the colliers, to direct them in their operations. A proclamation was iffued out for the discovery of the offenders; but fuch was the fidelity of our people, that they were never detected. The poor tapfter, in particular, knew perfectly well who they were, and large rewards were offered to him by the custom-house; but nothing could fhake his attachment to his friends. He lived long after, fupported by the grateful contributions of the neighboring 'fquires. HIGH above Lletty Gonest stands a fummer-house, built by my grandfather, to which he often adjourned with his guests, to regale them with the delicious beer, brewed by the famous Jane. Marty years after, when I became mafter of the estate, I also had my adjournment, but it was either to eat shrimps or to drink tea. An honest vicar of a distant parish, who had been a moft intimate friend of my convivial grandfather, enquired whether I ever went to the fummer-house; and was answered, Now and then, to drink tea.' Struck with horror at the degeneracy of the grandfon, the good man with indignation exclamed, ‹ DRINK TEA! his grandfather would have SCORNED 'IT!' THE turnpike road defigned for the enabling the smelters and others to convey our coal to the places of its deftination, from the Mostyn and Bychton pits, paffes by Lletty Goneft, and goes along the fhore towards Holywell. In the fpace of a mile it paffes by three fmelting-houses, Shop-goch, the property of Sir Roger Moftyn, and Pen-y-Ro and Llanerch-y-môr, belonging to me. The laft difputes antiquity with most in the county, the late works at Gadlis excepted. AVON MARSH ABOVE the laft is the neat houfe of Kinfale, inhabited by my good friend and tenant Mr. Ralph Richardson, who for several years had with great fuccefs and integrity carried on the fmelting bufinefs, with the advantage of fhipping the produce from the very spot, after a fhort carriage to the veffels. A SMALL marsh begins a little beyond Lletty Goneft, and widens as it extends fouthward. It borders on the manor of Moftyn: but itfelfowns no lord but the king. The fame may be faid of the va luable remainder, as far as the manor of Coleshill, in the parish of Flint. The manor of Greenfield, in the parish of Holywell, was long fuppofed to have been the property of one or other of two clamants, who fell into dispute about the right. The matter was referred to two gentlemen of the law, eminent for their abilities, and not lefs fo for their probity. After examining all the proofs adduced by the rivals, they adjudged that neither had any clame to the lordship; fo it is now left to the freeholders under our fovereign lord the king: a rich tract for future inclosures. A LITTLE beyond Kinfale is the end of our parish on this fide. The boundary between it and the parish of Holywell, is a fmall rill called Avon Marsh Siambr. Above on an eminence is the old feat of the Pierces, a family now extinct, and the property paffed into other hands. It bears the name of Is Glan, from the name of the township in which it stands. ABOUT a mile higher up is Merton, the feat of the Reverend Mr. John Foulkes. He derives his right to it from Margaret, daughter and heiress to Thomas Parry ap William Parry Wynne. She married John Foulkes, of Pen-ycha Pluy, in the parish of Skyviog, great-grandfather to the prefent owner, who died in July, 1667, and was interred in Whiteford church-yard. Tre Tre Moftyn bounds Tre Bychton on the weft. This townfhip is confidered as containing one fourth of the parish. It reaches to the fea-fide: on which, as well as the whole, trees of every kind grow most admirably. It is divided from Tre Bychton, in the lower part by the turnpike road, which extends from the fea-fide to Henllan, fixteen miles diftant, originally defigned for the conveyance of coal from the pits of this township, and that of Tre Bychton, to the great lime-works near Denbigh. The first act was obtained in 1768, the fecond in 1770: before which our roads were fcarcely paffable. If either Sir Roger Moftyn's family or our own wanted to get to Chefter, we were to reach the fea-fide; then to Flint as we could, and from thence at low water cross the ford of the Dee, a way not always unattended with danger. OPPOSITE to Moftyn gates, on this part of the turnpike road, is a hamlet, called the Rhewl, yr Heol, platea, a way or ftreet. On each fide are a few houfes. The Swan, a fmall ale-house, my property, was noted for its vaft trade about the beginning of this century, when the coal trade was in the height of its profperity: And Cwrw da then unexcifed by kings! Thomas Edwards, who feveral years was tenant there, educated a family of numbers of children, at no inconfiderable expence, and is fuppofed to have acquired by the tap at left fifteen hundred pounds. TRE MOSTYN. THE RHEWL. FROM the Rhewl opens the principal gates to Moftyn Hall, or MOSTYN HALL. more properly Mofton Hall, for fuch, for many ages, was the spelling of the names of both the manfion and its antient owners. On this approach is a moft venerable avenue, which goes for a confiderable confiderable way in a direct line; then turns fhort, and terminates with a view of the old part of the old manfion. The park is fmall, but beautifully broken, and cloathed in various parts with fine oaks, and moft magnificent beeches; but amidst the trees is fuffered to remain rugged with the veftiges of the antient collieries. The ground flopes finely to the fea, facing the North: Eaft. The trees grow with vigor clofe to the water, unhurt by the rude winds with which they are affailed. THE house is placed about half a mile from the fhore. I find some difficulty in making a description. I fhall therefore refer the reader to the first plate of Welsh feats, by Mr. Boydel, and to my own, as the only method of giving him fome idea of the fingularity of the structure. That plate attempts the front If front it might be call'd, that flape had none For it confifts of the most antient hall; a leffer, defigned for a fort of fymposium for fervants; and on the outfide, annexed and jutting out, is the quondam chapel, now converted into a bedchamber. I have a sketch of the whole as it was in the year 1684, made by a Mr. Thomas Dinely, an attendant on Henry, first duke of Beaufort, then lord prefident of the council in the principality of Wales, and lord lieutenant of the twelve counties; who in that year made a reviewing progrefs of the militia of North Wales, and of course paid his refpects to the great man of our country. THE porch had been rebuilt in 1623. It has on it the arms of the four great alliances of the family, rudely cut on the stone. They |