The Tourist's Guide through the Country of Caernarvon: containing a short sketch of its History, Antiquities, &c.Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey)
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The Tourist's Guide through the Country of Caernarvon: containing a short sketch of its History, Antiquities, &c.
Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey)
Caernarvonshire (Wales) -- Description and travel
services, had several Manors or Regalities bestowed upon him and his
successors, as the Manor of Treffos, (said to have been afterwards the
residence of the Bishops of Bangor for some years) and some Cantreds in
the Island of Anglesey, the Ferries of Porthaethwy and Cadnant, over the
Menai, the Manors of Bangor, Castellmai and Garth Gogo, (now Gogarth).
In his time also the house in London was given. The offices secundum
usum Bangor, were recovered by Bishop Humphreys, from a private library,
and new bound, by the direction and at the expence of the late Dr. John
Jones; it was compiled by Bishop Anian, (Eineon) or at least given by
him. The Cathedral was destroyed in the year 1071, and was soon
afterwards re-built, for we find that in 1212, King John invaded the
country, forced the Bishop (Robert of Shrewsbury) from before the Altar,
and obliged him to pay two hundred Hawks for his ransom. In the year
1402, it was again reduced to ruin, by the rage of Owen Glyndwr, and
continued neglected for ninety years, when the Choir was restored by
Bishop Dean or Deny. The present body and tower were erected by that
liberal Prelate Bishop Skeffington, as appears by the following
inscription, at the West end, “_Thomas Skevington_, _Episcopus Bangoriæ_,
_hoc campanile et Ecclesiam fieri fecit Ann. partus_ 1532.” The height
of the Tower is about sixty feet, it was to have been raised considerably
higher, but the death of the Bishop prevented the execution of that
design. The windows were made or glazed according to the custom of the
times, by the piety of different persons, among whom may be reckoned Dean
Kyffin, and some of the Griffiths of Penrhyn. Bishop Lloyd gave the
Bells. On the South side of the Choir is a Mural Monument of Bishop
Morgan, who died September, 1673, aged 65, also another in memory of
Anne, daughter of Bishop Humphreys. The Busts of Bishops Vaughan and
Rowlands, which were decapitated, and otherwise disfigured in the
fanatical times of Oliver Cromwell, were removed in 1810. Bishop H.
Rowlands erected the Monument in memory of Bishop Vaughan, as a token of
his affection; he died Bishop of London, A.D. 1607. Bishop Edward
Griffith is supposed to have been buried near this spot. Bishop Rowlands
died July 1616, and is here buried, _ætatis_ 65; here also is buried
Bishop Lloyd ob. 15th Feb. 1688, _ætat._ 78. About the space of two
stones off lie Bishop Nich. Robinson and Bishop Robert Morgan, both in
one grave; the stone is or was partly covered by the rails; Morgan died
September, 1673, aged 65. Bishops Bailey and Meyrick were buried on the
South of the Communion Table. One stone with a plate upon it, is this
inscription: “_Gulielmus __Glynn natus in Insula Mona_, _&c._” he was
Bishop of Bangor in 1555. That wise and valiant Prince, Owen Gwynedd, is
supposed to have been buried beneath an Arch, with a flowery Cross cut on
a flat stone; he died regretted by his countrymen and feared by his foes,
in 1169.
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