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show his descent from some of the persons so recognised 

 to entitle him to bear their arms. Now, it is unques- 

 tionable that hundreds and thousands are able to show 

 such descent, and that therefore their family history 

 exists in an unbroken line, from the Earl Cbspatrick, it 

 may he, or from some one who fought at the battle of 

 Hastings, down to the present hour. 



An instance of the correctness of Tradition is recorded 

 in the Quarterly Review, in connection with the notice of 

 Mr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers of Ireland. It is 

 said that a gentleman had discovered an ancient MS. in 

 the library of Trinity College, Dublin, giving the descent 

 of a long line of distinguished chieftains, whose represen- 

 tatives in the same locality were reckoned with the peasan- 

 try only, in consequence of the forfeitures at the Plantation 

 of Ulster. In an obscure cabin, he found a lonely female, 

 who had not forgotten the departed glories of her race ; but 

 with a memory unclouded, and a truthfulness that never 

 wavered, she repeated in correct order the names that had 

 long since been forgotten, and that had all but perished 

 from historic documents. Such occurrences are not unusual 

 in those countries where the governors and the governed 

 have changed places ; and in what country of Europe do 

 we not find facts of this kind ? 



Very many of the Welsh families reckon their descent 

 from Tudor Trevor, the celebrated Earl of Hereford, 

 about the year 924, and the numerous pedigrees which are 

 preserved in distinct families corroborate one another. In the 

 present instance, the genealogical facts are followed 

 which are given in the pedigree of Eyton of Eyton, the 

 senior branch of which is now extinct, in the male line ; 

 but they are corroborated by Welsh histories, and by 

 the family pedigrees of Mostyn, Pennant, &c, with 

 some of which they have been compared and collated. The 

 biographical facts are gleaned from printed books, and 



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