There is great room for a history of the lordship of Denbigh,' as may be seen from Pennant's Tour, and An Account of Denbigh, by the Rev. T. Newcombe, 1829. The corporation records might give some information regarding Leicester, &c., not published. Memoirs of celebrated men born in the county might be introduced, such as Sir Hugh Myddleton; Cleryk, the partner of Sir Thomas Gresham; Humphrey Lloyd, the antiquary, &c. The history of several mansions; as Gwaenenog, Bachegraig, Lleweny, and that picturesque Elizabethan ruin, Foxhall; stating where the several portraits,* the stained glass, or other ornaments mention by Pennant are now preserved, would be interesting.

From an observation of Pennant on the monument of Humphrey Lloyd, at Whitchurch, it would appear that he was no "herald." "herald." He says, "a multitude of quarterings shewing his long descent;" whereas there are only four of the quarterings of Rosindale, alias Lloyd, impaling_eight of Lumley, his wife. The four are Rosindale, Hilton, Tetenhall, and Peake, inherited as will be best explained by a few lines from Vincent's pedigree, at the College of Arms.

1 Also of Ruthin. See Memoirs of Gabriel Goodman, by the Rev. T. Newcombe, 1825.

2 It is believed that the heir to Sir Hugh is still being searched for. 3 Where did Pennant find that two of the Salusburys were executed,

for levelling Leicester's encroachments [on Lleweny green]?

4 If owners of portraits, &c., would but take the trouble to write at the

Hilton brought in Pontefract, Newport, and Brierley, and thus the families of Peake and Lloyd of Aston both quarter the arms of the four last names, all which are identified in Vincent's' pedigree.

To this William and Isabella was existing in 1591 the following inscription (apparently on glass; but if on brass or stone it is probably now under some pew)2:

Hic jacet Willm Rsondall armiger et dna Isabella Peeke3 consors suus, qui obiit xxx de mensis January an dni 1414 qs abiz p'picietur Deus.

The arms were quarterly, Rosindale* and Hilton.

Much information is to be gained from the valuable MSS. (Harl 3632) beautifully written on vellum, entitled "Extenta de Denbigh, &c., facta per Hugonem de Beckle et per recog

back of them some particulars of their history, we should not so often see property disposed of for a mere trifle, which if not from ignorance, would be truly valuable. Oak carvings, and stained glass, are often found in Elizabethean farm-houses, as they were then inhabited by gentry; and all such are worth preserving by the descendants, or in a Public collection.

See an Interesting Memoir of this indefatigable Herald, by Sir N. H. Nicholas, 1827.

2 Harl. MSS. 2129. "Notes in Henllan church, Aug. 7, 1591. In the window, were the arms of the Prince of Wales, Mortimer and March, and Vernon de Hatton, and an inscription on stone, to Roger Mydelton, armiger, who died 24th Feb. 1587. . . . ." In the Harl. MS. 1971, is a copy of the Rosendale quarterings, including all taken in with the Peake alliance, impaling Dutton and Vernon, of Hatton, with a portrait, in hat and ruff, of John R., Baron of Brinfanock, which though Holmes (no judge) calls very auntient, could not be older than Elizabeth's time; and thus not the John, son of William, 1441. And from the pedigree, no such alliance with John, living in her reign, appears, or in that of D. and V. in Ormerod's Cheshire; and as the original was in possession of Hugh Lloyd, of Denbigh, in 1635, this Baron John probably was of a younger branch. A Hugh, was sheriff of Denbigh, 1625, and died 1635; but it is clear that the Vernons were connected with Henllan parish, in some way. . . On the other side of the same MS. (2129) are notes in Whitchurch, from which it appears that the windows were chiefly filled with glass of the Salusburys. Henry died 1493; John, son of Thom, 1489; Henry, son and heir of Ralph, 1400, and Agnes his wife, d. & h. of John Curteys. One entry is curious,-" Orate f John Smallwood, mai' of Misrule with all other young men, Caused this window to be glazed."

3 This name is spelled Peake as now, in the earliest family deed, 1569. 4 The first is azure a roebuck rampant, or; the fourth, or, a roebuck r. azure, with a rose gules on the shoulder of each. It is worthy of remark that in the arms of Rosindale, in all MSS. in the time of Elizabeth, in Vincent, on H. Lloyd's monument, and as quartered by the Lloyds of Aston, now, are quarterly four roebucks passant, counterchanged of the field or and azure, in one azure and or.

nitionem singularum villarum 8 Edw. 3d." (i. e. 1335, A.D.) Under the Manor of Kylforn, Villata de Lleweny, Parcus de Lleweny, Le Polflat in villata de Lleweny, among others appears the names of Ricardus del Peek, and Thomas' filius Ricardi del Peek, as holding lands hereditary at from 8d. to 1s. 6d. per acre. One entry is as follows:

Item Ricardus del Peek reddit domino ex nunc per annum (&c.) pro licencia hobendi molendinum fullonicum super terram suam propriam ita ut habeat liberationem moremii pro dicto molendino ædificando, &c. . . . . . xiijs. iiijd.

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As there is no other mill near, there can be but little doubt that this was the origin of the present corn mill, Melyn y Green," for although in 1570 it was (with its one acre as now) the property of Sir John Salusbury, and afterwards conveyed to Peake, yet, in the course of centuries, such changes might often have taken place. A field belonging to that property is called Peake meadow to this day. And, at that time, the land between the mill and Pertheny, the residence of Peake, was open common.

This house, built about 1595, and where the family resided till 1697, appears to have derived its name from a tradition to the following effect:-"That the original grant of lands to Peake was to the extent of doe's run, and that she stopped, and cropped a bush by the wood where the house is built." As the woods or "hollins" were open to the common, (Lleweny green) ante 1697, it appears just possible that some event of the sort took place at a very early date. There can be little doubt that this tradition was known by the family so early as 1594, and down to 1597, from the following facts:

On a beam is incised T. P., 1594, A. [H?] On a mantle

1 Cilford is near Cotton Hall, (Ordnance Map.) Pennant mentions Kylford as one of the five parks of the lordship in the time of Henry VI. An account of these parks would be desirable.

2 If this Thomas was then only twenty-one, and the father twenty-two when the son was born, Richard would have been born A.D. 1293.

3 See Ordnance Map.

4 This is similar to the well-known tradition as to the crest of the family of Hay, "The Falcon flying." (See Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry, or Burke's Peerage, Errol.) The stained glass in Morley church, brought from the Monastery of Dale at the dissolution, is said to relate to a tradition that on a dispute between the monks and the keepers of Stanley Park, the King granted to the monks as much land as between two suns could be encircled with a plough drawn by deer. - Fox's Monks and Monasteries, 1845.

piece is carved, in three separate escutcheons, the Peake crest; the Hanmer arms, and a doe passant, regardant with a bush in her mouth; this latter is also quartered over the mon. inscrip. to H. P., 1601, the father of the above T. P.; and again on the tablet H. P., in 1697. This H. P. appears to have also used it as a crest over the arms on his seat, and no doubt invented the word Perth-ewig (i. e. bush-doe) in further allusion to the tradition, for in deeds prior to 1678 Peake is always of "Lleweny," and the house "a capital messuage;" but he describes himself of Perthewig, in the township of Lleweny, and when others name him, as his wife, and the parish register, he is merely of "Lleweny," but after his death, in 1697, "Perthewig" appears everywhere. The doe, &c., is not an uncommon kind of armorial bearing, but cannot be identified with any alliance, and whatever may have been its origin, it is improbable that it could have been placed on the mantlepiece (as the earliest design) with this meaning.

A few extracts from some depositions taken at the Bull Inn, Denbigh, October, 1691, at the time of enclosing these "hollins" may be worth giving. The first deponent is

John Edward ap Hugh, yeoman, aged 20, or thereabouts: He hath been servant to Mrs. Anne Hanmer, the widow of Thomas Peake, father and mother of Hugh Peake, the complts Grandfather, and was after servant to his said Grandfather, and after his decease to Hugh Peake, complts. father, in the time and after complt. was born; he or other servants did, upon the Master's command, go and chase wild colts out of said open grounds with a rattle, &c., &c.

John Cadwader Wynne, of Denbigh, 63, or thereabouts : About 48 years ago, being at Pershenig House with his Grandmother, who was sister 2 to complts. Grandmother, notice was brought that there were some people with horses and drags in the open ground cutting wood. Complts. Grandmother sent out Servants, & she & deponent went with them, seized the horses and took off the Drags, and sent the horses to the Pinfold; at the desire of the owners, they had their horses the next day, &c. (His mark.)

Hugh Salusbury, tailor, 72:

Knoweth the ground "y Kelyn Meister Peake;" heard it called,

1 T. P. married Anne Hanmer, in 1593, sister of William of the Fenns, who was grandfather of the Williams, in the time of Charles I., and which branch has since inherited the Hanmer estates and title. Anne was living in 1631, a widow.

"Nant y Bryn teag." Being at "Bathegraig," he saw John Salusbury, Esq., that was a stout man, and not to be baffled by anybody, returning a horse back, having been hindered cutting thorns by Hugh Peake, complts. Grandfather, &c., &c.

Robert Davies, of Llanerch, Esq., 32,

Son of Multon Davies, Esq. (Signed.)

John Rogers, Gent., 70:

Being a child, hathe been to heed his Mother's sheep, grazing on the Great Common; his charge was not to let the sheep go into said unenclosed ground, &c. (His mark.)

Foulke Lloyd, of Foxhall, Esq., 32. (Signed.)
John Heaton, of L. G., Gent., 36.

(Signed.)

George Bond, of Denbigh, smith, 52: Became tenant of Sir John Salusbury, Bart., 1683, since deceased, made application to complt to cut some gorse, complt sold part and bestowed part, because Deponent did shoe his horses, and do other work for him. (Signed.)

William Owen, 64, yeoman :

Was bred in that family from his being a year old, as his mother told him, wayting upon Hugh Peake, compls. grandfather, in his walk on said ground, saw a labourer with a hatchett going to cut down a Hollyn. Master asked him, who sent him. He said that Mary Conway had sent him, (ancestress of defendant.) Mr. P.

From her marriage settlement, and the Memoirs of Gabriel Goodman, there can be but little doubt that Katherine, the second wife of this Hugh, was one of the daughters and coheirs of Robert Davies and Dorothy Thelwall, of whose history an amusing account is there given. Hugh died 1666. From the will of Elizabeth, the second wife of this Hugh-from the Goodman arms on his monumental tablet-from the pedigree in the memoirs of Gabriel Goodman-it would appear that she was daughter of Penelope Goodman and Marmaduke Lloyd.