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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: nsion,with every appointment appertaining to a great house, situated in a spacious park surroundedby a ring-fence of several miles in circumference, and containing a menhir, a fort, a mausoleum,a museum of ancient armour, &c. The country is rather bleak and quiet, but in the near PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF CARNARVONSHIRE. 315 neighbourhood of the sea, whose wholesome breezes are felt all around; while the growth oftrees, though retarded, is not prevented. Glynllifon has been a place of note for four hundred years. In 1562 William Glyn, ofthis place, was High Sherifif of the county of Carnarvon, and in 1584 Thomas Glyn, his son,was High Sheriff of Anglesey. The family of Glyn continued till 1750, when it ended in anheiress who married Sir Thomas Wynn, of Bodeon, of the venerable line of Wynns of Bodfcland Gwydir, and ultimately of the stock of CoUwyn ap Tangno, Lord of Eifionydd, founderof one of the fifteen noble tribes. Ever since, the Wynns have dwelt at Glynllifon (seeNewborough).

Text Appearing After Image: Glynllifon: the Seat of Lord Newborough {from a photo, by Bcdfo7-d). Of Lleyn, Leland gives an accurate description when he says, All Lene is as it were apointe into the sea. It lengthens itself out towards the south-west as if to meet some otherheadland, which, they say (and geology seems to favour the tradition), once came to greet itfrom the Pembrokeshire coast. You pass the mountains of Yr Eifi {Rivel), the port of Nefyn,the anchorage of Porthdinllaen, cross Carn Madryn, which looks like a molehill in thedistance, glide over Rhos Hirwaun and Mynydd Ystum, and out a little beyond the extremityof the promontory you descry the holiest island—if the monks are to be believed—on thecoast of Britain. This is none other than Viiys Eiilli—in English Bardst^, the island of thebards,—measuring about two miles long and one broad. For centuries it was the gathering-place of pilgrims, the home of eremitic monks, the burial-place of holy dead, from allcountries of Christendom. Beyond Lhy

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