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Bevan, to tea and coffee upon the lawn at his residence— Hay Castle, where 

 during the remainder of the time, until the departure of the train for Hereford, 

 the attention of members was being successively carried from one interesting 

 subject to another. 



Mr. Geo. T. Clark in Medireval Military Architecture, p. 110, says :— 

 " Hay Castle was built by Sir Philip Walwyn, destroyed by Henry III. in 1231, 

 and probably rebuilt soon afterwards. The town was walled and had three gates." 



Most conspicuous were observed the ruined, ivy-mantled walls, which 

 reminded how 



Time 

 Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower. 

 Which, when it frown'd with all its battlements. 

 Was only terrible. Mason. 



Here were traces of Norman work, a gateway arch of Early English 

 character, with a grooved Portcullis, closed by a very ancient and massive wooden 

 gate studded with iron nails clamped. The modern portion of the Castle is 

 Elizabethan, supported at one e.xtremity by a wall (ff the more ancient building. 

 Interiorly there remains an Elizabethan or Jacobean oak staircase. The 

 Elizabethan approach to the Castle from the town, by flights of stone steps, 

 having the columns of the walls at the landings surmounted with balls, is still 

 e.xtant, but the approach is direct, and not the zigzag approach as represented in 

 the view on page 187 of " The progress of the Duke of Beaufort through Wales in 

 1681, by Dineley," recently published from his MSS. 



Whilst some members were examining miniatures in painting of ladies of 

 the period 1757, an excellent miniature pencil drawing of date 1040, and a gold 

 trinket with whistle and charms given to Anne Boleyn by King Henry VIII, 

 and by her presented to an ancestor of Canon Bevan's family, in grateful 

 acknowledgment of kindness during her imprisonment in the Tower, others were 

 engaged in endeavouring to follow the tracings of a pedigree through Fitz-Hamon, 

 (one of the Conqueror's Knights), and Haui to Noah. An illuminated pedigree 

 also attracted not a little attention. 



The Pedigree commencing with Noah was drawn up in the beginning of last 

 century for the Gwynnes of Swansea, represented by the llev. Canon Bevan 

 through his grandmother. It follows apparently the usual course of such 

 documents by selecting Ham amongst the sons of Noah so as to include the heroes 

 of Troy, one of whom, " Brutus, ye son of Silvius after a longe and weary journey 

 with his Trojans, arived at Totnes, in Devonshire, reigned Kinge, &c., and built 

 Troynewydd, now called Loudon." The pedigree includes a large number of 

 celebrities such as King Lear, Ludh, or Lud, Hewell Dda, and Tewder Mawr, 

 and terminates with "Richard Gwynn, of Swanzey," who lived in the reign of 

 Charles II. 



The illuminated pedigree refers, so Canon Bevan imagines, to the Morgans 

 of Machen. It starts from the date of the Norman Conquest and in its present 

 condition terminates in the 17th century. It is, however, in an imperfect 

 state. 



