in gold, three hundred pounds in silver, and a fine of two thousand five hundred cattle, with a certain number of hounds and hawks. W Of the descendants of Glodrydd were the Powels of Worthyn. The male line of this house hath lately become extinct in John Powel Esquire, and the estate and lordship of Worthyn hath devolved to John Kynaston Powel Esquire of Hardwick in right of his mother, the sister in half blood to the last gentleman of Worthyn. The Powels were anciently seated at Henllan in Denbighshire, and in the Seventh Henry's time their ancestor, Madog, marries Jane, daughter of Dafydd Myddelton of Gwaunynog, the gentleman who obtained his wife (the Done) so roughly, as before related. The Powels of Ednop, now extinct, were of this Tribe. Powel, the Poet, of this house dedicates his Pentarchia to Charles the First, then Prince of Wales, but it does not appear it was ever printed. He has taken great liberties with prosody and orthography; there are however many good lines, and he is accurate in his facts. W This arbitrary tribute, extorted from the Welsh while under the influence of power, was no longer regarded, than while the Kings of England had the means of enforcing its observance. Edgar, the nephew of Athelstan and son of his brother Edmund, converted into a present of wolves' heads the tribute paid by the Welsh in gold and silver &c. originally imposed on them. by Athelstan. Edgar was rowed on the Dee by eight tributary petty Princes. Kk He prefaces it modestly enough in the following verses; Non ita sum gnarus, nec in arte peritus heraldâ Doctior, et nostris faveat non invidus ausis. I cannot find when he died, or more in relation to him. Could we reach family authorities, (certainly abundant) much would be known on the subject in general, and I trust as a good Welshman, that the time may come when that will be the case. The Owenses of Rhiw sacson descended from Glodrydd: The male line ended in Corbet Owens Esquire, and his sister Anne married Price Maurice Esquire of Lloran, and was mother of Edward Maurice Esquire of Ynys y maengwyn, an estate he possesses in virtue of the marriage of Anne Corbet, the heiress, to Ethelystan Owens Esquire of Rhiw saeson, his mother's father. The Pryces of Newtown, Bodfach, and Glan Miheli, descended from Glodrydd: They were settled at the first place about the time of Henry the Sixth, and the two last families were branches of Newtown. Their ancestor, Rhŷs, was an Esquire of the Body to Edward the Fourth. The male line ended in Sir Edward X * In the transactions of the Society for the encouragement of Arts is an account of Mr. Corbet's improvement of many hundred acres at Ynys y maengwyn, for which he was presented with a gold medal. Manley Pryce, who died a bachelor some few years since. His father, Sir John Powel Pryce, married a Manley of Manley. This gentleman was accustomed to follow his hounds many years after he had totally lost his sight, and would run the risk of some dangerous leaps. The grandfather (Sir John Pryce) to the last Baronet was a gentleman of worth, but of strange singularities. He married three wives; his first, a Powel, the grandaughter of Sir John Powel, one of the Justices of the King's bench, (in the reign of James the Second) who eminently signalized his integrity and resolution in the case of the seven Bishops. To the memory of his second wife, a Morris, Sir John Pryce wrote an elegy of a thousand lines, still extant; in which, he affirms, that with his latest breath he would lisp Maria's name. But he forgot his vow, and was soon smitten with the charms of a widow Jones. This lady would not give her hand to Sir John until he had entombed her predecessors, who had, till that time, lain in state and chemicaly preparations in his bedchamber. He survived this wife also, and on her death writes to Bridget Bostock, ▾ We had a later instance in Martin Vanbutchel's wife, (the spring-band and garter man) pickled by William Hunter, and more highly preserved by an epitaph of great humour and of fine taste and latinity, attributed to the first perhaps of our modern Physicians. During this season of miracles worked by Bridget Bostock of Cheshire, who healed all diseases by prayer, faith, and an embrocation of fasting the Cheshire Pythoness, to this purpose; "Having received information by repeated advices, both public and private, that you have of late performed many wonderful cures, even where the best physicians have failed; and that the means used appear to be very inadequate to the effects produced, I cannot but look upon you as an extraordinary and highly favoured person. And why may not the same most merciful God, who enables you to restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and strength to the lame, also enable you to raise the dead to life? Now having lately lost a wife, whom I most tenderly loved, my children an excellent stepmother, and our acquaintances a very dear and valuable friend, you will lay us all under the highest obligations; and I earnestly entreat you, for God Almighty's sake, that you will put up your petitions to the throne of grace on our behalf, that the deceased may be restored to us, and the late Dame Eleanor Pryce be raised from the dead. If your personal appearance appears to you to be necessary, I will send my coach and six with proper servants to wait on you hither, whenever you please to appoint. Recompence of any kind that you could propose, would be made with the utmost gratitude; but I wish the bare mention of it is not offensive to both God and you." spittle, multitudes resorted to her from all parts, and kept her salival glands in full employ.-Pennant. APPENDIX. No. I. William Morgan, Bishop of Saint Asaph, to Sir John Wynn of SALUTEM IN C.HRO. Lease Gwydir. YOURE motyves that I shold confyrme youre upon the Rectorye of Llan Rŵst are dyverse, vz. 1. Youre greeffe to mysse, havynge neaver fayled before of anie attempte. 2. That you had rather forgoo 100l. landes a yeare. 3. That the rent reserved ys as much as the Rectorye ys worth. 4. That youe purchased the Lease deere. 5. That ye. world may thynke youre love to me warde unkyndlye rewarded. 6. That others, by my example, wyll lesse esteme youe. 7. That youe hope to finde me such to youe, as youe are to me. 8. That the adioynyng of Tybrith did cost you much. 9. My sundrie promysses that youre Lease shold be the fyrst. And one thynge moveth me agaynst all these, vz. my conscience, wch. assureth mę that youre request ys such, that in grauntyng yt I shold prove my selfe an unhonest, unconscionable and irreligiouse man; ye a sacrilegiouse robber of my church, a perfydiouse spoyler of my Diocesse, and an unnaturall hyndrer of preachers and good scholers; the consyderatione whereof wold be a contynual terror and torment to my conscience. And to com to youre motyve reasons: |