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Memoranda of Sir John Trevor.- 



About a mile from, the village of Chirk is Bryn> 

 kinallt, the family feat of the Trevors, defcendants 

 of Tudor Trevor. This was the dwelling of fir 

 John Trevor, mafler of the rolls, and fpeaker of the 

 houfe of commons, in the reigns of James II. and 

 William. Being a man of confiderable talents, he 

 found means to ingratiate himfelf with king James, 

 and during his reign obtained fome popularity. — 

 He was, however, too fond of money, and this was 

 the caufe of his expulfion from the houfe in 1695. 

 An aft was pafTed for creating a fund towards re- 

 payment of the debt due to the orphan charity from 

 the city of I^ondon, and Trevor received from the 

 city a purfe of a thoufand guineas, for his fervices in. 

 influencing the houfe in their fiivour ; and it was 

 believed that he had received from the fame quarter 

 other fums to a much greater* amount, of which^ 

 however, no proof could be obtained. He would 

 have been impeached by the Houfe of Commons for 

 this offence, had the parliament not been uncx- 

 pe6tediy prorogued. He therefore efcaped with nu 

 further punifliment than his difmiffal and difgrace. 



Trevor is faid, among his other qualifications, to 

 have been an economift. Of this we have a whim- 

 fical anecdote I he one day dined by himfelf at the 

 Rolls, and was drinking his wine quietly, when his 

 couhn, Roderic Lloyd, was unexpectedly introduced 

 to liirn by the fide door. " You rafcal, (faid Trevor 



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