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
On the floor is a mutilated figure, in brass, designed for
Richard Kyffin, the active Dean of the Cathedral, in the Reigns of
Richard III. and Henry VII. He was a strenuous friend to the house of
Lancaster, and when he was Prebendary of Llanddwyn, and resident there as
Rector of the place, he concerted, in conjunction with Sir Rhys (or Rice)
ap Thomas, of Dinevor, and other Welsh Chieftains, a plan for the
bringing in the Duke of Richmond, then in Brittany, to whom they
transmitted, by means of fishing Vessels, all the necessary intelligence.
He died the 13th of August 1502. The place of his interment was till
within these few years (and probably may be so still) distinguished by
the name of _Bedd y Deon Du_, or the grave of the black Dean, who was so
called, in all probability, from his complexion. It appears, from the
Sebright MSS. that our wise and brave Prince Griffith ap Cynan, was
interred on the left side of the great Altar, in the year 1137, and that
an elegant shrine was erected over his grave, of which however not a
vestige now remains. In the Parish Church of Llandegai,
before-mentioned, is still to be seen a mural Monument, with a long Latin
inscription, to the memory of the celebrated John Williams, Archbishop of
York, in the time of Charles the First; he is represented in his
episcopal Dress, kneeling at an Altar. This great Prelate was born at
Conway; his father, _Edmund_, was sixth son of the neighbouring family of
_Cochwillan_, and a branch of that of Penrhyn; his life was written by
Bishop Hackett, and the late Rev. Sneyd Davies, after viewing the
Monument, wrote a beautiful little Poem, which is preserved in Dodsley’s
Collections. Here is also an Alabaster Monument of an armed Man and his
Lady, recumbent; they probably belonged to the neighbouring House, but on
the dissolution were removed from the Friery of Llanvaes in Anglesey,
where the persons represented had been interred.
The Bishop’s Palace is an irregular building situate on the side of the
Hill, about one hundred yards to the North of the Cathedral; it was
partly re-built by Bishop Warren, and several handsome and commodious
apartments added to it, and it has been in other respects greatly
improved by the present worthy Prelate, Dr. Majendie. The residence of
the Dean is nearly adjoining the Church-yard, at the N. W. end of the
Cathedral.
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