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: timeforming part of the patrimony of Parrys of Llwynynn. It came into their possession, together with the smaller property of Plas Newydd, by themarriage, early in the i8th century, of the heiress of both these estates with Humphrey PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF DENBIGHSIIIRK 375 Parry, of PwUalog and Llwynynn. Its last owner of tliat family, Richard Parry, sold itabout eighty years ago, on inheriting the property of Warfield, in Berkshire, through hismother, Marylandia Hart-Cotton, of AV^arfield, whose father was Governor of the provinceof Maryland under Queen Anne. » Llanrhaiadr Hall is a good specimen of later Tudor architecture. It is approached by ahandsome avenue, and the park still contains some fine old timber, for which it was oncefamed. The modern part of the house was added at the end of the last century by its lastl)OSsessor of the Llwynynn family, the late Mr. Parry, of Warfield Hall. Llanrhaiadr Hallnow belongs to John Price, Esq., J. P., whose family obtained it by purchase.

Text Appearing After Image: Llanrhaiadr Hall : the Seat of John Price, Esq. {from apJwtograph). The Parrys of Llwynynn, Llanrhaiadr, and Plas Newydd, and more recently of War-field, whose coat of arms we give under Lhvynynn, were the owners of considerableproperty in North Wales up to the present generation, inherited from very remote times.Their descent, which is of antiquarian interest, springs in the male line from Bleddyn apCynfyn, Prince of North Wales, founder of one of the five royal tribes of Wales, andthrough Bleddyns grandson, Madock ap Meredith, lord of half Powis, who died 1160. Anote in the family pedigree by Randal Holme, a.d. 1626, says that Bleddyn in y« time ofWilliam the Conqueror, after he had governed Wales worthylye 13 yeares, was traytorouslymurthered by Rees ap Owen ap Edwyn and the gentilmen of Ystrad Tywy, in anno 1073.Bleddyns mother was Angharad, daughter of Meredydd ap Owen ap Howel Dda, who wasPrince of North Wales, and died a.d. 998. She was sole heir of her brother, Cadwallon,who

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