granate was the badge of the house of Arragon, therefore", writes Mr. W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth, "the screen must have been erected between the 14 Nov. 1501, the date of the marriage of Arthur Prince of Wales with Katharine of Arragon, and the end of 1528, in which year Henry VIII began to question the legality of his own marriage with Katharine. But I am inclined to think that it may be attributed to between 3 June 1509, the date of that marriage, and the year 1528." No indication of a rood or crucifix has been found in the woodwork of the loft, and its absence may be readily accounted for by the wall-painting that stood above it. Other wall-paintings were brought to light along the north wall of the nave, but they also crumbled away on

exposure.

Reference has been made to the church of St. Patricio, or as it is sometimes written "Patrishow". In the Volume for 1856, p. 286 seq., will be found an account, with illustrations, of its curious inscribed font of the thirteenth century, from the pen of Professor Westwood; and in the Volume for 1874 a minute description of the church itself by Mr. M. H. Bloxam, who remarks that "This little church with its reclusorium, domus inclusi, or anchorite's cell (for such he takes the appendage at the west end to be), exhibits no less than three stone altars, two of them being the only instances he had met with (except those in front of the rood-loft in the church of St. Jacques, Antwerp, which are of wood and comparatively modern) of the rood-loft altars." A well known architect, Mr. Sedding, has suggested that there were here also, as at St. Patricio, two altars under the rood-loft. This would account most naturally for the raised platform on which it stands; and it is confirmed by the fact that the ceiling above the loft, as far as the second window in the nave, was elaborately panelled. It may be added that there was formerly in the sister church of Llangwm Isa a rood-loft almost as perfect and beautiful, approached by a stair in the wall; but it has long since disappeared, and is now only remem

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bered by old parishioners. We cannot therefore be too thankful that it has been the better fortune of Llangwm Ucha to have fallen on better times and into more tender and loving hands; and we cordially commend the work of its complete restoration' to the lovers of the beautiful in Christian art, as being itself "beautiful in its details, its execution, its conception. which nothing but a love of beauty in the minds of our countrymen could lead them to execute.""

The only monument possessing any interest is a tablet over the chancel door, in memory of a brotherin-law or perhaps a son-in-law of the celebrated Puritan, Walter Cradock, who was born at Y Pwll in the township of Trevilla, a small manor house in the parish. The Cradocks came into possession through the marriage of a cadet of the Pembrokeshire family of that name with a Miss Winter, the heiress; and from them it has descended by the marriage of later heiresses, through the Gwins and Watkins, to the present possessor, Mr. Cradock Gwin Watkins. The inscription runs: "Hic juxta jacet Ricardus Creed, qui Admirallo Blake Comitique de Sandwich Fuit a Secretis. Uxorem Loisiam Walteri Cradock filiam natu maximam duxit. Repentina mors e vivis septuagenarium sustulit nono calendar' Augusti, A.D. 1690." The earliest register dates from 1663, and contains no entry under the surname of Cradock; but a Cradock Gwyn is named under 1679. There are several baptisms of sons of Richard Creed 1664-1669, and he occurs in 1670 as one of the Overseers and Churchwardens. Could he have been the same with the Major of that name in Cromwell's army?

Among the vicars of the parish occur: 1560, "Philip ap Jenkin, Clerke, Vicare of Langonne is there Resydent and kepeth Hospytalytye." (Bishop Kitchin's

1 For this purpose we understand that in addition to a deficit of £60 for the repair of the lower screen and coved portion, recently completed (January 1877), another £120 are required for the repair of the rood-loft,- -now in hand.

2 The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

return to Archbishop Parker); 1679, Philip Thomas, vicar; Thomas James, buried the 2nd day of August, 1718; 1718, Thomas Jones, vicar, ibidem, October 16; 1730, Jenkin Jones, vicar of Llangwm Ucha and Isa, Penhow and Llanpadock, and Llangeview, died June 14th, and was buried, June 16th, at Llangubby, in the year 1765; 1765, Rice Davies, vicar, October 21, 1765, was buried 1789; 1790, Edward Thomas; 1832, John Fleming; 1856, William Price, the present vicar.

D. R. T.

ON THE TRIBE OF EDNOWAIN BENDEW.

NO. II.

IORWERTH (ab Madoc ab Ednowen) married Arddyn, the daughter of Llewelyn ab Owain ab Edwyn of Tegaingl. The unfortunate person named Owain obtained the undesirable cognomen of "Vradwr" (or the traitor), having joined Hugh Earl of Chester against his son-in-law, Gruffydd ab Cynan, the last-called King of Wales. He is said to have died at the commencement of the twelfth century, from a disease of the lungs, and his arms are stated to be, argent, between four Cornish choughs a cross fleury engrailed sable. Edwyn of Tegaingl was founder of one of the noble tribes of North Wales. He married Gwerydd, the daughter of Cynfyn ab Gwerystan ab Gwaithvoed, who was Prince of Powys in right of his wife Angharad, the heiress of Meredydd ab Owain by Angharad, heiress of Merfyn ab Rhodri Mawr, and Queen of Powys. Having been slain near Rhuabon by Rhudosa ab Rhys ab Owain, circa 1075, he was buried at Northop in Flintshire. The father of Edwyn was Grono, or Goronwy, son of Owain ab Howell Dda by his second wife, Angharad, heiress of Merfyn ab Rhodri Mawr, and Queen of Powys, and thus brother of the Meredydd mentioned above. Goronwy married Edelfleda, the widow of Edmund Ironsides of England, and daughter of Edwin

Earl of Mercia. The Saxon Chronicle says, under the date 1039, "the Welsh kill Edwin, brother of Leofric the Earl, and Thurkill, and Elfget, and very many good men with them."

Iorwerth was succeeded by his son, Ririd ab Iorwerth, who married Agnes, daughter of Sir Robert Pulford. The family of Pulford was seated for several generations at Pulford in the county of Chester; and from the time of King John to that of Edward I, the several heads of the family all had the name of Robert. There appear to have been four of them. The last married a daughter of the truly noble house of Corbet, and another branch is represented by the house of Grosvenor, Dukes of Westminster. By Agnes, his wife, Ririd ab Iorwerth was father of an elder son Iorwerth, of whom presently; and a second son, Einion ab Ririd, who married Jane, daughter of Lles or Llewellyn ab Iorwerth of Maesbrock, and had issue, Madoc, who married Gwen, daughter of Adda ab Ninic (?) ab Kynric ab Pasgen, and was father of Meredith, who married Angharad, daughter of Evan Gethin ab Madoc Kyffin, by whom he had issue three sons,-1, Ieva, who by Morfydd, heiress of Griffith ab Adda ab Griffith of Dolgoch, had a daughter and heiress, Tangwystl, wife of Griffith Lloyd ab Llewelyn ab Ynyr; 2, Llewelyn, whose son Llewelyn married Margaret, daughter of Evan ab Adda Ddu, and had issue Llewen, who married Llewelyn ab Gruffydd Lloyd; 3, Rys, who, marrying Jane, daughter of Gruffudd ab Eva ab Adda Ddu, had issue, Ithel Vychan ab Rhys ab Madoc ab Blethin ab Bletrws (so says the MS., with a query), who married Alis, daughter of Gruffudd ab Rees of Llandewe, and had issue Tudyr ab Ithel, who married Jonet, daughter of Llewelyn ab Blethin of Pantyloyd, and had a son, Griffith, who, by Nest, daughter and heiress of Tudyr ab Grono ab Blethin, descended from Llowarch Holbwrch, was father of Davydd, husband of Margaret, heiress of Davydd ab Llewellyn ab Tudyr ab Davydd Vychan, and father of Rees of Wickwer, who married

Nest, daughter of Evan ab Rees ab Grono ab Cynric ab Blethin, and had two sons, of whom,-1. Davydd Lloyd the elder married Alis, daughter of Gruffudd ab Evan ab Llewelyn Vychan, and had issue,-1stly, John Lloyd, Registrar, who, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Llangwyfan, was father of a son, John Lloyd Baghed, Doctor of Physic, and Anne, heiress, who married John Prys of Rhiwlas, ab Codden, Esq.; 2ndly, William Lloyd, parson of Llanrhaiadr, Llanvechain, and Llanwain; 3rdly, Edward Lloyd, Proctor in Llandewe. 2. Evan Lloyd, the second son of Rees of Wickwer, married Margaret, daughter of John, and had issue,1. John Lloyd, Recorder, who, by Alis, heiress of Richard ab John Wyn ab Evan ab Rhys o Wyn Cynrick had issue,-1st, Edward Lloyd, who married Catherine, daughter of Cendric Wyn of Hafod; 2nd, John, who married a daughter of Thomas Eues of Dinbach; 3rd, Ffowke, who married a daughter of Lloyd Marchant; 4th, Robert, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Davydd Glyn, clerk; 5th, Elen, wife of Thomas ab John Griffith of Hafod; 6th, Margaret, wife of John William ab Griffith; 7th, Catherine, wife of Thomas Burchmesham ab John of Llansanan (?). 2. Davydd Lloyd of Dinbach, who, by Alis ab Davydd (a word illegible) ab Robert had issue,-1, John Lloyd, vicar of Groesfford; 2, Sir Hugh, curate of Rhyddland; 3, Elen, wife of Robert ab Robert of Coder; 4, Elizabeth, wife of Ffowke ab Thomas of Wickwaer; 5, Ann, wife of John ab William.

Iorwerth, the eldest son of Ririd ab Iorwerth, married Nest, heiress of Iorwerth ab Grono ab Einion ab Seissyllt. According to the pedigree of Colonel Jones this lady's grandfather, Grono, married Middyfis, daughter of Ŏwain Cyfeilioc, lord of Powys (or, a lion rampant gules); and his father, Einion, married Nest, daughter of Cynvelin ab Bosfyn ab Rhiwallon ab Madoc ab Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, lord of Nannau (or, a lion rampant azure). Seissylt, who was descended from Gwyddno Garanhir, and bore argent, a lion passant guardant