Mae. 19. 1853.] 



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Alice, wife of Sir John Scudamore, Knt., described 

 in a petition of John, Earl of Somerset, to whom 

 Owen's domains, on his attainder, had been granted 

 by his brother, Henry IV., as 



" Un John Skydmore, Chivaler, et Alice sa femme, 

 pretendaiitz la dite Alice etre file et heir au dit Owyn 

 (G)yndwr)."— ifof. Pari 12 Hen. VI. 



I have not found evidence to show that there 

 were any children of Alice's marriage with Scuda- 

 more ; and, assuming the failure of her issue, and 

 also the extinction of Owen's other offspring, the 

 representation of the three dynasties — 



" the long line 



Of our old royalty " — 



reverted to that of his only brother, Tudor ap 

 Griffith Vychan, a witness, as " Tudor de Glyn- 

 dore," in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, 

 3rd September, 1386, and then twenty-four years 

 and upwards, who is stated to have been killed 

 under Owen's banner at the battle of Mynydd 

 Pwll-Melyn, near Grosmont, Monmouthshire, 

 fought 11th March, 1405. Tudor's daughter 

 and heir, Lowry [Lady] of Gwyddelwern in 

 Edeirnion, " una Baron, de Edurnyon," became 

 the wife of Griffith ap Einion of Corsygedol, living 

 1400 and 1415 ; and from this marriage descend 

 the eminent Merionethshire House of Corsygedol 

 (represented by the co-heirs of the late Sir Thomas 

 Mostyn, Bart., of Mostyn and Corsygedol ; namely, 

 his nephew, the Honorable Edward Mostyn Lloyd 

 Mostyn, of Mostyn and Corsygedol, M.P., Lord 

 Lieutenant of Merionethshire, and Sir Thomas's 

 sister, Anna Maria, Lady Vaughan, mother of Sir 

 Eobert Williames Vaughan, Bart., of Nannau) 

 and its derivative branches, the Yales of Plas-yn- 

 Yale, CO. Denbigh, and the Rogers-Wynns ofBryn- 

 tangor in the same county ; the former represented 

 by the Lloyds of Plymog, and the latter by the 

 Hughes's of Gwerclas in Edeirnion, Lords of Kym- 

 mer-yn-Edeirnion, co. Merioneth, and Barons of 

 Edeirnion. These families, co-representatives of 

 the three Cambrian dynasties, all quarter, with 

 the arms of South Wales and North Wales, the 

 ensigns I have referred to as the hereditary 

 bearings of the Lords of Glyndwrdwy. Inde- 

 pendently of the adoption of these ensigns in the 

 Welsh MSS. in the British Museum, College of 

 Heralds, and other depositories, it may be men- 

 tioned that they are quartered in an ancient 

 shield of the Vaughans of Corsygedol, suspended 

 in the hall of Corsygedol, — one of the finest and 

 most picturesque mansions in the Principality, — 

 and that they appear in the splendid emblazoned 

 Genealogy of the House of Gwerclas, compiled in 

 1650 by Robert Vaughan, Esq., of Hengwrt, the 

 Camden and Dugdale united of Wales.* The 



* Of this celebrated antiquary, the author of British 

 Antiquities Revived, and other valuable antiquarian 



arms in question are ascribed to the line of Brom- 

 field and Glyndwrdwy, and, as quarterings to the 

 families just named, by Mr. Burke's well-known 

 Armory, the first and, indeed, only work, in con- 

 junction with the Welsh genealogies in that gentle- 

 man's Peercrg-e and Baronetage, and Landed Gentry^ 

 affording satisfactory, or any approach to sys- 

 tematic and complete, treatment of Cambrian 

 heraldry and family history. Mr. Charles Knight 

 also, highly and justly estimated, no less for a re- 

 fined appreciation of our historic archa9ology, than 

 for careful research, adopts these arms as the es- 

 cutcheon of Owen in the beautiful artistic designs 

 which adorn and illustrate the First Part of the 

 drama of King Henry IV., in his Pictorial edition 

 of Shakspeare. (^Histories, vol. i. p. 170.) 



The shield of the Lords of Glyndwrdwy, as mar- 

 shalled by Welsh heralds, displays quarterly the 

 arms assigned to their direct paternal ancestors, as 

 successively adopted previous to the period when 

 armorial bearings became hereditary. Thus mar- 

 shalled, the paternal arms of Owen Glyndwr are as 

 follows: 1st and 4th, "Paly of eight, argent and 

 gules, over all a lion rampant sable," for Griffith 

 Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, son of Madoc ap 

 Meredith, Prince of Powys-Fadog ; 2nd, " Argent, 

 a lion rampant sable " (" The Black Lion of 

 Powys") for Madoc, Prince of Powys-Fadog, son 

 of Meredith, Prince of Powys, son of Bleddyn, 

 King of Powys ; 3rd, " Or, a lion rampant gules," 

 for Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys.* None 



works, the friend of Archbishop Ussher, Selden, Sir 

 Simon d'Ewes, Sir John Vaughan, &c., It is observed 

 in the Cambrian Register, " In genealogy he was so 

 skilled, and his knowledge on that subject derived from 

 such genuine sources, that Hengwrt became the He- 

 ralds' College of the Principality, and no pedigree was 

 current until it had obtained his sanction." 



His MSS, and library, formerly at Hengwrt, have 

 been transferred to Riig in Edeirnion, the present seat 

 of his descendant. Sir Robert Vaughan of Nannau ; 

 and it may be confidently stated, that in variety, extent, 

 rarity, and value, they surpass any existing collection, 

 public or private, of documents relating to the Prin- 

 cipality. Many of them are unique, and indispensable 

 for the elucidation of Cambrian literature and anti- 

 quities ; and their possessor, by entrusting, to some 

 gentleman competent to the task, the privilege of pre- 

 paring a catalogue raisonnee of them, would confer a 

 public benefit which could not be too highly appre- 

 ciated. 



To the noble collections of Gloddaeth, Corsygedol, 

 and Mostyn, now united at Mostyn, as also to that of 

 Wynnstay, the same observation might be extended. 



* The golden lion on a red field may have been 

 displayed on the standard of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, but, 

 from analogy to the arms assigned to the English 

 monarchs of a corresponding period, it can, as armorial 

 bearings, be only regarded, it is apprehended, as at- 

 tributive. Of the armorial bearings of the English 

 monarchs of the House of Normandy, if any were 



