English: Identifier: annalsantiquitie01nich

Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: hkelie to lose all traces of what it was atfirst intended to recorde. The editor of the Cavibr. Register, a.d. 1796, says, in reference to this tomb, that the oldbiographers prediction had long been literally verified, as the monument he alludes to, forabove a century I should suppose, has ceased to exhibit any more marks of the sculptors artor original design than were barely sufficient to distinguish the sex of the recumbent figuresby. Of an inscription not the faintest vestige now remains, and every endeavour to retrieveit has proved fruitless. We give an engraving of the tomb in the venerable form in whichcenturies had left it. It has recently been restored, and now looks prim and fresh, buthas lost thereby— The pitted cheek and wrinkled brow,Wise sentences inscribed by time, and therefore some of its power to carry the mind to the long past. Sir Rhys ap Thomass 244 CARMARTHENSHIRE. lady,who is also here commemorated, is said to be Eva, daughter of Henry ap Gwilym ofCourt Henry.

Text Appearing After Image: Tomb of Sir Rhys ap Thomas. Lewis Giyn Cothi, a contemporary poet, has a poem on Henry Tudor and Sir Rhys, thefirst part of which has been rendered thus :— Blood like that which flowed of old in the veins of Gruffydd Maelawr is the life-flood of Henry, Jasper, andSir Rhys. In all alike it flows, enjoining like duties. To these kinsmen three has now the isle of Britain beencommitted. From Ednyfed Fychan the former two. The Goronwys and the Gruffydds stand by the race ofEdnyfed. No longer will the line of Rhodri [the Tudors were of the line of Rhodri Mawr] be weakened : ofall under heaven let them be strongest. Let the lands of the faith and of the heathen be subject to the raceof ludor : this island, by destiny of the stars and of song, was for the men of Gwynedd. For from Gwyneddhas it been foretold from the towers of Idwal would come liberty. Heinyn the bard foretold the downfall ofthe Saxons, when from Mon a writing should issue, and a man of Gwynedd should be crowned, and fromimp

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