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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: e PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF CARNARVONSHIRE. 313 castle a habitation fit for royalty, but used his ample and rapidly increasing fortune for theimprovement of the whole neighbourhood, both as it regarded the planning and cultivationof the estate, and the comfort and well-being of the inhabitants. He has been seconded inhis schemes of improvement by the present Lord Penrhyn, and the result is that the couritryaround Penrhyn Castle to some distance has good roads, good tillage, judiciously laidplantations, comfortable cottages and farmhouses, and a general aspect of haj^piness notoften to be met with in such a region. But the means for the accomplishment of so noble awork have come forth a hundred times over from the rocks of slate ! Another mansion of historic interest photographed for our pages is that of Giuydir, nearLlanrwst. This was the home of the Wynnes (see Wynne of Gwydir)^ and this building, orpart of it, is said to have been erected about the year 1558 by John Wynne ap Meredydd,

Text Appearing After Image: GwYDiR House [from a photo, by BcdforJ). whose initials used to be over the gateway. But there have been great alterations andchanges, and it is perilous to say much of the date of the structure. The spot is redolent ofantiquity and love of literature. Here Sir John Wynn, author of the History of the GicydirFaviily, lived, mused, and wrote : here he died, a.d. 1626, at the age of 73, after a life ofpain and labour. Of the race of Owain Gwynedd, and of large possessions, he was a man ofgreat mark, and his family for generations before and after him were of great influence inNorth Wales. The name was transferred from Gwydir through John, the son of his tenthson. Sir Henry of Wynnstay, and lives still at Wynnstay and other places ; but the directline terminated in an heiress, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard, great-grandson of the great SirJohn Uynn, of Gwydir, who married Lord Willoughby, first Duke of Ancaster^ and carriedthe Gwydir estates to that family (see Avelaud, Lord Gwydi?-). Sir

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