred marks 
for coming to church, and, at this assize in two hundred 



134 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOCJ. 

marks for not coming. It pleased Mr. Justice to play and 
sport with his prisoner (as the cat doth with the mouse before 
she devour it), pleasantly demanding of him what he had to 
discharge himself of his debt, Whereunto Mr. White, very 
devoutly making low obeisance, answered, " I have somewhet 
towards iV "What hast thou?'' sayeth the justice. "I 
have'', sayeth he, " sixpence;" the which answer did set Sir 
George in such a rage that nothing might cool the same until 
he beheld the poor man's legs well charged with two pair of 
irons, for fear belike of running away, now being so much in 
the Queen's debt. Some which were present at this talk re- 
proved the prisoner for crossing Mr. Justice, being he knew 
well that the man could never abide to be crossed ; some were 
of a contrary mind, allowing his answer as proceeding from 
the wise man's counsel, who biddeth answer a fool according 
to his foolishness, that he may not seem wise in his own con- 
ceit. To tell you mine opinion, I think that the demand was 
beside all wit and discretion, to ask a poor prisoner, who, de- 
pended on the devotion and charity of others, what he had to 
discharge 300 marks and odd money. 

At this assize, John Hughes and Bobert Moris, his fellows, 
were first committed to prison with him, who had long before 
his apprehension sustained irons for the same cause at the 
council in the Marches, and were now removed to their own 
country, no doubt by the special providence of God, to receive 
mutual comfort one of the other, and especially to learn of 
this blessed confessor the rules of perfect charity, patience, 
devotion, and all other acts of virtue. 

The next assize, kept at Wrexham in the year 1582, the 
adversaries having learned the experience in the same place a 
twelvemonth before, that forced haling of the prisoner to ser- 
mons could take no ^ood end, devised another stratagem 
more cunning than the former, but with as ill success; for 
upon Friday in the assize week, at about four of the clock in the 
afternoon, the prisoners were sent for to the bar, where, be- 
side their expectation, a minister was ready to entertain them 
with an heretical sermon, of the which wrong they ceased not 
to complain to the judges, telUng them that they came not 
thither to hear sermons, but to receive law and justice. 
Marry, their complaint taking no place they turned their 
speech to the preacher, the one in Latin, the other in En- 
glish, and the third in Welsh, so fast that the magistrates 
were not a little offended with them, threatening them, if they 
would not give over, heavy bolts, whips, stocks, dungeons, 
and pillory ; to be short, the prisoners were removed in no 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 135 

small displeasure^ apd the preacher made an end of his lying 
sermon with small grace. 

In this assize^ certain pedlars and tinkers, who then bare 
some sway in the town, hot Puritans and full of the gospel, 
complained upon the sheriff^ that he was not so sharp to 
his prisoners as they required ; yea, moreover, in plain 
terms, that he relieved them^ — an heinous offence, if it were 
true, and worthy punishment, that a magistrate should give 
such an open example as to do a deed of charity, if it be a 
deed of charity to relieve poor Papists for, except I mistake, 
the Protestant preachers have found out of late in their new 
divinity that Christian men are bound to relieve felons and 
murderers in prison, or any other malefactors, but not Papists; 
and this Christopher Goodman teacheth and practiseth at 
West Chester, where he taketh special order that the poor 
Catholics in the castle may reap no benefit by the poor man's 
box, and other relief which is in the city gathered for pri- 
soners ; whereby may appear that all is not the word of the 
Lord (whereof these fellows brag so much) that cometh out 
of their mouths, but they are glad now and then to drop 
among it some of their own words and inventions : and this 
by the way ; now to our matter. 

Upon this complaint, presently order was laid down by the 
judges that Mr. Sheriff must have four overseers to assist him, 
who so narrowly looked to their charges that all access of 
their friends unto them was barred, except of their wives 
only ; and they were not suffered to bring them any relief at 
all but these honest men must oversee it ; the which strange 
dealing did drive into the people's heads such a mutiny, that 
every man affirmed how their adversaries did mean to de- 
spatch the poor men by famine whom they could not make 
away by any colour of law. And here I may not forget to 
tell yoa the notable malice that David Edwards, the mercer 
before named, one of the said overseers, bare this man of God ; 
who, being on horseback ready to take his journey and beholding 
the prisoner to stand at the gaol-door in his irons, with his 
little child in his arms, suddenly the spiteful wretch, as one in 
some frantic mood, crossed the way towards him, and, in a 
great rage, overthrew him backwards on the stones, leaving 
the print of his nails in his face, putting also the babe in no 
small hazard of his life. But what think you ? durst he com- 

1 Edward Hughes of Holt, Esq. 

' At Easter, none was admitted to the communion-table but such 
as had a token from one of the two tinkers. 



13G HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

plain hereof to the judges ? Or could he hope to find any 
remedy at their hands? Nothing less. The good man laid 
up this injury among others more to be remedied by a more 
indifferent Judge, who would no doubt one day, and could, 
remedy the same. Another like token of a malicious heart 
this desperate heretic showed about the same time, causing 
his wife and daughter to depose before levan Lloyd of Tale 
that the prisoner was seen two flight-shots from the gaol 
(naming the place, Coytmor) ; the which his gaoler disproved 
to their faces, affirming that one levan Lewis was the man, 
and not he. Where you may see what malice can do in a 
wicked mind, void of God's fear, conscience, religion, and all 
goodness. Verily, if justice might have taken place, the pil- 
lory, which was a little before threatened (as you have heard) 
to the innocent man and his fellows, should have been the re- 
ward of these perjured women, for whom and for such it was 
chiefly ordained. 

The Michaelmas following our prisoners were removed to 
the Holt (where the assize was kept), to be there indicted of 
high treason, as appeareth by a letter that Mr. White wrote 
himself to a friend of his, the copy whereof I have laid down 
verbatim as followeth : 

The copy of Mr. White, his letter, reporting! ilie indictment of the three 
prisoners at the Uolt^and the manner of their adversaries* proceeding 
afjdinst them. 

After my hearty commendations, these are to certify you of our 
estate. Upon Friday, in the assize week, we were indicted of high 
treason by the great inquest, Owen Brereton being foreman, by the 
proeureinent of David Edwards, Sir Hugh Sonlley the apostate, 
David Powell Goch, Vicar of Ruabon, who did follow the bill against 
us (as far as I could understand) ; for Mr. Justice Townshend de- 
manding who followed the bill, the clerk of the indictment gave 
answer, David Powell, and he then stood at the bar. Sir Hugh 
Sonlley and David Edwards had gotten one Lewis Gronow, of Miria- 
dock in this county of Denbigh (who was prisoner with us for an 
execution of debt), to bear witness against us, the which Lewis had 
been on the pillory at Denbigh by the procurement of Mr. Tudur 
Probert. This hone»t man, being examined before the two judges, 
levan Lloyd of Yale, Roger Puleston, Owen Brereton, and others, 
deposed that we three had persuaded him and divers others to ab- 
stain from the churoh, and to acknowledge the Pope*s authority ; 
and that he had to prove this sundry witnesses, whom he named to 
them : as David Penrhun, Peter Roydon, John Roberts Barker of 
Ruthin, and Edward Erles, who were all in our gaol at several 
times. David Penrhun did not appear; the rest were deposed, who, 
upon their oaths cleared us, and proved our adversary perjured. 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 137 

Moreover, one Robert Clarke, minister of Wrexham, deposed that he 
beard John Roberts Barker, before named, report how David Penrhun 
did t«ll him that I did call the church domum diaholi ; the which 
John Roberts denied upon his oath, and so the minister was fore- 
sworn. Again, there was two gentlemen in our gaol for an execu- 
tion, Mr. Thomas Price Winne of Llanarmon in Yale, and Thomas 
Lloyd of Abergeley, who offered to depose that Lewis Gronow was 
in hand with them to bear false witness against me ; but they cried 
on him in these words, " Fie on thee, fie on thee ! thou, being an 
old man ninety years of age, and wouldst thou have us bear false 
witness with thee against any man V^ In the afternoon, the second 
inquest was called, which went upon life and death. In the mean 
time, John Hughes his wife was examined strictly, to get more evi- 
dence for the last inquest ; but nothing could be gotten. Here the 
gaoler had a great charge given him by Sir George to look well imto 
us three ; and so he bound our arms behind our backs with cords, 
and watched us in the shire-hall all the day fasting, that we looked 
for present death the next day after. At length the second inquest 
came in far in the night with their verdict, and said nothing of us. 
And this is all I can certify at this time. What shall become of us 
God knoweth, unto whom we commit ourselves and you, with com- 
mendations from my fellows, desiring the assistance of your prayers 
and other good friends for us. Wrex., the 12 of October Anno 
Dom. 1582. Your daily beadsman, Rich. White. 

At this assize a lamentable chance happened unto a gentle- 
men of good calling (John Edwards of Cherk), who had been 
a Catholic and a great benefactor to these prisoners, and was 
now brought by infirmity and importunity of carnal friends to 
renoQuce his faith before the bar, with open protestation ; a 
pitiful example never heard of in Wales before, and no small 
discomfort to the poor prisoners. But what followed ? The 
gentleman returned home, his soul loaded with sin, his con- 
science with desperation, his body with puuishuients so strange 
and fearful that ray tongue doth tremble to utter them, ray 
heart doth bleed to think upon them ; but the country doth 
remember them, and the posterity will talk of them. How 
far better had it been for hira to fall into the hands of raen, 
from whom many ways he might have escaped, at least by 
death, than to fall into the terrible hands of Almighty God, 
from whose fingera he might neither dead nor alive escape. 
Alas, that the constancy of his poor beadsmen could not stay 
him from so foul a deed, whom he beheld chained and bound 
hand and foot, ready to offer their lives and blood for that 
cause which he came to renounce and forsake. But I pray 
God that his poor soul may not now answer for this dissimu- 
lation before that seat where all oar actions must be discussed. 



138 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

where dissimulation can take no place, nor friendship prevail ; 
and that his example may be a warning to other gentlemen 
to take heed of the like attempt. 

At Christmas, after this assize, the new sheriflF (levan Lloyd 
of Yale, 1583) entering into his oflBce, first removeth from the 
prisoners their overseers, being able of himself to oversee 
them sufficiently; then chargeth them with great irons, for the 
great good will he bare to them. 

At the assize in May 1583, order was taken for their re- 
moving to the council of the Marches, the which was done 
with great solemnity, binding their arms fast behind them, 
tanquam latrones ctim fustibua et yladiis (Matt, xxvi), as their 
Master and Captain was sometimes brought before the high 
priest. They hoped by torments to wrest from them some 
evidence against themselves, that they might after with more 
colour despatch them. Thither was brought to meet these 
prisoners two young men, prisoners also, from Flint gaol, to 
be tortured likewise for the same cause, Mr. John fienet and 
Harry Pue, the one a priest the other a layman, both right 
virtuous and constant Catholics ; who were all five in Novem- 
ber following, at Bewdley and Bridgnorth, laid in the mana- 
cles (a kind of torture at the council, not much inferior to the 
rack of the Tower of London), whereof there is written a 
special treatise, collected out of divers letters from the said 
confessors to their friends, of which letters I have selected so 
much as concemeth our martyr, whereof this is the copy. 

A Copy of a Letter sent from one of the Catholic prisoners to a friend 
of hisj wherein he showeih the torturing of himself and of his fellows 
at Bewdley y in Nov, anno Dom. 1583. 

Being so often called upon to lay down particular notes of the 
councirs dealings towards us during the time of our trial and tor- 
ments, I have collected such things as my fellows and myself could 
remember to satisfy your request, and conferred diligently therein 
with them again, lest any untruth had escaped us by overmuch 
haste in writing. Therefore you shall understand, that Sir George 
Bromley sent for John Huges and Bobert Moris before him, upon 
Tuesday, in the morning about eight of the clock, being the 26th 
of November, etc. The 27th day following, being about eight of the 
clock in the morning, Mr. Bichard White and Harry Pue were 
brought to Atkins's chamber, the Queen's attorney, and all the way 
as they passed, the people lifted up their hands after them, saying, 
" God save you ! God stand with you !" When they were come be- 
fore the attorney, he examined them awhile together, and, being 
separated, the said attorney turned him to Mr. White, and said as 
fulloweth. 



MARTYRDOM OF MB. RICHARD WHITE. 139 

Atkins. I protest before God, that the priucipality of Wales is the 
third part of the realm wherein no punishment at all hitherunto hath 
been used towards such lewd, obstinate, and disobedient persons; 
upon whom (as Mr. Justice sayeth) no more mercy ought to be had 
than on a msid dog, for all Papists be the Queen's professed enemies. 

White. You slander them, they are not ; and, for my part, I do 
acknowledge her to have full authority in all temporal causes within 
her own dominions, and so we are taught by our superiors. 

A. You are contrary to your fellows herein, for Benet calleth the 
Pope rex rtgum^ and he sayeth himself, in his own style, si non 
waUal verhum Domini vcUeat gladius Petri, 

W. As for Mr. Benet you have forthcoming, let him answer for 
himself ; and, as touching the Pope's style, I know it not, but this 
that I have told you I believe to be true. 

A . Wilt thou swear it ? 

W. Will you enlarge me if I do 1 

A. If thou wilt answer directly to such questions as we are to de- 
mand of thee upon thy further reformation, although thou be indicted 
of treason, yet I will be a suitor for thee to the council, who shall be 
a means for thee to her Majesty to procure thy pardon. We will 
not charge thee with any point of religion, but of treason ; we will 
not demand of thee how many sacraments there be, as the Papists 
did our men in Queen Mary's time, but we will demand of thee 
when thou hast been first reconciled, by whom, in what place, where 
last confessed, how often, and whether thou hast been in confession 
with Benet or no, sithence he came to the country. 

W. Do not you know that confession is a point of religion, and 
one of the chiefest ; and, in demanding of me such a question, you 
break promise? 

A. It is no point of religion at all, but the very invention of the 
Pope to draw subjects thereby from their prince to promise obedience 
to him, that he may displace the prince to enrich his own coffers. 
What thinkest thou, may he lawfully displace any prince of his 
kingdom 1 

W. He doth displace none. 

A. Now, how say you to the Bull of Pius Quintus against our 
most gracious Queen ? 

W. Notwithstanding that Bull (the which I never saw), I believe 
and confirm that she is our lawful Queen. 

A. Doth not the Pope grant pardons and plenaries to such as will 
kill our Queen 1 

W. I deny that ; for he neither doth so, nor yet will do so, nor 
can if he would. 

A. He cannot indeed, but it is his common practice so to do ; for 
the late rebels in the north, and Saunders in Ireland, had a Bull 
from the Pope to invade the realm, to murder the Council and the 
Queen's royid person; and he hath to this end directed seminaries (as 
nuneries for all disobedient persons to run into), from whence do 



140 HISTORY OF POWYS PADOQ. 

come those lewd runagate priests, who labour to seduce the people 
from their obedience to their prince, and to cause an uproar within 
the realm if it be not prevented in time. 

W, As for the rising in the north, I was not privy thereto, neither 
to Dr. Saunders going to Ireland, being prisoner at the very same 
time; therefore you do me wrong to charge me with other men*a 
actions. And, as touching the seminaries, I heard it reported that 
they have the Queen's arms upon their college at Rome, and that 
they use in both colleges a daily prayer for her Majesty. 

J. They have the arms of England, but they do not mean the 
Queen of England ; and, as for their prayer, they pray, after their 
seditious manner, that she may be either converted or confounded, 
and so dost thou. 

IF. When I pray for her Majesty, I make her of no higher degree 
than a neighbour ; for a man is bound to love God above all things, 
and his neighbour as himself; and I place her under the highest de- 
gree of neighbourhood, contained in the commandment, Honour thy 
father and mother, etc., but I will not make her my God. 

A, She is indeed pater patria;. But to lot these words pass, 
how say you to the premises] Will you answer us directly con- 
cerning your reconciliation and confession with Bcnet within these 
three weeks, as some of your own fellows do witness? 

W. Doth not the Scripture say that the Pharisees and Sadducees 
came to St. John, confessing their sins and to be baptised 1 

A. Yes ; but that was not auricular confession. Peradventure 
thou wouldst recite another place in the 19th of the Acts (this place 
Mr. Benet had taught the attorney before), where it is said that the 
believers confessed their deeds to the Apostles. 

And 60 in the end Mr. White was turned to the manacles about 
nine of the clock in the morning, upon which torture he was strictly 
examined by the aforesaid attorney upon the former interrogatives 
about his reconciliation and confession, who promised him that he 
should not be delivered from the torments until he would confess 
the truth. And, moreover, he willed him to have regard to himself, 
being an old man, and not so able to endure the pains as some of his 
fellows were ; and that some had confessed already, and were at ease, 
as he should be also, if he would do the like. But all these charming 
words could not prevail against the resolute soul of tiiis constant 
confessor, who bestowed all the time of his torments in continual 
prayer, by craving of God for his tormentors mercy and forgiveness, 
and for himself safe deliverance from their malice by the merits of 
Christ Jesus His passion ; and this he did with a loud voice. But 
the pei-secutors seeuied to be tormented with his words, as if they 
had been possessed, for they never ceased running in and out all the 
while, muttering one to another he knew not what. Then he fell to 
prayer in silence, and so continued until dinner time without any 
answer to their demands ; whereat the pitiful men, moved no doubt 
with compassion, supposing the man to be speechless, took him 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 141 

down, and so left him to remain with his manacles until their coming 
again. Immediately after dinner came to visit the prisoner Mr. 
Justice Bromley, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Leighton of the 
Plash, Mr. Thelwall, being all of the council ; Mr. Atkins, the attor- 
ney ; Mr. Sherrer, Thomas Evans, deputy solicitor ; and divers others. 
Then Sir George Bromley, as one in a great rage, uttered these 
words. 

Bromley, There is no more pity to be had on thee than on a mad 
dog ; and it were better that all such wretches were hanged, than 
that the state of the realm should be troubled with the like. For it 
standeth us upon to look unto such, and we are so conkmanded by 
the Queen and the council ; yea, if we had no authority from above, 
yet we tnight do it of ourselves. 

W, Sir, if you have authority, either of yourselves or from others, 
I pray you put me to death out of hand, and therein you shall do 
me greater pleasure than to kill me continually in these torments, 
the which I have felt all this day for my conscience. 

£, Nay, thou shalt first be tormented, and then hanged after- 
wards ; for thou art indicted of high treason, and I cannot help thee, 
unless upon thy reformation I stay the verdict of the quest, or else 
reprieve thee ; and if thou wilt do no service to the Queen, if the 
quest refuse to cast thee, I will have them all to London ; but if thou 
wilt detect and bewray such treasons as are to be asked of thee, we 
will do for thee, and if thou fear to lose thy benefactors, we will pro- 
vide that thou shalt live as well as thou dost now ; nay, not so 
neither, but thou shalt have a competent living to live withal. And 
if thou tell more than Robert Moris hath done, thou shalt be better 
looked unto ; for he hath confessed already, and is now at ease. 

W, Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor. 

Sherrer, Sir, he can work well in a garden ; he hath sometimes 
been my man, and now ho hath wife and children. 

Phillips, If he will forsake his religion, he shall be my man and 
gardener too. 

A, Indeed, I must say that he is more sensible, and can yield 
better reason for himself than Benet, who calleth the Pope rex regum, 
for he sayeth that the Pope hath a temporal sword in England. 

B. Yea, that Benet, he had rather dispense with the Pope's laws, 
which are so far, than with the Queen's laws, which be so nigh. 

W, The Pope is a priest, and he mcddleth not with the temporal 
sword, which belongeth to kings and princes ; for priests may not 
fight with the sword. 

B, We are all kings and priests. Well, the time passeth away ; 
if thou answer not directly about thy reconciliation and confession 
with Benet, etc., thou must needs go to the tortures again. 

W, Where did you read in all the Scriptures that Christians did 
compel any by tortures to be of their religion ; but we read that 
Christ whipped the unworthy out of the Temple. 

B. It is written in the (iospcl, ** Go out into the highways, and 
compel them to come in", and so we do the like. 



142 HISTORY OF FOWYS FADOG. 

P. I pray, sir, to pardon him this time from the manacles until 
the morning. 

B. Well, I am content ; and now I pray thee, White, what didst 
thou give for thy wife 1 

W. Sir, that question is no point of religion. 

And so the council laughing, departed, and Mr. White was turned 
over to confer with Sherrer. 

E, Sir, this man hath been confessed with Benet the priest within 
these three weeks, and there are witnesses against him of his own 
fellows, and yet he will not confess it. 

S. What, dost thou deny a truth % he that denyeth a truth de- 
nyeth Christ, for Christ is the truth ; thou denyest the truth, ergo^ 
thou denyest Christ ! 

W, I deny neither Christ nor the truth, because I say nothing. 

S, To say nothing or conc-eal a truth, is the denying of the truth. 

W, Then this post denyeth the truth, for it saith nothing. 

S, I am sorry with all my heart that I have spoken for thee, and 
make full account thou shalt to the tortures again. 

And so Sherrer departed, and Mr. White remained in the same 
place with his manacles two long hours after, expecting when he 
should be laid in them again; but Grod protected him from any 
further cruelty at that time. 

After that the council had proved these happy men^ and 
found in them no refuse metal, but pure gold, they sent them 
towards their own country again, with the like pomp where- 
with they were brought thence before, Christi signata in cor- 
pore ferentes ("Bearing the marks of Christ Jesus in their 
bodies". Gal. vi.). Thus it pleased God by the weak to con- 
found the strong, and by the simple to overcome the pmdent ; 
for whereas their adversaries purposed through tortures to in- 
crease their own credit, and to quench the faith of these blessed 
confessors, behold their tortures turned to the foil of the 
enejny, to the eternal praise of the men afflicted, to the honour 
of God, and to the good example of their dear country. A 
Domino factum est istud et est mirabile in oculis nostris 
(Psalm cxvii). 

And being now returned home, at the first assize they had 
nothing said unto them, but two of the witnesses were bound 
to appear at the next assize following to bear evidence against 
them as they should be instructed. At which time three of 
the prisoners were arraigned in manner and form following. 

The arraignment of Mr. Richard White, John Hughes, and 
Robert Moris, at Wrexham in Denbighshire, upon Friday, 
being the 9th of October, and the feast of St. Denis, anno 
Dom. 1584, Sir George Bromley, Chief Justice; Simon Thel- 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 143 

wall. Deputy Jastice; Piers Owen, Sheriff of the Shire;^ Dr. 
Ellis, Roger Puleston, levan Lloyd of Yale, and Owen Brere- 
ton, with others, assistants. 

As the prisoners were coming to the bar, Mr. White, in the 
way before all the assembly, blessed himself, whereat a young 
gentleman (Francis Bromley) there present made no little 
pastime, often crossing his body in derision, and casting withal 
mocks and mowes with his head and mouth towards the poor 
man; bat scornful youth is to be borne with, for he had for- 
gotten that the same holy sign of the cross which he scorned 
was made on his forehead when he was christened, and he 
had not read that Christ foreshowed it would appear one 
day before all the world in glory (Matt, xxv), at which time he 
ahall be forced to behold it unto his everlasting confusion, if 
he do not prevent here God's wrath by daily penance. With 
like scorn he and his fellows derided the good man's answers 
to the judges, namely, when he said in Latin, Christianus sum 
C I am a Christian'') ; a thing to be lamented with tears of 
blood, and a matter for posterity to marvel at, that men bear- 
ing the names of Christians could grow to such impiety and 
height of paganism as to sport at their own profession. 

The prisoners, now standing before the bar, first were com- 
manded to hold up their hands; then the pronotary informed 
them that they stood indicted of high treason, and that they 
should have their trial. And so he read the bill of their in- 
dictment, viz., that they had offended against the statutes of 
snpremacy and persuasion; hereupon the judges demanded 
how they would be tried. To the which demand Mr. White 
answered in the name of himself and his fellows, " We will be 
tried by you, who are the justices of the bench; for you are wise 
and learned, and better able to discern the equity of our 
cause than the simple men of our own country, altogether un- 
acquainted with such matters." But their desire taking no 
place, a jury was impannelled, and the witnesses examined, 
Lewis Gronow, Edward Erles, Howell David. Gronow de- 
posed that the said three prisoners were in hand with him on 
a Sunday in July, an. Dom. 1582, to become a Papist; se- 
condly, that he heard them also to acknowledge the Bishop of 
Some to be supreme head of the Church; thirdly, that he 
heard Richard White in plain terms to affirm the Pope now 
living to have the same authority which Christ gave unto 
Peter. 

Erles deposed that he heard White rehearse certain rhymes 

^ Piers Owen, Esq,, of Garth y Medd, in the parish of Abergele. 



144 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

of his own making against married priests and ministers ; 
secondly, that he called the Bible a bubble; thirdly, that he 
termed Justice Bromley ustus y fram; and, fourthly, that he 
defended the Pope's supremacy. 

Howell David, against Mr. White, deposed that he heard 
him complain of this world; and, secondly, affirm that it would 
not last long; thirdly, that he hoped to see a better world; 
and, fourthly, that he confessed the Pope's supremacy. 

The said Howell David deposed against his cousin John 
Hughes, that, meeting with him at a place called Rhud y 
Ceirw, in Ruabon parish, he sought to persuade him unto the 
Roman religion, adding the churches of Protestants to be full 
of wicked spirits, and the Pope supreme head of the Catholic 
Church; moreover, that he sent one John Griffith, a priest, 
unto him after this conference between them, who tendered to 
bind him by oath unto his Roman faith. And all this talk 
both the prisoners denied not to have been before their ap- 
prehensions. 

Thus the examination of the witnesses being received, the 
judges demanded of the prisoners what they had to say 
against the evidence for their own defence; the prisoners took 
exception against the witnesses, and with many circumstances 
showed their depositions not to be allowed. That Lewis 
Gronow had been on the pillory for perjury by the procure- 
ment of Mr. Tudur Probert, and was not therefore to be ad- 
mitted as a lawful witness, referring themselves for the truth 
of this matter to the knowledge of Mr. Simon Thelwall him- 
self. Thelwall answered, if he had committed perjury, he 
hath had his punishment; it may be he telleth truth in this 
point. John Hughes his speeches to the justice were these. 
" Now they have made an end, Mr. Justice, and said what 
they can against us, I trust we shall be also heard what we 
can say for ourselves. I am able to prove that two of these 
witnesses have been bribed to bear false evidence against us," 
WTiereat Thelwall started, saying, " What, what dost thou 
say ? that they have been bribed ?** 

Iluijhes, And am able to prove it. 

Thelwall. How much had they ? 

H. Thirty.two shillings. 

T. Who gave it them ? 

n. They had it. 

T. How canst thou prove it ? 

n. Mr. John Wynne ap William Madock Goch (see p. 19), a 
gentleman of this parish, told my fellows and me, that one Peter 
Royden, entering into speech of us, informed him how Lewis 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 145 

Gronow and Ed. Erles received xvis, a piece to bear this 
false witness ; and that Rojden himself was offered xvi^., but 
he refused it.^ 

The gentleman was called before the bar and deposed^ the 
prisoners' report declared unto him, the which he reiterating 
before all the hall justified to be true ; whereat the assembly 
were greatly astonied, and the judges themselves not a little 
daunted. Nevertheless, having before laid down the plot, 
whom they purposed to kill and whom to save, it was not for 
their purpose to yield unto the truth ; but they went to cast a 
mist over the eyes of the inquest, that they might not see 
their legerdemain, for Thelwall, turning to the jury, answered 
the gentleman's deposition in these words. 

** It is not likely that any man should give any money to 
bear witness against them; for what advantage should any 
man have by their deaths ? As touching Howell David, his 
reward was not with the least ; for he had the benefit of a bond 
of two hundred pounds, which he had forfeited to his cousin 
John Hughes ; he had also his lands from him, by the friend- 
ship of Sir George Bromley, who, in consideration of this his 
good service, denied the prisoner justice and law against him.'' 
The words that the poor afflicted man used to the justice con- 
cerning the said Howell his cousin were these. " This man 
hath taken away my house and lands from me and my chil- 
dren, beside all law and conscience, and now he seeketh my 
life and blood. I appeal to you, Mr. Justice, whether he be 
an indifferent witness against me; moreover, he committed 
perjury in deposing before the council that I did not receive 
one pennyworth of harm by him at what time he kept forcible 
possession in my house, whereas I can prove that he and his 
people consumed divers gallons of butter and cheeses of mine, 
and spoiled me of a blanket and other stuff; and Mr. levan 
Lloyd of Yale, there sitting, knoweth well what man of con- 
versation Howell David is, and hath been ; and as I am certain 
that he hath forged these matters against me, so may I also 
take upon my soul that he belieth Mr. Griffith, for it is well 
known that Catholic priests do not use to tender oaths unto 
any person to be of their religion." 

And thus this part of the tragedy finished. 

The prisoners, excepting against the witnesses (as is before 
declared), denied the evidence to be true. " Therefore, Mr. 

J ^ ~ 

^ This money was given by Tevan Lloyd of Yale the year he was 
Sheriff, but he knew not that so much money should be paid for his 
own grave. 

VOL. III. 10 



146 HISTORY OP POWYS PADOO. 

Justice (said the prisoners), we beseech you to consider that 
we are falsely accused by foresworn men, borne to that pur- 
pose." Whereunto Thelwall answered, " Well, well, you are 
likely to feel the smart of it -^ and so, turning to the jury, he 
read the statute of persuasion, repeating often such words as 
seemed to make against the prisoners ; then preparing himself 
to give the charge, as a preamble he discoursed before upon 
the evidence, extolling the witnesses, dispraising the prisoners, 
Mr. White by name, remembering in particular his behaviour 
at a sermon in the church, and another sermon before the 
bar, where he and his fellows stamped with their feet, and 
because their stubbornness might appear more manifestly to 
the inquest, Mr. Thelwall demanded of them such questions 
as he knew they could not answer with safe conscience affirm- 
atively. The first question was, whether they would come to 
the church ? The prisoners answered, that they were in the 
Catholic Church, and from thence would not be removed ; 
the second, whether the Queen ought to be supreme head of 
the Church ? and, turning to Mr. White, urged him to answer 
plainly and to utter his conscience; the prisoner acknowledged 
to the Queen as much authority as Edward the Confessor and 
Queen Mary had. Dr. Ellis^ replied, '^ There is no reason. 
White, but thou shouldst confess the Queen head of the 
Church within her own dominions." He answered that 
he did acknowledge her to have as much authority as his 
father and elders did grant to their princes, and withal he 
asked Mr. Dr. in Latin, Q,uid est ecclesia ? The which ques- 
tion being a deep point of divinity, and besides his profession 
was too high for Mr. Dr. his capacity. Here Mr. White was 
charged by some of the company to have spoken words to 
Lewis Gronow his accuser, directly approving the Pope's 
supremacy, viz., that he affirmed Christ to have twelve Apos- 
tles, and that of them He chose one to be head, whom He 
named Peter ; and that unto him He gave power to bind and 
to loose, and in him to his successors : the prisoner answered 
that these were not his words, but St. Chrysostom's. John 
Hughes likewise, to this question of the supremacy, said in efiect 
as his fellow had done before him ; and Robert Moris being 
demanded also this point, answered that this question was to 

^ This Dr. Ellis is a fit man to sit in judgment upon the servants 
of God, who is known to be of as profane a life as any in the world. 
He hath had children by his own sister, and long kept his sister's 
daughter, and was naught with his own daughter, as the report 
gocth. 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 147 

• 

be learned in schools by divinity, and not before the bar by 
compulsion or peual statutes. Mr. Thelwall demanded again, 
what if the Pope came with a power to invade the realm, and 
to fight against the Queen, whose part would he take ? Moris 
answered that he was well assured that the Pope would not 
come to fight against the Queen. Then Mr. Thelwall, having 
wrested from these men so much treason as would serve his 
tnra to despatch them, turned to the jury and said, "Now 
you may see the stubbornness of these fellows ; demand what 
you will, they will answer nothing directly. It standeth the 
Queen upon to look unto such lewd companions as these are 
and their like, for by such kind of people the Queen and the 
realm have been divers times in danger.'' And so he roved 
over the insurrection in the north, the excommunication of 
Pins V, Story and Felton, Dr. Saunder's coming into Ireland, 
Campion and his fellows, Arden and Sommerfield, Francis 
Throckmorton; aggravating the prisoners to be of one reli- 
gion with the persons before named and recited. At the 
upshot of this conflict the poor men requested the jury, for 
the love of God and safeguard of their own souls, to have re- 
gard unto their consciences ; and Mr. White said, " For my 
part, I have as much wrong as any can have, and am as guilt- 
less of this indictment as any here, I take God to witness." 
Hughes also said, ** Judge you whether I would make my 
cousin Howell David privy to any secret matter, and especially 
touching my life, for we have been at variance about lands 
thiR ten years and above. Yonder are sitting on the bench 
Mr. Puleston and Mr. levan Lloyd of Yale, who do know this 
to be true. And, moreover, they know what truth and honesty 
is in the said Howell my cousin, therefore, I beseech you, to 
consider of him." But the gentlemen held their peace. Fur- 
thermore he said to the jury, " Demand of the judges whether 
their commission be to hang us, because we refuse to go to 
church, and to answer to the question of the supremacy, and 
then find us guilty according to your law ; or else, for the 
love of God, weigh and consider of the witnesses what manner 
of men they be, and how falsely they have foresworn them- 
selves ; have regard unto your consciences for the safeguard of 
your own souls, or else our blood shall be required at your 
hands/' Finally, Moris protested, saying, *' I take God to 
witness, I call heaven and earth to record, I appeal unto the 
last day of judgment, that I am as innocent of this indictment 
as the child that was bom yesternight. Lay, therefore, God's 
fear before your eyes, for we are not so much afraid of our 
own lives as we are careful for your souls." 

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148 HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

Hero Mr. Justice Bromley appointed the pronotary to read 
the commission from the Privy Council, to the which had 
subscribed Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor ; Sir Harry 
Sydney, Lord President of the Marches; Sir Francis Wal- 
singham, the Queen s principal Secretary ; Sir James Crests, 
and others. In the end, being ready to dismiss the jury, both 
judges gave them a new charge again, terrifying the simple 
men with the sight of the commission from the higher powers. 
So the jury departed to the church, where they remained all 
the night following with their keeper, saving that two of 
them, about an hour after their coming, were sent for to 
confer with the judges, to know of them whom they should 
acquit and whom they should find guilty, as it is reported. 
The next day after, being Saturday, about eight of the clock 
in the morning, they returned with their verdict, and found 
Mr. Richard White and John Hughes guilty of felony and 
treason, but Robert Moris they discharged ; whereupon Mr. 
Thelwall said that some favour was showed Moris although he 
deserved none, being no less guilty than the rest. Marry, the 
prisoner took it for no favour to be separated from his dear 
companions, the faithful confessors of Jesus Christ, for he 
made great lamentation and wept bitterly in the sight of the 
whole court, saying, " The worse luck I.'' Whereby, as- 
suredly, God's holy name was glorified in him, the Catholic 
religion honoured, many of the audience confirmed by his ex- 
ample, and the justice of God satisfied for the offence he had 
committed in his manacles, by the compulsion of those men be- 
fore whom he was now arraigned. Finally, as Mr. Thelwall was 
ready to give the judgment (for Sir George Bromley could not 
find in his heart to sit himself that day), John Hughes said, 
" Come let us have it ; we are as ready to die for our con- 
sciences as you are to pronounce judgment against us." So 
the justice commanded the clerk of the assize to lay down 
that Moris was acquitted and Hughes reprieved. Then he 
turned to Mr. W^hite, and said as followeth, " Richard White, 
thou art accused of treason and found guilty by the country ; 
what hast thou to say why thou mayest not die according to 
the laws of the realm ?" " If I had f said Mr. White) I should 
not be heard, do you make of it what you will. Only this I 
say, that I am no more guilty than you are a true Christian 
man ; and, if I be a traitor, your father and grandfather, and 
yourself, in Queen Mary's time, were traitors." But Mr. Thel- 
wall regarding little the prisoners words, proceeded to the 
sentence in this manner following : " Richard White shall be 
brought to prison from whence ho came, and thence drawn on 



MARTYKDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 149 

a hurdle to the place of execution^ where he shall hang half 
dead, and so be cut down alive^ his members ca^t into the 
fire, his belly ripped into the breast, his bowels, liver, lungs, 
heart, etc., thrown likewise into the fire, his head cut oflf, his 
body parted into four quarters. Finally, head and quarters 
to be set up where it shall please the Queen. And this execu- 
tion to be done on a Thursday ; we will appoint you the day 
before we go. And so the Lord have mercy upon him." 

At which sentence the condemned person was nothing dis- 
mayed, neither changed countenance, but resolutely gave an- 
swer, saying, " What is all this ? Is it any more than one 
death ?'* After this good work was brought to an end, Mr. 
Thelwall said to Robert Moris, " Thou art here indicted for 
abstaining from the church the space of twenty-seven months, 
contrary to the peace of the Queen^s majesty, her crown, and 
dignity. What sayest thou, art thou guilty V Moris answered, 
" I cannot deny but the bill is true, marry, I have been in 
prison all the while and before." Thelwall replied, '^Thou 
mightest have had leave to go into the church if thou hadst 
been willing.^' 

Maris. I might have bought that better cheap five years 
ago. 

Thelwall. Hast thou money to pay the Queen ? 

Moris, I hope her majesty hath no need of my money ; and, 
if I had money, I would be more willing to pay it than to lie 
in prison as I do. 

Thelwall. Wilt thou now go to church ? 

Moris. No; I do not fear your gallows so much as I did 
your tortures. 

At which words Mr. Thelwall started as if he had been 
stung with a wasp, and, in great rage, said that if such stub- 
bom fellows as he was were cut off it were no great matter. 
And so he charged him with a fine of five hundred and forty 
pounds, charging the sheriff to look well unto him, as he would 
answer the fine at his own peril. 

Last of all, the wives of the two condemned persons ap- 

??ared, carrying on their arms two little infants, whom Mr, 
helwall solicited in courteous manner to reform themselves, 
and not to follow the ways of their disobedient husbands. 
But the wives refused to follow his counsel ; and Mr White's 
wife said unto him, " If you lack blood, you may take my life 
as well as my husband's ; and if you will give the witnesses a 
little bribe, you may call them ; they will bear evidence against 
me as well as they did against him." But the poor woman 
was quickly commanded to silence, and together with her 



150 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

companion committed to the gaol, where they made no longf 
abode, for the pitiful gentleman before his departure, upon 
better advisement, took sureties of them for their appearance 
another day, and so turned them loose whiles he went about 
to hang their husbands ; and thus ended this day's action. 
The which was the last day of appearance unto our blessed 
confessor in this world, and the eighth assize in number from 
the beginning of his imprisonment — a number mystical in 
Holy Scripture, as St. Augustine noteth : Septem sunt (saith 
he) quce perfichnity octavus clurificatf et quod perfectum est de- 
monstrat (" The number of seven doth make perfect, the num- 
ber of eight clarifieth, and showeth the perfection of the 
rest.^')^ For in this eighth assize appeared to the world how 
much the good man had profits d in the school of Christ, and 
what perfection continual patience can work in a resolute 
soul, who, notwithstanding his intolerable calamity, behaved 
himself all the time of his arraignment so pleasantly that he 
moved the pe()f)le sundry times to laughter, an evident argu- 
ment of his guiltless conscience, either towards his prince or 
country. 

At his first coming to the bar, Lewis Gronow was asked 
whether he knew the prisoners; to the which question the 
disciple of Judas, answering in the Welsh tongue said, Adwen 
yn dduy that is to say, "I know them well.^' Mr. White re- 
plied, A nineath adwenon dlthe yn ddrivy (" And we know 
thee bad*') ; whereat the company laughed, because of the 
equivocation those two words, " good^' and ** bad", have in 
that language. At the same time some of the assistants, per- 
ceiving the said Gronow to be hard of hearing, desired Mr. 
Justice to speak louder unto him; the prisoner answered, he 
should better hear than any in that assembly, having so many 
holes in his ears. And when the jury brought in their verdict 
finding him guilty of that felony and treason whereof they 
were in their hearts as guilty themselves, he said, Non audent 
allfer dicei-e propter metum Judmoi^um ("They dare not other- 
wise say for ft^ar of the Jews''), alluding to a place in the 
Gospel of certain fearful disciples that durst not openly profess 
their belief in Christ. Many other like speeches he had this 
while to the inquest and others, the which for brevity I omit; 
and so he continued to the last breath, that his own fellows 
reported they never knew him more pleasantly disposed than 
he was after his condemnation. And the very day of his ex- 
ecution, understanding that the executioner was in hand to 

^ Aug. lib. 1, " De Sermone Do. in Monte." 



MARTYRDOM OP MR. RICHARD WHITE. 151 

bargain the doublet he had on his back, he changed it for a 
worse that one of his fellows gave him, and told the company 
how he had deceived the hangman; yea, at the hour of his 
death, as the executioner was putting the rope about his neck, 
he smiled and said, "Good William, I would advise thee to 
leave off this occupation, use it not much, for it is but a simple 
office;'' 80 little was this resolute man daunted with the fear 
of death, of whose cup he was sure presently to taste. But I 
stay too long in these merry conceits, having so lamentable a 
matter in hand of greater importance concerning this blessed 
confessor, especially considering that I must over-pass many 
things in particular, as his behaviour and speeches to his fel- 
lows afler his condemnation, to his wife, to the ministers, and 
others, which would require a large volume ; and I see this 
rode treatise is waxen already larger than 1 purposed at the 
beginning. Likewise, taking the cloth in his hands where- 
with his eyes should have been covered, he lapped it about his 
head, and, perceiving that it was not well, he called to the 
hangman for help, and smiling said, " Put it on, William, as 
thou art accustomed to others ; thou knowest better than I, 
for I am not very skilful in this occupation.'' Another merry 
proceeding was at his first coming to the bar after that his 
trial was referred to a jury. Sir George Bromley, for a show 
of justice and indifferency, commanded the sheriff to return a 
substantial jury to pass upon him and his fellows, who accord- 
ingly returned William Alraar, Esq., to be the foreman, and all 
the rest men of worship and credit, which, being called, not 
one of them would appear, although they were threatened to 
be fined in a lOZ. a piece ; the which Mr. Justice perceiving, 
he charged the sheriff to return a tales de circumstnntlbiiSy 
which is another jury of such as were present in the hall. 
And so he returned John Rogers (of Brintanor, was drowned) 
to be foreman, a bankrupt who had sold and mortgaged all 
his lands, and the rest of the jury simple fellows of small 
valne and less credit. But when Mr. White saw what poor 
company they were, he said, with a loud voice, " Is this your 
tales ?" (making as if he had not known what the word tales 
did mean nntil he saw the jury appear) ; and then he said, 
'' This is indeed a tales, quales non est in Wales, neque usque 
ad coles;'* which moved the hall to laughter, whereat Sir 
George being offended, said very churlishly, " A little more of 
your Latin will cost your hanging." Now to our matter. 



152 HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 



The Martyrdom of Mr. Richard White, upon Thursday after his 
condemnation, being the Ibth of Oct, , anno Bom. 1584. 

Now the servant of Christ, having passed through many 
calamities^ and drawing towards an end of all his sorrows, 
was, together with his fellows or companions, the space of ten 
days before his deaths viz., from the first day of the assize to 
the time of his execution, coupled fast and chained with an 
huge iron chain and horse-lock, and warded diligently day 
and night with a band of men, the which cruelty he took to be 
a preface to death, and a plain warning to make himself ready. 
The Tuesday before his execution, a gentleman in the sheriffs 
name offered to discharge him of all his troubles if he would 
acknowledge the Queen supreme head of the Church within 
her own dominions ; but, the man being constant, refused to 
purchase his own liberty so dear, and the same day, being 
ready to meat, he called for his knife, telling the gaoler how 
he needed be so scrupulous as to keep his weapon from him, 
as though he feared lest he should spill himself, being offered 
his life if he would recant his religion. 

The Wednesday following, he had provided two dozen of 
silk points, the which he blessed and kissed one after another, 
appointing his wife to bestow the one dozen (which was of 
colour white, answerable to his name) upon twelve priests, and 
the other dozen upon twelve gentlemen to whom he was greatly 
beholden. Then he bended a single penny, and blessed, etc., 
to be delivered his ghostly father, to whom he was beholden 
himself. Lastly, he caused his garters to be given two priests 
of his familiar acquaintance ; and the day before he had sent 
his signet or seal of brass off his finger to a gentleman, his 
very familiar friend. All the which tokens the said parties do 
keep reverently, as a treasure in value more worth than thou- 
sands of gold and silver, assured monuments of the good will 
he bare them in this world, and pledges of the care he would 
take over them in heaven. 

The Thursday morning his wife, espying David Edwards 
the mercer to pass by the gaol, moved at the sight of him, 
said, " God be a righteous judge between thee and me." 
But Mr. White understanding the matter, rebuked her, saying 
that if they did not forgive now freely all their labours would 
be lost. 

About ten of the clock in the morning, the time approaching 
wherein he must taste with Christ of his last draught, the 
gaoler came to separate the prisoners and to set them at some 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 153 

liberty. This while, Mr. White, hearing a great noise in the 
backside of the gaol, demanded what it was, and being told 
that the gaoler s wife made lamentation for him, he turned to 
his wife and said, " 1 pray thee, Catharine, go and comfort 
her.'* Coming down the stairs to the common gaol, he found 
the house full of people weeping and lamenting, among whom 
were divers children, on whose heads, one after another, laying 
his hands, he prayed God to bless them. Then beholding a 
number without the gaol, attending opportunity to bid him 
farewell, he reached them his hands out of the window, and so 
took his leave of them all ; the like he did also with many in 
the gaol ; and whereas one of them, a gentleman who had for- 
merly been his scholar, made great lamentations, he comforted 
him in these words : " Weep not for me, for I do but pay the 
rent before the rent day.^' Last of all, he bestowed five shil- 
lings in small pieces of silver to the poor at the prison door, 
the which money a Catholic had sent him to be distributed 
with his own hands. At his passing to the execution, he gave 
his wife eleven shillings and his beads, the which was in efiect 
all the wealth he left her. And so, being disburdened of 
worldly cares, all his care was for heavenly joys, whither the 
happy soul made haste, groaning with St. Paul to be loosed 
from the lump of clay (Phil, i), and thirsting with the holy 
prophet to be with God, the fountain of life — as the hart, when 
she is chased, thirsteth after the fountain of water (Psalm 
xli). The hour at length drawing on wherein God had or- 
dained to render unto His good and faithful servant a just 
reward of all his labours, the sheriff^ being then entered into 
the gaol, said, " White, make thee ready ; and you women^^ 
(meaning his wife and John Hughes's wife), " if you have 
taken yonr leave, depart, and let him prepare himself to die." 
The prisoner answered, " Good Mr. Sheriff, have patience 
awhile^ and I will despatch out of hand ;'* and so he kissed the 
wives and blessed his little infant (who was not above one 
month old), making a cross in his forehead. Here his two 
companions requested Mr. Sheriff to see the execution, but it 
would not be granted ; whereupon they kneeled down, and the 
wives together with them, for his benediction. The martyr, 
pointing with his hand unto them, desired God to stand with 
them ; and so went toward the stade which was provided for 
him instead of a hurdle, saying, " In the name of Jesus'^, 
as he went out of the prison door. When he was come to the 

^ Piers Oweu of Garth y Mcdd in the parish of Abergele, High 
Sheriff A. D. 1584. 



154 HISTOKY OF POWYS FADOG. 

place he blessed himself; then his arms were tied behind his 
back^ and so the man of God was laid on the stade before 
named, and drawn through the town to the place of execution, 
leaving behind him in the gaol his wife and little child, therin 
declaring himself to be the true disciple of Christ, who had laid 
a law before in the Gospel that, if any man come unto Him, 
and did not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, 
and brother and sister, yea, and his own life too, he could not 
be His disciple (Luke xii). All the way along as he was 
drawn, he said the rosary, using the end of a string wherewith 
he held up his irons instead of beads. And that the merits of 
so holy a man might appear to the world, God vouchsafed to 
honour his death by a manifest sign ; for the elements being 
clear and the weather dry all that morning, as soon as he was 
laid on the hurdle the sky waxed cloudy over the town that he 
suffered in, and a shower of rain poured down abundantly 
until body and soul were parted, at which instant inconti- 
nently the rain ceased. Whereby appeareth that the death of 
His saints is precious in our Lord's sight, and the promise 
made in Holy Scripture performed too, in that the elements 
should fight for His servants against senseless people. For 
the truth hereof I refer me to all those who were present that 
day at this pitiful spectacle, who never ceased long after to talk 
of the strange event. Finally, the servant of God being come 
to an end of his journey, first the sheriff caused a proclamation 
to be made (as the custom is) that none should approach near 
the gallows. His arms were loosed, wherewith he turned to 
the people, and said, " God is merciful unto us ; behold the 
elements shed tears for our sins.'* After this, the gaoler 
caused him to climb up the ladder, and the executioner kneeled 
to ask him forgiveness. The martyr gave answer, " I do for- 
give thee before God, and I wish thee no more harm than I 
wish mine own heart.'' This while the sheriff and Owen 
Brereton whispered together, and first Owen Brereton de- 
manded of him whether he would have a priest. The prisoner 
answered, " Yea, with all my heart ; but I will have no mi- 
nister." " White", said the sheriff, " thou hast committed 
heinons treason against the Queen's majesty, the which hath 
brought thee to this end. Art thou sorry for the same, and 
dost thou ask her forgiveness ?" Mr. White answered, " I 
never committed any treasons against her more than your 
father and grandfather have done, unless it be a treason to 
fast and to pray." Owen Brereton replied, " Yes, that thou 
hast; for they have been manifestly proved against thee in 
open court." The prisoner gave answer, " Well, I pray God 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 155 

forgive the witnesses who foresware themselves against me ; 
and I pray God forgive you, Mr. Brereton, tor I never gave 
cause that you should be so mine enemy." "It is true", 
said Mr. Brereton, "thou never gavest me cause; but for 
that thoQ hast been an ill member of the commonwealth, and 
not worthy to live." Last of all, the Vicar of Wrexham^ 
spake : " Dost thou acknowledge the Queen to be supreme 
head of the Church?'' The prisoner answered, "I acknow- 
ledge her to be lawful Queen of England, and otherwise I 
never said ; and 1 beseech you all to bear witness hereof, that 
they belie mo not when I am dead." Sonlley replied, " Why 
wouldst thou not confess so much before the bar?'' Mr. 
White said, " The question was not asked me ; but I told the 
council at another time that I was her poor subject, and that 
I prayed for Her Majesty. Mine examinations are to be seen, 
and my hand to the same; search the records, and you shall 
find this to be true. Moreover, that I offered to go out of the 
realm to pleasure them, or into rocks and deserts ; yea, if it 
were possible, under the ground, to use my conscience in the 
least offensive manner I might, or into what place soever it 
would please my prince to send me ; but nothing will serve." 
Again, Sonlley demanded whether he would forgive David 
Edwards, his apprehender. He gave answer, " Yes, with all 
my heart, I pray God forgive him, and grant that we may 
both meet in heaven. I forgive also his wife, and all those 
who were any way guilty of my death ; and I desire all the 
world to forgive me, and you who are here present to pray for 
me, and especially all those who are members of the Catholic 
Church, whereof the Pope is the head; and to bear me wit- 
ness that I die in the old Catholic faith, and that I am inno- 
cent of all treasons wherewith I have been charged by per- 
jured persons, tlie which I take upon my death." ** Well, 
well", said the sheriff, *' no more of that. Despatch, hang- 
man." Here the company kneeled to pray for him, and prayed 
himself all the while ; then, turning to the people, he spake 
again, saying, '' My dear countrymen, I beseech you for God's 
sake to have regard unto your souls, and to reconcile your- 
selves nnto the Catholic Church, for 1 fear you are led astray 
unto everlasting damnation, except you take heed betimes. 
Bemember your souls, and lose not that for this vile transitory 
muck which Christ hath so dearly bought. This is but one 
hour's pain to me, and what is that in respect of the torments 

^ Sir Hugh Sonlley, son of Robert Sonlley of Sonlley, Esq., near 
Wrexham. See vol. ii, p. 144. 



156 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

in hell, which shall never have an end V* Thus he continued 
his speech a long while, repeating the same over twice or 
thrice, until the sheriflf and others, being offended with his 
talk, commanded the executioner to climb up the ladder and 
to despatch him ; who, preparing himself to execute their 
bloody wills, asked the prisoner forgiveness the second time ; 
whereupon the martyr, taking him by the hand, kissed it, 
saying, " I do forgive thee with all my heart, God and our 
Blessed Lady and St. Michael forgive thee; it is all .one to me 
that thou do this deed as another/^ Finally, as the execu- 
tioner offered to put the rope about his neck, he smiled, ad- 
vising him to leave the occupation, for it was but simple ; 
again he smiled as he went to cover his own face with a cloth 
and could not. He called to the hangman for help, telling him 
that he was not cunning in the occupation, the which as he was 
in doing, the prisoner requested him to deliver the kerchief 
to his poor wife, although he demanded double the price. So 
the executioner came down, and the sheriff commanded the 
gaoler to bid him turn the ladder, at which words Mr. White 
lifted up the kerchief, and said, ''I have been a jesting fellow, 
and if I have offended any that way, or by my songs, I be- 
seech them for God's sake to forgive me.'' In the end, as he 
was saying the prayer of the publican, Dens propitius esto mihi 
yeccatori (" God be merciful to me a sinneP'), the execu- 
tioner turned the ladder, and so he hanged awhile, knocking 
his breast continually with both hands until his senses were 
taken from him. In the mean time the hangman leaned upon 
his shackles of purpose to despatch him out of his pains the 
sooner ; but the sheriff, doubting he should die too soon, com- 
manded to cut him down. At which words the people desired 
him to take compassion upon the poor prisoner and to let him 
die, the same also two or three gentlemen which were present 
requested, by whose earnest entreaty he was stayed yet a little 
longer. In the end, the rope was cut, and the prisoner carried 
to the hurdle, on the which being laid along, as the execu- 
tioner was busy to remove the irons and to cut off his secret 
parts, the man revived and recovered his senses again. And 
although thieves and murderers were well acquainted with the 
hangman's office, yet he wanted skill to do this execution an- 
swerable to the bloody wills of the magistrates, by reason of 
which he put the martyr to double pains, and exceeded in 
cruelty the bloody sentence pronounced against him. For, 
having made a little hole in his belly, he pulled out of the 
same his guts by piecemeal ; the which device taking no good 
success, he mangled his breast with a butcher's axe to the 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 157 

very chine, most pitifully ; then tearing his entrails he threw 
them into the fire before his face, whereat the servant of God 
never shrank, nor once showed any sign of impatience, but 
still continued knocking his breast, until the sherifi"s men 
held his arms back by force. Finally, being ready to lift up 
the last gasp he lifted up his head and shoulders over the 
hurdle, and beholding so cruel a slaughter, he said in the 
Welsh tongue, " Duw gwyn pybeth y diw hun,'' i.e., " O 
good God, what is this ?" The gaoler answered, " It is an 
execution for the Queen's majesty;'' whereunto the martyr 
replied, saying, " Jesus have mercy upon me V* and so, at the 
striking off his head, he died. 

If it may be called a death, and not rather a change into a 
better life to die for Christ, a happy change from the tem- 
poral calamities of this world to the eternal joys of heaven, — 
from sorrow and pain to rest and solace, from weeping to 
singing, from misery unto felicity, from the company of sinful 
men to be conversant with saints and angels, from the sight of 
the gallows, of the burning fire, of the boiling pan, of the 
bloody axe, of the cruel hangman, to the sight of God, who 
now with His own holy hands wipeth away all tears from his 
eyes, who now rewardeth His good and faithful servant with a 
crown of life (the case of all martyrs), for hip constant faith ; 
a crown of justice, for suffering innocently (the case of Abel) ; 
with a crown of glory, for the shame he sustained by the accu- 
sation of wicked men (the case of Naboth). Now the good 
man from heaven laugheth to scorn the folly of his perse- 
catbrs, whose wicked malice God converteth to the eternal 
good of his friend. glorious martyr, which hath washed 
and made white his robe in the blood of the Lamb I O holy 
arms, which were so often lifted up before the bar for the name 
of Christ! blessed prisons, which were sanctified so many 
times with the presence of his body ! happy fetters, where- 
with his feet were tied, and his soul loosed from the band of 
sin ! O precious wood, which was the instrument of his glo- 
rious martyrdom ! O sacred ground, which is hallowed with 
the martyr's blood ! from whence it crieth unto heaven for 
vengeance, by so much more forcible than AbeFs blood by 
how much his cause was more honourable, and his torments 
greater. And the soul from heaven prayeth for his bene- 
factors and friends on earth, by so much the more effectually 
by how much they draw nearer his steps in life and conversa- 
tion. The body was locked in prison, but the soul was made 
free; the dungeon was dark and loathsome, but the mind was 
illuminated with light from God. The members were re- 



158 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOa. 

plenished with wounds and wallowed with blood. But althouorh 
the outward man was corrupted, yet the inward man was 
renewed from day to day ; the lump of earth was betrayed to 
the hands of the wicked men, and they have executed their 
malice upon it ; for what else could be expected at their 
hands, beinj}^ his disciples who was a murderer from the be- 
ginnincy? But his spirit, purified with the fire of tribulation, 
as gold in a furnace, from all earthly dross, returned to Him 
that made him. 

Therefore, I may truly conclude of our martyr with the 
words of St. Cyprian : The enemy locked his feet and made 
fast those happy legs with infamous fetters, as though his soul 
might also with his body be fettered, or that gold with the 
rust of this iron be corrupted. These fetters and locks are no 
bands, but an ornament to the servant of God and confessor 
of His name; the feet of Christians are not tied to their 
rebuke, but clarified to their renown. happy feet, born in 
a good hour, which are not by the smith, but by the Lord of 
glory, set at liberty ! happy feet, bound in a good hour, 
which have run so blessed a race to paradise ! happy feet, 
bound for a while in this world that they may always be free 
with God ! happy feet, made heavy and slow with bolts 
and horse-locks, but light and swift in their journey unto 
Christ, for the expectation of our felicity promised is secure 
and certain (as learned Leo telleth us) where is participation 
of our Lord's Passion. What shall we, then, think of this 
constant man who hath fought a good fight, who hath con- 
summated his course, who hath kept his faith ? What else, 
but that our Lord hath rendered unto him his crown of 
justice, a just judge, and that he resteth from all his labours, 
for his works do follow him ? Whereby the Catholic reader 
may understand and learn that it is not an easy matter to be 
made worthy of the crown of martyrdom, beholding so blessed 
and perfect a man to pass into the same hardly through shame 
and rebukes, banishment from his country, displeasure of his 
friends, persecution of enemies, need and poverty, imprison- 
ment, dungeon, stocks, fetters, chains, bolts, horse-locks, ma- 
nacles, false evidence of witnesses suborned, wicked verdict of 
false juries, cruel sentence of wicked judges, rope and gallows, 
the bloody axe of the butcher, the barbarous hands of the 
hangman; — that man must have a resolute soul who pur- 
poseth to vanquish all these afflictions ; but this man hath van- 
quished : and how ? By following the advice of his Captain, 
who biddeth us first sit down and reckon the charges before 
we lay the foundations. The want of which consideration is 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 159 

the true canse of the miserable return of so many cold and in- 
constant Catholics into their old vomits again. This is the 
way to heaven, this is the ladder of Jacob, these are the steps 
to martyrdom ; we must not think that any thing chanceth to 
the servants of God without His consent and providence, of 
whom He hath said, "He that toucheth you, toncheth the 
apple of mine eye :'* nothing can be done against them by 
men on earth but it is before by the premeditate council of 
God concluded in heaven. Pilate had no power over Christ 
but as it was given him from above, nor any tyrants in their 
days over the holy martyrs without God^s permission. Whom 
He purposeth to crown He suffereth the enemy to rack, not 
accepting redemption that they might find a better resurrec- 
tion. And though the simple people are borne in hand in 
printed books, published with privilege and authority, that 
no man suffereth for his conscience, yet the innocency of this 
man is apparent to God, before whose eyes the subtle enemy 
can cast no mist nor colour of treason against him ; and the 
same one day will be apparent to the world, when this blast 
of heresy will be blown down to hell again from whence it had 
root. And neither was our glorious martyr at all discouraged 
with the name of traitor, for he had read that St. Stephen 
was accused to have spoken words against God and Moses ; 
St. Paul to be a seditious fellow ; and Christ our Saviour a 
subverter of His own nation and an enemy to CsDsar. Yea, it 
was the common practice of old paynim tyrants to feign that 
they punished in holy men, not religion, but treason ; and 
this they were not ashamed to publish, envying the confessors 
of truth the name and honour of martyrs. And, I pray you, is 
it any marvel, for what participation hath justice with iniquity ? 
Or what society is there between light and darkness ? Or 
what agreement between Christ and Belial? Or what part 
hath the faithful with the infidel ? The light of the sun, 
which is a friend to all the world, is yet an enemy to weak 
eyes ; but he that is in filth let him be filthy still. Our holy 
confessor is past their malice, his soul in glory, his memory in 
benediction, his ashes and relics in veneration. The sun when 
it riseth clear, pierceth not more bright from east to west 
than the fame of his death pierced the hearts of all Wales 
from north to south ; the wiser sort lamenting to see justice 
trodden under foot, the simple people honouring his patience 
and constancy for the faith of the old Britons, their dear pro- 
genitors. Tea, I dare say, that among so great a multitude 
as were beholders of this cruel tragedy, there were not a score 
present bat they believed him at that instant (notwithstanding 



160 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

all hia external miseries) to be in far better case than them- 
selves; for that nation, although the terror of laws driveth it 
to dissemble with the world, yet cannot be brought generally 
to believe this new deceit of lying masters to be true, nor to 
persuade themselves the faith of their forefathers (from whom 
they had received so many monuments and examples of virtue 
and godliness) to be false. It is not the learning of ministers^ 
neither their good life, nor their great miracles, that can per- 
suade a whole nation from the religion which it hath kept 
since the Apostles* time to this unfortunate age inviolably. 
And lest I be thought to forge this thing of my countrymen, 
I refer me to those who were at this man's arraignment and 
execution ; they can report the demeanour of the people towards 
him. I refer me to the executioner, who caused himself to be 
shut up in a chamber close prisoner, for fear of his life, and 
came forth at length with a timorous heart to execute this 
cruel deed; he can resolve you with what countenance his 
speeches were received of the multitude, when he lifted up the 
martyr s head, and showed it to the people, saying, " This is 
White's head, this is White's head ;*' being either not so bold 
or not so shameless, as to name him traitor, according to 
their accustomed manner in such a play. I refer me to 
the gaoler, who can witness with what difficulty necessary 
things for his execution were provided. The ladder he was 
fain to steal at midnight, from the backside of a man's house. 
The coals his servants were forced to carry on their backs 
from the coal pits two long miles, for want of a horse, which 
he could neither borrow nor hire. The axe he was glad to 
take from the butcher's stall, because he might not entreat 
any smith to defile his hands with such a work. What should 
I speak of the pan wherein his quarters were boiled ; of the 
water, fire, rope, and other implements necessary to the 
slaughter ? How hardly the said gaoler came by these things 
that day the town of Wrexham can testify. And is it any 
wonder? The people knew his innocency, being well ac- 
quainted with the good man's conversation the space of twenty 
years together; they knew his cause to be just and honest, 
being directly for religion. They knew the example to be 
rare, the like never heard of in Wales since the death of St. 
Winifred, tracing therein the happy steps of his blessed coun- 
tryman St Alban, the first martyr of the ancient Britons, and 
protomartyr of this island. 

But it may be here marvelled why the gaoler showed him- 
self more forward than his office required to spill the blood of 
the good man whom a little before he greatly favoured. For- 



MARTYRDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 161 

sooth, the poor wretch was enjoined in penance by the judges 
to play the hangman for a fault that he had committed 
after the prisoner's return from the council, the which was 
this : having conceived a good opinion of him and his fellows, 
he was contented to set them at liberty, upon their only pro- 
mise to return against the next assize following, wherein they 
should be arraigned, having lately been manacled and indicted 
of high treason. And although the prisoners at the time ap* 
pointed kept promise, nevertheless the gaoler was shent and 
put in fear of his life ; but at this cruel murder he made the 
magistrates some parts of amends. 

Now the execution being ended, Lewis Gronow, the good 
man's principal accuser, beholding such cruelty done to him, 
and knowing him to be innocent, repented with Judas for be- 
traying innocent blood ; but he brought not the money back 
again with Judas the which he had received for his life. For 
he came to Denbigh, where the next assize following was 
kept (his conscience moving him, no doubt, by the special 
providence of God, that the innoconcy of the martyr and his 
companions might be evident to the world and the adver- 
saries' malice detected) ; before the gaoler and a great multi- 
tude of people (whose eyes glared to hear the discourse), he 
acknowledged his fault to the prisoners, as it may appear in a 
letter sent from the said prisoners to their friends of the same 
matter, whereof this is the copy. 

A copy of a Letter sent from John, Hughes and Robert Moris' con- 
cerning Gronow his confession to them at the assize at Denbigh in 
May^ after the execution of Mr, White, 

After our hearty commendations, these are to let you understand 
that, in the assize week, a thing chanced unto us greatly beyond our 
expectation ; for Lewis Gronow, our principal adversary, came into 
our gaol, of whom we demanded why he did so wilfully cast his soul 
away by slandering us so shamefully. To the which Gronow an- 
swered that he never accused any of us both, but that all his speeches 
and doings were against Mr. White alone. Wo replied that his ex- 
amination was read before the bar, wherein appeared how he bare 
witness against us all three. Gronow answered, " Whatsoever was 
read or spoken before the bar as proceeding from me, more than I 
tell you, they have belied me." And therewith he began to wring 
his hands and to sigh and groan, making great lamentation, and 
exclaiming against himself; further telling us that he was tormented 
in conscience for the offence he had committed against Mr. White, 
more than for any offence that ever he had done in his life. Here 
he told us that he was enticed to this wicked deed by the fair pro- 
mises of Sir Hugh Sonlley, Vicar of Wrexham, and David Edwards, 
mercer, to see him enlarged out of prison and his debts discharged, 

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162 HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

the which was afterwards by them performed accordingly. Then he 
was sent to the Holt to bear witness against us, where we were in- 
dicted ; and for his good service there, the vicar and mercer aforesaid 
wrote a letter in his behalf to Sir George Bromley to procure him by 
his friendship a placard. The man went to the council with his 
letter, caused his bill to be drawn, and tendered it to Sir George tx) 
be signed as he walked in the garden at Ludlow; the which Mr. 
Justice perusing, and finding therein no special matter specified why 
he should have a placard, refused to sign it ; whereupon Gronow de- 
livered him the letter from the vicar and mercer, wherein they sig- 
nified that the bearer was the man which followed against the 
papists; the which when Sir George Bromley perceived, taking 
Gronow by the hand, demanded whether he was the man that fol- 
lowed against the papists. Gronow answered that he was the man 
that followed against Richard White, and no man else. Mr. Justice 
replied that he could not have his bill signed unless he would follow 
against all three. And so turning from him, he sent two of his gen- 
tlemen which attended on him in the garden, Thomas Puleston and 
Moris Jones, one after another, to persuade him to follow against us 
three, if he would have his bill signed, the which (as he said) he 
utterly refused to grant. This course failing, Mr. Justice was in 
hand with him to swear that he would at the least bear witness 
against Richard White, but he 4enied to swear ; then he required 
him to put in sureties, and that also he denied to do. In the end, 
Gronow yielded to deliver his promise, and gave Sir George his hand 
thereupon, that he would meet him at the next assize following; 
and so his bill was signed and a placard procured from the council 
for him ; by virtue whereof, and by friendship of the vicar and 
mercer before named, there was gathered for him at Wrexham thirty 
shillings ; and, afterwards, returning home to his own country among 
his friends and kinsfolk, twenty marks. All this he protested to be 
true before Coytmor, our gaoler, and a great number of people then 
present at his speeches. This is all we can certify you at this time. 
From Denbigh, the 15th of May, anno Domini 1585. 

Your daily beadsmen, 

John Hughes and Robert Moris. 

Thus you may see the man's innocency confirmed every 
way, in his lifetime, at his death, and after his death, by the 
deposition of a gentleman^ at his arraignment, by his own 
protestation at his last breath, by the adversaries' confession 
here, and by God's miraculous operation for him even in his 
lifetime (as it may appear by what has been said already) ; 
but much more after his martyrdom, through the just punish- 
ment which fell to both judges at once. For the one (Sir 
George Bromley) lost his credit, returned home from the bar 

^ John Wynn ab "William ab Madock Goch of Frondeg in the 
parish of Wrexham. See p. 1 9. 



MARTYKDOM OF MR. RICHARD WHITE. 163 

and left his wits behind him, who yet liveth an idiot. The 
other judge^ lost his credit with all his friends, and, within 
a while after, his life also, that he neither enjoyed office after 
this day's work nor good hour. The greatest part of the jury 
dropped away miserably, and never lived to see the next 
assize following. The crier^ became a fool«and a momme, 
and so lived a long time, and in the end died wretchedly. 
But the plague which chanced to David Edwards the mercer 
was notable, who, as his malice towards this servant of God 
exceeded, so his punishment was dreadful, God recompensing 
the wretch according to his works in weight and measure. 
For as he walked abroad with one of his neighbours about 
the beginning of Lent, in the same year wherein the holy 
man died, being now come to the place where he had taken 
him, suddenly was catched ; for there he received his just 
hire, and thence returned home sick, was laid in a bed; finally, 
he ended his life in great repentance without fruit (not unlike 
to the death of Antiochus the tyrant), often naming the martyr 
and cursing the hour he took him. Of whom it is reported 
that no man, from the beginning of his sickness, might well 
approach near him, alive nor dead, for the horrible stink of 
his body. So his own foot was caught in the snare he had 
laid for his neighbour. By the which terrible examples the 
persecutors may learn to take heed how they anger the ser- 
vants of God, lest withal He be also moved who dwelleth in 
them ; for the apostle saith that holy men are the temple of 
God. And although the martyr hideth from their eyes the in- 
visible sword wherewith He striketh, nevertheless it is mani- 
fest that he hath it always ready to draw out when God ap- 
pointeth. Therefore, St. Gregory exhorteth to exhibit due 
fear and reverence to holy men, who when they are moved unto 
anger, who else is provoked but their Lord who possesseth 
them ? Therefore, by so much the more careful we ought to 
be in avoiding the displeasure of God's saints by how much 
the more we are persuaded that our Lord doth inhabit in 
them, who is able to revenge their cause when He listeth. The 
which good Counsel of the holy father a gentleman of the 
country may do well to remember and follow, who for me 
shall be nameless, because I seek not his discredit, but the 
glory of God and conversion of his soul, whereof I pray our 
Lord Jesus Christ that he may have grace to consider. 

^ Simon Thelwall of Pl&s y Ward was one of the Council for the 
Marches of Wales. He died a.d. 1586, aged 60, and was buried at 
Ruthin. ^ Christophersou. 

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164 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 

Marry, by this token you shall understand whom I mean, 
that it Was his hap to ride on an ambling mare from his 
parish church upon a Sunday morning, and in the way the 
said mare received a great blow on her side, the sound whereof 
was heard by himself and all his people which then attended 
on him, but nothing seen. Forthwith the gentleman was 
forced to light, and a sledge sent for to carry the mare into 
the stable, and there she died shortly after, and, being flayed, 
the place on her sifle where the blow had been given appeared 
blue. The which accident I suppose to be a warning unto the 
gentleman that he should not imbrue his hands in the blood of 
this martyr. For the same chance fell out in An. Dom. 1578, 
a little before the apprehension of the man against whom he 
hath been a principal doer. The which miracle, and the rest 
that are here in this writing declared, were not showed to 
make our martyr of a more blessed life before God, but to 
signify unto us that he was a blessed man and his soul in high 
favour with God, and to stir in our souls that due reverence 
towards him which his virtues deserved ; for God hath pro- 
mised to honour them who will glorify Him. The like may be 
said by the manifold great and strange wonders that his blood, 
bones, ashes, and other holy monuments of his have done; 
the which in particular the incredulity of this time will not 
suffer to be published, but they shall be one day (God willing) 
made manifest to the glory of God, honour of His saint, con- 
firmation of the Catholic faith, and confutation of heresy. 

And here I will end, beseeching the blessed soul of this 
glorious martyr to bear with me where I have not expressed 
his heroical endeavours at large agreeable to the worthiness 
thereof; for he knoweth well that there was not in me want 
of good will, but of knowledge and cunning suflScient to set 
forth such a matter. Protesting that I have spoken but few 
things of much which might be said in the commendation of 
so holy a man, for I do not mean to add anything to his praise 
and honour. He needeth not our praise, neither desireth the 
same ; it is enough for him that he hath eternal pmise and 
honour with God and His angels in heaven. But I have be- 
stowed my travail herein to signify the good will I bare him 
on earth, to procure his mediation for me in heaven, to give 
the Catholic reader an example of constancy, to bring tlje ad- 
versary into remembrance of his own madness and wicked- 
ness, and to let the world understand what open injustice and 
violence the poor afflicted Catholics sustain for their conscience 
and religion, under the visor of treason, at the hands of ma- 
licious heretics. 



THE PAPAL INQUISITION. 165 

To oppose the progress of what the Christian Church 
called heresy, the Papal government established two in- 
stitutions : 1. The Inquisition ; 2, Auricular Confession 
— the. latter as a means of detection, the former as a 
tribunal for punishment. 

In general terms, the commission of the Inquisition 
was, to extirpate religious dissent by terrorism, and sur- 
round heresy with the most horrible associations : this 
necessarily implied the power of determining what con- 
stitutes heresy. The criterion of truth was thus in pos- 
session of this tribunal, which was charged " to discover 
and bring to judgment heretics lurking in towns, houses, 
cellars, woods, caves, and fields". With such savage 
alacrity did it carry out its object of protecting the in- 
terests of religion, that between 1481 and 1808, it had 
punished three hundred and forty tJioicsand persons, and 
of these nearly thirty-two thousand had been burnt! 
In its earlier days, when public opinion could find no 
means of protesting against its atrocities, " it often put 
to death, without appeal, on the very day that they were 
accused, nobles, clerks, monks, hermits, and lay persons 
of every rank". In whatever direction thoughtful men 
looked, the air waa full of fearful shadows. No one 
could indulge in freedom of thought without expecting 
punishment. So dreadful were the proceedings of the 
Inquisition, that the exclamation of Pagliarici was the 
exclamation of thousands, " It is hardly possible for a 
man to be a Christian, and die in his bed." 

In the thirteenth century, the Inquisition destroyed 
the Protestants of Southern France, and its unscrupulous 
atrocities extirpated Protestantism in Italy and Spain. 

By the action of the fourth Lateran Council in the 
year 1215, the power of the Inquisition was frightfully 
increased, the necessity of private confession to a priest 
— auricular confession — being at that time formally es- 
tablished. This, so far as domestic life was concerned, 
gave omnipresence and omniscience to the Inquisition. 
Not a man was safe. In the hands of the priest, wlio, 
at the confessional, could extract or extort from them 



166 HISTORY OF FOWYS FADOG. 

their most seeret thoughts, his wife and his servants were 
turned into spies. Summoned before the dread tribunal, 
he was simply informed that he lay under strong suspi- 
cions of heresy. No accuser was named ; but the thumb- 
screw, the stretching-rope, the boot, and the wedge, or 
other enginery of torture, soon supplied that defect, and, 
innocent or guilty, he accused himself! 

In the first year of the operation of the Inquisition 
in Spain, 1483, two thousand Jews were burnt in 
Andalusia by Torquemada, a Dominican monk, the Con- 
fessor of Queen Isabella, and seventeen thousand were 
fined or imprisoned for life. Llorente, the historian of 
the Inquisition, computes that Torquemada and his colla- 
borators, in the course of eighteen years, burnt at the 
stake ten thousand two hundred and twenty persons, and 
otherwise tortured ninety-seven thousand tliree hundred 
and twenty-one. 

"As hitherto apprehended, religion can be said to 
have brought nothing but misery on the world at large. 
Deeds of a dye that shock humanity have been committed 
from first to last in its name. In the Old Testament it 
is said, " If thy brother, thy son, or thy daughter, the 
wife of thy bosom, or thy friend that is as thine own 
soul, entice thee saying : Let us go and serve other Gods 
({. e., differ from thee in thy creed and would have thee 
follow theirs), thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken 
to him : neither shalt thou spare him, but thou shalt 
surely kill him ; thy hand shall be first upon him, after- 
wards the hands of all the people, and thou shalt stone 
him with stones that he die." 

In the 31st chapter of Numbers, we read that the 
Lord ordered Moses to avenge the Israelites of the 
Midianites, and when the Jewish army returned from 
their plundering and murdering excursion, Moses and 
Eleazer the Priest went out to meet them, and Moses 
said unto them, " Have ye saved all the women alive ? 
behold these caused the children of Israel to commit 
trespass against the Lord. Now, therefore, kill every 
male among the little ones, and kill every married 



THE PAPAL INQUISITION. 167 

woman, but the women children that are virgins keep 
for yourselves" ; of these, we read in verse 35, besides 
the other booty, *• there were thirty and two thousand 
women who were virgins/' In Numbers, chap, xxv, we 
learn the reason why Jehovah ordered Moses to vex the 
Midianites, was because an Israelite named Zimri had 
married a Midianitish woman, for doing which, Phinehas, 
the son of Eleazer, the son of Aaron, the Priest of Jehovah, 
rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin 
in his hand and went into Zimri's tent, and murdered 
them both, by thrusting the javelin right through their 
stomachs, in the way described in verse 8. Here, then, 
we have an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the 
mothers, and to keep the little girls for themselves, 
merely because the Jewish religion was different from 
the religion of the Midianites. 

Again, in the New Testament, Jehovah's son, Jesus 
Christ, says, " Think not that I am come to send peace 
on earth ; I come not to send peace but a sword. For I 
come to set a man at variance against his father, and the 
daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law 
against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes shall be they 
of his own household."* 

In later days, this religion instituted the Inquisition, 
excavated the dungeon, built the torture-chamber and 
furnished it with the rack, lighted the slow fire about 
the stake to consume, drenched the battle-field with 
blood, and has driven into exile the best and noblest of 
their kind. 



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And are they in the right who, free from doubt, 
Can sit in sweet abstraction from each thought 
Of Earth, pondering the lives of those who fought 

The battles of Jehovah ; viewing the rout 

That Israel spread as God's own act, the shout 
Upraised for victory, glorious most when fraught 
With deepest ruin to the foe, as taught 

By the Creator ? 'T may not be ! Without 

^ Matthew x, v. 31. 



16S HISTOUY OF POWYS PADOG. 

The special faith that suffers tne to view 
In one among the multitude of creeds^ 
Esich by its advocates alone held true, 

The truths or other of the pregnant seeds 
Of discord among men, I take my flight 
• From blood-stained legends, Nature, to thy Light !*' 

Almost the only parts in the book called the Bible 
that convey to us any idea of God are some chapters in 
Job, and the 19th Psalm. Those parts are true deisticcU 
compositions ; for they treat of the Deity through his 
works. They fcike the book of Creation as the word of 
GvhI, they refer to no other book, and all the inferences 
they make are drawn from that volume. 

i insert in this place, in proof of what is here stated, 
the 19th Psalm, as paraphrased into English verse by 
Addison. 

" The spacious firmament on high. 
With all the blue ethereal sky. 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame. 
Their great Original proclaim. 
The unwearied sun from day to day. 
Does his Creator's power display. 
And publishes to evary land 
The work of an Almighty hand. 

*' Soon as the evening shades prevail, 
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. 
And nightly to the listening earth 
Repeats the story of her birth ; 
Whilst all the stars tiiat round her burn, 
And all the planets in their turn. 
Confirm the tidings as they roll. 
And spread the truth from pole to pole. 

" What though in solemn silence all 
Move round this dark terrestrial ball ! 
What though no real voice, nor sound. 
Amidst their radiant orbs be found ! 
In reason's ear they all rejoice, 
And utter forth a glorious voice, 
For ever singing as they shine, 
' The hand that made tis is Divine\" 



ON GOD. 169 

What more does man want to know than that the 
hand, or power, that made these things is Divine, is 
Omnipotent ? Let him believe this with the force it is 
impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and 
his rule of moral life will follow of course. 

The allusions in Job have all of them the same ten- 
dency with this Psalm, that of deducing or proving a 
truth, that would be otherwise unknown, from truths 
already known. 

Two questions are asked in the book of Job that are 
applicable to this subject. "Canst thou by searching 
find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty to 
perfection ?" 

First — Canst thou by searching find out God ? Yes ; 
because, in the first place, 1 know that I did not make 
myself, and yet I have existence, and by searching into 
the nature of other things, I find that no other thing 
could make itself, and yet millions of other things exist ; 
therefore it is, that I know by positive conclusion, re- 
sulting from this search, that there is a power superior to 
all those things, and that power is God. 

Secondly — Canst thou find out the Almighty to per- 
fection ? No ; not only because the power and wisdom 
He has manifested in the structure of the Creation that 
I behold is to me incomprehensible, but because even 
this manifestation, great as it is, is probably but a small 
display of that immensity of power and wisdom by 
which millions of other worlds, to me invisible by their 
distance, were created, and continue to exist. 

The two questions have diflferent objects: the first 
refers to the existence of God, the second to His attri- 
butes ; reason can discover the one, but it falls infinitely 
short in discovering the whole of the other. 

The only passage in the New Testament that has any 
reference to the works of God, by which only His power 
and wisdom can be known, is related to have been spoken 
by Jesus Christ as a remedy against distrustful care. 
" Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do 
they spin." 



170 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

That the universal law (says Dr. Cooyers Middleton 
of Cambridge) revealed in the works of the Creation, 
was actually revealed to the heathen world long before 
the gospel was known, we learn from all the principal 
sages of antiquity, who made it the capital subject of 
their studies and writings. 

" Cicero", says Middleton, " has given us a short ab- 
stract of it in a fragment still remaining from one of his 
books on government, which", says Middleton, *' I shall 
here transcribe in his own words, as they will illustrate 
my sense of what I wish to state." 

"The true law", says Cicero, "is right reason con- 
formable to the nature of things, constant, eternal, dif- 
fused through all, which calls us to duty by commanding, 
deters us from sin by forbidding ; which never loses its 
influence with the good, nor ever preserves it from the 
wicked. This law cannot be over-ruled by any other, 
nor abrogated in whole or in part ; nor can we be ab- 
solved from it either by the Senate or by the people ; 
nor can there be one law at Rome and another at Athens 
— one now and another hereafter ; but the same eternal, 
immutable law, comprehends all nations, at all times, 
under one common master and governor of all — God. 
He is the inventor, propounder, enactor of this law ; 
and whoever will not obey it must first renounce him- 
self and throw off the nature of man, by doing which he 
will suffer the greatest punishments, though he should 
escape all the other torments which are commonly be- 
lieved to be prepared for the wicked." 

" Our doctors", continues Middleton, " perhaps will 
look on this as pure Deism ; but let them call it what they 
will, I shall ever avow and defend it as the fundamental, 
essential, and vital part of all true religion." 



WKEXHAM GENTRY. 171 



WREXHAM GENTRY. 

Thomas Churchyard, whose Worthines of Wales, 
dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was published in 1587, 
found the Wrexham neighbourhood an extremely good 
one. He writes in honour of what he calls A Generall 
Commendation of Gentilitie: — 



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Nere Wricksam dwels, of gentlemen good store, 

Of calling such, as are right well to live ; 

By market towne, I have not seene no more, 

(In such small roome) that auncient armes doe give. 

They are the joy and gladness of the poor, 

That dayly feedes the hungrie at their doore ; 

In any soyle, where gentlemen are found. 

Some house is kept, and bountie doth abound. 

They beautifie both towne and countrie too. 
And furnish' t are to serve at need in feeld ; 
And everything in rule and order do, 
And unto God and man due honour yeeld. 
They are the strength and suretie of the land. 
In whose true hearts doth trust and credit stand. 
By whose wise heads the neighbours ruled are. 
In whom the prince reposeth greatest care. 

They are the flowers of every garden ground, 
For where they want, there growes but wicked weeds ; 
Their tree and fruite in rotten world is sounde, 
Their noble mynds will bring foorth faithful! deedes. 
Their glorie rests in countries wealth and fame, 
They have respect to blood and auncient name ; 
They weigh nothing so much as loyall hart, 
Which is most pure, and clean in every part. 

They doe uphold all civill maners myld, 
AH many acts, all wise and worthie waies ; 
If they were not, the countrey would grow wyld. 
And we should soone forget our elders daies. 
Wax blunt of wit, in speech ^row rude and rough. 
Want vertue still, and have of vice enough, 
Shewe feeble spreete, lack courage everywhere. 
Doubt many a thing, and our owne shadowes feare. 



172 HISTORY OF POWi'S FADOG. 



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They dare attempt, for fame and hye renowne. 
To scale the clowdes, if men might clyme the ayre ; 
Assault the starres, and plucke the planets downe. 
Give charge on moone, and sunne that shines so fayre. 
I meane they dare attempt the greatest things. 
Ply swiftly ore high hilles if they had wings, 
Beate backe the seas, and teare the moantaines too. 
Yea, what dare not a man of courage do V 



THE TRUE GENTLEMAN. 

" He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never 
defends himself by a mere retort ; he has no ears for slander 
or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who in- 
terfere with him and interprets everything for the best. He 
is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair ad- 
vantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for 
arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. 
From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the 
ancient sage that we should conduct ourselves . towards our 
enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. He has too 
much good sense to be affronted at insults, and is too well 
employed to remember injuries. He is patient, forbearing, 
and resigned on philosophical principles. He submits to pain 
because it is inevitable; to death because it is his destiny. 
If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined in- 
tellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, 
perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, 
tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point 
in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their 
adversary, and leave the question more involved than they 
And it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is 
too clear-headed to be unjust; he is as simple as he is forcible, 
and as brief as he is decisive. Nowhere shall we find greater 
candour, consideration, indulgence. He throws himself into 
the minds of his opponents, he accounts for their mistakes, he 
knows the weakness of human reason as well as its province 
and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound 
and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it ; he 
is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He 
respects piety and devotion ; he even supports institutions as 
venerable, beautiful, or useful to which he does not assent ; he 
honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to de- 
cline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them. He 



SUPERUISUS MANERII DE BURTON. 173 

is a friend of religious toleration, and that not only because 
his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith 
with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness of feeling 
which is the attendant of civilisation/' — ijardinal Newman. 



SUPERUISUS MANERII DE BURTON. 
Burton. Earl 3696, fo, 80. 

Nomina Jukatorum. 

Will'us Robinson, armiger. 

Thomas Langford, gen. Randall Langford, gen. 

Eduardus GryflBth, gen. Will'us Jones, gen. 

Georgius Powell, gen. Eduardus ap Roger, gen. 

Thomas Powell, gen. Petrus Roberts, gen. 

Jacobus Lewes, gen. Ellis Allington, gen. 

Johannes Santrey, gen. Eduardus Williams, gen. 

Joh'es Allington, gen. Edwardus Meredith. 

Joh'es Sutton, gen. Edwardus ap Thomas. 

Will'us Pulford. 

Qui dicunt super sacramenta sua viz't ad primum articulum 
quoad circuitum limitum manerii, viz't. 

In primis, at a water called the ffrood falling into the 
Brooke called Raegidog to the Riuer of Allyn, and along the 
River to a gutter neere Dauid Maddockes house, thence along 
that Gutter to a Com'on called Kaer Bstyn, thence to a place 
called the Talurn, thence to Perth y Llwyd Coed, and thence 
to a place where the hoare wythen did growe neere the com- 
mon Moore, and from thence as it seemeth vnto the said Jury 
by disposic'ons, that it extendeth streight through the said 
commons to Morwall, the w'ch said Morwall doth part Denbigh- 
shire, Flintshire, and Cheshire, and from thence neere vnto 
Whittells house, thence to Collops Pitt, thence to the south 
end of Pulford Bridge, and so following; the Brooke to the 
river of Dee, and so up the river to the Receauo'es bridge 
vppon Deuen, thence through Marsley Parke along the gutter 
w'ch parteth the Broad Land and Bushie Land from the said 
parke, thence to the Bottome vnderneath Pen yr Allt Goch, so 
to the vicars wood, thence to Pant Yockin house, then bor- 
dering upon Acton and to Stanstie Vcha, and then vppon 
Broughton. These last Towneships be in the manor of Eglwis 
Egle, then bordering vppon Brombo and Gofnis, and thence 
to the riuer of Raegidog, where we first began excepting the 



174 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOO. 

lordships of Merford and Horsley, which lieth within the said 
Mann our. 

2. We knowe no demeasne landes within this Mannonr to 
our knowledge. 

3. The flFreehould Tenaunts we doe present by booke their 
lands and rentes as farr as we are informed. 

4 The names of the leasehoulders, their landes and Rentes, 
we haue likewise presented by book to our knowledge. 

5. The names of the customary Tenaunts we do likewise 
present by themselues by a booke w'th a preamble in the be- 
ginning of the said booke, touching the composition and Cove- 
nant of the late Queene Elizabeth^ of famous memory, of the 
said customary landes, in w'ch preamble the contents of this 
Article are fully answered. 

6. The said Jury doth present but two wastes or Commons 
in this Mannour w*ch undergoe the names of wastes or com'ons 
called by the name of Keuen Guiersillt, conteyning by esti- 
mac'on , and Gwern Gwrydey, being part of 
the common Moore, conteyning by estimac'on Threescore 
acres adioyning vpon the south parte thereof vppon the landes 
of Sir Richard Grosuenor, knight. 

The said Jury, in their names and in the names of the rest 
of the Prince his Tenaunts of the said Mannour of Burton, 
doe humbly pray that they may be admitted and ordered to 
haue their auncient Com'on in the said Moore as auncient 
Tennaunts of the same Mannour haue formerly had therein. 

There are, besides, highwayes and Crosswayes in some 
places larger then in others, w'ch we conceave are not meant 
to be presented for wasts or Com'ons, and therefore we haue 
omitted to sett downe such. 

7. There are woods in Marsley Parke in the tenure of the 
Earle of Bridgewater, and woods in Llay called the Acre 
Newydd, in the tenure of Dame Susan Puleston, and also 
vnderwoods in Tithin Sidallcs in the tenure of William Lewis, 
and also woods in Fron Ardreth in Allington or Gobham 
Almor in the tenure of Sir Richard Treuor, knight. Their 
quantities we referre to Mr. Norden. Besides, most of the 
Princes Tenaunts haue some Trees and hedgerowes, which are 
not wasted to our knowledge. But some haue fallen Trees 
and Woods vppon their lands as we conceaue it for their owne 
necessary vses, or to be im ployed about their landes. 

8. There is parte of Maresley Parke, als' Houlte Parke, 
within this Mannour of Burton, stored with deere, in the 
tenure of the Earle of Bridgewater, but no warren of Conies. 

There are Incroachments as foUoweth in Burton viz't. 



SUPERUISUS MANERir DE BURTON. 175 

9. A certaine parcell of wast ioyning vppon the landes of 
Edward Williams, by estimac*on Thirtie yardes in length and 
sixe in breadth, in the occupac'on of Margaret Davies widowe. 

Ite\ an incrochm't ioyning to the lands of Nich'as dicus, in 
the tenure of William Dauid vichan, by estimac'on Thirty yardes 
in length, and in breadth eight. 

Item, another parcell of incroachm^t ioyning to the lands of 
Thomas Powell, by estimac'on 7 perches. 

Item, an incrochment to the Cae Cadame, cont' by estimac'on 
8 yards square. 

Item, another vnto the broade Gake, cont' 4 perches square. 

Item, another to William Nicholas house, conteyning 3 
perches. 

Item, another to William Griffs house, conteyning two 
perches. 

Item, another to Bartholomewe Williams house, conteyning 
two perches. 

Item, another parcell of waste ioyning to the landes of 
Anthony Lewis, in th*occupac'on of Lewis Barton, by estima- 
tion in length fforty yardes, and in breadth eight yardes. 

Item, a certaine parcell of waste ioyning to the lands of 
Anthony Lewis, conteyning in length Thirty yardes, and in 
breadth twelve yardes. 

Item, a certeine parcell of incrochement ioyning to the 
landes of Edward Bellott, in th'occupac'on of Edward Trafford, 
cont* by estimac'on eight yardes square. 

Item, a certaine parcell of incrochement ioyning to the lands 
of Richard Langford, conteyning by estimation Twenty yardes 
in length, and sixe in breadth. 

10. These we present by booke. 

11. Ffor quarries, Cole Mines, and lead. Sir Richard Gros- 
venor, knight, hath a grant thereof. Ffor Marie there is some 
within the landes of the said Tenantes, wY*h they use for their 
owne profit, but what benefit it may be worth by the yeare we 
knowe not. 

12. There is none to our knowledge. 

13. There is none. 

14. There is none to our knowledge. 

15. There is a milne in the tenure of Sir Richard Treuor, 
knight, but howe he holds it we knowe not. 

16. There is ffurze and fferne, w'ch the Tenaunts take for 
their use, but no benefite to the Prince to our knowledge. 

1 7. We knowe none in this Mannour particularly. 

18. We knowe none. 

19. The Prince haue all to our knowledge. 



176 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



20. The ffishing and the Bent is presented bj booke^ ffor 
flTowling there is none of profite. 

21. There is none. 

22. We knowe none. 

23. We knowe not. 

24. There is one Baylife belongeth to this manour of Burton, 
and no other oflScers that we knowe; but the Barle of Bridge- 
water highe steward, John Jeffries, esquier, and Thomas 
Foster, gent*, Thomas Trafford, esquier, Receavour quere their 
patents. 

25. None that we knowe. 

26. Our customary acre conteyneth one hundred and sixty 
perches, each perch conteyning four and twenty foote. 

27. There are such lands in Burton w'ch are graunted by 
customary lease, whose tithe Sir Richard Treuor holdeth. 



LIBBBB TBNSNTBS. 

Allington, Ellis, Gresford . 

Allington, iJohn, Allington . 

Billott, Edw', esq. (John), Burton and 
Gresford 

Billott, Edw', and Edw' Puleston 

Bridge, Edward (John Johnson), Gres- 
ford 

David, Thomas, Allington . 

Dauies, Matild', included in the holding 
of Thomas, her son 

Dicus, Nicol (Will'us David Vaughan), 
Burton) 

Edward ap Robt' ap Howell, Llay. 

Edward ap Roger, Burton . 

Edward ap WiU'm Griffith . 

Edwards, John, of Stansty, Gwersillt . 

Egerton, Richard, kn't, Allington 

Ffoster, Thomas, Allington 

Griffith, Eldward, Allington 

Griffith, Edward ap WilF, Burton and 
Llay 

Griffith, Robert, Allington . 

Grovenor, Rio', kn't 

Hugh, John 

Hugh ap John lle*n ap Edw' 

Jefferys, John, esq., jun., Gwersillt 

Jerrard, Thomas (Ellis ap Hugh), 
Gwersillt 

Jeuan ap Edward, Burton . 

John lle'n ap Edward, Gwersillt 



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kn't). Burton and Llay . 
Liangford, Ric*, Allington and Gresford 
Langford, Thos' (Ric'us Langford), 

Burton and Llay 
Lewes, Anthony, Burton 
Lewes, Thos', lo', and Joh'es Lewes, 

Burton 
Lewes, Will' and James, Gwersillt 
Lloyd, D'd, Gresford 
Lloyd, Richard . 
Lloyd, Thomas, Allington . 
Maddock, Edw*, Allington . 
Mereddeth, Edw', of London, Llay, 

and Burton 
Mereddeth, Hugh, esq., Gwersillt 
Meredeth, John, Allington, Gresford 

and Llay 
Powell, George, Burton and Llay 
Powell, Tho', of Brirabo . 
Powell, Tho', of Horsley, Allington, 

Horsley and Gresford 
Powell, Tho', jun., Allington 
Puleston, heredes Edward, Allington . 
Puleston, Georges, esq., Llay, Burton 

and Gwersillt . 
Puleston, Martrar' 
Puleston, d'na Susanna, Llay and 

Gwersillt 
Pulford, Wiirm, Gresford . 
Ravenscroft, Tho', Burton and Llay . 
Richardson, Robt', Burton . 
Roberts, Hugh, Gresford 
Robinson, Will'm, esq., Gwersillt and 

Llay 
Salsbury, Roger, Llay and Gresford . 
Salsbury, WilFm, Burton . 
Santhey, John, Burton 
Santhey, Robt', Allington and Burton. 
Speed e, D'd, Allington 
Speede, Rich*, Allington and Gresford. 
Sutton, John, Gwersillt 
Sutton, Launcelot 
Thomas ap Hugh (Powell) . 

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Thomas, Edw', Allington and Gresford 

Trevor, John, kn*t, Burton and Gresford 

Wiirm ap lo' Tho' ap Ric', Burton . 

Williams, Edw', Gresford and Allington 
Williams, Henry, Gwersillt 
Wright, John, of Pulford, Burton 



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dimisionem bt ad voluntat*. 



Allington, Ellis, Hunckley 
Allington, John, Burton Allington 
Billot, Edw', esq., Burton 
Billot, Edw', Burton Allington . 
Edward ap Edw' Grir, Burton Allington 
Edwards, John, gen'. Burton Allington 
Edwards, John, ap Howell ap Griff 

Burton Allington . 
Ffoster, Thomas, Burton 

„ „ Burton Allington 

Griffith, Edw', Burton Allington 
Griffith, Rob't, Burton 
Grosvenor, Ric', k't. Burton 
Inhabitants of Burton 
James ap Hugh, Burton Allington 
Jarrard, Jane, Hunckley 
Jefferyes, John, esq.. Burton Allington 
Jenkin, Tho' (heredes). Burton Allington 
John ap Mad* (heredes). Burton Allington 
Jones, Edw', Burton Allington . 
Jones, Will'm, Burton 
Langford, Ric', Burton 
Langford, Ric', Burton Allington 
„ „ Hunckley 

Lewes, James, Burton Allington 
Lewes, Will'm, Burton Allington 
Lloyd, D*d, Hunckley 
Mereddeth, Edw*, of London, Burton Al 

lington . 
Mereddeth, John, of London, Burton Al 

lington . 

„ „ Hunckley 

Mereddeth, John, gen', Burton Allington 
Owin, John Griffith, Hunckley . 
Powell, Thomas, Burton Allington 

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1 




5 



3 6 
7 13 

10 13 

4 
13 
13 6 
val. 3 

16 
16 
3 
3 6 
12 



9 

1 
3 
3 
3 
5 
2 




6 
4 

3 
6 

6 



5 10 

1 10 
5 

2 
10 
8 



8 


8 
4 
4 


8 
4 


4 
8 


8 


4 
8 





4 












SUPER CJISUS MANERII DE BURTON. 



179 



Powell, Tho*, esq., de Allington, Burton 

Allington 
Powell, Tho', of Bryrabo, Barton Allington 
Powell, Tho*, of Horsley, Burton 

„ „ Burtou Allington 

Puleston, Margar', Burton Allington 
PuleBton, Margar', d. of Edw', Allington 
Puleston, dame Susan, Burton . 

„ „ Burton Allington 

Puliston, Robt', Burton Allington 
Pulford, Wiirm, Hunckley 
Probin, Will'm, Burton Allington 
Randle, John, Burton Allington 
Relew, Ant', Burton Allington . 
Roberts, Peter, Burton Allington 
Robinson, Will'm, esq.. Burton Allington 
Roger, John, Burton Allington 
Salsbuiy, Henry, Burton 
Sandy, John, gen', Burton 
Sandy, Robert, Burton 
Speed c. Rich', Burtou Allington 
Sutton, John, Burton Allington 
Tho' ap Hugh, Burton Allington 
Thomas, Edw', Burton Allington 
Trevallen, John, Burton Allington 
Trevor, John, kn't. Burton 

„ „ Allington 

Trevor, Ric', kn't. Burton 

Burton Allington 
Allington 
Edw' Will'ms ap W'm Griffith, Burton 

Allington 
Wynton, Deane and Chapter (Comes 

Bridgewater), Burton Allington 



99 



» 



>1 



A. R. P. 



1 

3 




7 
2 

207 
4 



159 

6 



12 






6 

13 3 20 

17 2 
2 
2 

2 

3 

3 3 
2 

11 
8 10 
3 

54 3 

18 3 20 
2 2 

10 2 
2 
2 
7 

25 

Mereford Mill. 

24 

4 

7 3 20 

8 20 

2 

1 



Sum' of the freeholde Rentes of Burton p' ann' 

at this day is . 
It was 4 Eliz* but 
More than before 

The yearlie rent of the lease holde at will and in 

fee ferme is . 
In 4 Eliz' it was but 

Lesse then now by . . . 

Which may be by the fee fermes. 
The whole, rent free and lease, etc., is 



Bent. 
iS 8. d. 

6 8 
2 16 8 

1 6 8 
70 

1 8 

4 

6 

22 13 4 

4 

13 4 

5 10 

1 10 
5 




4 



5 



3 
13 

20 

7 10 

13 4 

4 

1 

1 10 

2 10 
13 6 8 



6 

1 14 

2 8 
2 14 



8 

8 
4 



1 10 
6 



44 15 

38 8 

6 7 



87 2 
71 9 
15 12 



131 18 1^ 




12^ 



180 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



MORTON ANGLICORU'. 
Earl. 3696, /o. 123, et seq. 





A. 


B. 


p. 


£ 


8. 


d. 


Bat^s, Hugh 


20 








1 


6 





Breerton, Owin, esq. . 


4 











3 


2 


David ap John ap leu'n Goz 


4 











6 





David ap Owin 


Mess*, 
par* 


Ac., 
terr' 


&8 

• 





5 


^ 


Davies, Edward (Robert Lloyd) . 


52 








2 


19 


8} 


Edward ap John ap Edward 


20 








1 


2 


8 


Eyton, Edw' 


1 











1 


4 


Ffortescue, NicoF 


48 








2 


1 





Gouldsmith, Thomas . 


8 














Hope, Edward 


5 











7 


6 


Hope, Thomas 


5 











19 


1 


John, D*d Broughton . 





2 











6 


John, Roger Lle'n 





2 











10 


Jones, Emanuel 


10 











9 


9 


Katherin v'z Edward . 


2 











2 


1 


Kenricus ap David 


15 


2 





1 


5 


8 


Martin ap leu'n 


1 


2 








1 


4 


Robert ap Randle 


7 


6 








13 


4 


Robert ap Randle ap John Thomas 


17 











10 


6 


Thomas ap Edward . 


10 











15 





Wells, Lawrence (land of Peter Roydon) . 














6 


Wiirm ap John D'd . 


3 


2 








5 


4 


Will'm ap John Rob't 


15 











19 





Williams, Richard 


143 








3 


13 


4 


S'ma of the rentes of Moreton at this 


I day i 


s 


• 


18 


9 


3: 


4« Elizabeth 


. 




• 


17 





9, 


£1 8s. 1 l|d. lesse thei 


I now. 










4 ' 



Bent. 



MINERA MANERIUM. 
Earl 3696, /o. 129, et seq. 







Bent. 




A. B. P. 


£ 8. d. 


Batha, John 


4 


4 


David, Morgan 


1 1 


1 


Edward ap d'd ap R's 


1 3 


I 2 


Edward ap Robert 


2 2 


2 


Griffith, Hugh 


2 


1 3 


Griffith, John 


Mynes Mill 


2 15 8 



MANOR OF PICKHILL AND SESWICK. 



181 



Gwenver d'd and Mary v'z Edw' ap Eob't 

Hugh ap D'd 

Hugh ap D'd Richard 

Hugh ap Richard 

Hugh ap Rob't ap Ho'ell 

Jeu'n ap D'd 

John ap Edward 

John ap Hugh 

John ap Hugh et Tho' ap Jo' Hugh 

John ap Hugh ap D'd 

John ap Hugh ap Hoe'll 

John ap John ap Edward 

John ap John Richard 

John ap Richard ap W'm 

John Robin ap Ho'ell 

John Robert ap Ho'ell 

Eenrick, Hugh 

Middleton, Roger 

Morgon ap Ho'ell 

Nicholas ap Edward 

Owin, John D'd 

Richard ap Ho'ell 

Richard ap Hugh 

Robert ap Hugh 

Robinson, W'm, esq. 

Thomas, D'd 

Vaughan, John 

The Inhabitants 

The s'ma of the yearlie rentes of the 
and at will in the Manor of Minera 

In4oEUz'but . 

More by 5s. lOd. 





Beni 


» 


▲. R. p. 


£ 


8. 


d. 


2 10 








11 


9 O20 





3 


7 


5 2 





2 


3 


9 20 





5 


1 


34 1 3 





18 


i 


2 32 





1 





1 25 








8; 


5 








3' 


12 1 6 





6 


10 


2 








4 


7 





4 





3 2 








7 


2 








2 


4 





1 


i 


1 3 





2 





4 





3 


9 


26 





1 


3 


4 





2 





2 2 





4 


6 


1 








6 


7 3 





2 


1 


7 





1 


4 


11 





7 


4 


4 10 





4 


1 


26 





1 


8 


4.10 





3 





13 2 





5 


1 


capellan. 








4 


lease land 








now 


7 


1 


4J 


• 


1 6 


15 


5] 



MANERIU' DE PICKHILL ET SESWICK IN COM' 

DENBIGH. 

Earl 8696, /o. 202. 

Qui dicunt super sacramenta sna, viz'. 

Imprimis, to the first Article they say, that the Manner of 
Pickhill and Seswick is bounded from a place called Croes 
Wladys, with the River Dee running along the south and east 
partes, and ye River Clymedog on the north, and likewise on 
the east to ye River Dee, with certaine landes belonging to ye 



182 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Mannor of Ruabon southwest, excepting certaine other landes 
within ye boundes of this Mannor belonging to the Earles of 
Derby. 

There belongeth to the said Mannor as part and parcell 
thereof three parcells of landes, whereof one is called Gro 
Thomas, the other being two p'cells called Hile lying beyond 
the River Dee, and one tenement called Rhyd y Bont Vawr 
beyond Clywedoc, and divers other parcells beeing beyond the 
said river, all reputed to bee members of the said Mannor 
of Pickhill and Seswick. 

To the second Article they say, that if there be any de- 
mesnes within that Mannor they do not know where it lyeth, 
neither in whose holding it is, and further, yt they never heard 
heretofore of any such landes to bee within that Mannour. 

To the third Article they say, that the names of all ye free- 
holders, and what everie of them doth holde, and their Rents 
are particulerlie laide downe, and as for ffeeferm^ts they know 
of none in vt Mannor. 

To the flFourth and flBfth Article they say, ye customary 
Tennants of this Mannor are his Prince his Highnes Tennants 
by Leases, and doe hold their Messuages, landes, and Tene- 
mentes vppon their severall names sett downe, and doe re- 
Bpectivelie pay for ye same the severall Rents vppon theire 
names appearing by their severall Leases for ffoftie yeares, and 
soe from fortie yeares to fortie yeares forever, and doe pay two 
yeares Rent for a fyne vpon the taking of their Leases, ac- 
cording to the composition made between ye late Queene 
Elizabeth, of famous memorie, and ye Tenn'ts of Bromfield 
and Yale, in the ffowrth yeare of her late most happy Raigne, 
and this Juiy doe not knowe of any thing paid or due to bo 
paide by any of the said Tennants vppon ye marriage of their 
daughters. 

To the sixt Article they say, that the Kings highwaies ex- 
cepted, there is no waste or commons in ye said Mannor to 
their knowledge. 

To the seaventh Article they say, that they have no great 
quantitie of wood or vnderwood within this Mannor, and all 
that is is well preserved to their knowledge. 

To the eight Article they say, that there is no parke or 
Warren within this Mannor. 

To the nynth they say as to the sixt, that they have no 
Common or Wast to their knowledge, and therefore no en- 
crochment. 

To the tenth they say, that the landes held from fortie 
yeares to forty in ye holding of theis Tennants, are ye cus- 



PICKHILL AND 8ESWICK. 183 

tomarie lands of this Mannor, and that there is no escheat 
lands within this Mannor other then what is hold by lease. 

To the eleaventh they say, that there are no mynes of cole, 
lead, chalk, nor quarries of stones, but for marie, some quan- 
titie there is, but no great use made of it, the benefitts whereof 
they doe not knowe. 

To the twelveth and thirteenth they say, that they doe not 
knowe that any ffreeholder died without heire, either generall 
or speciall, and that there is not any towne corporate, bou- 
rough towne, or other, within ye said Mannor. 

To the ffoureteenth and fifteenth they say, that they doe 
not knowe of any such exchaunges or vnlawfull vnserting of 
landes into Leases as are demaunded in yt Article. There bee 
two milles in ye Townshipp of Pickell, now in the tenure of 
Rog'r Ellis or Dorothie Ellis, and whether they bee custom'e 
mills or noe, this Jury do not knowe. 

To the sixteenth they say as to the sixt and ninth, that they 
have no Commons or Waste, neither peate, turfe, etc. 

To the seaventeenth they say, that the fireeholders and Ten- 
ants of this Mannor, beeing a member of the Lordshipp of 
Bromfield, doe serve at the leete and law daies of this Lord- 
shipp, as they are bound to doe. And that they doe pay all 
fynes of alienac^ons, amerciaments of courts, mizes, and all 
other payments for their rate and proporc'ons as others the 
Tennants of the foresnide Lo'ps doe, when and as often as ye 
same are due, but no Kings silver nor head silver. 

To the eighteenth they say, that there is no Coppeholde 
Tenem't in decay within this Mannor to their knowledge. 

To the nyneteenth they say, that they knowe not whether 
the casualties menc'oned in this Article be due to the Prince 
his Highnes, or to the Kings most excellent Ma*tie. 

To the twentith they say, that there is no fishing nor fowl- 
ing belonging to this Manor. 

To the 21st they say, that they have no markets or faires 
held w'hin this Manor. 

To the two and three and twentith, that they knowe not of 
any rents or lands concealed or withheld in this Manor, nor of 
any Eepriss or payments going out of the same. 

To the fowre and twentith they say, that there are yearlie 
made at the leete at Michaelmas by the Jurie of this Mannor, 
theis oflSciers following, viz., Petfcie Constable and Baylifie, 
to gather ye Princes his Rents, w'ch doe serve for ye yeare 
following within ye said Mannor, and yt the Sherifies Steward, 
as this Jurie have credible heard, is the Right Honorable the 
Earle of Bridgewater, and John Jefireys, Esq., John Dauies 



184 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 



and Thomas Foster, Gent., are his deputies, and that Thomas 
TraflTord, Esq./ is receavo'r, but what flTees they or either of 
them have this Jury knoweth not. 

To the five and twentith Article they say, there are no ad- 
Yowsons or benefices within this Manner. 

To the six and twentith they say, that as farre as they can 
leame and find out, the old and accustomed acre vsed in those 
partes and in most of the countreys next adioyning, con- 
teyneth one hundreth threescore perches in everie acre, and 
everie of ye saide pearches conteyneth flTowre and twenty 
foote to the pearch or pole. 



PICKHILL & SESWICK. 



• 










Rent. 


LiBSBI TSNBNTEB. 


A. 


B. 


p. 


je 8. d. 


Bellot, Edw', esq., Pick' & Sesw* 


37 








7 8 


Eyton, Humfrey, Pick' 


15 








2 


Jefferyes, Jo', esq., Pick', Sesw' & Bed' 


3 








14 


Mereddeth, Hugh, esq., Pick & Ses' 


4 








1 U 


Powell, John, gen', Pick' 


3 








1 


Rogers, John, gen'. Pick* 


5 








2 


S'ma Redd' lib'oru' tenen' . 


• 




• 


15 


TeNENTES per DIMISSIONElf MaI 


SERU 


rUKDIC 


T'. 










Bent. 




A. 


B. 


p. 


£ 8. d. 


Breerton, Owen, esq., Bedwall . 


36 


1 


10 


1 16 6 


Browne, John, Ibid, . 




2 








3 5 


D'd ap d'd. Ibid, 




2 








3 7 


D'd Lloyd ap Roger, Ibid, 




17 








1 14 1 


Decka, John, Pick' & Sesw' 




3 








2 8 


Decka, Thomas, Ibid, 




52 





6 


3 5 11 


Dymock, Will'm, Ibid. 




9 


3 


20 


10 5 


Edgebery, Kenrick, gen', Bedw* . 




40 


1 





2 3 


Edward ap John ap Rob't, Pick* <fe Sesw' . 


4 





20 


7 6 


Ellice, Dorathe, Pick', Sesw' & Bed' 


115 





32 


10 9 2 


Ellice, Sidney, Pick & Sesw' 


141 





22 


11 5 6. 


Eyton, Garrard, gen', Bedw' 




37 








1 13 7 


Gamwell, Will'm, iur' vx', Ibid, , 




13 








6 8 


Goldsmith, Thomas, Ibid, 




13 


1 


20 


14 4 


Griffith, Roger, gen*, Ibid, 




4 


1 





3 5 


Hall, Thomas 




100 








4 19 10 


Hope, Thomas 







2 





3 


James, John, Pick' <fe Bed' 




19 





26 


1 5 6 


Jeiferyes, John, esq. . 




61 





30 


3 1 4 


John ap John Gwymi, Bedw' 


• • 


11 





20 


13 



MANOR OF MORTYN OR BDRTON. 



Sgb' 



John ap John ap Wm ap Mad', Pic' 

John James ap D'd, Bed' 

John ap Roger ap lle'n, Ibid. 

John ap W'm ap Mad', /ttrf. 

JoDOB, Roger, Ibid. 

Mercddeth, Hugh, esq., Pick' & Sesw' 

Presland, Richard, Bedw' 

Price, Agnea, v, d'd ap. Ibid. 

PuleatoD, John, geu', Pick' 

Pul«ston, Mary, Ibid. 

Randall ap John, Ibid. 

Raiilfe, Ellizens, Ibid. 

Rogers, John, gen', Ibid. 

Rowland, John, Bed' . 

Sonlle, Robt' et al', Ibid. 

Sntton, John, gen'. Pick' 

Thomas ap John, Ibid. 

ThoniOB, Roger, Bedw' 

William, John, Pick' . 

Wyn, Kob't, gen, Bedw' 

Pickill B'nia redd' tenen' ad volunt' 
The last makes tlie rent uncertai 

40 Elii' Redd' in toto 

Bedwall a'ma redd' 

40 Eliz' 









a 


10 


1 




2 




1 


26 


3 » 




20 


13 


2 




(1 


o» 


1 6 




2 




2 20 


m 


2 




2 (1 




3 20 


IS 


2 


47 


(I 




20 


17 


2 




1 


2» 


1 10 


pcrdimisa' 



18 
8 



3 16 8} 
19 U 



3 4 

7 6 

1 10 
1 10 3 

17 2 

1 14 1 
i 

2 IV 2 



42 20J 
26 11 5 
25 13 7} 




MiNOB OF MOBTTN OE BURTON.— TOWNSHIP OF 

GWEBSTLLT. 

Earl. MSS. 1972, 4181. 

Hoig*nab Daridab Qotoawjeh Madog STttonorSotton, Loid of Sjttoii'j= 

in lagoed, aiith son of Elidir ab Bbja Sals, Lord of Eytou. Ermine, a 

lion nunpant oiwre. Tbe said Madog Sntton paid £16 per annnm to 

the Lord of Bramfield or Haelor Gyuitaeg for the LoidsEip of Sntton. 

He hoM bnda in la y Coed. 

|a 



186 



HISTORY OF POWYS PADOO. 



Da vid de Sntton in Is y Coed.= T=...d, of Biohard Cotgraye of Cheshire. 
David Satton of Satton and Qwersyllt, 35 Edward III=j=2nd, Lleud, d. of 



(1S61). He married first, Marslli, d. and heir of 
Howel ab David Llwyd ab Cynwrig ab lorwerth ab 
Ynyr of lal and Gwersyllt. Cynwrig ab lorwerth 
was living in 1292. By this marriage there was 
issue a son, named Madog Satton. 



lorwerth Fychan 
ab lorwerth ab 
Awr ab leoaf ab 
Nyniaw ab Cyn- 
wrig ab Bhiwal- 
lawn. Ermine, a 
lion rampantso^le. 



I 



Qmttydd of=f=Catherine, d. of Madog ab lorwerth fychan of Mortyn ab 



Satton and 
Owersyllt. 



lorwerth ab David ab Ghoronwy ab lorwerth ab Howel ab 
Moreiddig ab Sanddref Hardd, Lord of Mortyn (Barton) and 
Llai. Swle, three roses argent. 



David of Sat-==Ghi7erfyl, d. of Qraffydd ab Bleddyn of Mortyn ab Bobert ab 



ton and 

(Gwersyllt ; 

livingSrd 

Henry V, and 

83rd Henry 

VI (1456). 



David Gk>ch, ab David Hen ab Goronwy ab lorwerth ab 
Howel ab Moreiddig ab Sanddef Hardd. Vert, seme of 
broomslips, a lion rampant or. 



Anffharad, ax. Deicws ab Madog ab Adda Llwyd ab Adda 
ab I Madog ab Llywelyn ab Madog ab Meilir Eyton of 
Eyton. 



I I 

Bobert of =^^1^0, d. of David ab Graff- Thomas 

Satton and ydd of Tref Alan, ab Satton. 

Gwersyllt ; David ab Llywelyn ab See p. 
living 8 David ab Goronwy ab 188. 

Hen. YII. lorwerth ab Howel ab 
Moreiddig ab Sanddef 
Hardd. David abGraff- 
ydd died in 1476. 



:Mar8li, dan. Gwerfyl, 
and heir of uz. Jenkyn 
leuan Dec- ab leaan 

cafab • ofStansti. 

David 

Llwyd. 



|1 |2|3 14 |5|6 

David =j=Margaret, d. of John Sir Lewys John. 

Satton ab Hichard ab Ma- Howel. Satton, Gruff- 

of Sat- dog ab Llywelyn of Mor- Vicar- ydd 

ton and Halchdyn in Mae- 

Gwers- lor Saesneg, eldest 

yllt. sonofEdnyfedGam 

of Llys Pengwem 

in Nanheadwy. 



gan. General 



Catherine, Eliza- 
uz. Bobert beth. 
Fychan ab 
Bobert ab 

leuan ab 

David of 
Brochdyn. 



John Wynn Satton of Sut-=T=Ermeline, d. of John Puleston of Hafod y Wem. 



ton and Gwersyllt. 



T 



John =T= Margaret, 
Sutton d. of Wil- 
of Sut- liam 

ton and Hookes ab 
Gwers- Hugh 

yllt. Hookes of 
Aber- 
conwy. 



David 

Sutton. 

Lancelot 

Sutton, 

married 

Catherine, 

d. of John 

Boydon. 



Argent, on a bend sahle, three mullets of the 
field^ 

3 



|4| 6 161718 I 
Hugh. Edward. Alice, nx. Bhys ab 
Wil- Pyers. David ab Bhys ab 

liam. Boger. leuan ab Llywelyn 

ab Howel ab Cyn- 
wrig ab lorwerth 
Figill of Ystrad 
Alun. 



&| I 



c I 2 



d I 3 



MANOR OP MORTYN OR BURTON. 187 

& I 1 c I 3 d| 3 

John Sattoi)=pMorfydd, d. of Howel William Edward » Catherine, d. 



of Sntton 

and Gwers- 

yllt. 



ab Llywelyn ab Sutton. Sutton. of Ralph Dar- 

Owain of Brynbw. ling of March- 

wiail. 



14 
Captain Ellis Sut-=Jane, d. of Cadwaladr Wynn Pryse 
ton, Constable of Rhiwlas, and relict of George 
of Harlech Castle, Puleston of Llai. She died 8th March 
1622. 1664. 

John Sut-=Jane, d. of John Wynn Lloyd Elis =...,d.ofHugh Jane. 
tonofSut- of Plas y Bada, which place Sut- OwenofCaer Anne, 
ton and was sold by her brother Ro- ton. Berllan. Rose. 

Gwersyllt, bert Lloyd to Sir Thomas 
1600. Myddleton Hen of Chirk 

Castle. 

Gwersyllt Isaf, which is situate on the banks of the 
Alun, remained in the Sutton family till 1660, when it 
was sold by Captain Ellis Sutton, an old Cavalier, who 
was ruined in the Eoyal cause, to Colonel (afterwards 
Sir Geoflfrey) Shakerley, of Shakerley in Lancashire. 

Colonel Sir Geoflfrey Shakerley was a distinguished 
Royalist in the time of Charles I, and commanded a regi- 
ment of Horse. It was out of regard for his old friend 
and comrade Colonel Robinson of Gwersyllt Uchaf, that 
he bought Gwersyllt Isaf, so that he might live near 
him. George John, son of Sir Geoflfrey Shakerley of 
Gwersyllt, was baptised at Gresford, Sept. 18th, 1682. 

Captain Ellis Sutton was churchwarden in 1662, and 
was buried at Gresford, Dec. 18th, 1694. 

Lewys Sutton, Vicar-General 3 and=j=Anf^harad, d. and heir of William ab 



4 Henry VII, fourth son of Robert 
Sntton ab David. 



John ab Einion ab lolyn of Bore- 
sham or Bwras. 



John Lewys.=f=Margaret, d. of William Alunton of Alunton or Trefalon. 

I 
William Lewy8=f=Dorothy, d. of Thomas Brereton, Eector of Llandrinio and 

Vicar of Gresford, third son of Edward Brereton of Bora- 
sham, and Dorothy, his second wife, d. of Sir Thomas 
Hanmer of Uanmcr, Knt. 



of Wrexham. 



James Lewys of=FCatherine, d. and heir of David ab Richard ab Richara ab 
Gw ersyllt. | Howel ab lolyn. 

fl Hi I 3 

John Lewys, esSacay, d. of Richard Powel of Lon- William Lancelot 
a Lawyer, don (descended from Elystan Glo- Lewys. Lewys. 

1640. drudd), and Elizabeth, his wife, d. 

of David Offley of London. 



188 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



GWERSYLLT UCHAF. 



Thomas ab David Sutton ab Gruffydd 
ab David, 7th Henry VII, 7th 
Henry VIII. 



Malli, d. and heir of leoan Deccaf ab 
David Llwyd. 



>bert 



I 



Bobert Satton of=f=Cath6rine, d. of Lewy8=[=Janet, d. 
Q werayllt | Eobert ab Ed- 
ward ab Howel 



Jane, d. and heir, 

ux. John Nor- 

bory of Frod- 

sham. 



Sut- 
ton. 



of MaJlt, 



nz. David 



of Llwyn On. 
Ermine, a lion 
rampant sable. 



Bobert ab Lloyd ab Bleddyn 
Edward ab ab Jenkyn ab 
Howel of lorwerth ab 
Llwyn On. Owilymo. Their 
son was Thomas 
Lloyd of Treu- 
ddyn. 



John Lewys of Gwer8yllt=T=Emma, d. 

Uchaf. I 



of John Puleston (Tir Hon) of Hafod y 
Wem. 



I 



John Lewys of Gwersyllt, Uchaf. =f= Jane, nx. John Peake of Caernarvon. 



I 
Edward Lewys sold the 

lands of Gwersyllt 

Uchaf to Bishop Bobin- 

son. Ho died s, p. 



John. 
Lewys 



Margaret, 
d. of Wil- 
liam 
Hookes. 



I II. 

Elizabeth, Margaret, s.p, 

ux. ... Elen, s. p. 

Holland, Gwen; s, p. 

s,p. 




MANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON.— ROBINSON OF 

GWERSYLLT UCHAF. 

Cae Gyriog MS. 

Sir William Norris of=T=Anne8tay d. of Maredydd ab Tudor ab Gk>ronwy, and 
Cheshire, Knt. | sister of Owain Tador. 

Ro bin Norris = pJane, d. of Sir Pyers Dutton, Knt, 

Har ri Robins =p Elen, d. of Sir William Stanley of Hooton, Knt. 



MANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON. 



189 






/ 



John RobiiiB.=y=Eleii, d. of William Biytall ab Jenkvn Brytall ab John Bry- 
i tall ab John Biytall ab Ralph Brytall of Worrall. 

Nicholas Robinson, D.C.L., Bishop of Bangor, and=f=Jan6, d. (by Mary, his 



one of the Council for the Court of the Marches 
from 1566 to 1585, when he died. He alienated 
the Skerries and Mynachdy from the See of Ban- 
fi:or in favour of one of his sons. He also bought 
Gwersyllt IJchaf from Edward Lewys ab John 
Lewys ab John Lewys ab Lewys ab Thomas ab 
David Sutton of Gwersyllt. Nicholas Robinson 
died Feb. 15th, 1585. 



wife, d. of Sir William 
Gruffydd of Penrhyn, 
Knt.,' Chamberlain of 
North Wales) of Sir 
Randle Brereton,Ent., 
ab Randle Brereton. 
She married secondly, 
Arthur Price of Fae- 
nor in Cydewain. 



rilui 



William Robinson=j=Jane, dau. of John Humph- Hugh Ro- 



of Gwersyllt Uchaf, 
and of Mynachdy in 

M6n, which laat 
place is on the coast 

opposite to the 

Skerries Light- 
house, High Sheiiff 

for 00. Denbigh, 
1630, and for Angle- 
sey, 1632. 



"L -' 



Pryce of Llanfair in rey. binson, 

Cydewaun or New- Herbert. D.D.,Head 

town Hall, High Pyers. Master of 

Sheriff for co. Mont. Winches- 

in 1586, descended ter School 

fr^m the RoyaJ line and Arch- 

of Elystan Glod- deacon of 

rudd, Prince of Glouces- 

Fferlis. ter. 



I 
Marga- 
ret, ux. 
Edward 
Pryce of 
Faenor, 
ab Arthur 
Pryce. 



I 



John Robinson of Gwersyllt Uchaf and Mynachdy. Born in 1616.=?= Mar- 

Yice-Admiral of North Wales, and a Colonel in the Royal Army ; garet, d. 

appointed to be one of the Knights of the Royal Oak in 1660 ; of Ed- 

M.P. for Beaumaris from 1601 to 1679. He went with Charles II ward 

to the Continent, and in his absence the Parliament confiscated Norris of 

his property, and gave it to a stranger, who built a new house Speke, 

there, and called it Plas Newydd. The property was restored co. Lan- 

to him by the king on his return. He died in 1680, and was caster, 

buried in Gresford Church, where there is a monument erected Esq. 
to his memory. 

■ - ^ 



Wilu 



I 



liam Robinson=j=Jane, only d. and heiress John. Margaret, 



of Gwersyllt Uchaf 
and Mynachdy, 

High Sheriff for co. 

Denbigh, 1690, and 

M.P. for that 

county 1705-7. 



of Timothy Myddleton ui. l.=Sir 

of Pl&s Cadwgan and — Strode, 

Pant locyn, ^venth son of Sir Knt. ; 2. = 

leton of Chirk Charles 

^gent, on a bend Selby, Am- 

's heads erased herst. 



Thomas My( 
Castle. Knt. 
vert, three w( 
argent, '^ 



Jane, 
ux. 
John 
Roy- 
don. 



John Robinson of=f=Elizabeth, eld- William Robin- =f= Eliza- Frances. 



Gwersyllt Uchaf, 
Mynachdy, PUs 
Cadwgan and Pant 
locyn, and jure 
uxoris of Acton. 
Married in 1708. 



est d. and heir- son Lytton. His 

ess of Sir Gruff- maternal cousin, 

ydd Jefi&'eys of Lytton Strode 

Acton, Knt. Lytton, devised 

Ermine, a lion to him the Kneb- 

rampant sable, worth estate. 



beth, d. 

and co-heir 

of Giles 

Heyshon 

of London. 



f^^ 
■^ 




/^^ 



//7_ 



M 



I 



I 



/I 



190 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



William Robinson of Gwer-= 
ayllt Uchaf. Mynaohdy, 
PUs Cadwgan, Pant lo- 
cyn, and Acton. He 
perished in a storm on 
nis return from a sport- 
ing excorsion on the 
Skerries. His tmsteee 
sold Pant looyn and 
Acton to Elis Tonffe of 
Bryn loroyn, and in 
1783 these estates were 
purchased from Mr. 
Yonge's trustees, by Sir 
Foster Conliffe, Bart. 





el d\ 




«l / 


=Elizabeth, 


Dorothy, Anne-p Cawley 


Three 


d. of WU- 


nx. Elis Robin- 


Hum- 


other 


liam 


Yongo of son. 


berston 


daugh- 


Robinson 


Bryn mar- 


Cawley 


ters. 


Lytton of 


lorcyn ried 


of Gwer- 


ob. 


Kneb- 


and in 


syUt. 


M,p, 


worth. 


Acton, 1731. 


High 






ob, 8, p. 


Sheriff 
for CO. 




1 


1 




A child. 


Elizabeth, ob. 


Denbigh 




oh. 


s, p, before 


in 1730. 




if\fan8. 


1762. 







John Humberston Cawley 
of Gwersyllt. 



I 
John Robin- 
son Lytton 
of Eneb- 

worth. 



..., 



d.of 

Brereton of 
Borasham. 



L 



Elizabeth, ux., 1st, Barbara, ux .William War- 
William Robinson burton of Yarrow, in the 
of Gwersyllt Queen's County in Ire- 
IJchaf ; 9nd, Law- land, and ancestor of 
rence Williams. Lord Lytton. 



INSCRIPTION ON THE Monument erected in Geesfoed 
Chuech, to THE Memory op John Robinson 

OP GWEESYLLT, EsQ. 

H. S. J. 

loHANNis Robinson. 
Qui 
Tribnnas Caroli Mabtyeis^ fortunas ejus (hoc est 
Ecclesiam Monarchiamque) sustenebat strenue. . 

Rege cadente 

Caeolum exnlem non deseruit exnl^ 

Cum reduce redox. 

Apud GwEESYLLT, 

Ubi omnia sua a rebelli manu direpta reliquerat, 

iSidificijs ab eadem eleganter constructis gavisus est. 

Ab uxore Maeoaeita, filia Edwaedi Noeeis 

De Speak in Com. Pal. Lancast. Arm. 

Guliblmum^ Johannem, Maboaeitam, et Janam» 

Suscepit prolem. 

Corpus e meliori licet luto compositum^ 

Vulneribus tamen pronis 

Fractum pariter ac honestum, 

Animam ad Coelum aspirantem 

Ultra Annum astat. 65 retinere non valens 

Martij IS"" reddidit, ^red Christianas mdclxxx. 



MANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON. 191 



EPITAPH OF JOHN ROBINSON IN GRESFORD 

CHURCH. 

Gwyn eu Byd y Tangneffydd-wyn. 

vos intrantes respicite 

Ut hie in pace quiescit 

Inter vicinos semper Pacis arbiter 

loHANNES Robinson de Gwebstllt, 

Armigeri. 

Vir qaidem Egregius 

Et amicis omnibus utilis. 

Elizabetam 

Getfp*! Jeffreys de Acton, Militis 

Filiam natu maximam 

Duxit uxorem 

Reliquit viduara^ 

Ex nxore meritissima Filium habuit unicnm^ 

Filias quinque 

Obiit 2da die Novr. 1732. 

^tat. ann. 45. 



EPITAPH OF WILLIAM ROBINSON IN GRESFORD 

CHURCH. 

In memory 

of Anne, sole daughter and heir of 

Timothy Myddleton of Pantiocyn, 

Esq., who was married to 

William Robinson of 

Gwersyllt^ Esq.^ and had issue 

John^ William, and Frances. 

She died Aug. 23, 1693. 

And in memory also of the 

said William Robinson^ Esq., 

who dyed Nov. 15, 

1717, aged 49. 



HKTOBY OF POWYS FADOO. 




MANOR OF MOETTN {OR BURTON), TOWNSHIP OF 

TREFALUN. 

Earl. MSS., 1969-2299; Oae Oynog M8. 

Eunydd, Lord of Dyffryn Clwyd, was the son of 
Morien ab Morgeneu ab Gwrystan ab Gwaethfoed of 
Powys, according to some authors ; but, according to 
others, he was the son of Gwergynwy ab Gwrgeaeu, 
Chief of one of the Noble Tribes, ab Gwaeddgar ab 
Bywyn ab Biordderch ab Gwriawn ab Gwndan ab 
Gwylan ab Gwynfyw Frych ab Cadell Deyrnllwg II, 
King of Powys. The mother of Eunydd was Gwenllian, 
daughter and heiress of Ehys ab Marchan,^ who was 
lord of seven townships in Dyffryn Clwyd, viz., Tref 
Pen y Coed, Y Fynechtid, Y Groes Lwyd, Pant Meugan, 
and three others ; and bore azure, a fess or, inter three 
horse's heads erased argent. 

Eunydd, Lord of Dyffryn Clwyd, came into Powys- 
land in the time of Bleddyn ab Cynfyn, Prince of Powys, 
and fought with him against the English. For his ser- 
vices, the Prince gave him the townships of Trefalun, 
Almor, Y Groesffonld in Maelor Gymraeg ; and Lleprog 
Fawr, Lleprog Fechan (Leadbrook), and Trefnant y 
Rhiw in Tegeingl. He married Eva, daughter and 
heiress of Lly welyn ab DolfFyn ab Llywelyn Eurdorchog. 
This Llywelyn ab Dolffyn was lord of seven townships, 

' Marchan was the son of Cynwrig ab C;ddel« Gam ab Elgad ab 
Lies Ddeavr ab Ednyfiad ab Gwynan. 



TREFALUN. 193 

viz., 1, Aelhaiarn ; 2, Llygadog ; 3, Ucheldref ; 4, Garth- 
aiam ; 5, Llandderfel in Penllyn ; 6, Caer Gilor ; and, 
7, Y Saeth Marchog. By this lady Eunydd had issue 
two sons, 1, Ithel, and 2, Heilin, and a daughter named 
Heunydd, the consort of Maredydd ab Bleddyn, Prince 
of Powys. He bore azure, a lion salient or. 

Ithel ab Eunydd was Lord of Trefalun or Alunton, Y 
Groesflfordd, Lleprog Fawr, Lleprog Fechan, and Tref- 
nant y Rhiw. He married Eva, or, according to others, 
Gwaladys, daughter and co-heiress of Gruffydd, third son 
of Meilir Eyton ab Elidir, Lord of Trefwy or Eyton, who 
bore ei'mine, a lion rampant azure. The mother of Eva 
was Angharad, the daughter and heiress of Llywelyn ab 
Meurig ab Caradog ab Jestyn ab Gwrgant, Prince of 
Glamorgan, who bore ffules, three chevronells argent. 
By this lady, Ithel had issue, besides a daughter named 
Angharad, six sons; 1, Einion ; 2, Trahaiarn; 3, lor- 
werth Sais ; 4, Rhirid Sais ; 5, Howel ; and, 6, Einion 
Goch. 

These six sons gave land to build the church of Y 
GroesflFordd, and Trahaiarn had the greatest share of 
land, as is well known by all that country, by old writings, 
says Lewys Dwnn. The sepulchres of the descendants 
of Ithel ab Eunydd are in the church of Y Groesflfordd ; 
and the sepulchres of the descendants of Heilin ab 
Eunydd, Lord of Dyflfryn Clwyd, are in the church of 
Llandderfel in Penllyn. 

Einion ab Ithel, the eldest son, married Elen, daughter 
of Rhys Fychan ab Rhys ab David ab Meilir, by whom 
he had issue, besides Heilin, the ancestor of Sir William 
Maredydd of Stansti, Bart., which title is now extinct, 
and the Maredydds of Peutref Bychan, an elder son and 
heir, 

lorwerth ab Einion. He married twice ; by his first 
wife he had two sons, lorwerth, and lorwerth Chwith, 
and a daughter named ArddAn. By his second wife he 
had issue seven sons ; 1, leuaf ; 2, Hwfa ; 3, Howel ; 4, 
David ; 5, Philip ; 6, Ednov/ain ; and 7, Cynwrig. 

leuaf ab lorwerth married, and had issue, besides two 
vou in. 13 



194 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOO. 

daughters, Efa and ArddAn, three sons, 1, leuaf Grach ; 

2, GnifFydd ; and 3, lorwerth. GnifFydd ab leuaf mar- 
ried, and had issue, besides a daughter named Annest, 
two sons, 1 , Madog ; and 2, Cynwrig. 

Madog ab Gruffydd married Alice, daughter of Ma- 
redydd of Yr H6b, and had issue, besides a daughter 
named Gwenllian, live sons, 1, Y Batto; 2, Maredydd; 

3, David ; 4, Hugh ; and 5, Gruflfydd. 

Y Batto ap Madog married Mallt, daughter of Ithel ab 
David ab Cynwrig ab Rotpert ab lorwerth ab Rhirid ab 
Madog ab Ednowain Bendew, and had issue two daugh- 
ters, co-heiresses, one of whom, named Janet, married 
John Almor of Almor or Aylmor, one of the Marshalls 
of the Hall to Henry VII. The other, named Lleuci, 
married leuan ab Einion ab lolyn ab lorwerth of Bwras 
or Borasham, younger son of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd ab 
Cadwgan, Lord of Eyton, Erlysh, and Bwras, by whom 
she had two daughters, co-heirs — 

I. Margaret, ux. Howel ab Jenkyn ab leuan Llwyd, 
and 

II. Angharad, co-heiress of Trefalun, ux. Jenkyn ab 
David ab Gruffydd of Trefalun ab David ab Llywelyn 
ab David H6n ab Goronwy of Mortyn (Burton) and 
Llai, by whom she had an only daughter and heiress 
named Mallt, who married Richard Trevor, fourth son of 
John Trevor ab lorwerth or Edward ab David, third son 
of Ednyfed Gam of Llys Pengwern in Nantheudwy. 
By this alliance, the Trevors became possessed of Trefa- 
lun, which is still in the possession of their descendants. 



TREFALUN. 




Eengwrt MS. 110. 



OotonnT sb loiwerth ftb Howet Ab More- 
iddig ab Sanddef Hsjdd, or the Hand- 
gome, Lord of UortjTi and LIsi. F«rl, 
Mm<^ of broomalipH a lioo rampant or. 



David ab ^=Oweiillian, d. of David Oocb ab Heilin Fjchan, descended from 
Ujmdjni. I Hwfa ab Ithel Feljm. Lewys Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 318, statea 
that OwenlUan vas the daughter of Hadog Goch ab Beilin 
I Fychon. 



inter three boai'a heads conped tabU. 



JenkjB ab David of=FAiigharad, d. and co-heirees of lenan ab Kiolon ab 
Trafalun. lolvn ab lorwerth of Bwrae, ab LljwelTn ab Ornff- 

' b Cadwgan. Lord of Eyton Erlya and Bwraa. 



Hallt, heirees of 

Trefelan, ni. 
Biohaid iSreror. 



..'. 



. I. 



„l 



William=f..., d. of Howe) ab Qrbff- . 

ab David | David ab Oniff^dd vdd of Bobert Snt- 

of Tref- I Fvchan of Pita jn lianeet- ton ab 
alan. HonllL SabU, 
I three rosea argent. 



David of 
Sutton and 
Ovenjllt. 



Catbenne, heireaa of ^refiilDn, nz. John Langford of Bhnddiii. 



HI5TOET fjT P0VT3 TADOG. 




TREFALL'N. 

C<M C^og MS.; Harl. MS. 41S1. 

lorwcrth Foel, Lord of Chirk. Maelor Saesneg. and 
Nanheudwy, married, as previonslj- stated (voL i, p. 
313). Gwladys, daughter and co-heiress of lorwerth ab 
Gruffydd ab Heilin of Fron Goch in Mochnant. This lady 
was buried in Hanmer Church, where her tomb yet re- 
mains, with thiainacription round the lid of the stone cofliD, 

"HIC lACET WLADYS VXOR lEKWERTH VOYL. ORATE P. KA." 

In the space within the inscription is a verj' fine foliated 
cross, almost identical with that described by Camden, 
i, 12, as Iwing at St. Burian's in Cornwall. By this 
lady, lorwerth Foel had issue five sons, of whom the 
fourth was Ednyfed Gam, who had Llys Pengwem in 
Nanheudwy for his share of his father's territories. 

David, the third son of Ednyfed Gam, married twice ; 
his first wife was Gwenllian, daughter and co-heiress of 
Adda Goch of Trevor, ab leuaf ab Adda ab Awr of 
Trevor. This Adda Goch bore the arms of Tudor Trevor 
in a border polwnatcd argent and yules, pellat^e coun- 
tercbangcd. By this lady David had a son named lor- 
werth, of whom presently. David married secondly, 
Morfydd, relict of Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle in 
Herefordshire, Knt, and third daughter of Gruffydd 
Fyclian, Lord of Cynllaith Owain, and Baron of Glyn- 
dyfrdwy, by whom he had a daughter Margaret, who 
married first, Robert. Llwyd ab Gruffydd ab Goronwy ; 



TREFALUN. 197 

and secondly, Howel ab Llywelyn of Llwyn On in the 
manor of Tref Abynt or Abyntbury. See vol. ii, p. 120. 

lorwerth ab David, who, at his death, was buried in 
Valle Crucis Abbey, married Angharad, daughter of 
Robert Puleston of Emeral or Ember Hall in Maelor 
Saesneg, and Lowri, sister of Owain Glyndwr, and 
daughter of the above-named GruflFydd Fychan, Baron 
of Glyndyfrdwy, by whom he had issue five sons, and a 
daughter named Rose, who married Ottwel Worsley, 
Esq., by whom she had issue four daughters, 

1 ux Whetnall, by whom she had issue a 

son. Sir Richard Whetnall, and a daughter, who married 
Sir Edward Powys. 

2 ux. Sir James Gainford, Knt., by whom she 

had issue two sons, James and Nicholas, and two 
daughters, of whom one married Sir William Courtney, 
Knt., and another married Sir William Fiennes, Knt. 

3 ux. Lord .... Howard, brother of the Duke 

of Norfolk, by whom she had two sons ; she married, 
secondly, Sir John Ali, Knt. 

4 ux Lee, by whom she had issue Ed- 
ward Lee, Archbishop of York, and two other sons. 

The five sons of lorwerth ab David were, 1. Robert 
Trevor ; 2, John Trevor ; 3, Richard Trevor, ancestor of 
the Trevors of Croes Oswald ; 4, Otwel Trevor, who 
married Catherine, eldest daughter of Howel of Glasgoed 
ab Maurice Gethin of Garth Eryr in Mochnant ; and 5, 
Edward Trevor, who married the Lady Tiptoft, Countess 
of Worcester. 

Robert Trevor, the eldest son of lorwerth ab David, 
was Steward of Denbigh, Sheriff" of Flintshire, Justice 
and Chamberlain of North Wales. He married .... 
daughter of Gwilym ab Gruffydd, by whom he had no 
issue, but left at his death, which occurred in 1492, a 
natural son. Sir William Trevor, Chaplain to John ab 
Richard, Abbot of Llanegwystl, predecessor to David ab 
John ab lorwerth ab leuan Baladr. Sir William Trevor 
had a natural son, John Trevor, who married and had 
issue a son, John Trevor, the father of Randal Trevor of 
Chester. 



198 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

John Trevor H6n, the second son of lorwerth ab 
David, married Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Pyers 
Cambrey ab Perkin Camber of Trallwng, ab Sir Roger 
Camber, Knt. The mother of Agnes was the daughter 
and heir to Cumus and heiress to Llys Main in Llan- 
eurgain. This Pyers Cambrey had two other daughters, 
one married to Mr. Blunt, and was mother to Sir Edward 
and Richard Blunt, Knts., and Peter and Thomas Blunt. 
She married, secondly, Mr. Welsh. The third daughter 
married Mr. Hopton, and had issue Edward Henry and 
several others. Agnes, the wife of John Trevor, died in 
1484, and he died in 1493, leaving issue, besides two 
daughters, Elen, ux. John Llwyd ab John ab Deicws 
Vongam of Coed Abynt, or Llwyn y Cnotiau, and Cath- 
erine, ux. Howel ab Rhys ab Maredydd of Hiraethog, 
four sons, 

I. Robert Trevor, who married Catherine, daughter 
and heiress of Llywelyn ab Ithel of Plds Tdg and Y 
WyddgrAg. He died in September 1487, before his 
father, and was buried in Llanegwystl, or Valle Crucis 
Abbey. His widow married, secondly, Rhys ab Howel 
of Ystymllyn. See Yr H6b. 

II. Edward Trevor, Constable of Whittington Castle, 
who died in 1537, and ancestor of the Trevors of Bryn 
Cunallt and Treflech. 

III. Roger Trevor of Pentref Cynwrig, ancestor of the 
Trevors of Pentref Cynwrig, Bodyn Foel, and Traws- 
goed. 

IV. Richard Trevor of Trefalun. He married Mallt, 
daughter and sole heiress of Jenkyn ab David ab Gruf- 
fydd of Trefalun, ab David ab Llywelyn, fourth son of 
David H6n ab Goronwy of Burton (Mortyn) and Llai 
{v€7% sem6 of broomslips, a lion rampant or). See p. 1 95. 

Richard Trevor of Trefalun died in 1534, leaving issue 
by his wife Mallt, besides a daughter, Annesta, who 
married first, Howel ab Rhys ab Howel of Cynllaith, 
and secondly, Rhys ab leuan of Trewen in 141, a son and 
heir, 

John Trevor of Trefalun, who married Margaret, 
daughter aijd heir of David ab Rhys ab Cynwrig of 



TREFALUN. 199 

Cwm, by whom he had issue three sons, 1, John ; 2, 
Richard ; and 3, Edward ; and two daughters, Jane, ux. 
Edward ab John ab Nicholas of Llanfair, and Margaret. 

John Trevor of Trefalun, the eldest son, married 
Anne, daughter of Randle Broughton of Broughton, in 
the manor of Y Gwrthymp in Maelor Saesneg {ermine, 
a lion statant gardant gules), by whom he had issue four 
sons, 1, John ; 2, Randolph Trevor, who married Elen, 
daughter of William Royden, and widow of Roger 
Wynn ; 3, David Trevor ; and 4, Edward Trevor ; and 
three daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. Roger Jones of Llwyn 
On, in Trefabynt or Abyntbury {ermine , a lion rampant 
sable) ; 2, Catherine, ux. David Alunton of Alunton 
(Trefalun) {azui^e, a lion salient or) ; and 3, Dorothy, 
who married, first, Lewys ab William ab Llywelyn of 
Mortyn or Burton, ab Madog Fychan ab Madog ab 
Deicws ab Madog ab David Goch ab David H^n ab 
Groronwy of Mortyn (Burton) and Llai, and, secondly, 
John Wynn ab William of Mortyn (Burton). 

John Trevor of Trefalun, the eldest son, married Mary, 
daughter and heiress of Sir George Bruges of London, 
Knt., of the family of Bruges of Gloucestershire and 
Worcestershire. He built the present house of Trefalun, 
and died July 15tb, 1689, and was buried at St. Bride's, 
Fleet Street, London. By his wife Mary he had issue, 
besides two daughters, 1, GwenhwyfFryd, ux. Edward 
Puleston of Trefadun, and 2, Ermine, ux. Robert Lloyd 
ab Ekiward of Hersedd in Ystrad Alun, five sons, 

I. Sir Richard Trevor of Trefalun, Knt., Governor of 
Newry and the counties of Down and Armagh, and 
Vice- Admiral of North Wales, and High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1610. In the year 1638, when he was 
eighty years old, he erected his own monument in Gres- 
ford Church, representing himself in armour, kneeling ; 
and his wife Catherine by him. The inscription informs 
us that it was chiefly in memory of his lady that he 
caused this memorial to be erected. There is, however, 
another monument to his lady, who is placed kneeling 
with her five daughter. At Trefalun is a singular por- 
trait of Sir Richard dressed in black. Above, hang his 



200 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

arms, with the words ^' So then'; beneath are some me- 
dicines, and ''Now thus''; allusive to his former and 
present state.^ He lived, as he tells us, to see his 
children's children's children. He married Catherine, 
daughter of Roger Puleston of Emral, Esq. {sable, three 
mullets argent), by whom he had issue five daughters, 
co-heirs, 1, Magdalene, who married, first, Arthur, son 
and heir of Sir Henry Bagnall, High Marshall of Ireland, 
and secondly, Sir Arthur Tyrringham of Tyrringham, 
Knight of the Bath ; 2, Mar}^ ux. Evan, son and heir of 
Sir John Lloyd of Bodidris in 141, Knight-Banneret ; 
3, Anne, ob. infans ; 4, Dorothy, ux. Sir John Hanmer 
of Hanmer, Bart. ; and 5, Margaret, ux. John Griffith of 
Lleyn. She died in 1625. 

IT. Sir John Trevor, knighted at Windsor in 1618, 
Surveyor of the Navy and Comptroller of the House- 
hold. He bought Plds TSg from David Trevor of that 
place, and built the present house there, which he made 
his residence. He died in 1629, and was buried at 
Llanestyn in Yr Hob, where there is a monument erected 
to his memory ; of whom presently. 

III. Randle Trevor of Cornwall. 

IV. Sir Sackville Trevor. He had the command of 
one of the men-of-war, sent over to Spain in 1623, to 
bring back the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles L 
He subsequently distinguished himself greatly in the 
war with France in 1626. He married, first, Eleanor, 
daughter of Sir John Savage of Rocksavage in Cheshire, 
Knt, and widow of Sir Henry Bagnall, Knight-Marshall 
of Ireland, and secondly, Elizabeth, fourth daughter of 
Cynwrig Eyton of Eyton, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife, 
daughter of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory, in the 
county palatine of Chester, Knt. 

V. Sir Thomas Trevor, born 1586, knighted in 1620, 
Solicitor-General to Prince Charles, and Baron of the 
Exchequer. He married^ a daughter of William Her- 

^ Pennant's Tottr in Wales, vol. i, p. 410. 

* According to a note in Leioys Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 354, he married 
Pnidence, daughter of Henry Botclcr, Esq. In 1641, he was, with 
others iojpeachcd, but from which he was honourably acquitted. 



TREFALUN. 201 

bert, Esq., by whom he had a son and heir, Sir Thomas 
Trevor, who was created a Baronet in 1641, and a 
Knight of the Bath. As he died without male issue, 
the Baronetcy became extinct. 

Sir John Trevor of PI^ T6g, Knt., the second son of 
John Trevor of Trefalun, Esq., married Margaret, 
daughter of Hugh Trevanion of Carihays in Cornwall, 
Esq., by whom he had issue four sons, 1, Sir John 
Trevor ; 2, Richard Trevor ; 3, Charles ; and 4, William ; 
and two daughters, 1, Anne, ux. Sir Charles Williams of 
Llangybi Castle in Monmouthshire, Bart. ; and 2, Jane, 
ux. Sir Edward Fitton of Goswerth in Gloucestershire, 
Bart. 

Sir John Trevor of Plas T6g, Knt., succeeded to the 
Trefalun estate on the death of his uncle Sir Richard in 
1638. He married Anne, daughter of Edmund Hamp- 
den, by whom he had issue three sons — 1, Sir John ; 2, 
Richard Trevor of Merton College, Oxford, Doctor of 
Physic of the University of Padua, who died in 1676, 
and was buried in St. Dunstan s in the West, in London ; 
and 3, Ralph Trevor, a Hamburgh merchant, oh. s. p. 
He married and had issue one son, Ralph Trevor, and a 
daughter Elizabeth, who married, first, Hezekiah Burton, 
S.T.P., Rector of Barnes and Prebendary of Norwich, 
and, secondly, she married Edward Fowler, S.T.P., 
Bishop of Gloucester. Sir John Trevor had also five 
daughters, 1, Elizabeth, ux. William, son and heir of Sir 
William Masham of Gates in Essex, Bart. ; 2, Susanna, 
ux. John Morley of Glynde in Sussex. Their son, Sir 
John Morley, married Elizabeth Clark, and left Glynde 
to his cousin, John Trevor; 3, Margaret, ux. Colonel 
John Fielder of Burrough Court in Hampshire ; 4, Anna, 
who married, first, Colonel Robert Wilding, and secondly, 
Thomas Lane of Hackney. The daughter of Anna Trevor 
and Colonel Wilding married, first. Sir Robert Barnard, 
and secondly, Thomas, Lord Trevor ; and 5, Jane, who 
married, first, .... Elwes of Lilford, co. Northampton, 
Esq., and secondly, the Hon. Sir Francis Compton, son 
of the Earl of Northampton. 



202 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Sir John Trevor, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of 
France. He was knighted by Charles II, and consti- 
tuted one of his principal Secretaries of State ; on his 
return from an embassy in France in 1668, he was made 
a Privy Councillor ; which high offices he fulfilled until 
his decease in 1672, at the age of forty-seven. His 
father survived him rather more than twelve months. 
He married Ruth, daughter and heir of Edward Hamp- 
den of Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire, and co-heir 
of her uncle, Sir Alexander Hampden of Hartwell in 
Buckinghamshire, Knt, by whom he had issue five sons 
and three daughters. 

I. John Trevor of Trefalun and P14s Tdg. 

II. Sir Thomas Trevor. He attained such high re- 
putation at the bar, that he was, in 1692, made Solicitor- 
General, and received the honour of Knighthood ; in 
three years afterwards he became Attorney-General, 
and, on the accession of Queen Anne, was made Lord 
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. On December 
31st, 1711, he was created Baron Trevor of Bromham ; 
in 1725, he was made Lord Privy Seal, and, in 1727, 
Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain. In 1730, he was 
made President of the Privy Council, only six weeks 
before his death. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter 
of John Searle of Finchley, by whom he had issue two 
sons and three daughters — 1, Thomas, second Lord 
Trevor, who, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Timothy 
Burrell of Cuckfield in Sussex, had a daughter Elizabeth, 
who married Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough ; 
2, John, third Lord Trevor, one of his Majesty's Judges 
for Wales. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 
Richard Steele of Caermarthen, by whom he had an 
only daughter, Diana Trevor. The three daughters of 
Sir Thomas were, 1, Anne Trevor of Southgate in Mid- 
dlesex ; 2, Letitia, ux. Kobert Cock of Camberwell, 
Surrey, Esq. ; and 3, Elizabeth. 

Sir Thomas Trevor married, secondly, Anne, daughter 
of Colonel Robert Wilding, and relict of Sir Robert 
Barnard of Brampton, Bart., by whom he had three 
other sons ; 3, Robert, of whom presently ; 4, Edward ; 



TREFALUN. 203 

and 5, Richard Trevor of Glynde, Bishop of St. David's 
and of Durham. 

Robert, the third son, succeeded as fourth Lord Trevor. 
He was Envoy Extraordinary Plenipotentiary to the 
States General, and Commissioner of the Revenue in 
Ireland. In 1775, he was created Lord Viscount Hamp- 
den. He married Constantia, daughter of the Baron 
de Huybert, Lord of Kruyningen, in Zealand, by 
whom he had issue, besides a daughter, Maria-Con- 
stantia, who married the Earl of Suffolk, two sons — 1, 
Thomas Trevor, second Lord Viscount Hampden, and 
fifth Lord Trevor, who died in 1824, s.p.; and 2, John 
Trevor, third Lord Viscount Hampden, and sixth Lord 
Trevor, who died in 1 824, s. p., when all his honours 
became extinct. 

III. Hampden Trevor. 

IV. Edward Trevor. 

V. Richard Trevor, who by Mary his wife, daughter 

of Hornby of Chertsey, had issue one son, 

Richard Trevor, and a daughter, Mary Trevor. 

The three daughters of Sir John Trevor and Ruth his 
wife, were, 1, Mary, Maid of Honour to Queen Kath- 
erine ; 2, Anne, ux. John Spencer of Maulin, in Sussex ; 
and 3, Elizabeth, ux. John Borrett of Shoreham, Protho- 
notary. 

John Trevor of Trefalun and Plas T6g, the eldest son 
of Sir John, married Elizabeth, daughter of ... . Clarke, 
and relict of John Morley of Glynde, in Sussex, and who 
married, thirdly, Sir ... . Cutts, by whom he had issue 
two sons, 1, John Morley Trevor, of whom presently ; 
and 2, Thomas Trevor of East Barnet, Barrister-at- 
Law ; and two daughters, 1, Elizabeth, ux David Pot- 
hill of Chepstead, in Kent ; and 2, Arabella, who married, 
first, Robert Heath of Lewes, in Sussex, and secondly, 
Brigadier-General Montague, brother of George, first 
Earl of Halifax. 

John Morley Trevor of Trefalun, Pl^ T^g, and Glynde, 
who died in 1719, married Elizabeth, daughter of Ed- 
mund Montague of Horton, in Northamptonshire, by 
whom he had, besides seven daughters, a son and heir. 



204 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

John Trevor of Trefalun, Plds Teg, and Glynde, Com- 
missioner of the Admiralty. He married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Frankland of Thirtleby, in 
Yorkshire, and died in 1743 5. p., and devised his es- 
tates in North Wales to five of his six surviving sisters. 

Of the seven daughters of John Morley Trevor, Ruth, 
Arabella, Mary, and Margaret, died unmarried ; the 
three others were, 

Lucy Trevor, who married Edward Rice of Newton 
and-Dynevor Castle, by whom she had a son, the Right 
Hon. George Rice, who married, in 1756, Cecil, Baroness 
Dynevor, daughter of William Talbot, first Earl Talbot, 
created, in 1780, Baron Dynevor of Dynevor Castle, 
with remainder, failing his issue male, to his daughter. 
Lady Cecil, who succeeded her father, at his death in 
1 782, as Baroness Dynevor. By this lady, George Rice 
had a son and heir, George Talbot, Lord Dynevor, an- 
cestor of George Rice Rice Trevor, fourth Baron Dyne- 
vor, who assumed the additional surname of Trevor, as 
inheritor of the estates of the Trevors of Glynde. 

Anne Trevor, of whom presently. She married the 
Hon. Colonel George Boscawen, third son of the Lord 
Viscount Falmouth. 

Gertrude Trevor, who married the Hon. Charles 
Roper, third son of Lord Teynham, and the Baroness 
Dacre, his second wife, by whom she had issue two 
sons, 1, Charles Trevor Roper, Lord Dacre, who died 
s.p, in 1794 ; and Henry Roper, who died s.p. in 1787 ; 
and one daughter, Gertrude, who succeeded to her bro- 
ther as Baroness Dacre, and married Thomas Brand 
Holies of The Hoo, by whom she had issue Thomas 
(Lord Dacre) and Major-General the Hon. Henry Otway 
Trevor, who assumed the arms and name of Trevor, ac- 
cording to the will of the late Viscount Hampden. 

Charles, Lord Dacre, married Mary, daughter and 
heiress of Sir ... . Fludyer, Knt., and executed a 
will in favour of his widow, who eventually, partly 
under her husband's will, and partly by purchase from 
her sister-in-law, Gertrude, became the owner of a moiety 
of the estates so devised by John Trevor to his five sisters. 



TREFALUN. 205 

A partition of these estates was effected between Lady 
Dacre and George Boscawen of Trefalun, Esq., M.P. for 
Truro, son and heir of the above-named Anne Trevor, 
and the Hon. Colonel Boscawen, about the year 1790 ; 
and PlAs T6g fell to the lot of the Dowager Lady Dacre. 

Anne Trevor, co-heiress of Trefalun, married, as before 
stated, the Hon. Colonel George Boscawen, by whom 
she had issue, besides two daughters, Anne Boscawen, 
Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, and Charlotte 
Boscawen, both of whom died unmarried, two sons, 

T. George Boscawen of Trefalun, M.P. for Truro. He 
married Annabella, daughter of Sir William Bunbury, 
Bart, and died s. p. 

II. William Boscawen, Barrister-at-Law. He mar- 
ried Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. James Ibbetson, 
D.D., Archdeacon of St. Alban's, by whom he had four 
daughters, co-heiresses. 

I. Grace Trevor Charlotte Boscawen, who married 
William Fleming, Esq., and died s,p. 1781. 

IT. Anne Arabella Boscawen, who married the Rev. 
Christopher Parkins, by whom she had a son and heir, 
Wm. Trevor Parkins, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, who, by his 
wife, Margaret Annabella Jane, daughter of the Rev. 
William Lloyd of Blaen y Glyn in Merioneth, Rector of 
Llanfaethlu in M6n, and descended from Cadwgan of 
Nannau, Prince of Powys, has issue a son and heir, Wil- 
liam Trevor Parkins, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, 
and two daughters — 1, Arabella Margaret Trevor Par- 
kins ; and 2, Mary Estelle Trevor Parkins. The first 
bom son, William Trevor Parkins, died an infant. 

III. Catherine Emily Boscawen, married, first, Henry 
Rowlands, Esq., and secondly, the Rev. Fletcher Flem- 
ing of Bayrigg, Westmoreland. 

rv. Elizabeth Mary Boscawen, married T. Griffith, 
Esq., by whom she had a son and heir, Boscaw^en Trevor 
Griffith, Esq., who, by his wife, Helen Sophia, daughter 
of Vice-Admiral Norwich Duff, has issue two sons — 1, 
Boscawen Trevor Griffith, and 2, Arthur Sackville 
Trevor Griffith, and two daughters — 1, Helen Evelyn 
Trevor Griffith, and 2, Alice Catherine Trevor Griffith. 



206 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



SPECIAL COMMISSIONS. DENBIGH, Na 3402. 

Writ of Rebellion against Johh Tbeyob. 

29 Eliz. (1587). 

Elizabeth dei gra' etc. Dil'tis nobis Roberto Brock, Rob' to 
Whitby, Ric'o Woodfyne et Joh'i Okyle gen'o's sal't'in. Qaia 
Job's Trevor de Trevallin in com' Denbigh armiger cui p* 
publicas p'clamac'o'es p' vie' Denbigh et fflint in din's locis 
eor'd'm com* virtute se'paliu' bmi' eisd'm vie' direct ex p'te' 
n'ra p'ceptu' fait' q*d id'm Joh'es Trevor sab pena ligeantie sne 
coram Baron de Sce'io n'ro apnd Westm' ad certa' diem iam 
p'terit' p'sonaliter comp'eret, mandate tamen n'ro in ea p'te 
parere manifesto contempsit. Ideo vobis conianctim vel diai> 
sim mandam'y q'd prefae' Joh'em Trevor vbica'q* invent' fait 
infra Regna' Aiiglie tanq'm Rebellem et legis n're contempt' 
Attachiat' vel attachiari faciatis vel vnas v^r'm attach' vel 
attachiari faciat. Ita q'd ea' heab' vel h'er ifaciat' vel vnas 
v'r'm heab' vel h'eri faciat coram Baron de Sce'io n'ro apad 
Westm' a die pasche p'x' faturo in xv dies. Ad respondend' 
sap' hiis qae sibi obiicient' tanc ib'm, ac ad faciend' vlterias et 
recipiend' qaod Caria n'ra consideraait in hac p'te. Dam' 
enim vnia' sis et singalis vie maiorib' batt'. Constabalar' et 
al' oflSciar' ministris et ligeis n'ris quibasca'q' t'm infra lib'tat' 
q'm extra tenore pii'ca' firmit in mandat' q'd vob' et cail't 
v'r'm in execuc'o'e p'missor' intenden' sint et assisten' in om'ib' 
diligent' p'ut decet. In caias rei testimonia' has I'ras n'ras 
fieri fecim' paten' T. Rogero Man wood milit' apad Westm' sep- 
timo die febraarii anno r' r' 29° p' Rotliu' memorand' de 
eod'm Anno Regine hai' hillar' Commissiona' et I'rar' paten' 
Rot'lo'. Et p' qaandam ordinac'o'em in Sce'io remanem' et in 
cnstod' Remem'atoris Regine ib'm existen'. 

Ffanshaw'. 

Responc' Rob'ti Brocke et Rob'ti Whitby daor' Com'is- 
sionar^ infra no'i'ator'. 

Yirtate istius Com'issionis nobis et aliis direct' diligent' 
scrntati samas infra no'i'at' Joh'em Trevor t'm' apad mansional' 
saam domu' in Trevallyn in com' Denbigh, q'm in dia's's aliis 
locis in p'd' com' Denbigh et in com' Plynte infra content'. 
Sed ip'm p'd'c'm Joh'em Trevor noqae viaias invenire p' q'd 
ip'm Joh'em attachiar' nnllo mode potaimas s'c'd'm tenorem 
Com'issionis p'd' p'at interias nobis r'cipit'. 

Rob't Brooke, 
Rob't Whitbt. 

Libat' in Car' 8* die Maii anno 19° Regine Elizabeth p' man' 
infrano'i'at Rob'ti Whitby vnu' Com'issionar'. 



LANGFORD OF TREFALUN AND RHUDDIN. 



207 



INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF JOHN 
TREVOR OP TREPALUN IN GRESPORD CHURCH. 

Sion Trevor Trevalyn Ysgwier, y 19 o dad i dad o Tvdvr 
Trevor, a fy farw yn Lhvndain ymia Mehevin 1589, ei esgym 
ef ei vab ai aer S*r Richard Trevor a barodd ei mvdo ir Pedd- 
rod honn i orphwys gidai henafiaid, fal wrth ymado a'r byd i 
dvmvnodd. Blynyddoedd ei ieincktid a dros-fwriodd ef yn 
rhyveloedd Prainck dann Prenhin Henry 8. Ei ganol-fyd a 
gyfoesodd ef yn Uywodraeth a gwassanaeth ei anedigaeth- 
wlad. Ef a briododd Mary merch George Bridges, Yscwier ; 
ac a fy iddo o honi bvmp o veibion a dwy o verched. Sef 1. 
S'r Richard Trevor Marchog. Depvty-LiPenant y Sir honn, yr 
hwn a briododd Katrin merch Roesier Pvleston o Emral 
Yscwier, fab S^r Edward Pvleston, Marchog. 2. Sion Trevor 
Yscwier, Golygwr ar Lynges ardderchawg y Vrenhines, yr 
hwn a briododd Marged merch Hyw Trevanion, Carihays 
Ynghemyw Yscwier, vab S'r Hyw Trevanian, Marchoc. 3. 
Rondl Trevor, a fy farw yn cyfagos arol ei dad. 4. Sackvil 
Trevor, Capten yn awryw o Longav 'r vrenhines. 5. Thomas 
Trevor, Myfyriwr y Cyfraith. 6. Winiffred, a briodes Ed- 
ward Pvleston o AFynton Yscwier T. ac Ermin a briodes 
Robert Lloid o Hersedd Yscwier. 




LANGPORD OP TREPALUN AND RHUDDIN. 
Earl MS, 1971 ; Lewys Dwnn, vol. i, p. 325. 

Henry (or Bobert) Laogford, co. Leicester. Gules, a shoveler argent,=f=^ 

membered or. | 



20S 



HISTOET OF POWYS FADOG. 




f « 
John Lsagford of I^eioHt^nhire, Constable of 

Ca«tl«, luid Stevard c*f Dt«?71i Owrd, 4 aad ? H^a^x 
IV (1V>3, 1412/. As appesn mlso br a re&ic-i as 
Kbwidiii* 7 Henry VI, a deed, crraaUdto Darid I^mI- 
wall, of certain lands in Ma^e-s Ma«ii Cjmro, in £* Hcctt 
IV. *' Hiis testibos Jolie' d« Lan^'jrd, tun? Oyurts^ 
l/ulario d« Batbin D'no £d«^do tanc Bieoep^c<fe ib'n 
I/nolV/ma dcr Tbel«alL *' Sir John de Hopum ezart«d 
tb*; Manors of Hardbciroagb ; Wcodcock, PiHngtoo, 
and Falbn^c, in tbe ccmntj of Wartrick. to John, aon 
of Henry Ldin^ord, Dat. I'l. EL II. I3S7. 

A (>juit vas beld at Bbuddin before Jobn Langford, 
8tevanl of DjrlTrjm Clwyd the next after St. Mar- 
tin, th e Bishop. 1 H enry IV. 

Kicbard Lanf^ford, Constable of the= Alicia, dan. and bar cf Hovel aib 
Castle of Rhnddin, 19 Henry VI 
(U31). 06. 12 July U66. Edmnnd, 
f y/nl Crrey^ and Hastings, trmnted a 
patent to Richard L4in}^ord, and Ed- 
ward his son, of the Constableship of 
the Castle of Bhaddin, dated at 
Wrest. 13 July, 25 Henry VI. The 
same Edmund ^re the Reoeirership 
of the Lordship of Bbuddin to the 
said Bicbard Langford, at Torperley. 
19 Henry VI. 



GroiTTdd ab M*a^gaa ab Q 
ab G^ym ab Tbosus ab 
ab Cadvgan al:«Gorcmy abOvwB 
ab Uchd^d ab Edvim. PtsBoe d 
Tegrein^L She died lOtk Avgwat* 
4 Edw. IV. i«lict of J<ihBW€HtaI]. 
/LBicL ^ryAt. a croas flory <B- 
grailed taUe^ inter Umr Coinsk 
chonghs ppr. 



I 



Edward Lancr^ord. Constable of the=rElen, d. of John DnttoB ni Dottoa, 



Castle of Bbuddin. oh, 10 Nor. 16 
Henry VII (1447). Henry VI 
granted the Escheatorship and 
Attorneyship of Denbigh lands to 
Edward Langford for life, for his 
grxni services a^inst Bicbard, 
Duke of York. Dated at North- 
ampton, 4 Feb., 38 Henry VI. 

Jobn Langford=FCatherine, d. and heir of William ab Darid of Trefalon 



ab Sir Pyers ab Edmniid ab Sr 
Thomas ab Sir Hugh ab Hngb ab 
Thomas ab Sir Hugh ab Hngb ab 
Hudard. by Dame Alice, LB4y of 
Dutton ; she died 5 Edward IV. 
Quarterly. 1st and 4th orfcmi, a 
bend sabU ; 2nd and 3rd gmU$^ a 
fret or. 



of Bbuddin, 

ob. 2/fy Dec., 23 

Henry VIII. 



and Mortyn (which David -ob. 1476) ab Omiiydd ab 
David ab Llywelyn ab David ab Goronwy ab lorwerth 
ab Howel ab Moreiddig ab Sanddef Hardd. or the Hand* 
some, Lord of Mortyn. Vert, seme of broomslips, a lion 
rampant or. 



I 



Richard Langford of Trefalun and Rhnddin. 



^ The Greys became possessed of the Castle of Rhuddin and the 
Cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd, at the time of the conquest of Wales by the 
English. Botnlus WaUi4x, 10 Edw. I (1282): "Castnim de Rutthin, 
et Cantredum de Dosfrencloyt, et terrj\ WenchelinaB de Lascy, con- 
firmata Rcginaldo de Grey, per Manum Regis. Apud Dinby, 23 
Octobris." 



LANGFORD OF TREFALUN AND RHUDDIN. 209 

Richard . Langford of Trefalun and Rhuddin, 1586, 
married twice. His first wife was Margaret, daughter 
of John Almor of Almor, ab John ab leuan ab David 
Almor ab David Sant ab Ithel ab Goronwy ab Einion 
ab Owain ab Trahaiam ab Ithel ab Eunydd, Lord of 
Trefalun and Y Groesford, by whom he had issue five 
sons and three daughters. 

I. John Langford, of whom presently. 

II. Edward Langford, who married Catherine, daughter 
of Humphrey Lloyd of Llai or Leighton, High Sheriff 
for CO. Montgomery in 1540 {sabhy three horse's heads 
erased argent), by whom he had issue, besides two 
daughters, Pernel, and Ermine, ux. Richard ab John of 
Wysbock, a son and heir, William Langford, who mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Hockleton ab John ab 
Walter ab William ab Walter ab William ab Walter ab 
William ab Walter de Hockleton, 34 Henry III, ab 
Hugh ab Hugh de Woderton {argent, a fess sahhy 
fretty or, between three crescents of the second), by whom 
he had a son and heir, Thomas Langford, 1613. 

III. William Langford ; iv, Koger Langford ; and v, 
Mathey Langford. 

The thitje daughters of Richard Langford were, 1, 
Katherine, ux. Morgan ab Thomas ; 2, Elizabeth, ux. 
Thomas Wyton ; and 3, Anne, ux. John Wynne ab 
Thomas, by whom she had two sons, Edward and John. 

John Langford of Trefalun, died March 27th, 1606, 
and was buried in Gresford Church. He married Kath- 
erine, daughter of John ab Henry Gervys of Rhuddin 
(sahle, a sword pointed downwards argent, hilt and 
pomel or, a buckle argent, and a Catherine wheel and 
border of the second), by whom he had a son and heir, 

Richard Langford of Trefalun and Rhuddin, High 
SheriflFfor co. Denbigh in 1640, oh, 1643. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Parry Wynn ab John ab 
Harri of Tref Rhuddin ab Sir John, Parson of Llanynys 
ab GruflFydd Goch^ of Pcntrcf Coch near Rhuddin, ab 

' Gruffydd Goch built the church of CyffylUog, in the comot of 
Llanerch, as a chapel -of-ease to Llanynys, which parish lies partly in 

VOL. in. 14 



210 iriSTOKY OF POWYS FADOG. 

leuan of Ceinmeirch ab David Fychan ab lorwerth ab 
David ab lorwerth ab Cowryd ab Cadvan, Lord of Cein- 
meirch (Gwehelaeth Ceinmeirch), ab Gaelawg Gawr ab 
Iddig, lineally descended from Cadell Deymllwg, King 
of Teymllwg, now called Powys {argent, three boar's 
heads couped sabhy tusked 07\ and langued gules), for 
Cowryd ab Cadvan.^ On an escutcheon at Trefalun 
(General Townshend's), painted on wood, are the arms of 
Langford {gules, a shoveler argent, impaling arms; 
quarterly, 1st and 4th argent, three boar's heads couped 
sable; 2nd and 3rd, sable, three horse's heads erased 
argent), with this inscription : " Elizabeth, wife of 
Richard Langford of Trevalyn, Esq., deceased on the 
twelfth day of December, An' D'ni 1657, being aged 
seventy-eight years, and having had twenty children." 
She died at Chester and was buried at Gresford. By 
this lady Richard Langford had issue twenty children, 
sixteen of whom are as follow, and the remaining four 
must have died infants. 

1. John Langford, of whom presently ; 2. William 
Langford, who married Hellen, daughter of ... . Wood, 
and sister of Owain Wood of Llangwyfan in Mdn 
(quarterly, 1st and 4th argent, a chevron inter three 
owls gules — 2nd and 3rd azure, three squirrels rampant 
or); 3, Edward, ob. s. p, ; 4, Theophilus ; 5, George,* who 
married Anne, daughter and heir of William Lloyd ab 
John Lloyd of Rhuddin ; 6. Simon of Chester, a mercer ; 
and 7, Richard, who died young. 

The nine daughters of Richard Langford were, 1, 
Mary, ux. William Ha...er of Couley Hall, co. Lancaster; 
2, Elizabeth, ux. Edward Sautry of Burton ; 3, Cath- 
erine, ux. Walter Caradog of Monmouth ; 4, Jane, ux. 
Edward Pryse of Ffynogion in Llanfair DyflFryn Clwyd, 

the comota of Llanerch and Dogfeilin, in the cantref of Dyffryn 
Clwyd, and partly in the coinot of Ceinmeirch, in the cantref of 
Ystrad. 

^ See Archceologia Cambrensis, October 1876, p. 263. 

^ Geoi^e Langford had issue by his wife two sons, John and Wil- 
liam ; and three daughters, Kathcrine, Alice, and Mary. 



LANGFORD OF TREFALUN AND RHUDDIN. 211 

io dda. oh. March 26th, 1659; three died young; 8, 
Rebecca, ux. Charles Goodman of Glan Hespin, High 
Sheriff for co. Denbighin 1613 (party per pale ermine and 
erminois, an eagle displayed with two heads or, on a 
canton azure^ a martlet of the third) ; and 9, Elen, ux. 
Major Thomas Swyft, in Anglesey or Mdn. 

John Langford of Trefalun, the eldest son of Richard, 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Thelwall of P14s y 
Ward and Dorothy his wife, relict of Andrew Mare- 
dydd of Glan Tanad, by whom he had issue, besides a 
daughter, Dorothy, ux. William Mostyn of Rhyd, Esq., 
two sons, 1, Richard, who died s.p., and 2, John. 

John Langford, the second son, succeeded to Trefalun, 
and was High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1677. He was 
living in 1681, and married Mary, daughter of Jonathan 
Green of Stapleford, Esq., by whom he had issue, be- 
sides a daughter, Mary, three sons, 1 , Richard ; 2, Jona- 
than ; and 3, John. 

Here the Harl. MS. 1971 ends. The following in- 
formation relative to the Langford family has been kindly 
sent me by William Trevor Parkins, Esq., of Glasfiyn, 
to whom I am much indebted for a great amount of in- 
formation relative to the families who possessed lands in 
the manors of Is y Coed and Mortyn, called in English 
Burton. 

It is stated in Ormerod's Cheshire^ vol. ii, p. 175, 
that John Langford of Trefalyn, Esq., married Mary, 
daughter of Jonathan Bruer of Bruer Stapleford, May 
12th, 1760(1660?). 

In the Gresford Register I find as follows : — 

1686. 
" John ye son of Mr. John Langford, was buried De- 
cember 1st" 

" Mr. John Langford was buried January 2nd." 
" Jonathan, ye son of Mr. John Langford, was buried 
January 14th." 

1720. 
" George Langford of Trevallin, Esq., buried the 28th 
day of May 1720." 



212 HISTOBV OF POWYS FADOG. 

This Gcorjje Lano[ford seems to have been sraooeeded 
at Trevalyn by a sister. I have a copy extract irom the 
Pulfonl liepister, which I transcribe. 

" Bruer, Benjamin, of Hunley, in Waverton parish, 
and Mrs. Dorothie Langford of Trevallin, in Giesfoid, 
married by licence at Pulford, 3rd August 1 723.'' 

Benjamin Bruer appears to have lived at Trevalyn 
till 1747. Mrs. Dorothie Bruer, his wife, was buried at 
Grcsford, March 10th, 1732. 

In 1753, William Travers, Esq., how I do not 
know, appears to have become the owner of the Lang- 
ford estate in Trevalyn. He died in 1 765, as did Ed- 
ward Travers, who succeeded him in 1777. Uisula, 
the widow of Edward Travers, died in 1796, and the 
Rev. Rol^rt Twiss became the owner of the estate; I 
think under her will. He called his eldest son Travere 
— he is the present Sir Travers Twiss, and sold the 
Trevalyn of the Langford s to General Townshend's 
father about sixty years ago. 

There were other Langfords alive after the death of 
George Langford in 1720. 

Simon Langford, '* a Denbighshire man", is stated in 
Rowland's Mona Antigua to have been instituted to the 
living of Rhoscolyn in Anglesey in 1709 ; and his name 
appear^ among the subscribers to that work in 1723. 

John Langford of Oswestry, Clerk, joined Benjamin 
Bruer in a bond for the payment of a sum belonging to 
the parish charities in 1740. 

There was also an Archdeacon of Merioneth of the 
same name. 



TREVALUN. 

Richard Langford of Trefalun and Rhuddin, whose 
first wife was Margaret, daughter of John Aimer of 
Aimer, married, secondly, MarsUi, daughter of leuan ab 
Howel of Trefihy we (?) by whom he had issue three sons 
and four daughters. 

1. Thomas, of whom presently. 



TREVALUN. 213 

II. George Langford of Trefalun, who married, iBrst, 
Alice, daughter of Roger Wynn Sandes of Mortyn, by 
whom he had issue, Eandle, William, Nathaniel, and 
Elen. He married, secondly, Elen, daughter of John 
Dryhurst of Denbigh, by whom he had issue, John, 
Dorothy, Jane, and Grace. 

III. O.wain Langford of Rhuddin, who married and 
had issue a son, John Langford of Rhuddin. 

The four daughters were, 1, Jane, ux. John Matthew 
of Yr Hob ; 2, Elen, ux. John ab Gruffydd ab John ab 

Madog of Yr H6b ; 3. Jane, ux Jackson ; and 4. 

Alice, ux. Thomas Lloyd of PwU gallo dij (?) and had a 
son, Edward Lloyd of Rhuddin. 

Thomas Langford, the eldest son of Richard Lang- 
ford, by his second wife, MarsUi, married Anne, 
daughter of John Trevor, by whom he had issue three 
sons and three daughters. 

I. Richard Langford, of whom presently. 

II. Edward Langford, oh. s,p. 

III. Owain Langford, who married, first, Anne, daughter 
of Evan Griffith of Llai, by whom he had a daughter, 
Anne. He married, secondly, Frances, daughter of Sir 
Thomas Aston, Knt, and relict of John Sock well and 
Richard Davies of Croughton. She died December 3 1st, 
1632, s.p. 

The three daughters were, 1, Jane, ux. William Mid- 
dlehurst of Wrexham, by whom she had a daughter, 
Catherine ; 2, Alice, ob, infans; and 3, Catherine. 

Richard Langford of Trefalun, 1636. He married, 
first, Jane, daughter of Richard Lloyd ab Euyr of 
Wrexham, by whom he had a son, William, who died in 
1632, aged thirteen, s.p. He married,, secondly, Eliza- 
beth, daughter and heir of John Sockwell of Hock, by 
Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Aston, Knt, by whom 
he had issue two sons, James and Aston, and a daughter, 
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Hunt ab Richard, by 
whom she had a daughter, Mary, ux. John Fletcher of 
Chester. 



HISTOBT OF POWYS FADOG. 




PL AS TN HORSLLI. 

HarL MSS. 1969, 2299. 

Gruffjdd ab DkTid f^ehu of Tre&lan, ftb DtriA tb Hadoff Bb=rlbrguet, 
lorwertli »b I«iwf ftb Iwwcsth mb Einion ab Ithd »b t d. of 
Eynrdd. I DkTid. 



leoM UwrdyGwer^I. d. ud hrir of leuM ab 



of Pirn, yn 
HoTsllL 



J 



Darid «b Uadog of U<nBlU, 
■iith moa of Darid Hen of 
OoroDWT ab lorwsrth ab Howel 
MoreidiUK ab Sanddef Uaidd, 
or the HandBome. Lord of 
Hortfil andLlai. I'crt, aemi of 
broonulipa, a lion rampant or. 



Margaret, co-heir and heiress of FUa Anneat, 
yn Horalli She married Howel ni. 
■b Darid ab Unifiydd Fjcban ab Madog 
Uadc^ ab lonrerth F^chan of Wynn. 
Moityn and Llai, auceBtor of tbe 
Fuwella of Honlli. 



:f=aweiilliaiii d, and oo- 
heiress of Howel ab 
Usdogab leaafLIwyd 
of TreUnn, ab Howel 
Fychan ab Howel 
Wjddel ab lorwerth 
ab leoaf ab lorwertb 
ab EinioD ab Ithel ab 
Bynydd. See p. 216. 

Kobert ab Catherine, 

leaan ai. Thomas 

Llwyd, AllJDgtoQ «r 
06. «. p. Alonton. 



BiANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON. 




MAXOR OP MORTYN OR BURTON.— LLOYD OF YR 
ORSEDD GOGH. 

Cae Cyriog MS. ; Uarl. MSS. 1969, 2299. 

Eoirel Ffchui of Trefolnn, ab Howel Wjddel (who vas bo called be.=i= 
eaoBe he could apeak IriBh) ab lorwerth ab leaaf ab lorwerth ab 
Billion ab Ithel ab Eynydd. I 



^Owentlian, d. aod beireas of QoroDwj Qooh ab 
David Hen, ab Goronwy ab lorwerth ab Howei 
lenat ab Moreiddig ab Saoddef Hardd ot the Hand- 
some, Lord of Morton and Llai. 



Howel ab Madog-=f = 



Madog=p 
Rb 
lauaf 



Qwenllian, co ■ beir, 

m, leuan Llwjd ab 
Gmffydd ab David 
Fychon ab Dovid 
ab Madog ab lor- 
werth. bee Plaa jn 
Horalli, p. 214. 



Eva, co-beir, az. David ab 
Qrufffdd Fycban ab Madog 
of Talwrn, by Croea Howd 
in Hortyn or Burton. Suite, 
three lOaes argent. 



Qni%d b1 

ab Cynwrig ab lorwerth ab 

larddur. 



of Tdncn by Croea Howel ii 

Mortyn. Sable, three rose 
argetil. 



Oniffydd ab Iolyii.= Junkyn ab Iolrn.=p Madog ab lolyn.T J 

Witnesa to a deed | ' I 

4th May, 8th Hen. Howel. ^pMaud, d. of leuan Qwonh>v]-far,iix.Ienan 

VIL ^1 I abEinio n ab lolyn. ab Madog Dda. 



Williiuii = 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOO. 



.... d, of Howel ab 
Darid ab Otiifiydd 
fVchftu of Flu ;ii 
HonlU. SabU, three 
row argent, 



Lewy».T=QweiihwyEMr. A. of John ab 

j lolyn ab Uodog: ab Dio ab 

I Dftvid ab Howel ab David 

ab Bhirid Saia ab Ithel ab 

Eynydd. 



Lancelot Llo^d of TrjOatheiine, d. of Edward Brereton of Catherine, ox. 
OiBsdd Oooh. I Bwra«, High Sheriff for oo. Den- John Erjja 
I bigh, 1638, of Erly«.» 




AYLMER, OR ALMOR, OF ALMOR AND PANT lOCYN. 
Cae Cyrioy MS. ; Earl MSS. 1969, 2299. 



Trabaiam ah Ithel ab EjajAA. He and his fire bratheTB=f=Jane, d. of 
gave land to build the Church of Qreeford. Hehad the greatest Bdnyfed 
•hare of land, aa ia well known by all in that country, by old I Gam. 
wri tinga, gayg Lewji Dwnn. | 

Owain ab TTahaiam.^ 



' John Eriys of Eriya nb John ab Edvard ab Uadog ab leuan ab 
David ab David ab leuan ab lorwcrtli ab David Hen ab Gonuvy of 
Mortyn and UB.i.—IIa>l. MS. 2299. 



AYLMEK, OR ALMOR, OP ALMOR AND PANT lOOYN. 217 



all 
Blcddyn. 



6| 2 
Goronwy. 



Isabel, d. of Ma- 
dog Dd{i ab 
Gruflfydd ab 
Cynwrig EfeU. 
Gules, on a bend 
argent, a lion pas- 
sant tahle. 



c| 3 d 

Gruf--» Einion.: 
fydd. 



e\ f 
lorwerth. 



Eva. GwerfyU or Gwenllian, 
second wife of Llywelyn 
ab Gruffydd ab Cadwgan, 
Lord of Eytyn, Erlys, and 
Bwras. Ermine, a lion 
rampant azure. 



Ithel ab Goron 
of Almor. 



T 
I 



Eva or Elen, d. of Gwilym Gwenllian, uz. lorwefth ab 



ab Gruffydd. 



Llywelyn ab Gruffydd. 



I 



David Sant=FMargaret, d. and heiress of Howel, third son of Madog ab Lly- 
of Almor. | welyn ab Gruffydd, Lord of Eyton. Ermine, a lion rampant 
(Mtire. Her mother was Eva, daughter of Grufiydd of Maelor 
Saesneg, second son of lorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk. 



David, a2uM=p 
Deyn of 
of Almor. 



... d. of Sidin, alias Ithel Margaret,, ux. David ab Sidin, 
ab Ednyfed Goch. aUiu Ithel ab Ednyfed Goch. 



fiady. Goronwy. 



I 
leuan ab Deyn of=f=Mallt, d. of David ab Cynwrig 

Almor. I ab Robert. 

I I 

John Almor or Ayl-=f Janet, d. and co-heir Richard 

of YBattoab Madog Almor. 

ab Gruffydd of TreS 

alun, ab leuaf ab 

lorwerth ab Einion 

ab Ithel ab Eynydd. 



mer of Almor, one 
of the Marshalls 
of the Hall to 
Henry VII. 



ibel. 



Isabel, ux. 

David 

ab lily welyn 

of HorslU. 



I 
Janet. 



1| 
John AylmeF=f=Catherine, d. of 



of Aylmer, 

8ergeant-at- 

Arms to Henry 

VIIL 



Philip Egerton 
of Egerton in 
Malpas. 



55| 
WilUam 

Aylmer 

of the 

Guards. 



8| 
£obert 

Ayimer 

of the 

Guards. 



Sir Edward, the 

King's Chaplain 

and Parson of 

Denton in 

Suffolk. 



Alice, ux. Morgan ab 
lenkyn ab leuan ab 
David Khiney. 



Rose, ux, Catherine, 
Robert de ux. Geof- 
la Wood. frey Sey. 



Maude. 



John Aylmer of Aylmer,=T=Margaret, d. of John Lang 



ob. 1546. 



T 



ford of Trefalun. 



I 2 13 

Pyers. l^omas. 



Jane, co-heiress, ux. John 
Puleston of Hafod Y Wem. 



Margaret, co-heir, ux. Edward 
l^ileston of Trefalun. 



! I I 
Catherine. 

Alice. 

Elizabeth, 

died young. 



\9 



\f^ 



|i 



I 7 



I* 



|i 



218 HISTORV OF POWYS FADOO. 

\9 \h \i \i \k \l 

£dward=j=Dorothy, d. of Sir Catherine, Marga- Elen, ox. Jane, Anne. 



Aylmer. 



George Calverley of ux. Wil- ret, ux. Robert ux. 

the I^ain ChesMre, liam Rich- Lloyd of John ab 

Ent. , and relict of Roydon of ard PlAs yn Robert 

.... Bostock of of Mortyn Lang- Her- ab lor- 

Cborton, co. Ches- or Burton, ford of eedd. werth of 

ter. Argentt a fees Tre&- Uwyn 

gules, inter three lun, ab On. 
calves acJile. John 

Lang- 
ford. 



im 



William Aylmer of Aylmer and Pant=pElen, d. of Fyers Poleeton of Hafod 



locyn. This is the person men- 
tioned by Churchyard in his War- 
thines of Wales. 



y Wem, and Catherine, his wife, 
d. of Sir Thomas Hanmer of Han- 
mer, Knt. 



W illiam Aylmer, according to the Cae Cyriog MS.=f 

I 
Jane, heiress of Aylmer and Pant=f=Qilbert, son and heir of Sir William 
locyn j Gerard, Knt. 

I I I i I J 

William Gerard, = Thomas = Emanuel John Mary, married, first, Elixa- 

sold Pant locyn Gerard. Gerard. Gerard Thomas Wynn of beth. 

in 1613. Plds Newydd, and, 

secondly, David Lloyd. 

The Aylmer family removed from Aylmer to Pant 
locyn, and removed the materials of the house at Aylmer 
there. The estate was subsequently sold to the Trevors 
of Trevalun, in whose family it still remains. Pant 
locyn was formerly one of the principal gentlemen's 
seats in the county of Denbigh, but for more than a 
century it has been inhabited by farmers. Churchyard, 
in his Worihines of Wales, printed in 1587, mentions 
it as the residence of ** Maister Aylmer". This person 
was William Aylmer, whose son William left one only 
daughter, Jane, who married Gilbert Gerard, Esq. Their 
son, William Gerard, sold it in 1613 to Nathaniel Owen, 
Esq. {argent, a lion rampant and canton sahle\ who 
sold it to John Panton, Esq. {gules, three bars ermine^ 
in chief a cross crosslet argent), he consenting to pay 
£10 per annum to Jane, the widow of Gilbert Gerard, 
Esq. In 1615, John Panton sold it to George Lloyd, 
Bishop of Chester {sable, a chev. inter three mullets 
argent), whose family lived there till 1630, when it was 
sold to Thomas Manley, Es(j. {argent, a sinister hand 



PULESTON OF TREPALUN. 



219 



couped at the wrist in a border engrailed sable), who 
made considerable improvements in the house. In 1634, 
it was sold to William Jones, Esq. (Tudor Trevor, in a 
border engrailed or), whose trustees sold it to Timothy 
Myddleton of Plas Cadwgan for £2,000. (See PlAs 
Cadwgan and Gwersyllt Uchaf.) 




PULESTON OF TRBFALUN. 



Sir Bichard Puleston of EmeTal=r-Ermine, d. of Biohard Hanmer of Hanmer 
in Maelor Saeeneg, Knt. | in Maelor Saesneg. 

Edward Pale8ton,=y=Margaret, d. and co-heir of John Almor of Almor or 
jure uxorxB of [ Aylmer, and Margaret, Ms wife, d. of John Langford 
Trefalnn. | of Trefalun. 

Edward Pule8ton=f=Gwenhwyfryd, d. of John Trevor of Dorothy, ux. John 
of Trefalnn. I Trefalun and Mary his wile, d. of Jones of Llwyn 

Sir Qeorge Bruges of London, Ent. On, in Abynt- 

bury. 



Ed ward Puleston of Trefalun. =f 

Margaret Puleston,=j=John Powel, Esq., son and heir of Sir Thomas Powel 
heiress of Tref- of Pl&s yn HorslU, Bart. John Powel died in hia 
alun. father's Ufetime, December 1642. 

I 
Sir Thomas Powel of PlAs yn Horslli, Bart. 



HISTORY OF POWTS PADOO. 




ALUNTON OF TREFALUN OR ALTJNTON. 

Cat Cyriog MS. ; Marl. MSS. 1969, 2299. 

Howel ab David ab Ehirid Sais ab Ithel ab Eynydd of Trefklnn.^ 



Da*id ab^ 
Howel of 
TreWun. 



'Nest, d. of leuan ab Uadog ab Jot- 
werth of Brougbton. To thiB leaan 
ab Uadog, Eobert de Honte Alto 
granted a charter of loads ia Pen- 
tref Hobyn in 1316. as appears b; 
a deed belonging to Mr. Edward 
Uojd of Pentref Hobyn. 



„l 



the Grif- 
fiths of 
Trelalun. 

n ab Had(^.^ 



lolyn ab lenan of TrefalnuT^ 



Anneet, co-heir. She married, Catherine,' coheir, ox. Bichard 
first, leuan ab Llynelyn, Fowler, and their son, Tho- 
and, secondly, Edward Lloyd mas Fowler, aold those Unda 
of Trefalui. to Hugh Boydon. 



^atheiine, Bieter and heiiess of Robert ab leuan Llwyd 
ab OroCTydd ab David Fychan ab David ab Madof^ of 
Trefalun, ab lorwerth ab leuaf ab lorwerth ab BiniOB 
ab Ithel ab Eynydd. See PUa yn Horslii, p. 21«. 



Edward Alunton .T= Margaret, «i 
EliB Alunton of Greaford, living 1620. 



TREPALUN OF TEEPALUN AND JONES OF DBRLWYN. 221 



1 |o 2| » 

Jofan Alanton^ d. of William John Alun- 

ofAlantOD, j Vaaghan of ton of 

1604, living I LI&varKh. Loudon. 
1«20. I 



Doroth;, di Lewya of B 



Alun.T=Ji 

of T 

Urn. 1 

l_J 



me, d. of Bandle 
Morria Alouton of 

Yenant of London. 

Holywell. 

JoLn Alnnton. 




TBEFALUN OF TREPALUN AND JONES OF 

DERLWYN. 

Harl. MS. 1969. 



Jo hn of Trefalan.^ 

J<An Tre.^ Hon 
&lun of I lU 

TrafUnn. Job 



John Tre-^ 
falnn of | 
Trefalun. | 



Thomas. 



X 



=AiiKh&rad, d. of Davidab^ 
MoigMi ab John. I 

David of | 

Brynbwa. j 

Jobn Jonee. 



GwenhiTTfar, nx. 
LewjB ab Howol 
ab Jenkyn ab 
lolf □ Llwfd. See 
p. 216, 



John Trefa- =j=Ci 
luD of Trefa- i 
lun and Bur- | 

ten ; living 



itheiine, d. of William John Wjnn.^Auue, d. of Bichard 
Qniffydd of Onedd | Longford. 



HISTOBY '.'F P«JWT5 FAfr>G. 




GRIFFITH OF TREFALTTS. 

Earl. ifS. 2299. 

loljniLbUadogftbGoroiiwyFrcIiuiBbG'^TODVTftb^OvenUimii, d.of DeicwB 

H'lwel kb Dmrid ab Khirid Su/> ab Ithel ab Etb- ab Xadog «r TnC^ 

jdA Inn - 

I < ' 

OTitffjdd.=i=Mar«ret. d. Edward. 

I of 

I 

Edward ab aTiiiiydd.=FjMie, d. of John lUndrdd ab B^vlrn «b Handrdd 
I oTTreUiin. 



EdwaidQriffltbj liring 
BobertOrifitlii- 

Uringieaa 



==Mary. d. of Bobert Pnlgaton. 



Mu7, Qi- Bobert Uojd Auiia, u. John 
ofCrmoinUL Tre&lniiof 

Tm&lnn. 




DAVIES OF TREFALUN. 
Far?. MS. 2299. 

> Goronwj _ _. 

a Itbel ab ab Hadog of 



SYMON OF COED Y LLAI. 



Gruifydd 



lo rwerth.'f 



David ab John, ob. t. 



William DavieB^Elen.d.of John ab Robert ab lorwertli Thomas Davies 



of Llwyn On, and relict of Hoi^n 

ab David ab Eobeit of Stansti. Thomas Davieg.^ 



TbomaB Daviea. 



Ed ward Daviea of Trefalun.=r Margaret, d. of Thomas Bamaton of Chorion, 
Jobin Daviaa of Tre&lon. ^^ Rose, d. of Robert Jooea, Oent. 




SYMON OF COED Y LLAI. 
Harl. MS. 1969. 



OraSydd ab JohiL^ It^el ab Johu.^ 



HISTORY OF FOWYS FADOG. 



John ab GTUfi';dd.^=Owen, d. of Howel ab Ll;ire1jn 
I of MaoB Oarmon, in Ystrad 
I Alan. 



Sjmon of Coed y LUi.=r= ■■ 



1 Thomaa Uarj, ox. John ab John ab 

n lal. lenan of T Nercwys, in 

Yatmd Alan. 




MAREDTDD OP TREPALUN. 

Harl. SISS. 1969, 2299. 

Ei nion Goch nb Ithel itb Ey nydd o f Trefalun.^ 

Heilin ab Einion of Treralun ^ 

I 
Ma dogab Heilin of Trefaliin.^ 

lorwerthab Madoi;^ Hovel Ddd.^ 



lorwerth FychoD t= 
Da rid of Tcefaliin.^p 
Maredydd of Trefalun.^ 



leuaf Llwyd.T= 

Ma dog.^ Mj fanwy , d . of Cyn wrig ab Lly wely u. 

Ornflydd^Qwirli, d. of David ab Ithel ab 

I Madog 

Catherine, ui. Eagh Eoydon of HoH. 



John Maredydd of Trefalnn. 



MAREDYDD OF TREFALUN. 225 

The above-named John Marcdydd of Trefalun married 
Catherine, daughter of John ab Jolyn ab Madog ab Dio 
ab David ab Howel ab David ab Rhirid Sais ab Ithel 
ab Eynydd, by whom he had issue five sons and four 
daughters. 

1. • John Maredydd ab John, his successor. 
II. William Maredydd, ob. s. p. 

III. Thomas Maredydd, who married Dorothy, daughter 
of Edward ab Madog, by whom he had issue, besides a 
daughter, Catherine, seven sons — 1, John; 2, Thomas ; 
3, William ; 4, Edward ; 5, Roger ; 6, Owain ; and 7, 
Randle. 

IV. Edward Maredydd, who married Margaret, daughter 
of Thomas ab David. 

v. Richard Maredydd of Pentref Bychan.^ 

The four daughters were — 1, Alice, ux. William 
Alunton of Al union ; 2, Catherine, ux. Richard ab 
David ab Madog ; 3, Margaret, ux. David de Weild 
of Holt ; and 4, Jane, ux. Edward ab Gruffydd ab 
Gruffydd. 

John Maredydd ab John of Trefalun, married twice ; 
by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
Morgan of Mortyn, he had an only daughter, Alice, ux. 
William Lloyd. 

By his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Richard 
Manley* of Monkfield {argent, a sinister hand couped at 
the wrist in a border engrailed sable), he had a son and 
heir, 

, John Maredydd of Trefalun, who married Alice, 
daughter of John Roydon of Holt, by whom he had 
issue, besides a daughter Jane, who married Captain 
Anthony Lewys of Burton, two sons. 

I. John Maredydd of Trefalun, who married Ermine, 
daughter of Edward Puleston of Trefalun. 

II. Edward Maredydd, who married Catherine, daughter 
and heir of Edward Kenrick of Golftyn, by whom he 

had two daughters, Elizabeth and Alice, w^ho both died s, p. 

• 

^ See Burke's Landed Gentry. 

2 William Manley, Harl MS. 1969. 

VOL. HI. 15 



226 



HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 




WYNN OP Y GROESFFORDD. 

Li'wys Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 355. 

Orafiydd ab Einion ab Gruffydd ab Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Osborn Wy- 
ddel of Con y Gcdol. Ermine, a saltier ffules, a crescent or, for difference. 



135 



EUssaa, jure tusoris of^Margarot, d. and co-hciross of Jcnkyn ab lenan of 
...... rv ^Y\t Llwyn Dragon, ab Llywelyn ab Qruffydd 

Llwyd ab Llywelyn ab Ynyr of lAL QuUs, three 
pales or, in a border of the second, sem^ of ogresses. 



AUt Llwyn Dragon, 
now called FUs yn 
lAl. 



I |i I 

John Wynn.=T-Anne8t, d. of Simon ab David Llwyd of Plaa Tudor of Llys 
I Tudor ; 2nd wife. yn lAL Vaasi 

Elis =. 



I 



Wynn. 



spMagdaline, d. of Thomas John Wynn.=T=Dowse, d. of John ab 



John Wilcox. Wynn. 



T 



John. 



11 12 13 I ! 

John Bichard, Elis Anneet. Janet, uz. John ab 

Wynn, 06. 8.p. Wynn. leuan. 
M.A. 



William = 
Wynn. 



2 I 3 I 4 I 5 

Edward Thomas John Elis 

Wynn. Wynn. Wynn. Wynn. 



^ l« 1:11 
George Anne. 

Wynn. Jane. 

Magda- 

line. 

Mari. 



flliza- 
beth. 
Cath- 
erine. 
Mar- 
garet. 



8ANDDEF OF MORTYN OR BUETON. 




MANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON.— TOWNSHIP OF 

MORTYN. SANDEV OR SANDDEF OP MORTYN. 

Earl. MS. 1972 ; Lewys Dwnn, vol. ii. 

Dnrid Qooh, HevBiith gon of Darid Hen ab=pQwenlliaji, dan. and heir of 
Ooronwy ab lorwerth ab Howel ab Morei- John ab Morgan ab Lly- 
ddJK fh Sanddef Hardd. or the Handsome, welyn ab Ifor, Lord of St. 
Lord of Mortyn and Llai. Vert, temi of | Clears and Tredegar in 
broomBlipH, a lion rampant or. Livinii 10 I SoaCh Wales. 
Edw. II. I 



Jta iDg ab Robert of Mortrii.=p ' lorwtith Foel of Mortyn. — Bleddyn. 



HadofT ab Oniff7dd=FLleatn, d. and heir of David Aimer ab Madog ab lor- 
of Mortyn. worth Fychan ab lorverth ab David ab Goronwy of 

I Uortyu and Lloi. Sable, three roses argent. 

Bawlin or Itowlaiid=FMargaret, d, of David Llwyd ab David ab leuanEVcban 

ab Madog of Moi- I ab leaaa of LlanuwcUlfn, ab Qru^dd ab HaiW ab 

tyn. lorwertbabModogabKbiridFIoidd, LordofFenUyn. 

I Vert, a chev. inter three wolTs beads erased argml, 

I langaed gttte$, 

John Wvnn of Mor ^Slizabeth, d. of Pyera Hope ab Oliver Hope ab Robert 
ab Jenkyn Hope ab Robert le Hope, of Bronghton, 
in the Lordship of Uerffordd. Argtnl, three storki 



tyn ;ofr. 20th May ; 
1544, 36 Henry 
Ylir. I 

Roger Wynn, Hnr-= 
Dftoied Satiddefi' 
of Morton. 



=Elen, d. of William Roydon of Talwyn or Tal- John, 
wm ab John Roydon of Talwyn ab Wil- Edward. 
liam Roydon, Beceiver of Maelor Gyin- 
raeg, second son of Richard Roydon of Kent. Tert, 
three bock's heads in bend or, in dexter ctiief a roie 
of the second. 



l|2 



"I 



15 3 



Ok.-*;; 



marxoRT op powts padog. 






4L of Bii>evr Krnaftoii 
C4f L«irr«t*- ' She died Irt 
JU^rrh :^Z, asd vu boned 



John 



Aliee, ox. 6eorg<e 

Langford oi 

TrefiJan. 



iJL :•!*>*. 



:. ^T. of John Llord Bosendale of Foxh«ll or 
F:4ilk*« Ha3 in tbe parish of HenllAn. Qoaiierij or and 
arvne. focr roebocks passant coonterefaanged. 



Sc'(<r! '^r Richard^ Anna, d. of John 



sL. r^nm^ of Al. 
t:?Tj^.:e. acd Bar- 
ren : firing 1630. 



Benyn, and 
rdiet of Edward 
Puleston. 



I 
Catherine, nz. 

Laurence Swet- 

tenham of 



f 



John Sandief . *?& and hesr 
^«;>ar«a: : liTiz^ 16S;? \ 



I 1 2; 3 

SamoeL 
John, 1651. 
XathanieL 



I I 

Margaret. 
Elizabeth. 



BURTON AND LEWYS OF BURTON. 

AM MS. 9864. 

Madog Frchan ab Mado^ ab Deicws ab Madog ab DaTid Goch, ab David' 
Hen ab Goronvj ab lorverth of Barton and LlaL Vert, sem^ of broom- 
alipg, a K.^'O ram pant i*r, amM i%nd langned gitUs. See Brynbwa, p. 37. 



H ywelyn ab MaA->g.= Janet> d. of Robert Grosrenor. 

i 

Willi am ab LlywelTn of BaTton.= Alic e, d. of John ab lolyn of Aylmor. 

I f 

John Bur-^^Margaret, d. of . . . Lewrs ab Wil— Dorothy, d. of John Trevor 



ton of 
Barton. 



Smallman of co. 
Salop. 



liam of 
Barton. 



ab John Trevor of Tref 
Alan ab Richard TreTor. 



I 
Roger Bar- 
ton of 
Barton. 



r 



Yonsre of Crorton Lewys of Barton 

in Maelor Saes- HalL 

neg. 



Jime, d. of Thomas Captain Anthony=f>Jane, d. of John Mare- 

dydd of Tref Alan, 
and Alice, his wife, d. 
of John Roydon of Is 
Coed. Azure, a 
on salient or. She 
died 9th Feb. 1632, 
and was boned in 
Gresford Chnrch. 



I 



Richard Lewis, ob. s, p. in his father's lifetime. Lewys Lewys, oh. b. p. 



Captain Anthony Lewis of Burton Hall, by his will 
datecf August 1, 1634, which is stated to have been 
" drawne up by himself praying it may be construed to 
common sense, and not to be by Lawe wrested to nice 
constructions'', he devised his Mansion and real Es- 



BURTON AND LEWYS OF BURTON. 229 

tates, charged with annuities, charitable rent charges, 
and Legacies for his numerous *' Cosens*', amongst whom 
was William Lewys, " Marchant*', to his " loving Cosen 
Sir Sackville Trevor, Knt/\ for life with remainder to 
"his most belovedst Cosen Sir Thomas Trevor, Knt, one 
of the Barons of His Majesties Exchequer", for life, with 
remainder to his " Cozen Thomas Trevor, Esq., sonne 
and heir apparent of the sayd Sir Thomas", for life, and 
his heirs in taU male. He was very specific in his be- 
quests of armour, plate, rings, and arms ; and left ** to 
the Preacher that preached his funeral sermon £3", 
praying that he "would not there in his pulpit prayse 
nor yet disprayse the gonne life of the dead corps before 
him, as commonly most devines doe most grosly, too 
much of the one or other, nor yet she we his witt in 
giving there a wipe concerning this my request, but 
follow his text to the profitt of the hearers, soe end and 
interr me". He also bequeathed, "to discharge his funeral, 
not meaning to have any blacks given, £120." 

He died soon after the date of his will, and there is a 
monument to his memory above the door of the south 
porch in Gresford Church, with an inscription in Welsh, 
of which the following is a translation. 

*' This is in memory of Captain Anthony Lewis of Burton, 
in this Parish, who was a Benefactor to this Church by re- 
storing its windows, pews, and roofe. Who also left a testi- 
mony of his love to the poor of the Parish for ever, by pro- 
viding bread for them every week. This was erected by Sir 
Thomas Trevor, Knight and Baronet, as well from his own 
piety, in memory of his relative, as from an earnest desire to 
fulfil the wish of his dear and worthy Father, Sir Thomas 
Trevor, Knight, one of the Barons of King Charies's Exche- 
quer, throughout the reign of the said King, the 31st day of 
August, 1659.'' 

It is stated in a " Catalogue of Benefactors" that, in 
1634, Anthony Lewis "bestowed towards glazing the 
Church windows, and building the seates, and paving 
the Church, in all £300", a sum of money which, in 
the days of King Charles I, must have been looked 



I 



230 



HISTORY OF POWYS PAD06. 



upon as extremely large ; and, it is further stated, that 
he charged his lands in Burton, '' towards providing of 
bread to be distributed among the Poor every Sunday at 
Church", with the payment of £7 per annum. 





MANOR OF MORTYN OR BURTON.— TOWNSHIP OP 
BURTON. BILLOT OR BELLOT OF BURTON. 

Earl MS. 197L 

John Billott, descended as heir male from Sir Ingram 
Billott of Thorpe Billott, in Com. Norfolk, married Cath- 
erine, daughter and heir of Thomas Morton, Lord of 
Great Morton, in Com. Cestriae, 24 Henry VI, by whom 
he had a son and heir, 

Thomas Billott of Great Morton, and Lord of that 
Manor, 36 Henry VI. He married Margaret, daughter 
of John Spencer of Congleton, who bore the coat of 
Dutton, with a bend azure, by whom he had a son and 
heir, 

Thomas Billott of Great Morton, who married three 
times : first, Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Thurstan 
Gowan of .... in Com. Lane, {erminey on a cross saltier 
azure, five cressets or five beacons or) ; secondly, he mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of . . . Liversage of Macclesfield, 
by whom he had issue, besides a daughter, Catherine, ux. 
William Canton of Lancashire, a younger son, Thomas 
Billott of Morton Alcumlow, who died 1 Edw. V. 



\- 



BILLOTT OF MORTYN OR BURTON. 231 

He married .... daughter of Thomas Smethwick 
of Smethwick, by whom he had an only daughter and 
heiress, who married Ralph Brodhurst, whose daughter 
and heiress, Margery, married Nicholas Hobson of Over 
Alderley. Thomas Billott married, also, a daughter 
of Smethwick of Smethwick, by whom he had no issue. 
By his first wife, Catherine Gowen, he had issue a son 
and heir, 

John Billott of Great Morton, who married Jane, 
daughter of Ealph Morton of Little Morton {argent, a 
greyhound sable, collared gules), by whom he had issue 
four sons and seven daughters, 1, Thomas, of whom pre- 
sently; 2, William, who married Elen, daughter of 
.... Sandford ; 3, Philip ; and 4, Robert Billott, who 
married, and had issue, Richard and Robert, Jane and 
Mary. 

The seven daughters were, 1, Margery, ux. Ralph 
Thornton of Chester ; 2, Ursula, ux. Edward Vnwyn of 
Chaterley, co. Stafford ; 3, . . . . , ux. Roger Greene of 
Gongleton ; 4, Elen, ux. John Somerford ; 5, Blanche, 
ux. Roger Sparke, secondly, she married Richard, bro- 
ther of Piers Pudston of Handymeme ; 6, Elizabeth, 
ux. Robert Davenport of Chorley ; and 7, Catherine, ux. 
John Creswall of ... . 

Thomas Billott of Great Morton purchased divers 
lands in the townships of Burton and Gresford in the 
manor of Burton, 5 Edw. VI, 1552. He was also 
Farmer of St. John's Hospital in Chester, and High 
Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1556. He married Alice, 
daughter of William Roydon of Talwyn in Burton {azure, 
three roebuck s heads erased in bend or, in dexter chief 
a rose of the second), by whom he had issue ten sons 
and six daughters, 1, Eld ward, of whom presently; 2, 
Thomas; 3, Hugh Billott or Bellot, D.D., Bishop of 
Bangor, Dec. 1585, translated to Chester, June 25, 
1595, ob, 1596, and was buried in the chancel of Wrex- 
ham Church ; 4, John ; 5, George ; 6, Robert Billott of 
Beyham, of whom presently ; 7, David ; 8, Matthew, 
and 9, Owain. 



'/ 



232 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

The six daughters were, 1, Mary, ux. Kichard Myn- 
sule, and secondly, Arthur Starky of Wrenbury; 2, 
Ermyn, ux. first, John Manley of Pulton, and secondly, 
Thomas Maudsley of Lache, near Chester ; 3, Dorothy, 
ux. John Drinkwater of Chester ; 4, Jane ; 5, Elizabeth ; 
and 6, Susan. 

The sixth son, Robert Billott of Beyham, 1580, mar- 
ried Dorothy, daughter of John Brereton of Coleston, 
by whom he had, besides a daughter Catherine, a son 
and heir, Roger Billott of Bers, who died March 30th, 
1634. He married . . . . , daughter of Arthur Starkey 
of Wrenbury, by whom he had, besides two daughters, 
Mary and Anne, three sons, 1, Arthur, of whom pre- 
sently ; 2, Robert Billott of Wrexham, who died March 
7th, 1641. He married Jane, daughter of Edward Puleston 
of Llwyn y Cnotiau, and relict of Thomas Goldsmith, by 
whom he had no issue ; and 3, Thomas Billott, who mar- 
ried the daughter and heir of Doctor Houghton. Arthur 
Billott, the eldest son, was a Lieutenant in the army in 
Germany, and died v. patris. He married Catherine, 
daughter of ... . Frogge of Whitby in Com. Cestriae, 
by whom he had issue one son, Roger, oh. s. p., and 
three daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. Henry Grifl&th of 
Bromhal ; 2, Elizabeth, ob. s.p.; and 3, Bridget, ux. 
John Ravenscroft of Newall. 

Edward Billott of Great Morton in Cheshire, and of 
Burton in Maelor Gymraeg, 1597, married Ursula, daughter 
of ... . Vnwyn de Chaterley in Com. Staff., by whom 
ho bad no issue. He married also, Anne, daughter of 
Pyers Mostyn of Talacre, Esq., by whom he had issue 
four sons and three daughters, 1, Edward, of whom pre- 
sently ; 2, Thomas, oh, s. p, ; 3, John ; and 4, George ; 
the three daughters were, 1, Dorothy, ux. William Grif- 
fith : 2, Magdalene, ux. Pyers Wynn Ffoulkes of Eri- 
fiad, in the parish of Hcnllan (gules, three boars heads 
erased in pale argent) ; and 3, Catherine, ux. John 
(/onwy of Rhuddlan, and secondly, Pyers Conwy of Yr 
Ilcndref. She died August 2nd, 1654. 

Edward Billott of Great Morton and Burton was. 



MORTON OP MORTON. 



133 



living in 1613. He married Amy or Mary, daughter 
and co-heir of Anthony Grosvenor of Dudlyston, by 
whom he had issue three sons and four daughters, 1, 
John, of whom presently ; 2, George ; and 3, Thomas ; 
the daughters were, 1, Susanna, ux. John Broughton of 
Broughton ; 2, Frances ; 3, Elizabeth, ux. Thomas Brom- 
ley of Hampt; and 4, Mary, ux. Thomas Gamul of 
Chester, oh. Dec. 23rd, 1631. 

John Billott of Great Morton and Burton was bom 
in 1594. He was High Sheriff for Denbighshire 
in 1642, and was living in 1649. He married a 
daughter of ... . Bentley of Ashes in Com. Staff., by 
whom he had issue three sons, 1, Edward Billott, who 
married Sibyl, daughter of Sir Randle Egerton, by whom 
he had no issue ; 2, Sir John Billott of Morton, Knt., 
High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1663. He married Anne, 
daughter of Roger Wilbraham of Darfold, by whom he 
had issue Thomas, John, and Anne; and 3, George 
Billott. 



MORTON OF MORTON. 

Randolphus do Yenables, dominiis do Ma^na Morton. 
BoDertns de Mortoii.=F 



,[ 



Robert UB de Morton.=T= 

Boger de Morton, 21 Edward III.=j= 
Stephen de Morton =^= 



Morton. 



9 Hen. IV. 



Thomas de Morton. Thomas de Morton .=f= 



Thomas de Morton.=F 



I 

Robert. 



I I II 

Robert de=^Sibill. Ralph de Morton,=j= Roger. 

John 



Catherine, ux. Hugo 
Vonables, Boron of 
Kinderton. 



Catherine, heiress of Morton, ux. John Billott, 24 Ilcnry VI. 



234 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 



PAPERS RELATING TO THE LORDSHIPS OF 

BROMFIELD AND YALE. 

AdJ. MS. 11,827, fo, 8. 

Mynheer Benting, Earl of Portland, beggs of King William 
to him and his Heires for eyer, the Lordships of Denbigh- 
land, Bromfield and Yale, in the County of Denby. 

The Warrant coming to the Lords of the Treasury, the Gen- 
tlemen of the County, upon one or two days' notice, were 
heard against the Grant before the Lords of the l*reasnry, my 
Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, Sir William Turnbull, and 
Mr. John Smith, on fryday the tenth May 1695. 

Sir Wm. Williams (of Llanfm^daf) said, 

That this was part of the ancient Revenue of the Prince of 
Wales, and that the Welsh were never subject to any but to 
God and their King, and that none showed their Allegiance 
more than the Welsh. That in the Statute which granted 
fee farm Rents there was particular Exception of the Welsh 
revenue not to be Alienable, that there were mites of £500 
payable out of those Lordshipps to the Prince of Wales, 
which shows that by tenure it belongs to the Prince of Wales, 
and altho' there was none now, yet he doubted but to see one 
of the present King's own body. 

Sir Roger Puleston said, 

That the Revenue of those Lordshipps do support the Go- 
vernment of Wales by paying the Judges and others their 
salaries, and if given away there would be a failure of Justice. 

Mr, Robert Price. 

That the Grant that was making was of a Large Dominion, 
being five Parts in 6 of one County, which was too great a 
Power for any foreign subject to have, and the People of the 
Country too great to be subject to him. That there were near 
fifty mean Lordshipps under those Manners, that there were 
about 1500 free holders, that there were waste and Commons 
of many thousand acres, that there were Mines of Lead and 
Copper of great value, and the present rent reserved above 
£1500 per annum. 



PAPERS RELATING TO BROMPIELD AND YALE. 235 



A hearing at the Treasury upon the intended Orant of the 
Lordships of Denbigh, Bromfield, and Yale, to the Earl of 
Portland, 10 May 1695. 

That Coarts were kept in all those Lordships in the King's 
name, that all or most of the Gent, in the Country were 
tenants to the King and suitors to his Courts, and thereby 
obliged to the King by a double Allegiance, their General 
Allegiance as subjects, and their Particular Allegiance as 
Tenants, and if the King gave away the one it was to be 
fear*d it would Lessen the Lands of the Other, since it is ob- 
servable that interest and property have an ascendant over 
duty. 

That these Lordships were formerly Lordships Marchers, 
which occasioned thus when William the Conqueror had 
brought England into subjection, but could not subdue the 
Welsh Country, he gave to his normand Lords some neigh- 
bouring Lands to Wales, and furnished them with Men and 
Arms, and what Ground they could take from the Welsh by 
intrusion or Conquest, those Norman Lords were to hold as 
Lordships Marchers, of which were Barons or Palatinates, and 
what they got or usurped by their Power, they maintained by 
their severity and oppression, and under this Vassalage the 
Brittains continued uutill 29th of Hen. 8th, which was since 
the statute of union was made, and they esteem^ it their hap- 
piness to be under the English Laws and Government, and so 
have continued to this day, none having more eminently sig- 
nalizM their constant Loyalty to their BightfuU King than 
themselves. 

But if his Majesty shall think fit to disunite from his Crown 
by this Grant, and put them under a foreign subject, it^s put^ 
ting them in a worse posture than in their former Estate 
when under Wm. the Conqueror and his Normand Lords. * 

The Brittains were always Men of Courage and Sincerity, 
and yet of resentment, tho' Henry 4th and 5th were Martial 
Princes, and had a hatred against the Brittains because they 
persevered in their Duty to Richard ye second who was their 
Rightful], tho* infortunate. King; and made scandalous and 
reproachfuU Laws against them, yet it was worth remark that 
those Princes had never Peaceful I or happy days till they re- 
concile themselves to that great People, not to tell the His- 
tory of Owen Glindir, who was but an Inferior Person of the 
Long Robe, but when a Stranger wouM have incroach'd upon 
the wast and Commons of his neighbours, his Law and Arms, 
with his Neighbours Assistance, became a Terror to the Eng- 
lish Nation. 



236 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

It is worth consideration what Title the King hath to grant 
it is a revenue that belongs to the Prince of Wales, and in 
case of the want of such it vestes in the Crown rather as a use 
fonctuary than Property, till a Prince be created to whose 
creation the Revenue is annexed by these, tho* unusuall words, 
in the Laws, to him and his Heirs, who shall be King of 
England. 

By the Statute of 21 Jam. First in Cha. 29, in the Preamble 
of that Statute, it was doubted whether Charles, Prince of 
Wales and Duke of Cornwall, could grant Leases of the Dutchy 
Lands for 3 lives or any longer than his own Life, tho* the 
Statute said that he had an Estate of Inheritance under a spe- 
ciall form of Limitation differing from the ordnary Bules of 
Inheritance at the Common Law, and therefore necessary to 
have these Leases confirmed in Parliament. 

The use that is made of that Statute in case is, if the Prince 
and Duke of Cornwall, who have an Inheritance in their re- 
venue can't grant Estates without Parliament for any Longer 
than their Own Lives, how then can his present Majesty, who 
is our King by a Modem Contract, and hath but an Estate 
for Life in Possession in the Crown by the Act of Settlement, 
grant away the inheritance and absolute fee of the Principality 
of Wales, for it is a great absurdity in the Law to say that a 
Tenant for Life can grant a fee, as it is to say that a Tenant 
in fee cannot grant any more than for his own Life, and if the 
aid of Parliament was necessary to help in one case, it was 
more necessary in the other. 

It is well known in former Reigns there have been of Ee- 
somption, which always passed when the People groan'd under 
the weight of heavy Taxes and the Nation engaged in a warr. 
If this was the Reason for the Legislative Power to pass a 
Bill of resumption, it is full as good Reason for his Majesty 
not to grant, since we are both in warr and under the most 
heavy Pressure of Taxes that ever History bore Testimony o£ 
Let it be considered, can it be his Majesty's Honour or his 
interest, when his people hear this and understand it, that he 
dayly gives away the Revenue, and more, the Perpetuity of 
his Crown's Revenue, to his foreign subjects. 

Good Kings, after a long and chargeable warr, were accus- 
tomed to tell their people that they sorrow'd for the hardships 
the nation underwent by Long and heavy Taxes, and that 
now they would Live on their Own ; but it is to be fear*d if 
Grants are made so large and so frequent, there will be nothing 
left for the King or his Successors to call their own or live 
upon. 



CANTREF UWCHNANT. 237 

It is to be hoped your Lordships will consider we have had 
but one Day's notice of this attendance, and must, therefore, 
come very much unprovided, but yet we doubt not but these 
Hints and broken thoughts we have offer d to your Lordships 
^ill> hy your great Judgment, be improvM, whereby the ill 
consequence of this Grant may be Timely represented to his 
Majesty. 

Lord Godolphin said, 

Had not the Earl of Leicester these Lordships in grant to 
him in Queen Elizabeth's time ? 

Sir Robert Cotton of Ohesh'e said, 

I believe I can give the best Acc't in that case. The Earl 
of Leicester had but one of these Lordships, and that was 
Denbigh Land. He was so oppressive to the Gent, of the 
County that he occasioned them to take up Arms to oppose 
him, for which three of my wife's family of the Salisburys 
were hangM in that Quarrell, but it ended not there, for their 
Quarrel was still kept on foot, and the Earl of Leicester was 
glad to be in peace and to grant it back again to the Queen, 
and it hath been ever since in the Crown. 

Lord Oodol-phin. 

Gent., you have offered many weighty Reasons, and we shall 
represent them to his Majesty. 



CANTREF UWCHNANT. COMOT OP MERPFORDD. 

This comet contains the parish of Penarth Halawg or 
Hawarden, and part of the parish of Gresford, viz., the 
townships of Horslli and Llai. 

The parish of Penarth Halawg contains the townships 
of Hawarden, Ewlo, Coed Ewlo, Pentref Hobyn, Brough- 
ton, Bretton, Aston, Banael, Broadlam, Mancott, Moor, 
Rake and Manor, Sealand, Shotton and MorflFa Caer- 
lleon of Saltney. 

In this comot are the Castles of Hawarden and Ewlo. 

Penarth Halawg or Hawarden. 

The Castle of Hawarden stands on a conical hill in the 
manor or township of Hawarden, which name seems to 
be formed from the word garthy a mountain or hill, and 



238 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

din, the root of dinas, a fortified city, generally situate 
on a hill. As it is usual in Welsh to drop the initial 
letter g, gardd-din becomes arth^oT ardd-ain, and, as- 
pirated, harden.^ In Domesday Book the name was 
written Haordin ; at which time it was a lordship, and 
had a church ; two carucae or ploughlands, half of one 
belonging to the church ; half an acre of meadow ; a 
wood two leagues long and half a league broad. The 
whole was valued at forty shillings, and the population 
then consisted of four villeyns, six boors and four slaves. 
At the Conquest, William the Conqueror granted this 
manor to Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester.* It afterwards 
devolved upon the Barons of Montalto, or Y Gwydd- 
gr6g, which they held by stewardship of the Earls of 
Chester, and who made it their residence.' Robert, 
Baron de Montalto, granted the Marsh of Saltney, or 
Morfa Caerlleon, to the monks of Basingwcrk for pas- 
turage. He also gave them the same privilege in 
Hawarden, and the liberty of cutting rushes for thatch- 
ing their buildings.* 

Hawarden remained in the possession of the Barons de 
Montalto till 1327, 1 Edw. HI, when Robert, the last 
Baron de Montalto (for want of issue) left this manor 
and his other great possessions to Isabel, the Queen 
mother, and from her it passed to the Crown. Hawarden 
is called in old writings Penarddllech ; this may be a con- 
traction from Pen Garth y Llwch, " the summit of the 
hill by the quicksands or swamps", with which the Morfa 
Caerlleon, or Saltney Marsh, lying between this place 
and Chester, formerly abounded. The epithet hcdawg 
(from hdly salt, or salt-marsh) evidently refers to its 
situation on or near a salt-marsh^ 

The inhabitants of Hawarden have been for many 
ages known by the name of " Hawarden Jews", the 
reason for which is supposed to be best explained by the 

* Carlisle's Topographical Diet. 

2 Pennant's Tour, vol. i, pp. 122-4. 

3 Camden, ii, 826. * Charters in Record Office. 
^ Arch, Camb.y January 1873, p. 61. 



CANTREF UWCHNANT. 239 

following account preserved and current in the parish 
from time immemorial, and said to be a translation of an 
ancient Saxon MS. 

'^ In the sixth year of the reign of Cynan ab Elis ab Ana- 
rawd, King of Gwynedd (which was in the year 946), there 
was in the Christian temple, at a place called Hardin, in the 
Kingdom of North "Wales, a rood-loft, in which was placed an 
imago of the Virgin Mary, holding a very large cross in her 
hand, called the * holy rood*. About this time there hap- 
pened a very hot and dry summer ; so dry that there was no 
grass for the cattle. Upon which most of the inhabitants be- 
sought the image, or holy rood, to send them rain ; bat to no 
purpose. Among the rest the Lady Trawst, whose husband's 
name was Seisyllt or Sitsyllt, a nobleman, and governor of 
Hawarden Castle, went to pray to the said holy rood, and she, 
praying earnestly and long, the image and holy rood fell down 
on her head and killed her ; upon which a great uproar was 
raised, and it was concluded and resolved upon to try the said 
image for the murder of the said Lady Trawst, and a jury was 
summoned for the purpose, whose names were as follow : 

'* ' Hincot of Hancot, Span of Mancot, 
Leach and Lach and Comberbach ; 
Peet and Pate, with Corbin of the Gate,^ 
Milling and Hughet, with Gill and Pughet/ 

These, upon examination of evidences, declared the said Lady 
Trawst to be wilfully murdered by the said holy rood, and 
that the holy rood was guilty of the murder, and also guilty 
in not answering the many petitioners. But whereas the said 
holy rood was very old and decayed, she was ordered to be 
hanged ; but Span opposed that sentence, saying, that as they 
wanted rain, it would be best to drown her. But that was 
fiercely opposed by Corbin,^ who answered that, as she was 
the holy rood, they had no right to kill her, and he advised 
them to lay her on the sands by the river Dee, below Hardin 
Castle^ from which they might see what became of her ;. which 

^ There was a descendant of this Corbin, believed to be in the 
direct male line, living in 1811 at the house called "The Gate" (t.tf., 
from its situation near the gate of the castle), and in possession of 
part of the same freehold, with a family of three sons and four 
daughters. The names of Leach, Milling, and He wet, are still nume- 
rous in the parish ; and those of Span, Pate, Comberbach, and (Jill, 
are frequent in the neighbourhood. 



240 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

was accordingly done. Soon after which, the tide from the 
sea came and carried the said image to some low land, being 
an island, near the walls of a city called Caer Lleon (now 
Chester), where it was found the next day, drowned and 
dead ; and they erected a monument of stone over it with this 
inscription, 

'* ' The Jews their God did crucify, 
The Hardeners theirs did drown. 
Because their wants she'd not supply. 
And lies under this cold stone/ 

"There is now (1811) the pedestal of an old cross, consist- 
ing of three steps with a part of the column in it, of the red 
sandstone of the neighbourhood, standing on the Rood Dee 
or race course below the walls of Chester, on the very spot 
probably where the holy rood was found/^ ^ 

This Lady Trawst, who is thus stated to have been 
killed by the fall of the holy rood in 946, appears to me 
to be identical with the Lady Trawst, the daughter and 
heiress of Elissau, who was the second son of Anarawd, 
King of Gwynedd, who died in 913. She married 
Seisyllt, Lord of Maes Essyllt, by whom she had two 
sons, Cynan ab Seisyllt and Llywelyn ab Seisyllt, the 
latter of whom married, at the age of fourteen, as pre- 
viously stated, Angharad, the only daughter and heiress 
of Maredydd ab Owain, King of Powys. See vol. i. 

In 1651, Hawarden Castle fell into the hands of the 
Commonwealth, and it was purchased from the agents of 
sequestration by Serjeant Glynne, the ancestor of the 
late Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart. 



HAWARDEN. 

Add, MS. 60S2, fo. 140. 

Tho* Dux Clarencie ten' Cast' et domin' de Harvarden cu' 
o*ibus membris etc. de d^no Rege et Com* Cest' p' seruitiu* 
Militare 9 H. 5. 

Willielmus de Monte acuto nup* comes Sa : ten* coniunct' 
feoffat* cum Eliz' Ux^ sua Man' de HawarBen Senescall: Castri 
et man* de Neston cu' p^tiis de d'no rege ut Com' Cost' p' 
8er*Mir.21 R. 2. 

^ Carlisle's Topographical Did, 



STANLEY OF EWLO CASTLE. 241 



EWLO CASTLE. 

This castle, which is situate in the township of Coed 
Ewlo, is now in ruins. It is memorable as the place 
where a detachment of the army of Henry II, then en- 
camped on Morfa Caerlleon, sustained a check from the 
Princes David and Cynan, the sons of Owain Gwy- 
nedd, in 1156. 

Leland speaks of it as " a ruinous castle or pile be- 
longing to Hoele, a gentleman of Flintshire, that by 
auncient accustume was wont to give the bagge of the 
sylver harpe to the beste harpir of North Walys, as by a 
privilege of his auncestors^'. This gentleman is sup- 
posed to be Thomas ab Richard ab Howel, Lord of 
Mostyn, in whose family that privilege was long in- 
vested, and who was contemporary with Leland.^ 

The manor of Ewlo was reckoned an appurtenance 
to the manor of Montalto or Mold. It was in the Crown 
in the 26th Henry VIII, who granted a lease of it to 
Pyers Stanley, Esq., a gentleman of his household, with 
the tolls of the market of Flint.* This lease bears the 
date April 7th, 1535. 



^ Pennant's Tour^ vol. i, p. 119. 
2 UarL MS. 1968. 



VOL. III. 16 



242 



HISTORY OP POWYS FADOO. 




STANLEY OP EWLO CASTLE. 



Lewys Divnn, vol. ii. 

Sir William Stanley of Hooton, Knight, =j=Marffaret, d. and sole heir of Sir 
Standard-hearer to Bidiard III at the I John Heleq or Heighlegh. 
battle of Boswerth. | Knight. 

I 

Pyers Stanley of Ewlo Caetle, Esq., ap-=f=Oonstance, d. of Thomas Salns- 
pointed Eacheator and Sheriff of co. | bury Hdn of LlywenL 
Meirion., 22 Sept., 1 Henry VII (1486). 



1 I 2 I 3 . 

Pyers :^anet, d. of Ffoulk. 

SirThomas John. 

Butler, HarrL 
Knight. 



Stanley of 
Ewlo 
Castle. 



I 



|6 
Edward Stanley of Har- 
lech, M.P. for 00. Meirion, 

1542 : appointed Con- 
stable of Harlech Castle, 
by letters patent, 26th 



Thomas. 
William. 



Pyers Stanley of^ane, d. of March, 6 Edw. VI (1668). 

Ewlo Castle. | 



Parker. 



I 



Edward Stanley of Kwlo Castle,=f Margaret, d. of Sir James Stanley, Knt 
living 1597. 



■T 



L 



Robert Stanley of Ewlo=f=Alice, d. of Thomas Salusbury of Fflint, third son 



Castle. 



I 



I0=p 



of Sir Thomas Salusbury of Llyweni, Knt. 



Anne Stanley, heiress of Ewlo » John Mostyn of Coed On, of the House of 
Castle. Mostyn of Mostyn. 



LORDSHIP OR OOMOT OF MERFFORDD. 



243 




LORDSHIP OR COMOT OF MERFFORDD.— LLOYD OF 

PENTRBF HOBYN. 

OwAiN AB Hywel Dda, who reigned over South 
Wales and Powys from 948 to 985, married, first, 
Angharad, daughter and heiress of Lly welyn ab Mervyn, 
Prince of Powys, who bore, or^ a lion's gamb erased 
bendways gules, by whom he had a son, Maredydd, 
who succeeded to the kingdom of Powys, and bore his 
maternal arms. Owain married a second wife, by whom 
he had another son, called Einion, who succeeded his 
father in the Principality of South Wales. He married 
Nesta, daughter of the Earl of Devon, by whom he had 
two sons, 1, Tudor Mawr, ancestor of the Princes of 
South Wales ; and, 2, Goronwy, who became Prince of 
Tegeingl in Gwynedd. 

Prince Goronwy married Ethelfleda, daughter and 
heiress of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and relict of Edmund 
Ironside, King of England, and doubtless by this match 
he obtained possession of the Cantref of Tegeingl, which 
contains the three comots of Cynsyllt, Prestatyn, and 
Rhuddlan. By his wife Ethelfleda, Goronwy had issue 
a son and heir, who was called Edwin, after his maternal 
grandfather. 

Edwin ab Goronwy, who succeeded his father in the 
Principality of Tegeingl, bore, argent, a cross flory en- 
grailed sahle, inter four Cornish choughs ppr. He mar- 
ried Gwerydd or Ewerydda, sister of Bleddyn ab Cyn- 

16 2 



244 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

fyn, Prince of Powys. He lived at Llys Edwin, in the 
parish of Llaneurgain, and at Castell Edwin, in the 
parish of Llanasaph. He was slain by Rhys ab Rhydd- 
erch ab Owain in 1073. Rhual, near Y GwyddgrAg 
(Montalto or Mold), was the residence of Edwin when he 
died, for it is recorded that " Edwin of Rhual was 
buried at Llaneurgain in 1073". He left issue three 
sons — 1, Owain, of whom presently ; 2, Uchdryd, Lord of 
Cyfeiliog and Meirion ; and, 3, Hywel, who, together 
with his brother Uchdryd, and the sons of Cadwgan ab 
Bleddyn, defeated the Normans in Ceredigion and 
Dyfed. 

Owain ab Edwin succeeded his father as Prince of 
Tcgeingl. He bore gules, three men's legs conjoined at 
the thighs in triangle argent. In 1096 he was elected 
Prince of North Wales by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, 
but was soon afterwards deposed. He died of consump- 
tion in 1103. By his wife Morvydd, the daughter of 
Goronwy ab Ednowain Bendew, chief of one of the 
Noble Tribes, who bore argent, a chev. inter three boar's 
heads couped sable, he had five sons — 1, Goronwy, who 
married Genilles, daughter of Hoedliw ab Ithel ab Edryd, 
by whom he had a son Cadwgan, who was the ancestor 
of the Lloyds of Herscdd, of Ffern in Glyn Berbrwg, 
and of Llwyn Yn in Ystrad Alun ; 2, Meilir, who was 
slain by Cadwallawn ab Gruffydd ab Cynan in 1125, 
and was ancestor of the Pryses of Llwyn Yn in Tref 
Eyarth in Llanfair Dyfiryn Clwyd, and the Edwardses 
of Stansti in the manor of Y Glewysegl in Maelor Gym- 
raeg ; 3, Llywelyn, of whom presently ; 4, Aldud, an- 
cestor of Madog DdA of Copa 'r Goleuni in Tegeingl ; 
and 5, Rhirid, who was the ancestor of Thomas ab 
Roger ab Llywelyn of Pl^s Einion in Llanfair Dyflfryn 
Clwyd, whose daughter and co-heiress Gwen conveyed 
that estate to her husband, John Lloyd, son of Roger 
Lloyd of Bryn Eglwys, fifth son of David Lloyd ab 
Elissau of PMs yn lai. 



PENTKEF HOBYN. 



245 



PENTEEP HOBYN. 

Heilin Fychan ab Heilin ab leuaf ab Qruffjdd ab Lly weljn ab Owain^y 
ab Edwin ab Qoronwy, Prince of Tegeingl. | 



I 
David Goch.=T= 

Gruflfydd & 
David 



I 
Madog Goch. 



/T 



Bheinallt ab== 
Gruffydd. | 



Bl eddyn ab Madog.=T = 

Bo byn of Bhydonen in the parish of Llanynys.' 

Simon of Bhydonen. =i= 



Lowri, heiress, nx. Bichard ab Thomas of Caer 
Fallwch ab Edward ab Ithel ab Goronwy Foel ab 
Goronwy Fychan ab Goronwy ab Pyll ab Cynan 
ab Lly warch Fychan ab Llywarch Goch, Lord of 
Bhos, ab Llywelyn Holbwrch, Lord of Meriadog, 
vert a stag trippant argent, attired and ongul^ 
or. 



Bhys ab Rheinallt=p Ma]lt, d. of Cynan ab Ithel ab Cynwrig ab Bleddyn ab 



of Coed y Llai in 
Ystrad Alun. 



Madog Goch ab Owain Fychan ab Owain Wynn ab 
Bhys ab lorwerth of Mon, descended from Ithel 
Felyn. According to the Cae Cyriog MS., Rhys 
married Jane, d. of Ithel ab Cwmws of Llaneur^ain, 
a natural son of Ithel ab Cynwrig ab Bleddyn Llwyd 
ab Ithel Anwyl, who lived at Ewlo Castle. 



David T=Elen, d. of Gruffydd Fychan ab Gruffydd Margaret, ux. Gruffydd 

ab ab Einion ab Gruffydd of Cors y GedoL ab Heilin ab Cadwgan 

Bhys. Erminej a saltier gules, a crescent or, Deccaf ab lorwerth ab 

for difference. Cadwgan ab lorwerth 

of Llwyn Egryn. Sahle, 
on a chev. inter three 
goat*s heads erased or, 
three trefoils of the 
field. 



I I 

Edward ab=r=Mallt, d. of Bobert leuan ab David 

David of Llwyd Hen of Plas of Coed y 

Pentref I yn Hersedd. Llai. 

Hobyn. | 

David Lloyd=f=Jane, d. of P^ers ab William ab Ithel of Disserth in Tegeingl, 



of Pentref 
Hobyn. 



ab Cynwrig ab Bleddyn ab Madog ab Madog Goch, ab 
Owain Fychan ab Owain Wynn ab Bhys ab lorwerth of 
M6n, descended from Ithel Felyn, Lord of I&L 



Edward Lloyd=j=Margaret, dau. of Edward Morgan of Gwylgre (Golden 



of Pentref 

Hobyn, 06. 

25th July 1620; 

buried in Mold 

Church. 

1"^ 



Grove) in the parish of Llanasaf, descended from Edny- 
fed Fychan. Gules, a chevron ermine, inter three English- 
men's heads couped at the neck, in profile ppr. bearded 
and crined sable. Ob. 29th May 1631. 



|c 



246 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



\a \b \e 

Edward Lloyd of=f=Mar7, d. of George Hope of Thomas Marr^ ox. Ed- 

Broughton in the parish of Lloyd, ward Conwy^ 

Hawfurden, Argent, three M.A. of Sychdyn 
storks sable. She died 9th in iJanear- 
July 1628, gain. 



Pentref Hobyn, 
High Sheriff for 
CO. Fflint, 1679. 



Joh n Lloyd of Pentref Hobyn, High Sheriff for Co. Flint, 170a=f = 

Edward Lloyd^y'Dorothy, d. of John Eyton of Coed y Llai or Leeswood, and 

of Pentref Dorothy, his wife, d. of William Herbert of Ceri and 

Hobyn. | Trefeglwys. Oules, on a bend argent, a lion passant sable, 

Edward Lloyd of Pentref Hobyn.=f ..., d. of Pennant of Baggillt. 



Edward Lloyd of Pentref Ho-=pMary, eldest d. and co-heir of Thomas Lloyd 
byn, andjurcuToris of Trevor V of Trevor Hall, Glanhavon and Valle 
H all, Glanhavon, and Valle Crucis Abbey, High Sheriff for oo. Mont- 
Crucis Abbey, High Sheriff gomery, 1749 ; and Mary, his wife, dan. 
for CO. Flint in 176-3, and for and heiress of Robert Trevor of Trevor 
uo. Denbigh in 1768. Hall and Valle Crucis Abbey. 

The above named Edward Lloyd and Mary his wife had 
issue five sons and two daughters, 1, Robert Lloyd, ob. 
s. p. ; 2, Thomas Lloyd, ob. s. p. ; 3, John Lloyd, ob. s. p. ; 
and 4, Trevor Lloyd of Trevor Hall, Pentref Hobyn and 
Valle Crucis Abbey, High Sheriff for co. Mont, in 1787, 
ob. s.p. 

The two daughters were Mary and Margaret, co- 
heiresses of their brothers. Mary, the eldest, was cut 
out of all the estates, which went to the second 
daughter, Margaret. Mary married Thomas Mather of 
Ancoats in Lancashire, by whom she had issue, besides 
a daughter, Dorothy-Pennantj, who died s. p., two sons, 
Thomas Trevor Mather, who married his first cousin, 
Margaret, the eldest daughter of Rice Thomas of Coed 
Helen, near Carnarvon ; she had Pentref Hobyn, but 
both she and her husband died issueless, and Pentref 
Hobyn reverted to the Thomases of Coed Helen. The 
other son of Mary Lloyd and Thomas Mather, was 
Samuel Lloyd Mather, who married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Richard Spearman of Plymouth, by whom he had one 
son, Thomas Mather, an officer in the Royal Navy, who 

^ Edward Conwy of Sychdyn was the son of Hugh Conwy ab Ed- 
ward Conwy ab Harri Conwy of Sychdyn, ab James Conwy of Rhu- 
ddlan, second son of John Aer Conwy of Bodrbyddan. 



PENTREF HOBYN. 247 

died s.p.^ and one daughter, Mary Palmer, who married 
Thomas Baldwyn Lloyd of P14s Llanasaf in Tegeingl, by 
whom she had one son, Trevor Lloyd, and two daughters, 
Margaret Baldwyn Lloyd and Mary Lloyd. 

Margaret, the youngest daughter of Edward Lloyd of 
Pentref Hobyn, had, as before stated, all the estates. 
She married Rice Thomas of Coed Helen, nedr Carnar- 
von, of the Royal House of Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of 
Fferlis (quarterly, 1st and 4th argent^ on a cross sahle^ 
five crescents or, in the dexter canton a spear's head 
gules, for Sir GrufiFydd ab Elidir, Knight of Rhodes; 
2nd and 3rd gules^ a lion rampant regardant or^ for 
Elystan Glodrudd, Prince of Fferlis), by whom she had 
issue one son. Rice Thomas of Coed Helen, Trevor Hall, 
Glanhafon, and Valle Crucis Abbey, who died s.p,; and 
six daughter, 1, Margaret of Pentref Hobyn, ux. Thomas 
Trevor Mather, oh. s.p.; 2, Elizabeth, ux. Sir William 
Bulkeley Hughes of Pl&s Coch in Anglesey, Knt. 
(argent, a chev. inter three Cornish choughs ppr., each 
holding an ermine spot in its beak) ; 3, Jane, oh. s. p. ; 
4. Anne, oh. s. p. ; 5, Trevor, oh. s. p. ; and 6, Pennant, 
who married William Iremonger of Wherwell Priory, 
CO. Hants, Colonel of the Queens Royal Regiment of 
Infantry, who died in 1582, leaving issue — besides three 
daughters, 1, Margaret Sophia; 2, Helen Frances; and 
3, Elfrida Susanna Harriet, ux. Sir William Eden of 
West Auckland, co. Durham, and Maryland, Bart. — five 
sons, 1, William, of w^hom presently ; 2, Thomas Las- 
celles, 6. 1815; 3, Frederick Assheton, b. 1816; 4, 
Pennant Athelwold, 6. 1821 ; 5, Henry Edward, b. 
1826. 

William Iremonger, Esq., of Wherwell Priory, born 
1808, married in 1844 Mary Anne Widmore, only 
daughter of W. H. Kilpin of Longparish and King's 
Clerc, by whom he had issue, William Henry, born at 
Florence, 1845; Mary Delicia ; Elfrida Harriet; and 
Mildred Elen. 



HISTOKY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 




COMOT OF MERFFORDD.— PLAS YN HORSLLI IN 
GRESFOUD PARISH. 

ITarl. MSS. 1972, 2299. 

Sanddef Hard(l,or the Handsome, was Lord of the town- 
ship of Rlortyn (called Burton by the English) and of Llai 
in Merff'ordd. He bore vert, seme of broomslips a lion 
rampant or, armed and langued gules. He was tne eldest 
son of Caradog, or Cadrod Hardd, Lord of Tref Fodavon 

'. j«-fn MtJn,' who bore argent, two foxes counteraalient, the 
^(^exter surmounted by the sinister, gules, by his second 

'' wife, Augharad, daughter of Brochwael ab Y Moelwyn of 

Jj Llwydiarth in Mon. 

'- 1/ Caradog, or Cadrod Hardd, was the son of Gwrydr ab 

r*'" Maelog Ddft ab Cwnws DdA ab Cillyn Ynad ab Percdur 

•^ Teirnoodd ab Meilir Eryr Gwyr y Gorsedd ab Tydai ab 

Tudrcdd ab Gwylfyw ab Slarchudd ab Bran ab Pill ab 

Cynfyr ab Meilir Meiliorn ab Gwron ab Cunedda 

Wiedig, King of Cumberland, 530. 

/ Sanddef Hardd married Angharad, only daughter of 
Gruffydd ab Cadwgan, Lord of Nannau {or, a lion ram- 
pant azure). By this lady Sanddef had, besides Gruf- 

ih 'y'J'l Aiid other issue, a son and heir, 
/ 1* I / ^ "y 

J^ / /< J 1 Lmffs Dwnn. vol. ii, p. 264. 




COMOT OP MERFPORDD. 249 . ^ / 

Moreiddig, Lord of Mortyn and Llai, who mamed. / JL 
Tangwystl, daughter of Cadwgan ab Cadwaladr. second ^^^J^i ^ 
son of GruflFydd ab Cynan, King of Gwynedd {gules, f ' / 
three lions passant in pale argent). Cadwalladr was 
Lord of Ceredigion, and resided in the Castle of Aber- 
ystwyth. By this lady Moreiddig had issue three sons — 
1, Howel ; 2, Uywelyn of Mortyn, who married Cecilia, 
daughter and heiress of Llywelyn ab Dolphyn ab Uy- 
welyn Eurdorchog, Lord of 1^1 and Ystrad Alun, by 
whom he had a daughter and heiress, Sibyl, ux. Llywelyn 
ab Ithel ; and 3, Gruffydd ab Moreiddig. 

Howel ab Moreiddig, Lord of Mortyn and Llai, mar- 
ried, for his second wife, Gwenllian, relict of Ithel ab 
Eunydd, Lord of Trefalun, and daughter and co-heiress 
of Gruflfydd, third son of Meilir Eyton, Lord of Eyton, 
Erlys, and Bwras (ei^niine, a lion rampant azure). 
Gruflfydd ab Meilir married Angharad, daughter and 
heiress of Llywelyn ab Meurig ab Caradog ab lestyn ab 
Gwrgant, Prince of Glamorgan {gules, three chevronells 
f y argent). By this marriage Howel had issue, besides a 

i/iy^ daughter, Margaret, ux. Cynwrig Fychan ab Cynwrig 
• I Mj^y^ ^b Hoedliw, Lord of Cristionydd (ermine, a lion rampant 
I i^^^ ip sable), three sons, 1, lorwerth ab Howel ; 2, Ynyr ab 
/ ^L ( AlIpweL L ord of Gelli Gynan in 141. a.d. 11 6A ^ and 3, # 

^ I Ithel ab^ Howel, who rnarried Clementia, daughter of l/l^M^ 
J/^i t Cadwgan ab Meilir Eyton, Lord of Eyton {ermine, a /A • ^ 
\[^y^ Jioii rampant azw/'e), by whdm he had a daughter and L (^ 
^^^ heiress, Dyddgu, ux. Cadwgan Goch ab Y Gwion, L ord ^ h^ 
of Isd {s(Me, on a chcvTinter tliree goat's heads erased i 1%^ 
or, three trefoils of the field). ' 

lorwerth ab Howel, Lord of Mortyn and Llai, mar- 
ried, first, Jane, daughter of • Rhirid Foel of Blodwel 
{argent, three ravens heads erased ppr., their beaks 
ijules). Rhirid Foel was the third son, by his second 
wife, Eweredda, daughter of lago ab Gruflfydd ab Cynan, 
Prince of Gwynedd, of Gruflfydd, Lord of Cyfeiliog (ar, 
a lion's gamb erased in bend dexter wise, gules), second 
son of Maredydd ab Bleddyn, Trincc of Powys. By 
this match lorwerth had issue a son and heir. 



250 HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOG. 

Goronwy ab lorwerth, Lord of Mortyn and Llai, who, 
by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter of Rhys ab David ab 
Maredydd Hen ab Howei, natural son of Maredydd ab 
Bleddyn, Prince of Powys (ar, a lion ramp. gules\ had 
issue, besides a daughter, Mali, ux. Howel Goch ab 
Maredydd Fychan of Abertanad, ab Maredydd ab Rhys 
ab Maredydd ab Howel, natural son of Maredydd ab 
Bleddyn, Prince of Powys, a son and heir, 

JJavid Hen ab Goronwy, Lord of Mortyn and Llai. 
He married Angharad, daughter of lorwerth Goch of 
Burgedin, according to some authors, but, according to 
others, she was the daughter of lorwerth Goch ab Madog 
ab Maelion of Creuddyn, by whom he had issue eight 
sons and three daughters — 1, lorwerth ab David, of 
whom presently ; 2, GrufiFydd ab David ; 3, Goronwy 
Goch ab David of Mortyn, whose daughter and heiress, 
Gwenllian, married David of Yr Orsedd Goch, ab leuaf 
Llwyd ab Howel Fychan of Trefalun ; 4, Lly welyn, an- 
cestor of the Matheys of Llanestyn in Yr H6b, and 
^ / Jenkyn ab David of Trefalun, whose line is now repre- 
^' * /7 ,/^^sented by the heirs of the Trevors of Trefalun ; 5, David 




I . 'JloweJ 01 rickill m Maelor Gy mraeg ; and g, Madog ot , / 
^ ' //r'HorsUi. .(la^fu^^^ loi-iro. ^^A^^' ^^^ ^-^ 

y*^^yy^ Madog of Plis yn Horslli, the seventh son of David '^y 
if]' 1^ 1 1 Hen ab Goronwy, married, and had issue two sons, 

I. David of P14s yn Horslli, who was the father of 
leuan of Plils yn Horslli, whose daughter and heiress, 
Angharad, married leuan Llwyd ab Gruffydd Llwyd ab 
GrufiFydd Fychan of Trefalun. (See p. 214.) 

II. lorwerth of Horslli, who married and had issue 
one son, Ednyfed ab lorwerth of Horslli, his heir, who 
died s,p., and one daughter .... heiress of her brother, 
who married Ednyfed Llwyd ab lorwerth Fychan ab 
lorwerth ab Awr, ancestor of the Lloyds of Pl&s Madog 
in the manor of Rhiwabon. 

The three daughter of David H6n ab Goronwy of 
Mortyn were — 1, Angharad, who married, first, Madog ab 



/ 



V-^ COMOT OF MERFFORDD. 251 

r 

Llywelyn ab Gruffydd ab Cadwgan, Lord of Eyton, 
Erlys and Bwras, who died in 1331, and was buried on 
the Feast of St. Matthias, in the north aisle of Gresford 
Church {ermine^ a lion rampant azure). She married, 
secondly, Madog Foel of Y Glwysegl ; 2, Eva, ux. 
GruflFydd Grach ab lorwerth ab Meilir ab Goronwy ab 
GruflFydd ab Llywelyn ab Cynwrig Efell, Lord of Y 
Glwysegl, ancestor of the Eytons of Coed y Llai or 
Leeswood ; and 3, Gwenllian. 

lorwerth ab David H^n of Llai and Mortyn, married 
Gwenllian, daughter of Ithel Fychan ab Ithel Llwyd ab 
Ithel Gam, Lord of Mostyn. Ithel Fychan bore azure, a 
lion statant argent, and did homage for his lands to Ed- ' 
ward of Caernarvon at Chester, 29th Edw. I (1300). By 
this lady lorwerth had issue, besides a daughter, Margaret, 
ux. lorwerth of Bwras and Rhuddallt, fourth son of 
Llywelyn ab GruflFydd ab Cadwgan, Lord of Eyton, 
Erlys, and Bwras, and ancestor of the family of Bwras 
or Borasham of Bwras, six sons, 1, Goronwy ab lor- 
werth, of whom presently ; 2, Madog Distain ; 3, lor- 
werth Fychan, of whose line we have to treat ; 4, Gruf- 
fydd ab lorwerth, who married Gwenllian, daughter of 
Howel Fychan ab Howel ab Einion, by whom he had a 
daughter and heiress, ux. Maredydd ab Llywelyn Ddu 
of Abertanad and Blodwel, second son of Gruffydd ab 
lorwerth Foel of Maelor Saesneg ; 5, leuan ab lorwerth, 
who married Margaret, daughter of David ab Madog, 
Baron of Hendwr in Edeyrnion ; and 6, lorwerth Foel, 
who married Margaret, daughter of Maredydd ab Gruf- 
fydd Llwyd ab Llywelyn ab Ynyr of 141. 

Goronwy of Llai, the eldest son of lorwerth ab David, 
bore argent, on a bend sable, three muUeta of the field, 
died and was buried in the Llai Chapel on the north 
aisle of Gresford Church. His tomb, on which he is 
represented recumbent in armour, with his mailed hand 
grasping his sword, stiU remains. The arms on his 
shield are a bend charged with three mullets, and there 
is also this inscription, " Hic iacet gronw. f. torwerth. 
F. DD. cvi AiE DS ABSOLWAT." Hc married Gwenllian, 



252 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

daughter of Adda Goch ab leuaf ab Adda ab Awr of 
Trevor, by whom he had issue, besides two daughters, 
Margaret, ux. Madog ab Llywelyn of Halchdyn in 
Maelor Saesneg, eldest son of Ednyfed Gam of Llys 
Pengwem in Nautheudwy, and Angharad, ux. David of 
Rhiwlo, a son and heir, 

David ab Goronwy of Llai, who married Angharad, 
/ / y ^^ daughter of GruflFydd ab Llywelyn ab C3niwrig ab Osbern 

.-*----^ Wyddel of Cors y Gedol {^ermine ^ a saltier ywZe^, a ores- ^ ^ 
v-f >z^y^ cent or, for difference), by whom he had two daughters, \fjyr 
/C^ /Jw^c^eirs, l^Eva, second wife of Sir Jenkyn Hanmer y^^ 
y ^^it^ of Hanmer, Knt, ab Sir David Hanmer (argent^ two ^ 
•^^lions passant gardant azure) ; and 2, Margaret, ux. Madog 
^/ Puleston of Bers. This Madog Puleston took the arms 

y ^^i^f his wife's family, viz., argent^ on a bend sable^ three 
^^ mullets of the field. 

lorwerth Fychan of Mortyn, the third son of lorwerth 
ab David, bore sahUy three roses argent, seeded or. He 
married Lleuci, daughter of Maredydd Llwyd ab Mare- 
dydd ab Rhys Goch, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Madog ab lorwerth of Mortyn, who married Gwen- 
hwyfar, daughter of Rhys ab Ithel ab Maredydd, by 
whom he had issue, besides a daughter, Catherine, ux. 
©ruffydd ab David Sutton of Sutton and Gwersyllt, 
two sons, 1, David^Almcr, whose daughter and heiress, 
Lleuci, married Madog ab Gruffydd ab Madog ab 
Robert ab David Goch ab David H^n ab Goronwy of 
MortyD and Llai {vert, seme of broomslips a lion ram- 
pant or) ; and 2, Gruffydd Fychan. 

Gruffydd Fychan, the second son of Madog ab lor- 
werth, was of Talwrn by Croes Howel in Mortyn. He 
married Gwenllian, daughter of David of Yr Orsedd 
Goch in Gresford Parish, son of leuaf Llwyd ab Howel 
Fychan ab Howel Wyddel of Trefalun (azure^ a lion 
salient or), but, according to others, she was the daughter 
of David ab Ithel Llwyd ab Ithel Fychan, by whom he 
had issue three sons, 1, David Fychan, of whom pre- 
sently ; 2, Madog ab Gruffydd ; and 3, Owain ab 
Gruffydd. 




COMOT OF MERFFORDD. 253 

David Fychan of Mortyn married three wives — 1, 
Gwen, daughter of David ab. lorwerth ab Madog Ddu of 
Abyntbury, ab GrufiFydd ab lorwerth Fychan ab lor- 
werth ab leuaf ab Niniaf ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn 
{ermine, a lion rampant sable), by whom he had one son, 
Gruffydd ab David, who died 5. p., and a daughter, 
Catherine, ux. Richard Tegyn of Fron Deg, Sergeant-at- 
Arms, son of Robert Tegyn ab David ab Tegyn ab 
Madog ab lorwerth Goch ab Madog ab leuaf ab Niniaw 
{ei^ne, a lion rampant sable). He married, secondly, 
Eva, daughter and co-heir of Hov/el ab Maredydd ab 
leuaf Llwyd of Trefalun, ab Howel Fychan ab Howel 
Wyddel ab lorwerth ab Einion ab Ithel ab Eynydd, 
Lord of Trefalun (azurey a lion salient or), by whom he 
had a son and heir, Howel, of whom presently ; and, 
thirdly, he married a daughter of Edward Strad- 
linge. 

Howel ab David was the first of this branch of the 
family who settled at Plas yn HorsUi, which place he 
became possessed of m right of his^ wife Margaret, 
daughter and heiress of leuan Llwyd, Perchenwr PlIU yn -y^^ / 
HorsUi, who was the son of Gruffydd Llwyd ab David ^rf^^ 
Fychan of Trefalun, ab David ab Madog ab lorwerth ab rT^^^-^i • 

leuaf ab lorwerth ab Einion of Trefalun, the eldest son 

of Ithel ab Eynydd, Lord of the townships of Trefalun, 
and Y Groesffordd. The above-named leuan Llwyd, 
who was originally of Trefalun, became possessed of 
PISb yn Horslli by his marriage with Angharad, daughter 
and heiress of leuan ab David ab Madog of Horslli, 
seventh son of David HSn ab Goronwy of Mortyn and 
Llai {;peri, seme of broomslips, a lion rampant or). By 
his wife, Margaret, Howel ab David had issue, besides a 
daughter .... the wife of William ab David ab Gruf- 
fydd ab David ab Llywelyn of Trefalun, g_8o n and heir ^ 

Jhomag PowelL of P14s yn Horslli, Constable of Holt 
Castle. He married Catherine, daughter and heiress of 
Lancelot Lowther, Constable of Holt Castle, who bore p^/f^^^^ 
or, six annulets sable, by whom he had issue -^5?^sons, ^^^^^ 
1, Thomas, of whom presently ; 2, JohniXancelot ; A/ 







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254 HISTORy OF POWYS FADOG. / 

6^ / 

^ George, Anthony ; and tt? Edward, whoall, with the ex-^ . 

ception of Thomas, died s,p.; and 4SSc daughters, 1,^ 

Anne, ux. Richard Roy don of Holt; 2, Margaret, ux./^*^ 

^j/k/A William ftiadstog; 3, Dqrot^, ux. John Ffylkyn; 4, Z''' 

//,^^f Wenhwyfrid, who had four^husbands, first, John Norton ; /^^ 

f jo^^ second, George Tormacon ; third, Edward Gt)tley ; and ^^ 

'^ ^ fourth, John Dod \.f^^ 5i Ursula, ux. Alexander Coatea. 

^Th omas Powell or Pl&s yn HorsUi, died at a great \2il 

age and was buried at St. Mary's, Gresford, April 26tb, /^ 




1613, and his wife, Alice, diedoa-December 25th, 1609, ^^ 
and was buried at ^teesford.^^M^e was the daughter and ^^^ 
co-heiress of Ralph Worteetejtsfif Worsley of Ircrkett* in ^jX 




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Cheshire,* by whom he had issue six sons and two L 
daughters, 1, Thomas, of whom presently ; 2, John ; 3, ^^ 
Wil1i>ni^Pf) WQll of Chester, DfipntijT 4, Ralph ; 5, ^^ 
Alexander; and 6, George Powell, who was Uving in 
1640, and married to n ^ftwghtnr of Jci^tCJAoyd oi^Jj 
Hersedd in Ystrad Alun. The eldest daughter, Alice, iL^ 
married John Lloyd of Llys Vassi, and Joanna^ the se- 
cond daughter, married Roger Roydon of Holt and Is y 
Coed, Captain in the Royal Army. 

Thomas Powell of Plds yn Horslli, the eldest son, was 
High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1591. He married 
Dorothy, daughter of Maurice Wynn of Gwydir (vert, 
three eagles displayed in fess or), and died September 
18th, 1629, and was buried at St. Mary's in Chester, 
having had five sons, 1, Sir Thomas, of whom presently ; 
2, John Powell, of whom presently ; 3, Roger ; 4, 
Bichard Powell^ M.A., who resided in Ireland ; and 5, 
Worsley Powell ; and four Jauffhters^ 1, Eleanor : 2, . 

^ The arms of Worsley of Birkett were, . . . f . . a chevron inter three 
falcons %ahU^ the leashes gule%, 

2 Hugh Worsley, who was descended from Jordan Worsley of 
Worsley Manor, married a daughter of Standish of Standish, by 
whom he had a son, William Worsley of Berkett in Cheshire, who 
married Joanna, daughter of Adam Birkenhead of Huxley, by wliom 
he was father of Ralph Worsley of Berkett, who married a daughter 
of Pick of London, by whom he had two daughters, co-heirs, Alice, 
ux. Thomas Powell ; and Avisa, who married, first, Thomas Vaudrey, 
secondly, Humphrey Davenport, and, thirdly, John Shakerley. 




/.^f .COMOT OF MERFFORDD. 255 

Margaret, ux. William Edwards of Eyton, High SheriflF 
for CO. Denbigh in 1654 ; 3, Catherine, ux. Roger Da vies 
of Eriys, ab John ab Richard Davies of Eriys, ab David 
ab Howel ab Edward Puleston of Cristionydd, ab Madog 
Puleston of Bers {argent, on a bend scMe^ there mullets 
of the field) ; and 4, Sidney^;4^arZ. MS., 2180.) , — - 

John Powell, the second son of Thomas Powell and 
Dorothy his wife, was of Bodylltyu in the township and 
pariish of Rhiwabon, which place he acquired by his ^^^v^y 
wife, Jane, the daughter of John ^ifille of London, mer- '^^^^-^^^ 
chant, who purchased it from John Eyton. John Powell, 
who was living in 1620, had issue three daughters, co- 
heirs, 1, Jane, ux. Edward Williams of Hafod y Bwch, 
son and heir of William ab David ab leuan Llwyd ;* 
2, Catherine, ux. Maurice Matthew, Clk, Rector of Er- 
bistog in 1660 (see Blodwel Fechan) ; and 3^^ . . who /^ ^v*^^"*"^ 
sold her lands to the Rector of Erbistog. I4 'Ta^t^^-o-f '^^^^-r*''*'^ 
Sir Thomas Powell of Plds yn HorsUi, son and heir ^^^ ' 

apparent of Thomas Powell and Dorothy his wife, was 
created a Baronet by King Charles I in January 1628,^ ' jUi ^ 
and was High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1639. He (p^"^ 
married Catherine, daughter of Sir John Egerton of 
Oulton in Cheshire, Knt., and Margaret his wife, daughter 
of Sir Rowland Stanley of Hooton, Knt, by whom he 
had issue two sons, 1, Thomas, who died in 1627 s.jp., 
in his great grandfather's lifetime ; and 2, John, of whom 
presently ; and one daughter, Ffrances, who married, 
first, Edward Norreys of Speke Hall in Lancashire, 
and secondly, John Edwards of Stansti in the manor of 

y . Y Glwysegl, and died September 19th, 1655. 

ft«/^t^ John Powell of-B trfc c TOod , the second son of Sir Thomas, 
died in December 1642 in his father's lifetime. He 
married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Edward 
Puleston of Trefalun, ab Edward Puleston of Trefalun, 
* ab Edward Puleston, second son of Sir Richard Puleston 
of Emrall, Knt. By his wife, Margaret, who died Nov. 
23rd, 1663, John Powell had issue two sons, 1, Sir 

' See Penylan. 



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256 HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 

Thomas, of whom presently ; and 2, Woreley, who died^ 
in his father's lifetime ; and four daughters, 1, Cath-^^^'^*^^ 
erine ; 2, Ffrances, ux. Thomas - Roddondftlc of Wrex-^ 
ham; 3, Elizabeth, oh, July 5th, 1663, s, p.; and 4, 
Anne. 

Sir Thomas Powell of P14s yn Horslli, Bart, was 
High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1657. He married, 
first, Mary, daughter of William Conwy of Bodrhyddan 
in Tegeingl {sable, on a bend cottised argent, a rose be- 
tween two annulets gules), by whom he had issue two 
sons, \h|irThomas, of whom presently ; and 2, William, 
who died s.p. Sir Thomas married, secondly, Jane, 
daughter of Robert Kavenscroft of Bretton, and relict of 
Henry Hardware of Peele, by whom he had issue two 
daughters, 1, Elizabeth, ux. Thomas Eyton of Trimley 
and Coed y Llai, High Sheriff for co. Flint in 1684 ; 
and 2, Margaret. Sir Thomas died and was buried at 
Gresford, September 28th, 1706, aged seventy -five. 

Thomas Powell of Pl^s yn Horslli, Esq., was bom in 
1 650. He was High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1 684, and 
died April 9th, 1689, in his father's lifetime. He married, 
first, Anne, daughter and heiress of Walter Cookes of Lon- 
don, merchant, and relict of Timothy Myddleton of Pant 
locyn. By her, who was buried at Gresford in 1675, he 
had issue one son, W illiam, oh. s.jfh, and_two daughtejg/ 
Mary and Margaret.^^TThomas PowelTmameJ, secondly, ^^ ' 
Winefrid, daughter and heiress of John Mibbo of Cn^- --^^^^ 
combe in co. Somerset (or, three negro's heads ppr., 
wreathed argent), by her, who died anAwas buried at 
Gresford in 1701, he left issue a son,fSajiiuel, and^ / ^ 
daughter named Winefride. K^v h^ma*^ C^^^y^d^"*^ iMiy^ 

The mala line of the Baronet family of the Powells of ^i^ . 
Pl&s yn Hoi^Ui is now extinct, v In the Gresford Re- n^^ 
gisters we find that Edward Lloyd of Horslli, Esq , was / ^^ 
buried there in 1714. ""^'A- 

In Gresford Church is a moniiment with the following 
inscription {Harl MS. 2129, fo. 24) : 

" Here lyeth the body of Thomas Powell of Horsley, Esq., 
son and heir of Sir Thomas Powell, Bart., who in his l^fe 



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ANCIENT RACES. 2o/ 

tyme married two wives ; the first was Anne, dau. to Walter 
Cookes of London, merchant, by whom he had a son that 
died young, Mary and Margaret. The second wife was Wine- 
fred, dau. and heir to John Micho of Crascombe, in the county 
of Somerset, Esq., by whom he had two sons and two daughters, 
died 9 April 1689, aged .... years." 



• . . • 



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All the atchievments of the said Thomas Powell are 
hung on the pillar, viz., pcnon, helmet, and crest, etc. M/i/ia^ 

Arms. — Sable, three roses ""•j""Vwi^h n 1"^"^^ ^^ impaling '^'^ f C'^ 
or, three negro's heads couped sablcy wreathed argent, for '^t^ - 

Micho. -jc.£— ir- ^r 

Crests. — On a helmet in a ducal coronet gules, 
'flrfr^^^^rteflkf i d frfthn fir.ifi Tfith thrnn 

On a helmet, a negro's head couped ppr., wreath argent. 

THE ANCIENT RACES AND MONUMENTS OP 

BRITAIN. 

The oblong tumuli or long barrows that are found in 
almost all parts of the kingdom are the burial places of 
those inhabitants of the island who lived in the Neo- 
lithic Age. The most important remains of that period 
are the vast serpent mounds, the cromlechs, and the up- 
right monoliths or Meini Hirion, and the oval tumuli. 
Of the cromlechs, Kits Coedy House, near Aylcsford in 
Kent, consists of four stones of great size and hardness 
standing upright in the ground, which remains to this 
day, but the top stone is gone. Aubrey, in the Monu- 
menta Bntannica, says : ** About a mile from White 
Horse Hill, on the top of the hill, are a great many 
great stones, which were layed there on purpose, but as 
if tumbled out of a cart, without any order ; but some of 
them are placed edgewise." He also says "that the 
sepulchre was 74 paces long and 24 broad", and was 
like the cromlech called Y Lech at Cacr Gybi in Mon. 

There are two lonoj barrows made of lar^re stones on the 

highest summit of the western extrenjity of Esgair 

-Clochfaen, in the parish of Llangurig in Arwystli. It 

has been suggested to me by some of my friends, that 



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258 HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

the word Cloch-faen is a corruption of Goluch-Faen, or 
Stone of Worship. The bones found in these tumuli were 
those of a short dolicho-cephalic race, that is, a race 
whose skulls were long and narrow, and the implements 
buried with them were either of stone or flint. 

'* With regard to the ancient inhabitants of Britain", 
said Tacitus, ** and whether they sprang from the soil or 
came from abroad is unknown, as is usually the case 
with barbarians. Their physical characteristics are va- 
rious, and from this conclusions may be drawn. The 
red hair and large limbs of the Caledonians point clearly 
to a German origin. The dark complexion of the 
Silures, their usually curly hair, and the fact that Spain 
is the opposite coast to them, are evidence that Iberians 
of a former date crossed over and occupied those parts." 
For a corroboration of this statement of Tacitus, I refer 
the reader to the work entitled Cave TTunting, by Prof. 
Boyd Dawkins. 

Professor Rolleston states, in the work on British 
Bar rows, p. 679 : ** As regards the earlier of the two 
prehistoric races, we have in this country dolicho-cephaly 
combined with low stature and dark complexion in a 
very considerable number of our population. The fact 
of the existence of this stock — or perhaps, we may say, 
of its survival and its reassertion of its own distinctive 
character, in the districts of Derby, etc. — was pointed 
out in the year 1848 by the late Professor Phillips, at a 
meetincr of the British Association at Swansea. 

From the sepulchral discoveries it appears that the 
Neolithic tribes occupied the whole of Britain themselves, 
for perhaps many ages. Sul)sequently, however, they 
were invaded by men of a different race, whose remains 
we find buried in round barrows. From these remains 
we find that the invaders were a tall race of men with 
short round or brachi-cephalic skulls, and that all their 
weapons were made of bronze. These bronze weapons 
are always found buried with them, whether we find 
them buried with the Neolithic race, or separately in 
their round tumuli. Stonehenge is surrounded by a 



ANCIENT RACES. 259 

vast number of long barrows, although there arc many 
round ones. Dr. Thurnam says that two of the round 
barrows near Stonehenge appear to be contemporary, or 
very slightly posterior, to the date of the temple itself. 
** In digging down to their base, chippiugs and frag- 
ments, not merely of the Sarsens were found, but like- 
wise of the blue felspathic hornstones, f »reign to Wilt- 
shire, which assist in the formation of the Megalithic 
structure.'' 

" We here see traces of at least two nations established 
in these islands before the era of the Celtic settlements. 
Some prefer to include in one wide description all the 
fair tribes of high stature with red or golden hair, and 
blue or grey-blue eyes ; and they count as true Celts all 
of that kind who are neither Danes nor Germans. Some 
chiss together in the same way all the short peoples 
with black hair and eyes, whether pale-skinned or ruddy 
in complexion, calling them Iberians on account of their 
supposed affinity with the dark races remaining in the 
south of Europe. All the tall, round-headed and broad- 
headed men are described together as comprising ** the 
van of the Aryan army", with whom became intermin- 
gled tall dark and red-haired men from Scandinavia, 
and fair people of Low-German descent. All the short 
and dark races, whether long-headed or round-skulled, 
are treated as descendants of a primitive non-Aryan 
stock, including " the broad-headed dark Welshman, and 
the broad-headed dark Frenchman", antl connected by 
blood, not only with the modern Bcisque, but with the 
ancient and little known Ligurian and Etruscan races.^ 

Diodorus Siculus, who lived in the first century after 
Christ, when describing Britain says : " There is in that 
island a magnificent temple of Apollo, and a circular 
shrine, adorned with votive offerings, and tablets with 
Greek inscriptions on the walls. The kings of that city 
and rulers of the Temple are the Boreads, who take up 
the government from each other according to the order 

^ Or iff Ins of English History, By Charles Elton, Esq. London : 
Bernard Quaritch, 15, Piccadilly. 

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260 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

of their tribes. The citizens are given up to music, 
harping, and chaunting in honour of the Sun/^ This 
temple is generally supposed to be that of Stonehenge ; 
if that is the case, Stonehenge had not been destroyed 
in the first century after Christ. 

If any person of importance were in peril from disease 
or the chance of war, a criminal or slave was killed or 
promised as a substitute. The Druids held that by no 
other means could a man s life be redeemed or the wrath 
of the gods appeased ; and they went so far as to teach 
that the crops would be fertile in proportion to the rich- 
ness of dcath.^ It became a national institution to oflFer 
a ghastly hecatomb at particular seasons of the year. In 
some places the victims were crucified or shot to death 
with arrows ; elsewhere they would be stufffed into huge 
figures of wicker-work, or a heap of hay would be laid 
out in the human shape, where men, cattle, and wild 
beasts were burned in a general holocaust. 

In the Bible we read of Jehovah requiring the human 
sacrifices of seven of Saul's sons, in order to remove a 
fiimine in the days of David ; and, after they were hung 
up, " God was entreated for the land". And later on we 
are told that Jesus, the son of the Virgin Mary, was 
offered up as a sacrifice to Jehovah to appease his wrath. 

In the Highlands, even in modern times, there were 
May-day bonfires at which the spirits were implored to 
make the year productive. A feast was set out upon 
the grass, and lots were drawn for the semblance of 
human sacrifice ; and whoever drew the " black piece" 
of a cake dressed on the fire was made to leap three 
times through the flame. In many parts of France, the 
sheriffs or the mayor of the town burned baskets filled 
with wolves, foxes, and cats, in the bonfires at the Feast 
of St. John. '* C etait en beaucoup d'endroits en France 
Tusage de jeter dans le feu de la Saint-Jean des mannes 
ou des paniers en osier contenant des animaux, chats, 
chiens, renards, loups. Au si&cle dernier mSrae dans 
plusieurs villes c'^tait le maire ou les 6chevins qui fai- 

1 Strabo, iv, 272. Cirsar, De Ikll. Gall, vi, 15. 



ANCIENT RACES. 261 

saient mettre dans un panier une ou deux douzaines de 
chats pour bruler dans le feu de joie. Cette coutiime 
existait aussi k Paris, et elle n y a etc supprimee qu'au 
commencement du rfegne de Louis XIV."^ 

It is said that the Basques burn vipers in wicker 
panniers at Midsummer, and that Breton villagers will 
sacrifice a snake when they burn the sacred boat to the 
goddess who has taken the title of St. Anne. 

The valley of the Wye and the beautiful broken hill- 
country west of the Malvern range have one of the most 
confused and uncertain histories among all the English 
shires. Naturally a district of Gwent, in South Wales, 
and still inhabited for the most part by a peasantry of 
Welsh descent, many of whom even now employ their 
ancestral Cymric tongue, it was yet early attached to 
the English interest, and has been counted, in its eastern 
half at least, as a part of England from the very first 
days of the Teutonic conquest. Long before that period 
Herefordshire, with several of the surrounding shires, 
formed part of the old principality or kingdom of the 
Silures, the British race that held out with fiercest 
energy against the invading Roman legionaries. Modern 
anthropological investigations have tended to show that 
the Silurians were not a pure Celtic race, but a dark, 
long-skulled, non-Aryan people, allied to the primitive 
Neolithic inhabitants of Britain, and perhaps, also, to the 
modern Biisques of the Pyrenean region. To this day 
the type of physique usually identified with the rem- 
nants of the prehistoric Euskarian stock is exceptionally 
common among the men of Hereford ; and even the 
casual visitor can hardly fail to be struck by the dark com- 
plexions, oval heads, and prominent cheek-bones so fre- 
quently noticed in the country districts about Ross and 
Monmouth. Be this as it may, however, it is at least 
certain that the Silurians, even if originally Euskarian 
by race, must have adopted the Celtic tongue at a very 
early date, as their brethren, the so-called Black Celts, 

* Gaidoz, Esqnisse dt la Religic/n des Gaulois. See also vol. i, pp. 
40, 41, 42, 52, 266. 



262 HISTORY OF POWVS FADOG. 

have long done in Ireland and Scotland. During the 
Roman invasion these Celticized aborigines offered a 
peculiarly sturdy resistance to the southern conquerors. 
Herefordshire, indeed, is the classic country of Caracta- 
CU8 (Caradog), the land celebrated in the vigorous rhe- 
toric of Tacitus as the last home of British freedom. 
The great range of late pre-Koman earthworks which 
caps the Malvern hills probably marks the first line of 
defence thrown up by the Silurian chief against the ad- 
vance of Ostorius, who had crossed the Severn to attack 
liim with all the troops collected from the numerous 
stations that dot the surface of the Cotswolds. The 
camps at Whitborne, Croft-Ambrcy, Thornbury, and 
Wapley, seem to belong to a later campaign, when the 
line of the Malverns was abandoned, and Caractacus 
was forced to fall back upon his secondary range of fort- 
resses in the rear. Finally, Coxwall Knoll is held, with 
great probability, to be the scene of the last desperate 
defence, immortalised in the vague description of Ta- 
citus. 

The Silures, however, says Tacitus, induced the other 
nations to revolt, and the Iceni broke out into open war, 
but were defeated by Ostorius. " In this state of affairs 
Ostorius dies, being quite spent with fatigue and trou- 
ble. The enemy rejoiced at his death as a general in no 
way contemptible, and the rather because, though he did 
not fall in battle, he expired under the burthen of that 
war."^ 

After Frontinus had at length pacified the whole dis- 
trict from the Forest of Dean to the banks of the Usk, 
we hear for the first time the name around which the 
whole subsequent history of the country centres — that of 
Ariconium. The important station so styled lay either 
at Koss itself or at Weston-under-Penyard, two miles 
distant. Just as the root-syllable of Uriconium, vari- 
ously disguised, crops up over and over agnin in the 
history of the Wrekin district, so the root-syllable of the 
very similar Ariconium perpetually occurs in the history 

^ Tacitus, Ann., xii, 31) (Camden). 



ANCIENT RACES. 2G3 

of ancient and mediaeval Herefordshire. Long after the 
Romans had left the country, the dubious Welsh writer, 
quoted as Nennius, speaks of this region under the name 
of Ercing, a word whose connection with Ariconium is 
not particularly clear until we recollect that the first 
was pronounced hard like Erkiug, while the second was 
a Latinised variation of some crude form, Aricon or 
Arcon. Geoffrey of Monmouth, a writer of local know- 
ledge, calls it Hergin ; and, indeed, the lively and ro- 
mantic archdeacon is never very remarkable for cor- 
rectness in the use of aspirates. In the English Chro- 
nicle and other Anglo-Saxon documents the name is 
converted into a typical Teutonic clan-title, as Ircinga- 
feld ; and from that corrupt form it has been finally 
modernised into Archenfield, a clear product of sound 
local etymological instinct, still preserving for us in a 
fairly recognisable shape the old root of Ariconium. 

So much for the most primitive name of Hereford- 
shire itself, regarded as a fixed unit of territory. The 
historv of the folk who dwell in it is far more com- 
plicated. Veiy soon after the earliest West Saxon 
brigands had crossed the Cotswolds and settled down in 
the rich valley of the lower Severn around Gloucester 
and Worcester, a small outlying colony from this young 
parent state appears to have penetrated still further 
westward and conquered for itself from the Welsh of 
Gwent a petty principality in the hither half of Here- 
fordshire. The men of the Worcestershire kingdom 
were called Hwiccas : those of the region beyond the 
Malvems became known as Magessetas — a name of the 
same type as the Dorsaetas, the Somerssetas, the Wilsse- 
tas, and the Defnsa^tas of southern Wessex, or as the 
Wroken-saetas and Pec-saetas of Shropshire and Derby- 
shire. The termination seems usually to imply a settle- 
ment of a few English overlords among a large con- 
quered and servile Celtic population ; and such was 
certainly the case in Herefordshire, where the number of 
slaves recorded in Domesday is unusually high. Per- 
haps the first syllable of the name may be derived from 



2G4 HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

the Roman station of Magna — or the Cymric word 
which it represents — as that of the Dorsetaes is cognate 
with Durnovaria, and that of the Wrokensaetas with Urico- 
nium. Another small English tribe of West Hecans seems 
also to have inhabited old Herefordshire; yet Florence 
of Worcester, who is usually remarkable for his accuracy 
in dealing with his own district and its neighbourhood, 
apparently identifies them with the Magesaetas. When 
the Mercian kings began to consolidate the petty prin- 
cipalities of the Midlands, and to drive the West Saxons 
across the Thames and the Avon, they united the lands 
of the Hwiccas and Magesaetas to their own overlord- 
ship, but left the native princes in possession as subject 
kings or ealdormen. The town of Hereford, which had 
acquired its present name in the exact modern form as 
early as the days of Bede, was made into the see of the 
Bishop of the Magesaetas shortly after the conversion of 
Mercia. But it must then have been a border fortress 
of the Teutonic colonists ; for the Wye remained the 
boundary between Welsh and English long after the days 
of Offii, and the portion of Herefordshire beyond that 
river contains local names almost exclusively of the 
Welsh type to the present day.^ 



THE BRITISH KINGS OF HEREFORD, GLOUCESTER, 
ERGING OR URKENFIELD, AND EWIAS. 

Caenawg Gawr ab lorwerth Hirflawdd ab Tegonwy ab Teon, etc.=i= 

See vol. i, p. 360. | 



Caradoff Ffreichfras, King of Hereford, Gloucester, Erging, and Ewias.=f= 

I 

Hyfaidd, King of Heref ord, Gloucester, Erging. and Ewia8.=T = 

I 

Lluddoccaf, King of Hereford, Gloucester, Ergine. and Ewia8.=f= 



Rhiengar, 8ole=j=Ynyr ab Cadfarch, lineally descended from Vortigem, 
bt'iross. I Prince of Erging and Ewias, and King of Britain. 



^ »SL Jamca's (j'azcltc. 



COWYDD I STON AB RHYS AB MAURICE. 265 

Tudor Trevor, King of Hereford, Glouce8ter,=j=Angharad, d. of Hywel Dda, 
Erging, and Ewias; ob. 94S. j King of W aSoa. 

Goronwy died in his father's lifetime. =p Lluddoccaf. See Dingad. Vol. 
See vol. i, p. 308. | vol. i, p. 310. i, p. 309. 

Bhiengar, sole heiress. =pCuheljn ab Ifor ab Severus, Prince of Baallt. ' See 
I vol. i, p. 308. 



Elystan Glodrhndd, Prince of Fferlis, King of Hereford, Gloace8ter,=f= 
Erging, and Ewias. Born in Hereford Castle, and was living in the 
year 1010. 



I 
Cadwgan, Prince of Fferlis. He was defeated in battle by William the Con- 
queror, who took his kingdom of Hereford, Gloacester, Erging, and 
Ewias. 

The history of some of his descendants is given in 
vol. ii, p. 300, and their genealogy at p. 322. One 
branch of this house settled in the parish of Llangurig. 
The following is their descent, as far as I have been able 
to trace it in the Ilarl. MS. 1969. 

Maorice ab Madog ab Einion ab Howel of Mochdref and Ceri.=f= 
Vol. ii. p. 225. I 

£hys ab Maurice of Mochdref.=f=Eva, d. of Howel ab Owain ab Gruffydd ab 

I lenan ab Meilir ab Menwn. 

John of Llan- » Dyddgu, d. of Jenkyn ab Llywelyn ab Howel ab Richard, 
gurig. Khys ab David ab Howel Fychan of Cefn yr 

Haibdau in Llangurig. See vol. ii, p. 289, and 
Uiitory of Llangurig, by Mr. Edward Hamer. 



COWYDD I SIGN AB RHYS AB MAURICE.^ 

Mae o Einion ymwanwr, 
Mynnu'r gamp mae'n oreu gwr. 
Mao hwy arfau'r mab hirfawr, 
Mae llun gwych fal Lleon Gawr, 
Y mae grym y gwr yma, 
O dy waid, hwn ei dad da. 
Mao gwayw Sion mwy aM gad of, 
Mynn ei waithdrafn mown wyth drof. 
Mao clcdd du yn gyvru^n gwaith, 
Montr toilwng mewn tair talaith, 



1 From Add JfS. 14,901, No. 12, in the British Museum. 



266 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Er ffo dewrion He bon' byth, 

Na chwilio gwych wehelyth. 

Ni flF^ Sion, hoff yw ei swydd ; 

Er gwarau gwr a gorwydd ; 

Gwas dewrwych, a gais daraw, 

A'i gweryl aeth gar ei law. 

Gwr yr Sion a gurai saith^ 

Gwr dinam, garw, diweniaitb, 

Ni roi gef h er ei gyfarch, 

Sein ar wr mai Sion yw 'r arth. 

Gwr yw Sion gorau y sydd, 

Arg ofion k 'r gway w efydd ; 

Llew glan o Elystan Llwyth, 

Lie 'i daliodd llu & 'i dylwytli. 

Lliw gwyn o Frochdyn a'i frig. 

Lie mae arwydd llew Meurig. 

Sarff yw gas, Syr Ffwg o \Vr, 

Os am ynys ymmwanwr; 

Dyged o Gorbed y gair, 

Draw Farwn, byth drwy fawrair. 

Y Mochdref mae ef am waed 

At ais a gwrdd t'wysogwaed.^ 

Trig ar fwng trwy Geri fawr 

Traws flin-walch teiroes flaenawr. 

Nid enyll neb o'i dynion 

Am droi swydd i*m daro, Sion : 

Ni fyn Sion union anair, 

E fyn &'r flF^nn ofni'r Ffair; 

E fyn gael fo iawn i gyd ; 

A fyn odd, a fu enyd. 

Ef yw'r bw i fawr a bach ; 

Heb ochel ni bu weliach. 

Dewr y w Sion, a dyrys yw, 

Drwy gedyrn fel draig ydy w. 

Oen diddig oni ddigier, 

Obry'n mysg brawn a mer 

Ei wraig a rydd rywiawg ran 

O'r gorau aur ac arian. 

Ei bwyd rhoes heb wad yn rhydd 

Odidawg, a'i diodydd. 

Gwen, gu, Ian, gan galenig, 

Gwen bur-ddoeth, gwn, heb awi' ddig. 



Mochdref, a parish adjoining Llandinam, and near Newtown, 



ODE TO JOHN AB RHYS AB MAURICE. 267 

Lloer Siancyn gwreiddin graddol, 

Llirddynt had, llwy-ddiant i'w hoi. 

[Gwraig] Sion gwyrael Llangurig 

Lloer i bro, lliw aur i brig, 

I g^d hefyd gad, Dofydd, 

Gwen a Sion dau c&n^ oes hydd, 

AM gwr el o^i gwerylon, 

Ag y sydd gorau, IS ion. 

Ni bu Rys mynebwr well 

Yn eich hoedl oedd na Chadell, 

Na Morys yn ei mawredd, 

Nag Eiuion wych, gwn, un wedd, 

Nag Elystan aig Iwys dad, 

Na deunaw gynt yn y g&d. 

Y Niidd yw Sion ootid i'w serch, 

Addaw^ rh odd ion ail Rhydderch, 

North Einion wrth ei ynys, 

A fu^m mhob braich Sion mab Rhys. 

Nerth Dduw i Sion, wyrthiau'r Saint. 

Vvf dal hyuod el heuaint. 

Sion Ceri tVi Gani 



AN ODE ADDRESSED TO JOHN AB RHYS AB 

MAURICE2 OF LLANGURia. 

By John, the Bard of Kerry. 

A tilter comes of Einion^s race. 
None better loves the game, 
A youth stout and tall — his arms are taller still, 
Noble is his form, like that of Lleon Gawr '? 
The strength of our hero 
Is said to equal that of his doughty father. 

1 " Adaw'» in MS. 

2 Maurice ab Madog ab Einion ab Howel of Mochdref, Esq., son of 
Tudor ab Einion Fychau, Lord of Ccfu y Llys, descended from Ely- 
stan Olodrudd, Prince of Fferlis. He married Tangwystl, daughter 
and co-heiress of Gruftydd ab Jcnkyn, Lord of Broughton, who bore 
sable^ a chevron inter three owls argent. By this lady, Maurice had 
issue six sous — 1, Icuau Lloyd; 2, Khys; 3, David; 4, Llewelyn; 
5, Maurice Fychan, whoso daughter and co-heiress, Catherine, married 
Jenkyn Goch of Clochfaen ; and 6, leuan Gwyn. 

^ A king of Britain, according to the Bruts, who built Chester, 
called to this day Caer Lleon Gawr, the Fortress of Lleon the Giant. 
— Williams's Eminent Welshmen, p. 276. 



268 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Greater still hath the spear of John been proved, 

In eight towns is the effect of its thrust desired. 

In battle he drives his black sword 

With a worthy daring in the three principalities.^ 

From where they stand to the last, though brave men fly. 

His noble tribe will never yield their ground. 

Fly will not John, his duty is dear to him. 

In the play of horse and horseman^ 

A youth stout and mettlesome, who will strive to strike. 

When his quarrel has come to his hand. 

John is a hero who can beat seven, 

A hero void of offence, rough, no flatterer. 

Who, though he be courted, will not cringe — 

The bear is the sign that the man is John. 

A hero is John, possessed of the best 

Reminiscences, with the brazen spear. 

A pure-bred lion of Elystan's tribe,^ 

Where with his people he avenged himself on a host 

Of the white hue of Broughton and its branch* 

Where is the symbol of the lion of Meurig ? 

He is a hateful serpent, a Sir Fulke of a man^ 

If called to combat for the Island.® 

Derived from Corbet was the epithet,^ 

The Baron yonder, for a perpetual fame. 

To Mochdref does he owe his blood — 

The blood impulsive in the breast of princes. 

For three generations there dwells a chieftain 

To trouble the perverse and vain throughout the extent of 

Kerry. 
Not one of its men shall be free 
To strike me, John, for exercising my calling.® 



1 Of Gwynedd, Powys, and Dyfed. ^ The tournament. 

^ Ely Stan Glodrydd. 

* Perhaps an allusion to the family coat. 

f> Sir Fulke Fitzwarren. « /.f., of Great Britaia 

^ Madog ab Einion ab Howel of Mochdref married Anne, daughter 
of Piers Corbet, Lord of Lee or Leigh juxta Caus, descended from 
Roger Corbet, Lord of Leigh, who bore or^ two ravens ppr. in a border 
engrailed gules, second son of Robert FitzCorbet, Baron of Caiis. — 
Harl. MS. 1396; Lewt/s Bumn, vol. i, p. 314. Einion married Nest, 
daughter and heiress of Adda ab Meurig ab Adda ab Madog ab 
Maelgwyn, Lord of Kerry and Maelieiiydd. 

^ /.e., of a clerwr or minstrel. They were sometimes subjected to 
legal measures in cousequeuce of their erratic habits of life. 



ODE TO JOHN AB RHYS AB MAURICE. 269 

The upright John will not allow abuse : 

He will have the fair awed by the staves (of the oflScers). 

Ho will have justice done to every one, 

And what ho wills at once has come to pass. 

He is a terror to great and small ; 

Beware him those who would keep a whole skin ! 

John is both stout and formidable, 

He is a dragon amidst the strong ; 

A gentle lamb, if he bo not angered ; 

Then he descends upon them with his brawn and marrow. 

A goodly share will his Wife bestow 

Of the best of gold and silver. 

Her provision she distributes without stint. 

Which is excellent, as also her liquor. 

She is fair, kindly, and pure, lavish in gifts, 

Fair, and very wise, to my knowledge, and never angry. 

Bright as the moon is she, sprung from the root of Jenkyn, 

May her seed shoot forth, and may her posterity prosper. 

The arched eyebrow of John's Wife is to Llangurig 

As the moon to the land, radiant as gold o'er the hill. 

On John and his Lady bestow then, God, 

To live together the hundred years of the Hart, 

And may her husband John come forth 

From his quarrels however is best ; 

Rhys was no better opponent 

In your lifetime, nor was Cadell, 

Nor Maurice in his might, 

Nor the noble Einion, I ween, in any way ; 

Nor Elystan, the father of the pure race. 

Nor twice nine of any of those of yore. 

A very Nudd is John to those he loves. 

He promises gifts like a Rhydderch,^ 

To his country Einiou's strength 

Is John the son of Rhys in both his arms. 

May John gain strength from God, and miracles wrought 

by the saints. 
To uphold him until he be old and full of renown. 



Rhydderch Had, or the Gcucrous. 



270 HrSTORY OF POWVS FADOG. 



METNI HIRION. 
Add. MS. 15 fi22, folio 108. 

Maesmawr. Main birion. 

Mae man ar y Mjnyd rhwng lal ac Ystrad Alan uwchben 
Rhyd y gyfarthfa a elwir y niaes mawr lie bu y vrwdyr rhwng 
Meilir ap a Beli ap Benlli Gawr lie lias Beli ap Beulli 

Gawr ag y gossodes Meirion dau faen yn y sefyll un ymhob 
pen ir bed y rhain a fuant yno hyd ofewn y deugain Mlyned 
yna y daeth dyn anraslon un Edwart ap Sion ap Llywelyn o 
Ml pwid y dryll tir a gaessid or Mynyd yn yr hwn oid y bed 
ar main ucliod yndo ac y codes y main ac y dodes tros bibell 
odyn Galch ac o dra gwres ar pwys ar unwaith a gwedir ei 
tarthi ef ai bwriod ac ai llosgod yn yr Odyn yn galch y rhai a 
vuassent yno lawer cantoed oflynydoed a diwed drwg a daeth 
ido yr hwn a diadumod red y milwr marw ir hwn y canassai 
y Bard ar Englynion bedeu Milvvyr Ynys Brydein yr Englyn 
hwn. 

Pieu y bed yn maesmawr 

Balch i law ar i lafnawr ? 

Bed Beli ap Benlli Gawr. 

Mae ym mhlwyy Wydgrug o fewn PowysVadawg yn gyvagos 
ir Maesmawr yn agos Ian afon Alan man a elwir Maes Garmon 
He y rhodis duw fal y tystia Beda y Vudugoliaeth ir Bryt- 
taniaid diarfau ar y Saesson drwy diosg odiam y pennau a 
dyrchaf i dwylo tu ar nefoed a dy wedyd ar ol Garmon Aleli- 
wia deirgwaith deir gwaith llefoes y Saeson i dorri gydfe au 
bodi gan daflu eu harfau odiwithynt a chymryt y eu traed i 
ffo ac hyd hedyw ydis yn coffhau y gair hwnnw Aleliwia 
pan rodo un wasgar neu dinystr anesgorawl elyn, fe a dywedia 
ef a roes Aleliwia ar ei elyn neu ei gasseion. 

Mai y cafas Huw Arwystl ei awen un Haw Arwystl oed 
Grupyl tlawd diystyr ac o eisieu Hetty weithie arno y myny 
chai ef fyned i gysgu i eglwys Llandinam yn sir Drefaldwyn 
pan delei ef ar y hynt fford honno ac ef a damweiniod id 
dyfod y fford honno ar nos Galanmai a chysgu yno y nosson 
honno a phan oed yn ei drymyn gwsg ef a welei drwy e hun 
un yn dyfod attaw ag yno dodi peth yn ei ben a thranoeth y 
bore pan deffrod ef. efa damweiniod i forwyn dyfod heibio a 
vuasseu yn ceissio haf a choflaid haf genthi a dywed wrth y 
rhai oed gida hi wrth fyned heibio yr ffenestr tan yr hon oed 
Huw yn gorwed y geiriau hyn sef, ni ryd neb o honoch chwi 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CTRIG. 271 

dym haf ir crypul yma^ mi a rof haf ido ac a fwriod gangen o 
ir goed ido trwyr fenestyr ac a diolchod ef ar gan idi yr hwn 
ni chanasau benill o ganiad erioed or blaen ac ni medrai ar 
ean a granod ef idi syd vn dilin fal hvn vn vr Engrlvn hwn. 

Ac o hynny allan y dechreuod brydydu ac a wnaeth lawer o 
gerd orchestol ac a fa gymmeradwy gida Bonediirion Cymry oil 
amser y ei fowyd yo ol hynoy a peth a welei ef dodi yn ei ben 
drwy e huD oed yr awenyd a roes daw ido yr hon oed yn 
rhagori rhag un awen oed yn un oes ag ef. 

Am Gaer Rhydwyn, a chaer Berwyn a Chaer Myfyr. 

Rhndwyn Gawr pioed Gaer Rhydwyn uwch ben Pentre yr 
Gaer yn ymyl Croes Yswallt. Berwyn Gawr pioed Gaer Ber- 
wyn ym Mynyd Berwyn. Cadeir Berwyn yn y gaer. Myfyr Gawr 
pioed Caer Myfyr ym mynyd Myfyr o fewu tref y clawd yn 
sir Amwythic — tri brodyr oedynt. 

Caer Gadfael; ne Dingad fael yn ymyl Llann nefyd yng 
hwnawd ynghantref Rhyfoniog yn sir dinbych y mae. 

Caer dinhen groen, a thre Dinhengroen yn ymyl Abergele 
yng Cwmwd yng Cantrev yn Sir Ddinbych y mae. 

Llech yr ast, neu lech yfiliaist, ym plwy Caer run y mae. 
Ricell Arthur yno y mae hefyd yn gyfagos ir Llech un o bob 
ta ir flTord syd yn myned o l)aly Caf u i fwlch y deufaen yng 
Cwmmwd yng Cantref yn sir Gaer yn Arfon 

y maent. 

Camed y Saesson a buarth mcrched Mafon y maent o bob 
tu ir fford syd yn tywys o fwlch y dufaen i Aber. 

Bed Ffrymden ym Llannewyd y mao ac ywen yn tyfu 
trwydo o fewn wythlath ne deg at y fynwent. 

Caer Drewyn yn ymyl Grug, a Glyndyfrdwy ymae o fewn. 

Caer enni, ym plwy Llanfor ym Penllyn y mae. 

Pabell Llywarch hen yn Llanfor ym Penllyn yn agos ir 
Eglwys y mae. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 

At a period of great antiquity, not later than, and 
possibly anterior to, the seventh century, a person of 
foreign appearance, and habited in the garb of a pilgrim, 
disembarked from a ship that had brought him to a spot 
near to that on which stands the modern town of Aber- 
ystwyth. He tarried not at the point of landing, in the 
vale of the Ystwyth river, — then, doubtless, a tangled 



272 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

wild of marsh and thicket to the water's edge, — but 
straightway bent his steps up the steep and pathless 
ascent towards the heights of Plinlimnion. Reaching at 
length the .summit, and weary with his walk, he sat on 
a rock, and, scanning the surrounding prospect, he espied 
on the bank of the Wye a spot which he deemed eligible 
for his future resting-place. There, the work doubtless 
of his own hands, uprose first a humble hermitage and 
chapel, and afterwards a church, which, though not of 
spacious dimensions, became celebrated for the beauty of 
its architecture and the elegant carving and design of 
its massive oaken roof. The rock whereon the pilgrim 
sat bears to this day the name of " Eisteddfa Gurig", or 
Curig's Seat. The church on Plinlimmon, adjacent to 
the highest point of the macadamised mail-road from 
Aberystwyth to Hereford, still bears testimony to its 
founder by its name of "Llangurig*', the Church of St. 
Curig. Moreover, a crozier or pastoral staflf, stated by 
Giraldus to have belonged to him, and to have been en- 
dowed with a supernatural healing power, was for cen- 
turies preserved with a loving veneration for his memory 
in the church of St. Harmon's on the Riidnorshire border : 
a proof that he became a bishop (perhaps of Llanbadarn 
Fawr, hard by the scene of his landing), or else the abbot 
of a religious community, which in that case must have 
been founded by himself. 

Such is the legend of Curig Lwyd, which has led to 
the hypothesis adopted by Professor Rees, that he was 
not only the original founder of the church of Llan- 
gurig, but also its patron saint ; an hypothesis to which 
a certain additional colour would be given by the tradi- 
tional appellation of " Curig Lwyd", or '* the Blessed", 
by which he was popularly known. A wider investiga- 
tion, however, of the subject will lead unavoidably to 
the inference that the Professor, critically accurate and 
cautious as he usually is in his surmises, was somewhat 
premature in thus determining the question ; and this is 
the more surprising, inasmuch as he has himself fur- 
nished us with a list of churches in Wales, the dedica- 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 273 

tory titles of which alone might have led him to doubt 
the soundness of such a conclusion. In his Essay on the 
Wehh Saints,^ he tells us that the churches of Llanilid 
a Churig, Glamorganshire, and Capel Curig, Caernar- 
vonshire, are dedicated to Juliet and Curig together ; 
and that Juliet is also the saint of Llanilid Chapel, under 
Defynog, Brecknockshire. There are also two other 
churches, those, namely, of Forth Curig, Glamorganshire, 
and Eglwys Fair a Churig, Carmarthenshire, of which 
the Professor states that it is uncertain to whom they are 
dedicated. The festival of Juliet and Cyrique, he adds, 
is June 16th. Leland says that "in the middle of Leriue 
Creek, on the coast of Devon, was a litle celle of Sainct 
Cyret and Julette longging to Montegue", a Priory of 
Black Monks, from which they were driven, but restored 
by Henry I (iii, f. 1 8). This little cell was on a small 
pilly or creek, on the E. side of the Fowey river estuary 
now called Penpole Creek, up which is still a place of 
the Wymonds called " St. Cadoc", in error, perhaps, as 
well as Leland's "Carac", for Ciric. The priory to which 
it pertained was Montacute in Somerset. There are 
indications that the devotion to these saints was widely 
extended over the West of England. The chapel within 
the donjon on the islanded part of the Castle of Tintagel, 
ascribed to King Arthur, was dedicated to St. Juliet, 
called by Leland (ii, 73) St. Ulctte (cf. W. Hid), alias 
Uliane, which was still standing in his time. The 
foundations of this chapel were visible only a few yeare 
ago, and the altar slab was removed by a " tourist" 
within living memory. In Leland's list of Cornish 
monastic foundations (viii, f 91) is "Prior. S. Cyriaci. 
mon. nigri.*' The church of S. Cury (Curig?), near the 
Lizard, and also Menheniot, seem to have been his, and 
Curry Rivell, North Curry, and Curry Mallet, near 
Taunton. St. Helen's, one of the Scilly Isles, is called 
St. Elid's by Borlase ; and in Leland's account of these 
islands, he speaks of " Saint Lides Isle where yn tymes 
past at her sepulchre was grot superstition.'' 

^ Pjige 307, and note, p. 82. 

VOL. III. 18 



274 HISTORY OF POWYS PADOG. 

Lewys Glyn Cothi {Works, Dosparth, i, p. 21) de- 
scribes a church dedicated to S. Curig as square in 

shape : 

" Gwely *n fraisg a'i liw'n ei frig, 
Gloew 'sgwar, fal Eglwya Gurig.*' 

He also ridicules friars, who had no love for the bards, 
who carried about images of this Saint, among others, 
made of glass or alder-wood, which they exchanged for 
provisions or clothing. 

If these churches were dedicated to the martyr St. 
Cyricus or Quiricus, whether jointly or otherwise with 
hLs mother Juliet, the probability would lie, prinid faciCy 
in favour of the hypothesis that Llangurig was so too. 
Nor is there anything, in fact, to oppose to it, save the 
existence of the legend, and the analogy of other 
churches in Wales believed to have derived their names 
from those who respectively founded them, and who, 
from that act alone, were afterwards, in the popular es- 
timation, honoured with the title of Saints. In such a 
case, moreover, it would appear not a little remarkable 
that one bearing the name of the infant martyr should 
have landed on our island, and have devoted the re- 
mainder of his life in it to the special service of reli- 
gion in so wild and remote a region therein, unless, in- 
deed, a positive connection existed between the peculiar 
devotion introduced by him and the saint whose name 
he bore, and under whose patronage he may have held 
himself to be, in virtue of that name — an early instance, 
perhaps, of a practice which gradually became general 
in the church. That this was really the case will appear 
highly probable from a comparison of the history of the 
saint and of his martyrdom with such notices as have 
come down to us of the cuUus actually rendered to him 
in Wales during subsequent centuries ; and if we add to 
this the narrative of the migration, so to speak, of that 
cuUxis from the eastern to the western churches, the pro- 
bability will be changed into certainty. 

It is stated by Ruinart^ and by the Bollandists that 

^ Ed. Ratisbon, 1869. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 275 

various "acta" of these saints had been published in 
ancient times, one of which, included in the list of apo- 
cryphal works of Pope Gelasius, is printed by the New 
BoUandists^ in Greek and Latin. Another account, be- 
lieved by them to be genuine, is also published by them, 
together with a statement as to its origin, from which it 
appears that Pope Zosimus (a.d. 417), who had seen an 
edition of their acts which appeared to him to be spurious, 
wrote to a bishop of Iconium named Theodorus, request- 
ing to be furnished with such genuine particulars of the 
martyrdom of SS. Cyricus and Julitta as could then be 
obtained on the spot where it took place, during the 
tenth persecution of the Christians under Diocletian, 
somewhat more than a century before. 

Francis Combefis, 0. P., has published from the Greek 
records in the King's Library at Paris, among the select 
triumphs of illustrious martyrs of Christ, a letter of this 
Theodore, Bishop of Iconium, in which is set forth the 
martyrdom of the holy martyr Cericus, and his mother 
Julitta. It is entitled, " &€oSa)pov 'Ettutkottov 'IkovLov 'Ettao-- 

ToX^, hrjkovaa to fiapTvpLOV rod ayiov Mdfrrvpo^ KrjpVKOV, xal 

T^ TovTov fjLrjTpb^ 'lovXiTTTj^.'' TMs cpistlc is referred to by 
AUatius in Diatriha de Simeonum Scriptis, page 91. 
An ancient version of it is mentioned in the Notes to the 
Martyrologyy by Baronius, and has been found in the 
Vatican and Vallicellanian Libraries by the editors. 
It runs as follows : — 

A Letter op Theodorus, Bishop of Iconium, setting vorth 
THE Martyrdom of the Holt Martyr Cericus and 

of his Mother Julitta. 

" 1. Since thy Reverence has demanded, by thine honoured 
letters, of my miserable vileness, to be informed about the nar- 
i*ative of a martyrdom very widely noised abroad, I mean that of 
CyricQsandof his mother Julitta; whether in the cityof thelconi- 
ans also^ from whence, too^ the glorious martyr Julitta is said to 
have sprung, and her noble son Cyricus, the same account of their 
martyrdom has been received, as being the land in which they 
were bom and brought up ; because of there being contained 

1 Ed. Paris, 1867. 

18 = 



276 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

in it certain over-boastful and inconsistent sapngs and trivial- 
ities foreign to our Christian hope ; and, if it be possible to 
discover the true account of their martyrdom, that it be 
sent to thy Perfection. Having received from thee these 
sacred writings, and having been fully observant of thine in- 
junction, and having taken into my hands with zealous ear- 
nestness the narrative of the martyrdom of the holy Cericns 
and his mother Julitta ; and having opened and read it with 
great attention, I have found you to be speaking the truth, O 
most holy of Fathers, and most worthy of Priests ; for these 
one might justly call the croakings of frogs or of daws. For 
they are manifestly, as I think, devices of Manichees, or, per- 
haps, other heretics of heterodox opinions, who mock at and 
endeavour to bring into hatred and censure the great mystery 
of godliness. 

** 2. But when, after making much search and investigation, 
according to our ability, we eflfected nothing more, we inter- 
rogated the inhabitants of the district and those by birth most 
noble among the Isaurians, so that we might be able to obtain 
some consecutive account, if only from hereditary tradition, 
setting forth the conflict of the holy martyrs. Whereupon 
Marcianus, a Christ-loving man, who had been made Tribune 
of the Notaries and Chancellor of Justinian the King, when 
he held the command in chief of the army ; and Zeno, a very 
wise man, who was also at that time his Assessor, gave the 
following narrative respecting the Saints. That they had 
heard from persons of noble descent that the ever-memorable 
martyr Julitta was a relative of theirs, being a flower of the 
first blood of Lycaonia, of blameless life, so that they made a 
commemoration of her every year, doing this especially be- 
cause of their relationship to her. 

" 3. Now this lady, descended from royal blood, when the 
persecution raged against the Christians in the time of Diocle-» 
tian, Count of Lycaonia (a man most ferocious, and delighting 
exceedingly in the shedding of the blood of martyrs), took to 
flight with two female attendants and her son of three years 
old, viz., the glorious martyr Cericus, from the city of Ico- 
nium, which was that of her birth. Having abandoned her 
property, which was considerable, she reached Seleucia, and, 
finding there the Christians in still greater trouble at the 
hands of Alexander the Governor, in the city of Selencia, 
under the King Diocletian, from whom he had received a 
royal edict, enjoining the infliction of every sort of punish- 
ment upon those who would not sacrifice to the idols (as they 
ascribed the name of gods to those who were not gods), she. 



THB LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 277 

reflecting on the passage in Holy Scripture, ' Give place to 
anger^, in order that they might not put themselves in the way 
of dangers, having fled from thence also, went off to Tarsus, 
which is the metropolis of the first province of the Cilicians. 

'*4. Then, as though by commandment, Alexander, who 
had vastly outdone Domitian in ferocity and cruelty, having 
removed thither, the victorious martyr Julitta was arrested, 
clasping in her arms her son, who was quite an infant, viz., 
the glorious martyr Cericus. And while they were appre- 
hending her, her two attendants abandoned her and took to 
flight, and became spectators from without of the things that 
were done to her. Then she, standing before the judicial 
tribunal, when Alexander enquired what was the charge against 
her, and her fortune, and her country, she boldly answered 
the judge by taking on herself the name of the Lord Jesus 
Christ our God, by saying, ^ I am a Christian/ Then Alex- 
ander, inflamed with anger, commanded her son to be taken 
away from her, and to be brought to him, inasmuch as he was 
both fair, and had no predeterminate knowledge of anything. 
But her, completely adorned as she was, he ordered to be 
beaten unsparingly with undressed thongs. Now when the 
executioners forcibly tore from the arms of his noble mother 
the boy who kept wailing, and longing to go back to his 
mother, and gazing after her, and brought him to the Go- 
vernor, while the ofiicers wrought upon her what was enjoined 
them, by beating her unmercifully, she made no other answer 
than, ' I am a Christian, and sacrifice not to demons.' 

** 5. While she then, like a lifeless statue, was being striped 
terribly by the blows, and uttering loudly, without ceasing, the 
same cry, the Governor took the child by the hands and en- 
deavoured to soothe him with caresses, so that he should not 
cry, and placed him upon his knees, and attempted to kiss 
him. But the child, gazing stedfastly on his mother, pushed 
the Governor away, and drew back his head from him, and 
struggling against him, he scratched the Governor s face with 
his nails, and, like the offspring of some chaste turtle, the 
holy Cericus uttered an imitative sound, loudly uttering the 
same declaration that was being spoken by his mother, and 
saying * I am a Christian\ and kicked the Governor in the 
side, for it is the nature of childhood to be violently excited; 
so that this wild beast was enraged, under such circum- 
stances (for he ought not to be called a man, who would not 
forgive an innocent action), and caught the boy by the foot 
and dashed him to the ground from his lofty judgment-seat. 
With such a confession was the skull of the glorious martyr 



27S HISTORY OF POVVYS FADOG. 

brokeu against the corner of the steps, and crushed by the 
sharpness of the blow^ so that the platform of the tribunal was 
covered with blood. Thus the heaven-born infant rendered 
up his spirit into the hands of God : for ^ the souls of the Just 
are in the hand of God (Wisdom iii, 1). 

" 6. At this sight, the holy Julitta was, as it were, filled 
with joy, and said, * I give Thee thanks, Lord, because 
thou hast deemed my son worthy to be perfected before me, 
and to gain an unfading crown/ Whereupon the judge, 
also deploring the act, orders her to bo suspended on a rack, 
and severely tortured, and the pitch to be drawn bubbling 
from the cauldron and poured upon her feet. The judge also 
commanded exhortation to be made to her by the herald, 
' Julitta, take pity on thyself, and sacrifice to the gods, and 
deliver thyself from the tortures, lest thou sufffer the fate of thy 
son/ But she persevered in enduring her torments with a 
noble courage, crying out and saying, * 1 sacrifice not to deaf 
and dumb wooden idols of demons, but I worship Christ the 
only Son of God, by whom the Father made all things, and I 
hasten to overtake my son, that with him I may be made 
worthy of the kingdom of Heaven/ But when the judge, in- 
human to the extreme of madness, saw her unfailing con- 
stancy, he pronounced sentence upon her, by ordering that 
her head should be cut off, and that the remains of her son 
should be cast into the place of condemned persons. 

" 7. The executioners then fixed the gag upon her mouth, 
and led her away to the accustomed place to execute tha 
order. Now it was that Julitta entreated the executioners to 
wait a little until she had prayed to God the only Good. And 
the executioners were softened, and granted her a little time. 
Then she knelt down and prayed, saying, ' I thank Thee, O 
Lord, because Thou hast called to Thee my son before me, 
and hast deemed him worthy, for Thy holy and terrible Name, 
to quit this present worthless life, and to be united with Thy 
Saints in the life eternal. Receive me, also. Thine unworthy 
servant, and cause me to obtain this great blessing, that I may 
be numbered with the wise virgins who have been deemed 
worthy to enter into the heavenly and incorruptible marriage- 
chamber; and let my spirit bless Thy Father, the Almighty 
(lod and Maker of all things, and the Holy Ghost for ever. 
Amen.' And when she had finished the ' Amen', the officer, 
brandishing his sword, severed her noble neck, without the 
city, and cast her body into the place where lay the remains of 
the glorious martyrs. The victorious martyr Julitta, and her 
glorious son Cericus, were perfected in the grace of Christ ou 
thu loth of the month of Julv. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 279 

" 8. On the night of the following day her two maid-ser- 
vants carried off their bodies and hid them and laid them in the 
ground in a suburb of Tarsus. Afterwards, one of the maid- 
servants, having survived to the times of the pious Emperor 
Constantino, when the Truth was brought to light, and the 
Churches of God, by grace, took courage, made known the 
spot. Then all the Faithful made haste to go there, each one 
to obtain from the relics of the Saints somewhat for the sus- 
tenance of his own life, and for the glory of our good God. 
These things, therefore, in truth, were done, as I have de- 
clared them to thy devout mind ; and do thou deliver them to 
faithful men, who shall be able also to instruct others in the cer- 
tainty of them, that they be not carried away by writings 
manifestly fabulous, but may believe the truth itself; in Jesus 
Christ' our Lord, with whom to the Father with the Holy 
Ghost be glory, honour, power, for over and ever. Amen." 

The above is from the Greek text with its Latin ver- 
sion by Combefis. There is, however, an older Latin 
version, which differs from it in some particulars, espe- 
cially in giving the name of Zosimus. It is entitled 
Eimtola Theodori Ep. de passione SS. Quirici et 
Julittce jam oUm Latine reddita ex MSS. Romanis^ 
and begins thus, " Cbarissimo Fratri et sancto Coepis- 
copo Zosimo Tbeodorus annuente Domino Prsesul, sa- 
lutera in Domino." 

From this time forward the devotion to these holy 
martyrs spread widely over the East. A panegyric is 
still extant in their honour, written by Metapnrastes, 
or more probably by Nicetas the rhetorician, as is sup- 
posed, in the ninth century, the facts in which were 
furnished by Bishop Theodore's letter. Ofl&ccs in their 
honour were sanctioned by St. Germanus, and Anato- 
lius, Patriarch of Constantinople, a.d. 449-58, while 
others are known to have existed at Byzantium and 
Mauroleum. A complete oflBce, with canon, by Jose- 
phus the hymnographer, a.d. 883, contains some verses 
commencing thus : 

K.i]piKov V/IV& avv T€KOV(rp 'rrpoif>p6vto^ la)a"q(f>. 

Josephus speaks of their tomb as being bedewed with 
the grace of the Holy Spirit, and of cures being wronqh^ 



280 HISTOllY OF POWYS FADOG. 

there ; but is silent as to its locality. The reason for 
this, as we shall shortly see, was in all probability the 
circumstance that the bodies themselves had, at a much 
earlier period, been conveyed away, and treasured up as 
precious relics in certain churches of the West. The 
story of their removal is thus given in an ancient MS. 
discovered at Rome,^ as related by Henschenius the 
BoUandist, in bis commentary for the 1st of May, on the 
J^if^ of fSL Amatory a Bishop of Auxerre, who lived 
from A.D. 344 to 418, and was consecrated a.d. 388. 
This Life is said to have been written a.d. 580. 

" After the lapse of many years from their gaining 
the crown of martyrdom, St. Amator, Bishop of Antis- 
siodorum, accompanied by the most illustrious Savinus, 
travelling through the territory of Antioch, by the grace 
of Christ found their most holy bodies, and on his return 
brought them, with great devotion, to Gaul. On reach- 
ing the city of Autricc (Chartres) he so far yielded to 
the entreaties of Savinus as to bestow on him one of 
the boy's arms, which appears to have been deposited in 
the church at Nevei-s. The other remains he caused to 
be entombed a second time in the very house * where 
the Bishop, powerful by the glory of his merits, is yet 
venerated by the faithful'. Whether the city of Antioch 
visited by St. Amator was that in Pisidia or in Syria, or 
more probably another of that name, near Tai*sus, the 
scene of the martyrdom, is not stated. From the Never- 
nais the arm of St. Cyricus was removed by Abbot 
Hucbald to his monastery of Elno * in IIa7i7ionid\"^ In 
the Gallican Martijrology, by Saussaye, it is stated that 
considerable portions of the relics were distributed among 
different churches in Gaul, " whereby a great devotion 
was stirred up everywhere towards the martyrs them- 
selves, so that many churches, monasteries, and other 
* trophies' (as they were then called), were erected in 

^ The MS. commences thus : " Incipiunt miracula SS. Quirici et 
Julittse, qua) Tetcrius Sophista, eorum servus, edidit, do corporibus 
coram a S. Araatore Antiochiao rcpertis." 

- Perhaps St. Amaud s in Fhinders, of which Hainault is a province. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 281 

their honour. Among them Toulouse, Aries, Carnot, and 
Auvergne, are specially named. The devotion also ex- 
tended itself to Spain, where, at Burgos, an office with 
nine lections is known to have been recited in their 
honour. In France, Cyricus became known indiflferently 
by the names of St. C3'^r and St. Cyrique ; and the name 
of * Cir Ferthyr', once attached to the site of a ruined 
chapel in Lleyn, Carnarvonshire, may possibly be a 
translation of the former."^ 

From the foregoing account it will not be difficult to 
explain how, in early times, a Gaul, inspired with the 
prevalent devotion to these martyrs, may have been 
called by the name of one of them ; may have landed on 
the coast of Wales, bringing with him, mayhap, a small 
but treasured portion of the relics in his own country 
esteemed so precious ; may have built in honour of this, 
his patron saint, a humble chapel, enlarged subsequently 
into a church, with its monastic establishment adjacent ; 
and taken precautions for the preservation, after his 
death, of the memory of the acts and sufferings of one 
whom he himself held in such tender veneration, by 
translating some narrative of them in his own posses- 
sion into the language of the people to whom he had 
been the means of introducing the knowledge and cultm, 
as saints, of himself and his martyred mother. 

That such was actually the fact is not obscurely inti- 
mated in several scattered notices which are to be found 
in the manuscript works of Welsh bards and elsewhere. 
In a fragmentary poem on St. Curig in the Llijifr Cen- 
iarth MS,, a Book of his Life is referred to as extant in 
the authors time. Other fragments of poems in the 
same MS., by Sion Ceri and by Huw Arwystli, relate 
also certain circumstances of the martyrdom, in all pro- 
bability derived from this traditionary biography. And 
lastly, some curious " emynmc\ or hymns, in the Welsh 
language, are found in the volume of Lives of Camhro- 
British Saints, published by the Welsh MSS. Society, 
comprising a "Lectio" evidently intended for the in- 

^ llces* Welsh Sai7its, p. 332 ; Arch. Cavib., 4th Scr., v, p. 87. 



282 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

struction of the people on the annual festival, together 
with some collects, which leave no doubt as to the iden- 
tity of the saints, whose actions are referred to, with those 
whose acts were recorded by Bishop Theodore for the 
information of Pope Zosimus. 

With these fragmentary notices is connected another 
question of no little interest, relative to the genuineness 
and authenticity of the acts of these martyrs traditional 
in the Principality. Was the narrative contained in 
them substantially identical with that furnished by the 
Bishop of Iconium to the Pope ? Or did it rather savour 
of inspiration drawn from the spurious writings referred 
to in the Bishop's letter as "containing overboastful 
and inconsistent sayings, and trivialities foreign to our 
Christian hope*', and which are ascribed by him to the 
" machinations of Manichees and other heretics who 
make a mock of, and endeavour to create a contempt 
for, the great mystery of godliness''? It would be na- 
tural to suppose that, from the time of the publication of 
the authentic Acts, the spurious ones would have speedily 
ceased to obtain currency, and have fallen into oblivion. 
So far, however, from this being the case, we find them 
incurring the condemnation of Pope Gelasius (a.d. 492-6), 
"having been brought, together with their relies, from 
the East". We are left to infer, therefore, that Bishop 
Theodore's account, when forwarded to Rome, was either 
not at all, or but partially, circulated in Asia : hence St. 
Amator, when carrying away with him the bodies of the 
martyred mother and son, must have taken with him 
also the apocryphal account of their death. And this 
inference is confirmed by the fact that these apocryphal 
Acts were edited by Hucbald, who, as we have seen, 
was presented with the arm of St. Cyricus at Nevers, 
and who died in the year 930. And again, a.d. 1180, 
they were edited by Philip, an abbot of the Premonstra- 
tensian Abbey of Bona Spes, for John, the abbot of the 
church of St. Araandus at Elno. John, it would appear, 
furnished Philip, in the first instance, with a copy of the 
apocryphal Acts together with Hucbald's work, for we 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CUKIG. 283 

find him stating in a letter to John that he had made in 
them considerable corrections, and had omitted much 
that appeared to him profane, irrelevant or absurd. 

If these were the Acts brought by St. Amator into 
Gaul, it would follow almost of course that they alone 
would have been known to Curig Lwyd, and by him 
disseminated in Wales. The Welsh fragmentary notices 
will be found amply confirmatory of this view ; and as 
they and the foregoing account are reciprocally illustra- 
tive of one another, we propose now to allow them to 
speak for themselves. The first of these notices is that 
in the Emynau Curig (Hymns of St. Curig), as the de- 
votions printed in the Lives of the Camhro- British 
Saints, already mentioned, are strangely called. The third 
of these is as follows : ** The holy martyr Curig was dis- 
creet from his childhood. He sufifered martyrdom, and 
w^as very wise, and a teacher of heavenly things, and 
opposed the cruel commandment of Alexander the king, 
and rejected a lordly life, from a pure heart and the 
wisdom of a perfect man. He desired not the vain 
things of this world, but that he might obtain the joys 
of Paradise ; and sufifered for the Triune God and one 
Lord severe persecution from men ; and for love to 
Christ the King he endured the torments of fire on his 
body and on his arms ; and through faith in the Trinity 
he persevered in faith and in prayer to God, so that the 
faithful might escape the pains of Hell, and obtain the 
joys of the heavenly kingdom, by the words of the 
Catholic faith, and become no less perfect in Christ than 
that martyr. Therefore we piously call on the unde- 
filed Curig, our helper in Heaven, that by his prayers we 
may obtain and deserve the very glorious reward which 
he is said to enjoy with the hosts of angels for ever and 
ever.^ Amen." 

This Emyn^ or lesson, furnishes a remarkable coinci- 
dence with the apocryphal life published in the Acta 
Sanctorum of the Bollandists. It represents the martyr 
as speaking and acting as an adult, whereas the latter 

^ Lives of th^ Cambro-BritUh SainU, pp. 276 and 610. 



284 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

describes Cyricus, though an infant, as speaking with 
the words of a full-grown man, and as reproving Alex- 
ander for his idolatry and cruelty, even challenging 
him to inflict on him strange and unheard-of tortures of 
his own devising, through which he passes in succession 
unhurt, by the power of God. With these, the allusions 
obscurely thrown out in the following fragments of 
Welsh poems, mainly agree. The first is attached in 
the MS. to a portion of Huw Cae Llwyd's poem on the 
Four Brothers of Llangurig, who was born, and probably 
passed his life, in the neighbourhood of that place, but 
need not, therefore, be his.^ 

THE FIRST FRAGMENT. 

Llurig fendigedig wyd, 
Ceidwad [in] a'r Ffrainc ydwyd 
Mae i'th wlad, fel y wnaeth [wedd] 
Dy achau, a llyfr dy fuche[dd] 
Mae'n rhan, o bed war ban byd, 
Dy wyrthiau, rbaid yw wrthyd ! 
Da fyd fu ar d^ feudwy, 
A'i leian gynt ar Ian Gwy. 

Mael gad, pan geisiodd Maelgwn 
Lunio hud i leian hwn, 
Ei feirch, a'i gewyll efo, 
A arwe[i] niodd wr yno ; 
Trigo'r Haw wrth y cawell, 
Yngl^n ni wnai Angel well ; 
A'i w^r aeth ar ei ol 
A lynant bawb olynol ; 
Hwynthwy oedd[yut] arnat ti 
Yn dy guddigl di ^n gweddi ; 
Drwy dy nerth, Gurig Forthyr, 
Y rhoddai yn rhydd ei w^r ; 
A*i gwyrthiau, ^n ael gorthir, 
A wnaeth Duw o fewn i^th dir ; 



^ The language of Huw Cae Llwyd, in the opinion of the Rev. 
D. S. Evans, proves that he was & South Wallian writer ; but Llan- 
gurig is on the borders. The poems in the text, at least in the state 
in which they are here presented, are not, he thinks, the production 
of that accurate prosodian and mellifluous poet. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 285 

Delwau o gwyr, rhwnpf dwylaw Gwen, 

A lunioedd leian lanwen ; 

Y rhith, ac nid anrheithwyd, 

Dinbych [Llan] Elidan Lwyd : 

A'i delw, nid o hudoliaeth, 

Rhoi lief ar Dduw Nef a wnaeth ; 

A^i gradd, fel y gweryddon, 

Gyd4 Sant a gedwais hon. 

Maelgwn aeth^ mal y gwn i, 

Bi delwaith i addoli ; 

Hwn a roddais, yn bresent, 

Glasdir at glos, da ei rent, 

Hysbys yw bod llys a llan, 

A theml i chwithau y man. 

Ni bu rwydd rfaag Arglwyddi 

Daro dyn wrth dy wyr di ; 

Chwithau a fu n dadlau 'n deg, 

Ar Ustas gynt ar osteg : 

Ar fraich deg oedd faich dy fara 

Silits a roes hwyl . am 

Holl feddiand Alexander 

A fu megis gattiau g&r, 

Pob cwestiwn gan hwn o hyd 

Wrth ddadl di a gwrthodyd. 



THE SECOND FRAGMENT. 

Plwyf hardd sydd, brif ffordd a bryn. 

Lie rhed Gwy 'r hyd dwfr a glyn ; 

Plwy^ heddyw aplaf hoywddyn, 

Pa le ceir gwell, plwyf Curig Wyn ? 

Curig, fab gwar, llafar, lien, 

Yw'n tad, a^n porthiant, a*n pen. 

Cam hwn, creda' i, cai radoedd mawlgerdd, 

Y trwbl a ddug, teirblwydd oedd, 

Bilain dordyn aeth i'w dwrdio, 

Alexander oedd falch dro. 

Si lit ddinam, ei fam fo, 

Wen a welad yn wylo ; 

Ofer gwelad ! Na ad Gurig 

Wr garw o^i ferth *rolddig ; 

Dewai 'n fyw, dyna alaeth, 

Dewai 'n gnawd gwyn, ag nid gwaeth ; 

Ni thyfodd, fe garodd gwr, 

Ar ei dir erioed oerwr. 



286 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Nerthwr 'n yw 'r gwr a garwyd, 

Gwych iawn, ac a chwyr addolwyd ; 

Yma a thraw a wellhawyd 

I garwr g\kn Gurig Llwyd. 

Duw Lwyd cynhenwyd gwenwynig — ^i'w trais 

Tros fy anwyled foneddig. 

Chwerw i doe chwarae dig 

Dichwerwedd Duw a Chung. 

Tra dewr o natur ydwyd, 
Trig ar y gair, trugarog wyd ; 
Tremi^r dewr walch trymai ; 
Taer, dewr wyt, Duw, ar dy rai. 

THE THIRD FRAGMENT. 

Pwy a aned er poeni, 

Pwy'n deirblwydd no'n Harglwydd ni ? 

Curig bob awr y carwn, 

Goreu help oedd gam hwn. 

Poen oedd i'w wedd pan oedd iau, 

Pen Merthyr poen a wethiau. 

Pob gweinied pawb a geiniw 

Bonedd Ffrainc beunydd a^i flFriw. 

Perlen a glain parch naw gwlad, 

Plwy' Curig, pa le fwy cariad ? 

I rwydd Saint a roddais i 
Anrheg arnom rhag oemi. 



THE FOURTH FRAGMENT. 

• 

Ni bu wan yn byw ennyd 

Nid ofnai 'i groen boen o'r byd. 

Alexander oedd herwr 

Ar Dduw, ac oedd oerddig wr. 

Iddew o'r faingc oedd ar fai 

Amhorth oer a^i merthyrai. 

Efo a llid, a'i fam l&n, 

Vr pair aeth, 'wr purlan ; 

Ni ddarwena ^i ddwr annoer 

Ar hwynthwy mwy na*r nant oer. 

Teirblwydd a fu 'n arglwydd 'n hyn 

Tri mis lai, Duw, a^i rwymyn*; 

Yn fab iach yn fy w y bu, 

Ac a maen iV gymynu. 

Yn lludw ei ddaith a'n Uwyddodd, 

Ac yna fab gwyn i'n f oedd. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURTG. 287 

Ag oerddrwg y gwr drwg draw 

E fu asiaeth i'w feisiaw ; 

Troes Duw hwynthwy tros dyfi teg 

Trwy'r astell draw ar osteg ; 

Torrai Iddew trwy wddwg 

Ni'm dorwn draw am dyn drwg. 

04 esgidiaa nadau a wnaed^ 

Yno fal anifeiliaid. 

Crist yw'n rhan, croeso Duw'n rhodd, 

Curig a*i fam a'i earodd. 

Saith angel rhag bodd oedd^ 

Sel at y saith Silits oedd. 

Mab a fu'n gwledychu'n gwlad, 

A merch ir, mawr o*i charlady 

digariad gorynt 

Ian Gwy, a'i leian gynt. 

Ac arall, mab Rhyswallawn, 

Feddwl oer, a fu ddwl iawn ; 

Meddylio, cyn dyddio^n deg, 

Am oludau, em loywdeg ; 

A Churig [Wyn] ni charai^ 

Dwyllo neb un dull a wnai ; 

Ei addoli ef ar ddau lin, 

Ar war bryn a wna'r brenin ; 

Cwympo yma, camp ammharch, 

Colli o'i wyr a chylla ei farch ; 

A Churig, fab gwych hoywrym, 

A ddiddigiodd wrth rodd rym : 

A diddan nid oedd anodd^ 

A glowson' roi glas yn rhodd. 

Tyredig swmp a roid seth 

Mai eurdrefn, amal ardreth ; 

Tri thir, mal traeth euraid, 

Tri yn un cylch, tri yn un caid. 

Caer fy arglwydd, lle'i ceir fawrglod, 

Cwmpas dy glai, er dy glod ; 

Llangurig, pob lle'n gywraint, 

Llawer hyd braflF, lie rhad braint ; 

Troell wen hardd, tri Uiw'n hon, 

Tir Curig at tair coron, 

Pie well un plwy ni ellir, 

Plwy Curig nid tebyg tir. 



288 HISTORY OP POWYS FA DOG. 



TRANSLATION. 

A coat of mail art thou 

To us, and to the French, too, a guardian. 

Thy country possesses, as it made it, the form 

Of thy descent and the Book of thy Life. 

The portion of the four quarters of the world 

Are thy miracles. Great is our need of thee ! 

Happy has been the Hermitage,^ 

With its nun, of yore on the bank of the Wye. 

When Maelgwn, mailed for battle, sought 
To practise a deception on the nun of this spot, 
His coursers and his baggage 
Were brought there by a man. 
To a hamper his hand cleaved ; 
It was held tight ; no angel could make it more so. 
Also his men who followed him 
Were held fast, — all, one after the other. 
When these made earnest prayer 
To thee in thy chapel, 
By thy power, O martyr Cyricus, 
He set his men free. 

And God wrought, on the brow of the upland. 
His wonders within thy territory. 
The nun, pure and holy, 

Fashioned figures of wax between her fair hands : 
The likeness, and it was not disfigured. 
Of blessed Elidan of the church of Denbigh;^ 
And her image, by means of no deception, 
Uttered a voice to the God of Heaven ; 
And, like the youths, she maintained 
Her position with the saint. 
Maelgwn went, as well I know. 
To the figure thus made to worship, 
And for an offering he gave 



^ Curig Lwyd's Hermitage probably is meant, on the spot where 
the church was afterwards built. The nun would seem, from the con- 
text, to have occupied it after his death. 

2 Llanclidan, five miles from Ruthin, in the uplands of the Vale 
of Clwyd. In an English j)oem of the xivth century, Prince Horn is 
said to have entered the service of Elidan, a king who dwelt on 
Snowdon, in the vith century. Mr. Stephens conjectured improbably 
that the name might be a corruption of that of Llywarch H^n s father, 
Elidyr Lydanwyn. — Haig's Anglo-Sojeon Sagas, p. G8-9. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 289 

Pasture land of great price to the sacred enclosure. 

Well known to fame are now 

Your glebe house, churchyard, and temple. 

Thy men are not free to strike a man 

In presence (or for fear) of their lords. 

Well hast thou pleaded also 

Of yore, before a judge in open court. 

When a burden on the fair arm of thy mother 

Julitta, who gave thee example ; 

In whose eyes the possessions of Alexander 

Were all but as worthless things. 

By thee was each question of his 

Refuted in disputation. 

The resemblance to the apocryphal Acts in these last 
lines is unquestionable. The preceding ones seem as 
clearly to contain the substance of a tradition referring 
the foundation of the church of Llangurig to Maelgwn 
Gwynedd, whose repeated injuries to religion, and sub- 
sequent reparation of them, as told by his contemporary 
Gildas, seem to have procured for him the privilege of 
being made tlie typical representative of such legends : 
at least he is found similarly figuring in the Life of St. 
Brynach and others. The adoption of the legend by 
the Welsh bard is valuable so far as it proves that the 
foundation of the church of Llangurig was referred, in 
or about the fifteenth century, to a period dating so 
ftir back as the sixth ; and that it could not, therefore, 
have been built for the first time by the monks of Strata 
Florida, to whom it seems afterwards to have apper- 
tained as a vicarage. The next is a fragment of a poem 
by Sion Ceri, a bard certainly of the fifteenth century. 

Beautiful is the parish, on highway and hill, 

Where flows along the vale the stream of Wye, 

The parish to-day of one energetic and powerful. 

Than the parish of blessed Curig, where will you find a 

better ? 
Curig, a youth gentle, eloquent, and learned. 
Is our father, our head and our support. 
My belief is that to love him brings down graces; the 

trouble 

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290 HISTORY OF P0WT3 FADOG. 

He ondnrL'J. when three rears old, oaght to be praised in 

Tif tyraTjt AloxanJer. pr:uJ of temperament. 
And of a liisrh stomach. prr»ceeded to menace him. 

His p^iiilflt'^s iH'ither, the blesM^d Jnlitta, 
Was seen to weep. 

A fine spectacle ! It h^d no power to restrain 
'V\n- iiiunU'r»n< wrath of the cruel wretch towards Curip^. 
Whil'* lu* livf'd he heM his peice, — therein lies the sorrow. 
In h\< h'.lv ri'-sli he wns silt^nt* anil nuconcerned, 
Tlif uviii of coid h^'art wh<^» love? him not 
\«/(;r h;ilh prospered in his territurv. 
It is our bfloved saint who strengthens us ; 
llijrhly exalted is he who is honoured with tapers of wax.- 
Kv^'rvwhere have favours honn received 
iW pure luviTS of the holy Curijr : 
On l)(*h}ilf of inv heloved and exalted one 

» 

Was (iod aroiisLnl to wmth bv violence stirred bv venom. 

I5itt<Tness comes of bandyingr strife 

With th(? lovin'r-kindness of (rod and of Curior- 

I'y nature thou art <?xceeding firm. 

Dwell on the word — thou art merciful ; 

Furv will woifrh down the steadfastness of the brave : 

Thou, () God, art merciful to thine own. 

Defects in the metre, as well as the sense, prove the 
corniptness of several of these lines. The identity of 
its h^crend, however, with the apocryphal Acts is evinced 
hy the epithet of "eloquent'* ascril)eJ to the martyr, 
when only tlirer^ years old, whose deeds are magnified, 
apparently at the expense of the mother, whose Chris- 
tian heroism seems to be tacitly ignored. The remaining 
fragments are from the pen of Huw Arwystli, who is 
emphatically the poet of Llangurig, as shown by his 
recently published poems on the principal families of 
that place."* In these, notwithstanding the vexatious 
mutilation of the text, some striking coincidences of 

* This socms irreconcilable with the previous statetnent as to his 
eloquence, but is to be understood of his patience under suffering. 

- It is still a common custom in the Catholic Church to burn a wax 
ta|)er as an offering before the statue of any saint whose prayers are 
desired to obtain some special favour from fleaven. 

•' In Montf/onicri/shlre Collect Ions, vol. iv, p. 54. 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 291 

the Welsh legend with the apocryphal Acts are plainly 
discernible. 

Who is it was born to suffer pain? 

Who but our patron, when three years old ? 

Not a moment passes but we love Curig, 

There is no better help than to love him. 

Tortured was his frame in his infancv. 

To the person of a martyr pain was befitting. 

Illustrious is his merit, noble was his birth, 

Gentle his demeanour; let all daily serve him. 

AVhere does love exist, if not in the parish of Curig, 

The pearl and the gem revered by nine lands ? 

To the beneficent saint have I given 

Gifts to secure us against cruelty. 

The beojinuinfj of the next is vvantinor. 

Ne'er in the world for long hath lived a weak one, 
Who dreaded not pain of body. 

Alexander was a despoiler of God, 
When angered, a cruel man was he. 
In guilt a very Jew — from the seat of judgment 
With monstrous cruelty he martyred him. 
He, with his pure mother, indignantly 
Entered the cauldron — the pure and bright one. 
The water heated for him bubbled not 
More than would a cold stream. 
Three months short of three years old 
Was our patron when thus they bound him. 
When a child, and in perfect health, 
By a stone was he dashed to pieces. 
Uis passage through ashes hath angered us, 
To us, therefore, he is a blessed saint. 
Through that wicked and cruel man, 
A framework of boards was to be ventured upon ; 
These were turned by God to the advantage of the saint, 
For, thro' the boards, in sight of all, 
The Jew^ fell, and broke his neck. 
For that wicked man I feel no pity. 
On the spot, from his shoes, issued 
Yells, like those of brute beasts. 

Christ is our portion, may God receive graciously our gift, 
Curig and his mother loved Him, 



^ Jew is used here as a term of opprobrium. 

192 



292 HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 

Seven angels were filled with delight^ 
Julitta was a spectacle for the seven. 

A youth there was — one who ruled the land. 
And a young maiden, greatly beloved, 
[///ri/t/K] were without affection 
For the Wye's bank, and its nun of old time. 
And another, the son of Rhyswallon,* 
\Vas cold of heart, and dull of understanding. 
Before the day dawned, his thoughts woald run 
Upon riches, and brilliant gems ; 
And he loved not holy Curig; 
He would cozen any one in any way. 
On both his knees is the king 
Worshipping him on the slope of the hill ; 
Here a shameful mischance befals him, 
He loses his attendants, his steed breaks away. 
And Curig, a saint as generous as powerful, 
Was appeased by virtue of an offering. 
And was readily induced to console him. 
We have heard that the gifl of a close was given him. 
An eminence, steep and towering, was bestowed. 
Like a pile of gold, an ample tribute; 
llireo lands like a golden strand. 
Three in one ring, three in one were obtained, 
The enclosure, my patron, wherein thou art greatly honoared. 
Of Llangurig, each spot exactly measured, 
Encircles thy soil, for thine honour. 

Many a good length is there, where there is free privilege, 
A bright and beautiful circle,^ wherein are three coloars. 
In the land of Curig, with a prospect of three crowns. 
Better parish can there not anywhere be 
Than the parish of Curig, no other land is like it. 

There are three or four passages in these two frag- 
ments in striking conformity with the spurious Acts. 
Sucli arc the incident of the cauldron or cacahV'S^ that of 
the shoes out of which issued horrible yells, the seven 
angels who descend from heaven, and the age of the 
child, exactly two years and nine months. There is 
some variation in the details. In the Acts the cauldron 

^ This may he a false readinpf for Caswallawn, the father of Mael- 
gwn Gwyncdd, who is the subject of the legend as told in the poem 
attached to that of FIuw Cae Llwyd. 

2 Or " wheel". Can this mean a corwia or chandelier? 



THE LEGEND OF ST. CURIG. 293 

is filled with burning pitch ; in the poem, with boiling 
water. In the former, the shoes, on the Governor s de- 
manding a sign, become alive ; nay, more, eat and drink ; 
and, finally, are transformed into a bull, out of whose 
neck springs a he-goat, instead of being left, as in the 
nursery tale, after the dissolution of the Governor's body 
by fire ; and the seven angels appear for the purpose of 
restoring to life a thousand persons, who embrace Chris- 
tianity after being beheaded by the Governor's order. 
On the other hand, the martyr's death, by being dashed 
against a stone, would seem to have been derived from 
the genuine Acts ; unless, indeed, the passage, which is 
certainly obscure, is rather to be referred to an incident 
in the spurious work, in which a space is scooped out of 
a large stone, capacious enough for the two martyrs to 
sit in, the sides of which are afterwards filled with 
molten lead. The whole, in fact, bears marks of an 
attempt to reduce the narrative of the spurious Acts 
within credible dimensions by the elimination of its ab- 
surdities ; a theory borne out by the statement in the 
EmynaUy that Cyricus was an adult who, from his child- 
hood, had been distinguished for his piety and ability ; 
and also by the statement that the Life published by • 
Hucbald, and obtained, doubtless, by him from Nevcrs, 
underwent a similar process of castigation, first by him- 
self, and a second time, subsequently, by his editor, 
Abbot Philip. 

The most remarkable fact connected with the history of 
these Acts is perhaps this, that the genuine narrative 
furnished by Bishop Theodore to Pope Zosimus within 
a century after the event, never succeeded in superseding 
them in popular estimation. It affords a strange con- 
firmation of the saying, which has almost passed into a 
proverb, " Give a falsehood a start of twenty-four hours, 
and the truth will never overtake it." Father Combefis, 
a Dominican, by whom Bishop Theodore's letter in the 
original Greek was exhumed from among the MSS. in 
the Kings Library at Paris in 1660, expressed a hope 
that the public reading of the apocryphal Acts pro- 



294 HISTORY OF POWYS FA DOG. 

scribed by Pope Gelasius, already suppressed at Nevers, 
might be put down by authority also at Ville Juif (a 
corruption of Villa Julittge), a town six miles south of 
Paris, where they were read annually from a pulpit to a 
great concourse of people. And Father Por^, a Pre- 
monstrateusian, writing in 1644, states that the use of 
these, which had thus usurped the place of the genuine 
ActSy was in his time widely disseminated throughout 
France. So difficult is it to eradicate a popular usage, 
especially when calculated to gratify the love of the 
marvellous, so deeply rooted in our nature. It is in- 
structive, moreover, to learn from Bishop Theodore's 
letter, that these, and similar extravagancies in legendary 
saints' lives, do not necessarily owe their origin to mo- 
tives of gain or self-interest on the part of those who 
may be made the unconscious means of handing them 
down to posterity, as has often been erroneously sup- 
posed. In this instance, we have seen that they were 
actually due to the malice of enemies of the Christian 
faith, on which it was sought to cast discredit by the 
substitution of false for true narratives of the deeds of 
those whose lives and deaths, if recorded simply and 
without such exaggeration, would have furnished the 
strongest testimony to the truth of their belief. 

In conclusion, an anecdote may not be out of place 
which may possibly serve to illustrate the simple faith of 
the villagers of Llangurig in the power of their patron 
saint to obtain them favours from heaven. A traveller 
by the Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth mail, not many 
years back, while beguiling the tedium of the journey by 
careless gossip with the coachman, was informed by him, 
ns an extraordinary fact, that the finest crops of wheat 
in the county of Montgomery were siiid to be grown in 
the parish of Llangurig, despite the apparently unsuit- 
able nature of the laud and climate for that object. Can 
this have been a remnant of the old belief, long after the 
memory of the saint, and the popular devotion to him, 
had faded from the popular mind ? The apocryphal 
Acts of Cyricus close with a prayer by him for those 
>vho should honour him hereafter, that they might obtain 



ANCIENT WELSH ETHNOLOGY. 295 

their petitions according to their necessities, one of which 
was that they might be blessed in their wine, oil, corn, 
and all their substance. Whether attributable or not to 
this passage in his legend, the published Welsh poems in 
his honour teem with expressions of such a belief in the 
power of his prayers, and of belief also in the reception 
of tangible tokens, without number, of his protection and 

HowEL W. Lloyd, M.A. 



PROFESSOR BOYD DAWKINS ON "ANCIENT WELSH 

ETHNOLOGY." 

Eef&r to pp. 257-264. 

[From the Oswestry Advertizer.] 

On the 7th of June 1882, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., 
F.R.S., of Owens College, Manchester, delivered a lecture on 
**The Ancient Ethnology of Wales", before the Honourable 
Society of Cymmrodorion at the Freemasons* Tavern, Great 
Queen Street; Mr. C. W. Williams Wynn occupying the chair. 
Mr. Wynn briefly opened the meeting by saying that he and 
ethnological science had barely a bowing acquaintance, but 
under the auspices of so distinguished an ethnologist and anti- 
quary as Professor Boyd Dawkins, whose researches in the 
neighbourhood of Cefn were well known to him, he hoped to 
become better acquainted with it. 

Throughout his lecture. Professor Boyd Dawkins relied 
almost entirely on his memory for the facts in relation to the 
subject under consideration, the result being a prolixity and 
discursiveness which would have been prevented had his re- 
marks been committed to paper in the manner usual with 
Cymmrodorion speakers. The lecture, however, was of very 
great interest, and was listened to throughout with marked 
attention by an appreciative audience. Premising that it 
would be of interest to lay before such a Society as that of the 
Cymmrodorion, which might be considered the Welch bro- 
therhood in London, several points in connection with the 
ancient ethnology of Wales, Professor Boyd Dawkins pointed 
out that the claims of race were coming more and more to the 
front. As the most ancient, if not the most honourable, race 
in this island, he would deal with Welsh ethnology before the 
commencement of history, and in its special connection with 
the introduction of civilisation into Wales. By one of those 



296 HISTORY OF FOWYS FADOO. 

accidents that como to those who look for them, a few years 
ago a series of ethnological discoveries were made on the 
estate of Mrs. Wynn of Cefn. Under a stone cairn were foand 
a number of flat stones overlapping one another, and forming 
the roof of a large stone chamber, which turned out to be an 
ancient family vault containing a number of human skeletons^ 
together with a few flint flakes, and the remains of varioas 
domestic animals, including specimens of the small Welsh 
cattle, the goat, the dog, the horse, and that other animal 
which plays an important part in civilisation — the pig. These 
remains undoubtedly proved that the people who had been 
buried in the sepulchral chamber thus found were in the agri- 
cultural phase of civilisation and well acquainted with do- 
mestic animals. Another discovery of bones was made at a 
place called Perthi Chwareu, where a sepulchral cavern was 
found literally crowded with skeletons. The two discoveries 
were of the greatest interest as bearing on each other, for the 
skeletons and the animal remains in each instance proved to 
be of the same type. Examination showed the human bones 
to be those of a short people with long skulls, prominent 
noses (in one series a family oddity in the shape of a nez 
retroussi was well preserved) , and small features. The polished 
stone implements found near them showed that they belonged 
to the neolithic age. These chamber tombs had been found 
throughout Wales, in various parts of the United Kingdom, 
and also on the Continent, all containing the remains of the 
same kind of people. 

The lecturer next proceeded to deal with the civilisation 
of the people thus discovered. In this country there are evi- 
dences that their civilisation was not by any means low. The 
exploration of some ancient dwellings near Salisbury has esta- 
blished the fact of their acquaintance with wheat. It is also 
certain that they knew the arts of spinning and weaving, for 
spindle whirls have been found in their tombs and habitations, 
together with small cun'y-combs, which were probably used to 
push the woof on to the weft. They were also miners, as 
shown by the flint pits of Sissbury and elsewhere, where vast 
accumulations of their broken mining implements have been 
found. The lecturer when exploring at Sissbury was able to 
decide where the miners sat at work, and actually succeeded 
in finding the broken halves of one of their implements, which 
is now preserved at Owens College. Taking these things into 
consideration, it was clear that they were considering the 
claims not of an unimportant people, but of the introducers of 
the \Qvy civilisation wo now enjoyed. That they were great 



ANCIENT WELSH ETHNOLOGY. 297 

warriors could be proved bj the multitudes of small village 
fortifications found throughout Wales. It is probable that 
they dwelt in small communities, something like those found 
by Mr. H. M. Stanley in Central Africa. They undoubtedly 
believed in a future state of existence^ for the implements 
placed by the side of the dead were evidently intended for use 
in a future world. Sir John Lubbock, however, arguing from 
the fact that certain tumuli have been found without any 
traces of implements, doubts their belief in a future state. 
The lecturer was of opinion that the presence or absence of 
implements in the tumuli denoted the estimation in which the 
departed had been held during and after life. 

The remains of a similar people as those already mentioned 
have been found on the Continent, i. e., in the region west of 
the Rhine and north of the Alps. All over Gaul, Spain, Bel- 
gium, and Switzerland, traces are to be had of this ancient 
people, and owing to the larger area and to the remains found 
in the Swiss lakes, where their former habitations have been 
wonderfully preserved, the picture is more forcibly brought 
before us. They used to grow wheat, barley, millet, and hemp, 
and were in the habit of using linseed meal : they also pos- 
sessed gardens, for we have their fruit preserved to us by the 
mere accident of being burnt. The cattle mentioned as ap- 
pertaining to the ancient people of Wales have also been found 
on the Continent in the region already referred to, together 
with specimens of the large cattle which here we identify with 
the English invasion. All these facts go to prove the large 
area over which these people were scattered, and the uniform 
civilisation which prevailed among them. 

The next question to decide was who were these people ? 
The examination of their remains has shown them to be a 
short race, with long heads, delicately cut aquiline features, and 
oval face, with the lower portion devoid of the strength of that of 
the Cymry of the present day. The researches of Dr. Broca, 
Professor Huxley, and other ethnologists, seem to prove that 
this ancient neolithic people are most nearly represented at 
the present time, by the Basques or Iberians, who are to be 
found in the western portion of the Pyrenees, i, e,, the small 
dark Basques as distinguished from the Goth element which 
wandered into that region. Who were the Basques ? His- 
tory unerringly tells us that they represent the ancient Iberian 
people which had a large population scattered over Western 
Europe at the beginning of history. A comparison of the his- 
toric and neolithic maps shows that at the period mentioned 
their area had been considerably contracted, that is to say. 



298 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

they had been pushed as far westward as possible by the 
pressure of invaders on their eastern borders. Dr. Broca in 
his admirable work, and the Anthropological Institute of 
Paris by its researches, have shown that the early inhabitants 
of Gaul during the neolithic age were invaded by a people 
differing from them as well in physique as in manners and 
customs. Specimens of these have also been found in the 
sepulchral chambers, proving them to belong to the Gauls or 
Ancient Celts who, standing in the vanguard of Aryan civilisa- 
tion, had invaded Europe in the neolithic age, and driven the 
Iberians to the west. These were taller men with round or 
broad skulls, massive features, and the lower part of the face 
characterised by what is called " snoutiness^'. One of the 
new fashions introduced to Gaul by the Celts was that of dis- 
posing of the dead by cremation. Traces of the fashion have 
been fouud in France, but none in the neolithic tombs of this 
country. It is evident the Celts crossed over here in the 
neolithic age. For a considerable time " the silver streak'', 
on which the Britons of to-day place such exaggerated im- 
portance, kept all invaders away. The discovery of bronze 
brought with it new implements and weapons, a higher mode 
of warfare, and a more advanced state of civilisation. It is a 
singular fact that this country does not appear to have been 
successfully invaded till the beginning of the bronze age. At 
that time, what happened in Gaul appears to have been re- 
peated in Britain, /. e., the ancient inhabitants were for the 
most part driven westward ; but one contrary fact seems to be 
established, viz., that during the bronze age there was an 
Iberic population in Yorkshire, showing that they were not 
then totally displaced. The tendency, however, was other- 
wise, and the Iberians had to move to the West, the Celts 
evidently following them, for their bronze implements and 
ornaments have been found over the whole surface of the 
country, and even in Wales and Ireland. Bronze implements 
are ever indissolubly connected with the Celtic invasion, 
though it should be remembered that the Iberians would use 
bronze tools and weapons when they came to know them. 
The Celts were undoubtedly a fair-haired people. Where 
their descendants are not so, the lecturer would attribute it 
to the mingling of the Celts with the Iberians, and as this 
took place everywhere, it is very diflBcult to draw any hard 
and fast line on this point. 

When Ciesar conquered the West he found three sets of 
people, viz., the Iberians, the Gauls or Celts, and the Belgae. 
Who were the Belga) ? Some authorities say they were tier- 



ANCIENT WELSH ETHNOLOGY. 299 

mans, others are contented to class them with the Celts. So 
far as the testimony of their bones go they are, without doubt, 
characteristic of the latter. In course of time iron was disco- 
vered, and along with it a higher civilisation sprang up. 
The lecturer felt bound to associate the Belgse with the iron 
age, though he was unable to connect them with the introduc- 
tion of iron into this country. When Caesar arrived here he 
found the country inhabited by BelgeD, Celts, and Silurians, 
who, from Tacitus's description, bore a marked resemblance to 
the Iberians of Spain. Traces of the Belgse have been found 
in Yorkshire as well as in Ireland, but, ethnologically speak- 
ing, the impression they left was unimportant, for they were 
as nearly related to the Celts as the Saxons were to the Jutes. 
The influence of the Roman invasion, again, while it made 
a vast change in the civilisation of the country, made but 
little difference in its ethnology. But with the departure of 
the Roman legions came a turning point in the history of 
Wales. The Roman Empire broke down under a great com- 
bination of invaders of the German race, who, breaking through 
its military defences, overran Gaul and settled in extreme and 
remote parts of Europe, leaving traces of their names in Lom- 
bardy, Burgundy, and France. The Saxon invasion of Britain 
was a part of this dismemberment of the Roman Empire. 
For four centuries Britain had enjoyed profound peace under 
the shadow of the Roman eagle. In 449 A.D., the northern 
pirates, who had harried the eastern coast, made a descent on 
the island ; others ere long joined them, and together they 
commenced a war of extermination against the Britons. They 
were, perhaps, the hardest fighters in the world, but they 
found the Britons worthy of their steel, and it took them two 
centuries to drive their opposers to the West. Driven, how- 
ever, they were, and the eastern part of Britain became Eng- 
land. In the ethnology of Wales we now have three elements 
(two if Celts and Belgae are joined), besides English and 
Danish elements. The descendants of the short dark ancient 
people are still to be found there; but now that the Welsh are 
proving themselves cosmopolitan, the old race is being rapidly 
crossed out. Even in the last twenty years the lecturer had 
noticed a great diminution among the small Iberic people 
in the neighbourhood of St. Asaph. The Welsh, with the 
Basques, the Southern Irish, and the Highlanders, are of the 
same ethnological family, but the small dark people must be 
Igokcd upon as the most ancient. The main staple of the 
Welsh race are the Celts, but, among these, especially along 
the estuary of the Dee, and in the direction of the Menai 



300 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Straits, are many fttmilies of ancient English descent who are 
now, however, as much Welsh as the old stock. Having thus 
placed before the meeting as an archsQologist and geologist 
the evidence of pick and shovel, and compared history and 
ethnology, the lecturer opined that his hearers would agree 
with him that the ethnology of Wales is an epitome of the 
ethnology of Western Europe. 

In conclusion, he said the ancient Iberian language had 
curiously preserved traces of the neolithic age in the words 
used for various implements which were formerly made of stone^ 
but now of steel ; an interesting case of philological survival 
squaring with ethnological facts. Professor Khys has been 
searching for Basque roots in the Welsh language, and with- 
out forestalling Mr. Rhys's discoveries, he might say that 
traces of Iberian roots have at last been found therein. As a 
Welshman who had wandered across the border, and remained 
60 long that he had almost forgotten he was a Welshman^ he 
thanked the Society for giving him an opportunity of being so 
pleasantly reminded of it that evening. 



FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO. 

[From the St Jameses Gazette.] 

The discoveiy of the position of the planet Neptune by the 
independent researches of Adams and Leverrier is justly re- 
garded as one of the most magnificent triumphs of mathe- 
matical reasoning. Its nature was such that the popular mind 
could grasp its meaning and appreciate its significance ; and 
it is of course to this element of its character, no less than to 
the ocular demonstration of its truth, that it owes its notoriety. 
This will be at once clear when it is pointed out that, twelve 
years before, Galle found the planet close to the spot which had 
been assigned to it by calculation. Sir William Hamilton 
foretold the existence of the phenomenon commonly known by 
the name of conical refraction, and his conclusions were soon 
afterwards experimentally verified by Lloyd. As an example 
of what may be accomplished by a skilful manipulation of 
figures, this prediction was in no degree less remarkable than 
the detection of Neptune's place in the heavens : the result of 
Lloyd's test did, indeed, make a profound impression upon all 
who understood its importance; but the circle to which it 
appealed was necessarily limited in extent. Quite recently 
attention has been drawn to a theory which once more illus- 



FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO. 301 

trates the increasing influence of mathematics as a help to the 
study of all sciences. It is true that an experimental demon- 
stration of its truth or falsity, is from the nature of the sub- 
ject-matter, impossible, so that it will lack one of the ingre- 
dients which have rendered the achievement of Adams and 
Tjeverrier famous and Hamilton's view convincing ; yet, as it 
deals in a wonderful way with the history of the earth and moon, 
it naturally aroused more than ordinarily the curiosity of the 
public. 

The hypothesis has its origin in a consideration of the work 
which has, in the course of time, been done by agents with 
which we are all familiar enough. For every one has watched 
the tides rise and fall ; and centuries before any explanation 
was given of the relation which exists between them and the 
phases of the moon, the fact that there is a connection was too 
obvious to escape recognition ; so that from a very early 
period the phenomena of the tides have been ascribed to the 
influence of the moon. Not long ago it was definitely shown 
that, although the tides are in part caused by the sun, they 
depend principally upon the moon's action : and, more re- 
cently, the increase which had been observed in the length of 
the day was attributed to their operation. This increase is of 
course due to a retardation in the rate of the earth's rotation 
about its axis; and, although extremely slow, thousands of 
years being required for the addition of a second, still it is 
continuous. For reasons which it is unnecessary to explain 
hero, this change in the length of the day is accompanied by 
an enlargement of the orbit in which the moon revolves. It 
follows that the distance of the moon from the earth, as well 
as the length of the day, is constantly becoming greater; and 
it is equally apparent that there was a period when the day 
was much shorter and the moon much nearer than at present. 
Now Mr. George Darwin has traced back the eflfects of the 
tides upon the system of the earth and moon until an epoch is 
attained at which our planet and its satellite are almost in 
contact with one another; and he finds that the earth's period 
of rotation, or the day, was then from two to four hours in 
length, and corresponded with the moon's period of revolution 
round the earth, or the month, while the year remained vir- 
tually at its present value. The configuration of the system 
at this epoch, as estimated by Mr, Darwin, has led him to sug- 
gest that the moon owes its origin to a rupture, caused by the 
rapidity of rotation or some other agency, of a planet whose 
mass originally consisted both of the moon and the earth ; 
and this view differs from the nebular theory of Laplace and 



302 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

Kant in that it assumes that the rupture did not occur until 
the planet was partly consolidated and was approximately of 
its present size. 

In order to appreciate the force of this suggestion it is 
necessary to bear in mind that at the time under considera- 
tion — computed to be at least fifty-four million years ago— 
the earth was of a very different character from the world 
with which we are acquainted : it was probably partly solid, 
partly liquid, and partly gaseous. And we must further 
remember that the earth is not a sphere, but is flattened 
at the poles and bulges out at the equator. This form, we 
all know, is a result of its rotation upon its axis, and the 
greater the velocity of rotation the greater will be the promi- 
nence at the equator. So that if the earth spun round 
with sufficient speed, a stage in its history must be reached 
at which' the attraction which bound together the portions 
at the equator and the rest of its mass would be obliged 
to yield to the centrifugal force, and the equatorial regions 
would be severed from the body of the planet. It is esti- 
mated that this separation would occur when the rotation was 
completed in about three hours. At the period, therefore, 
indicated by Mr. Darwin, the earth was extremely liable to 
rupture ; and at this point probably the solar tides — the effect 
of which is so small that at the present day it may be prac- 
tically ignored — by a succession of impulses, played an im- 
portant part. It is plain that no lunar tides existed before 
the moon was formed ; the earth was therefore affected only 
by these solar tides, which were apparent as throbs in the 
materials of the earth. The vibrations of the earth induced 
by the solar tides would by themselves even then be small ; 
but, owing to the synchronism of the earth's oscillation and 
the period of these tides, their amplitude would be gradually 
increased, and at last the cohesion of the mass would be over- 
come. According to Dr. Ball, at this point *^ a separation 
took place ; one portion consolidated to form our present earth, 
the other portion consolidated to form the moon." Mr. 
Proctor, on the other hand, considers that the rupture pro- 
bably took place at a much later period than that which is 
calculated by Mr. Darwin ; and expresses strong disapproval 
of the notion that the moon was formed at a single effort, 
because small portions of the original planet would most likely 
be detached long before the disturbance was great enough to 
enable it to part with such a large body as that of the moon. 
Each portion so thrown off would move away from the earth 
directly it was freed from the original mass ; and in this way 



FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO. 303 

a series of rinp^s, making up a single flat ring-system like that 
of Saturn, would be formed ; then by mutual impact the bodies 
would become less in number, until, perhaps, they accumulated 
in centres, and, finally, a union of the masses of which those 
centres were constituted would gather them into one spherical 
body. 

But whether the moon was formed suddenly or gradually, 
it is easy to follow its history and that of the earth from the 
time when they were close to one another. For it was in- 
evitable that the moon should either retreat or be again 
absorbed in the earth. Its present position indicates that it 
began to move away ; so that the month and day altered until 
they reached their existing lengths of about twenty-seven days 
and twenty-four hours respectively. But as the change in the 
month was quicker than the corresponding variation in the 
day, there was an epoch at which the month was composed of 
twenty-nine days; since then the ratio has diminished, and the 
month (measured by days) has decreased. This decrease in 
the number of days per month will be attended by an increase 
in the number of hours per day, and will continue until the 
lengths of the month and day are once more identical, and 
each consists of 1,400 hours. It is, moreover, well known 
that the moon always presents the same region of her surface 
to the earth ; this is a result of the tides formerly raised in 
the moon by the attraction of the earth. When the day is 
1,400 hours long the earth will in like manner present the same 
face to the moon ; and, when this epoch has been reached, the 
lunar tides will obviously have ceased, and the solar tides will 
once more play an important role : they will create little dis- 
turbance upon the moon ; but they will have power to dimi- 
nish the rotation of the earth, so that ultimately the moon, 
following the example of the interior satellite of Mars, will 
revolve round the earth in much less than a day. Once again, 
then, the earth will not present the same region to the moon, 
and once again tides will be raised in the earth by her satel- 
lite. But the effect, under these circumstances, will be to 
increase the rotation of the earth and to decrease the moon's 
distance. The curtain may be drawn upon the earth and 
moon intent upon once more renewing their embrace ; and it 
may be anticipated that the greeting, after so long a parting, 
will be warm. 

Dr. Ball has expressed his conviction that the former prox- 
imity of the moon will sufficiently account for the disagree- 
ment which exists between astronomers and geologists with 
regard to the ago of the earth. It cannot bo disputed that 



304 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

when the moon was mnch nearer to the earth than it is at 
present, the tides rose to a far greater height than they do 
now; and Dr. Ball contends that if their eflfect be recognised, 
geologists will no longer be forced to rely upon the agents of 
the present day for an explanation of the palaeozoic rocks. In 
support of his opinion he alludes to the work which would be 
accomplished by tides more than two hundred times as high 
as those which now rise and fall on our coasts. But Mr. 
Darwin does not himself admit the application of his theory in 
this direction to the extent which Dr. Ball desires ; and has 
explained that when he pointed to the acceleration of geolo- 
gical action as a result of his speculations^ he did not consider 
that even in the earliest geological times the tides were more 
than two or three times as high as at present. On the other 
hand, he thinks that, as the denuding effect of rain and air is 
far greater than that of the waves, the larger amount of rain- 
fall which might reasonably be expected with only that in- 
crease in height would have as great an effect as direct tidal 
action. Professor Newberry supports Mr. Darwin's limitation 
by declaring that, so far from affording any indication of the 
action of such huge tides as those depicted by Dr. Ball, the 
whole geological record is opposed to the possibility of their 
existence during the period which is included in it. How- 
ever, the dispute between the author of the theory and his 
interpreter is only as to the extent of the influence ; and, un- 
doubtedly, the speculation lessens the difficulty to a consider- 
able extent. 



VICTOR HUGO AND JEWISH PERSECUTION. 

Refer to page 167. 

The Paris newspapers of June 18, 1882, print the fol- 
loviring appeal of Victor Hugo in relation to the persecution 
of the Jews raging in Russia : — 

"This is the decisive hour. The moribund religious are 
betaking themselves to their last resources. What this mo- 
ment is rearing its head is not merely something criminal, but 
something monstrous. A nation is being transformed into a 
monster ; horrible spectre ! A curtain is rent in twain, and a 
voice cries, ' Children of men, behold and choose ; either of 
two solutions is open to you.' On one side man advances 
with measured but certain tread, towards an ever brighter 
horizon, leading by the hand a child. He steps forth, his 
head full of light; the child, its head full of hope. Labour 



VICTOR HUGO AND JEWISH PERSECUTION. 303 

does its grand work ; science seeks God. The mind beholds 
him — God-truth, God-justice, God-couscience, God-love. Man 
blends with things belonging to earth, with Liberty, Equality, 
and Fraternity. God sought is philosophy ; God seen is reli- 
gion. There is nothing more — no more idle tales, no more 
dreams, no more dogmas. All the peoples are brothers. Fron- 
tiers disappear. Man perceives that yet the earth has not 
been possessed. Wars become rarer. Races have henceforth 
but one motive, and one goal — civilisation. Every throb of 
the human heart means progress. On the other side, man is 
seen receding. The horizon becomes blacker. Multitudes 
go about groping in the gloom. The old religions, crushed 
under their two thousand years, have lost everything but their 
myths : once the illusion of the childhood of humanity, but 
now the scorn of its maturity; once accepted by ignorance, 
but now contradicted by science ; leaving to the clinging be- 
liever, whose eyes are closed and ears stopped, no other refuge 
than the frightful ' Credo quia ahsurdumJ Errors devour one 
another. The Jews are martyred by the Christians. Thirty 
towns at this moment are the prey of pillage, and the inhabit- 
ants are massacred, are hunted forth from their homes. What 
is going on in Russia fills one with horror. The crime being 
committed there is colossal. But in truth it is no crime, for 
the populations engaged upon their work of extermination 
have lost all sense of crime. Their religions have plunged 
them into the depths of bestiality. Theirs is the terrible in- 
nocence of the tiger. The centuries of the past — the one with 
its Albi^enses; another with its Inquisition; a third with its 
Holy Office ; a fourth with its St. Bartholomew ; a fifth with 
its dragonnades ; a sixth with its Austria of Maria Theresa — 
are rushing in combination upon our nineteenth century, with 
intent to stifle it. The mutilation of man, the outrage upon 
woman, the burning of children, are all in the aim to suppress 
the future. The past has no mind to be annihilated; it is 
holding mankind in its deadly grasp. The thread of life is 
still between its spectral fingers ; on one side the people, on 
the other the rabble ; on one side light, on the other, darkness. 
Choose!" (Seep. 165.) 



VOL. III. 20 



306 HISTORY OF POWYS FAI>OG. 



THE DESTRUCTION OP ALEXANDRIA. 

(Seep. 167.) 
The Law op Nations and Egypt. 

[To the Editor of the Standard.'] 

SiB^ — To reason about the late events and present state of 
things in Egypt with any reference to International Law is 
almost impossible, for all is confusion, contradiction, and in- 
extricable difficulty. A distinction has been asserted between 
International Law and common sense. Both are now utterly 
confounded in Egypt. But they ought to be identical. Let 
us consider facts. 

The Prime Minister says : — " I do not admit that we are at 
war with any one.^' This is astounding. The British Fleet 
has been bombarding the forts of Alexandria and we are 
preparing to send an army. If this is not war, what is war ? 
It is war ; but we are told that it is war against nobody. We 
are in amity with the Khedive, whose life we have endangered, 
and the destruction of whose city we have caused ; and with 
the Sultan, who has remonstrated against our violence. Our 
object, forsooth, is to remove Arabi. This is like the tame 
bear who, seeing a wasp on his master's nose, administered a 
crushing blow with all his weight, which killed the insect, but 
smashed his master's head. Then the Government says that 
we have acted in self-defence, because the forts endangered 
our Fleet. The forts did not go to the Fleet, but the Fleet 
went to the forts. The Fleet had only to move out of reach 
of fire. In the courts of law, if a man deliberately goes to a 
nuisance he is not allowed to complain of it. The Govern- 
ment rely on the example of Navarino. But we nil know that 
Navarino was described at the time as an untoward event, 
and it was a mauimis coup de tete, instigated by rash words of 
the Lord High Admiral. It was an offence against the Law 
of Nations, and not a precedent. What would have been said 
if Guiteau had relied in his defence on the murder of the Em- 
peror of Russia ? 

And what right had we to intervene against Arabi, or to 
interfere with him, except so far as he injured our rights, if he 
did so ? It seems to be forgotten that within a fortnight the 
Sultan, who is the Sovereign of Egypt and the chief of the 
Mahometan religion, has decorated Arabi with the highest 
honour he can confer, equal to the Garter in this country. I 
do not justify Arabics conduct ; but he is the representative 



THE DESTRUCTION OF ALEXANDRIA. 307 

of Egypt for the Egyptians ; and I believe the Mahometan 
world, including our fellow-subjects in India, look upon him 
as a champion of Islam. 

Apart from all astuteness and subtle casuistry, of which Mr. 
Gladstone is a master, I want to know what we are fighting 
for ? I ask for what has our Fleet been pouring death and 
destruction on the Egyptians, and our own men have shed 
their blood, and for what are we preparing an army to invade 
Egypt ? We have caused the utter ruin, the destruction, of 
one of the finest cities in the East, a city of two hundred 
thousand souls, with massacres, outrages, and terrible 
slaughter, and incalculable destruction of property. These 
horrors are irreparable. They are the result of our policy, 
and they will always be remembered against us. During all 
this the Prime Minister says — *' I do not admit that we are at 
war with any one.'' If we are not at war with any one, we 
are not lawful belligerents, and every man killed is murdered. 
If, as some papers tell us, the Law of Nations is a parcel of 
rubbish, we must fall back into the lawlessness of remote 
ages, and Quod placet sanctum est Talk of " blood-guilti- 
ness," we see it now, and we are responsible for every drop 
of blood that is spilt in an unlawful war and all its con- 
sequences. 

" Hostes'^ says Florentinus, in the Pandects, " sunt qui 
nobis vel quibus nos publico bellum decreviraus, caeteri prae- 
dones et pirati sunt.'' " Praedones et Pi rati !" We must say 
with Pseudolus, " Mea sunt cognomina." 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
July 15, 1882. George Bowyee. 



The Public Law of Belligerency. 
[To the Editor of the Standard,] 

Sir, — Some exposition of the Public Law regarding lawful 
war may be useful at the present time. 

The text universally received on this subject is that Law of 
Florentinus, which I have cited — " Hostes sunt qui nobis vel 
quibus nos publico bellum decrevimus, caBteri praedones et 
pirati sunt.^' The words publke bellum decrevimics, do not 
signify that a formal declaration of war is necessary. It is an 
established principle that though this should be done as a gene- 
ral rule, there are many exceptions. War has sometimes to be 
commenced on an emergency, and if a formal declaration 
were necessary the object of the war would be frustrated. 



308 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Thus, in the case of Copenhagen, oar Government had par- 
chased for three thousand pounds the secret article by wiiich 
the fleet of a State with which we were at peace was to be 
given up to our enemy, France. There it was necessary to 
act without anv declaration of war. 

The words puhliee helium decrevimtis mean that war mast 
be commenced by public authority — by authority of the State, 
as war — and not as mere acts of violence in time of peace. 
In the case of Egypt, the Prime Minister, speaking with the 
authority of the Crown, has said — " I do not admit that we 
are at war with any one.^' Now war requires two belligerents, 
just as an action in foro eontentioso requires contestation — ^a 
plaintiff and defendant. We are at peace with the Khedive and 
with the Sultan ; therefore the Crown, to which alone belongs 
the prerogative of peace and war, is and was in a state of 
peacA. We could not be at war with Arabi because he is not 
a lawful belligerent, being a subject of the Khedive and the 
Sultan. 

Yet, in this stato of peace, declared by the Prime Minister, 
we have resorted to the most warlike measures and all the 
horrors of war. We have bombarded the forts of Alexandria, 
and with our eyes open we have caused most terrible massacres 
and outrages, and the sacrifice of thousands of lives by fire 
and sword, with incalculable destruction of property belong- 
ing to the inoffensive natives and to foreign nations, for 
which we shall no doubt be held liable. And all this has 
taken place while we were not at war with any one. It is 
clear that we cannot claim the rights of lawful belligerents, 
and that we have been guilty of piracy. 

With regard to Arabi, our only lawful course would have 
been to offer to the Sultan and the Khedive the assistance of 
so many regiments to bring him to obedience under their 
authority. We should have sent an auxiliary force to land 
and occupy Alexandria — under the authority of the Sovereign 
of the country — and to maintain order in Egypt. But now 
we have been worse than any of the plagues of Egypt. 

I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 
July 17, 1882. Gkobgb Bowyer. 



Rome, Monday Night. 
The papers continue to write in a tone of bitter hostility to 
England. Great anxiety is shown to make out that the de- 
struction of the city was due to the English, and not to the 
Egyptian soldiers or convicts. A letter in the Fanfulla, from 



BANGOR TS Y COED. 309 

Paris, says large numbers of Greek firms have received tele- 
grams assuring them that the conflagration was mainly caused 
by the English bombs. Many rich Egyptians at Paris have 
received similar information. 

The Diritto publishes a summary of Egyptian history since 
the time of Ismail Pacha, which is intended to show that all 
the recent evils are due to the Anglo-French greed of usurious 
interest. " The Control ruined the Fellaheen and then per- 
suaded the Khedive to separate himself from the true patriots 
represented by Arabi Pacha, and thus produced all that has 
followed. The Diritto accuses Sir Rivers .Wilson and M. 
Bligniferes of acting for their personal enrichment. 

The Fanfnlla, after remarking that the telegraph is in the 
hands of Sir B. Seymour, says : — " If the Arabs, seeing the 
English begin the work of destruction, completed it in des- 
peration, ^p^hich are the greater barbarians V^ — Italian Oorre- 
spondence of the " Standard," 



CANTREF UWCH NANT.— COMOT AND LORDSHIP 

OF MAELOR SAESNEG. 

This comot contains the parishes of Y Gwrddymp, 
now called Worthympbury, or Worthenbury, containing 
the township of Y Gwrddymp ; the parish of Hanmer, 
which contains the townships of Hanmer, Llys Bedydd, 
Bronington, Ty Broughton, Williugton, and Halchdyn ; 
the parish of Bangor Is y Coed, and the townships of 
Is y Coed in the parish of Malpas, the township of 
Penley in the parish of Ellesmere, the township of Mer- 
ford in Gresford parish, the township of Maelor in the 
parish of Erbistog, and the township of Osley. 



BANGOR IS Y COED. 

This parish contains the townships of Bangor, Knoltyn, 
Overton Madog, and Overton Foreign in Maelor Saesneg ; 
the townships of Picyllt, Rhwytyn, and Seswick, in 
Maelor Gymraeg. 

Bangor was the Banchorium Statio of Richard of 
Cirencester, and in this township stood the celebrated 
monastery of Bangor Is y Coed, founded by Cadell 



310 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Deyrnllug, King of Powys, in the sixth century. This 
Cadell Deyrnllug was the grandfather of Brochwel Ys- 
gythrog, King of Powys, who was slain in 612. This 
monastery contained 2,400 monks, who, dividing them- 
selves into seven bands, passed their time alternately in 
prayer and labour,^ or, according to Camden, a hundred 
by turns passed one hour in devotion, so that the whole 
twenty- four hours were employed in sacred duties. The 
first abbot was Dunawd. This monastery was destroyed, 
and 1,200 of the monks were put to death, by ^thel- 
frid, King of the Angles, for praying for the success of 
their king, Brochwel Ysgithrog, against their enemies, as 
previously stated (see vol. i). After this the monastery 
fell to decay ; for William of Malmsbury, who lived in 
the reign of King Stephen, says, "There remained only", 
in his time, " the footsteps of so great a place, so many 
ruinous churches, and such heaps of rubbish as were 
hardly elsewhere to be met with." 

I have given this account relative to the foundation of 
the monastery of Bangor Is y Coed, as I have found it 
given in the Welsh MSS., and very fully given in the 
MS. of lolo Morgan wg. However, there is a different 
account given in other histories. By them we learn 
that a heresy broke out in the monastery of Bangor Is y 
Coed which spread amongst the Christians of Britain. 
This heresy was said to have been promulgated by a 
monk of this monastery, whose name was Morien, and 
his peculiar teachings were named after him, Morien 
Ddysg. To oppose this heresy, Celestine II, Pope of 
Rome in 424, sent St. Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre in 
Gaul,^ as his legate, to suppress it. When he came into 
what was subsequently called Powys-land, the Prince of 
that part of it called 141 and Ystrad Alun, whose name 
was Benlli Gawr, would have nothing to do with him, 
and ordered him to be off. Upon which, we are told by 
the monk Nennius, that, the anger of God fell upon the 
king, and that " ignis de coelo occidit et combussit 
arcein, et omnes qui cum tyranno («'. e.y Benlli) craut, nee 

^ iScdc's Ecdmastical History, ii, c. ii, p. 80. 



PELAGIUS. 311 

ultra apparuerunt, nee arx resedificata est usque in 
hodiernum diem/' However, lest the country should be 
without a ruler, Germanus anointed a man, named 
Cadell Deyrnllug, a servant of King Benlli's, who had 
given him food and shelter, to be King of Teyrnllwg in 
his place. This must have occurred sometime previously 
to 448, for, in that year, Germanus left Britain with the 
Roman legions and went to Ravenna, where he died on 
the 25th July in the same year. 

This story, therefore, proves that Pelagianism was 
prevalent in Britain previous to the middle of the lifth 
century, and that it was supposed to have emanated 
from a monk of the name of Morien, who subsequently 
took the Greek name of Pelagius in place of his Keltic 
name of Morien — which means the same thing, Mor being 
the Keltic name of Pelagos, the sea — and that this 
Morien was supposed to have been a monk of the mon- 
astery of Bangor Is y Coed, which, if such is the case, 
proves either that the Bangor monastery must have been 
in existence previous to the reign of Cadell Deyrnllug 
II, or, if it was really built and founded by him, as re- 
lated in the account previously given in vol. i, then 
Morien or Pelagius must have belonged to some other 
monastery. 

What we really do know, is, that in the beginning of 
the fifth century, a British monk, who had assumed the 
name of Pelagius, passed through Western Europe and 
Northern Africa, teaching that death was not introduced 
into the world by the sin of Adam ; that, on the con- 
trary, he was necessarily and by nature mortal, and had 
he not sinned he would nevertheless have died ; that the 
consequences of his sins were confined to himself, and 
did not affect his posterity. 

At Rome, Pelagius was received with favour : at 
Carthage, at the instigation of St. Augustine, he was 
denounced. By a synod held at Diospolis, he was ac- 
quitted of heresy, but, on referring the matter to the 
Bishop of Rome, Innocent I, he was, on the contrary, 
condemned. It happened that at this moment Innocent 



:;i:2 Hi.ST«»i:v uF rowYS fa dog. 

dieH, an<l his successor, Zosimus,^ anoulled his judginent, 
and declared the opinions of Pelagius to be orthodox. 
These contradictor}- decisions are still often referred to 
by the opponents of papal infallibility. Things were in 
this state of confusion, when the African bishops, through 
the influence of Count Valerius, procured from the em- 
peror an edict denouncing Pelagius as a heretic ; he and 
his accomplices were condemned to exile and the for- 
feiture of their goods. To affirm that death was in the 
world before the fall of Adam was a State crime. 

In deciding whether death had been in the world be- 
fore the fall of Adam, or whether it was the penalty 
inflicted on the world for his sin, the course taken was 
to ascertain whether the views of Pelagius were accord- 
ant or discordant, not with nature, but with the theolo- 
gical doctrines of St. Augustine, and the result has been 
such as might be expected. The doctrine declared to be 
orthodox by ecclesiastical authority is everthrow^n by 
the unquestionable discoveries of modern science. Long 
before human beings had appeared upon the earth, mil- 
lions of individuals — nay, more, thousands of species and 
even genera — had died ; those that remain with us are 
an insignifieaut fraction of the vast hosts that have 
passed away.^ * 

That death came not into the world because of ciny 
transgression l)y man of a commandment of God is cer- 
tain ; for that the earth wjis peopled by myriads of ani- 
mals which lived and died oeons before man appeared 
ui)(>ri the scene, is certified to us by the remains of those 
we find entombed in such profusion in the strata that 
con) pose the crust of the globe. The law of evolution, 
of birth and death, instituted as it undoubtedly was 
from the beginning of life on the eailh, may without 
irreverence be spoken of as a necessity in the nature of 
things. Were this not so, the law would not now exist ; 

^ 'I'liis is the Pojic Zosimns mentioned in the History of St. 
"-* (\)n//iii ffid'fiu litlhjwn and IScitna. By 1. AV. DniiK^r, M.D., 



CHRISTIANITY. 313 

for neither God nor the revelation He makes of Himself 
in His laws suffers essential change. 

It is not true, therefore, according . to the Hebrew tale 
itself, that death was brought into the world through 
man's infringement of an order not to eat of the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil ; but he was driven out of 
the garden of Eden lest he should take also of the tree of 
life, eat, and so like the Elohim — the gods — live for ever. 
The tale of Adam and Eve being driven out of Paradise 
may be explained in many ways, among others, is the 
following astronomical one. By turning to a celestial 
globe it will be seen that as Virgo (Eve), with the ears 
of com or fruit-bearing bough in her hand, followed by 
Arcturus (Adam) sinks in the west, Perseus (the cherub 
armed with the flaming sword) rises in the east, and 
seems to drive the woman and the man from the sky.^ 



CHRISTIANITY. 

The Jews are supposed to have had the most perfect 
conception of the Supreme Power, but the Hebrew Scrip- 
tures represent their God as walking in the garden of 
Eden in the cool of the evening ; and, on one occasion it 
is related of Moses, that he saw a portion of God s per- 
son like the hinder parts of a man. But not only do the 
Jews suppose themselves to be made bodily in the likeness 
of God, but they give to God the likeness of all their 
worst passions. He is proud, jealous, revengeful, the 
Commander-in-Chief of their armies, ordering whole towns 
to be levelled with the ground, and peoples to be put to 
death — men, women, children, and even the cattle — be- 
cause they called their god by another name ; and or- 
dered the sun and moon, to stand still that the Jews 
might make a greater slaughter of their enemies ; but 
at the same time easily turned from His purpose by 
obedience and flattery. To these vices were certainly 
added all the human virtues, and some of the highest 

^ The Pentateuch aud Book oj Josh ua. By a Physician. London : 
\Vi11ianm and Norgatc. 



314 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

attributes which the human mind is capable of conceiving, 
and several that are beyond man's conception. The 
Christian God is all this. The ancient Hebrews, at 
least, believed that evil was confined to this world, not 
believing in a future state ; but the Christians make evil 
Absolute, as, according to them, the torture of the wicked 
and unbelieving, who are supposed to be the great ma- 
jority, is to endure for ever and ever. The Creed of St 
Athanasius says : — 

** Whosoever will be saved : before all things it is necessary 
that he hold the Catholic Faith. 

" Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and unde- 
filed : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. . . . 

" He (Christ) suffered for oar salvation : descended into hell, 
rose again the third day from the dead. 

** At W^hose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies : 
and shall give account for their own works. 

"And they that have done good, shall go into Ufe everlasting : 
and they that have done evil, into everlasting Ji re. 

"This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faith- 
fully he cannot be saved. 

" Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy 
Ghost : As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, 
world without end. Ameii" 

According to the popular belief, all who differed from 
the teaching of the orthodox lived under the hatred of 
the Almighty, and were destined after death to an eter- 
nity of anguish in hell, " where their worm dieth not 
and the fire is not quenched, but the smoke of their 
torment goeth up for ever and ever", and no moral or 
intellectual excellence could atone for their crime in pro- 
pagating error ; and, according to Pope St. Gregory, the 
elect Christians " will be sated with joy as they gaze on 
the xmspeakahle ariguish of the impious, returning thanks 
for their own freedom .... The just man will rejoice 
when he shall see the vengeance." Nirvana is better 
than such pleasure as this.^ 

We learn from the Westminster Confession of Faith, 
which is the Creed of the Scotch Church, that : — 

' Lccky s .]f orals, vol. ii, p. 241. 



CHRISTIANITY. 315 

"By the decree of God, /or the manifestation of his gloi'y, 
some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life^ 
and others foreordained to everlasting death. 

" These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, 
are parti^nilarly and unchangeably designed; and their number 
is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or 
diminished. 

"Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, 
before the foundation of the world was laid, according to His 
eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and 
good pleasure of His will, hath chosen in Christ unto ever- 
lasting glory, out of His free grace and love, without any fore- 
sight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, 
or any other thing in the Creature, as conditions, or causes 
moving Him thereunto : and all to the praise of His glorious 
grace, 

" As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by 
the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all 
the means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected, being 
fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ ; are effectually called 
unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season ; are 
justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power through 
faith unto salvation ; neither are any other redeemed by Christ, 
effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but 
the elect only. 

" The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the 
unsearchable counsel of His own will, whereby He extendeth 
or withholdeth mercy as He pleaseth, for the glory of His 
sovereign power over His creatures, to pass by, and to ordain 
th&in to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his 
glorious justice" 

Of the state of men after death, the same Confession 
of Faith tells us : — 

" The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see cor- 
ruption ; but their souls (which neither die nor sleep), having 
an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave 
them. The souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in 
holiness, are received into the highest Heavens, where they 
behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full 
redemption of their bodies ; and the souls of the wicked are 
cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter dark- 
ness, reserved to the judgment of the great day. Besides 
these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the 
Scripture acknow ledge th none." 



316 HISTORY OF rOWYS FADOO. 

Of the Fall of ilan, this Confession states : — 

" Our 6r3t parents being seduced by the sabtilty and tempta- 
tion of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their 
sin Ood was pleased, accordiiif^ to His wise and holy council, to 
permit, having purposed to order it for his own glory" 

Can anvthins: be more diabolical than this? "Shall 
there be evil in a city and I have not done it ? ' says 
Jehovah.^ 

The following is the horrible doctrine of St. Augustine 
upon the dogma of ** Original Sin". 

"Hold thou, then, most firmly, nor do thou in any respect 
doubt, that infants, whether in their mothers^ wombs they 
begin to live and there die, or when, after their mothers have 
given birth to them, they pass from this life without the 
Sacrament of Holy Baptism, will be punished with the ever- 
lasting punishment of eternal fire." (See Colenso on the 
Pentateuch.) 

The ancient Egyptians, Zoroastrians, Jews, Buddhists, 
and the ancient Philosophers, hoped to obtain eternal 
happiness, by working out their salvation by practising 
virtue, and all good works, and by conscientiously doing 
their duty. (See vol. i, p. 300.) 

The Roman Catholic rests his faith on the supposed 
infallihiUty of his Po])e and his Church. He reads in 
his catechism, or is told by his catechist, that the Church 
cannot err in ivhat she teaches, and then he is told that 
this unerring Church is composed only of those who hold 
communion with the Bishop of Rome, and believe pre- 
cisely as he, and the Bishops who hold communion with 
him, believe. From that moment reason is set aside; 
authority usurps its place, and implicit faith is the ne- 
cessary consequence .... He dares not doubt ; for in 
his table of sins, which he is obliged to confess, he finds, 
doubting in matters of faith to be a grievous crime. 

But, on the other hand, is the faith of a Protestant 
better founded ? He rests it on a Book, called the 
Holy Bible, which he believes to be the infallible Woi'd 
of God He is taught to believe the Bible to be the 

^ Amos iii, 6. • 



EGYPTIAN RECORDS. 317 

infallible Word of God before he has read or can read 
it ; and he sits down to read it, with this prepossession 
in his mind, that he is reading the infallible Word of 
God. His belief, then, is as implicit as that of the 
Roman Catholic, and his motives for believing even less 
specious. 

On the whole, then, I think it may be laid down as an 
axiom, that the bulk of Christians, Roman Catholics or 
Protestants, cannot be said to have a rational faith ; be- 
cause their motives of credibility are not rational mo- 
tives, but the positive assertions of an assumed authority, 
which they have never discussed, or durst not question. 
Their religion is the fruit of unenlightened credulity.* 



EGYPTIAN RECORDS. 

Sacred science, as interpreted by the Fathers of the 
Catholic Church, demonstrated these facts : — 1. That the 
date of Creation was comparatively recent, not more than 
four or five thousand years before Christ ; 2. That the 
act of Creation occupied the space of six ordinary days ; 
3. That the Deluge was universal, and that the animals 
which survived it were preserved in an ark, about 2,000 
years after the supposed Creation ; 4. That Adam was 
created perfect in morality and intelligence, that he fell, 
and that his descendants have shared in his sin and fall. 

But in direct contradiction to all this, we learn from 
history, that Manetho assigns to the mythological era of 
Egypt 24,000 years, and Chabas, a distinguished Egypt- 
ologist, who is by no means intemperate in figures, ascribes 
to the united mythological and monarchical age of Egypt 
10,000 years; 4,000 B.c. being the date of Mena or 
Menes, her first king. 

According to Manetho, the age of Mena dates back to 
a period of 5,004 years before the Christian era, a date 
which is nearly equal to 7,000 years from the present 
day. Brugseh favours a somewhat less interval, namely, 

' llov. A. Ceddcs, D.D., Critkal Remarks on the lUhrew Sa-iptures, 



31 S HISTORY UF POWY3 FADOC. 

4,455 B.C.; Birch and Chabas adopt 4,000 RC, which is 
equivalent to 6,000 years backwards {rom the existing 
time. 

Lieblein gives full credit to the chronology of Manetho, 
as recorded by the historian Africanus, as likewise did 
the distinguished Mariette, and differs very little from 
the standard adopted by Birch. He assigns to Mena, as 
the pioneer of the first monarchy, a date in round num- 
bers of 3,900 years, which he obtains by means of the 
following calculation. The total of the years of reign 
from Mena to the birth of Christ he assumes to be 5,672, 
from which he deducts contemporary reigns 1,777, leaving 
a balance of 3,S95 B.c. This date corresponds very 
remarkably with the epoch of Adam and Eve as com- 
puted by Rydberg, a Swedish philosopher, namely, 3,893 
B.C. The Deluge, 2,432, must have happened in the 
time of Usertesen I, the founder of the first colossal 
obelisks.* 

Professor Huxley says : — " The first traces of the pri- 
mordial stock whence man has proceeded need no longer 
be sought by those who entertain any form of the doc- 
trine of progressive development in the newest ter- 
tiaries ; but they may be looked for in an epoch more 
distant from the age of the Elepkas priinogenius than 
that is from us." 



RELIGION OF THE JEWS. 

In the Liber Landavensis, p. 309, it is stated that the 
Pelagian heresy broke out in the reign of the Emperor 
Constantine, who commenced his reign in 306, and died 
in 337. Pelagius denied Baptism and the Sacrifice of 
the Body of Christ, whence arose great hatred, conten- 
tion, and wars, in consequence of which Baptism and 
Sacrifice ceased in Britain, whence the whole population 
became unbaptised Jews.*' In later times the Jews wor- 

^ The Egypt of the Past. By Sir Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S. London : 
Kegan Paul and Co. Price 12«. 



RELIGION OF THE JEWS. 319 

shipped a Deity called Yahveh or Jehovah, who is cou- 
atantly met with in the sacred writings of the Jews as a 
Deity appearing in the two aspects of Good and Evil ; 
their God, whether called El or Jahveh, is still one 
only. Though held to be no more than the greatest 
among the Gods, he is ever to them the Supreme, Lord 
of the Dark as of the Light, source Himself of the Evil 
as of the Good that befals. " Shall there be evil in a city 
and I have not done it, says Jehovah."^ " I form the 
light and create darkness ; I make peace and create evil ; 
I, the Lord, do all these things."^ (See vol. i, p. 289.) 

When, however, the Britons again became Christians, 
they must have accepted the Christian Devil as the 
Author of Evil, which doctrine contradicts the express 
statements of Jehovah, which we find in His own in- 
spired volume, where he declares Himself to be the 
Author of Evil. In earlier times, however, we find 
from the speech of Joshua^ that the Jews did not wor- 
ship Jehovah. " Now, therefore", says the writer, " fear 
Jehovah and serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and 
put away the gods which your fathers served on the 
other side of the stream (the Jordan) and in Egypt, and 
serve ye Jehovah. And if it seem not good unto you to 
serve Jehovah, then choose you this day whom ye wUl 
serve — whether the gods which your fathers served on 
the other side of the stream (the Jordan), or the gods of 
the Amorites in whose land ye dwell ; but as for me 
and my house we will serve Jehovah." The people 
having determined to take Jehovah for their God, Joshua 
took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak 
that was by the sanctuary of the Lord, and said unto all 
the people, " Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto 
us ; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which 
He spake unto us ; it shall be, therefore, a witness unto 
you lest ye deny your God.'* Hosea^ says, " When Israel 
was a child then I loved him, and called my son out of 
Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them ; 

^ Amos iii, 6. ^ Isaiah xlv, 7. 

^ Joshua xxiv, 14. * Hosea xi, 1, 2. 



320 HISTORY OP POWYS PADOO. 

tlioy sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to 
graven images/' And again, " Have ye oflFered me 
sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, 
house of Israel ? but ye have borne the tabernacle of 
your Moloch and Chiun (or Chamos), your images, the 
fttar of your God which ye made to yourselves." In the 
Gospel of Matthew, by a marginal reference in the 
Authorised Version, this text is made to refer to Jesus 
Christ ; if so, he must have worshipped Baalim. 



THEISM. 



I have given the ideas that Pythagoras and other 
Thcists hold with regard to the Deity in my first volume, 
at p. 5, in connection with which I will here insert the 
following piece of poetry, entitled. 

The Dying Buddist's Hymn. 

I go to Him in Whom all is, 
The self-existent Perfectness ; 

Who knows not of finality. 

The only Being that can be ; 
Who, without motion can create. 
Or, motionless, annihilate 
A world whose cup is brimming high 
With will, and self, and blasphemy. 

» Unto the All be honour given, — 
I shall not see Him, even in Heaven ; 

The outline of Infinity, 

The substance of Divinity, 
Created spirit may not grasp ; 
Only by faith His knees I clasp. 
My little rill draws near the sea. 
Source of my soul, I come to Thee. — W. 

According to Pindar, — 

The body yields to death's all-powerful summons, 
While the bright image of eternity, the Soul, 
Survives. 



THEISM. 321 

This alone is from God ; from heaven it comes, says 
Plutarch, and to heaven it returns ; not, indeed, with the 
body ; but when it is entirely set free and separate from 
the body, when it becomes disenj2:aged from everything 
sensual and unholy. For, in the language of Heraclitus, 
the pure soul is of superior excellence, darting from the 
body like a flash of lightning from a cloud ; but the soul 
that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and 
dark vapour, with difficulty is kindled and aspires. There 
is, therefore, no occasion against nature to send the 
bodies of good men to heaven ; but we are to conclude 
that virtuous souls, by nature and the divine justice, 
rise from men to heroes, from herpes to genii ; and at 
last, if, as in the mysteries, they are perfectly cleitnsed 
and purified, shaking off all remains of mortiility, and all 
the power of the passions, then they finally attani the 
most glorious and perfect happiness, and ascend from 
genii to the Deity, by the just and established order of 
nature. 

Milton, in his ComuSy writes as follows (see vol. ii, p. 
95, Plato's statement in the Phcedo). 

" The lavish act of sin 
Lets in defilement to the inward parts ; 
The soul grows clotted by contagion, 
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose 
The divine property of her first being. 
Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp 
Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, 
Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, 
As loath to leave the body that it loved, 
And links itself by carnal sensuality 
To a degenerate and degraded state." 

Hesiod was the first who distinguished these four 
natures — men, heroes, genii, and gods — and believed, as did 
the ancient Egyptians, in a perpetual progression and 
improvement in a state of immortality. (See Serpent 
Myths of Ancient Egypt, by Cooper.) And also before 
the last degree, that of divinity, is reached, these souls 
are liable to be replunged into their primitive state of 
darkness, as were the Titans, or fallen angels or genii. 

VOL. HI. 21 



322 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

In the New Testament we are told that after his Cruci- 
fixion, Christ descended into Hell, and preached to the 
Spirits in prison " which some time were disobedient". 

" Yes, another era is already dawning upon earth, when it 
shall be li^ht, when man shall wake from high and lofty 
dreams, and these dreams he shall find realised, and that he 
has lost nothing but sleep. 

''And at the sunset gate of this age stands written, 'Here 
lies the way to wisdom and to virtue'; as at the west gate of 
the Chersonese the proud writing, * Here lies the way to By- 
zantium/ 

" eternal Providence, Thou wilt that it shall be light V 



Htmn of the Dtino Warrior. 

As the stream pauses ere it plunge below, 
So on the last dread verge my spirit stands — 
Thou Who hast guided me through earthly lands, 

Eternal Love, lift me to Heaven now ! 

Thou gavest bitter grief and deep delight. 
The fiery trial and victorious wreath, 
And, now, a tomb with those I loved on earth ; 

The lamps of Heaven gleam through death's dark night- 
Lord, I adore Thee with my latest breath ! 
Receive my soul now freed at length by death ! 



On God. 

Whatever exists within this universe 
Is all to be regarded as enveloped. 
By the great Lord, as if wrapped in a vesture. 
There is one only Being who exists 
Unmoved, yet moving swifter than the mind ; 
Who far outstrips the senses, though as gods 
They strive to reach Him ; Who Himself at rest 
Transcends the fleetest flight of other beings ; 
Who, like the air, supports all vital action. 
He moves, yet moves not ; He is far, yet near ; 
He is within this universe. Who'er beholds 
All living creatures as in Him and Him — 
The universal spirit — as in all. 
Henceforth regards no creature with contempt. 

From the Isa Upanishad. 



THE ASHERA OR GROVE. 323 

For the great difference of the account given of Jeho- 
vah in the Old and New Testament, and that given of 
the Deity by the ancient philosophers, the reader is re- 
quested to refer to vol. i, pp. 2, 3, 4, 5, 57. 



On Death. 

Daily perform thine own appointed work 
Unweariedly ; and to obtain a friend — 
A sure companion to the future world — 
Collect a store of virtue like the ants 
Who garner up their treasures into heaps ; 
For neither father, mother, wife, nor son. 
Nor kinsman^ will remain beside thee then ; 
When thou art passing to that other home — 
Thy virtue will thy only comrade be.^ 

Single is every living creature born, 
Single he passes to another world, 
Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, 
Single the fruit of good ; and when he leaves 
His body like a log or heap of clay 
Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away ; 
Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, 
And bears him through the dreary trackless gloom. 

From the Precepts of Manu. 



THE ASHERA OR GROVE. 

I have just received from a Roman Catholic gentleman 
well known in the controversial world, the following re- 
marks upon what I have stated on this subject in vol. ii, 
pp. 366, 367. 

'• I think, if you would allow me to say so, that if you would 
only permit your reason and common sense to carry you a 
little deeper below the surface, they would lead you back 
thither (i. e., to the Catholic Church). I cannot think, for one 
example, why you should lay such stress on what you have 
called Jacob's making conditions with Almighty God. Under 
the Jewish Dispensation the temporal promises to man were 
put forth more prominently than the spiritual, and that for 
reasons which are obvious enough to us now, who live under 

^ See vol. 1, p. 302. 

21 2 



324 hisTmry of fowts fadoc. 

the last Slid Christian Dispeasation. Jacob merely claimed 
all that God had promised before to his fathera in the event of 
his fulfillinj^ the covenant. He did not first propoand the 
conditions, and then require God to accede to them as tfae 
terms of his serving Him, allboogh the close condensation of 
the Qarratire mav make it at fim sight appear so. I shoold 
very much like ron to read the argument for Chriatianitj, as 
against these and similar notions, in Newman's beaatifal little 
book, 77(e Grammar of Aaenl. You will, I am snre, find it on 
refiectioD quite sufficiently satisfvihg for a reasonable man." 

Sly sole reason for quoting the verses from the Bible 
at p. 367, was to prove that the Hebrews had the same 
revcrcDcc for the column or pillar that the other nations 
of the world had, and many still have. I refer my 
readers to the above-mentioned pages, and to p. 368. 



ETTON OF EYTON ISAF. 
{See vol. ii.) 

The following additional particulars relative to this 
ancient and formerly distinguished family have been 
kindly sent me by the Rev. E. H. Mainwaring Sladen, of 
the Gore, Bournemouth, taken from Randle Holmes's 
and other manuscripts. 

Sir Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, Knt, succeeded his 
father, Sir Gerard Eyton, Knight Banneret, who died in 
1653. Sir Kendrick was Judge of North Wales, and 
died in 1682. He married, first, Eleanor, youngest 



EYTON OP EYTON ISAF. 325 

daughter and co-heiress of Sir Peter Mutton^ of Llann- 
erch, Knt., by whom he had issue, besides daughters, 
three sons — 

I. Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, Attorney-General for 
Cheshire and Flintshire. He married, first, Rebecca, 
daughter of Abraham Johnson. 

II. Gerard Eyton of Malaga in Spain. In the College 
of Arms is the copy of a certificate granted to the father 
on behalf of his second son, Gerard, described as of 
Malaga, declaration of his gentle birth, etc. 

III. Sir James Eyton of Mortlake in Surrey, and of 
London, Knt. He died in 1728, aged eighty-eight, and 
left a legacy to the church of Bangor Isgoed. He mar- 
ried, first, Jane Baldwyn, by whom he had no issue ; 
and, secondly, he married Elizabeth Cannon, who died 
in 1729, and left a charity to Mortlake, still called Lady 
Eyton's Charity. 

Sir Kendrick Eyton married, secondly, Mary, daughter 
of Sir Francis Bickley, Bart., and relict of William Hoo 
of the Hoo,^ Herts., by whom he had a daughter, Mary, 
ux. Sir Henry Bunbury of Standy, co. Cestrise, Bart., 
who died in 1687, aged thirty. 

Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, the eldest son and heir, 
married Anne, daughter of Edward Birch of Leycroft, 
CO. Stafford, Serjeant-at-Law, by whom he had a son and 
heir, 

Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, High Sheriff for co. Den- 
bigh in 1753. He married, in 1756, Hannah Jones, by 
whom he had issue two sons — 

I. Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, who married, in 1783, 
Sarah Rowlands, and died 19th January 1786, s. p. 

II. Edward Eyton, who married Hannah Bey of the 
Isle of Wight, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Kendrick Edward Eyton, who married, in 1808, 
Margaret Jones. 

^ This is the Welsh way of spelling Mytton, the Welsh " u" being 
pronounced like the English " y". 

2 Lineally descended from the Lord Hoo of Hoo, temp, Henry VI. 



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nej, fic-ld Ujv 170c£; Bcad^tf 

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of Sir Jaa«i £7- 
Urn of Mortlftke, 



baptiKdSUh 
Jan. Ifi8&. 



ob. 06. 1744. 
1732, 




1 1 
Sarah Banbury, «Edwmrd MMhtwmnmg 

eldest d. and of W hxtmore, eo. Slaf • 

co-heir; ob. at ford; b. 1709; High 

Bath, 1796, teL Sheriff for co.StaCoKd, 

89. 17«8: 06. 1795l 


An died 7001^^ 
and namarried. 



Elizabeth, fint wife of Elea»r. vx. Geotipe VTilsoii of 

Edward Fleming of the the Imier Temple, by whom 

Inner Temple. She she had a son, William Wil- 

died in 1735. et. 25. son, aged 17 in 1747. 



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^ On a tablet set in the north side of the chancel of Bangor Church 
are these arms painted, Eyton impaling Brorafield. 

"Baron. — 1. Ermine^ a lion rampant amrey Eyton of Ejton; 2. 
Llywarch ab Bran, Liord of Cwmmwd Menai ; 3. Palii of eight pieces 
giUes and argent^ a Hon rampant 9abie, for GruJQTjdd Maelor ; 4. Hhirid 
Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn ; 5. Argent, a lion rampant yii/f< ; 6. Or, a 
lion rampant in a bonier gules. 

"Femme. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Idnerth Benfras; 2nd and 3rd, 
Palii of eight pieces^ argent and gtUes, 

" In the vault beneath lyeth the body of Dame Elizabeth„daughter 
and heir of Edward Broinfield, Gen., and late wife to Sir Gerard 
p:ytoii of Eyton, Knight. She dyed on the last day of October 1642." 
(See vol. ii, pp. 161, 328.) 



EYTON OF EYTON ISAF. 



327 



all 

Een- 

drick 

Ejton 

of 

Ey. 

ton. 



6| 2 e|3 
Gerrard Sir James Ey- 



Eyton 
of Mala- 
ga in 

Spain. 
1674. 



ton of Mort- 
lake, CO. Sur- 
rey, and Lon- 
don. Knighted 

in London 
29th Oct. 160-2. 
Ob, 3rd June 
1728; ffit. 88. 



Jane 
Baldwyn 
of Lon- 
don, 
married 
1670; 
ob. 8.p, 



I 1 
Kendrick Eyton, o&. 

16th Dec. ;676. 

Buried in the great 

vault at MortTake 

with seven other 

children of Sir 

James Eyton. 



Eleanor Eyton, 
bapt. 22nd January 
1679. Buried in 
the south aisle of 
St. Magnus the 
Martyr's, near Lon- 
don Bridge, 19th 
January 1702. 



Elizabeth 

Cannon of 

London. 

Married in 

1674; ob. 

1729. 



d| 1 e 

Eleanor, nx. 
John Puleston 

of Havod y 
Wern. 



|2 |3 

Eliza- Dorothy, ux.Kobert 

bcth, ux. Power of Bersham, 

Gilbert and heir of Masou- 

Fownes lus Henry Power of 

of Lon- Valentia in Ireland. 

don. She died in 1642. 

See p. 25. 

=j= William Bunbnry 
V of the Inner 
Temple, second son 
of Sir Henry Bun- 
bury of Bunbory, 
and of Stanney^ co. 
Cestrise, Bart. ; ob, 
1748. 



Sarah Ey. 
ton, sole 
surviving 
child and 
heir; bapt. 
24th Jan. 
1685. 



The will of Sir James Eyton, dated 12 George I, June 
3 (1726), proved 14th June 1728. His widow, Eliza- 
beth, described as of St. Alphage parish. Administration 
granted to Sarah, wife of William Bunbury, Esq., 1 7th May 
1729. Sir James Eyton left his house at Mortlake, etc., 
to William and Sarah Bunbury ; a legacy to Amicia 
Peck, his half sister ; and another legacy to the church- 
wardens of Bangor Is y Coed.^ 

Lady Eyton, his widow, left by her will, dated 1729, 
the gift of £100 for annual distribution to four men and 
four women of the age of sixty years and upwards, 
of the parish of Mortlake ; which legacy purchased 
£81 12s. lOd. The annual interest thereof, £2 9^. Od, 
is still distributed.* 

" My dear Sib, — It occurs to me to ask your acceptance of a 
copy of the certificate I have before referred to. It 
may have interest for you, though not really calculated 
for use in your book. I imagine a document of the kind 
to be far from common, and it seems likely that Gerard 

^ From the Heralds' College, London. 

2 Charities of Mortlake. Edited by Octavius Ommaney, Church- 
warden. 1858. 



328 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

Eyton was contemplating marriage in Spain^ and was called 
to show his lineage. Otherwise, the great expense of the cer- 
tificate and illuminated Pedigree roll together would scarcely 
have been incurred, the latter being no less than 17 feet in 
length. There is one rather cunous statement in the certifi- 
cate, viz., that Tudor Ti^evor flourished shortly before {paullo 
ante) the times of King Edward I, the Conqueror of Wales. 
And yet the Records of Heralds' College make him husband of 
Ankaret, daughter of King Howell Dha, contemporary with 
King Athelstan in the tenth century; and the date of 924is gene- 
rally given with the name of Tudor Trevor, more than three 
centuries previous to the conquest of Wales, too long a period, 
far, one would think, to be expressed by the Latin words 
aforesaid. The words suggest a mistake in the writer of the 
certificate, that he misunderstood in the MS. authorities an 
earlier King Edward (e.g., the Confessor) who may have been 
mentioned in connection with Howell Dha or Tudor Trevor, 
for the better known Plantagenet king. And I have seen an 
extract from the Record OflSce in which the last named is 
described as Edwardus Rex Angliae, Fritmis a Conquestu, 
evidently to exclude the Edwards before the Norman Con- 
quest, which would hardly have been necessary unless one of 
the Anglo-Saxon Edwards had previously been styled " Pri- 
mus.'^ You will see that Sir K. Eyton, Gerard's father, is in 
the certificate (1674) simply " Armiger", which makes the 
date of his knighthood (1675) important, as given by Francis 
Townsend, Pursuivant of Arms, in his Catalogue of KnighU, 
from 1660 to 1 760, published in 1833, in which, by- the-by, Sir 
Kendrick Eyton is called, "of Eyton, Kent." This may be merely 
a clerical error, particularly as Neve's volume (Harl. Society) 
describes him of *' Denbigh.*' But he was knighted at 
Whitehall, and he may have required a residence nearer 
London than his distant home. The Edenbridge station on the 
South Eastern Railway had the " d" in Eden changed into "t", 
and Hasted, in his History' of Kent^ vol. i, published 1778, 
writes Eaton, and speaks of the name as corrupted, as it is 
situate on the river Eden. It would be curious if Sir K. 
Eyton once lived there and gave his name to the plac«, a 
practice of which there are instances at the time, e.g., Sir J. 
Wynn of Gwydir, on coming into possession of Rhuabon, 
changing the name of the Eyton house at Watstay to Wynn- 
stay, as I dare say you know. I remember, too, in my young 
days, hearing of members of the Auckland family as resident 
at Edenbridge or its neighbourhood, and it would be again 
curious if they should have been instrumental in restoring the 



EYTON OF EYTON ISAF. 329 

name of Eden. It is the only place of the name in Kent known 
to me. I find, in my continuation of the Eyton pedigree, 
Kenric Edward Eyton, son of Edward Eyton, whom you 
report to have sold the property, described *' of Eyton HalF', 
which must be an error, though I think I copied the state- 
ment from a MS. which came from Heralds^ College. Few would 
act as did Sarah Rowlands. I had heard the anecdote before. 
You are probably aware that the two knights. Sir Gerard 
Eyton, and his son. Sir Kendrick, had both of them to com- 
pound for their estate during the Protectorate, and this I 
believe had the result of impoverishing the family ; and I 
have somewhere seen a Kendrick Eyton named as bankrupt, 
but cannot recall the authority. No doubt there were other 
causes at work necessitating the sale. 

" Pennant, in the advertisement, dated 1778, to his Tour in 
Wales, expresses his obligations to Kenrick Eyton, Esq., of 
Eyton, amongst others, and in a note he speaks of him as 
recently deceased. The work was published in 1784. This 
must have been the father-in-law of Sarah Rowlands, and I 
have his death as occurring 11th February 1780. He was 
sheriff of Denbighshire in 1753. 

" I do not know whether I have more worth communicating, 
unless it be the heraldry of the family, of which I can furnish 
something if you should care to have it. I will mention, by 
the way, that the coat of Jestyn ap Gwrgant, contained in the 
shield accompanying the certificate, does not occur in the 
larger number of quarterings (in all 41, excluding repetitions), 
ascribed to the family by Heralds* College. Dunn's Welsh Visita- 
tions show that the coat in question appertained to Bromfield, 
and it was doubtless brought to Eyton by Sir Gerard's marriage 
with the coheiress of Edward Bromfield. There are other 
things that I could state, but they are purely of heraldic interest. 
Apologising for the length to which this note has grown, 

" I am, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
" 4/A July, 1882. " E. H. M. Sladen.'' 

Sarah Bunbury, the eldest daughter of W. Bunbury and 
Sarah Eyton, was a belle in her day. There are two portraits 
of her in existence, one in her youth, the other (a miniature) 
in her old age. The latter, a side face, is a fine outline. In 
both she is dressed in blue. K H. M. S. 

In his letter, Mr. E. 11. Mainwaring Sladen alludes 
to the noble act of Sarah, the widow of Kendrick Eyton, 



330 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

who died in 1786. This lady was the daughter of John 
Rowland, and Anne, one of the daughters of Edward 
Lloyd of Pl^s Madog ; and Mr. Kendrick Eyton, after 
his death, was interred in the church of Bangor Is y 
Coed. After the funeral party had returned to the house, 
his will was read in the large hall, which had a fine 
timbered roof, with galleries all round it. When the will 
was opened, it was discovered that Mr. Eyton had left the 
whole of the Eyton estates to his widow absolutely. 
After the will had been read, it was given to Mrs. Eyton, 
who, rising from her chair, deliberately walked to the fire- 
place and threw the will on the blazing fire, and, notwith- 
standing the importunities of her friends, who besought 
her not to do such a thing, she resolutely thrust it into 
the fire and kept it down with the poker till it was all 
consumed. (See vol. ii, pp. 163, 164.) 

Omnibus ad quos prsesentes pervenerint Beges Heraldi et 
Pursuivandi Armorutn Anglicorum Salutem. 

Quoniam aathoritate regia fulciti jaramentoque ligati nos 
sumus Nobilium Regni Anglise et Walliae genealogias tesse- 
rasque suas gentilitias Collegio nostro Armorum conscribere 
et in Salvum castodire ut ex iisdem exemplaria toties quoties 
rogati faerimus petentibus retribuissemus Nos rogante claro 
viro Kendrico Eyton armigero domino de Eytona ditissimsd ac 
pervetustae familisB illius Eytonorum sede Walli& Septentrio- 
nali 8it&, vobis notum facimus Quod Gerard as Eyton, Genero- 
sus, Malagd. HispanisB jamjam moram faciens filius est seciindo 
genitus pra^memorati Kendrici ex domin& Elin& uxore ejus 
un& filiarum et cohsDredum domini Petri Moton Equitis aurati, 
domini do Llannerch Wallia eadem patrimonio suo peramplo. 
Qui Kendricus filius est primogenitus et basres domini Gerardi 
Eyton Equitis aurati et dominee Elizabethae uxoris ejus filias 
unicBB ac haoredis Edvardi Bromfield armigeri, domini de 
Mortyn Wallia sajpedicta domino. Et Gerardus ille, Eques 
auratus, filius fuit alterius Kendrici Eyton armigeri filio se- 
cundo geniti Jacobi Eyton Armigeri filii ac hasredis Hugonis 
Eyton Armigiri filii et Lasredis Oeni Eyton Armigeri filii et 
haeredis Gulielmi Eyton Armigeri, filii et haeredis Johannis 
Eyton Armigeri, filii et haeredis alterius Jacobi Eyton de 
Eyton Armigeri, genus suum rectd. linea paternali ducentis a 
Theodore Trevor, uno Magnatum Walliae, qui ibidem floruit 



EYTON OF EYTON ISAF. 331 

paulo ante ea tempora qiiibus Wallia ab Edvardo Rege AngHaD 
istius nominis primo, sabacta CoronsBque Angliae annexa fuit ; 
praBmemorati etiam Gerardi Eyton insignia^ tesserasque gen- 
tilitias, ad ipsum lege Armorum rite et legitime spectanbia, 
latere prsesentium delineari curavimuH. Quaa omnia e regis- 
tris Armorum conscriptis et aliis memoraudis fide dignis, turn 
Anglicis, cam Wallicis, transumpta pro veritate perlucida ac 
indubia per praesentes vobis significaraus ac declaramus^ Bo- 
gaiites ut praemissis fidem debitam adhibeatis. In qaorum 
Omnium testimonium Sigillum nostrum commune his Tabulis 
apponi fecimus Datis Londini Decimo die Meusis Julii Anno 
Regni Serenissimi ac potentissiini domini nostri Caroli Se- 
cundi Dei gratid, Magnae Britanniao Francise et Hibernia9 
Regis, fidei Defensoris, etc., Vicessimo Sexto, Annoque salutis 
nostras reparatae^ Millesimo Sexcentessimo Septuagesimo 
quarto. 

Examined p. Hen : St. George, Richmond. 

Thomas Lee, Chester. 

Extracted from the Register marked " L 2'\ 
pp. 1226, 123, now remaining in the Heralds' 
College, London, and examined therewith this 
22nd day of September, 1868, by me. 

(Signed) G. W. Collen, 

Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms. 

Annexed is a Shield of Arms, in trick, containing six coats, 
viz. : — 1. Ermine, a lion rampant azure (the coat of Elyder ap 
Rhys Sais) — Eyton of Eyton, Denbighshire ; 2. Party by bend 
sinister errnine and ermines, a lion rampant or — Tudor Trevor, 
Earl of Hereford and Lord of Brom field ; 3. Argent, a chevron 
between three ravens, each with a queen of ennine in the bill, 
all proper — Llowarch ap Bran, Lord of Holyhead ; 4. Argen^y 
a cross engrailed couped fleury sable between four choughs 
proper, on a chief azure, a boar's head couped close, of the 
first — Bromfield, of Mortyn, Denbighshire. (The coat of Lies 
ap Idnerth Benfrfi,s, Lord of Maesbrwg). 5. Gnles, three 
chevronels argent — Jestyn ap Gwrgant, Prince of Glamorgan ; 
6. Argent, a cinquefoil azure — Moton (Mytton), of Llannerch, 
Denbighshire. 

E. Hills. 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOG. 




TOWNSHIP OF Y GWRTHTMP.— BROUGHTON OP 

BEOUGHTON OB BEOCHTYN, 

Harl. MS. 4181. 

Ednyfed. Lord of Brochtyn, aecond aoii of Cynwri^ ah Bhiwallon ai. 
Dingod ab Tudor Trevor. Ermine, a lion statant gArdant gula, 
armed and laagued oiure.—Sea vol. i, p. 309. 

Todor Rb=f Annest, d. of Llyweljii Einion Qnifl^dd QweDlliaii,iiz.Bhi- 

Ednyfed Euidordiog, Lord of ab Ed- ab rid Fjchan ab 

of lU and Yetrad Alun. nyfed. Edu;- Bidrid Flaidd. 

Broch- Ature, a lion pSBBant See ved. See Chirk Castle. 

djn. I guAeat or. B«ra. 

I 

Ednyred OiOg of Brochd;a.^anet, d. of Blija Ffchan ab Bhya Qi%, Lord 



iT 






L1;welyn Gooh^Lettice, dau. of Sir Bichard Hanley, Knight, of Cheshire. 
of Brochdyn. j Aryent, a siniBtei bond, couped at the wiist io a border 
I engrailed tahU. 

Omffydd Goeh of Brocbdyn.^ 



ruSydd DdCk of^Uargacet, d. of Haredydd of Tt H6b, second 
Brochdya. ffydd ab Llywelya ab Ynyr of Bod Idria '- 

I three pales or, ■ 
I eight ogresaea. 



of Gra. 

OuIm, 

a border of the second chained with 



Uadog ab ^Angharad, d. of lorwerth Foel of lorwerth ab Orafl^dd, Ul- 

Gruffydd of I Hortyn, ab liobert ab David ceetor of the EUisaa of 

Brochdyn. Goch ab David Hen ab Goron- Airhey and the Powela 

I wy of Mortyn and Lloi. of Airhey. 

Edi)yved ab Madog o^Angharad, d. of Bobert ab GmS^dd ab Hadog ab 
Broobdyn. Bdnjfed Goch ab Cynwrig ab Gruffyd FyiSian. 

Ermine, a. lion atatant gardant gala. 



lorwerth Goch^Alice, d. of Sir Bandle Brere- 

of Brocbdyn; v ton of Malpos. Knt., and 

oil. 17th Oct. siater of Sir Eandle Brore- 

1196. ton, Kut. Argent, two 

bars tabic. 



Morgan ab=pAngharad. dau, 

EdnyviMl. | of Madog Pole- 

I aton of Ben. 



BROUGHTON. 333 

The above named lorwerth Goch, had issue by his 
wife Alice, besides a daughter Jane, ux. Gruffydd Llwyd 
of Talwme, seven sons — 1, Randle Broughton, of whom 
presently ; 2, Thomas Broughton, oh. s. p.; 3, Edmund 
Broughton, who married and had issue two daughters — 
Elizabeth, ux. Stephen Goldsmith of London ; and Alice, 

ux Norbury, a lawyer ; 4, John Broughton ; 5, 

Mathew Broughton ; 6, Morgan Broughton of Plds Isaf 
in Marchwiail, ancestor of the Broughtons of Marchwiail 
in the manor of Rhiwabon ; and 7, Sir Edward, a priest. 

Eandle Broughton of Broughton or Brochdyn, mar- 
ried Margaret, daughter and heiress of David Eyton, 
second son of Elis Eyton of Rhiwabon, by whom he had 
issue two sons, 1, John, of whom presently ; and 2, 
Randle Broughton ; aud two daughters, 1, Janet, ux. 
James Eyton of Pentref Madog in Tref Dudlyst {erminey 
a lion rampant azu7^e), oh. s. p. ; and 2, Anne, ux. John 
Trevor of Trevalun. 

John Broughton of Broughton, married Margaret, 
daughter of William Williams of Cwchwillan,^ by whom 
he had issue four sons, 1, Randle, of whom presently; 
2, John Broughton ; 3, William Broughton ; and 4, 
Ralph Broughton ; and four daughters, 1, Alice, ux. 
Thomas Dimoch of Halchdyn ; 2, Lily, ux. Roger Eyton 
of Bodylltyn in Rhiwabon ; 3, Margaret, ux. Hugh 
Gwynn ; and 4, Anne. 

Randle Broughton of Broughton, 1593, married Jane, 
daughter of Roger Puleston of Emrall, by whom he had 
issue two sons, 1, John, of whom presently; and 2, 
Randle Broughton, an idiot; and three daughters, 1, 
Magdalene, ux. John Edwards of Plds Newydd yn Y 
Waun (Chirk) ab John Edwards, descended from Tudor 
Trevor ; 2, Dorothy ; and 3, Susan. 

John Broughton of Broughton, who married Susan, 
daughter of Edward Billott of Mortyn or Burton, and 
Amy his wife, daughter and heiress of Anthony Gros- 

^ The arms of the WilUamses of Cwch Willan were (rules, a chevron 
ermine^ inter three Englishmen's heads in profile^ couped at the neck 
ppr. 



334 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

venor of Tref Dudlyst {argent^ on a chief gvleSy three 
cinqiiefoils of the field), by whom he had issue a son 
and heir, 

John Broughton of Broughton, who married Awdrey, 
daughter of William Lovergage of Whelock in Cheshire, 
by whom he had a son Thomas, who died s.p.y and a 
daughter, 

Elizabeth Broughton, heiress of Broughton, who mar- 
ried Rowland Whitehall of Lockwood, in the parish of 
Kinsley, co. StaiOford, 1663 {argent, a fess chequey gruZe^ 
and sable), inter three helmets ppr., by whom she had 
a son and heir, 

John Whitehall of Broughton, bom 2nd April 1660, 
and married Mary, daughter of Sir Andrew Hacket of 
Moxhall Park, co. Warwick, Knt. {sable, three piles con- 
joined in base argent, on a chief gules, a lion passant 
gardant or), by whom he had a son and heir, 

Broughton Whitehall of Broughton, who married Le- 
titia, daughter of Robert Davies of Gwysanau and 
Llanerch Park, and Letitia his wife, sister of John 
Vaughan, first Viscount Lisburne, and daughter of Edward 
Vaughan of Trawsgoed, co. Cardigan, Esq. By this 
lady he had three daughters, co-heirs. 

I. Elizabeth Whitehall, heiress of Broughton. She 
married Peter Davies, third son of Robert Davies of 
Llanerch and Gwysannau, by whom she had a son and 
heir, Whitehall Whitehall Davies of Broughton, who died 
unmarried 11 June 1824, aged sixty, and was buried at 
Worthenbury ; and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth, heiress 
of Broughton and Llanerch, who married the Rev. George 
Allanson of Middleton Quernhow, co. York, by whom 
she had issue two sons, 1, George Allanson ; and 2, 
Cuthbert, ob, 1817, aged thirteen; and two daughters, 
], Elizabeth, ux. John Whitehall Dod of Cloverley, 
M.P. for North Staffordshire; and 2, Dorothy, ux. Sir 
Digby Cay ley, Bart., son and heir of Sir George Cayley 
of Brampton, co. York, Bart. 

II. Mary, the second daughter and co-heir of Brough- 
ton Whitehall, married Robert Dod of Cloverley. 



111. Letitia, the third daughter and co-heir, married 
Robert Davies of Llanerch Park and Gwysannau, by 
whom she had issue two sons and two daughters, even- 
tually the co-heiresses of their brother. She died in 
childbirth, and was buried at Mold in 1745. 

I. John Davies of Llanerch Park and Gwysannau, 06. ' 
1785, and buried at Mold, s.p. 

II. Robert Watkin Davies, ob. s. p., and buried at 
Mold, 1739. 

I. Letitia Davies, co-heir ; she had Llanerch. She 
married Daniel Leo of Bath, and, dying s. p., she devised 
her possessions to her cousin, Anne Elizabeth, daughter 
and heiress of Peter Davies, and wife of the Rev. George 
Allanson. 

II. Mary Davies ; she had Gwysannau for her portion 
of the estates, and married Philip Puleston of Havod y 
Wern, Chamberlain of North Wales. She died 22Dd 
September 1 802. 




ELLIS OP ALRHEY. 
Harl. MS. 4181. 

lorwerth of Alrhey, the second son of Gruffydd Ddu 
ab Gruffydd Goch of Brochdyn, married Janet, daughter 
of Madog Kynastoa of Stoke near Ellesmere, ab Philip 
Kynaston ab Gruffyd Kynaston {argent, a chevron en- 
grailed inter three martletts sable), by whom he had a 
son and heir, 



336 HISTOIIV OF POWYS FADOG. 

Morgan ab lorvverth of Alrhey, who married Catherine, 
daughter and heir of Madog al3 Maredydd ab Llyvvelyn 
Ddu ab Gruffydd of Maelor Saesneg, second son of 
lorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk, by whom he had issue 
three sons. 

I. Howel ab Morgan, of whom presently. 

II. Edward ab Morgan, who by Angharad his wife, 
daughter of Richard ab Morgan of Halchdyn in Maelor 
Saesneg, had an only daughter and heiress, Margaret, who 
married Pyers or Peter Kynaston ab Jenkyn Kynaston, 
by whom she had a son and heir, Humphrey Kynaston, 
jure tixons of Otely Park near Ellesmere, and ancestor 
of the Kynaston Mainwarings of that place. 

III. Thomas, the father of Edward, who had three 
sons, 1, Thomas ab Edward ; 2, John ab Edward; and 
3, Elis ab Edward. 

Howel ab Morgan of Alrhey, married Janet, daughter 
of Tudor Fychau of Pen Mynydd yn M6n, ab Grufiydd 
ab Gwilym ab Gruffydd ab Heilin ab Sir Tudor, Knt, 
ab Ednyfed Fychan, by whom he had issue three sons, 
1, Richard ab Howel of Alrhey ; 2, Edward ab Howel, 
ancestor of the Powels of Alrhey ; and 3, Gruffydd ab 
Howel. 

Richard ab Howel of Alrhey, married Margaret, 
daughter and heir by Parnel his wife, daughter of Sir 
Thomas Bulkeley, Knt., ab William Bulkeley of Shaklys 
in Cheshire, of Elis Eyton, third son of Elis Eyton of 
Rhiwabon, ab John Eyton of Eyton and Rhiwabon, and 
relict of Randle Goch Brereton of Borasham, by whom 
he had issue three sons, 1 , Elis ab Richard ; 2, Richard, 
who by Mallt his wife, daughter of Philip ab Llywelyn, 
had a son Roger ab Richard ; and 3, James ; and three 
daughters, 1, Anne, ux. Ralph Broughton of Plas Isaf 
in Marchwiail ; 2, Margaret, ux. Edward ab Robert ab 
David ab Einion ab Madog Goch ab David Goch ab 
lorwerth ab Cynwrig ab Heilin of Pentref Heilin ab 
Trahaiarn ab Iddon, Lord of Tref Dudlysh {argent^ a 
chevron inter three boars heads couped gvleSy tusked 
or, and langued azure) ; and 3, Catherine, ux. Elis ab 
Tudor. 



ALRHEy. 337 

Elis ab Richard of Alrhey, Standard-bearer to Owain 
Glyndwfrdwy. He married Jaue, daughter of Sir 
Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer, Knt., by whom he had 
issue nine sons and four daughters, 1, Humphrey Elis, 
oh, s. p.; 2, Thomas Elis, ob. s. p.; 3, John Elis, of 
whom presently; 4, Elis Elis, who by Margaret his wife, 
daughter of ... . Gwrling of North Flock, had a son 
and heir Sidney Elis of Picillt, who married Catherine, 
daughter of John Owain Fychan of Llwydiarth {sable, 
a he-goat argent, attired or), by whom he had two sons, 
Elis Elis and John Elis ; 5, Ralph Elis ; 6, Andrew ; 
7, Randle ; 8, William ; and 9, Edward Elis ; and four 
daughters, 1, Mawd, ux. John Wynn Deccaf of Rhwy- 
tyn in the manor of Rhiwabon (ei^nine, a lion rampant 
azure) ; Ermine, ux. Thomas Hughes, son of Hugh ab 
William ab Gruffydd Fychan, eighth Baron of Cymer 
yn Edeyrnion {argent, a lion rampant sable, debruised 
by a baton sinister gules) ; 3, Elen, ux. Robert Wynn 
ab William ; and 4, Margaret, ux. leuan ab Maredydd 
ab leuan. 

John Elis of Alrhey, the third surviving son, married 
Jane, daughter of John Edwards of Plas Newydd yn 
Y Waun (Chirk), and Jane his wife, daughter of Sir 
George Calverley of the Ley in Cheshire, Knt., by 
whom he had issue three sons, 1, Humphrey, of whom 
presently; 2, William Elis, ob. s.p.; and 3, Randle Elis; 
and three daughters, 1, Jane, ux. Francis Lloyd of Hard- 
wick ; 2, Magdalene ; and 3, Margaret. 

Humphrey Elis of Alrhey, married Dorothy, daughter 
of Edward Jones of Pl^s Cadwgan, by whom he had 
issue,besides four daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. 1st, Edward 
Puleston of Hafod y Wern, and 2nd, Rhys Lloyd of 
Fern in Glyn Berbrwg in Ystrad Alun ; 2, Catherine, 
ux. Thomas Eyton ab Randle Eyton; 3, Susan, ux. John 
Roberts of Hafod y Bwch ; and 4, Magdalene ; a son 
and heir, 

Roger Elis of Alrhey, 1620, who married Margaret, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer, Knt., and 
TOL. ni. 23 



i 



338 



HISTORY OF POWYS PADOO. 



Catherine his wife, daughter of Thomaa Moatyn of Mostyn, 
by whom he had a son and heir, 

Andrew Elis of Alrhcy, ob. 1627. He married .... 
daughter of James Fiennea, eldest son of Lord Say and 
Sele, by whom he had a son and heir, Cecil £11?. 




POWEL OP ALRHBT. 

Harl MS. 4181. 

Edwud Bb Howel ab Horna ait lonrerth ftb=i=AD|;bBnd, d. of John ^b 

Orufl^ DdQ tit Oruf^dd Ooch of Alrhej. I lUcbard ftb Madoi; tb 

I Llywalyu of Halcb^>ii. 



John ab Edward=p..., d. of I 



I Hopo of BrODghton in 



Boger »b John of Alrhey. 



■n 



, d. of John Giiffltb of Overton Hadog. 



John Powel of Alihej.^..., d. of Edwaid Eyton of Ermine. Jans, 
j BodyUtyn. 



Boger Powel of Alrhey, 1661 = 



KENBICK OF KANTCLWYD. 




KENRICK OF NANTCLWYD. 

Sir David tib CjiiiTTig ab Oni^dd Pycli&n ab QrnSydd ab Einion ab=f 
Ednyfed, Lord of Brong^hton. who bnre crniiu, a lion Btntnot gardant 
3«Ui, the second Bon of Cj-nwrig ab Rhiwallon, Lord of Maelor Qymmeif . 
Ermine, a lion rampant table (see vol. iii, page 20). This Sir David was 
Standard Bearer to the Black Prince daring his wara in Franca. On hia 
return to England, he, with a number of men, loaC hU way in a foreat 
in Shropshire. He *tuck big spear into the gronnd, and vowed to the 
Virgin Mary that, if she would show him the way oat, he woald build a 
charoh in her honour. They got out, and he built a ohnrch at a place 
called Ashley in that county; and the hiatorj is substantiated by a 
painted glaaa window which still remaiiu, and in this church he was 
bnried. 



, I 



John Eenrick=F Alice, d. of John Biohard —Isabella, d. of William Kea- 
o f Ashley. ) T illesley. Eenrick. ... Blackbome rick. 



Richard Eenrick of Acton Bamell, c 



John Eenrick of Ower, eo. Salop ;^Elizabeth, d. and aole heir of Jasper 
li ring 1623; buried at Aahley. | Lodge "f Qwbr ; oh. I64fi. 



340 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



a\\ 6 |2 

Bichard Kenrick, Andrew 

aged 26 in 1623; ob. Eenriek; 

1642, s p., and was ob, 16o0. 
baried at Ashley. 



e |3 d 

Mary, d. of Wil- Matthew = Rebecca 
liam Whitway of Kenrick Perci- 
Dorchester. of vaL 

London. 



James, 4. 
George, 5. 
Edward 6. 
John 7. 
Thomas 8. 



Dorothy. 
Bridgett. 



I III 

Richard Ken-=j=Rebecca, d. and co-heir of Andrew. Mary. nx. Elizabeth. 

rick, bom Maurice Gethin of PlAs 

5th Feb. Cemiogau, in the parish 

of Caer or Cerrig y Dru- 

dion ; High Sheriff for 

00. Denbigh, 1667. 



1642; mar- 
ried 16th 
May 1664. 



Ralph 
Treplett. 



Richard Kenrick of Over or Woore and^fDorothy Baker of Birchendew 



PlAs Cemiogau. 



T 



in Sussex. 



I 
Gethin 

Kenrick, 

1684. 



I I f I 

Andrew Ken- =^Martha, d. and Richard John William 

heiress of £u- Kenrick. Ken- Kenrick. 

bnle Thelwall rick. 

of Nantclwyd. 



rick of Woore 

and Pl&s Cer- 

niogaa. 



|1 
Dorothy, ux. Randle Wilbraham of Rode 
Hill, M.P. and Deputy High Steward of 
Oxford, grandfather of Edward, Lord 
Skelmersdale. 



Mary. 



izaL 



Elizabeth. 



Sarah. 



I 
Anne. 



The above-named Andrew Kenrick, by his wife Martha, 
had issue three sons and five daughters, 1, Richard, of 
whom presently; 2, George Watkin, of whom presently; 
and 3, Charles Gethin of Cefn y Gadfa, who married 
Eliza, daughter of Butler Clough, Esq., and died s. p. 
The daughters were, 1, Elizabeth, ux. Richard Price, 
of Rhiwlas, Esq.; 2, Harriet, ux. Thomas Ikin, Esq.; 
3, Sophia, ux. Sir George Farmer, Bart. ; 4, Maria, who 
married, first. Price Joues of Glynn, Crogen Iddon, Hen- 
dref Brys, and Pl^s lolyn, Esq., Lord of the Manor of 
Yspythy leuan, and, secondly, J. NichoUs, Esq. ; and 5, 
Laura, ob. s, p. 

I. Richard Kenrick of Nantclwyd, P14s Cemiogau, 
and, jure uxoris, of Uchcldref, Maenan Abbey and Bel- 
mont. He married Ermine, daughter and co-heir of 
Sir Thomas Kyffin of Maenan Abbey and Belmont, Knt, 



KENRICK OF NANTCLWYD. 441 

by whom he had issue three sons, 1, Richard; 2, Thomas, 
oh. s. p. ; and 3, Henry KyflBn of Belmont, ob. s. p. ; and 
three daughters, 1, Margaret, ob. 1851 ; 2, Elizabeth, had 
Belmont and took the name of Kyffin ; and 3, Harriet, 
ux. Henry Hawarden Fazakerley of Gillibrand Hall, 
CO. Lancaster, Esq. The estates of Nantclwyd, Ucheldref, 
and Cyrniogau were all sold. 

II. George Watkin Kenrick, who died in 1838. He 
married, first, Mary, daughter and co-heir of John 
Ffoulkes of Llanrhudd, Esq., by whom he had an only 
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, ux. Sir William Henry Clarke 
of Hitcham, co. Bucks, Bart. He married, secondly, 
Mary Isabella, daughter of James Ffaringdon of Worden, 
CO. Lancaster, Esq., by whom he had issue two sons, 
1, George Kenrick of Woore Manor, who married 
Louisa, daughter of W. Postlethwaite of Demerara ; 
and 2, William Lloyd ; and six daughters, 1, Isabella 
HJirriet, ux. Holroyd Fitz William Way, Esq. ; 2, Sophie 
Margaret Ford ; 3, Charlotte Louisa Alexandrina, ux. 
William Gladstone of London, Esq. ; 4, Mary Hannah 
Albina, ux. Rev. H. W. Bellairs ; 5, Ermine Elizabeth, 
ux. Allan Edward, Esq. ; and 6, Fanny Georgina 
Catherine, ux. James Edward, Esq. 

The Kenricks became possessed of the C3rmiogau 
estate by the marriage of Richard Kenrick of Woore 
Manor, son of Andrew Kenrick, with Rebecca, daughter 
and heiress of Maurice Gethin of Cyrniogau, high 
sheriff for county Denbigh, in 1667,^ son and heir of 
Maurice Gethin of P14s Cyrniogau, son and heir of Robert 
Gethin, son and heir of Robert Wynn Gethin of Plds 
Cyrniogau, second son of Maurice Gethin, second son 
of Rhys ab Meredydd ab Tudor of Foelas, lineally 
descended from Marchweithian, Lord of Is Aled, who 
bore gules a lion rampant argent. Maurice Gethin, the 

^ In the Calendar of State Papers for the year 1667, Jan. 9, is the 
following entry : " Whitehall. Dispensation for Maurice Gethin, 
High Sheriff for Denbighshire, to live out of the county, at his house 
at Islington, on account of his age (seventy years) and his ill health, 
he appointing sufficient deputy/' 



342 HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOO. 

second son of Rhys ab Meredydd of Foelas, had an 
elder son Cadwaladr, and to this Cadwaladr and his 
younger brother, Robert Wynn Getbin, Henry VIII 
granted, 16th March 1545, the lands of Foelas, Cyr- 
niogau, and other lands, tenements, and hereditaments 
in the parish of Llanwith (Llannefydd), county Denbigh, 
being parcel of the township of Hiraethog, then lately 
belonging to the monastery of Conway, dissolved by Act 
of Parliament ; and among the rest of the tenements, 
etc., that of Tyddyn y Foelas, late in the tenure and 
occupation of Maurice ab Rhys ab Meredydd, to hold to 
them for the consideration of £98 4^., to hold as of the 
Manor of Hiraethog in free soccage by fealty only, and 
not in capite. On the 8th February 1546, a deed of 
partition was executed between the brothers, whereby 
Calwaladr took Foelas, and Robert Wynn Gethin took 
Cyrniogau. These estates had been granted to the Cis- 
tercian monastery of Conway by Llewelyn ab lorwerth. 
Prince of Wales, by charter dated 7th January 1198. 
Rhys ab Meredydd, the ancestor of these two brothers, 
was one of the Welsh leaders at the battle of Bosworth 
in 1485. When Sir William Brandon was prostrated 
by King Richard III, he was entrusted by the Earl of 
Richmond, afterwards Henry VII, with the British 
standard of the Red Dragon. At his death, he was 
buried in the church of Yspytty leuan, together with 
his wife Lowry, daughter and heiress of Howel, one of 
the sons of GruflFydd Goch, Lord of Rhos and Rhufoniog 
{argenty a griffin passant gules), where their effigies still 
remain. Rhys, who with his descendants bore gules a 
lion rampant argent, holding in its paws a rose of the 
second seeded or, stem and leaves ppr., was the son of 
Meredydd ab Tudor^ ab Howel, ab Cynwrig Fychan ab 

^ Tador ab HoweL=f=Su8annah, d. and heir of Meredydd ab Madog ab Ithel 
I ab Jonas ab Hwfa ab Ithel Felyn, 

Meredydd ab Tudor. =f=£va, d. of leuan ab Bhyg Wynn ab David 



(Lewys Dvmn, voL ii, pp. 343-5; 

Harl. MSS. 1971, 21977. fo. 64, 

65. 



Lloyd ab Goronwy Llwyd ab Y Penwyn. 
Gules, three boar's heads erased in pale 
argent, 

b' 



KENRICK OF NANTCLWYD. 



343 



Cynwrig ab Llyivarch ab Heilyn Gloff ab Tyfid Farfog 
ab Tangno ab Ystrwyth ab Marchwystl ab March- 
weithian of Llys Llywarch, Lord of Is Aled, who bore 
gules, a lion rampant argent. His lands were Carwed 
Fynydd, Din Cadfael, Frees, Berain, Lly weni, Gwytherin, 
and many other townships in Is Aled. Besides his son 
Maurice, Rhys ab Meredydd had a third son Sir Robert, 
chaplain and cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey, who ob- 
tained the lands of Cwm Tir Mynach, formerly belong- 
ing to the cell of Moch Rhaiadr or Boch Rhaiadr, 
and now comprised in the estate of P14s yn Rhiwlas. 
These lands are situate in the parish of Llanycil, which 
was formerly a township in the parish of Llanfihangel 
in the comot of Migneint in Penllyn. Sir Robert, be- 
fore he had a grant of these lands, held them on lease 
for 66s. Sd. He likewise held on lease various lands 
and tenements in Penllyn, which had been granted to 
the Abbey of Basingwerk in Tegeingl, by Llewelyn ab 
lorwerth, Prince of North Wales, and confirmed by his 
son and successor, Prince David, in 1240. We find. 



a\ b\ 

Bobert.=Myfanwy, d. of Bh7sabMeTecl7dd= 

David ab Howel of Plds lolyn. 
Coetmore. 



^Lowry, d. and heir of Howel 
ab Gruffydd Qoch, Lord 
of BhoB and Bhnfoniog. 



Bobort ab Bbys,^ 

M.A., 2nd son, 

according to 

Ilarl, iMS, 1977. 



|4 J 6 
rf= Margaret, David. Cad- 
d. of Kbys waladr. 

Lloyd of 
GydroB. 



I I |2 

HoweL Maunce== Ann, d. 

Gethin. of David 

Harl, M8. 1977 Myddle- 

states that he tonHSn. 

was the 3rd son. 

CadwaJadr of=pOatherine, d. and co-heir of John Lloyd Bobert Gethin=i= 

ab WilUam ab Khys ab Gruffydd ab {Inquisition 
Gwilym, of Plas y Nant in GaUt Mel- post mortem, 
ydon. Desc. from Ednyfed Fychan. taken 18th 

June 1603). 

12 



Foelas, High 

Sheriff for co. 

Denbigh, 

1548. 



|1 



r 



Eobert Wynn of Ehys Wynn of Giler. Eobert Wynn of Plas 
F oelaa. Cemiogau. 

David 
Piice. 



Elis Price 

of Plas 

lolon, 

D.C.L. 



|3 |4 

Cad waladr EichardPrice,=f=Janet, d. of Elis 



of Bhiwlas Abbot of 
in Penllyn. Aberconwy. 

Y Person 
Gwyn. 



ab Harri ab Cyn- 
wrig ab Ithel 
Fychan of Ysgei- 
fiog. 



|6 
Hugh, 

an 

Abbot. 



Thomas Wynn of Plas Newydd in Llanrwst. 



344 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

from the Valor Ecclesiasticus, 26 Henry VIII, that 
Robert ab Rhys paid for these lands £1 16«. 8d. per 
annum. He lived at Plds lolyn, and married Margaret, 
daughter of Rhys Lloyd of Gydros, by whom he had 
thirteen sons and four daughters. The second son was 
the notorious Ellis Price of P14s lolyn, LL.D., who was 
generally known during his lifetime as the " Doctor 
Goch". He obtained a grant from Queen Elizabeth in 
1560 of the manor and lands belonging to the Knights 
Hospitallers of St. John, called from them Yspytty 
leuan, but formerly the name of the place was Dol 
Gynwal. Llewelyn ab lorwerth, Prince of North Wales, 
endowed the hospital of St. John at Dol Gynwal with 
lands and privileges in 1190. 

William Parry of Nantclwyd, whose daughter and 
heiress, Mary, married Eubule Thelwall, was the son of 
Thomas Parry of Nantclwyd, the son of Simon Parry 
of Pont y Gof or Nantclywd, seventh son of Thomas 
Parry Wynn of Pont y Gof or Nantclwyd, second son 
of John ab Harri of Tref Rhuddin in the parish of 
Llanrhudd. The mother of William Parry was Grace, 
daughter (by Mary his wife, daughter of John Wynn 
Edwards of Cefn y Wern) of Robert Lloyd of P14s Is 
y Clawdd in Chirkland, coroner of Denbighshire. 



TllEF RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



345 




TREP RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 
Earl MS. 2299 ; Lewis Dmm, vol. ii, p. 337. 

Cowryd ab Cadvan (Qwehelaeth Ceinmarch) ab Gaelawg Gawr ab Iddig,= 
lineally descended from Cadell Deyrnllae, King of Powys. Argent, three 
boar's heads oouped sable, tasked or, and langued giile$, for Cowryd ab 
Cadvan. 

David of Ceinmarch.=F 



ilin. 



lorwerth of Ceinmarch.=T= 



He 



lorwerth. 



David of Ceinmarch.= 



David Pycban=f= 
of Ceinmarch. 



lorwerth. 

Extant 
Dinbich. 

YiUa de 

Bryn 
Llaarth. 



Llewelyn, gf a 



-p..., d. of Bleddyn Llw^d ab Bleddyn Fychan 
of Hafod Un Nos in the parish of Llan- 
gemiw, ab Bleddyn ab Y Gwion ab Bad- 
lach ab Alser ab Gwrgi ab Hedd Moelwy- 
nog. Lord of Uwch Aled. Sable, a hart 
argent, attired and ungoled or. 



leuan : 

ot 
Cein- 
march. 



:Eva, d. of David ab 
Philip Goch of Va- 
enor m Aber Bhiw, 

in Cedewain, ab 
Howel ab Llewelyn 

ab Meilir Grug, 
Lord of TrefGynon 

and Westbury. 
Sable, three horse's 
heads erased argent. 



lorwerth Sai8=f=Arddun, d. of 



of Llanynys. 

Or, 3 lions 
couchant in 

pale sable. 



Llewelyn 

Fychan ab 

Llewelyn ab 

Ynyr of lAL 



I 
Heredydd of 

Bryn Lla- 
arth, ances- 
tor of the 
Lloyds of 
Bryn Llu- 
arth,^ and 
the Pluses of 
Llawesog.' 



a\ b\ 



c\ 



1 John Lloyd of Bryn Lluarth, ab John Lloyd ab leuan Lloyd ab 
Rhys ab Llewelyn ab David ab leuan ab David ab Meredydd of 
Bryn Lluarth. This family is now represented by the Mostyns of 
Llawesog and Segroed. 

2 John Pryse of Llawesog, ab Robert Pryse, son of Rhys ab 



346 



UI8T0KY OF POWYS FADOO. 



M 

Tudor, ances- 
tor of the 

Lloyda of Flas 
Llanynys. 



Elen, Qx. lolyn ab leoaf ab Madog^ab Qoronwy 
ab lorwerth ab Caswallawn ab Hw& ab Ithel 
Felyn. She married, secondly, Ednyfed ab 
Cynwrig Brawd ab Cynwrig Fychan ab pyn- 
wrig, tlurd son of Ednyfed Fychan. 



Gruffydd Qodh of Pentref Coch near Rhnddin. He built the=f=Mali, d. of 



church of Cyffyiliog, in the comot of Llanerch, as a chapel- 
of-ease to Llanynys, which parish lies partly in the comot of 
Llanerch, in the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd, and partly in the 
comot of Ceinmeiroh, in the cantref of Tstrad. 



leoan ab 

Groffydd 

Llwyd. 



Sir John=f= Mar- David, ancestor Lleicu, ux. Llewelyn ..., nx. Darid 



Parson 
of Llan- 
ynys. 



graret, d. of leuan Llwyd ab lolyn ab leuaf ab 

of Cyn- of Henblas in Hadog ab Goronwy 

wiig ab Cyffylliog» an- ab Cynwrig ab lor- 

Einion cestor of Wilson worth ab Caswallawn 
Gethin. Jones of Harts- ab Hwfa ab Ithel 

heath and Oelli Felyn. {Arch, Canib,, 
Gynnon, Esq.^ Jan. 1875« p. 36u ) 



Lloyd ab 

Groffyddab 

Cynwrig ab 

Bleddyn 

Llwyd of 

HafodUn 

Noa. 



Harri of Tref Rhuddin.=?=Janet, d. of Richard ab Jenkyn ab Gmffydd ab Bhy& 



T 



nn ==• 



Jonn 

ab 
Harri 

of 

Tref 

Rhudd 

Din. 



■Janet, d. of 
Edward 
Thelwall ab 
Eubule ab 
Simon Thel- 
wall of Plas 
y Ward. 



Bich-sElen, dau. of 
ard. Alan Ash- 
pool ab Wil- 
liam ab Philip ab 
Hugh Ashpool of 
Llandyrnog. Party 
per fess argent and 
guleM, three grif- 
fon's heads coun- 
tercharged. 



I 



Thomas Robert, married, 
ab first, Jane, dan. of 
Harri, Rowland Egerton, 

Vicar of by whom he had 

Llan- a daughter Elixa- 

ynys. both, who mar- 

ob, »,p. ried, 1st, Hercnles 

Raensffoi; and 
2ndly, William Bwraa of 
Dalton. Robert married, 
2ndly, a daughter of Pjren 
Hope, Esq., by whom he 
had a son William Parry 
of London. 



|5|6I 7 
Edward, 

8. p, 
Edward, 

8, p, 
David, 
8, p. 



Lucy, ux. Harri 

Salusbury Goch, 

by whom she had 

a son, David 

Salusbury. 



Alice, ux. 
John Wynn 

Ashpool of 
Llandyrnog. 



Dowse, ux. Richard ab 
Rhys ab John, by 
whom she was mothtf 
of John Pryse of Der- 
wen in the oomot of 
Coleigion. 



d|l 



2 



/!» 



9\ 



Llewelyn of Biyn Lluarth. Robert Prjse, who was " Sergeant o'r 
Ewri" (1), married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Maurice Kyffin 
of Maenan. 

^ Wilson Jones ab John Jones ab Maurice Jones ab Hugh Jones 
of Gelli Gynan, ab John ab Thomas ab Hugh ab David ab leuan 
Llwyd of Henblas in Cyfifylliog, ab Elis ab leuan ab David ab Gruf- 
fydd Goch of Pentref Coch. 



TREF RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



347 



d\\ 

Bichard. 
Parry 
of Tref 
Bhudd 



.Mary, d. of 

John 

Pryse' of 

Derwen. 

Argent, six 

bees ppr., 

3, 2. 1. 



e| 2 

ThomaS: 

Parry 

Wynn of 

Pont y 

Gof or 

Nant- 

clywd. 



/|3 g 

:Margaret,3 d. of Harn.=^atherine,d.of 
John Griffith of 
Cichli in Tind- 
aethwy, son of 

Sir WiUiam 
Griffith of Pen- 

rhyn, Knt. 



Kelgnallt ab 

leaan ab 

Einion. 



R ichard. Annest. Margaret. 

Jane, ux. Tador Lloyd, third son of John 
Lloyd of Plymog in Llanveris, and 
wife also of leaan Lloyd of Henblas 
in Cyffylliog. 



I 1 I 2 ,a I 4 I 6 

John. Thomas. Richard, James. Edward. Wi 



Jti |7 

illiara. Simon. 



s. p. 



I 1 
Joan. 



|2 
Qwen. 



Blanch, t. p 



Simon Parry Gwr,=^Jane, d. of GabrielParry=pMary, eldest d. of Edward 



o*r Oyfraith ; ob, John Thel- Bach, D.D.^ 

7th July 1627. wall of {Harl, MS. 

{Uarl MS, 2299.) Llan- 2299.) 

See p. . rhudd. 



Pryse of Llwyn Yn, near 
Buthin, High Sheriff for 
CO. Denbigh, IU27; and 
co-heir of her brother, 
* John Pryse, of Llwyn Yn. 



t I 3 ill 



ft |3 



l\3 



ml 4 



^ The descendants of Richard Parry are given here according to 
Lewys Dwnn ; but all of Richard's children are stated in the llarl. 
MS. 2299 to have been the children of Thomas Parry Wynn ; and 
the children of Thomas Parry Wynn, as given by Lewys Dwnn, are 
not mentioned. 

2 John Pryse ab Richard ab Rhys ab John ab Maredydd ab leuaf 
Llwyd ab Llewelyn Goch ab Icuaf Goch ab leuaf ab Madog ab 
Rhirid ab Adda ab Icuaf ab Adda Fawr ab Adda Foel ab Llewelyn 
ab Bleddyn ab Maredydd ab Trahaiarn Goch of Emlyn, who bore, 
argent, six bees ppr., 3, 2, 1. John Pryse married Gwen, daughter 
of Ffoulk Salusbury of Tref Rhuddin, third son of Pyers Salusbury 
of Bachymbyd. 

• Margaret married, secondly, William Lloyd of Tref Rhuddin, 
son of leuan Llwyd Uynaf, illegitimate son of Tudor ab Robert 
Fychan of Berain in Llanufydd, by whom she had two daughters, 
coheirs, viz., Anne, ux George Langford, fifth son (by Elizabeth, 
his wife, daughter of Richard Parry of Tref Rhuddin) of Richard 
Langford of Tref Rhuddin and Trefalun, High Sheriff for co. Den- 
bigh in 1640 ; and Barbara, the other coheir of William Lloyd, who 
married John ab Robert Jones of Pout Gruflfydd. 

* "Gabriel Parry, A.M., Head Master of Ruthin School, 1607; 
S. R. Llanrhaidr yn Mochnant, 1608 ; V. Henllan, 1609 ; V. Aber- 



348 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 



t I 3 i I 1 k\2 

DanielElizabeth, nx. Bich- Dorothy, 
Parry, ard Langford ot Tref ax. Bobt. 

Bhaddin and Tref 

Alan, High Sheriff 

for oo. Denbigh, 164(). 

He died in 16^. 

Oules, a shov^eler at' 

gent, membered or. 



ab 

Bichard 

of Bach 

Eirig.^ 



l|3 m| 4 
Grace, Jane, az., Ist, John 
ux. Pyera Wynn Jones of PlAs 



lllii 



Male of 
Bathin. 

Sable, 
two lions 

rampt. 

in fess 

argent. 



Newydd, near 

Bhaddin ; 2nd, WU. 

liam Yaaghsji of 

Bron Haulog, in 

Tilanfftir Taihaiam. 



William 

of Llwyn Yn 
andLlanrhadd, 

High Sheriff 
for oo. Denbigh 

in 1668. 
Married, 1643. 



Pafry=pCatherine, d. and heiress of Boger Holland of Hendref 
Fawr, High Sheriff for co. Denbigh in 1634, who died in 
1640 ; son and heir of Daniel Holland of Hendref Fawr, 
and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Maurice Kyffin. She 
died in 1705, and was buried in Abergeleu Church, where 
a monument is erected to her memory. Awure, semi of 
fleurs-de-lys, a lion rampant gardant argent. 



David Parry of Llwyn Susannah, heires8=f=John Boberts of Hafod y Bwch 
Yn, High Sheriff for of Llwyn Yn and V in the piu^h of Wrexham, and 

Hend&ef Fawr, 



CO. Denbigh in 1695 

and 1607; ob. at 

Llwyn Yn, 1706, s.p. 



married in 1693 ; 

ob, at Plas Newr 

ydd, near Ruthin, 

in 1721. 



of Plas Newydd, High Sheriff 
for CO. Denbigfh, 1705, and M.F. 
for the Denbigh Boroughs in 
1710-15. Ermine, a lion rampt. 
sable. Buried at Llanfiur Dyf- 
frjn Ciwjd, 9th Sept. 1781. 
See p. 42. 



gele, 1613 ; S. R. Llansannan, 1616 ; S. R. Llansantfiraid yn Me- 
chain, 1617; R. Llangynhafal and Precentor of Bangor, 1632." — 
Hist, of the Diocese of St, Asaph, by the Rev. D. R. Thomas, M.A. 

^ Robert ab Richard's mother was Annet, daughter and heiress 
of John ab Gruffydd Lloyd of Bacheirig. 



TREF RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



349 




TREF RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 
Earl. MSS. 2299, 4181. 



Cowiyd, Lord of , son of Cad van ab Alaw^ Gawr ab Iddig ab Cadell=T= 

Deymllwg, Kins^ of Powys. Argent, three boards heads couped sable ) 

Iorwerth= 



T 



Madog. leuan, ancestor of the Powels Heilin.=f= 

of HenlUn.^ | 



I 
David.=T= 



I 
Iorwerth.=F 



lorwerth. 



Llewelyn. =f= 



David Fy-=p Goronwy Ddu lorwerth, lived in the=p. . ., d. of Bleddyn Llwyd 



chan. 



of Denbigh. village of Bryn Liu- 

arth, on the borders 
of Denbighshire. 



ab Bleddyn Fychan of 
Hafod Unos. 



I 



Ienan.=i=Eva, d. of Madog ab Qruifydd, or, according to others, d. of Philip 
I Ooch of Faenor. 



lorwerth Sais =T=Arddun, dau. of 



of Llanynys. 

Or, three 

greyhounds 

courant sable. 



Llewelyn Fychan 

ab Llewelyn ab 

Ynyr of lAl. 



Meredydd of Bryn Lluarth.=7= 
Bore or, three lions dormant 
in paJe sable. Crest, a Hon 
dormant. Motto, ** Post la- 
borem requies". Quartered 
with Cadvan and Broohwel. 



c\ 



d\ 



^ Richard Powell of Henllan in the commot of Cynmeirch, in the 
cantref of Ystrad, ab Richard Powell ab Richard Powell ab John ab 
Howel ab Alexander ab Howel of Henllan, ab Ithel ab Howel ab 
Madog ab leuan ab Cowry d ab Cadfan. (Harl. MS. 4181.) 



350 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOO. 



Tador,aiice8tor of the Llojds 
of Plas LUnynyg,^ the 
Hagheees of Seeroid and 
Tetrad,* and Robert Wil. 
liams of Ysgeibion Elis.* 



c\ 

David, ancestor 

of Edward ab 
Thomas of ICaes 
Maen Cjrmro,* 
and leoan ab 
John of Nant- 

»rlyn.» 



d\ e 

Elen, ax. lolyn 
ab lenaf ab Ma- 
dog ab Qoron- 
wy ab Cynwrig 
ab lorwerth iS> 
Caswallawn. 
See W. 



David, ancestor of the Lloyds of Bryn Lluarth and the Pryses 

of Llawesof?.* 



Gruff-^y'Qwladys or Mallt, d. Twna» ancestor of David Fwrddais, father 



ydd 
Goch. 



of leuan ab Llew- the Lloyds of Llan- 

elyn ab Qruffydd bedr in the oomot 

Llwyd of Bodidris of Llanerch.^ He 

yn I&L Her mother married Owen, d. of 

was Mali, daughter David ab Howel ab 

of Tudor ab Oruff- QrufMLd ab Owain 
ydd Llwyd ab Hei- ab Bleddyd ab 

lin Frych of Berain Owain Brogyntyn. 
in Llannefydd. 



of Qruffydd of Llangw- 
yfan in the oomot of 
Llanerch, ancestor of 
the Lloyds of Llangwy- 
fiuu 



/I 



<l 



^ Pjere Lloyd of Plas Llanynys ab John Lloyd ab Edward Lloyd 
ab Edward Lloyd, Archdeacon of Caermarthen, ab John ab leuan 
ab Tudor ab lorwerth Sais. (HarL MS, 4181.) 

2 Robert Hughes of Segroid in the parish of Llanrhaiadr, ab Sir 
Hugh, a priest, ab David ab Einion Fychan ab Tudor ab lorwerth 
Sais. {llarl. MS. 4181.) Robert Hughes was ancestor of the pre- 
sent Thomas Hughes of Ystrad and Segroid, Esq. 

^ Robert Williams ab John ab William ab leuan ab RhjB ab 
Tudor ab lorwerth Sais. (4181.) 

* Ekiward ab Thomas of Maes Maen Cymro, ab Richard ab Ed- 
ward ab Jolm ab Robert ab David ab lorwerth Sais. fklward ab 
Thomas married Jane, daughter of Humphrey Lloyd, fourth son of 
Edward Lloyd of Plas Llanynys, son and heir of Edward Lloyd the 
Archdeacon of Caermarthen. (HarL MS, 4181.) Maesmaen Cymro 
is a township in the oommot of Llanerch, and one of the six town- 
ships of the parish of Llanynys ; the other five are Bryn Caredig, 
and Tref Fechan in the commot of Llanerch; Bach Ymbyd and 
Ysgeibion in the commot of Cynmeirch, in the cantref of Ystrad, 
and Rhyd Onen in the commot of Dogveilin. 

^ leuan ab John of Nantglyn (in the commot of Is Aled and can- 
tref of Rhufoniog), ab Tudor ab David ab lorwerth Sais. He mar- 
ried Janet, daughter of Rhys ab Llewelyn Boteroes, by whom he 
had a daughter and heiress, Lleuci, who married Rhys ab Llewelyn 
ab leuan ab David ab Maredydd of Bryn Lluarth. 

• See note, p. 171. 

^ Edward Lloyd of Llanbedr, ab leuan Lloyd ab Gruffydd Lloyd 
ab David ab Twna. 



TREP RHUDDIN AND LLWYN YN. 



351 



John 

Par- 

son of 

Llan- 

ynya. 



r 



g\ h\ % 

David, ancestor of Bhys Gyfl^lliog ab Sirleuan 
leuan Llwyd ab Elis ab leuan ab David Parson of 
ab Gruffydd Goch. Rhys married Cathe- Derwen 
rine, dau. of Bhys ab John Wynn of Anial. 
Llwyn Yn, descended from Edwin ab 
Goronwy (see p. 176) by whom he had 
issue five sons, viz,, John Llwyd, Thomas, Bobert, Hugh, 
and Maarice, and three daughters. See Lewys Dwnn, vol. 
ii, p. 345. 



Margaret, 

d. of Cyn- 

wrig ab 

Einion 

G^thin. 



I 



Lowri, Leuci, nz. Llewelyn 

ux. Fychan ab lolyn ab 

David leaaf ab Madog of 

ab I&l, ab Goronwy ab 

Howel Cynwrig ab lorwerth 

Coet- ab Caswallawn. 
mor. 



..., nz. David Lloyd 
ab Gruffydd ab Cyn- 
wrig of Hafod UnoB 
in Llangerniw, ab 
Bleddyn Llwyd ab 
Bleddyn Fychan* 



I 
Gwen, nz. 

David 

Llwyd ab 

Gruffyddab 

Cynwrig. 



1^ 

Alice, nz. Howel ab Madog ab Cynwrig of Margaret, nz. David 

Llanfwrog, ab Howel ab Madog ab Einion ab Maredydd ab Lie- 

ab Maredydd ab Bhirid ab lorwerth ab welyn Chwith ab 

])Iadog,ab Goronwy ab Owain ab Uchdryd Gruffydd, descended 

B.i Erlwyn. from Edwin. 



I 

Harri ab Sir John. He had four 
illegitimate children, two sons, 
David and Edward; and two 
daughters, Klen, uz. Nicholas 
ab William, and Gwladys, uz. 
Tudor ab Kobin. 



I 
=Janet, d. of Gwenllian, 

Richard ab uz. Llew- 

Jenkin ab elyn ab 

Gruffydd Llewelyn. 

ab Bhys. 



I 

Angharad, uz. 

Jolm ab leuan 

«b Tudor ab 

lorwerth Saia 

of Plas Llan- 

ynyB. 



Jonn • 

ab 
Harri 

of 

Tref 
Bhu- 
ddin. 



Janet, d. of Richard 

Edw. Thel- Parry, 

wall ab En- See p. 

bule Thel- 171. 
wall of Plas 
y Ward. 



=f= RoDert=f=. 



Robert=pJane, dau. of=f=...,d.of 



Parry. 



of Sir Philip 

Egerton of 

Ridley in 

Cheshire, 

Knt. 



I*yers, 

Hope, 

2nd 

wife. 



sir 
Thoe., 
Vioar 

of 
Llan- 
ynys. 



Gruff: 



I I 

ydd» Anne, d. of Gruffydd Elizabeth, uz. Hercu- William 

Parry. ab Elis ab Gruff- le? Benford of Bliford Parry. 

ydd ab Edward ab in Warwickshire ; and 

Llewelyn Fychan 2ndly, Mr. Barnes. 

of lAl. 



I I 
Edward. 

Edward. 

David. 



Lucy, uz. Harri Alice, uz. John Wynn Ashpool, Esq., 

Goch ab Harri ab Thomas ab Harri ab Simon 

Salusbury. Ashpool of Llandymog, Esq. Party 

per fess argent and gules, three 
^ffon's heads countercharged. 



Dows, uz. Bichard ab Bhys ab Anne, uz. Thos. Llwyd ab leuan 
John ab Thomas ab Rhys of Llwyd ab Maredydd ab Howel 
Croes Oswald ab Maurice ab Moris Gethin ab leuan 
Gethin ab leuan Gethin ab Gethin ab Madog Cyffin. 
Madog Cyffin^ 



3\ I 



k |2 



l|3 



ml 



352 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 



ill 

Thoe. Parry =j= Marpuret, 



Wynn mar- 
ried, first, 
Marg^aret, d. 
of John ab 
Harri Gervys 
ab John Ger- 

▼ys ab 

Thoma8;Ger- 

yys abGerard 

Goch of Tref 

Bhaddin, 

Esq., who 

bore iobU, 

an arming 

Bword argent, 

hilt and 
pommel or, a 
buckle ar- 
gent. She 
died t. p. 



d. of John Parry of Tref 
Gruffydd Bhuddin, 
married, let, 
Catherine, 



of Chi. 

chele, 2nd 

wife. See 

p. 174. 



k\2 I |3 m 

Richard =j=Margaret, d. of Harri=j=Cathe 
John Prys of Parry. 
Derwen. Ar- 
gent, six bees 
ppr.. 3. 2, 1. 



d. of More- 
dydd ab 

Goronwy, 
ob, 8, p. 



I I I 

Richard. Anneet Mar- 
garet. 



nne 

Wen, 

dau. 

of 

Reign - 

allt ab 

leu an 

ab 

Einion. 



John Perry=FElizabeth, d. of John=T=2nd wife, Grace, re- 



of Llan- 
bedr. 



Wynn Ffonlkes of 

Erifiad. Oulet, three 

boar's heads erased 

in pale argent. 

I 2 



Hot of Pyers Mul of 

Rathin, and danflrl^ter 

of Thoe. Parry Wynn. 



I 



I 



I |1 

John Parry a Jane, d. of Catherine. Richard. Martha. 

of Llan- Pjrers Mnl Elizabeth. 

bedr. of Ruthin. 

I 
Catherine, 

uz. John 

Llwyd ab 

David ab 

Kichard of 

Maesmaon 

Cymro. 



4 

John Jane, nx. Ffoulk ab 
Llwyd leuan Llwyd ab 
Wynn. Elis ab David ab 
GruffyddGoch. 2nd, 
Tndor ab John ab John Llwyd 
of Llanferis. 



Janet, ux. 
John ab Bedo 
ab David ab 

Gruflfydd of 
Llanbychan. 



Dorothy, nx. Morys Gwenibwyfar, ux. Edward Wynn ab 

Robert ab Graffydd ab Llewelyn ab 
Einion of Llangynhafal, desc. from 
Edwin, King of TegeingL See note, 
p. 176. 



ab Llewelyn ab Howel 
of Llanarmon. 



r 



Simon Parry of Pont y Gof, Esq.. Connoillor-at-=f=Jane, d. of John Thel- 



Law; ob. July 7th 1627. He bought Pont y Gof 
from Peter Ellis. Add. MS. 9864. Ob. 7th July 
1627. 



wall of Llanrhudd. 



1 

Thomas 


= Grace, d. 


William =f 


Parry. 


of 


Parry of 


He was 


Robert 


Pont y Gof 


disin- 


Lloyd of 


or Nant- 


herited. 


PlAs is y 


clwyd. 


Add. 


Clawdd. 




MS. 






9864. 







=Martha, dau. of 

Simon Thelwall 

of the Court of 

Arches, ab John 

Wynn Thelwall of 
Llanrhudd. 



I' 

Richard- 
Parry, 
an At- 
torney. 



'Anne, d. 

of Roger 

Holland 

of 

Hendref 

Fawr. 



Maryjheiress of Pont y Gof or Nantclwyd, married Eubule Thelwall, a 
Barrister of Gray's Inn, second son of John Thelwall of PlAs Coch and 
Batbafam Park. 



4| 5 
Gabriel. 
Samuel. 



Margaret, 

ux. Hugh 

Wynn of 

Llanforda. 



|2 

Jane, ux, Thomas Wynn 

of Bwlch y Beudy. Sable, 

a hart argent, attired 

and unguled or. 



|3 

Martha, 

ux. John 

Wynn of 

E^echt- 

yd. 



|4|5I6 

Elizabeth, oi. 

«. p. 

Grace, ob. 

1699. 
Mary, ob. 
17U1. 



PLAS CERSIOGAU. 




PLAS cerniogau. 

Maurice Getliin of Y Foelas ia Yspytty leuan, the 
tliird son of Rhys ab Maretlydd of Plis lolyn (see 
p. 341), married Anne, daughter of Dafydd Myddle- 
ton HSn, Receiver of North Wales (see Chirk Castle), 
by wliom he had issue tliree sons and five daughters. 

I. Cadwaladr aU Mjiiirice of Y Foelaa, ancestor of the 
Wynnes of Foehis and the Prices of Giler. 

II. Robert Gethiu, of whom presently. 

III. Sir John, a Priest. 

The daughters were, 1, Elen, ux. Tudor Fychan of 
Rhyd y Garnedd ; 2, Margaret, ux. John ab Maredydd 
Llwyd ; 3, Golcnbryd, ux. John Wynn ab Robert ab 
Jenan ab Tudor; 4, Lowri, ux. Dafydd ab Thomas of 
Llandecwyn ; and 5, Jane, ux. Gruifydd Lloyd ab 
Gruffydd. 

Robert Gethin of Plas Cemioge, the second son of 
Maurice Gethin, married Catherine, daughter of Owaiu 
ab Jenkyn ab Rhys ab Tudor ab Howel of Llandecwyn, 
descended from Llywarch ab Bran, Lord of Cwmwd 
Menai, by whom ho had issue three sons, 1, Humphrey, 
oh. s. 1).; 2, Robert Wynn Gethiu, of whom presently ; 
and 3, Thomas Gethin. 

The daughters wore, 1, Marfjaret, ux. William Fychan, 
brother to Tudou ali Uobert of Beraiu ; 3, Gwcn, ux. 
John Lewis of Ffestiniog ; 3, Lowry, ux. first, Robert 



354 HISTORY OP P0WT8 FADOG. 

ab leuan, and, secondly, Geoffrey ab Hugh ; 3, Catherine, 
ux. Hugh ab Rhydderch ab Thomas ; 4, Gwen, ux. 
Humphrey ab Howel Fychan ab Howel ab David Lloyd; 
and 5, Elizabeth, ux. John Wynn of Garth Meilio. 

Robert Wynn Gethin of Plds Cerniogau married Anne, 
daughter of leuan Lloyd ab Rhys of Bryn Lluarth, ab 
Llywelyn ab David ab leuan ab David ab Maredydd ab 
lorwerth of Bryn Lluarth, ab Llywelyn ab lorwerth ab 
Heilin ab Cowryd ab Cadvan ab Gaelawg Gawr ab 
Iddig, Lord of Ceinmarch, by whom he had issue two 
sons, 1, Robert Gethin, of whom presently ; and 2, 
Maurice Gethin ; and three daughters, Elizabeth, Alice, 
and Anne. 

Robert Gethin of P14s Cerniogau, married Dorothy, 
daughter of Simon Thelwall of P14s y Ward She died 
s. p. August 1649. 

Maurice Gethin, a merchant in London, the younger 
brother of the above-named Robert Gethin, succeeded to 
the Pitts Cerniogau estates, and was High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1667. He married Elizabeth Juxon, by 
whom he had issue three daughters, of whom one, named 
Rebecca, had Plas Cerniogau and married Richard Ken- 
rick, sou of John Kenrick of Woore Manor. The other 
daughters were Sarah, who married Edward Ffarringdon 
of London, and Elizabeth, the wife of John Kay of 
London. 

From an old pedigree of the Gethin family, kindly lent 
me by Reginald Watkin Edward, Esq., whose mother 
was Miss Ermin Kenrick of Nantclwyd. This Richard 
Kenrick, who married the heiress of Plas Cerniogau, was 
the son of John Kenrick of Ower, son of Richard Ken- 
rick of Acton Burnel, son of Thomas Kenrick son of 
William Kenrick, who was Groom of the Bed-chamber 
to King Henry VIII, and son of John Kenrick of Ashley, 
son of John Kenrick of Ashley, son of John Kenrick of 
Ashley, who was slain at Blore Heath, and son of David 
a1) Kenric, Standard Bearer and companion to the Black 
Prince at the battles of Crecy and Poitiers, who founded 
the Church of Ashley, co. Stafford, as before related. 



CASTLE OP OVEETON. 




MAES GWAELOD. 

Harl. MS. 4181. 

David Bjrton of Eyton Debaf. Conatabla of Holt Caatle. See vol. iif 

2n(] BOD. Sir Robert BybDC, Prieat of Overton Madoi{.^Atme Watson. 

|1 [2 

John ETton of Maea Owa«lod. Jamas Eyton, had lands in Qvalian.^ 

Bichard F.yton of Gwalian.^ 

Ba ndie Eyton of Maea Owaelod iT ^ane, d. of Edward Trevor of Bryn Conallt. 



CASTLE OF OVERTON. 

The Castle of Overton was built by Prince Madog ab 
Maredydd, and it was here that he chiefly resided ; from 
this circumstance the place received the name of Overton 
Madog. In 1278, 7 Edw. T, it was in the possession of 
Robert de Crevecoeur. In 1331, 5 Edw. Ill, it was 
granted, with other lands in this comot, to Eubule 
L'Estrange, Baron of Knockin. There are now no re- 
mains of this castle, which stood on the banks of the 
Dee, in a field called Maes y Castell. 

The lordship or comot of Maelor Saesneg was granted 
by Henry IV to Sir John Stanley, Knt., and it continued 
in his family till the 4l8t of Elizabeth ; when William, Elarl 
of Derby, devised it to Sir Randle Brereton of Malpas, 
Kut., and it now belongs to the families of Hanmer and 
Gwern Haulod. 

23* 



HISTOKY OP POWYS PADOG. 




GWERN HAULOD. 

Earl. MS. 2299. 

T Bodf. aliat Mulof;. Ump, Hon, VII, eeoond son of Howel ab leoan^ 
Fychan ab lea&D Getbin ab Madog Cyffin of Moeliirrch, in Cyn- I 
Uaith. FftTty per feaa table and argent, > lion rampant connter- I 
abantted. I 

Philip of=p Augusta, d and Mai^ret, ni. Omffjdd ab David ab lorwertli 

Owern | heir of John ab Hwfa ab lorwertb ab Hoirel ab Owain 

Hanlod. I Trevor Fawr. ab Bleddyn ab Owain Bn^yntyn. See Pen- 

I tref Moi^an. 

Edward —Elizabeth, d. and Janet, ui. David ab Bobert ab Jenkin ab 

ab Philip I heirees of David Hadog ab leuan ab Mad<^r ab lorwertb ab 

of ab Bh;aab David David ab Meilir ab Owain ab Edwyn ab 

Gwem I of BhoBbamty. Goronw;. 
Ha ulod, I 

Edward Philips ofyJane Llwyd, fnll siater of Bobert Lloyd of the Biyn, ona 



Edward Philips of=pUary, d. of Thomas Overton ab John Overton of Overton 

Q uern Haulod. | Madog. 

William Philips o(N=Anne, dan. of Captain William Bronghton, ab Uorgan 
Owern Haulod. Brougbton of PISs Isaf in Marcbwiail. 

M nrnpd in l URO. | 

Hary. heiress of Owern Haulod; bom 1661 j^Thomas Llovd of Halchdyn, 



GWERN HAULOD. 



357 



Thomas Lloyd, asAlicej d. of ... 
only son and Cleyeland of 
heir; ob, f.p. Liverpool. 



Mary Lloyd, heir- 
ess of Gh^em 
Haulod. 



=The Bey. John Fletcher 
of Struddabank, co. 
Cumberland, rector of 
Ha warden and Bangor 
Is y Coed. 



L. 



Phillips Lloyd Fletcher=r=Eleanor, d. of Owen Wynn of Llwyn, co. Denbigh, 
of Qwem Haulod. I and Pengwem, co. Meirionydd, Esq. 



Colonel Phillips » Mrs. Eid- 
Lloyd Fletcher die of 
of Qwem Hau- Hampton 
lod ; ob, «. p. Court. 



I |8 

Capt. John, Major Thomas =7=..., dan. 



06. t. p, Lloyd Fletcher 

of Qwem Haulod. 



of ... 

Towers, 

Esq. 



Phillips Lloyd Fletcher 

of Nerquis Hall, 

Qwem Haulod, and 

Pengwem. 



1 1 

Thomas Han- 
mer Fletcher 

of Nerquis 
Hall; ob,8,p. 



Fredk. Lloyd 

Fletcher of 

Nerquis Hall ; 

06. t,p. 



Catherine 

Wynn 

Fletcher, nx. 

Bev. Doveton 

PhUpot. 



III.. 
Charlotte. Julia. Harriet. Frances. Mary. 



I 
Henrietta, uz. Bev. 

William Elwes. 



14 
Bey. Lloyd 
Fletcher, took 
the name of 
Wynn on suc- 
ceeding to 
Nerquis Hall, 
ob, 8. p. 



Mary, ux. 
M^or 
Walker, had 
issue one d., 
Mary Ellen, 
who died s.p., 

Dec. 1881. 



Harriet, 
06. 8.p, 



Caro- 
line, 
ob. «.p. 



Eleanor 
Amelia. 



=Captain Wil- 
liam Tring- 
ham, B.NT, 
nephew of 
the late Lord 
Wrottesley. 



Willi 



iam Lloyd Tringham,^Eleanora 
06. April 1882. | Howel 



Qeorge Wynn 
Tringham. 



I 



Emily Mary, nx. 
Henry Sewell, 
Esq., B.N. 



Llewelyn Watkin Howel Tringham. Mostyn Frederick Lloyd Tringham. 



HISTORlf OF POWXa FADOO. 




WTNN OP LLWYN. 

For the commencement of this Pedigree, see Williame Wynn 
of Llangedieyn and Wynnstay, vol. iv, 

=lBt. Jane, d. of Sir^Znd. Catherine, d. and lieir of Tudor 

Eichord Bulkeley ab Bobert Fjchui of Benin ia Llui 

of Beaumoria, | Neff dd (jruCa, a lioa rampant ar- 

Knt. I seat), and relict of John S^usbnry, 

I eldest son and heir of Sir John Salua- 

I buTf of Lleweoi, Ent 

Sir John Wynn of Owydir. Edvard Wynn of Te-=f Blanche, d. of John 

Created a Uarotiet in 1611. trad. Baried at J Taughan of Blaen y 

Ancestor of the WynoB of Llanrhaiadr in Uin- | Cwm, co, Carnarvon. 

Gwydir, now represented by meirch, 1640. He I Baried at Llan- 

tbe hoti Will^^hby D'Er- had seven ione and | 

e«by, and Sir WT W. Wynn fonr A 
of Wynnstay, Bart. 



bad five Bona 
and two 
dangbtem. 



Williams of 
Denbigh. 



, I* 



Thomas 
Wynn of 
Denbigh. 



|3 I 
Owun Wynn- The Iduly 

of Cilcain. Mostyn, I 

Buried at relict of Sir | 

LUn- Thomas I 

rhaiadrj ob, Ifostyn, I 

: p. Bart. 

"I 2~ 



Captain Edward Wynn. He was Hary,ai.Edwaid 

Captain of a Company of Foot in Wilijams of Pont 

Denbif;bCaBtle,inthe Boyal Army, y QwyddeL At- 

was wounded in a sally made by the pnil, a chev. inter 

earriaon against the besiegers un- 3 boar's heads 

der Sir Jobu Carter, and in three ooaped iail& 
daya after died of bis wounds, and 
was intenvd with military honours 
at Lluni'haiadr. 



ill 



<i» j|< 



a| 1 b\i 

Edward Wyno of OwainWynUn 
Llwya, Clerk of of Uwyn. 
Ore«ii Cloth to Buried &t 

Charlei II; ob. Llanrbaiadc, 
I. p. 1701. 

_. 



-Anne, d. and hsir of 
Maurice Lewys of 
Pongwem or Pen j 
Wem, ao. Moiriou- 
yddi oi. 1717, aged 
67. 



"I* 
John Wfnn. 

Buried at 
Llsnrhaiadr, 



Ow ftin Wynn of Llwyn.=f=Eleanor. d. of Thoc 



WBttinEdwardWynn = Anns Maria, relict OwainWynn,= Amelia 
of Llwjn. Buried at of John Hoat^n of ob. iSOS, $,p. Maria SeeL 
LlanrhMBdr 1796, Se^roed. Buned at 
ag ed 42. I. p. Llanrbaiad r 182a 



I 



I 



Tbo Rev. Maurice Wynn of Llwjm, Rector Eleanor. ^Philip Lloyd Fletcher 
of Bangor la; Coed, and Ticat of Much | of Qweni Hanlod. 

Wenlock, CO. Salop. Oi. 26th May 1835, | 

aged 75. He deriaed his property to hia Kev. Lloyd Fletcher Wynn of 

nephew, the Rev. Lloyd Fletcher, who NerqaiaHall; <ib.t.p. 

agBumed the name of Wynn. Nenjuie 

Hall waa left to the Rev. Maurice Wynn 

by the two Misa Giffards of that place. 




LLOTD OF HALCHDTN IN THE PARISH OP 

HANMBR. 

Hart MS. 4181 ; Oae Oyriog MS. 

Llywelyn of Halchdyn, the eldest son of Ednyfed Gam 
of Lly8 Pengwern io Nanheudwy, the fourth boh of lor- 
werth Foel, I^ord of Chirk, Nanheudwy and Maelor 
Saeaneg (see Vol. i. p. 316), married Anne, daughter of 
Sir Roger Puleston of Emrall or Emerallt ab Sir Richard 



360 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

ab Sir Roger Puleston of Emerallt, ab Sir Richard de 
Puleston in Cheshire, 1290, and relict of leuan ab 
Madog ab Llywelyn, by whom he had issue, besides 
two daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. Gruffydd ab Madog 
Pabo ab Ednyfed Goch ah Cynwrig of Bers {ermine, 
a lion statant gardant gules); and 2, Angharad, who, 
married, first, David ab David ab leuan ab lorwerth ab 
David Hen ab Goronwy of Mortyn and Llai {vert, seme 
of broomslips, a lion rampant o?'), and, secondly, David 
ab Llywelyn ab lorwerth Fychan {sohle, three roses 
argent) ab lorwerth ab David Hen ab Goronwy of Llai, 
a son and heir, 

Madog ab Llywelyn of Halchdyn, who married 
Margaret, daughter of Goronwy ab lorwerth of Llai 
(argent, on a bend sable, three mullets of the field), 
lorwerth of Llai was the eldest son of David H6n ab 
Goronwy of Burton, or Mortyn, and Llai (see PlAs yn 
Horslli). By this lady, Madog had issue, besides a 
daughter, Lleuci, ux. leuan ab David Dymock of Penley, 
a son and heir, 

Richard ab Madog of Halchdyn, who married Elen, 
daughter of leuan ab Einion ab Gruffydd ab Llywelyn, 
and sister of David ab leuan ab Einion, Constable of 
Harlech Castle under King Henry VI, by whom he had 
two sons, 1, Robert, o6. s. p. ; and 2, John, of whom 
presently ; and a daughter Angharad, ux. Edward ab 
Morgan of Alrhey. 

John ab Richard of Halchdyn. He married Mawd, 
daughter of Madog ab David ab Madog Llwyd ab 
Gruffydd of Maelor Saesneg ab lorwerth Foel, by whom 
he had issue, besides three daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. 
David ab Robert Sutton of Sutton and Gwersyllt ; 2, 
Alice, ux. Philip Bird of Estwick ; and 3, Angharad, ux 
Edward ab Howel ab Morgan of Alrhey, a son and 
heir, 

William Lloyd of Halchdyn, who married Nest, 
daughter and co-heir of Elis ab Tudor of Ystrad Alun 
ab Gruffydd ab leuan ab Llywelyn ab Gruffydd Llwyd 
ab Llywelyn ab Ynyr of lal, by whom he had issue, 



HALCHDYN. 361 

besides a daughter, Margaret, who married, first, John 
Jeffreys of Acton, Justice of North Wales 1606 ; 
secondly, she married Sir Thomas Ireland, Knt., Cham- 
berlain of Chester ; and, thirdly. Sir Edward Trevor, of 
Bryn Cunallt, Knt, four sons, 1, William Lloyd of 
Halchdyn, ob. s, p. ; 2, Thomas Lloyd, who died in 
France ; 3, Handle Lloyd, who died in Spain ; and 4, 
Edward Lloyd. 

Edward Lloyd, the fourth son, who married, first, 
Margaret, daughter of ... . Jeffreys of Acton, suc- 
ceeded his eldest brother, William, at Halchdyn. He 
married, secondly, Beatrice, daughter of Thomas Overton 
ab John ab Gruffydd ab Gruffydd ab Jenkyn ab David 
Foel ab Philip Hanmer,^ by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Thomas; 2, William Lloyd ; and 3, John Lloyd 
of Bryn Gnoltyn in Bangor parish; and three daughters, 
1, Margaret, who married Thomas Mostyn of Rhyd ; 2, 
Anne ; and 3, Ffrances. Edward Lloyd died in 1646, 
and he and his wife are buried in the old chancel of 
Hanmer Church. 

Thomas Lloyd of Halchdyn, died in 1693. He married 
and had issue a son and heir, 

William Lloyd of Halchdyn, 1697, who married 
Martha, daughter of John Edisbury of Erddig and 
Pentref Clawdd, son of Cynwrig Edisbury, alias Wil- 
kinson of Marchwiail. Wilkinson was the name of this 
family when they first came to Maelor, from the Hundred 
of Edisbury. And the Welsh gave them this surname 
on account of their coming from that place (Cae Cyriog 
MS.). Mr. Lloyd had issue a son and heir, Thomas 
Lloyd of Halchdyn, who married Mary, daughter and 
heiress of William Philips of Gwern Haulod, by whom 
he had a son, Thomas, who died s. p., and a daughter 
Mary, who married the Rev. John Fletcher. 

1 Philip Hanmer of Hanmer was the son of Sir John Hanmer, 
Knt., Constable of Caernarvon in the time of Edward I. 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 




HALOHDYN.— LLOYD OF BKYN HALCHDYN. 
Earl. MS. 4181. 



KiAog ab Moelor.^ Alice, d. aDd heir of Philip Phycdui. 
lorwertli &b iladog Maelory... 



leoan A lonreith.' 



r 



[■net, d. of Uiulog ab CrnwriE ab lorwerth, ane«ator 
Philip ab Oruffjdd. of tbe UojdB of Halchd^pn knd 
thePennuits of Dowoing. 



Uadog abcpGlweuUiati, d. of Maredf dd ab Lly- Ann'sBt, ai. Howel ab Oo> 
lenan. | walyn Ddft of A bertanad. ronwy of Hafod y Weni. 

Jenkyn ab Uadog.^ Philip, liring 9th Henry yi.= pMargaret. 
OthorM88.«tatethat ' ' 



tbia Jenkyn 
second Bon of David 
Lloyd of iBgoed, ab 
MadoK Lloyd of Is- 
goed, ab Orut^dd ab 
lorwerth FoeL 



'Boas, d. of QTuSyAi Itoger. 
Hanmarof Ffena, ab 
Bdirord ab Sir Jen- 
kin Haumer of Haa- 



ikn. Ed- 



id Lloyd ofpQwen, d. and co-beiress of John Lloyd ab Tomlyn 

le Bryiu Oawestiy, second son of Madog Lloyd of Llwyn 

Argmt, an eagle diaplayed with two necks table. 



o-beiress of John Lloyd ab Tomlyn Lloyd of 
iMod son of Madog Lloyd of Llwyn y Maen. 
igle displayed with two necks table. 

Jolin Lloyd of tbe Biyn.^ Alice, dan. of Bandle Ltoyd ab Gml^dd Lloyd itf 



BRYN HALCHDYN. 



363 



a\ 

Captain : 
Bobert 
Lloyd of 

the Bryn« 

one of the 

Guard to 

Queen 

Elizabeth. 

Buried at 

Hanmer, 

March 

11th, 1589. 



b\ e\ 

zlSlen, d. of David Alioe« ..., ux. 
Llwyd ab Elissau ux. David 
of Allt Llwyn fioger ab 
Dragon, now Eyton. Soger. 
PlAs yn I&l. Er- 
mine, a saltier 
gules, a crescent 
or, for difference. 



d 


«l / 


..., QIC. Ed- 


Jane, ux. Ed- 


ward 


ward ab 


Llwyd ab 


Edward ab 


Howel of 


PhiUpof 


Barlin. 


Gwem- 




haeled. 



Rose, nx. David ab Boger ab David ab Jenkin ab David Fy< 
chan ab David Foel ab Philip Hanmer ab Sir John Han- 
mer. Constable of Caernarvon Castle. 



>Dert 



Bobert Lloyd o^Sfargaret, d. and heiress of Dorothy, ox. Thomas Lloyd 



the Bryh. 



Robert Sefbon of Moiling- of Plas Uwch y Clawdd. 
ton, CO. Chester. 



Captain Luke Lloyd of the=pCatherine, dau. of Thomas Whitley of Aston in 



Bryn. Baptised 22nd Oct. 
1608; ob, 3l8t March 
1695, aged 86. He fought 
under Cromwell in 1643. 



Merffordd, and Dorothy, his wife, d. of Thomas 
Kavenscrofb of Bretton in Merffordd. Argent, 
on a chief gules, three garbs or, for Whitley. 
She died January 12, 1701, aged 91. 



Luke Lloyd: 
of the 
Bryn. 



^Esther, d. of James Betton of Shrewsbury, D.D., which lady 
(having eventually survived her two brothers, and all her 
sisters, with her nephew, James Button, and his sister, the 
children of her eldest brother James) became the sole heir of 
this branch of the Betton family. Argent, two pales sable, 
each charged with three crosslets, fitchee or. 



M I 

Catherine Lloyd, Heiress of the Bryn, Sarah Lloyd, second co-heir, married 

married Thomas Kenyon of Peel Samuel Lloyd of Pl&s Madog. She 

Hall, CO. Lancaster, ancestor of the died, and was buried at Bhiwabon, 

Lords Kenyon. 7th June 1699. 

Philip Henry thus alludes to the death of Luke Lloyd 
the elder : — 

" Luke Lloyd, Esq.^ of the Biyiij in Hanmer parish, my 
aged and worthy friend, finished his coarse with joy, March 
Slst, 1695, being Lord's day. He was in the 87th year of his 
age, and had been married almost 69 years to his pious wife 
(a daughter of Mr. Whitley of Aston), of the same age, who 
still survives him. He was the glory of the little congrega- 
tion, the top branch in all respects of our small vine, and my 
friend indeed. When he made his will, under the subscrip- 
tion of his name, he wrote Job xxz, 25, 26, 27. 

'' Luke Lloyd had been, in his youth, a staunch Cromwellite, 
and had served with some distinction in the Revolutionary 
war.^ His sword is kept at Gredington. The carved oak pulpit 



^ Life of Lord Kenyon, by G. K. 



364 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOQ. 

in Hanmer Church is noticed by the Duke of Beaufort in 1684, 
bearing these inscriptions in gold letters, * Xtus est Agnus 
Dei qui iollit peccata mundiy Be swifte to hear, Take heed 
how ye heare,' and the name ' Jesus/ with the date of its 
being given, 1627. The story told about it is that Luke Lloyd 
forbade the clergyman of that day praying for the king^ and, 
when he persisted, threatened him with his stick. As com- 
pensation for his brawling in church he offered and gave the 
pulpit.^ 

" A.D. 1666, Aug. 15th, Mr. Luke Lloyd, jun., indited at 
the assizes at Flint for disturbing Mr. H (ylton), Vicar of 
Hanmer, in the time of the administration of ye Lord's Supper. 
Witnesse sworn deposed that Mr. H (ylton), refusing to give 
him the sacrament in his pew, as he had been used to do, after 
the blessing was pronounced, and the people dismissed and 
gone, he came up to him to know the reason, but that Mr. H., 
and some few of his friends, were then at the table, eating 
and drinking what was left of the consecrated elements; which 
(being appointed reverently to be done by the rubrick) the 
judge declared to be part of the sacrament, though the clerk 
deposed that Mr. H. was talking with £. E. when Mr. Lloyd 
came up to him. The jury brought him in not guilty, but 
were sent out again by the judge, and the second time brought 
him in guilty, and he was fined." 

In Sir John Hanmer's Memorials of Hanmer Parish, 
p. 57, there is a letter from Sir Thomas Hanmer to 
Sir Job (Judge) Charleton on the subject, March 12th, 
1665. 

The following is the inscription on the tomb of Luke 
Lloyd : — 

" Here lyeth the body of Luke Lloyd of the Bryn, gent., 
and Catherine, his wife, who lived in the marriage state 
together 68 years. He died. the thirty-first day of March, 
1695, being 86. She died January 12th, 1701, aged 91.'' 

The following inscription is likewise in Hanmer 
Church : — 

" Here lies in peace Mary, the wife of Roger Kenyon of 
Cefn, daughter and heiress of Edward Lloyd of Pen y Ian, 
Esq., by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Lloyd of 
Pl&s Madog, Esq. She was great-niece of Ellis Lloyd of Pen 

^ Rev. H. M. Lee, Vicar of Hanmer. 



BRYN HALCHDYN. 



365 



y Ian, Esq., and to William Lloyd, Lord Bishop of Norwich, 
one of those prelates who, having sworn fidelity to King 
James II, refused taking the oath to his saccessor, choosing 
rather to be deprived of his bishopric than let go his inte- 
grity. 

" Filial piety, connnbial aETection, parental tenderness, a 
steady attachment to her friends and benevolence to all, were 
eminently nnited in her character. She died in childbed, 
leaving her disconsolate husband three sons and two daughters, 
Feb. 4th, A.D. 1781, aged 30." 




HALCHDYN. 

Levii/s Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 313. 

JeBkyii Kb David ab Cjmwrig (ab lorwertb ab^pOwen, d. of Qroflydd Hftn- 
Ifor ab C;Dwrig) ab lorwerth ab Hadog Has- mer of Hanmer, ab Sir 
lor lb Tbomas ab Owaia ab Bleddyo ab Jenkiu H&nmec of Han- 
Todor ab HbyB Saia. See vol i. p. 312. | mer. 



Jasper Lloyd or=^Jainc Vccban. sole d. and beir of Diivid Lloyd ab Pbilip Kb 
Halchdyn. ' Mndnir ab leiian ab lorwertb nb Madot; Moelor, p. S7?. 

Edward=pMiriraret. d. of David John. BandaL Wil- Marjraret, Elen. 
LInyd of Kandic Brere. Lloyd. liam. di. John JaneL 

Hiilch- tun o Grun. Hanmer. 

dy>u 

Randal Lloyd — Elen, d. of Brian Fovler of Llya William Eleanor. Jane. 
of Halcbdyn. Bedydd, now called Bettisfietd, Lloyd. Elen. Mary. 

wbo WHB tbe second son of 

Roger Fowler of BrooinbiU, co. 

Btafford, Esq. 



366 



HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 




FOWLER OF LLYS BEDYDD. 

Heraldic Visitation of Shropshire ; Harl. MS. 157; Kimber's 

Baronetage, 



Sir John Fowler of Foxley, co. Buck8,=]= 
Knt.y lineal descendant of Sir Rich- 
ard Fowler of Foxley, Knight, a 
Crusader, temp. Richard I. Ature, 
on a chey. argent, inter three lions 
passant gardant or, three crosses 
moline »Ale, 



r 



:.., d. and lieir of ... Loveday. This 
name occurs on the Roll of Battle 
Abbey. Party per pale argent and 
eahUf an eagle displayed with two 
necks coanterchanged, gorged with, 
a ducal coronet or. 



Sir Henry Fowler=T=..., sister and heiress of John Barton. Ermine, on a can- 
of Foxley, Knt. | ton gulee, an owl argent, crowned or. 

Sir William Fowler=T=Cecilia, dau. and heir of Nicholas Englefield of Rycote 
of Rycote, co. and Lanynton Qemon, co. Oxon. Barry of six pieces 

Oxon., Ent. | gules and argent, on a chief or, a lion passant asure. 



Sir Richard Fowler of Rycote, Ent.=T=Jane, da. of Sir John D* Anvers of Col- 
j thorpe^ CO. Oxon., Knt. 

Sir Richard Fow* Thomas Fowler, e8qiiire=n=Margarite, dau. and heir of ... 
ler of Rycote, of the Body to Edward Oolville. Or, ten billets gules, 
Knt. IV^ I 4, 3, 2, 1. 

Edward Fowler of Twickenham.=j=lst. Alice.— 2nd. Edith. « 3rd. Margaret. 



Roger Fowlei 

of Broomhill, 

CO. Stafford. 



^Isabella, d. and co-heir (by Isabella, his wife, d. and heir of 
Sir Andrew Trollope, Knt.) of William Lee of Morpeth, 
Esq., Treasurer of Berwick, and sister of Rowland Lee, 
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Lord President of the 
Marches of Wales, and of George Lee, the last Dean of 
St. Chadd's in Shrewsbury. Asure, two bars argent, oyer 
all a bend compony or and gules. 



all 



H 



c\ 



LLYS BEDYDD. 



5'^ 
Eow- 

land 
Fow- 
ler. 



6|2 



.., d. of Brian Fowler ofnpjane, daa. and 



Brad 
shaw of 
Pres- 
teign, 

CO. 

Badnor. 



Stowe and St. 

Thomas's 

Abbey, co. 

Stafford, and 

jure uxaria of 

Llys Bedydd. 

Living in 1571. 



heir of John 
Hanmer of 
Llys Bedydd, 
Esq. Argent, 
two lions pass- 
ant gardant 
oflure. 



367 

WilUam mt Maria, 
Fowler of d. of 
Hamage John 

Grange, co. Blythe, 

Salop, ances- Esq., 
tor of the M.]D. 

Fowlers of Har- 

nage Orange & Abbey 
Cwm Hir; oh. 1597. 



Walter Fowler of Lly8=j=Mary, d. of Ralph Sheldon Elen, ux. Bandle 
BedyddandSt. Thomas's I of Boley, oo. Stafford, Lloyd of Halchdyn. 
A bbey. | Esq. 

Thomas Fowler, = Mary, buried at Han- 



Walter Fowler of Llys=p 
Bedydd and St. 
Thomas's. 



Hector of Whitechoroh. mer, June 19th, 1589. 



I 



Thomas Ffowler, Esq. ; living 12th May 1703.' 

The following information was kindly sent me by the 
Rev. M. H. Lee, Rector of Hanmer : — " The old house, 
Llys Bedydd, was built, I expect, by Brian Fowler (who 
married Jane Hanmer) with the spoils of the abbeys, 
which he got through his uncle, Rowland Lee, Bishop 
of Lichfield and Coventry, and Lord President of the 
Marches of Wales. In 1699, Edward Lhuid notices as 
living at Bettisfield (Llys Beddydd) .... Fowler, Esq. 
In or about 1714, Bishop Gastrell writes, "there are 
five ancient seats, Hanmer, Bettisfield .... Halghton, 
and Willington." In 1762, Candidus writes, in The 
Gentleman s Magazine: " Bettisfield Hall, a seat of the 
Fowlers, was mostly burnt down some years since, and 
it is not rebuilt ; the part which escaped the flames is 
inhabited by a tenant, and is the property of ... . 
Fitzgerald, Esq., a Roman Catholic gentleman. There 
is a story told of old Madame Ffowler, after the fire, 
troubling the house until some magician got her into a 
bottle which was corked up and thrown into a pond. 
There she remained until the pond was mudded, when 
the inquisitive men must needs draw the cork, when out, 

^ In Cosin's Bom. Cath. Non-Jurors in 1715, p. 31, the following 
notice occurs : — " Com. Flint. John Fowler of St. Thomas in Com. 
Stafford, Esq., £260 Ss. Od." " This must be the Llys Bedydd pro- 
perty that is referred to." — Rev. M. H. Lee. 



368 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

with a whiz, comes something like a humble bee, which 
makes straight for Lhrs Bedydd, and in her flight assumes 
the appearance of Madame Ffowler. Warned by experi- 
ence she troubles them no more." The Fowler family- 
was one of great antiquity before the reign of Richard I, 
when the then representative of the family, Sir Richard 
Fowler of Foxley, co. Bucks, Knt., accompanied that 
warlike monarch to the Holy Land, with a body of 
archers raised among his own tenantry. At the siege 
of St. Jean d'Acre, 1190, an attack of the Saracens 
upon the Christian camp by night was frustrated by a 
white owl, which, being disturbed by their approach, 
flew into the tent of Sir Richard Fowler and awoke him. 
He soon became acquainted with the threatened danger, 
and hastily arousing his men, immediately engaged and 
defeated the enemy. King Richard rewarded his fidelity 
by knighting him upon the scene of the engagement, 
and changed his crest, which was the hawk and lure, to 
the vigilant owl. Subsequently, in the reign of Henry 
IV, his descendant. Sir William Fowler of Foxley, Knt., 
became possessed of Rycote, co. Oxon, by his marriage 
with Cecilia, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Englefield 
of Rycote and Lanynton Gernon, co. Oxford, Esq., who 
died in 1414, as we learn from his epitaph: — "Here 
lieth the body of Nicholas Englefield, Esq., some time 
Comptroller of the House to King Richard II, who died 
1st April in the year of grace M.ccc.xiv, whose soul Jesu 
pardon. Amen, Amen, Amen." He was the third 
son of Sir Philip de Englefield, Lord of Englefield, the 
head of an ancient family, which, according to Camden, 
takes its name from the town of Englefield in Berkshire, 
of which place they were stated to have been the pro- 
prietors in the second year of Egbert's reign, 803. For 
a full account of the Fowler and Englefield families, see 
Wotton and Kimber's Baronetage. 

xxRMS. 

1. Azure, on a chevron argent, inter three lions passant 
gardant or, three crosses moline sahle. Fowler. 

2. Party per pale, argent and sable, an eagle displayed with 



TAL Y WBRN. 369 

two necks coanterchanged, got^d with a dacal coronet or. 
Loved ay. 

3. Ermine, on a canton gitles, an owl argent, crowned or. 
Barton. 

4. Barry of six pieces, gules and argent, on a chief or, a lion 



. Argent, a chevron, inter three rooks sable. Clarke of 
Bycote and Lanynton Gernon. 

6. Argent, three wolf's heads erased gules, in a border azure, 
charged with eight turrets or. Bycote of Rycote. 

7. Vaire, argent and azure. Gemon of Lanynton Gernon. 

8. Azure, two bars argent, over all a bend compony or and 
gtilen. Lee of Morpeth. 

9. Vert, three goats rampant argent, attired or. Trollope. 

10. Argent, two lions passant gardant aztire. Hanmer. 
Crest. On a wreath of the colours, an owl argent, crowned or. 




LLOYD OF TALWBN OB TAL Y WEBN, IN THE 

TOWNSHIP OF WILLINGTON. 

Harl. MS. 4181. 

lorwerth Foel,' Lord of Chirk, Nfinbeadwy and Maelor 
Saesneg (see vol. i, p. 313), married Gwladys, daughter 
and co-heiress of lorwerth ab GrufFydd ah Heilin of 
Fron Goch in Mochnant ab Meurig ab leuan ab Adda 
ab Cynwrig ab Paagen, Lord of Cegidra and Deuddwr 
(1, sable, three horse's heads erased ai'gent ; 2, argent, a 

1 lorwerth Foel is styled by Reynolds, " Baro de Halcbdyn". 



370 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

chevron sahle^ inter three Cornish choughs, each with 
a spot of ermine in their bills, ppr.) Gwladys was buried 
in Hanmer Church, where her tomb still remains with 
this inscription : " htc iacet wladys vxor ierwerth 
VOEL, ORATE P.EA." round the verge of the coffin lid. 
Within the inscription is a very fine floriated cross, 
almost identical with that described by Camden (i. 12), 
as being at St. Buriens, Cornwall. By this lady lorwerth 
Foel had issue five sons, 1, Madog Llwyd of Bryn 
Cunallt yn Y Waun ; 2, Gruffydd of Maelor Saesneg, 
of w^hose line we have to treat ; 3, Morgan, ancestor of 
the Yonges of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr Hdb, and the Yonges 
of Sawerdec and Croxton ; 4, Ednyfed Gam of iJys 
Pengwem in Nanheudwy ; and 5, leuan of Llanfe- 
chain. 

Gruffydd of Maelor Saesneg, married Gwerfyl, daughter 
and co-heiress of Madog ab Maredydd of Blodwel and 
Abertanad ab Llywelyn Fychan ab Llywelyn ab Owain 
Fychan ab Owain, Lord of Mechain Is y Coed, second 
son of Madog ab Maredydd, Prince of Powys Fadog 
{argent^ a lion rampant sable, in a border indented 
gules)} By this lady Gruffydd had issue, besides a 
daughter, Eva, ux. Howel, fourth son of Madog ab 
Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, Lord of Eyton, Erlys, and Bwras, 
seven sons. 

I. Madog Llwyd, of whom presently. 

II. Llywelyn DdA of Abertanad and Blodwel in Me- 
chain Is y Coed. 

in. David ab Gruffydd, who married and had issue a 
son, Madog ab David, the father of Gruflfydd Llwyd of 
Talwm, who married Jane, daughter of lorwerth Goch 
ab Ednyfed ab Madog of Brochdyn or Broughton {ermine, 
a lion statant gardant gules), by whom he had an only 
daughter and heiress Alice, ux. John ab David Llwyd 
ab Jenkin ab Madog ab leuan. 

IV. Madog DdA. 

V. lorwerth Foel, the father of David DdA, who 
married Alice, daughter of David ab David ab leuan 

1 HarL MS. 2299, f. 42. 



TAL Y WERN. 371 

ab lorwerth, eldest son of David H6n ab Goronwy of 
Mortyn and Llai, by whom he had a son leuan ab David, 
who married Cari, daughter of Ednyfed Goch ab Goronwy 
ab Owain of Gnoltyn, by whom he had an only daughter 
and heiress who married Richard ab Lawrence. 

VI. Morgan Goch of Willington, who by Margaret his 
wife, daughter of Sir John Upton of Hanmer, Knt, had a 
son and heir, Gruffydd ab Morgan, who had two daughter 
co-heirs, 1, Margaret, who married, December 6th, 1487, 
Thomas Dimog ab leuan ab David Dimog, and by her 
he had his lands in Willington ; and 2, Maud, co-heir, 
ux. Madog ab David ab Madog Llwyd ab Gruffyd ab 
lorwerth Foel. 

VII. Goronwy DdA of Abertanad and Treflodwel. 
Madog Llwyd the eldest son of GruflFydd of Maelor 

Saesneg, married three times ; by his iirst wife Catherine, 
daughter of Owain Barton of Chester, he had a son and 
heir, David ab Madog, of whom presently. He married, 
secondly, Lleuci, daughter of lorwerth Fychan ab lor- 
werth ab Awr ab leuaf ab Niniaw ab Cynwrig ab Rhi- 
wallon {ermi7ie, a lion rampant sable)^ by whom he had 
issue one son, David ab Madog (see Bodylltyn), and 
four daughters, 1, Cari, ux. John Hoord, Lord of Wal- 
verton, co. Salop {aztirey on a chief or, an owl sable) ; 2, 
Annest, ux. Sir ... . Roydon of Kent ; 3, Dygoes, ux. 
Howel ab Gruffydd ab lorwerth Fychan of Groes Foel ; 
and 4, Margaret, ux. Thomas Roydon. Madog Llwyd 
married, thirdly, Gwerfyl, daughter of Ednyfed ab 
Gruflfydd ab Llywelyn ab Gruflfydd, by whom he had a 
son leuan ab Madog of Rhuddallt, who married .... 
daughter of Madog ab lorwerth ab Madog, by whom he 
had an only daughter and heiress, Gwenllian, ux. Jenkyn 
ab Llywelyn ab Ithel Goch ab Llywelyn ab Madog ab 
Einion ab Madog ab Bleddyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhi- 
wallawn. 

David, the eldest son of Madog Llwyd, married Gwen- 
llian, daughter of Bleddyn ab Einion Fychan ab Einion 
ab Llywelyn of Ystrad Alun ab Cadwgan DdA ab Cadwgan 
Goch ab Y Gwion ab Hwfa ab Ithel Felyn, Lord of lal 

24 2 



372 HISTORY OF P0WY8 PADOO. 

and Ystrad Alun {sctble, on a chevron inter three goat's 
heads erased or, three trefoils of the field), by whom he 
had issue three sons, 1, Madog ab David, of whom pre- 
sently ; 2, Jenkyn ab David, ancestor of the Lloyds of 
Willington, and according to some authors the Lloyds 
of the Bryn in the parish of Hanmer ; and 3, David ab 
Jenkyn. 

Madog ab David of Tal y Wem in Willington, the 
eldest son, married Maude, daughter and co-heir of 
Gruffydd ab Morgan Goch of Willington, ab GruflFyd ab 
lorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk, by whom he had issue, 
besides a daughter Maude, ux. John ab Richard ab 
Madog ab Llywelyn of Halchdyn, two sons, 1, Gruffydd 
Lloyd, of whom presently ; and 2, Richard Lloyd, the 
father of John Lloyd, the father of William Lloyd, the 
father of William Lloyd. 

Gruffydd Lloyd of Tal y wem or Talwrn, married Jane, 
daughter of lorwerth Goch ab Ednyfed ab Madog ab 
Gruffydd DdA of Brochdyn or Broughton, by whom he 
had issue, besides two younger sons, Edward Lloyd and 
William Lloyd, an elder son and heir, 

Randal Lloyd of Tal y wem, who married and had 
issue, besides a younger son, John Lloyd, a son and 
heir, 

Randal Lloyd of Tal y wern, who married Ermine, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer, Knt., and 
relict of William Lloyd of Halchdyn, by whom he had 
issue, besides a daughter Catherine, ux. Roger Eyton of 
Halchdyn, a son and heir, 

Randle Lloyd of Tal y wern, who by Elin his wife, 
daughter of Edward Lloyd of Hersedd in Ystrad Alun 
{argent, a cross flory engrailed sable, inter four Cornish 
choughs, ppr.) had six sons and five daughters, 1, Randal, 
of whom presently; 2, William; 3, John; 4, Roger; 5, 
Edward ; and 6, Humphrey Lloyd ; and five daughters, 
1, Ermine, ux. John Williams ; 2, Catherine, ux. John 
Milton of Shotlach ; 3, Dorothy ; 4, Jane, ux. Robert 
Davies ; and 5, Margaret, ux. John Evans of Bangor. 

Randal Lloyd of Tal y wern, married Elen, daughter of 



BODYLLTYH IN BHIWABOK. 



373 



William Hanmer of FfeDB,and Mai^ret his wife.daughter 
and heiress of David KynastoTi of Crickett or Crugaeth 
in Shropshire, by whom he had issue two sons, 1, William, 
of whom presently ; and 2, John Lloyd ; and two daughters, 
Alice and Elen. 

William Lloyd of Tal y Wem. 




BODTLLTYN IN RHIWABON. 
Earl. MS. 4181. 

David, the second son of Madog Llwyd ab Gruffydd 
of Maclor Saesneg, married Angharad, daughter of leuan 
ab Madog of Rhuddallt ab Cadwgan Ddd ab Cadwgan 
Goch ab Y Gwion ab Hwfa ab Itbel Felyn, Lord of 141 
and Ystrad Alun (sable, on a chev, inter three goat's 
heads erased or, three trefoils of the field), by whom he 
had issue, besides four daughters, — I, Dugws, ux. Deicws 
ab Y Badi ab David Goeb ab lorwerth Ddd ab Howel 
Voel V, Ach Jenkyn Llwyd ab leuan ; 2, Lleuci, ui. 
first, Grufiydd of Rhuddallt ab lorwerth ab Madog, and 
secondly, Adda ab David ab leuan ab Adda ; 3, Eva, uz. 
first, Gruffydd Goch, and secondly, Eichard ab Llywelyn 
Gethia ; and 4, Angharad, ux. first, Jenkin ab leuan ab 
David Y Rhug, and secondly, Edmund ab David Fychan 
of the Were in the parish of Haumer {argent, two lions 
passant gard. azure), — two sons. 

I. Madog ab David, who married Gwenllian, daughtoi 



374 HISTORY OF POWTS FADOO. 

and heiress of Madog Llwyd ab Hwfa ab leuao ab 
Madog yr Athro, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Edward ab Madog of Bodylltyn in Ehiwabon, who 
married Mec, daughter of Madog ab EinioD ab David ab 
David ab leuao ab lorwerth ab David Hen ab Gorouwy 
of Mortyn and Llai (vert, sem^ of broomslips a lion 
rampant or), by whom he had an only daughter, 

GweuUian, heiress of Bodylltyn, who married Roger 
Eyton, son of Jobu ab Elis Eyton of Rhiwabon. 

11. Gruflydd, the second son of David second son of 
Madog Llwyd ab Gruflfydd of Maelor Saesneg, married 
and had issue a son, Madog ab Gruffydd ; who married 
and had issue a son, Grufiydd ab Madog ; who married 
Angharad, daughter of Griffith ab John ab Gruffydd ab 
Madog ab Hwfa, by whom be had a son Eoger. 




LLOYD OF WILLINGTON. 

Sari MS. 4181. 

Jaokjn Ffchan, aeoond son of Da<ri().=p..., d. of Hanrice Tonge ab Jenkyn 
the eldest bod of Hedog Linjd ab I of Bryn loroyii in Tr Hob, 
Qniffydd of Maelor Saeatieg. 



David ab JeD-'^=Oweii, d. And heiress of John LIo;d John. Elen, nx. Omff. 
kyn of Wil- of Oswestiy, ab Tomlyn Lloyd of ydd Llwjd ab 

liner^n. OaweatiT. second son of Madog Qwyn. 

Lloyd of Llwjo 7 Haen. 



LLOYD OF WILLINGTON. 



375 



a] h\ 

Bobert=f=Catherme, d. of William John Lloyd of Br7n=f Alice, d.ofBandle 
Willascote of Willascote. in Halchd^n. 



Lloyd 

of 
WU- 
ling- 
ton. 



Lloyd of Tal y 
Wem. 



Captain Robert Lloyd of the Bryn, one of the Guard to Queen 
Elizabeth ; 06. 1 1 th March 15b9. See p. 363. 

I 

William Lloyd of=pGatherine, d. of Robert Jones of Llnryn On, and relict of 
Willington. | ... firereton. 



John Lloyd=pLili, d. of James Eyton Elizabeth, ox. Mary, nz. Jane. 



of 
Willington. 



of Eyton. 



Uenry 
BilUng. 



Grutfydd 
Gwynn. 



Robert Lloyd=pMargaret, d. of Sir Thomas Hanmer Catherine, ux. Thomas 



of 
Willington. 



ot Hanmer, Knt. 



Li til. 



John Lloyd=7=Sarah, d. of Sir Robert 



of 
Willington. 



Gerard Eyton Lloyd, 
of Eyton, 
Knight 
Banneret. 



ThofDas 
Lloyd. 



Jane, ux. 

Edward 

Phillips. 



Eien, ux. Ed- 
ward ab 
Randal 



John Lloyd of WiUington,* IG7C. 



^ la Cosin's Roman Catlutlu: N on- Jurors in 1715, pjige 8, wb 
" Cardigan", there is, " Kathcriuc Palmer of Willingtun, in com. 
Flint, widow, £743 : 11 : 6". 



HISTORY OF rowya fadog. 




YONGE OF SAWABDEK, IN THE TOWNSHIP OP 

CROXTOK 

Hart. MS. 4181. 

Morgan of Maelor Saemeg, third aim of lorwerth Voel, Lord of Cliiik,^ 
Mttnheudwy, and Maelor Saeaneg. | 

lorw erth ab Morgan. ^ Ma^faret, d. and heir of William Tonge of Sawardek, 

Morgan Tonge of Sawanlek.^OwenlliBii, d. and heir of Ithel ab Bleddjm ab 
I Ithel Anwyl 

Jenkinif'Irtt MaUt, d. and heiFySnd, awladTS, dan. and .... nz. Cfrnnm, 

Tonge I of Deio ab Darid ab heir of Tndor ab Uadog an illegitimate 

of Madog Ddu ab lor- | Voel of Bryn loroyn in son of Ithel ab 

Sairar- worth ab Qruffydd of i Tr Hob, ab Oro^dd ab Cynwrig ab 

dek. Caer FaUwob. lAjuvljn ab Tnyr of Bleddyn ab Ithel 






|1 |S 
Lew7« ToDM of Bawer-^Sibil, d. of Bichud Spii- MaurioeTongeofBi^ 
du. atow of the paruh of loroyn. 
I Bnmbri, in Cheahira. 

Omfl^dd ^Angbarad, d. of Qrnff* Bichard, Elin, nz. Margaret, nx. 

Tonge of 7ddO«TnabJ«nk;a ob.i.p, Howelab Ban<U ab Ed- 

Sawer- I Gwyn of Tetrad Alun David ab ward ab lenam 

dek. ab MadoK ab David ItheL ab Clni^dd. 



Llwyd ab Qni%dd 

Oocb ab David Goob 

Fyohan. 



John TongcRsEliiebeth.d. of Handle Gwen, ni. John ab Margaret, nz. 
of Sawardek. ( Dymock of Will ington. Orufiydd ab Jenkin. John PolMttm. 

Thomas Tonge of=pHargaret, d. of Ralph Bronghton Hampbrej Elen, 

Sawardek. | of Bro nghton or Bfochdyn. Tonge. 

n Ta fS" |4 |5 ]8 |7 I 

Thomaa William Humphrey Ffrancia Bandolph Thomas Edward 
Tonge. Tonga. Tonge^ Tonge. Tonge. Tonge. T onge. | 

.1 "J J 



PENNANT OF DOWNING. 



PENNANT OF DOWNING. 
Sari. M8. 4181. 
T homM. fourth aon of Owaiii ab Bleddyn ftb Tador ab Bhya Bftig-f 

Mftdog '^Alica, d. Hid heir of Philip Phvcfadui, and Haisaret, hia wifo, d. 
Maelor. | nod co-haireaa of David ftb BUrid lb Toyr ab Jonaa of Pmhj, 

I Lord of Llaneroh Buma. 

lorwerth ab Hadog.>^..., dan. of Omun Fjobaa ab Owun ab Qoronw; ab 
__J Owtun ab Edwin. 

Cy awrig ab lorwerth.T = leuML 

It hel ab Cymrrig.^Margaret, d. of Uywalyp ab Madog F oel of HaroliwialL 

Tudor y^wenUian, dan. of Alice,iiz.D«ncwsGoah Agnes, oi. Oraffydd 
ab I Lljwelyn ab E!diiv. of Harohwiail, ab ab Bleddjn ab Bobert 
It heL I Ted ab HaredjdiL Einion ab David. ab David abOoronwy. 

Da vid Pennant of Fichdan.^Agnea, d. of Jenh in Don. 

|1 \-i |3 

Thomas FeDnant, Abbot of Boger Fen. Hugh Potl-»Janet, d. of Bobeit 
Dinas Basing. oaut. nant. ab HoweL 

Thomas Pennant,' Abbot of Dinas Basing or Baaing- 
werke, left his monastery and married Mallt, daughter 
of Sir John Constable, Knt, by whom he had issue five 
sons and five daughters, 1, Edward, of whom presently ; 
1, Margaret; 2, Aune ; 3, Catherine; 4, Wioefrid; 5, 
Dorothy ; 6, Elen ; 7, Ffitinces ; 8, Elizabeth ; and 9, 
Mary, ob. s. p. 

' Acuordiug to a poem by Guthyn Owaia, who flouhahed about the 
latter part of the fifteenth ceutury, this Tbomaa Pennant, when Abbot, 
greatly enlarged and improved the Abbey and its appurtenanoea, and 
resided there in almost regal splendour. — Leuj/i Dunn, vol ij, p. 305, 

note. 



378 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOG. 

2, Thomas Pennant, Vicar of Tref Ffynon in Tegeingl ; 

3, Nicholas Pennant, Abbot of Dinas Basing ; 4, David 
Pennant, ancestor of the Pennants of Hendref Figillt ; 
and 5, John Pennant ; and five daughters ; 1, Gyenes ; 
2, Elen ; 3, Margaret, oh. s. p. ; 4, Margaret ; and 5, 
Catherine. 

Edward Pennant, the eldest son, married Catherine, 
daughter of Howel ab John ab David of Ysgeifiog in 
Tegeingl ab Ithel Fychan ab Cynwrig ab Rotpert ab 
lorwerth ab Rhirid ab lorwerth ab Madog ab Ednowain 
Bcndew, Chief of one of the Noble Tribes, who bore 
argent, a chevron inter three boar s heads couped sahle^ 
tusked or, and langued gules, by whom he had issue four 
sons, 1, Henry, of whom presently ; 2, Thomas Pennant, 
ob, s.p.; 3, Nicholas Pennant, ob. s. p.; and 4, Maurice 
Pennant ; and one daughter, Jane. ux. Thomas Fychan 
Conwy of Plas yn y Nant, in the parish of Meliden in 
Tegeingl, ab Harri Wyn Conwy ab Reignallt ab Hyw 
Conwy of Llys Bryn Euryn in Llandrillo in Rhos, son 
of Robin ab Gruflydd Goch, Lord of Rhos and Rhiw- 
fawniog {argent, a griifon passant, its wings erect, gules), 
descended from Marehudd, Lord of Uwch Dulas. 

Harri or Henry Pennant married twice. His first wife 
was Margaret, daughter of Grufiydd ab John ab Grufiydd 
Fychan of Pentref Llongad, descended from Ednowain 
Bendew. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of 
Robert Sonlli of Sonlli, by whom he had one son, Peter 
Pennant, and a daughter, Elen, ux. William Parry. By 
his first wife, Margaret, he had issue one son, Nicholas, and 
six daughters; 1, Jane, ux. John Da vies of Kindlon ; 2, 
Catherine, ux. first, Randle Lloyd of Calcot, and secondly, 
John Davies of Halkin or Helygen ; 3, Alice, ux. Henry 
ab Hyw of Fflint; 4, Elen, ob. s. p. ; 5, Anne, ux. Hjrw ab 
Thomas of Chwitffordd ab Robert ab Ithel ab leuan; and 
6, Margaret, ux. Hyw Pennant ab Thomas of Llanasaff. 

Nicholas Pennant, married Jane, daughter of William 
Mostyn of Maes Glas Helygen, descended from Tudor 
Trevor, by whom he had issue three sons, 1, Edward, 2, 
Henry, and 3, Thomas Pennant ; and nine daughters, 



PENNANT OP DOWNING. 



379 



Edward Pennant married Elizabeth, daughter of Ed- 
ward Giflfard of Chillington, in Com. Staflford, by whom 
he had issue five daughters, 1, Ffrances ; 2, Anne ; 3, 
Elizabeth ; 4, Jane ; and 5, Mary. 



PENNANT OF HENDREF VIGILLT. 

Earl MS. 4181. 

David Pennant, fourth son of Tliomas=7=Deili, d. and heir of John ab Deio 



Abbot of Dinas Basing. 



T 



ab lenan. 



Elis Pen-=T=Catherine, d. of David ab Edward Pennant of Derwen in Rhe- 



nant. 



John ab Grnffydd of lefhwyd, married Margaret, d. and 
Tre'r Fiynnon. heir of Thomas ab John Wynn ab 

Ithel ab Qwyn ot Bhelefnwyd. 



Jo hn Pennant. =f =Jane, d. of Edward ab Ehys ab David ab Jenkin. 

Pe ter Pennant of Hendref Vigillt.=f=Barbara, d . of John Eyton of Coed y Uai 

John Pennant of Hondref Vigillt. a Edward Pennant of Caerwy8.=p 

Edmund Pennant, Parson of Lhuiarmon yn I4L Margaret. 




DAVIES OF DUNGREY. 

Lenrys Dwnn, vol. ii. 
Sir John de Upton, Constable of=f=Hawy8, dau. of Einion ab Gwilyn ab 



Caernarvon Castle, had a grant of 
lands in Hanmer. Argent, two lions 
passant gardant cusure, 



Gwenwynwyn, and relict of leuaf 
Fychan ab leuaf of Llwyn y Maen. 



&| 1 e\2 



380 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOO. 

a] b\l e\2 

Philip Hazimer,=T-AgD66, d. of David ab Bhirid ab Owain Gk>ch, David. 

8rd son, of Tnyr ab Jones of Penley. 06. «. p. 

Hanmer. | 

Sir David Hanmer, Knt.» ancestor of David Foel of^A^es, d. of Cyn- 
Hanmers of Hanmer, for an account Hanmer. 
of whom, see the Peercige and Baronet- 
age. 



wrig ab ... 



David Fychan of the Wem, in theFj=Janet, dan. of David ab liaredydd of 
parish of Hanmer. \ Halohdyn. 

ab Davids^ Edmund. =FAngharad, dau. of Deio ab M adog Llwyd of 
of the Wem. 1 | Bodylltyn ab Gru^dd ab lorwerth FoeL 

David ab Edmund, Chaired Bard at the Eisteddfod 

held in South Wales. 



Jenlcyn 



David^ Ghrufl ydd.= f= 

Boger of =t=..., d. of Edward ab leuan ab Gruf^dd IVchan of=F 
Du ngrey. | lolyn of Dungrey. Overton Jiadog. | 

David of Dungrey.^Dorothy, d. of Boger Pnleston John Overton of=F 
1 of EmralL Overton Madog. | 

Boffer Davies ofyElisabeth, d. of Hugh Thomas Overton=f=Harriet, d. of... 
Dungrey. I Boetock of Morton, of Overton I Alswood of ..., 
^1 Sen. Madog. | in com. Salop. 

I I 1 2 

Boger Davies=r=Elizabeth Edward, Beatrix, heiress, ox. Maiy, uz. Ed- 
of Dungrey. I 2nd wife. Edward Lloyd of ward Philips 
I Halohdyn. of Gwem 
^1 Haulod. 

I 
Bo ger Davies of Dungrey .=f=Bridget, d. of Richard Owen of Morb en. 

Boger Davies, bom 1660. Margaret Elizabeth. 



LORDSHIP OP WHITTINGTON. 



381 




LORDSHIP OP Y DREWEN, OR WHITTINGTON. 
Oae Cyriog MS.; Earl MS., 4181 ; Add. MSS., 9864-6. 

The Lordship of Y Drewen, Blancheville, or Whit- 
tington, comprises the townships of Traian and the 
parish of Whittington, which contains the townships of 
Whittington, Welsh Francton, part of Old Marton, 
Bergheld, Daywell, Femhill, Hindford, Henlle, Ebnall, 
and Halston ; which last township, in which there is a 
chapel, formerly belonged to the Knights Hospitallers of 
St. John of Jerusalem. 

This lordship, of which all the lands once belonged to 
Tudor Trevor, was given by his descendant, Tudor^ ab 
Rhys Sais, who was Lord of Whittington, Chirk, Nan- 
heudwy, and Maelor Saesneg, to his second son, Goronwy 
Pefr (the smart or handsome), sometimes also called 
Wrenoc. He married twice, his first wife being Maude, 
daughter of Ingelric, a noble Saxon (" who had pre- 
viously had a son named William, of whom the Con- 
queror himself was the father") ;* and, secondly, he mar- 
ried Gwenllian, daughter of Reginald Broadspear. 

By his first wife he had issue three sons, 

I. Sir William Befr, otherwise called Sir William de 

1 Tudor ab Rhys Sais was living in 1079 (13th William I), for in 
that year he, with his two brothers, Elidur and Iddon, slew Gwrgan, 
King of Powys. — Brut y Tywysogion. 

2 Arch. Camb., 1852, p. 285. 



382 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOO. 

Powys, Knight {Llwyth Gwydd y Derwen), Lord of 
part of Whittington and Estwick. He had an only 
daughter and heiress, Gwen, who married Gwarine de 
Meanx, or de Metz, a nobleman of Lorraine, and one of 
the Lords Marchers, by whom he had a son, the cele- 
brated Sir Ffulke Fitz-Warine. As, however, by the 
British laws, a female could not inherit the manors or 
lordships of her ancestors, they went to the second son. 
Sir Roger de Powys. 

IT. Sir Roger de Powys, of whom presently. 

III. Jonas of Penley {Llwyth Llanerch Banna), or 
Lord of Llanerch Banna, in the parish of Ellesmere 
(azure, three boars passant in pale, argent). 

Sir Roger de Powys, Lord of Whittington, Knight of 
Rhodes. He bore vert, a boar or, and married Cecilia, 
daughter of Hwfa ab lorwerth ab Gruffydd ab leuaf ab 
Niniaf ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn (gules, two lions 
passant argent, for lorwerth ab Gruffydd of Bers), by 
whom he had issue four sons : 

I. Sir Meurig or Sir Maurice Llwyd de Powys, Knight, 
Lord of Whittington and Estwick, who was slain by his 
kinsman. Sir Fulke Fitz Warine ; and thus, says Gutyn 
Owain, the Lordship of Whittington went to Sir Fulke 
Fitz Warine,^ who had it confirmed to him in 1219 by 
Henry III, King of England, and for which confirmation 
he gave the King £262 and two coursers.* Sir Maurice, 
or Meurig, Llwyd, died without issue. 

In an Anglo-Norman life of Sir Fulke Fitz Warine, 
written in the time of Edward I, lorwerth Drwyndwn, 
it is said, "dona a Rogero de Powys, Blanche Ville e 
Maylour"; and when he died, we are told that Llywelyn 
ab lorwerth, Prince of Wales, regretted his death " pur 
ce qe Morys fuit son cousyn".^ 

In " Bye Gones" of the Oswestry Advertiser, October 
6th, 1880, the following statement is made under the 
heading of ** Llan y Blodwell" : — 

* Cae Cyriog MS. ' Pennant's Tour, voL i, p. 323. 

^ Lewyt Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 13. 



LORDSHIP OF WHITTINGTON. 383 

"In the Escheat Roll, 56 Henry III (1272), the 
place now called Bhdwell is written Bodewennan. 
Wennen (i.e., Gw6n) was one of the sons of Meirig de 
Powys, a descendant of Tudor Trevor. This Gwen, 
with his brother Greno — written in the grant, Wrenoc 
(Greno) and Wennen (Gw6n) — had a grant from King 
John in the 2nd year of his reign, 1201, of the Lordship of 
Whittington, of which Fulk Fitzwarine had been tempo- 
rarily deprived." Signed, " W. A. L." This statement 
does not agree with the pedigrees or other settlements 
made by Llywelyn ab lorwerth, Prince of Wales, and 
confirmed by Henry III. Sir Meurig de Powys had no 
issue, but he left three brothers. Sir Roger, Goronwy 
(Wrenoc), and Owain, who may be the Wennen of the 
Charter. 

II. Sir Roger Fychan, Knight, Lord of Estwick {vert^ 
a boar or). He was declared to be the heir of his 
brother, Sir Meurig Llwyd, Knight, by a deed of settle- 
ment made by Llywelyn ab lorwerth. Prince of Wales, 
and confirmed by Henry III, King of England. He 
left issue (besides a daughter named Gwerfyl, who mar- 
ried, first, Philip Kynaston of Stocks, ancestor of the 
Kynastons of Hardwicke, secondly, she married Pain 

and thirdly, she married David Rwth) a son and 

heir, Maredydd of Estwick ; whose only daughter and 
heiress, Gwerfyl, married leuan Foel ab Gwilym ab 
Cymrig Sais ab Cynwrig ab Owain ab Bleddyn ab 
Tudor ab Rhys Sais.^ 

III. Goronwy ab Sir Roger de Powys of Estwick 
married, and had issue a son, Llywelyn ab Goronwy 
of Estwick, the father of Llywelyn Fychan of Estwick, 
who married and had issue two sons, 

1. Llywelyn Foel of Estwick, who married and had 
issue (besides two daughters, Dyddgu, ux. David Dod, 
by whom she had a son, Hugh Dod ; and Tibot, ux. 
lorwerth ab Gwilym, by whom she had a son, Bleddyn 
ab lorwerth), a son and heir, Ednjrfed ab Llywelyn Foel 
of Estwick, whose daughter and heiress, Dyddgu, mar- 

1 Cae Cyrog MS, ; Add. MSS. 9864-6. 



384 HISTORY OF POWYS FA.DOG. 

lied .... by whom she had a son and heir, 
Jenkin Estwick of Estwick, the father of Lawrence 
Estwick. 

2. GruflFydd ab Lly welyn Fychan of Pentref Madog in 
Tref Dudlysh yn y Waun. He married Elen, daughter of 
Ednyfed Lloyd ab lorwerth Fychan ab lorwerth ab Awr 
(see Plas Madog), by whom he was father of Llywelyn 
of Pentref Madog, the father of GruflFydd of Pentref 
Madog, whose daughter and heiress, Eva, married David 
Bird H6n of Estwick, and, jure uxoris, of Pentref Madog. 

IV. Owain ab Sir Roger de Powys. He married, and 
had issue three daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Gwerfyl, ux. Einion ab Gwilym, an illegitimate 
son of Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys, by whom she 
had an only daughter and heiress, Annest, who married, 
first, leuaf Fychan of Llwyn y Maen, Constable of 
Knockyn Castle, and, secondly, Sir John Upton of 
Hanmer; 2, Gwen, ux. Rhys Goch ab Rhys Gochyn; 
and 3, Eva, ux. Howel ab Madog ab Howel. 

In 1220, the Castle of Whittington was dismantled 
by the Welsh, as we may infer from Henry having 
given Sir Fulke Fitz Warine permission to fortify it. 
The memory of this is stUl preserved in a room in the 
gateway, by a figure of a knight on horseback, coarsely 
painted on the wall, with the following lines^ now almost 
obliterated, placed beneath : — 

** This was Sir Ffoalke Fitz Warren, late a great and valiant 

knight, 
Who kept the Britons still in awe, and ofttimes pat to 

flight. 
He of this castle owner was, and held it by command 
Of Henry, late sumamed the Third, and King of all this 

land. 
His grandfather, a Lorrainer, by fame was much befriended, 
Who Peverley's dau'r took to wife, from whom this Ffoulke 

descended. 
His ancient feats of chivalry in annals are recorded ; 
Our King of England afterwards, him baron made and 

lorded.'*! 

1 Pennant's Tour, vol i, p. 327. 



LORDSHIP OF WHITTINGTON. 385 

Y Dref Wen, or WhittiDgton, was celebrated by 
Llywarch Hen as the place where Cynddylan, King of 
Powys, was slain in 613.^ 



TRAIAN. 

Cae Cyriog MS. 

Gutyn Owain, the historian of the Abbeys of Basing- 
werke, or Dinas Basing and Strata Florida, who was 
" Pencerdd" and bard to David ab leuan ab lorwerth. 
Abbot of Valle Crucis,^ and also to the Abbots of the 
two first-mentioned monasteries, lived at Traian in this 
lordship. He was a great herald and genealogist, and 
wrote an epitome of the British history, which was pre- 
served in the Abbey of Dinas Basing, and from this 
circumstance was called Lbjfr Du Badng. It is now 
in the possession of the heir of the late Thomas Taylor 
Griffith of Wrexham and Cae Cyriog, Esq. Gutyn 
Owain was nephew of John ab Richard, Abbot of Valle 
Crucis, the immediate predecessor of the Abbot David 
ab leuan ab lorwerth. 

His pedigree, according to Lewys Dwnn, and pre- 
served in the Cae Cyriog MS., is as follows : — 

Gutyn Owain ab Huw ab Owain ab lorwerth ab Hwfa 
Llwyd ab Gruflfydd ab Adda ab Tegwared ab lorwerth 
ab Trahaiarn ab Cynddelw ab Rhirid ab Pod ab Pasgen 
ab Helig ab Glanawg ab Gwgan Gleddyfrudd, son of 

^ Arch, Camb.y 3rd Series, vol. ix, p. 148. 

2 David, Abbot of Valle Crucis, was the son of leuan ab lorwerth 
ab leuan BaJadr ab Y Cethin ab leuan ab lorwerth Fawr ab lorwerth 
ab Heilin ab Madog ab David ab Howel ab Meurig, who had half of 
the lordship of Trevor in Nanheudwy, and fourth son of Tudor ab 
Rhys Sais, Lord of Chirk and Nanheudwy (ffarl. MS. 4181). He 
was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph, April 26th, in 1500. He died 
in 1503, as is supposed, at the Abbey, and was probably buried there ; 
where it is presumed he lived, on account of having no episcopal 
palace left standing in his diocese, since it was destroyed in the wars 
of Owain Glyndwr (Willis' Survey of St. Asaph), 

VOL. in. 25 



386 HISTORY OP POWYS FADOO. 

Caradog Freichfras, King of Fferlis and Brycheiniog, and 
one of the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table, who 
bore sable, a chevron inter three spear's heads argent, the 
points imbrued proper. 

According to the books of Thomas ab leuan, the 
above Hwfa Llwyd was the son of GruflFydd Goch ab 
David ab Tegwared. 

David ab Teg-=T=Taiigfwy8tl, d. of Mado^ ab Cyfnerth ab Cuhelyn ab Lly- 
wared. warch ab Llywarch Ooch ab Llywarch Holbwrch, Lord 

I of- - - 



Meiiadog. Vert, a stag trippant argent, attired or. 



Omffydd Ooch 



I I I 

Hwfa =r=Gwenllian, d. of lorwcrth ab Meilir Madog Tadar Gruffydd. 

Llwyd. Ghoch ab Meilir ab Rhys Gt>ch ab Llwyd. Llwyd. Goch. 

Bhys Gethin, Lord of Llanymddy- 

fri. Argent, a lion rampant sable 

armed^luigaed and crowned gules. 



Iorwerth.=T= Agnes, dan. of Gruffydd ab Cadwgan ab Meilir Eyton, X^rd of 
I Eyton, Erlys, and Bwras. Ermine, a lion rampant azure. 

Ow ain ab Iorwerth.=f=Gwenllian, d. of Gruffydd ab Einion Bach. 

Haw ab Owain. =;=..., d. of Richard ab...of Rhiwabon, and sister David ab=p 

of John ab Richard, Abbot of Valle Crucis Owain. 
I Abbey. ^ 



I . . .1 ... I I . _. . I 



David ab Gruffydd ab Huw ab Owain, 
Huw ab alias Guttyn Owain, 06. ..., 
Owain. and was buried at Strata 
Florida Abbey, 14... 



Angharad,ux. Lly welyn, Gwenllian, 
2nd son of Gruffydd ab ux. Howel 
Rhys ab Gruffydd ab f^chanab 
Madog Llwyd of Bryn Howel of 
Gunallt. Croes Os- 

wald. 



Goronwy* ab David=p 



J, 



Tudor ab Goronwy. 

It is uncertain when Guttyn Owain died, but we find 
that " the first step" taken by the Earl of Richmond 
after his accession to the throne in 1485 was a com- 
mission issued to the Abbot of Llanegwestl, or Valle 
Crucis, Dr. Owain Pool, Canon of Hereford, and John 
King, Herald-at- Arms, " to make inquisition concerning 
Owain Tudor", his grandfather. Dr. Powel, in his His- 
torie of Cambria, printed in 1584, mentions this com- 

1 Uarl MS, 1972. 



FULKE FITZ WARREN OF WHITTINGTON. 387 

mission, and states ** that the commissioners, coming 
into Wales, travelled in that matter, and used the helps 
of Sir John Leiat, a priest, Guttyn Owain Bardh, and 
Gruffydd ab Llywelyn ab leuan Fychan of Llanerch in 
Dyffryn Clwyd, and others, in search of the Brytish or 
Welsh bookes of petigrees, out of which they drew his 
perfect genealogie".^ 



CHARTER ROLL, 2 EDW. I, No. 39 (1274). 

P' ffulcone JiUo Warine, 

R* Archiepis*^ etc. sart'm. Sciatis nos concessisse at hac carta 
n'r'a confirmasse d'i et fr n'ro ffulconi fil' Warini q'd ip*e et 
h^edes sui imp'petuu' h'eant lib'am Warenna' in om'ib* d'nicis 
tMs suis de "Wytinton jux* Oswaldestr* dum t*n t'reille no* sint 
infra metas foreste n're. Ita' q'd nuUus intret t'ras illas ad 
fugand* in eis u*r ad aliquid capiend' quod ad Warrenna' 
p^tineat sine licentia ot voluntate ip*ius fulcon' v*l h'edum 
suor' sup' forisf c^uram nVam decern librar*. Q*re volum' et 
firmit' p*cipim* p' nob' et h'edibus q'd p'd'cus fulco et h'des sui 
imp'petuu' h'eant lib'am warenna' in om*ib' d'nicis t'ris suis 
pMcis. Dum tamen etc. Ita* q'd, etc. sicut p'd'c'm est. 
Hiis testib* Edm' fre' n're, Joh' de Warrenn' Com' Suff. 
Henr' de Lacy Com Line', Rob'o de Brus Com' de Kanck, 
Ric'o de Brus, Rob'o fil' Joh'is, Petro de Chaumpnent et aliis. 
Dat' p' manu' n'ram apud Ab' conway in Suandon xxvj die 
Marc*. 



FULK FITZ WARREN OF WHITTINGTON. 

Among the Records of ye Court of Chancery in the Tower of 
London, that is to say, the Inquisitiones post mortem of 
the 23 Edw. Ill, Part 1, No. 39, is thus contained. 
Ao. 1349. 

Edward by the Grace of God King of England and Prance 
and Lord of Ireland, To his beloved John de Swinnerton his 
Escheator in ye county of Salop Greeting Inasmuch as Fulk 
fitz Warren held of Us in Capite on the day of his death as we 
are informed, We command you that without fail you take 
into our hands all the lands and tenements of which the said 

1 Leuys Bwnn, vol. i, xiv. 

25 2 



388 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Fulk was seised in his demesne of as of fee of yonr Bali wick 
on the day on which he died and cause the same to be safely 
kept untill We shall thereupon otherwise command. And by 
the oath of good and lawfull men of your Baliwick by whom 
the truth of the matter may be better known you diligently 
enquire how much lands the said Fulk held of Us in Capite as 
well as in demesne as in Service in your Baliwick on the day 
on which he died and how much of others and by what Service 
and how much those lands are worth yearly in all issues, and 
on what day the said Fulk died and who is next heir and of 
what age. And the Inquisition thereupon distinctly and 
openly made, without Delay you send to Us under your Seal 
and the Seals of those by whom the same shall be made and 
this Writ. Witness myself at Westminster the 20th day of 
August in the year of our reign of England the 23 and of our 
Reign of France the tenth. 

The Marches op Wales. 

An Inquisition taken before John Swynnerton Eschaetor of 
the Lord the King in the County of Salop and the marches of 
Wales adjacent at Shrewsbury on Friday next after the Feast 
of St. Michael, in the 23rd year of the reign of King Edward 
the third after the Conquest that is to say according to the 
tenor of the Writ of the said Lord the King to this Inquisition 
served, by the oath of Madoc ap Zerward David ap Kenewrick, 
Howell ap David, Madoc ap David ap Howell Payn ap Ithel 
levan ap Ada, lerwerth Vauchan, levan ap Ithell levan 
Meiller, Madoc ap David Payn ap lerworth and Howell ap 
Heillez. Who say upon their Oath that Fulk fitz Warryn held 
in his demesne as of Fee on the day on which he died the 
Manor of Whytynton with the Appurt's in the Marches of 
Wales aforesaid of the Lord the King in Capite by service of 
one Knights fee. In which Manor there is a certain Castle 
which is worth nothing yearly beyond Reprises, because it 
wants every year for repairing of the Houses and Walls there 
40s. And there is a certain Garden which is worth yearly 6d. 
And there is a certain Dovehouse which is worth yearly 12d, 
And there is there two Water Mills which used to bo worth 
yearly 40s. and now are worth only 20s. by reason of the 
Pestilence, because the tenants are dead in the present pesti- 
lence. And there is two Ponds, the fisheiy thereof is worth 
yearly 2s. And there is a certain Wood, the underwood 
whereof is worth yearly 2s. and the Pasture thereof is common. 
And there is a certain Park in which there is no underwood 
and the Pasture thereof is worth nothing yearly beyond the 



LLANERCH BANNA. 



389 



sustentation of the wild beast there. And there is a certain 
Chase which the Jurors know not how to extend because 
there is no wood and Pasture there but in Common. And 
there is there two Carucates of land which used to be worth 
yearly 20«. and not more because the land could not be 
ploughed by reason of the Stones and now is worth only lO*. 
because no one would lease the same. And there is five Acres 
of Meadow which are worth yearly 20«. and they were mowed 
and taken away in the life of the said Fulk^ there used to be 
rent of Assize of free (tenants) there 60«. and it was paid 
at the terms at the Birth of our Lord and the nativity of 
S't John the Baptist in equal Portions, and now there is only 
20s. at the terms aforesaid and this by reason of the Pestilence. 
The Pleas and Perquisites of Courts there used to be worth 
nearly 40s. and now they are worth only ISs, 4rf. Also they 
say that the said Fulk died on Wednesday before the feast of 
the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary last past. And they 
say that Fulk son of y*e said Fulk is the next Heir of the said 
Fulk and was of the age of 9 years at the feast of S^t James 
the Apostle last Past. In Testimony whereof the said Jurors 
to this Inquisition have put their Hands and Seals. 




LLANERCH BANNA. 
Earl MS. 4181. 

Goronwy, Lord of part of Whittington, Llanerch 
Banna, and Estwick, the second son of Tudor ab Rhys 
Sais, gave the lordship of Llanerch Banna to his third 
son, 

lonas ab Goronwy of Penley (Llwyth Llanerch Banna) 



390 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Lord of Llanerch Banna, bore azure, three boars passant 
in pale argenU tusked and unguled or. He married 
Gwladys, daughter of Jenkin ab Adam Herbert, Lord of 
Gwern Ddu, and Gwenllian, his wife, daughter of Sir 
Aaron ab Khys ab Bledri, Knight of the Sepulchre, by 
whom he had issue five sous, 

I. Ynyr ab lonas, of whom presently. 

II. David ab lonas. 
HI. Gwilym ab lonas. 

IV. Rhirid ab lonas, the father of David, the father of 
Tudor, the father of Goronwy, who married Margaret, 
daughter of Llywelyn Ddu of Abertanad, ab Gruffydd 
ab lorwerth Foel. 

V. Goronwy ab lonas. 

VL Lly w-elyn ab lonas, the father of David, the father 
of Llywelyn, the father of leuan Llwyd, whose only 
daughter and heiress, Eliw, married Gruffydd ab Madog 
ab Einion, ancestor of the Bromfields of Bryn y Wiwer 
in Rhiwabon. 

Ynyr ab lonas of Penley, in the parish of Ellesmere, 
Lord of Llanerch Banna, married Eleanor, daughter of 
Lison ab leuan of Neath, by whom he had issue three sons, 

I. Gruffydd ab Ynyr, of whom presently. 

II. Rhirid ab Ynyr of Penley (see p. 391). 

III. Ithel ab Ynyr, who was the father of Howel, the 
father of David, the father of Howel ab David, who 
married Myfanwy, daughter of Maredydd ab Robert ab 
Howel of Cynllaith, by whom he had a son, Rhys ab 
Howel, who married Eva, daughter of Deio ab lorwerth 
ab leuan Dlysswr. 

Gruffydd ab Ynyr ab lonas, the eldest son, married, 
and had issue four sons, 1, Rhirid, of whom presently ; 
2, Minro Fychan ; 3, David ab Gruffydd ; and 4, lor- 
werth G^ch. 

Rhirid ab Gruffydd married, and had issue two sons, 

II. Tudor ab Rhirid, whose only daughter and heiress, 
Tanglwyst, married lorwerth Foel Ddu. 

II. David ab Rhirid, who married Gwenhwyfar, 
daughter of Ednyfed ab lorwerth ab Einion Goch, Lord 



LLANERCH BANNA. 391 

of Sonlli, by whom he had issue four sons, 1, Tudor ab 
David ; 2, Ednyfed ; 3, Rhirid Llwyd ; and 4, Cynwrig, 
and one daughter, Gwenhwyfar. 




LLANERCH BANNA.— PENLEY. 
Earl MS. 4181. 

Rhirid of Penley, the second son of Ynyr ab lonas of 
Penley, Lord of Llancrch Banna, was slain in a sea-fight 
at the relief of Rochelle, 46 Edw. Ill, 1373. He mar- 
ried Jane, daughter of Tudor ab Goronwy ab Ednyfed 
Fychan, ancestor of the Royal House of Tudor, by whom 
he had issue three sons, 

I. David Goch, ancestor of Sir Matthew Goch, Knt. 
(see p. 396). 

II. Tudor ab Rhirid of Penley, who married . . . 
daughter of Ithel Anwyl ab Bleddyn, a younger son of 
Ithel Llwyd ab Ithel Gam, Lord of Mostyn, son of 
Maredydd ab Uchdryd ab Edwyn ab Goronwy, Prince 
of Tegeingl. Ithel Anwyl lived at Ewlo Castle in 
MerflTordd, and was one of the Captains of Tegeingl to 
keep the English from invading the country. He bore, 
party per pale or and gules, two lions rampant addorsed 
counterchanged, a sword pointed downwards argent, the 
hilt or, between them. By this lady, Tudor had an only 
daughter and heiress, Margaret, who married David ab 



j92 history of PDwyg fadoo. 

Madog ab Rhirid ab Cadwgan ab Owain Fychan, an- 
cestor of the Dymocks of Penley Hall. 

III. David ab Rhirid, who married Mali, daughter of 
Ednyfcd ab lorwerth ab Einion Goch, Lord of Soiilli 
and Eyton Uchaf {ermine, a lion rampant sable), by 
whom he had two daughters, co-heiresses, 

I. Margaret, ux. Philip Phichdan, whose only daughter 
and heiress, Alice, married Madog Maelor ab Thomas, 
fourth son of Owain ab Bleddyn ab Rhys Sais, aid 
ancestor of the Pennants of Downing and Penrhfn 
Castle. 

II. Annesta, ux. Philip Hanmcr ab Sir John Upton of 
Hanmer, Knt. 




LLANERCH BANNA.— DTMOCK OP PENLEY. 
Earl. MS. i\8l. 



David kb Uadog.^Mergaret, d. and co-Ueirega of Tudor ab Rhirid ab Tnyr 
I ab lonlw ot Peuley in Llanerch Buina. Amre, thnia 
I boars passant in pale argent, tusked and ung;aled or. 

David Djmock=i=Maivaret, d of David Foel of Uaumer, ab Philip Hanmer 
oliai Dai ab Ma- J of Hanmer ab Sir John Upton of Hanmer, Conatahle of 
dog of PeQley. I Caernarvon Castle, lent)). Edward I. ^rgintl, tiro liona 
I passant gardont atart. 

leuan Dymock o^Uenei, d. of Madof; ab Llyweljn of Halohdyn, the elde«t 
Pezdey. Eon of Ednjrfed Oam of Llya Penewem. Party per 



bend sinister ermine and enninti, a lion rampant m 



LLANERCH BANNA. 393 



a I h 



Thomas Dy-=f Margaret, d. and co- David Djmock, living=FCadwen, d. of 

heir of Qruffydd ab 17 Henry VI. Howel ab 



mock of Pen- 
ley, and of 
Willington, 
jure itxoria. 



Morgan Goch of Wil- | Ithel. 

lington, 6th son of | | 
aruffydd of Maelor Uywelyn Dymock, Robert Dy- 
Saesneg, ab lorwerth Chaplain. 13 Henry mock, 29 Henry 
FoeL VII. VI. 

Thomas Dymock of Pen-=f=Margaret, d. of Sir Bandle Brereton of Malpas, in 
ley and WilUngton. V Cheshire, Knt. Argent, two bars $dbU. 



The above-named Thomas Dymock had issue by Mar- 
garet Brereton, his wife, besides two daughters, Mary, 
ux. Jenkin Hanmer of Ffens, ab Gruffydd Fychan 
Hanmer ab Edward Hanmer of Y Ffens, fourth son of 
Sir Jenkin Hanmer of Hanmer, Knt., and Alice, ux. 
Humphrey Hanmer, nine sons, 

I. Randal Dymock, of whom presently. 

II. Thomas Dymock of Halchdyn, who married Janet, 
sister and heir of John ab Owain ab Koger Puleston, 
by whom he had issue four sons, 1, John Dymock, 
oh. s. p. ; 2, Thomas Dymock, 1595, who married. Alice, 
daughter of John Broughton, and had issue a son 
Thomas ; 3, William Dymock, ob. s. p. ; 4, Richard 
Dymock ; and three daughters, 1, Margaret, ux. Pyers 
Griffith of Warwickshire ; 2, Christian, ux. John Gee of 
Warwickshire; and 3, Elizabeth, ux. Robert Puleston 
of Wrexham. 

III. Humphrey Dymock, who married a daughter of 
the Lord Hussey, by whom he had issue, besides two 
daughters, Mari and Catherine, ux. Thomas Tresso, three 
sons, 1, Francis Dymock, who, by Margaret, his wife, 
daughter and heir of . . . had issue a son, George, 
and a daughter ; 2, Harri ; and 3, Thomas Dymock. 

IV. Jenkyn Dymock, the father of William Dymock. 

V. Urien ; vi. Edmund ; vii. Charles ; viil. Edward ; 
and IX. Philip. 

Randal Dymock of Penley and WilUngton married 
Elizabeth, daughter of GruflFydd Hanmer of the Ffens, 
ab Edward Hanmer of the Ffens, ab Sir Jenkin Hanmer, 
Knt, ab Sir David Hanmer of Hanmer, Knt., Chief 



394 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Justice of England in 1383 {argent, two lions passant 
gardant azure)^ by whom he had issue, besides four 
daughters, 1, Elizabeth, ux. John Yonge of Croxton ; 
2, Alice, ux. Thomas ab Owain of Willington; 3, Mar- 
garet, ux. Richard Gillam of Coventeri; and 4, Elen, 
ux. John Wynn Lake, two sons, 

I. Edward Dymock, of whom presently. 

II. Humphrey Dymock, who married Elen, daughter 
and heir of William Davison ab Jenkin ab David ab 
Ednyfed ab Goronwy ab Owain of Penlees, by whom he 
had issue one son, Randal, who died s. p., and four 
daughters, 1, Elizabeth, ux. John Wynn Roberts of 
Hafod y Bwch ; 2, Anne, ux., first, Thomas Bird of Est- 
wick, secondly, ux. Robert Tunbridge ; 3, Eleanor, ux., 
first, Edward Broughton of Marchwiail, in the manor of 
Rhiwabon, secondly, ux. Thomas Sherer ; and 4, Ca- 
therine, who married, first, John Lutley, and, secondly, 
William Knight of Chester. 

Edward Dymock of Penley and Willington married 
four times. His first wife was Catherine, daughter of 
Richard Conwy, by whom he had issue two sons, Humph- 
rey and Randal, who both died s. p., and five daughters, 
1, Elen, ux., first, Pyers Salusbury, secondly, Hyw Gwyn 
ab Humphrey ; 2, Jane,ux. Richard ab David ab Maredydd 
of Pentref Sianet ; 3, Catherine, ux. George Wynn of 
Crocs Oswald ; 4, Rose ; and 5, Margaret, ux. William 
ab Thomas Bedo. 

His second wife was Mawdlin, daughter of Roger 
Puleston, by whom he had issue two sons, 1, William, of 
whom presently ; and 2, Edward Dymock ; and two 
daughters, 1, Eleanor, ux. Sir William Hanmer of Ffens, 
Knt., who was knighted 23rd July 1603, and died in 
1621 ; and 2, Dorotliy, who married, first, Robert Wynn 
of Conwy, and secondly. Sir William Williams of Vaenol, 
CO. Caernarvon, Bart. 

His third wife was Catherine, daughter of William 
Mostyn, by whom he had no issue. 

His fourth wife was Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
Kynaston, by whom he had issue a son, Thomas, and a 
daughter, Anne. 



LLAi^ERCH BANNA. 395 

William Dymock of Penley and Willington, married 
Margaret, daughter of William Hanmer of Ffens, by 
whom he had issue two sons, 1, Humphrey Dymock, 
who married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer of 
Hanmer, Knt, and Catherine, his wife, daughter of 
Thomas Mostyn of Mostyn, Esq. He died in 1650, and 
was the father of nine children, who all died s. p. ; 
2, Edward Dymock, of whom presently; and four 
daughters, 1, Magdalene, ux. William Lloyd of Penley ; 
2, Elizabeth, ux. Lapthorn Clarke ; 3, Mary ; and 4, 
Elen, ux Touchet of .... in co. Chester. 

Edward Dymock of Penley succeeded his brother, and 
married Mary, daughter of John Davenport, and had 
issue a son and heir, 

Edward Dymock of Penley, who died in 1705, and 
was buried at Hanmer, married Mary, daughter of 
David Jones of Oakenholt, and had, besides a daughter, 
Elizabeth, ux. Edward Morral of P14s lolyn, three sons, 

I. Edward Dymock of Penley died unmarried, and 
left the Penley estate to his great nephew. 

II. William Dymoke, father of John Dymock, who by 
Elizabeth, his wife, was the father of Edward Dymock, 
the inheritor of Penley. 

III. John Dymock, oh. s.p. 

Edward Dymock of Penley, who was bom in 1 730, 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Brown, by 
whom he had issue three sons, 1, Edward, his successor ; 
2, John ; and 3, William. 

Edward Dymock of Penley, born in 1752. He mar- 
ried, 8th January 1774, Mary, daughter of Edward 
Edwards of Pentref Heilin, and, dying in ]784, left, 
besides four daughters, 1, Christian ; 2, Elizabeth ; 3, 
Frances ; and 4, Anne ; a son and heir, 

Edward Dymock of Penley Hall and of Ellesmere, 
J.P. and D.L., born 16th December 1774, married in 
1804 Mary, daughter of John Jones of Coed y Glyn in 
Maelor Gymraeg, by whom he had issue, besides a 
daughter, Mary Anne, who married in 1825 Robert 
Darwin Vaughton of Whitchurch, four sons. 



396 HISTORY OF FOWYS FADOG. 

I. Edward Humphrey, born 1809. 

II. John, born in 1816. 

III. Robert Myddleton, born in 1817. 

IV. Thomas Biddulph, born in 1828. 




GOCH OF MAELOE, 

Afterwards of the Forest of Dean. 

Earl. MS. 4181. 

David Goch of Maelor, the eldest son of Rhirid ab 
Ynyr of Penley, married Catherine, daughter of Howel 
ab David, lineally descended from Owain Gwynedd, 
King of North Wales, by whom he had issue a son and 
heir, 

Sir Matthew Goch of Maelor, Knight, who was born 
there in 1386 (10 Richard II), a most valiant and 
renowned soldier, Captain to King Henry V and King 
Henry VI, Governor of Tanceaux, Le Hermitage, Tanque- 
ville, and Liseaux. It appears, from a poem by Guto r 
Glyn, that he was at one time a prisoner in France. 
Having obtained his release, he returned to Maelor. In 
1439, however, he appears to have settled in the Forest 
of Dean in Gloucestershire. Being at last sent by the 
Lord Scales to assist the Lord Mayor and the Londoners 
against that arch-rebel. Jack Cade, he was slain upon 
London Bridge, valiantly fighting in defence of the 



MAELOR SAESNEG. 397 

King and City, July the 4th, 1450, in the sixty-fourth 
year of his age, and 29th Henry VI. 

He married Margaret, daughter (by Margaret, his wife, 
daughter of Sir Bryan de Harley, Knight, Lord of 
Brampton Bryan, in the county of Hereford, the ances- 
tor of the Harleys, Earls of Oxford) of Rhys Moythe, 
Lord of Castell Edwin, ab Rhys Moythe or Mowdde ab 
David Mowdde, ab David ab Gruffydd Foel, Lord of 
Castell Edwin, son of Ifor ab Cadifor ab Gwaethfoed, 
Lord of Ceredigion (o?*, a lion rampant regardant sable)^ 
by whom he had issue three sons, 1, GeoflFrey Goch ; 
2, Matthew Goch ; and 3, David Goch ; and a daughter, 
Margaret. 

GeoflFrey Goch of the Forest of Dean was born when 
his father was fifty-three years of age, and was the first 
of this family that was born in England. He was born 
May 17th, 1439, 18 Henry VI, and aged eleven years 
at the death of his father. He married Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter and sole heir of Avery Traherne, Esq., ab William 
Traherne ab John ab Traherne ab Suan ab Suich, who 
bore, 1, argent, a griflfon rampant sable, his fore legs, 
wings, and beak or, armed gules ; 2, argent, a lion ram- 
pant gules, crowned sable ; 3, gules, three towers triple 
turreted or; 4, Rhys Goch; 5, Cacrlleon ; 6, vert, a 
chev. inter wolves' heads erased argent. Her mother 
was Maud, daughter of Thomas ab Gwilym ab Jenkin 
of Gwerndu. Elizabeth died in 1493, and Geoffrey 
followed her, November 28th, 1512, 4 Henry VIH, 
aged seventy-three, leaving issue a son and heir, 

John Goch, who married Jane, daughter and heir of 
James Bridges, Esq., and died July 23rd, 1538, aged 
sixty-eight, leaving issue a son and heir, 

Robert Goch, who married, first, Margaret, daughter 
of Sir Walter Mantell of Heyford in Northamptonshire, 
Knight. She died July 24th, 1540, leaving issue a son 
and heir, Barnaby Goch. Robert married, secondly, 
Helen Gadbury, by whom he had issue a second son, 
Robert Goch, and at his death, which occurred May 5th, 
1557, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, he was suc- 
ceeded by his eldest son, 



398 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Barnaby Goch, who married Mary, daughter and co- 
heir of Thomas Darell of Scotney Castle in Sussex, 
by Mary, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas 
Roydon of Fortune House, in Peckham in Kent {azure^ 
a lion rampant or, crowned argent, the shoulder charged 
with a cinquefoil, armed and langued gules), by whom he 
had six sons, 1, Matthew Goch; 2, Thomas Goch; 

3, Barnaby Goch, Doctor of Canon and Civil Law ; 

4, William, oh. s. p. ; 5, Henry Goch, Fellow of Trinity 
College, Cambridge ; and 6, Robert Goch, Fellow of All 
Souls' College, Oxford. Of the daughters, Mary, the 
eldest, was the first Lady Abbess of the Poor Clares in 
Gravelines. 

Matthew Goch of Alvingham married Alice, third 
daughter of Thomas Coney of Basingthorpe, in Lincoln- 
shire, and Alice, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh 
of Stone Leigh in Warwickshire, Knt., (barry of eight, 
argent and azure, on a bend between two cotises or, 
three tortoises), by whom he had issue eight sons, of 
whom the eldest, Barnaby Goch, was bom in 1591, and 
seven daughters. 

The crest of this family is an arm erected in armour, 
holding up a dragon's head erased vert. Motto, " Post 
Tristia Leta''. 



A POEM BY GTJTO'R GLTNi IN PRAISE OP SIR 

MATTHEW GOCH, KNT. 

Teanslated by Howel W. Lloyd, Esq., M.A. 

When in our day is known to fame, 
In Normandy, a hero's name, 
To Matthew will the boast belong, 
Yclep'd " The Red", by wine made strong, 
Of valiant captains all the soni, 
Chiefest of all the muster-roll. 
O'er all the youth, an eagle he, 
Rolando's twin in chivalry, 

^ Guto' Glyn was a native of the comot of Nanheudwy. 



MAELOR SAE3NEG. 399 

Shows Arthur^s front to those of France, 
Fells countless foes with crinisonM lance. 
Red Matthew^s lance overthrows a host. 
He charges — and the battle ^s lost. 
Lo, Matthew here^ and England all 
Rushes to Matthew^s rousing call. 
From childhood hath ho learnt to bear 
The bell in battle with his spear. 
His valour stood in sooth confest, 
When on Rhone's bank, his lance in rest. 
Like some stone ball from gun propelled, 
A fortes fierce opposition quellM. 
Gallant the feat— he led his band 
A dance thro' Maine^s and Anjou^s land, 
By all the saints ! a glorious sight, 
Rolando tearing through the fight. 
Their gift to us in him we hail 
The shepherd^ of men clad in mail. 
Of purpose pure — the praise is rare — 
This man of force from Maelor fair. 
The branch of some widespreading tree 
Hath just his stately dignity. 
No vantage 'scapes his ken, a wall 
Steel-proof is Matthew, ne^er to fall. 
The men by his command controU'd 
For daring deeds as bulls are bold. 
Like mangonels his warrior bands 
Range Maine^s and Anjou's ravaged lands. 
Tho' pitiless their onward pace, 
Like flowers of war, they tread with grace. 
The highways and the forests clear 
With hue and cry, like hunt of deer. 
For Matthew's guerdon, Mary ! give 
Long Matthew and his men to live. 
That he was ta'en, when ^twas heard tell. 
Fear on the afflicted minstrels fell ; 
Cities, while he a captive lay, 
For news frequented were each day ; 
Keen to the Cymru is the blow, 
Tears for their kinsman freely flow, 
For him let not their fright increase, 
For Matthew's bondage soon will cease. 



1 Cf. the Homeric " Uoificva \awv'\—lL \V. Ll. 



400 HISTORY OP P0WY8 FADOG. 

The cost contributed conclude 

His shortened term of solitude. 

Bring all your gifts — a double grief 

At double cost deserves relief. 

His strength and stature none gainsay. 

The Dauphin's people we must pay ; 

Tis not that Matthew loves the gold, 

Tho' greed be rifo, and worldlings cold ; 

The coin that buys from prison-cell 

Our kin, doth other hoard excel ; 

He is not emulous of strife, 

Nor yet for office loves his life. 

Not one is he to barter fame, 

Or for Job's wealth belie his name ; 

The world on praise sets mighty store, 

Her Melwas^ still is Maelor's lore. 

To the Cymraeg this Cymro good 

Be honoured by proud Cymru's brood : 

Let England his renown enhance, 

And — where he frets for freedom — France ! 

H. W. Ll. 



^ /.^., to Maelor, Matthew in glory is equal to Melwas. A stranpje 
comparison, as tlie Melwas of Cymric legendary lore eloped with 
Cfwenhwyfar, Arthur's queen, whose suite ho surprised by start injr up 
arrayed in leaves like a " Jack in the Green'*, as she went a-Maying. 
But the temptation involved in the alliteration of Maelor and Melwas 
bore down the judgment of our bard.— H. W. Ll. 



I'ENTBEF MADOO. 




EYTON OF PENTREF MADOG IN DUDLYSTON. 



C„e Oyriog MS.; Harl MS. 4181; Leu 



vol. i, p. 324. 



Sir Koger cle Powys, Lord of Whittington and Knight 
of Rlitxles, who Ijorc vert a boar or, settled this estate 
and the manor of Estwiek upon his fourth son, Goronwy, 
Lord of Estwiek, who was the father of Llyweiyn, the 
father of Llyweiyn Fychan, who had two sons, Llyweiyn 
Foel of Estwiek, ancestor of the Estwicks of Estwiek, 
and Gruffydd ab Llyweiyn, who had Pentref Madog. 
Gruffydd married Elen, daughter of Ednyfed Llwyd ab 
lorwerth Fychan ab lorwerth ab Awr, ancestor of the 
Lloyds of Plas Madog, by whom he was father of Lly- 
weiyn, the father of Grnffudd ab Llyweiyn, who had an 
only daughter, Eva, heiress of Pentref Madog, who 
married David Bird or Bride Hen of Estwiek. 

David Bird ii^n,jure nxoris of Pentref Madog, was 
the son of leuan ab David of Estwiek, ab Icuan ah 



402 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn {ermine, a lion 
rampant sable, arraed and langued gules). By his wife, 
Eva, he had a son and heir, 

Philip Bird of Pentref Madog, who married Alice, 
daughter of John ab Richard ab Madog ab Llywelyn of 
Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, by whom he had three 
daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Margaret, heiress of Pentref Madog, who married 
James Eyton of Dudlcston. 

2. Mawd, ux. David Kynaston of Groicot. 

3. Anne, ux. Edward Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr 
H6b. 

James Eyton, jure uxoris of Pentref Madog, was the 
son and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress 
of Ovvain, by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Einion Fychan, ab GruflFydd ab Owain ab Howel ab 
Madog of Dudlyston, descended from Madog, Lord of 
Yr Hendwr in Edeyrnion, who bore argent, on a chevron 
gules, three fleurs-de-lys or) of John Eyton of Dudlyston, 
youngest son'of William Eyton of Eyton Isaf {ermine, a 
lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules). 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, had issue by his 
wife Margaret a son and heir, 

William Eyton of Pentref Madog, who was living in 
1592, and married Dorothy, daughter of James Eyton of 
Eyton {ermine, a lion rampant azure), by whom he had 
issue a son and heir, 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, who died 9th Feb- 
ruary 1630, and was buried at Dudlyston, married 
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, 
in M6n, Knt, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Sir Robert Eyton of Pentref Madog, Knt. This gen- 
tleman was taken prisoner, with Sir Gerard Eyton of 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, and Mr. Edisbury of Erddig, at 
Eyton, by the Parliament troops under Colonel Mytton 
in 1643. He married Joyce, daughter and heiress of 
Francis Lloyd of Hardwick, by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Robert Eyton ; 2, James ; and 3, Gruflfydd 
Eyton ; and two daughters, Penelope and Arabella. 



PBNTEEF MOBGAN. 




WYNN OF PENTREF MORGAN. 
Add. MS. 9865. 



David ELbIor-^Mar|Taret,d. of Mndoi; Goch ab Madof; at) Cpiwrig ab Heilin 
worth. I ab Trahaiarn ab Iddon ab Rhya Saia. * Argent, a chsTron 
inter three boar's heads coaped gtilei, tasked or, and laa- 
I ^ed omire. 



MadoK, jure ^Isabel, d. and heiress of David ab RinioD ab Ednyrsd Ddn 
turrit of ab Torwertb ab Ooronny Ddu ab Morgan of Pentref Moi- 

Peutref gaa, ab Iddon ab Uhys Sais. Argent, a oherron inter thiea 

Hortcaa, | boar's heads couped gvlii. tuskedi or, and languid atnrt. 

DaiidabMa-^Morgarat, d. of David ab Llyweljn John sb Uadog, ancoa- 
dog of Pen- ab Horedydd Fjchon. tor of the Lloyds of 

tre f Morgan. | EbnalL 



Thomas Wynn of Pentref Horgan.^ 



Morgan Wyon of Tentref Uorgon. •> Lettiee. d. of ... 



402 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn (erwiine, a lion 
rampant sable, armed and langued gules). By his wife, 
Eva, he had a son and heir, 

Philip Bird of Pentrcf Madog, who married Alice, 
daughter of John ab Richard ab Madog ab Llywelyn of 
Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, by whom he had three 
daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Margaret, heiress of Pentref Madog, who married 
James Eyton of Dudleston. 

2. Mawd, ux. David Kynaston of Groicot. 

3. Anne, ux. Edward Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr 
H6b. 

James Eyton, yt/?'e uxoris of Pentref Madog, was the 
son and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress 
of Owain, by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Einion Fychan, ab Gruflfydd ab Owain ab Howel ab 
Madog of Dudlyston, descended from Madog, Lord of 
Yr Hendwr in Edeyrnion, who bore argent, on a chevron 
gules, three fleurs-de-lys or) of John Eyton of Dudlyston, 
youngest son'of William Eyton of Eyton Isaf {ermine, a 
lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules). 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, had issue by his 
wife Margaret a son and heir, 

William Eyton of Pentref Madog, who was living in 
1592, and married Dorothy, daughter of James Eyton of 
Eyton {ermine, a lion rampant azure), by whom he had 
issue a son and heir, 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, who died 9th Feb- 
ruary 1630, and was buried at Dudlyston, married 
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, 
in M6n, Knt, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Sir Robert Eyton of Pentref Madog, Knt. This gen- 
tleman was taken prisoner, with Sir Gerard Eyton of 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, and Mr. Edisbury of Erddig, at 
Eyton, by the Parliament troops under Colonel Mytton 
in 1643. He married Joyce, daughter and heiress of 
Francis Lloyd of Hardwick, by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Robert Eyton ; 2, James ; and 3, Gruflfydd 
Eyton ; and two daughters, Penelope and Arabella. 



PENTREF MORGAN. 




WYNN OP PENTREF MORGAN. 
Add. MS. 9865. 



David ab lor-^Margarct. d. of Madoif Oocli ab Mado); bb Cynwrig ab Heilin 
wertb. 1 ab Trabaiarn ab Idd(>n ab Rhys Saia. ~ AigerU, a chevron 
I inter three boar's heads couped gulsM, ttuked or, Uld lui- 
^! gued "««>■•■ 

Oruf^dd Bb=FMargaret, d. of T Badi ab Howel ab leaan Fychan ab leoui 
David. ) " ■' - -'••-' -^-i"- n ^ .. J ' 



Uadof;, jure ^leabel, d. and beirsBB of David ab Einion ab . 

'of ab lorwerth ab Qoronwy Ddii ab Morgan of 

et gan, ab Iddon ab Rbjs Sais, Aratnt, a cbevr' 

in. I boar'a heads couped gvlei. tuBked or, and lang 



ab Ednyvad Ddn 

1 of Pentrof Mor- 

cbevron inter threa 

laugoed aturt. 



Peatref 
Honcan. 

David abMa-^Hargaret, d. of David ab LlynelTii Joliii ab Madog, anM*- 
dog of Pen- ab Haredjdd Fjcban. tor of the Lloyda of 

tre f Morgan. | Ebnall. 



Morgan Wynn of PontrefHorgan.^Lettioe.d. of... 



402 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn {ermine, a lion 
rampant sable, arraed and langued gules). By his wife, 
Eva, he had a son and heir, 

Philip Bird of Pcntrcf Madog, who married Alice, 
daughter of John ab Richard ab Madog ab Llywelyn of 
Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, by whom he had three 
daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Margaret, heiress of Pentref Madog, who married 
James Eyton of Dudleston. 

2. Mawd, ux. David Kynaston of Groicot. 

3. Anne, ux. Edward Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr 
HAb. 

James Eyton, jui^e uxoris of Pentref Madog, was the 
son and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress 
of Owain, by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Einion Fychan, ab GruflFydd ab Owain ab Howel ab 
Madog of Dudlyston, descended from Madog, Lord of 
Yr Hendwr in Edeyrnion, who bore argent, on a chevron 
gules, three fleurs-de-lys or) of John Eyton of Dudlyston, 
youngest son'of William Eyton of Eyton Isaf {ermine^ a 
lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules). 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, had issue by his 
wife Margaret a son and heir, 

William Eyton of Pentref Madog, who was living in 
1592, and married Dorothy, daughter of James Eyton of 
Eyton {ermine, a lion rampant azure), by whom he had 
issue a son and heir, 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, who died 9th Feb- 
ruary 1630, and was buried at Dudlyston, married 
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, 
in M6n, Knt, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Sir Robert Eyton of Pentref Madog, Knt. This gen- 
tleman was taken prisoner, with Sir Gerard Eyton of 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, and Mr. Edisbury of Erddig, at 
Eyton, by the Parliament troops under Colonel Mytton 
in 1643. He married Joyce, daughter and heiress of 
Francis Lloyd of Hardwick, by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Robert Eyton ; 2, James ; and 3, GruflFydd 
Eyton ; and two daughters, Penelope and Arabella. 



PENTREF MORGAN. 




WYNN OF PENTREF MORGAN. 
Add. MS. 9865. 



Hw&i ab leaaf ab lorwerth ab E 



lorwarth ab=rQwer^l. d. of Mad(^ ab lorwerth ab Madojr ab Rhirid Flf^dd. 
Hwfa, 1 Vtrt, a chevron inter tbree wolTs lioada erased of^cnt, 
I languod g\tlei. 

David abIor-=i=Margarct, d. of Miidoir Ooetab HiidoK ab Cynwrigab Heilin 
werth. I ab Trahaiarn ab Iddon ab Bh^s Sais.' Argttd, a chevron 
inter three boar's beads conpcd guUi, tasked or, and lau- 
! gued orur*. 

Gniflydd ab=FMargaret, d. ofY Bad! ab Howel ab lenan Fyeban ab lenau 
David. I Oethin ab Madt^ CjiBa. Party per fesa lablt and argent. 



a lion rampant ooiinterchanged. 



Madoff. jur<Yliabel, d. and heiress of David ab Einion ab Ednyred Dda 
uxorU of ab lorwerth ab Goronwy Ddu ab Morgan of Pentref Mor- 

Pentref gan, ab Iddon ab Rbys Saia. Aratnt, a ehevron inter threa 

Morgan. | boar'a bends coiipod guUi. tiisted or. an d langaed antra. 

David abHa-^Margaret, d. of David ab Lljwelyn John ab Madog, ance*- 
dog of Pen- I ab Marodydd Fychan. tor of the Lloyda of 

tral Morgan, j Ebnall. 



Morgan Wynnof Pentref Morgan. •'Lettiee. d. of... 



402 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn (erwinc, a lion 
rampant sable, armed and langued gules). By his wife, 
Eva, he had a son and heir, 

Philip Bird of Pentrcf Madog, who married Alice, 
daughter of John ab Richard ab Madog ab Llywelyn of 
Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, by whom he had three 
daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Margaret, heiress of Pentref Madog, who married 
James Eyton of Dudlcston. 

2. Mawd, ux. David Kynaston of Groicot. 

3. Anne, ux. Edward Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr 
H6b. 

James Eyton, jure tixoris of Pentref Madog, was the 
son and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress 
of Owain, by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Einion Fychan, ab GruflFydd ab Owain ab Howel ab 
Madog of Dudlyston, descended from Madog, Lord of 
Yr Hendwr in Edeyrnion, who bore argent, on a chevron 
gides, three fleurs-de-lys or) of John Eyton of Dudlyston, 
youngest son'of William Eyton of Eyton Isaf {ermine^ a 
lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules). 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, had issue by his 
wife Margaret a son and heir, 

William Eyton of Pentref Madog, who was living in 
1592, and married Dorothy, daughter of James Eyton of 
Eyton {ermine, a lion rampant azu7'e), by whom he had 
issue a son and heir, 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, who died 9th Feb- 
ruary 1630, and was buried at Dudlyston, married 
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, 
in M6n, Knt, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Sir Robert Eyton of Pentref Madog, Knt. This gen- 
tleman was taken prisoner, with Sir Gerard Eyton of 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, and Mr. Edisbury of Erddig, at 
Eyton, by the Parliament troops under Colonel Mytton 
in 1643. He married Joyce, daughter and heiress of 
Francis Lloyd of Hardwick, by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Robert Eyton ; 2, James ; and 3, GruflFydd 
Eyton ; and two daughters, Penelope and Arabella. 



PENTREF MORGAN. 




WYNN OF PENTREF MORGAN. 
Add. MS. 9865. 



Hw& ab leaaf ab Iorw«rth ab E 



lorwarth ab=f Gwerfyl, d. of Madog ab lorwerth ab Madoir ab Rhirid Hudd. 
Hwh. 1 Vtrl, a chevron inter tbree wolTs lieoda erased argmt, 

I languod guUi. 

David abIor-=j=Mar)^a ret, d. of MadOK Oocli ab Hodog ab CjiivTig ab Heilin 
wBrth. I ab Trahttiarn ab Iddon ab Bh^s £ii8. ~ jt rpctU, a cbevron 
I inter three boar'g heads conped gulu, tnsked or, and lam* 
! gpjed amrt. 

Gnifljdd Bb=f Margaret, d. of Y Badi ab Howel ab lenan Fyehan ab leuan 
David. 1 ""' .■...,. ^- ^ . ,... ._.! 1 J 



Madotf , jure =j=Isabe1, d. and beirera of David ab Einion ab EdnTved Dda 
uxorii of ab lorweitb ab Guronw; Ddu ab Horgan of Pentref Mor- 

Fentref gan, ab Iddon ab Rhj» Sbib. Aratnl, a cbenon inter three 

Morgan. | boar'g headi conped fultt. tughea or, an d langaed mum. 

David abHa-n^Hargaret, d. of David ab Llywelj^ Jobn ab Uadoff, aneee- 
dogofFen- ab Maredfdd Fychan. torof the Lloyds of 

tref Morgan. | EbnoU. 

John Wjnn of Pentref UorgaiLCj=Eliiabeth, daa. of William Leigh ab John 



Tbomaa Wynn of Pentref Morgan. ^pErmine, d. of David ab Boger ab Darid 
^ I ab Jenkyn ab David Fyehan. 



Morgan Wjnnof Pentref Morgan. ^Lettioe. d. of.. 



402 HISTORY OF POWYS FADOG. 

Llywelyn ab Cynwrig ab Rhiwallawn {ermine, a lion 
rampant sable, arraed and langued gules). By his wife, 
Eva, he had a son and heir, 

Philip Bird of Pcntref Madog, who married Alice, 
daughter of John ab Richard ab Madog ab Llywelyn of 
Halchdyn in Maelor Saesneg, by whom he had three 
daughters, co-heirs, 

1. Margaret, heiress of Pentref Madog, who married 
James Eyton of Dudlcston. 

2. Mawd, ux. David Kynaston of Groicot. 

3. Anne, ux. Edward Yonge of Bryn lorcyn yn Yr 
HAb. 

James Eyton, jure uxor is of Pentref Madog, was the 
son and heir (by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress 
of Owain, by Gwenllian, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Einion Fychan, ab GruflFydd ab Owain ab Howel ab 
Madog of Dudlyston, descended from Madog, Lord of 
Yr Hendwr in Edeyrnion, who bore argent^ on a chevron 
gides, three fleurs-de-lys or) of John Eyton of Dudlyston, 
youngest son'of William Eyton of Eyton Isaf {ermmey a 
lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules). 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, had issue by his 
wife Margaret a son and heir, 

William Eyton of Pentref Madog, who was living in 
1592, and married Dorothy, daughter of James Eyton of 
Eyton {ermine, a lion rampant azui^e), by whom he had 
issue a son and heir, 

James Eyton of Pentref Madog, who died 9th Feb- 
ruary 1630, and was buried at Dudlyston, married 
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, 
in M6n, Knt, by whom he had a son and heir, 

Sir Robert Eyton of Pentref Madog, Knt. This gen- 
tleman was taken prisoner, with Sir Gerard Eyton of 
Eyton, Knight Banneret, and Mr. Edisbury of Erddig, at 
Eyton, by the Parliament troops under Colonel Mytton 
in 1643. He married Joyce, daughter and heiress of 
Francis Lloyd of Hardwick, by whom he had issue three 
sons, 1, Robert Eyton ; 2, James ; and 3, Gruflfydd 
Eyton ; and two daughters, Penelope and Arabella. 



FEMTItEF MORGAX. 




WYNN OF PENTREF MORGAN. 
Add. MS. 9865. 

Hwfa ab lenaf nb lorwarth nb Hnwel ab Owain ab Bleddrn ab Owwn^ 

Brfigyntyp, I.ord of Dinniao] nod Edeyrnion. j 

lorwertb ab=f Oworfyl, d. of Madog' nb lorwerth ab MadoR ab Rhirid Flwdd. 
Hwfa, I Vert, a cboTron inter three wolTi beads erased argent, 
__| langued ju[«». 

DaTidftbIor-=f=MaTgaret, d.of MadoRGochabMadOK ab Cynwrig ab Heilia 
vertb. I ab Trabaiam ab Iddon ab Kbjs Saia.'' Argail, a obevron 
inter three boar's heads conped guUt, tnabed or. Hid Un- 
I gued amre. 

Gniffydd ab=FMai^:aret, d. of T Badi ab Howel ab lenan Fyehan ab lenan 
David. I Oethin ab Uadog CjffiB. Party per fesa $aliU and aTg«»t, 
I a lioD rampant connterchanged. 



Hado(c,7ure=y^babe1, d. and betreiB of David ab Eiaion ab Ednyved Ddn 
vxotU of ab lorwerth ab Goronwy Ddu ab Morgan of Pentraf Mor- 

Fentrsf gan, ab Iddon ab Rhys Sais. Argent, a cbenon inter tbzee 

HorKan. | boar's beads cooped galei, tusked or, and langued arart. 

David abHB-=y=Margaret, d. of David ab Lljwelya John ab Madog, ances- 
dog of Pen- I ab Uaredydd f^chan. tor of the Lloyda of 

John Wynn of Fentref Morgaii.Ef=Eliiabeth, dan. of William Leigh ab John 



Thomas Wynn of Pentraf Morgan.^Ennin 



Morgan Wynn of Pentref Morgan. ••Lettice. d. of.. 



HISTORY OF P0WY8 FADOG. 




LORDSHIP OF WHITTINGTON.— LLOYD OF EBNALL. 
Earl. MS. 9865. 



David ab lor-^Margnret, d. of Mado^ Ooch ab Madog ab Cjrnwrig ab Eeilin 
werth. I lib Trahaiam ab Iddon, Lord of Tref Dtidlyah. Ari^enl, a 
chevron inter three boar's heads coupcd guUi, tusked or, 
I and langued azare. 

' ~ " ' T=Matgacet, d. of Y Badi ab Howel ab lenan Fychan ab lenan 
Gathin of Uoeliwruh. Partj per fass laiU and argent, a 
lion rampant counterchanged. 

Hadoc ab ^plaabel. d. and heirees of David ab Einion ab Ednyfed DdQ of 

Oruffjdd of I Pentrof Morgan in Tref Dudlysh, ab lorwerth ab Goronwy 

Pentref Mor- DdG ab Morgan ab Iddon, Lord of Tref Dudlyah yn y 

gan. j Waun. Argimt, a chevron inter three boar's heads couped 

I 0iUi , tnaked or. and langaed oium. 

John ab Madog^Catherinc, d. of John Wynn Kynaston of Pant David of 



. abT=Mi 



of EbnaU. y Burslley, ab Jenkyn Kynaston of Stotea, Pentref 
I ab GruflVdd Kynaston. Ar-jent, a chevron Morgan. 
I engnuled inter three martletts sable. 

David Lloyd'y=SiDa, d. and heir of David Glyn ab John ab Willlaa of Garth 
of EbnaU. j Eryr in Mocbnant, ab Manrice of Qarth Enr, ab leuan 
I Gethin ab Madog Ceffin. Party per fesa laMt and argent, 
I a lion rampant connterchanged. 

Edward =pCatberine, d. of John ab Williani ab Maredydd of Plaa y Bol 
Lloyd of Eb- Id Mace Mocbnont, ab lolyn ab leuan Gethin ab Madog 
nail. I Cyffin. 



WHirriNGTUS PARK. 



KtMiord 



dward ^Elizabeth, d. of Ehys Lloyd of Fferme in Glyn I 
d of Eb- Ystrad Alun, and Mur-fiiret, his wife, d. of 1 
naU. of Alrhey. Other MSS. state that Edward Lloj 
I Anne, d, of Philip ab John of BergtiiU. 



Lloyd of Ebnal.^ 



Edward Lloyd=i=..., 4 of Ffoulk Uotgaa. 

Mary Lloyd, the heiress of Ebnal, married Edward 
Lloyd of Llwyn y Maen. 




LORDSHIP OF WHrrriNGTON.— POWEL OF PAEK. 

Howpl, second son of Oiiiflydd of Abertauad, ab lenan F]rchaD=j^..,, dau. of 
ab leuan Qetliin ab Madog- CylEn of Mo«liwrch. Party per | ... Strange. 
foBB lahlf and ar;;ent, a lion mmpant ooiinterchangeil j 

Iinbertq=Catherine, relict of Tudor Lloyd of Bodidris yn Iftl, and eldest 

" ' daughter of John Edwards Hen of PISh Newydd, Baceirar of 

Chirkland, and Owcnllian, his wife, daughter of Elis Eyton of 

KhiwaboD. Party per bond Binister ermine and ermintt, a lion 

rampant or. 



Thomas PowelofParlt,=i=MBry, dau of Marga- 



ol-.luSS. He obtained 
Park from Henry Fitz 
Alan, Earl of Arun- 
del, in 15S3.< 



Sir Robert 
Corbet of 
Morcton 
Corbet. 



Blanche, ui. Thomas Wil- 
liams of Willaston, ab 
Reiipiallt ab William, 
LocdofWilWt&n. SaUe, 
three h orae's heads erased 



|fi 



' Shrojtthire A rchteoloffical Trdinaclioni, voL iii, Part i, p. 70. 



HISTOUY OF POWYS FADOG. 



toWt 



Povel of=j-Atiue, d. of Robert Needliam of ..., uz. Bobert Uojd of 

ThoiDM Powel o^Mary. dm. of Edward Powel or=FM«ry, d. ofWillimn 
Park, 0i. IfllS. ThomaiAt- Futk. BarDham of I^d- 



I T Eev. Robert Powel of Pari, D.D., Rector 

Bobert Powel of Park, Hai^nret, ol Whittington aad Hodnet ; ab. 1680.' 

High Sheriff for 00. ui.Andrew This lice ended in an heiress, Jane 

Salop, IG17i ab. 1653, Lloyd of Powel, wlio sold tbe Park Est&te to 

I. p. ABton. Sir Fruiaia Charlton of Ludford, Bart. 

Sir Francis Cbarlton of Ludford, Bart., had a son. Job 
Charlton of Park, High Sheriff for co. Salop in 1748 ; 
and a daughter, Emma, heir to her brother ; who married 
John Kinchaut, Esq., Captain in the 32nd Regiment of 
Infantry, bj whom she had issue three sons, 1, John 
Charlton Kinchant of Park, High Sheriff for co. Salop, in 
1775 — 06. s. p., 1832; 2, Francis; and 3, Richard, father 
of Richard Henry Kiuchant of Park, Esq., J.P. and D.L., 
and High Sheriff for co. Salop in 1846. 




Y DREF NEWYDD, IN THE LORDSHIP 
OF WHriTIXGTON. 

Add. MS. flSGi. 



John Lloyd of Drof Newydd, Becond= 
son of Edward Lloyd of Llwyn 
y Uaen, auoond aon of Eichard 
Lloyd ab Boljert l.loyd. 



Eleanor, d. of John Pryso, Parson of 
Whittington, l.landderl'el. and Vicar 
of Oswestry, son of John ab Thomas 
ab Rhys of Oswestry, ab Maurice Oe- 
tbinaii leuan Qetbin ab Modog Cyffin. 



1 His son Thomas nns High Shciiff for c». Salop in 1717, and his 
(laughter Jane sold the catate. — Shropthire ArchaiAoffMtl Traasac- 
(iuiu, vol. iii, Pur( I, p. 70, 



Y DRKF NEWYDD. 



407 



Edward Lloyd of=T=Gatherine, d. and co-heir of John Treror Fychan of Os- 



Dref Newydd. 



westry, and Margaret, his wife, daughter and heir of 
Kichard Stanney of Oswestry, and relict of Thomas 
Kynaston of Vorhen. 



11 

John 
Lloyd, 
06. 8.p. 



r-^ II 

Marmaduke=7=Penelope, d. and heir (hy Rebecca, George Four 

his wife, d. of Richoird Langford Lloyd, daugh- 
of Trefalun, High Sheriff for co. ters. 

Denbigh in 1640) of Charles Goodman 
of Glanhespin, High Sheriff for co. 
Denbigh in 1666. 



Lloyd of 
Dref New- 
ydd. 



Edward Lloydlof Dref Newydd, Charles Lloyd=f' Anabella John, 
the Shropshire historian, whose of Dref New- 



valuable collections were at one 

time at Halston, but are now pre- 

Berved at Hawkestone. Buried 

at Whittington 5th November 

1715, 8. p. 



ydd, oh. Jan. 
1749-50. 



Kingston 
of Ciren- 
cester, 06. 1728. 



Cathe- 
rine. 



Anabella, heiress of Dref Newydd, third wife of Richard Williams of 
Penbedw, MP. for Flint, youngest brother of Sir Watkin Wil- 
liams Wynn, the third 'baronet of that house. 

Dref Newydd was sold^about the year 1830, by Ana- 
bella Williams of Penbedw (granddaughter of Kichard 
Williams), and her nephew, W. W. E. Wynn of Peniarth, 
Ksq., to the late W. Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Esq., 
M.P. 



ADDENDA. 



HOLT CASTLE. 

In the reign of Richard II, this Castle was in the hands of the 
Crown. That nnfortunato sovereign stayed there for a time on his 
Irish expedition, and deposited there jewels to the amount of 200,000 
marks, and 100,000 marks in specie, which afterwards fell into the 
hands of Bolingbroke. 

Henry VII made a grant of it to Sir William Stanley, but resumed 
it on Sir William's execution, with all it4s treasures, the spoils of 
Pk)S worth field, valued at £40,000 in money and plate, besides 
jewels, household furniture, and cattle on his grounds, and all his 
real estate, worth £3,000 per annum (see volume i, p. 340). 

Henry VIII made a grant of the Castle and Lordship to Henry 
Fitz Roy, Duke of Richmond, his natural son by a Shropshire lady ; 
and he, in lo3o, coming to take possession, accompanied by two 
other Dukes and a large retinue, stopped a night at Shrewsbury. 

In the reign of Edward VI the Castle was held by Thomas 
Seymour. 

In 1G43 it was in the hands of the Crown, but was seized by the 
Parliamentary forces under Sir William Brereton and Sir Thomas 
Myddleton. The Royalists regaining it, it was again besieged and 
razed by the Republicans, under Major General Mytton, but not till 
the Governor, Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclusham (see p. 35), had 
secured, by his gallant defence, and honourable cjipitulation, per- 
mission for himself to retire beyond the seas, with £300 per annum, 
and the enjoyment of his estates, value £300 per annum, to his wife. 
The surrender, however, was made to Colonel Pope in the absence 
of Mytton, who that morning, having come to Wrexham, had a 
narrow escajje for his life ; for the Parliamentary soldiers, exasperated 
for want of pay, broke out in a mutiny, and fired upon Mytton as he 
was hurrying off to seek protection amongst his own men at Holt. 

A passage in the Charter permits the Burgesses of Holt to dig for 
coals in the wastes of Brynbwa and Coed Poeth ; but subject to 
this right, which is never asserted, the minerals of Bromfield l)elong 
to tlie Grosvenors, by grant from Charles II, and form a great 
revenue.^ 



^ llUiory of Wrexham, 



ADDENDA. 401) 



ELLIS OF CROES NEWYDD, NEAR WREXHAM. 

(Seep. 68.> 

Peter Ellis, of Groes Newydd, Esq., Attorney at Law, Deputy 
Steward for Maelor and I&l, and Justice of the Peace, 1697, son 
and heir of Robert Ellis, Colonel in the Royal Army of Charles I. 
This Colonel Robert Ellis bought Groes Newydd, and was son of 
Peter Ellis, a learned lawyer in Wrexham (" Hen achwr mawr 
cyfarwydd a dyscedig"), son of Richard ab Ellis ab Gruffydd ab Gwyn 
ab Goronwy ab Gwilym ab Meredydd ab Gruffydd ab Llywelyn ab 
Howel ab Gruffydd ab Sanddef Hardd. 

Colonel Robert Ellis of Croes Newydd had served under Gustavus 
Adolphiis. He was highly esteemed by Charles I, who gave him a 
commission, dated November 1643, for niising 1,200 men. Lord 
Capel appointed him Commander-in-chief (under himself) of the 
counties of Denbigh and Flint. 

Croes Newydd passed into the possession of F. R. Price of Bryn 
y Pys, Esquire, by whom it was exchanged for other property with 
the Fitz Hughe of Plas Power. ^ 



FOWLER OF ABEY CWM HIR AND HARNAGE 

GRANGE. {See p. 366.) 

Roger Fowler of Broom Hill, Co. Stafford, Esq., had issue by his 
wife Isabella, daughter and heir of William Lee of Morpeth, Treasurer 
of Berwick, and Isabella his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Andrew 
Trollopc, Knt. {Vtrt three goats rampant argent, attired or, for 
Trollope), a third son, William Fowler, of the Middle Temple, and 
of Harnago Grange, Co. Salop. In the year ir)65 a license was 
gi-antod to Nicholas Williams, by Queen Elizabeth, to alienate to 
William Fowler and Edward Herbert the manor of Colon, the site of 
the Monastery of Cwm Hir, and certain messuages, lands, etc., in 
Colon, Llanbistair, Llanddewy, Llananno, Llanbadam, St. Harmon's, 
Nantmel, Karnaff and Clirow in the county of Radnor. (Record in 
the Chapel of the Rolls.) 

In the same year Nicholas Williams executed a deed of convey- 
ance with William Fowler, conveying to him the manor of Colon, 
the site of the Monastery, with all the lands, etc. in the aforesaid 
parishes, to it belonging. (Record in the Chi pel of the Rolls.) 

William Fowler died in 1597, leaving issue by Maria his wife, 
daughter of John Blythc, Esq., M.D. (ermine^ on a fess gnles, three 
^oats rampant or), three fci(ms, 1, Richard, of whom presently; 2, 
l*eter; and 3, Thomas ; and three daughters, 1, Mary ; 2, Alice, ux. 



' History of Wrexham. 



410 ADDENDA. 

Robert Sontley of Sonlle, Esq. ; and 3, Margaret, ux. Thomas 
Vaughau of Pant Glas, co. Caernarvon, Esq. 

Richard Fowler of Hamage Grange, and Abbey Cwm Hir, was 
High Sheriff for Radnorshire in 1601, 1615, and 1626, and died in 
1667. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Littleton 
of Pillaton Hall, Co. Stafford, Knt, and Margaret his wife, daughter 
and co-heiress of Sir William Devereux, Knt., youngest son of 
Walter, Lord Viscount Hereford, K.G., who died in 1558. By this 
lady he had issue five sons, 1, William ; 2, Edward; 3, John ; 4, 
Richard ; and 5, Thomas. He garrisoned Abbey Cwm Hir for the 
King in 1644 ; early in December Sir Thomas Myddleton appeared 
before the place and summoned it to surrender. The answer was a 
flat denial. Whereupon it was taken by storm, and in it were taken 
prisoners Colonel Barnard the Governor, Mr. Hugh Lloyd, the High 
Sheriff, two Captains of Foot, one Captain of Horse, 1 Captain- 
Lieutenant, three Lieutenants, two Foot Colours, 1 Comet of Horse, 
four Sergeants, eight Corporals, two trumpeters, four drums, sixty 
common soldiers, three barrels of powder, sixty fire locks, forty 
horses, forty horse arms, besides 200 musketeers, many arms and 
other ammunition. 

After Sir Thomas Myddleton had taken and burnt to the ground 
the ancient mansion of Mathafam, the seat of Rowland Pugh, Esq., 
Lord of Cyfeiliog, he received intelligence " that the enemy had made 
them a garrison at Abbey Cwm Hir, a very strong house, and built 
of stone of great thickness, and the walls and outworks all very 
strong, the house having been in former times an Abbey of the 
Papists. We arrived at the Abbey on Wednesday last with our old 
forces, and Colonel Beales, and Lieut. -Colonel Cai-ter.^ Our General 
having resolved to do his utmost for the gaining of it, sum- 
moued the Castle, but the Governor returned a flat denial, and said 
that he would not deliver up the said garrison to us ; whereupon wc 
immediately stormed it, and that with such violence that we soon 
took it by force. This garrison of theirs is Master Fowler's house, 
which began to be a great annoyance to us. Since which, our General, 
having thrown down the enemy's works, made the garrison un 
servicable for the future.'*^ 

William Fowler of Hamage Grange and Abbey Cwm Hir, who 
was High Sheriff for Shropshire in 1 650 (see the Sheriffs of Shrop- 
shire, by Owen and Blakeway), married Anne, daughter of Thomas 
Perks of Willingworth, co. Stafford, Esq., by whom he had issue 
eight sons and one daughter, and was succeeded by his eldest son. 

^ Colonel Sir John Carter died 25th November 1676. He bore 
azure, a Talbot passant inter three buckles or; and married Elizabeth, 
daughter and co-heir of David Holland of Kinmael, Esq., by Dorothy, 
his wife, one of the daughters of Jenkyn Lloyd of Berth, near Llanih- 
loes, Esq., and sister of Sir Edward Lloyd, Knt. 

2 Civil Wars in Wales, By S. Rowland Phillips, Esq. 



ADDENDA. 411 

Richard Fowler of Hamage Grange and Abbey Cwm Hir, who was 
bom in 1618, was High Sheriff for Radnorshire in 1655. Richard 
Fowler married Margaret, daughter of Richard, Lord Newport of High 
Ercall, CO. Salop, and Rachel his wife, daughter of John Levison of 
Haling, in Kent, Esq., and sister of Sir Richard Levison of Trentham, 
CO. Stafford, Knt., by whom he had besides other issue, three sons — 

I. Francis Levison Fowler, who by Anne his wife, daughter of 
Peter Venables, Baron of Kinderston, had issue an only daughter 
and heiress Frances, who married, tirst, Thomas Needham, Lord 
Viscount Kilmorey ; secondly, she married Theophilus Hastings, 
Earl of Huntingdon; and thirdly, she married the Chevalier de 
Ligonday, of the house of Auveme, Colonel of Horse, one of the 
Freuch prisoners taken with Count Tallard at the battle of Hocksted, 
by whom she had a daughter and heiress who married the Honorable 
— Beresford, son of the Earl of Tyrone. 

II. Sir William Fowler of Hamage Grange, who was created a 
Baronet by Queen Anne in 1704,- and died in 1717 (see JSxttnct 
Baronetage). He married Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Cotton of 
Combermere Abbey, Bart. 

III. John Fowler of Bron Dref Fawr, had Abbey Cwm Hir for his 
share of the estate. He built the chapel at the Abbey, where he and 
his wife, his only son Edward, and his second daughter Jane are 
buried. He was High Sheriff for co. Radnor in 1690, and died in 
1696 (see "Clochfaen", in vol. ii, p. 250). I have been unable to find 
out whom John Fowler married, but, from the escutcheons on the 
plate, she bore .... a sword pointed downwards between two 
wolf's head couped at the shoulders .... on a chief .... a lion 
passant .... 

TREF GAIAN. 

The Arms of Tegwared y Bais Wen, were, argent, on a chevron 
sable, three mullets of the field (see vol. ii, p. 135). 



GERVYS OF RUUDDIN. 

Sable, a sword in pale pointed downwards, with the scabbard and 
belt argeiit ; on the sinister side a Catherine wheel of the second 
(see pp. 46, 252). 



WREXHAM. 

About 9th November 1643, iu his advance into Wales, Sir 
William Brcrcton is charged that he " did pull down the organs, 
defaced the windows in all the Churches, and the monuments." In 
Wrexham they broke in pieces one of the best pair of organs iu the 
King's dominions, and pulled down the arms and hatchments in all 
the Churches. 



412 ADDENDA. 



LLANGURIG. 

Tills extensivo parish lies in tho comot of Gwarthrjnion, in the 
Cantref of Arwystli, Uwch y Coed. 



CANTREF MEIRION. 

This Cantref contains the Comota of Tal j Bont, Pennal, and 
Ystum Anner. 

Tal y Bont contains the parishes of Dolgelli, Llanfachreth, Llan- 
gelynin, and Llanegryn. 

Pennal contains tlie parishes^ of Tywyn, Pennal, and Aberdyfi. 

Ystumaner contains tho parishes of Tal y Llyu, Meingul, and 
Llanfihangl y Pennant ; in tho centre of which last parish are the 
ruins of an old Castle, called Castell yr Aberydd. 



1 Horl. MS. 2155, fol. 135. 



INDEX. 



A. 

Abbey cwm hir, 409, 410 

Abbot David, 385 

Aberdyfi, 411 

AbergJivenny, Lord of, 111 

Aber Khiew, 46 

Aberystwyth, 271 

Acton, 68 

Adam and Evo, 313 

Adda ab Awr, 3 

Adda Ooch, 196 

Adduiou, 168 

Aelhaim, 193 

Alexandra, 306 

Allt Llwyn Dragon, 91, 226 

Almor, 192, 194, 209 

Alrhet, 335 

Alunton, 220 

Apparition of Madame Fowler, 367 

Ariconium, *^()2 

Arwystli, Hugh, 270 

Arwystli Uwch y Coed, 411 

Asherd, the, 323 

Afihpool, 346 

Athanasian Creed, 314 

Ayhnar, William, 151 

Atluob or Almor, 216 

B. 

Bachymbyd, 49, 105 

Badenoch, 92 

Bady, 123 

Bangor is y Coed, 309 

Bardeey Island, 29 

Barnard, Colonel, 410 

Baron, Ld^^ys Owain, 49 

Bathafani Park, 37, 47 

Beli ab Bennlli Gawr, '-170 

Belvn of Y Nercwys, 99 

Beiiin, 46, 94, 100 

Bers, 21, 22, 23 

Berb, Llotd of, 26 

Bers, Wtnn op, 20 

Bersham, 18 

Berth, Lloyd of, 67 

Berth Lloyd, Lloyd of, 410 

Bettws, Wyriou Iddon, 33, 44, 103 

BettwR y Coed, 33, 44, 103 



Bettws y Mhers, 23 

BiLLOTT, 232 

Blodwell, 249 

Blythe, William, 409 

Bodfel, 29 

Bod Idrifl, 46, 62, 90, 91, 95 

BODYLLTTN, 373 

BodyUtyn, 21, 23 
Bold, Sir Richard, 37 

BORASHAM, 91, 106 

Boscawen, 204 

Bosworth, battle of, 408 

Bowyer, Sir George, 307, 308 

Boyd Dawkins, 195 

Brereton, 92 

Brcreton, 91 

Brereton, Owain, 132, 136, 143, 154 

Brereton, Sir William, 411 

British Kings, 204 

Bromley, 133, 142, 162 

Bron Haulog, 348 

Bnier of Bruer, 211 

Brouohton, 332 

Brynbwa, 36 

Brynbwa, 5 

Bryn Cunallt, 43, 101 

Bryu Ffanigl, 103 

Bryngwyn, 7, 9 

Bryn halchdyn, 362 

Brjn lorcyn, 21, 39, 376 

Bryn Lluarth, 8, 38, 345, 349 

Bryn Owain, 16 

Bryn Tangor, 151 

Bryn y Ffynnon, 35 

Bryn y Wiwair, 13, 25 

Burton, 173, 228 

BWRAS, 90 



C. 
Cadair Benlljm, 41 
Cadell Deymllwg, 11, 192 
Cae C>Tiog, 11 
Cae Madog Coch, 67 
Caer Ddinog, 19 
Caer Fallwch, 95, 105, 376 
Caer OUor, 198 
Caerwys, 101, 104 



414 



INDEX. 



Calverloy, Sir Oeorge, 218 
Camber or Cambrey, 198 
Cantref Moirion, 411 
Caradog FfreichfraA, 34 
Oirt^r, Sir John, 410 
Castoll Cefel Ynghocdmor, 38 
Caatell Du1}ti, 108 
Cjwtcll yr Abcrydd, 411 
Castle of Holt, 408 
Castle of Overton, 355 
Castle of WhittingtoD, 384 
Catherine of Berain, 94 
Cayley of Brampton, 834 
Ckfn 7 Bkdw, 5, 6 
Cef}Ti y Bedw, 60 
Cefyn y Cameddau, 6, 7 
Ceinmarch, 345 
Cemaes, Baron of, 20 
Chabas, 317 
Charlton, 406 
Chester, Earl of, 92 
Christiiinity, 313 
Churchyard, poet, 171 
Cicero, 170 
Cilmin Droedtu, 28 
Cloclifaon, 257 
Clynog Fawr, 33 

COBHAM, 88 

Coed Abynt, 198 

Coed Cristiouydd, 3, 13 

Coed Helen, 247 

Coed Marchan, 51 

Coed y Cra, 67 

Coed y Llai, 37, 68, 108 

Collwyn ab Tangno, 29 

Combermere Abbey, 411 

Comyn, the Black, 92 

Confession, Auricular, 165 

Conwy, 102 

COOKK, 122 

Coj)a'r Goleuni, 49, 81, 99 

Corbet, 99 

Cotton, 65, 411 

Cowryd ab Cadvan, 43, 45, 210, 345 

Cow^'dd i John ab Rhys, 265 

Cristionydd, 3, 4, 5 

Croes Fokl, 38 

Croes Foel, 19, 31 

Croes locyn, 35 

Croes Nbwtdd, 409 

Croes Wladya, 181 

Croft of Croft Castle, 196 

Cwmwd Mcnai, 22 

Cwrt PlAs yn Dref, 49 

CyfeUiog, Hugh, 92 

CyflFylUog, 346 

Cynllaith Owain, 106 

Cynmeirch, 63 

Cynwrig Efell, 20, 63, 195, 217 

Cynwrig Fychan of Wepra, 101 



D. 
Dacre, Lord, 204 
David, Abbot, 385 
David, Lord of Denbigh, 32, 44, 64 
Davies of Dungrey, 379 
Davies of Erlts, 103 
Davies of Llanerch, 334 
Davies of Tbefalun, 222 
Death, Ode on, 323 
De Baliol, 92 
De Becke, 99 
De Brereton, 92 
De Grey of Ruthin, 208 
De Laci, 20 
De Ligonday, 411 
De Mety, 382 
De Monte Alto, 220 
De Powys, 18, 381, 383 
De Sancto Petro, 93 
De Swinnerton, 99 
De Thornton, 92 
De Upton, 379 
Devereux, 410 
De Vernon, 93 
De Wkild, 91, 93, 99 
Derwen Anial, 67 
Dinas Basing, 377 
Dinbryn, 1 
Dinhinlle, 17 
Diodorus Siculus, 259 
Dolgem,411 
Dol Oynwal, 344 
Dref Newydd, 49 
Dyffryn Aled, 37, 45 
Dyffryn Clwyd, 192 
Dyflfryn Erethlyn, 44 
Dtmock, 392 
Dulassau, 34 
Dutton, 208 
Dynevor Castle, 204 

E. 

Ebnall, 404 

Edisbury, 59 

Edisbuby, 60 

Ednowain ab Bradwen, 101 

Ednowain Bendew, 18, 43 

EdwardE, John, of Pl4s Newydd, 137 

Edwards, of Caer Fallwcb, 105 

Edwards of Stansti, 81 

Egerton of Egerton, 81, 93, 122 

eolvvisegle, 51 

Egyptian Records, 317 

Einion Efell, 133 

Einion Sais, 34 

Eleazar, priest, 166 

Elis of Makloel, 125 

Ellis, Colonel, 109 

Ellis, Dr., 146 

Ellis of Alrhry, 335 



INDEX. 



415 



Elus of Gross Newydd, 68, 409 

ElyBtan Olodrhudd, 30 

Englefield Family, 368 

ErbiBtog, 25 

Eriviat, Ffoulkes of, 31, 46 

Erlys, 108 

Eixidig of Erddig, 31 

Erddig, 60 

Erddig of Erddig, 62 

Erlys of Erlys, 109, 110 

Esclusbim, 3, 5, 17, 32 

Esclys, 3, 32 

Esgair Clochfacn, 257 

Estwick, Lords of, 383, 401 

Estwick of Estwick, 384 

Ethnology, Welsh, 295 

Eunydd, 192 

Evans of Pl\s Llanextroain, 100 

EwLO Castle, 241 

Ewlo Ciwtle, 101, 106, 120, 245 

Eyton, Gerard, 330 

Eyton of Coetl y Llai, 37 

Eyton, Mrs. Sarah, 329 

Eyton of Eyton Isaf, 26, 95, 122 

Eyton of eVton Isaf, 324 

Eyton of Maes Gwafxod, 355 

Eyton of Pentref Madog, 401 

F. 

Faenor, 46 

Fairdref, Holland of. 103 

Falmouth, Viscount, 204 

Ffachnallt of Ffachnallt, 94, 104 

Ffynogion, Wynn of, 44 

Fifty Million Years Ago, 300 

Fitz Roy, Henry, 408 

Fitz Warine, 382, 384, 387 

Fletcher Wynn, 357 

Foelas, Wynn of, 342, 343 

Fowler, 220 

Fowler o? Abbey Cwm Hir, 409 

Fowler of Llys Bedydd, 366 

Frondeo, 18, 83 

Frondeo, Jones or, 66, 124 

Fron D6g, 16, 39 

Fron G6ch, 368 

Frontinus, 262 

G. 

Gaerddin, 7 

Garth Aiam, 198 

Garth Eryr, 197 

Gelli Gynan, 62 

Gentleman, the true, 172 

Gerard, Sir William, 218 

Gervys of Rhuddin, 46, 208, 209, 352 

Gethin of Plas Gkrniooau, 353 

Glan y Pwll, 104 

Glegg of Gayton, 102 

Glyn Berbrwg, 38, 81 



Glyn Dyfrdwy, 196, 197 
Glyn Llufon, 28 
Glyn Llugwy, 33 
GocH OF Maelor, 396 
Goch, Sir Matthew, 396, 398 
God, His Nature, 322 
Golon, Manor of, 409 
Goodman, 49, 131, 135 
Goronwy of Llai, 281 
Goronwy Pefr, 381 
Green of Stapleford, 211 
Grey de Ruthin, 208 
Griffith of Caerwya, 104 
Griffith of Tref Alun, 222 
Groes Newydd, 68 
Gruffydd ab David Goch, 33, 44 
Gruffydd Goch, 209, 346 
Gruffydd of Brynbwa, 36 
Qutyn Owain, 385 
Gwarthrhynion, 411 
Gwern Haulod, 356 
Gwersyllt Isaf, 186, 187, 188 
Gweusyllt Uchaf, 187, 188 
Gwerystan ab Gwaethfoed, 192 
Gwydir, 8, 33 
Gwyn of Llanidloes, 128 
Gwysannau, 122, 334 
Gyffylliog, 46, 209 

H. 

Hafod Un Nos, 42, 43 

Hafod Un Nos, 345 

Hafod y Bwch, 41, 90 

Hafod y Bwch, Roberts of, 348 

Hafod y Wern, 119, 120 

Hafod y Wern, 110 

Halchdyn, 186 

Halchdyn, 359, 365 

Ham^Kldn, Viscount, 201, 203, 204 

Hanmer of Caer Fallwch, 95 

Hanmer, Sir David, 380 

Harlech Castle, 106, 187 

Hawarden Castle, 237 

Hedd Moelwynog, 43 

Heim, 88 

Henbl&s, 346 

Hendref Fawr, 50 

Hendref Fawr, 48, 47, 348 

Hendref Rhys Gethyn, 44 

Heuglawdd, 103 

Herbert, Edward, 409 

Hereford, Viscoimt, 410 

Hersedd, Lloyd of, 81, 102 

Hockleton, 209 

Hocksted, battle of, 411 

HoUand, 22, 41U 

Holland, 50 

Holt, 91, 101, 409 

Holt Castle, 408 

Hope, 37 



Hope of BniuRbton, 227, 2M 

JfuH-i'lCiii'tiiiiir 33.6* 

Howd Wj.l.lel. -iif; 
Howe! y Oadair, tl 
Hugh Lupiu, IV5 
Hughnof Segroed, 350 
Hnoilia, 5P 
HuithM ot Tstra.!, »S0 
Hunting-loti, Eirl i>f, 92, 410 
Huxl«y, nolenoT, 318 

I. 
Intjn &b Owrgant, 3 
Iiiquiaition, Roman, 165 
lorwertb Siiia, 346 
ll»(ono, es 

IraTOKE OF IreTONE, 99 

Iremangcr, 247 
la&bella, QuecD, 166 
Ibookd, S4 

Ithcl Anwjl, 101, 106, 245 
Ithel Felfn, 20, 29 

J. 

irm\F.a or Acton, 63 

Jehovah, 16S, 167, 2(10 

JeauB Cbnat, 167, 260 

Jhwi, Pcnccutioti of, 166, 30j 

Jews, Religion of, 3ia 

Job, 168, 169 

JDHU, 33, 39, 12, 346 



Kaer Etityii, 173 
Kenrick ot Nsntclwyd, 47 
Kehkick ok Kanti-lwip, 338 
Kenyon of Cefn, 364 
Kilmorey. VKooi.nt, 410 
Kinchnnt of Puk, 406 
Kinderton, 93, 410 
Kinmael, 51, 103, 410 
K^n of Maenui, 109, 340 
KyDiuton, 7 

U 
Lnngfonl, 193 

Lateran Goundl, 165 
Lee of Mori-etb, 409 
Leeds Abdkt, 32 
Legend u/ S. Curig, 271 
Levinon, 410 

Lewyn, Cijit. AnthoDJ, 228 
Lkwtb of Bubtou, 223 
Littleton, Sir Edwaid, 410 
LittoD, 96 
Llai, Lloyd of, 209 
Llftimrmon yn ISl, 67 
Llondderffl, 193 



Lliuiegryn, 411 

' ' negweBtl, 197 

iSVMCH BaKNa, 389 
Ltunereh Park, 122 
Ltnnervh Kugo 



Llaii 



H Kl/fini: 



■., 101 



LUiifMlim.'[b. Jll 

l.l.iiif.<ir, 1>, CIn-yH, 67 

Llaolibangl y Pennant, 411 

LlitngiiDafal, 65 

Llaug^wyn, 18 

LlangeljuiD, 411 

Llangnrig, Sf., 257, 265, 267, 411 

LtuiigyrDiew, 42 

Llaugwyfan, 210 

Llangwyfan, Llayds of, 350 

Lliuiiclloos, 128 

Lian-Uwchl]jn, 227 

Llanyuya, 63, 3J5 

Ll.iurbaiadr, 43 

Ltanncat, 33 

IJaweeoK, 345 

LI, 



!. 1 K 



Ll.j 

Llonin. l\hfif, 113,111 

LWei.U-. Iij'i 

■loyil, E'.oii of IM, 136, 143, H.1 
Lloyd, Hugh, 410 
Lloyd, Jenkyn, 410 
Lloyd, €.^1.1. ]A.ie, 363 
Llotd Of Bkrh, 26 
Lloyd ol Bryn Lluarth, 369 
LuitD ot- Coed CwsTiosrop, 13 
Llotd ok IIret Nkwydd, 406 
Lloyd op Ebhal, 404 
Lloid op Escltk, 32 
Lloyd ok Halchdyn, 359 

Lloyd of Llai, 209 
Lloyd of Paiau, 44 

Llotd ok Pkstrkf Cuwdd, 59 
Lloyd of Pestref Hobyn, 243 
Lloiu of Pl*8 Uwch t Cuwdd, i 



TD OF THE BrTN, 362 

Llotd op Whlisotoh, 371 
TD or TB OnsEDn Oocb, 215 

Lloyd of YsgeifioR, 104 

Lloyd, Sir Edwanl, 410 

Lloyd, Sir Rii:h.ini, 403 

Llygmlog, 193 

Llwyn ])yruH, 44 

Llwjn Egryn, 245 

Llwyn On, 196 

Llwyn y Cootiau, 198 

Llwyn y Maen, 113 

Llwyn Yn, 42, 45, 48, 49, 315, 349 

Llwyn Yn, 347 

iBedydd, 100, 112 



INDEX. 



41 



Llys Bradwen, 101 
Llys Coed y Mynydd, 48 
Llys Edwin, 105 

Llya Pengwern, 7, 8, 20, 109, 186 
Llys Trevor, 3, 4, 14, 66, 246 
Llywarch ab Bran, 22 
Uywelyn ab Ifor, 227 
Llywelyn Eurdorchog, 192 
Llywelyn Holbwrch, 245 

M. 
Madog Danwr, 55 
Madog Gloddaeth, 110 
Madog Llwyd, 43, 371 
Madog Maelor, 365 
Madog Pabo, 21 
Madog Voel, 876 

Maelgwn ab Kbyswallawn, 287, 292 
Maelor Saesmbo, 809 
Mears, 14 

Maeuan Abbey, 109 
Maen Owynedd, 62 
Maes Maen Cymro, 63, 64, 850 
Maes Maen Ctmro, 65, 66 
Maes y Pandy, 34 
Malpas, Barons of, 93 
Manetho, 317, 318 
Manley, 25 
Marcbudd, 45 
March weithian, 341 
March wiail, 110, 111 
Maredith of Stanbti, 82 
Maredith, Sir William, 193 
Maredtdd of Trefaluv, 224 
Martin, William, 20 
Martyrdom of Richard Gwthk, 128 
Mathafam, 101, 410 
Maurice Oethin, 341 
Meini Hirion, 270 
Meirion, Cantref of, 41 1 
Mbrffordd, 236 
Middleion, Dr. Conyers, 170 
Midianites, 166, 167 
MiNRRA, Manor of, 180 
Monuments, Ancient, 257 
Moreton Corbet, 99 
Morgan of Qwylgre, 245 
Morley of Glynde, 201 
Moses, 166, 167 
Mostyn, 7, 18 
MOSTTN, 8, 105 

Morton AifoucoRUM, 180 
Morton of Morton, 233 
Mule of Rhuddin, 348 
Mwssoglen, 22 
Myddleton, 37 
Myddleton, 40, 41 
Myddleton, Sir Thomas, 408, 410 
Mynachlog Rhedyn, 101 
Mtnachloq Rhedtn, 105 
Mytton, Major-Qeneral, 408 
VOL. III. 



N. 
Nantclwtd, 47, 339, 344 
Nant Conwy, 32, 44, 64 
Nercwys Hall, 359 
Newport, Lord, 410 
Norris of Speke, 81 

0. 

Ode to John ab Rhys, 267 

Ostorius, 262 

Overton of Overton, 880 
' Owain Glyndyfrdwy, 90 
I Owen of Garth y Medd, 143, 153 

Owen of Talwm, 33 

OWSTON, 122 

P. 

Palmer of Wingham, 82 
Pant locyn, 41 
Pant Ioctn, 216 
Pant Meugan, 192 
Pant y Llongdu, 68 
Parkins Trevor, 205 
Parry, Dr. William, 102 
Parry of Llwyn Yu, 42 
Parry of Llwyn Yn, 45 
Parry of Nantclwyd, 344, 352 
Parry of Pwll Halawg, 43 
i Parry of Tref Rhuddin, 45, 349 
Pelaqius, 311 
Penllyn, Ix)rd of, 227 
Penarth Haijiwo, 237 
Pengwern, 8 
Peniarth, 36 
Penley, 391 

Penley, Jonas of, 382, 389 
Pen Machno, 32, 33 
Penual, 411 
Pennant, 377, 379 
Pentref Bychan, 193 
Pentref Clawdd, 59 
Pentref Cristionydd, 16, 17 
Pentref Cuhelyn, 67 
Pentref Goch, 43, 46, 209, 34r» 
Pentref Hobyn, 243 
Pentref Madog, 384 
Pentref Madog, 401 
Pentref Morgan, 403 
Penrhyn, 35, 46 
Pen y Bryn, 9 
Pen y Lan, 17 
Pen y lan, 364 
Philip Phychdan, 377 

PiCKHILL, 181 

Pillaton Hall, 410 
Pindar, 320 
Pliis Cadwgan, 37 
Plas Cadwoan, 40 
Plas Cemiogau, 341 
Plas Cerniooau, 353 
Plis Coch, 47 

27 



418 



INDEX. 



PlAa lolyn, 344 
Plas Is-vf, 15 

PlaS KyN ASTON, 7, 8 

Pla8 Llankuroain, 100 

Pia» Llaiiynys, 346 

PlAa Maclog, 4, 9, 14, 21, 364 

Plas Newydd, 42, 47 

Pla8 Powkr, 25 

Plas Teo, 201 

Plas Uchaf, 14 

Plas Uwgh t Clawdd, 89 

Ph'ia V Bada, 38 

PlAa y Drain, 60 

Phis y Bold, 37, 40 

Plas y Mhkrs, 27 

Plus ym Machyinbyd, 62 

Plas ym Macuymbyd, 63 

Plas yn Horslli, 214, 248 

Pka yn lAl, 91 

Plas y Ward, 46, 211 

Ploydcll, 69, 77 

Pont y Gof, 347 

PoxT Y G6f, 47, 352 

Pope, Colonel, 408 

Portland, Earl of, 234 

Powkl of Alrhky, 338 

PowEL OF Qlan y Pwll, 104 

Powel of Henllan, 349 

Powel of Park, 405 

Powel of Plas Yn Horslli, 248 

Powel, 26 

Price, Dr. Ellis, 344 

Pryse of Derwen, 347 

Pryae of Llawesog, 345 

Prybe op Llwyn Yn, 49 

Pugh, llowland, 410 

Puleston, 5, 14, 16, 21, 131 

PULESTON OF HaFOD Y WkRN, 120 

Pulkston of Tbkfalun, 219 
Pulford of Pulford, 101 

R. 
Races, Ancient, 257 
Ravenscroft, 36 
Rhagad, Lloyd of, 67 
Rhelefnwyd, 379 
Rhirid Flaidd, 227 
Rhirid Foel, 249 
Rhiwlo. 31, 38 
Rhuddin, 193 
RhoB, Cantref of, 103 
Richmond, Duku of, 408 
Rhual, 105 
RhuddaUt, 5, 6, 25 
Rhydonen, 63 
Rhys ab Marchan, 192 
Rhys ab Maredydd, 342 
Rhys Gethin, 33 
Robert ab Rhys, Sir, 343 
Roberts, 17 



Roberts of Hafod t Bwch, 41 

Robinson, Colonel, 187 

Robinson of GwersyUt, 41 

RoBivsoN of Gwersyllt Uchaf, 188 

Rogers of Bryn Tangor, 151 

Rosendale. 228 

Roydon, 19. 93, 100, 189, 227 

ROYDON, 111 

S. 

Salusbury, 94, 100 

Sanddkf'Hardd, 248 

Sanddek OF Mortyn, 227 

Scotland, King of, 92 

Se^nvyd, 64 

SKhWicK. Manor of, 181 

Shackerley, Sir George. 187 

Sir Fulk Fitz Warino. 382 

Sir Roger de Powys, 383, 401 

Sir Roger Fyehan de Estxirick, 3S:^ 

Sir William de Powys. 381 

Sladen, Rev. Mainwariug, 324, 321* 

SonlU, 15, 16, 41 

Sonlli, Hugh, 136, 153,161 

Stanley of Ewlo, 121 

Stanley of Ewlo Castle, 242 

Stanley, Sir William, 408 

Stansti, 81, 123 

Stansti, 193 

St. Augustine, 316 

St. Clears, 227 

St. Curig. 274 

St. EUdan, 288 

St. George, 92 

St. GermanuB, 310 

St. Gregory, Pope, 314 

Sutton of Sctton, 185 

Sychdin, 102 

Symon op Coed y Llai, 223 

T. 
Tacitus, 262 
Tallard, Count, 411 
Tal y Bont, 101, 411 
Tal y Llyn, 411 
Tal y Wem, 369 
Tegin of Fbondeg, 83 
Tegwared y Bais Wen, 411 
Teirdan,37,51 
Teynham, Lord, 204 
Thelwall, 37, 47, 211, 344 
Thelwall, Simon, 131, 143, 147, 148, 149. 

168 
Theism, 320 

Thomas of Coed Helen, 30 
Tir y Cellach, 6 
Torquemada. 166 
Trafford, 31 

Trahaim Goch of Emlyn, 347 
Trahaim Goch of Lleyn, 18 



INDEX. 



419 



Trajan, 385 

Trawst, the Lady, 239 

Trej-alun, 192, 195, 196, 207, 212, 

220, 221, 222, 224 
Tref Eyarth, 49 
Trkk Fkchan, 16 
Tref Gaian, 29, 411 
Tref Ganiedd, 44 
Tref Nant Bychan, 44 
Trefuant y Rhiw, 192 
Tref Peu y Coed, 192 
Tref Rhuddin, 45, 345, 349 
Trentham, 410 
Trevor Hall, 246 
Trefor John, 206 
Tn)llope, Sir Andrew, 409 
Twiaa, Sir Tnivere, 212 
Tx Bellots, 23, 25 
Ty Cerrig, Lloyd of, 13 
Ty Ckrrio, Kobkrts ok, 25 
Tywyn, 411 



l*. 



UCHDRTD, 105 

Ucheldref, 193 



Valentia, Viaoouut, 25, 26 

Valle Crucis Abbey, 3, 115, 197, 

385 
Venablea, 93, 410 
Vaughan of Pant GlAs, 410 
Virgin Mary, 239 

W. 

Warfield Hall, 43 
Wattlesborough, 99 
VVepra, 101, 106 
Westminster, Creetl of, 3ir> 
White, Richard, 128 
Whitehall, 334 



Whitney, 27, 28, 121 
Whittinoton, 381, 405 
219, '■ Wigfair, Wynn of, 94 
WiUiams, Nicholas, 409 

WiLLINOTON, 374 

Wood, 210 

i WOODHOUSE, 8 

Worslley, 254 
! Wrexham, 132,411 

Wrexham Abad, 115 

Wrexham Gentry, 171 

Wrexham Manor, 115 

Wynn, 16, 19, 20, 33, 42, 108, 144 

Wynn Jones, 348 

Wynn of Bodfel, 29 

Wynn of Frondeg, 18 
i Wynn op Llwyx, 358 
; Wynn of Pentref Moroan, 403 
i Wynn of Wigfair, 94 
■ Wynn of y Groeskforud, 226 

V. 

Y Dref Newydu, 406 

Y Dref Wen, 381, 385 

Y Fyuechtid, 192 

Y Glwysegl, 55 

Y Groesffordd, 192, 193 

Y Grocs Llwvd, 192 
; Ynys EnlU, 29 

^*^' ' Yonge, 21, 39 
YoNOE, 376 
Yr Orsedd Goch, 215 

Y Saeth Marehog, 193 
Ysgeifiog, 104 

Yspj-tty leuan, 342, 344, 35:J 
Ystum Anner, 101, 411 
Ystum Cegid, 101 

Y Teg Fadog, 62 

Z. 

Zimri, 167 

Zosimus. Pope, 274, 312 



T. IICHABDS, PBIXTBB, 37, OBEAT QUIUT 8TISIT.