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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 177. 



of these ensigns is referable to a period anterior 

 to that within which armorial bearings are attri- 

 buted to the Anglo-Norman monarchs. 



The lion rampant is common to all branches of 

 the line of Powjs ; but the bearing peculiar to its 

 last monarch, Madoc ap Meredith, " The Black 

 Lion of Powys," without a difference, has been 

 transmitted exclusively to the Hughes's, Baronial 

 Lords of Kyramer-yn-Edeirnion, and the other 

 descendants of Owen Brogyntyn, Lord of Edeir- 

 nion, younger son of Madoc ; of whom, with the 

 exception of the family just named, it is presumed 

 there is no existing male branch. The same arms 

 ■were borne by lorwerth Goch, Lord of Mochnant, 

 also a younger son of Madoc ; but they are now 

 only borne subordinately in the second quarter by 

 that chief's descendant, Sir John Roger Kynaston 

 of Hardwick, Bart., and by the other branches of 

 the Kynastons ; the first quarter having been 

 yielded to the arms of (Touchet) Lord Audley, 

 assumed by Sir Roger Kynaston of Hordley, Knt., 

 after the battle of Blore in 1459, at which Lord 

 Audley is said to have fallen by the hand of Sir 

 Roger. As ali'eady stated, Griffith Maelor, Ma- 

 doc's eldest son, bore the black lion differenced, 

 as did also the twin sons of the latter, viz. Cynric 

 Efell, Lord of Eglwys Egle, ancestor of the distin- 

 guished line of Davies of Gwysaney in Flintshire, 

 whose ensigns were " Gules, on a bend, argent, a 

 lion passant sable ;" and Einion Efell, progenitor 

 of the Edwards's of Ness Strange, and of other 

 North Wallian families, who bore " Party per 

 fess, sable and argent, a lion rampant counter- 

 changed." The ancestor of the Vaughans of Nan- 

 nau, Barts., — Cadvvgan (designated by Camden 

 " the renowned Briton"), younger son of Blyddyn, 

 king of Powys, sometime associated in the sove- 

 reignty with his elder brother Meredith, exhibited, 

 it is stated, on his banner an azure lion on a golden 

 ground ; ensigns transmitted to the early Lords of 

 Nannau and their descendants, with the exception 

 — probably the only one — of the Vaughans of 

 Wengraig and Hengwrt, represented paternally by 

 the Vaughans of Nannau and Hengwrt, Baronets, 



used by them, we are left totally without contemporary 

 evidences. The arms of William the Conqueror, which 

 have been for ages attributed to him and the two suc- 

 ceeding monarchs, are taken from the cornice of Queen 

 Elizabeth's monument, in the north aisle of Henry VII. 's 

 Chapel at Westminster. The arms assigned to Ste- 

 phen are adopted on the authority of Nicholas Upton, 

 in his treatise De Militari Officio, b. iv. p. 129., 

 printed in 1654. For those of Henry II., there is no 

 earlier authority than the cornice of Queen Elizabeth's 

 monument, and it is on the second seal used by 

 Richard I. after his return from captivity, that, for the 

 first time, we find his shield distinctly adorned with 

 the three lions passant guardant in pale, as they have 

 been borne by subsequent English monarchs. (Wille- 

 ment's Regal Heraldry.) 



who, transferring these arms to the second quarter,, 

 bear in the first, " Quarterly, or and gules, four 

 lions rampant counterchanged." The Wenwyn- 

 wyn branch of the dynasty of Powys continued, 

 or at a later period resumed, the red lion rampant 

 on a gold ground, ascribed to Blyddyn ap Cynfyn ;• 

 and it is not a little interesting, that recently a- 

 beautiful silver seal, in perfect preservation, of 

 Hawys Gadarn, heiress of that princely line, who by 

 the gift of Edward IL became the wife of John de 

 Cherlton, was found near Oswesti-y, representing, 

 her standing, holding two shields : the one in her 

 right hand charged with her own arms, the lion 

 rampant ; that in the left with those of Cherlton, 

 two lions passant. The legend around the seal 

 is " s'hawisie dne de keveoloc." 



The original seal is now in the Museum of Chester, 

 and was exhibited, I believe, by the Honorary Cu- 

 rator, the Rev. William Massie, at a recent meeting- 

 of the Society of Antiquaries. Of this venerable 

 relic I possess an impression in wax ; and of the 

 great and privy seals of Owen Glyndwr, beautiful 

 casts in sulphur ; and I shall have pleasure in 

 leaving them with the editor of " N. & Q." for 

 the inspection of Mr. Woodward, should that 

 gentleman desire it. 



John ap William ap John» 



Inner Temple. 



March 7, 1853. 



COLGBIDGE 3 chbistabel — " christobell, a 

 gothic tale." 



(Vol. viL, p. 206.). 



Your correspondent S. Y. ought not to have 

 charged the editors of Coleridge's Poems with 

 negligence, until he had shown that the lines he 

 quotes were inserted in the original edition of 

 Christabel. They have not the musical How of 

 Coleridge's versification, but rather the dash and 

 vivacity of Scott. At all events, they are not tO' 

 be found in the second edition of Christabel 

 (1816), nor in any subsequent edition. Indeed^ 

 I do not think that Coleridge made any altera- 

 tion in the poem since its composition in 1797 

 and 1800. I referred to two reviews of Cole- 

 ridge's Poems published in Blackwood in 1819 

 and 1834 ; but found no trace of S. Y.'s lines, 

 " An old volume of Blackwood" is rather a vague 

 mode of reference. It is somewhat curious that^ 

 previous to the publication of Christabel, there 

 appeared a conclusion to that splendid fragment. 

 It was entitled " Christobell, a Gothic Tale," and 

 was published in the European Magazine for 

 April, 1815. It is dated "March, 1815," and 

 signed "V.;" and was reprinted in Fraser\ 

 Magazine for January, 1835. It is stated to be 

 "written as a sequel" to a beautiful legend of a 

 fair lady and her father, deceived by a witch in 



