S LLOYD OF PALAU OR PALE. Bleddyn Lloyd of Havod Unnos, in the parish of Llangerniw, in the lordship of Rhuvoniog, ab Bleddyn Vychan ab Bleddyn ab Y Gwion ab Radvach ab Alser ab Gwrgi ab Hedd Moelwynog, one of the Noble Tribes. Sable, a hart argent, attired and unguled or.1 Cynwrig of Havod Unnos. Gruffydd of Havod..., d. of Cynwrig ab Rotpert ab Iorwerth ab Rhirid ab David Lloyd..., d. of Gruffydd Goch of Ruthin, ab Ieuan ab David Vychan of Havod ab Iorwerth ab David ab Iorwerth ab Cowryd ab Cadvan. Argent, three boar's heads couped sable. Unnos. Meredydd of Havod Unnos. Morvydd, d. of Howel ab Rhys Gethin. David of Mallt, d. and co-heiress of Gruffydd ab Madog ab Llewelyn Vy. Havod Unnos. chan of Llwyn Dyrus in Lleyn. Gules, a chev. or, and chief ermine, for Sir Gruffydd Lloyd of Trev Garnedd. Ieuan Lloyd of | 1st son. John Lloyd of Havod Unnos. Lowry, d. of Howel ab David Alice, d. of Robert ab John ab Meurig. (First wife.) | 8th son. bard and anti- ab Meurig. 1 2 See Arch. Camb., April 1876, "Llwyn y Maen". Rhys Wynne of Ffynogion, in Llanvair Dyffryn Clwyd, was the second son of Gruffydd ab Madog Vychan of Garth y Medd, in the parish of Abergeleu, descended from Iarddur of Penrhyn, Lord of Llechwedd Uchav (Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, pp. 89, 340). The above-named Geoffrey Lloyd of Dyffryn Erethlyn had issue, by his wife Margaret, a son and heir Evan Lloyd of Dyffryn Erethlyn, and jure uxoris of Palau. He married, on the 12th of July 1591, at Llandrillo in Edeyrnion, Margaret, daughter and sole heir of Maurice, Lord of Palau, who died in 1614, son of John Lloyd ab Elis Lloyd, Lord of Palau, ab Howel ab Gruffydd ab Rhys of Plâs Ynghrogen. The said Evan Lloyd was, at the time of his marriage, just sixteen years old, and the said Margaret eleven years of age. He died 8th July 1639, and was interred at Llanddervel, having had issue, besides two sons, ten daughters-1, Elizabeth, the first child, n. 12th Oct. 1597, at Palau, sepult. 5th April 1612; 2, Jane, n. 1599; 3, Margaret, n. 1601, ob. 1602; 4, Mary, n. 1602; 5, Alice, n. 1605; 6, Gwen, n. 1608; 7, Elizabeth, n. 1612; 8, Catharine, n. 1615; 9, Barbara, n. 16...; and 10, Dorothy, n. 1624. The two sons of the above-named Evan Lloyd were Geoffrey and Maurice. "Geoffrey Lloyd, the eldest son but sixth child, was born at Dyffryn Erethlyn, 13th March 1606, and was afterwards cruelly murdered at Dôl y Clettwr, in the township of Rhiwaedog, on St. John the Baptist's day, 23rd June 1626, by Evan Thomas, al's Jockus or tiler, son to Thomas ab Jenkyn ab Jockus of Glyn Dyvrdwy, and Thomas Roberts, son to Robert ab Hugh Vaine of St. Asaph, then both resident at Rhiwaedog House. The cause of the murder was never known, the manner too lamentable to set down, upon which fact both the malefactors fled, and the tiler, being within a few days after at Goytre, in Llangadwaladr in Chirkland, was taken and brought before Sir Thomas Myddleton, who sent him to go to Wrexham gaol, and on his way cast himself over the new bridge upon the Dee, between Chirk and Rhiwabon, and being drowned and taken up, his villanous despate carcase lieth buried at the bridge, and pierced through with an oaken stake,-too small punishment for such a wicked murderer. The other villain flying to London, was there likewise taken by Evan Lloyd Geoffrey, the father of Geoffrey Lloyd, and brought to trial, and by countenance of friends was found guilty but of manslaughter. God forgive them that did it, and bring the cause to light, and no doubt but God will disclose all murderers in time, for the innocent blood crieth for revenge, which only belongeth to God. Geoffrey Lloyd, having nine wounds upon his body, presented by the coroner's inquest, wherof one mortal upon his head to the brains given him on the backside of the skull with the butt-end of a fowling piece, and his neck bone broken, the rest in his thighs and leg, was buried in his grandfather Maurice ab John ab Elis grave in Palau pew, close to the wall, the 27th day of the said month of June 1626, by Mr. William Kenricke, Rector of Llanddervel, after a good funeral sermon preached by Mr. Richard Lewis, Chaplain to the Right Honble. William, Earl of Pembroke, and then Vicar of Llandrillo in Edeyrnion, upon this text out of Genesis, viz., Cain, Cain, ubi est Abel frater tuus etc. et hoc in perpetua' lamentabilis ejus mortem remanere devoc. p' hunc librum in scriptis testatur." The burial of Geoffrey Lloyd is recorded in Mr. Kenrick's handwriting in the following terms: "Gatfridus Lloyd Adolescens et Generosus Hæres Pala occisus et trucidatus sepult' fuit in eccl'ia cu' majoribus suis vicesimo Septimo die Junii dieq' Martis Anno Dni 1626." "Ante peroptator primæ lanerginis Annos Gatfridus superas Lloidus migravit ad oras." Maurice Lloyd of Palau, the second son, was born at Palau, 10th January 1618.1 The Palau estate and manor was sold by the trustees of the late David Maurice Lloyd of Palau, Esq., who died 1863. He was the son and heir, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of James Best of Park House, co. Kent, Esq., of the Rev. David Maurice Lloyd of Palau, son of Maurice Lloyd, son and heir by Margaret his wife, daughter of William Vaughan of Cors y Gedol, Esq., of John Lloyd of Palau, who was born in 1700 and died in 1 Arch. Camb., April 1885. 1742, ab Maurice Lloyd, ab ... Lloyd, son of Maurice Lloyd, who was born in 1618, the second son of Evan Lloyd Geoffrey. "By his will, Mr. David Maurice Lloyd, who died in 1863, devised the estate to trustees, with power of sale, for the benefit of his daughters. That power was exercised some sixteen years since, when the property was sold to Mr. Robertson, M.P. Four of the daughters survive, of whom the eldest is married to Dr. R. O. Jones of Bala, and the second to Mr. George Cruddas of Newton Leys, Derbyshire."1 Edward Lloyd of Palau, Esq., was High Sheriff for co. Meirionydd, 29th April 1789. GARTH LLWYD. Meredydd, fifth son of Tudor of Penllyn ab Goronwy ab Howel y Gadair of Cadair Benllyn, ab Gruffydd ab Madog ab Iorwerth ab Madog ab Rhirid Vlaidd. Ieuan ab Meredydd. Annesta, d. of Meredydd ab Tudor ab Howel ab Cynwrig Vychan of Voelas, in Yspytty Ieuan. Gules, a lion rampant argent, for Marchweithian, Lord of Is Aled. John Wynne of Dol Derlwyn in Llanddervel. Edward of Dol Lowry, d. of Howel Lloyd ab David ab Meredydd of Bala. | a Watkin of Garth Llwyd in Llanddervel. Buried at Llanddervel, 22nd Feb. 1610-11. Cadwala Grace, d. of Cadwaladr ab Robert ab Rhys of Plâs Cadwaladr of Garth Llwyd. = Grace, heiress of Garth Llwyd. Buried at Peter Meurig of Ucheldrev in Llanddervel, 25th August 1629. Gwyddelwern. MIGNANT. This comot contains the parishes of Llan Uwch Llyn and Llanvihangel. The parish of Llan Uwch Llyn, which lies above Llyn Tegid, a lake that takes its name from Tegid Voel, Lord of Penllyn, one of the sons of Cadell Deyrnllug, King of Powys, contains the townships of Pen Aran, Trev Prys or Brysg, Pennant Lliw, Trev Gastell, and Cynllwyd, and contains 12,000 acres. On a high, craggy rock on the south bank of the river Lliw are the remains of an old castle called Castell Carn Dochan; on the other side of the Lliw, to the north-east of Castell Carn Dochan, is Caer Gai. CAER GAI. This ancient fortification once belonged to Cai Hir ab Cymyr, Spenser's Timon, the foster-father of King Arthur, who is said to have been educated here "Here Timon dwelt, His dwelling is full low in valley green, His tumbling billows rolls with gentle roar." Caer Gai was originally a Roman camp, and several Roman bricks and a coin of the Emperor Gratian have been found there, as also a stone with this inscription,66 HIC IACET SALVIANVS FILIUS CVPETIAN." |