'Hic jacet corpus Nicolai Pennant, filii Hugonis ap Rees ap Dafydd Pennart, de By:hion, ex fonetæ, filiæ Ricardi ap Howel, de Mofyn. Sepultum viceffimo-fept, die Martis, A. D. 1601. Cuj. An. DEUS propit. Efto, miferere, Amen.'

THIS diftant uncle was a younger fon of Hugh Pennant, and one of twelve children by Sionet Moftyn (See p. 26) one of the five daughters of the valiant Howel ap Richard de Moftyn, who led his countrymen to Befworth-field, and received the honorable reward I mentioned, at p. 58.

By the remains of Nicolas Pennant are depofited thofe of my late worthy fervant Louis Gold. What I never wish to be done for myself, I did for him, I placed a finall brass within the church, with an infcription expreffed in the following terms:

This fmall Monument of esteem was erected by his lamenting Master in Memory of

LOUIS GOLD,

a Norman by Birth,

and above twenty years the faithful
Servant and Friend

of THOMAS PENNANT, Efq.
of Downing.

In his various fervices

he made confiderable favings, which he difpofed of by his laft will (having no relations of his own) with affection to his friends

and to his fellow-fervants, with unmerited gratitude to his Master and his family, and

with piety to the poor.

NICOLAS PEN

NANT.

LOUIS GOLD.

Every duty of his humble ftation,

and every duty of life,

He discharged fo fully,

That when the day fhall come which levels
all diftinction of ranks,

He may,

By the favor of our bleffed Mediator,
hear these joyful words,

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant,
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
He was born at St. Hermes de Rouvelle
in Normandy, August 22, 1717; died
at Downing, August 20, 1785; and was
interred in the Church-yard near this wall

on the 22d of the fame month,

The wealth which Louis had acquired was confiderable. Above fixteen hundred pounds paffed through my hands. He had befides a thousand pounds, which a setter to an attorney prevaled on the good man to fink with the man of the law for an annuity. Death foon put the lawyer in poffeffion of the principal. I lament this; for I had been left by him refiduary legatee and fole executor, with a power to difpofe of the remainder (all legacies paid) in charitable ufes. Thus a thousand pounds were loft to Whiteford parish. The intereft of the remainder is quarterly divided among the worthieft of our poor, who may annually blefs fo excellent a benefactor.

Louis was bred a Roman catholic, and notwithstanding he occafionally frequented the prayers of our church, he chose to be buried according to the rites of thofe of Rome, which were per

formed

formed in a room in my houfe. He left twenty pounds to the gentleman who performed the fervice. I fixed on the Reverend Philip Jones, who had in this neighborhood near fifty years difcharged his function in a manner truly exemplary. I took up the old cuftom of attending a faithful friend to his grave, a respect the excellency of his conduct clamed from

me.

NEAR to the tomb of Nicolas Pennant, is another in memory of Hugh Pennant, fon and heir of Robert Pennant, of Downing, (see p. 9.) who was buried August 16th, 1675, with this best of charasters; He lived honeftly, and hurt nobody. He gave every "one his due.'

NEAR to this place, tumbled on the ground, is a stone in memory of a Pierce of Yglan, in this parish, a refpectable family now extinct, defcended from Ednowen Bendew. The crest of this family is a boar's head marked with a crefcent, a sign of its having been a second branch. On a board I have of the arms of the house, I fee it had been allied with numbers of reputable families, among others I venture to reckon that of Bychton.

I MIGHT mention other tombs of the men of property in our parish, who in lefs luxurious times lived in hofpitality, till, infected with thofe fiends luxury and oftentation, they foon

became fwallowed up in the greater eftates.

PIERCES OF
YSGLAN.

BENEATH the venerable fhade of two great yews, our Baucis OF THE FOULKES'S. and Philemon, is the tomb which preferves the memory of Mar

garet Parry, heirefs of Merton, (fee p. 52.) the feat of our hofpiP

table

OF WILLIAMS.

table vicar, the Rev. Mr. John Foulkes. The epitaph gives the defcent:

Hic jacet corpus Margaretta Parry, filia Tho. Parry, filii heredis Guil. Parry, et nuper uxor Jch. Foulkes, quæ fepulta eft 8 die Julii, 1667.

THIS at prefent is the tomb of the family of Mr. Foulkes, of Merton. On the top are cut, as I suppose, the arms of the family from whom he derives his right, quarterly for his first coat a ftag, by which I imagine that the bearer derived his descent from Hedd Molwynog, lord of Uwch Aled, and one of the fifteen tribes, and cotemporary with Dafydd ap Owen Gwynedd. If the reader will give himself the trouble of turning to p. 56 of the fecond volume of my Welsh Tour, he will find a recital of the great deeds of the houfe.

THE next is the place of interment of Peter Williams, of Merton Yglan, who died January 19th, 1671.

His arms fhew him to have derived his defcent from the above-mentioned Ednowen Bendew, quarterly with those of Edwyn, lord of Tegengl. The family fell to decay, and the part of the estate which lay in our parish was purchased by my father, and the name changed to that of Kinsale (fee p. 52.) from the late owner having made that place his refidence.

THE following quaint rhyme, on another grave-ftone, may conclude with much propriety this part of the funebrial fubject.

Vita caduca vale,

Vita perennis ave!