History of Llangollen and its Vicinity Part 9

{60b} Sir Christopher Wren's Parentalia.

{62a} Camden's Britan. p. 677.

{62b} These dates may have been some years later. In a MS. obligingly lent to me, it is stated, "Dissolved by statute of Henry VIII. 1561, at which time it was rated in the King's Books at 214_l._ 3_s._ 3_d._:" so that it was wholly decayed, as Camden has it, in twenty-five years.

{62c} This is the year in which Camden's Latin Edition appeared; consequently, this survey must have been made before.

{65a} Pennant, vol. 1.

{65b} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 395.

{65c} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 397.

{65d} A ploughland is nearly one hundred acres.

{67} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 398.

{69a} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 399.

{69b} Although Pennant spells the second Cateli with two letters of T, yet it has been published by others with only one; and as the name in both instances refers to the same person, I have adopted the latter course.

{70a} Warrington, p. 87.

{70b} Camden, p. 595.

{70c} Wynne, p. 23.

{73a} Pennant, vol. 2, p. 80.

{73b} Bala Pool.

{73c} Camden's Brit. p. 666.

{77a} Wynne, p. 315.

{77b} Wynne, p. 320.

{77c} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 327.

{77d} Wynne, p. 315.

{78a} About seven miles from Llangollen, and not far from Glyndyfrdwy, on the Corwen road, there is a meadow called "Dol Benig," or Head Meadow, where this scheme was practised.

{78b} Camb. Trav. Guide p. 324.

{78c} Wynne, p. 316.

{79a} Wynne, p. 316.

{79b} Wynne, p. 316.

{80a} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 331.

{80b} Wynne, p. 317.

{80c} Camden, p. 625.

{81} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 328. Iolo Goch says-"Owen's Palace had a gate-house; was surrounded with a moat; had nine halls, furnished with the wardrobes of his retainers; had a house adjoining, built of wood, and covered with tiles, designed for his guests. The office of porter was useless; locks and bolts were unknown; and no one could be hungry or dry at Sycharth." So Mr. Pennant spells it.

{82a} Wynne, p. 317. Pennant, vol. 1, p. 355.

{82b} English Baronetage, vol. 1, p. 167.

{83a} Wynne, p. 317.

{83b} Wynne, p. 318. Pennant, vol. 1, p. 321.

{83c} Wynne, p. 320.

{83d} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 360.

{84} Wynne, p. 321.

{85a} Rapin's England.

{85b} Pennant.

{86} Wynne, p. 319.

{87} Wynne, p. 319. These rebellious practices of Glyndwr so exasperated King Henry against the Welch people, that he enacted laws which in effect took away all their liberties. They were rendered incapable of purchasing any lands, or of being elected Members of any county or borough; or of undertaking any office civil or military in any town incorporate. No Englishman could be convicted of any crime against a Welchman, but by an English judge and jury. An Englishman, by marrying a Welch woman, was deprived of all his privileges as an English subject.

No Welchman could possess any castle or place of defence, or be supplied with victuals or armour, without a warrant from the King or from his Common Council. And further it was enacted that no Welchman should be capable of undertaking the office of Justice, Chamberlain, Sheriff, or other place of trust, in any part of Wales; notwithstanding any patent or license heretofore given to the contrary. With other rigorous and unjust laws, forbidding any Welchman from bringing up his children to learning, or binding them to any trade or occupation. Henry V. at his succession repealed these abominable laws.

{88a} Pennant, vol. p. 371.

{88b} Hollinshead. Wynne, p. 319.

{89} Cambr. Trav. Guide, p. 324.

{90} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 331.

{91} Wynne, p. 322.

{92} Wynne, p. 322.

{94} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 296.

{99} The above ladies referred to by the author are dead some years ago, and Plas Newydd is now inhabited by two other ladies of high connections and respectability, Miss Andrew, and Miss Lolly.