122 HISTORY OF 



of the said Coll. Hlgh Wynne) by Ellen his wife, 

 Daughter and heiress to Robert Wynne of Plas 

 Mawr in the Town of Conway." In the church- 

 yard, near the east wall of the south transept, are 

 three tombstones, in memory of some of the Pughs 

 of Penrhyn ; the middle ston^ has the following 

 inscription ; 



" Nostra sub hoc sculpto pars est vilissima saxo. 

 " Mens sua fert coelum iure cadaver humum." 



Robertus Pue de Penrhyn obiit XXIII Augusti 

 Anno Domini 1659, Anno JEtatis suae 60; or thus 

 in English; 



" Our basest part is under this carv'd stone, 



" its soul hath Iieaven by right earth fleash and bone." 



The late Miss Frances Mostyn of Bodysgallen, 

 whose memory will be long and deservedly rever- 

 ed for her extensive benevolence, and christian 

 charity, hath founded a school here for boys and 

 girls, which in addition to a house, has an endow- 

 ment of forty pounds a year for the master; it was 

 opened on the fourth of June, 1822. There are 

 in tliis parish four mansion liouses, which Ir.ive 

 belonged to families of influence, and long stantl- 

 ing; Penrhyn, Gloddaith, Bodysgallen, and Marl. 

 I^enrhvn was for several centuries the seat of tiie 



