Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven MilesSimpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
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Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles
Simpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
Llangollen (Wales)
{49} Warrington, p. 325.
{50} Wynne, p. 190.
{51} Warrington, p. 326.
{52} Wynne, p. 191.
{55} Warrington, p. 327.
{56} Warrington, p. 328. Hollins’s Chron. p. 73.
{60a} These trees were planted immediately after the great election for
the boroughs of Holt, Ruthin, and Denbigh, in which Mr. Myddelton was
chosen, to mark the way to the Castle of Chirk, for the convenience of
his constituents coming to share its hospitalities.
{60b} The ancient pillar and its pedestal now lie by the side of the
road, near a place called Pen y Bedau, about a quarter of a mile from the
toll-gate at the east end of the town.
{63} Hunt’s Letter to the Earl of Bridgewater, in the Ellesmere Report.
{67} Hunt’s Letter to the Earl of Bridgewater, p. 7.
{72} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 294.
{74} See “Llangollen Church”, in this book.
{80} English Baronetage, vol. 2, p. 114, printed 1727.
{85} Cooke’s Brit. Trav. p. 111.
{86} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 401.
{90a} London, so called by Camden and the Brut.
{90b} See Llangollen Church, dedicated to St. Collen.
{90c} See the Brut, or Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, in vol. 1 of
Collectanea Cambrica, by the Rev. P. Roberts, A.M.
{91} Chron. of the Kings of Britain, p. 49.
{92} Brut, p. 30. Camden. Gildas wrote A.D. 560; Geoffrey of Monmouth,
1070.
{94a} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 395.
{94b} Warrington, p. 345.
{94c} Warrington, p. 359.
{94d} Wynne, p. 229.
{96} Wynne, p. 230.
{97a} Warrington, p, 363.
{97b} Wynne p. 257. Warrington, p. 398.
{98a} Wynne, p. 273.
{98b} Wynne, p. 274.
{99} Wynne, p. 180.
{101} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 216.
{102a} Wynne, p. 275.
{102b} Warrington, p. 440.
{103a} Warrington, p. 458.
{103b} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 216.
{104} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 217.
{105a} Wynne, p. 181.
{105b} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 217.
{106} Pennant, vol. 1. p. 217.
{107} Camden’s Brit p. 304.
{110} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 324. A gentleman who knows the fact says,
however, that it came to the Cuppers recently, through an intermarriage
with a Miss Davies; and that Mr. Pennant was wrong informed.
{114} Whittington on Gothic Architecture. Dr. Milner’s History of
Winchester.
{115} Sir Christopher Wren’s Parentalia.
{118a} Camden’s Britan. p. 677.
{118b} 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.
{119} This is the year in which Camden’s Latin Edition appeared;
consequently, this survey must have been made before.
{124a} Pennant, vol. 1.
{124b} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 395.
{124c} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 397.
{125} A ploughland is nearly one hundred acres.
{127} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 398.
{131a} Pennant, vol. 1, p. 399.
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