{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.