FOOTNOTES.
[x] The Rev. William Coxe, rector of Bemerton, and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
[8] Atkins’s Gloucestershire.
[9] Grose’s Antiquities.
[11] Warner’s First Walk through Wales.
[12] He was buried in the Cathedral Church of St. David, and many hundred years after canonized by Pope Calistus the Second.—Godwin’s English Bishops, p. 414.
[18a] Willis’s Landaff, p. 34.
[18b] Grose, Willis.
[23] I.e. lime-stone.
[27] Vol. ii. p, 92.
[30] Pennarth, eight miles South-west of Swansea.
[32] William of Malmsbury, p. 158.
[39] The Pedestrian will not possibly find time to examine the Ruins of Carew Castle, in this day’s route, but will find it more convenient to visit it in his way from Tenby to Haverfordwest.
[41] The price for two oars, seven shillings and six-pence; and twelve shillings and six-pence for four oars.
[42a] Wyndham, p. 72.
[42b] Philosophical Survey of Ireland.
[47] “The Castle (says an eminent Author) is said to have been built by Gilbert Earl of Clare, who lived in the reign of King Stephen; and Camden reports, that Richard Earl of Clare made Richard Fitz-Tankred Governor thereof. It was one of those in the hands of the Flemings, when they first came into Dyvet, or Pembrokeshire.”
[49] These lines were frequently repeated by Dr. Johnson, whose partiality to Inns is well known.
[51] “This celebrated person was uncle to King Arthur, and son of a Prince of Wales. After being seated in the see of St. David sixty-five years, and having built twelve monasteries; after having been exemplary in the piety of those days, this holy person died, at a most advanced period of human life; having attained, as it is said, to the age of one hundred and forty-six years. He was buried in the Cathedral Church of St. David; and many years after canonized by Pope Calistus the Second.”—Warrington’s History of Wales, vol. ii. p. 385.
[52a] To whose son a MS. to Elizabeth, quoted by Willis, p. 69, gives Owen’s monument.
[52b] Tan. Bib. Brit.
[52c] Tan. 720.
[53] This gentleman, I believe, is an inhabitant of Worcester.
[55] Lland, vol. v. p. 25.
[56] For a description of these Monuments, see Wyndham.
[58] It receives its name from coria, a hide, or skin.
[61] Itin. vol. v. p. 12.
[63] Over the river Rhydal.
[66] The additions to Camden 1695, suppose this, Bishop Idnerto.
[79] Called in Latin Vaga.
[81] See an excellent account of the woollen manufactory in the seventh chapter of Aikin’s Tour through North Wales.
[83] See Pennant’s Snowdonia, p. 89, and likewise Wilson’s excellent View of Cader Idris.
[84] Mr. Pennant, in his Snowdonia, p. 397, published in 1781, “mentions, that there are brought annually to Salop 700,000 yards of web; and to Welch Pool, annually, between 7 and 800,000 yards of flannel; but he does not state the particulars whence he reduces his general estimate.” I have quoted this passage from Aikin’s excellent chapter (vii.) on the Woollen Manufactures of North Wales, not having in my possession Mr. P.’s Snowdonia.
[105] Evan Thomas, works in the copper-works at Aber-Glaslyn, and lives at a place called Dous Coreb, about a mile and an half beyond Beddgelert.
[114] Such is the received opinion; but the place noted for this event, is only a thoroughfare to the grand apartments of the tower, the middle one of which appears more probably to have been the room.
[116] The hire of a boat from seven shillings and six-pence to half-a-guinea.
[118] “The eastern seems originally to have consisted of seven stones, six uprights supporting an immense superincumbent one, (with its flat face lying upon them) thirteen feet long, nearly as much broad, and four feet thick.”—Warner’s Second Walk.
[119a] In the time of the Romans, this island was called, by the Britons, Mona; but becoming subject to the English, in the time of Egbert, it was afterwards termed Anglesea, or the Englishman’s Island. See Rowland’s Mon. Ant. p. 172, 173.
[119b] Before the Author of this Itinerary proposed publishing this Tour through the Cambrian territories, he was induced to send an account of this extraordinary sect to the Gentleman’s Magazine, (July, 1799, p. 579.) This is, therefore, only to be considered as a repetition; with the addition of a brief extract from the two subsequent letters, (September, 1799, p. 741, and November, p. 938,) given to the public by different hands, through the medium of the Gentleman’s Magazine.
[122a] I have since understood, that they have a chapel at Caermarthen.
[122b] September, 1799, p. 741.
[125a] Or Deane.
[125b] As from neglect we did not transcribe the names of the bishops, it may not be deemed improper to insert the following passage from a well-known Author: “Here are monuments for Bishops Glynn, 1550; Robinson, 1584; Vaughan, 1597; Rowlands, 1616; Morgan, 1673; and one with a cross fleuri in the south transept, ascribed to Owen Glendwr; but as he was buried at Monington, in Herefordshire, where he died, I should rather ascribe it to some of the earlier bishops; Mr. Pennant gives it to Owen Gwynned.”
[131] Offa.
[144] Since our visit to this spot, Mr. Yorke has published a most excellent and valuable book, entitled, An History of the Royal Tribes of Wales.
[147] Enquire the way to this aqueduct at the turnpike, about four miles from Llangollen.
[151a] Lady Eleanor Butler.
[151b] Miss Ponsonby.
[151c] Willis’s St. Asaph, p. 52, 285.
[152] From a second survey of my note-book, I perceive, when speaking of the house, I omitted mentioning that there are several family pieces, both of the Wynne and Williams, worthy the inspection of the connoisseur. The house has been built at various times.
[161a] The measurement of this gallery is copied from former tourists, at some MS. notes taken on the spot, relative to this castle, and the places coming under our inspection, the two following days, have been accidentally lost.
[161b] See Lord Littleton’s Account of Powis Castle.
[166] This estimation it taken from “The Ludlow Guide;” from which I have taken such extracts, as, I flatter myself, will not be unacceptable to the tourist. We dedicated two or three days to the investigation of this interesting town, and consequently, in those parts where the Guide is defective, we have made considerable additions; and more particularly, when speaking of the church.
[172a] No account of the inside of the church is given in the Ludlow Guide.
[172b] Phillip’s History of Shrewsbury.
[189] Tanner’s Notitia Monastica.
[194] Warner’s First Walk.
[209] The Isles of Anglesey and Man, are discovered from Snowdon.