We could not leave the inn so soon as we intended on account (fol.
108_a_) of our boots not being ready so bad is the workmanship of the
shoemakers in Wales that the repairs of one day were destroyed by the
exertions of the next, and it was a business almost as regular as eating
our dinner when we arrived at the inn to send our boots to get mended.
Here I hope we have had them secured effectually as we ordered them to be
studded with nails according to the fashion of the country. Although on
our arrival we scarcely gained admittance at the inn as pedestrians yet
on our departure we had to pay the bill calculated for equestrians of the
first order so much had our consequence been raised by the loquacity of
our attendant in the kitchen.
This heavy blow on our finances with the loss we had sustained at
Llanfechell caused a calculation to be made which promised only three
days’ supply supposing our concerns should fall into the hands of so
experienced a scribe as the landlady at Amlwch (fol. 109). About eleven
we were clear of the inn and took the road across the fields to the small
church of Bodewryd where we understood were some remains of the Wynne
family a branch of which family was settled at a large mansion now a farm
near the spot. The church door being open we found the interior occupied
by a grey headed pedagogue and his schollars. On the pulpit were carved
the arms of the Wynne’s and the seats and communion table exhibited the
same kind of ornaments cut in oak before noticed at Llanelian. This
living was augmented by Queen Anne’s bounty and further donations as
appears engraven on a brass tablet affixed to the north side of the
altar:
M. S.
Annae Reginae serenissimae
cujus munificentia sine exemplo maximae
inter innumeras alias per magnam
(fol. 109_a_) Britanniam late sparsas
Tenuissima haec de Bodewryd ecclesia
cujus stipendium annuum xx solidos ante non exedebat
libris ducentis donata est
promovente interim pietatem hanc
et totidem libras de proprio conferente
per ultimum testamentum suum
Dat. 6to Septembris A.D. 1720
Roberto Wynne A.M. rectori de Llantrisant
Filio Johannis Wynne de Bodewryd Arm.
Sexto et natu maximo
quibus pecuniis aliquantulum auctis
Tenementa sequentia coempta
et in usum ecclesiae prædictae
In perpetuum stabilita sunt
(fol. 110) IIIº Nonas Decembris 1723
viz. Tre Evan, Clidog, Hen Aclwyd &c. &c.
Reditusque annuus 40 solidorum
De Tre Anghared in Bodedern
Com. Anglesea.
In tantae munificentiae memoriam
Tabula haec votiva suspensa est. anno 1727.
On the opposite side of the communion table on a similar tablet is
engraved the pedigree of this branch of the Wynne’s which is as follows: