Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 2.djvu/261

 io* s. ii. SEPT. 10, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

213

concerning the barony of that place. It is mentioned under the name Llanarth that "here Henry VII., on the second night after his landing at Milford Haven [he landed 7 Aug., 1485], encamped at \\Vrn Newydd, where he was hos- pitably entertained by Einon ab^Davydd Llwyd

on his route to Bosworth Noyad Llanarth,

anciently the seat of the family of Griffiths, is now a spacious modern mansion, the residence of Lord

Kensington The church is dedicated to St.

Vylltyg Of Castell Mabwynion, also in this

parish, which was allotted by Prince Llewelyn ab

i, in his partition of the reconquered ter- in South Wales, in 1216, to Rhys ab

Iprwerth,

ritories

Grufydd, there are not any remains, neither is the

exact site known."

If there existed a barony of Lanarth, did either of these families (Lloyd or Griffiths) hold it?

There is much information in 'Annales Cambrise' about the Gruffydds, Princes of South Wales. Their early pedigree, as far as I can gather, stands thus :

Tewdwr (ap Cadell ab Einon ab Owain ap Hywel Dda). Died c. 994 ?

Rhys ap Tewdwr (killed April, =f=Gwladys, dau. of Rhiwallon 1093, fighting the Normans) ap Cynfyn.

Gwenllian, dau. of Gruffydd ap=pGruffydd ap Rhys, died 1137. (Prince of S. Wales, holding Cynan. Was killed in battle. I lands in Caermarthenshire.)

Rhys ap Gruffydd, 1132? 28 Apr. 1197. Buried at St. David's. Called in=f=Gwenllian, dau. of Aladopr


 * Annales Cambrise' *' Mors Anglorum, Clipeua Britonum Regibus ortus, I ap Maredudd, Prince of

obiit Resus, ad astra redit." Powys.

Maud or Mahalt de=f=Gruffydd ap Rhys, fl. 1188, died 25 July, 1201. Giraldus calls him " vir verispellis- Braose, d. 1209. etversutus."

(a) Rhys ap Gruffydd.

The last two were driven out of their | possessions by their uncle Maelgwn, but in 1207 (cf. 1216 above in Lewis) Llewelyn ap lorwerth reinstated them in their lands, and gave them all Ceredigion except Penwedig. I should say that this llhys ap Gruffydd (a) is the one referred to by Lewis as residing at Noyad Llanarth, and as being presented with Castle Mabwynion.

In 'Annales Cambrise' there is a quaint epitaph on Rhys ap Gruffydd who died 1197. It runs thus :

Cum yoluit pluvias Busiris credo parabat,

Noluit aethereas sanguine Resus aquas ;

Et quotiens Phaleris cives torrebat in iere,

Gentibus invisis Resus adesse solet.

Non fuit Antiphases, non falsus victor Ulixes,

Non homines rapidus pabula fecit equis,

Sed piger ad pcenam princeps, ad prtemia velox.

Quicquid do quo cogitur esse ferox.

The last line is so given in MS. Should not " rapidus " be rapidis ?

Perhaps the question of the barony might be settled by referring to the pedigrees of the numerous families of Lloya. I believe an ancestor of Lloyd of Dinas was intimate with Henry VII.

CHRISTOPHER WATSON.

Cranfield, Wimbledon.

SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET xxvi. (10 th S. ii. G7, 133). MR. DOUSE has missed the point of

Owain.

the original question, and has, therefore, left the answer still wanting. The question was about the " head " referred to in the last two lines of this important sonnet. MR. DOUSE. began his reply by saying that the sonnet " must be studied as a whole." Quite so ; so- must they all : but when MR. DOUSE and other orthodox experts in Shakespeare have done this, can they give a better explanation of the words " show my head " than has been given in the last big book on the subject, 4 Is it Shakespeare 1 ' published by John Murray. The anonymous writer, " A Cam- bridge Graduate," agrees with most Shake- spearean critics in talcing this sonnet as the one that accompanied ' Lucrece,' for the very wording of the sonnet seems to make that clear. So far all appears smooth, safe, and judicious, but we are really on the edge of a horrible chasm ; for the next step proceeds to demonstrate that the very " head " that is mentioned in the sonnet's last line appears in the first two lines of ' Lucrece/ and that it is none other than the head of Francis Bacon, who thus has revealed himself at last in this twentieth century by an infallible proof. This "head" in " Lucrece' turns out to be the exact signature used by Bacon in some few of his early letters to his uncle and aunt, and such a curious and special signa- ture as to mark out this supposed discovery