OSWESTRY TO RUABON. llj 



to ;hls fervant), and you have brought my coufin 

 Roderic Lloyd, efquire, prothonotary of North 

 Wales, marfhal to baron Price, and fo forth, and 

 fo forth, up my hack Jiairs. Take my coufin Roderic 

 Lloyd, efquire, prothonotary of North Wales, mar- 

 fhal to baron Price, and fo forth, and fo forth ; 

 you rafcal, take him inflantly back, down my back 

 Jiairs^ and bring him up xvc^ front ftalrs.^'* Roderic 

 In vain remonflrated ; and whilft he was conveying 

 .down one, and up the other flairs, his honour had 

 removed the bottle and glafles *. 

 Sir John Trevor died in 1696. 



About two miles from Chirk, in the road to 

 Jluabon, I was much pleafed with a view down a 

 woody delj, in the bottom of which ran the river 

 Dee. It was the firft time that I had feen this 

 ftream furrounded by thofe romantic features fpr 

 which it is fo juftly celebrated. 



This fcene was interefting, but at 



New Bridge, 



About half a mile farther on, it was greatly exceeded. 

 Out of the road, about a hundred yards above the 

 bridge, fuch a fcene prefented itfelf, that with the 

 pencil of a Claude, I could have fketched one of the 

 mofl exquifite landfcapes the eye ever beheld. The 

 river here daflied along its rugged bed, and its rocky 



* Yorke's Royal Tribes, p. 109. 



J 3 banks 



