1 IG HISTORY OF 



COS III. P. P. Aearer the churcli on the same 

 hill are the ruins of a large house, Plas Bryneuryn ; 

 the residence of Ednyved Vychan, in the beginning: 

 of the thirteenth century, the able minister and ge- 

 neral of Llywelyn the Great; having attacked the 

 army of Ranulph, earl of Chester, and having de- 

 feated it with great slaughter, he slew three of the 

 chief commanders, and brought their heads to 

 prince Llywelyn, who thereupon honoured him 

 with a new achievement, viz. Gules, a chevron 

 ermine, between three Englishmen's heads, couped 

 proper; w hich coat his descendants bear ever since: 

 before this exploit he bore the arms of his ancestor 

 Marchudd, lord of Uwchdulas, Gules, a Saracen's 

 head, erased, proper ; environed about the temples 

 with a wreath, or, and gules. Ednyved Vychan 

 "built a chapel, and had licence of the Pope for 

 evermore to sing divine service therein for his soul, 

 and his ancestors' and progenitors' souls always : 

 and had authority to give his tithes and oblations 

 to his chaplain there serving." The chapel, built 

 by Ednyved, formed the west half of the north 

 aisle of the present church, with a small cupola at 

 the west end : this side or aisle was afterwards 

 lengthened by the parishioners, when their church 

 was destroyed by the sea ; and in the north wall of 



