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Scenes in North Wales / With Historical Illustrations, Legends, and Biographical Notices

Chapter 46: FOOTNOTES.
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An illustrated regional travelogue and antiquarian survey of northern Wales that combines topographical description, historical narrative, legend, and biographical notice. Arranged by county and site, it describes bridges, castles, cathedrals, lakes, waterfalls, and ruined abbeys, often paired with engraved views, and provides historical sketches of Roman, medieval, and local events. The author records antiquities and folklore, notes language, customs, and social character, and intersperses practical route information and reflections on landscape and liberty, aiming to inform travellers and readers interested in history, scenery, and the moral character of the Welsh people.

 

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CHISWICK:
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FOOTNOTES.

[1]  Sir Ffon, is the name still applied to this county by the Welsh, as well in their conversational as in their written communications.

[3]  Porth-aeth-hwy, means the passage which had been crossed before.

[34]  Frydd, pronounced frith, means an enclosure gained from a common.

[46]  Llewellyn was married to the Princess Joan, daughter of King John.

[48]  Trifaen signifies the three summits.  Benclog, the head of the rock,—Braich-ddu, the black arm,—Nant Francôn, the valley of beavers.

[50a]  The bridge of the caldron.

[50b]  The swift river.

[50c]  The station in the wood.

[58a]  The gap of the Irishman.

[58b]  This part of the defile is called “Cwm Glâs,” i.e. the Blue Vale.

[59]  Tent stone.

[66]  The blue well.

[68]  Pronounced Thlangothlan, the church of Saint Collen.

[77]  Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.

[83]  The glen of the Marten.

[91]  In the introduction, by the Hon. Daines Barrington, to the memoirs of the Gwydyr family, is the following passage relating to this foundation:—“In 1610, Sir John Wynne erected at Llanrwst some almshouses (to which he gave the name of Jesus Hospital) for the reception of twelve poor men, and drew up regulations for the management of his benefaction.  He also endowed this charity very liberally with the rectorial tithes of Eglwys Fach, which are now valued at two hundred pounds per annum.”

[93]  See Pont-y-Pair.

[101]  1281 this should have been.

[104]  See Caernarvon Castle.

[108]  A health to the top beam of the house.

[119]  Aber glâs lyn, the mouth or embouchure of the blue lake.

[122]  The ash of St. Asaph.