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: rine of Beren; and here abode the Hon. ThomasFitzmaurice, who, about 1780, established here extensive works for the bleaching of Irishlinen, paid in kind for rent by his Irish tenants. On the western side of the vale, and near Denbigh, are Givaenyjwg, the seat of the Rev.Robert Myddelton, M.A., an ancient property of his family, where Dr. Johnson was wontoccasionally to spend a holiday with his friend Dr. Myddelton, and where a monumenterected to his memory in the park describes it as a spot often dignified by the presence ofSamuel Johnson, LL.D., whose moral writings, exactly conformable to the precepts of Chris-tianity, gave ardour to virtue and confidence to truth ; Eriviatt, the seat of Major J. C.Ffoulkes ; L/ysjneirc/iio/i, the beautiful seat of P. H. Chambres, Esq. ; F/as Ileato/i, the seat 378 DENBIGHSHIRE. of J. R. Heaton, Esq.; and Galltfaenan, the residence of Townsend Mainwaring, Esq., lateM.P. for Denbigh boroughs. Nearer the town of Denbigh is Plas C/ougk, a very ancient

Text Appearing After Image: PONTRYFFYDD, VaLE OF CLWYD : THE RESIDENCE OF MiSS MeSHAM. residence of the Clough family, but not now occupied by a representative of the oldpossessors. Lower down the vale is the mansion and demesne of Llanerch, the residence

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