I STEP within the church with reverential awe. Many pious men I have seen offer up a fhort ejaculation in our Welsh churches (even when alone) to the Almighty Being, to whose service they were founded, and in whose praise we all unite. A few monumental marks of respect are to be seen, and three on the north wall not inelegant.

ALL are small. The firft has the figure of a man and woman kneeling on oppofite fides of a defk. Two fons are behind the man, and three daughters behind the woman, in the fame attitudes. They are most neatly engraven on a tablet of white marble, and the whole included in a very neat frame. The infcription gives their brief tale:

Neere to this lyeth the body of Elizabeth Moftyn, one of the Coheires of Rich. Aldersey of the Citie of Chefter, Gent. Wife to Will. Moflyn, Arch. Bang. and Rector of Chryfllton. By whom he had ifsve three fonnes and two daughters. She departed this life the 10th of April, Ann. Dni. 1647.

Two of the fons were heads of two families, thofe of Bryngwyn, in Montgomeryshire, and thofe of Segroit, in Denbighshire. THE next records the death of a fon of Gwydyr. The arms of the houfe, three fpread-eagles and three lions, are cut on the P 2 tablet.

tablet. Above is the creft, and on the entablature, MORTUUS VIVO. The infcription follows:

Here lyeth interred the body

of Ellici Wynn, the 9th son of
Sir John Wynn, of Gwydyr, Knight
and Baronet, aged xx, who died
the xxth of 9ber, and was buried
the xxiii of the faid month,
Ao. Domini 1619.

Omnis caro fœnum.

Conjoined with the last is the tablet of one of our vicars, neat, like the others, only his arms are cut on the ftone; the epitaph beneath:

Near this place lieth interr
ed the body of Mr. Richard
Coytmor, late Vicar of
Whitford, and Rector of

Aber, who died the xxvii day of

July, MDCLXXXIIII, and was buri

ed the 3o, ætatis fuæ 42.

Richard Coytmore was one of the nineteen vicars who filled the living, from the year 1537. The following is the lift of all the vicars, from that date to the present time:

THE Vault of the Mostyn family is at the end of this aile. The last who was buried there was Sir Roger Moftyn, the first baronet, who died in 1651. His fecond lady, Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas, lord viscount Bulkley, was buried in the fame vault., Her epitaph is preserved in our parish-register, and is as follows:

Nobilis Heroina ac Domina D. Maria Moftyn,

Illuftri Buckleienfis familia oriunda,

Honoratiffimo viro Rogero Moftyn, de Moftyn,

Equiti et baronetto connubio jun&ta,
Præftantiffimarum virtutum cumulo

Supra invidiam laudemque adornata, utque
Pudicitiam et formam,

Gravitatem et dulcedinem,

Comitatem et honorem,

Humilitatem et magnitudinem,

Humanitatem et pietatem,

Gratiffima concordia confociavit.

Quum nondum annos 34, etiamum numerâffet,
Quumq. dolendos non unius morbi cruciatus,
Victrici patientia per biennium fuftuliffet
Digniffimo conjuge

Chariffimis que (egregiæ indolis) natis quatuor,

VAULT OF THE

MOSTYNS.

Qua

OF THE PEN

NANTS.

Quæ fuperfunt (caftiffimi amoris pignora) relictis,
Non fine fummo omnium (quibus aut ipfius virtus
Ejufve fama innotuerat) luctu planctuque

In pacem æternam fibi feliciter migravit, die 16o Oftobris,
Et fepulta 28 die ejufdem mensis, Anno Dom. 1662.
R. E. vic.

THE difgraced lady mentioned in p. 62, is also commemorated here.

Valde generofa virtuofaque ac Domina

D. Lumlaa Moftyn in felicitatem
Sanctorum octavo die Octobris migravit,
Sepultaque decimo octavo die menfis
Ejufdem Anno Domini 1680.

His fon and fucceffor Sir Thomas Moftyn married Bridget, daughter and fole heiress of Darcie Savage, of Leighton, efq; who transferred to the house of Mostyn the great Cheshire estates. This lady was a Roman catholic. Tradition is warm in her praise, and full of her domestic virtues, and the particular attention that she fhewed in obliging her domeftics, of each religion, to attend their respective churches. Her husband and she were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they ' were not divided.' They died within a day or two of each other, at Gloddaeth, in Caernarvonshire, and were interred in the neighboring church of Eglwys Rhôs. They are here mentioned as the first of the family who were interred out of the antient vault of the house of Moftyn.

I TURN mine eyes towards the ALTAR, towards the aterno domus