 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...are sometimes obtained from them little inferior to the oriental ones. Hir Richard Wynn, of Gvvydir, chamberlain to Catherine, Queen of Charles II. , presented...kind, which still retains a place in the regal crown. These fine pearls are but seldom met with, and the search of them does not constitute a continual source... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...our river muscle (LTnio mafgaritifera), but too seldom to be worth the search. A notion prevails that Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine,...Queen of Charles II., presented Her Majesty with' one taken in the Con way, which is to this day honoured with a place in the regal crown. In the last century... | |
 | George Johnston - Mollusks - 1850 - 634 pages
...grandiores pisis, cxacte rotundoe, nitidissimi candoris." — Nat. Hist. Scot. iii. 27. notion prevails that Sir Richard Wynn, of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, Queen of Charles II., presented her Majesty with a pearl taken in the Conway, which is to this day honoured with a place in the regal crown.* Sir Robert... | |
 | William Cathrall - Wales, North - 1851 - 354 pages
...and pearls are sometimes obtained from them little inferior to the oriental ones. Sir Richard Wynne, of Gwydir, Chamberlain to Catherine, Queen of Charles...which is very much inferior, is chiefly found on the bar at the mouth of the river. Pliny asserts that Julius Caesar dedicated to Venus Genetrix, in her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...occasionally found in our river-mussel, but too seldom to be worth the search. A notion prevails that Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine,...queen of Charles II., presented Her Majesty with one taken in the Conway, which is to this Jay honoured with a place in the regal crown. In the same river... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...found in our river mussel, but too seldom to be worth the search. A notion prevails, that Sir Eichard Wynn, of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, Queen of Charles II., presented her Majesty with one taken in the Conway, which is to this day honoured with a place in the regal crown. In the last century... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 692 pages
...and the Conway were famous in this way. The latter river, in the days of Camden, was noted for them. Sir Richard Wynn, of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, queen of Charles II., is said to have presented her majesty with a Conwai pearl, which is to this day honoured with a place... | |
 | Askew Roberts - Wales - 1882 - 336 pages
...river, above Trefriw, and pearls scarcely inferior to the Oriental ones are occasionally found in them." Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, queen of Charles II., presented to her Majesty one which is supposed still to adorn the royal crown, and Conway pearts~are mentioned... | |
 | John Askew Roberts - 1883 - 548 pages
...river, above Trefriw, and pearls scarcely inferior to the Oriental ones are occasionally found in them." Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, queen of Charles II., presented to her Majesty one which is supposed still to adorn the royal crown, and Conway pearls are mentioned... | |
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Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, chamberlain to Catherine, Queen of Charles II., presented Her Majesty with' one taken in the Con way, which is to this day honoured with a place in the regal crown. 