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decayed: he expired at Gloddaeth on the anni- 

 versary of his birth-day, the twenty-fifth of March, 

 1650, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. His 

 body was conveyed to Penrhyn, and buried in the 

 church of Llandegai. His character is thus sum- 

 med up by his biographer. " So singular was the 

 strength of his constitution, so strict his education, 

 so unwearied his industry, and so vast his capa- 

 city, that it is a hard matter to determine to which 

 of all these he was most indebted, for all his more 

 than ordinary qualifications. His learning was 

 copious, his judgement stay'd, his apprehension 

 clear and searching, his expression lively and ef- 

 fectual, his elocution flowing and majestic. He 

 was subject to sudden passions, but never so as to 

 lose himself, for at such times he would reason 

 with all exactness of a calm temper.' 



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There is little to be recorded in the history of 

 Conwy besides the dismantling of the castle by 

 the earl of Conway. A grant of the castle was 



e Life by Phillips, 307. Racket's Memorial to Archbishop Wil- 

 liams, fol. 1693. furnishes the most authentic account of him ; and 

 from this Phillips compiled his Life. 8vo. Cambridge. 1700. and 

 Stephens his abridged Memoirs, 8vo. London, 1715. A Life of the 

 Arclibishop was also written by Da. Lloyd. 



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