Welsh literature -- 18th century; Welsh literature -- Translations into English; Wynne, Ellis, 1671-1734
Margaret [2] = Richard Humphreys of Hendref Gwenllian, Penrhyndeudraeth.
Desceneded in male line from Marchweithian. An Officer in the Royal Army
through Civil War. Died 1699. Children: HUMPHREY [1]. Born 1648.
Dean of Bangor, 1680, Bishop 1689. Bishop of Hereford, 1701. Died 1712;
John, died at Oxford; Catherine.
HUMPHREY [1] = Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Morgan Bishop of Bangor 1678,
son of Rd. Morgan, M.P. for Montgomery Boroughs. Children: Ann, ob. s.
p. 1698; Margaret [1], died 1759.
Margaret [1] = John Llwyd of Penylan, Barr.-at-law, son of Dr. W. Lloyd,
Bishop of Norwich, deprived in 1691 as one of the Nonjurors.
Evan Llwyd [1] = Catherine, Daughter of Griffith Wynne of Penyberth.
Child: John [3]
John [3] had children: Griffith [1] and Evans.
Griffith [1] had children: William ob. s. p.; LOWRI.
LOWRI = ELLIS WYNNE.
{0a} “A Catalogue of Graduates in the University of Oxford between 1659
and 1850” contains the following entry:—“Wynne (Ellis) Jes. BA., Oct. 14,
1718, MA., June 13, 1722.” But one can hardly suppose this to have been
the _Bardd Cwsr_, as in 1718 he would be 47 years of age.
{0b} The following entries are taken from the register at
Llanfair-juxta-Harlech:—“_Elizaeus Wynne Generosus de Lâsynys et Lowria
Lloyd de Havod-lwyfog in agro Arvonensi in matrimonio conjuncti fuere
decimo quarto die Feb. 1702_.”
{0c} “_Elizaeus Wynne junr. de Lâsynys sepultus est decimo die Octobris
A.D. 1732_.”
{0d} “_Owenus Edwards cler. nuper Rector hums ecclesiae sepultus est
tricesimo die Maii A.D. 1711_.” (From the Llanfair parish register.)
{0e} “_Lowria Uxor Elizaei Wynne cler. de Lasynys vigesimo quarto die
Augti. sepulta est Ano. Dom. 1720_.”
“_Elizaeus Wynne Cler. nuper Rector dignissimus huius ecclesiae sepultus
est 17mo. die Julii 1734_.” (From the parish register at Llanfair.)
{0f} “_The Visions of the Sleeping Bard_. First Part. Printed in
London by E. Powell for the Author, 1703.”
{1a} _The opening lines_.—Ellis Wynne opens his vision as so many early
English poets are wont, with a description of the season when, and the
circumstances under which he fell asleep. Compare especially Langland’s
Visions, _prologus_:
In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne
I went wyde in this world wondres to here,
Ac on a May mornynge on Malvern hulles
Me befel a ferly of fairy me thoughte,
I was wery forwandred and went me to reste
Under a brode bank bi a bornes side
And as I lay and leued and loked in the wateres
I slombred in a slepyng it sweyved so merye.
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