both hands on his breast a chalice with this inscription: 66 HIC JACET JORWERTH SVLIEN VICARIVS DE CORVAEN ORA PRO EO." This tomb is under an arch in the north wall of the church. In the Llyfr Coch, 40A, this place is called Corvaen. On a gravestone in the church is the following inscription: "Hic jacet corpus Marthæ filiæ Edwardi Price de Llwyn Yn, armigeri, et uxor Richardi Yong de Bryn Yorkin, armigeri, quæ obiit 18 die Decembris, MDCLIV."

"Martha soror Lazari mundanis anxia curis

Martha quod elegit nostra necesse fuit."

In the churchyard is a stone pillar called "Carreg y Big yn y Vach Rewlyd," to which a legend is attached, to the effect "that all attempts to build the church in any other place were frustrated by certain adverse powers, till the founders, warned by a vision, were directed to a spot where this column stood." This stone pillar is now built into the wall of the north porch.

Mr. T. T. Wilkinson related similar stories of Lancashire goblins, who are believed to have determined the sites of Rochdale, Burnley, Lanlesbury, and some other churches, by removing the stones and scaffolding of the builders in the night time. There is a legend of this class in connection with Winwick Church, near Warrington, and Whaley-bridge, in Derbyshire. In the Chaldean account of the destruction of the Tower of Babel, we read that what the workmen built in the day the god destroyed in the night.2

CAER DREWYN.

Near Rhagad is an ancient circular camp called Caer Drewyn, about one mile to the north of Corwen. This is an ancient British post, on a steep hill, which commands a fine view of the vales of Glyn Dyvrdwy and

1 See vol. v, p. 257, and vol. iv, p. 187.

2 Chaldean Account of Genesis, by the late George Smith, Esq., 1876, p. 172.

Edernion. This camp is circular, about half a mile in circumference, and defended by a single wall, now mostly in ruins, in the thickness of which are evident remains of apartments. It had apparently two entrances, nearly north-east, with an oblong rectangular enclosure added to the main structure, where the ground is flat, besides being strengthened with a great foss and wall. Within are the foundations of rude stone buildings, one of which is circular, and several yards in diameter; the foss is carried much further than the wall.

Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, encamped his army at Corwen in 1164, when Henry II came against North Wales, and the trenches of his camp are still to be seen. (Rob. Vaughan.) The lordship of Edernion anciently contained thirteen baronies, and held independent manorial rights, and one court was held for the whole at Cynwyd, in the parish of Gwyddelwern, by the great men of the neighbourhood, to settle the boundaries of their several claims on the wastes and commons, and to take cognizance of any encroachments; but, a feud arising between the lords, the records were burnt, and the courts have since been discontinued. Cynwyd is situated at the confluence of the Trystion with the Dee. The Trystion rises in the Berwyn mountains, a little to the south-west of Moel Fferna. Edernion is bounded on the east by the Berwyn mountains, the highest of which, Cadair Fron wen, rises to the height of 2,573 feet above the level of the sea. The statute of Wales, 12 Edward I, A.D. 1284, enacts that there should be a vice or sheriff of the cantref of Meirionydd, and that the commot of Ardudwy, the commot of Penllyn, and the commot of Edernion should be placed under his jurisdiction. Thus Penllyn and Edernion were severed from Powys.

YR HENDWR.1

Janet, daughter of Sir William Say, Knt. Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, Chief Justice of England Sheriff of Shropshire in 1207, married Beatrice, a daughter and co-heir of William de Say, son of Beatrice, aunt and heir of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, and obtained that earldom in his right. (Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire.)

David ab Gruffydd ab Owain, grantee in a charter of 22 July, 12 Edward I (1284). This charter is cited in Placita of 8 Edward III and of about 24 Edward III, the former of which prove Gruffydd and Rhys (below) to have been the sons of Madog ab Davydd, lord of Hendwr; and by the latter this Davydd is shown to have been ancestor to Davydd ab Madog | and Rhys, and they to have been his heirs by the law of gavelkind. There is an elegy upon him by Bleddyn Vardd in Hengwrt MS. 366.

This pedigree is taken from one by W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth, Esq., and printed in the Mont. Coll. of October 1874.

2 He was the eldest son of Owain de Brogyntyn, according to the Cae Cyriog MS.

3 Madog, Baron of Hendwr, bore argent on a chev. gules, three fleursde-lys or. Besides Gwenllian, other heralds state that he married another wife, Eva, daughter and co-heiress of Llewelyn, second son of Gruffydd ab Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Upper Powys. The mother of Madog of Hendwr was daughter of Llewelyn ab Gruffydd, Lord of Eyton, etc.-Lewys Dunn, vol. iii, p. 116.

Sir Gruffydd Lloyd bore gules, a chief ermine, and chevron or. See "Eleirnion".

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Davydd ab Madog, living, and of full age," Sibilla Cornwall, ux. David circa 24 Edw. III (Record of Carnarvon, pp. 110, 169). Either this David or his son appears in a list Indicatorum, for the county of Merioneth, of 6th Richard II, where he is styled "David de Hendor, Baro de Edernion".

de Hendor" about 15 Edward III. Sibilla shown to have been mother of David below, in some Placita of 14 Rich. II, when she was living.

Richard, son of Thomas de Hendwr, dead in 10 Henry VII. There is nothing to show that he was the son of Thomas de Hendwr by Anne, daughter of Ieuan ab Iorwerth ab David; but he was certainly legitimate, and there is nothing to lead to a supposition that Thomas had another wife.

1 From a document dated 3 Henry VI, we find that Gwido de Hendwr died seized of seven messuages in the manors of Llandrillo, Pennant, Tyvos, Garth Iaen, Branas, Gwnodl, and Vairdrev.-Lewys Dunn, vol. ii, p. 110.

2 Goronwy was the son of Gruffydd ab Madog ab Iorwerth ab Madog ab Rhirid Vlaidd, Lord of Penllyn.

Lleuky (Lucy), co-heiress, wife of Ieuan ab Gruffydd of Bers, co. Denbigh. "Merioneth, Edeirnion, vetera exacta in compotio exactorum comitatus predicti et adhuc annuatim in orere, etc., vjs. viijd., de exit xxti acr. terre arabilis in villa de Vaerdu ucha in comoto Edeirnion, in compotis predictis, de quibus Lleuky verete (daughter) David ab Gion obiit seisita in dominio suo ut de feodo militare, remanentium in manus domini Regis ab anno 15 Henrici VI, prout plene (patet) per inquisitionem inde inter alia captam, die martis proxima post festa Apostolorum Ph'i et Jaci' anno predicto." (Ministers' Accounts, 36 Henry VI, in Public Record Office.)

1 Howel was the son of Gruffydd ab Owain ab Bleddyn ab Owain Brogyntyn.

2 Ieuan had Branas Isav and Gwnodl (see "Glyndyvrdwy"). He married... d. of Gruffydd ab Adda ab Howel ab Ieuav ab Adda ab Awr of Trevor, in Nanheudwy, by whom he had, besides a younger son, David of Gwnodl and Branas Isav, an elder son, Gruffydd, who married Morvydd, daughter of Howel ab Madog of Overton, by whom he had a son, Howel Vychan, who sold his estate. Howel Vychan married Gwenh wyvar, daughter and heiress of Iolyn ab David of Yr Hob, by whom he had an only daughter, Catharine, who married Richard ab Gruffydd of Llai, in Gresford. Her children being all dead, her mother's property went to John ab Elis Eyton of Watstay. -Cae Cyriog MS.