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Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: s Mostyn, Bart. ;and to the west, in the plain of the Clwyd, the eye descries Bodrhyddan, the ancient seat of theConwys (present mansion built 1596) ; Pengwern, the equally ancient seat of the Mostyns,now the residence of the Hon. Thomas Pryce Lloyd ; Bodelwyddan, the castellated andimposing mansion of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart. ; Bromvylfa, near St. Asaph, the resi-dence of Mrs. Vaughan Nanney, and once the abode of the talented Mrs. Hemans, andher brother, Sir Henry Browne ; and at a small distance up the Vale of Clwyd, on theFHntshire side, is BrynbeHa, the beautiful villa erected by Mrs. Piozzi, a member of thefamily of Salusbury, born at Bodfel, Carn., and an intimate friend of Dr. Johnson and manychief literati of that day. St. Asaph is principally distinguished for its cathedral, an accompanying bishops palace(present bishop, Dr. Hughes), a deanery, and several genteel residences. The cathedralof St. Asoph is not an erection of large proportions, or of very splendid architecture,

Text Appearing After Image: St. Asaph Qkvw^h^k-l [from a photo, by Bedfurd). but appears like a Christian church intended more for use than ornament, fittedfor the purposes of worship and instruction more than for the pomp of empty cere-monial, or inspiring awe by a wilderness of columns and arches and a dim religiouslight. The little city of St. Asaph, standing on a swelhng of the land between the riversClwyd and Elwy, if it were our province to describe towns, might be eulogized for itssituation, and for the air of neatness and respectability by which it is marked. Thecathedral is an ancient building near the right bank of the Elwy river, which here, afterdraining the central parts of Northern Denbighshire, approaches its junction with the Clwyd.From this river the church is called in Welsh Llan-Elwy,— the church on the Elwy. Itis said that the first erection was reared in the sixfh century, by Cyndeyrn ap Owain ap PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF FLINTSHIRE. 425 Urien Rheged, of Cumbria. He was, they say, succeeded

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