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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



ON THE LA WN. 



at the death of his kinsman in his ninety-first year, he 

 came into his great inheritance. For many years 

 after this he was known as the Honoured Mr. 

 Watkin Williams, for he did not succeed to the 

 baronetcy till his father's death in 1740, and the 



additional surname of 

 \\ynn, though legal, was 

 never popular, either in 

 his or his son's time, 

 and it is always as Sir 

 W.itkin Williams that we 

 find them mentioned con- 

 temporarily, as in Horace 

 Walpole's " Correspon- 

 dence " But it was not 

 only the Wynn and 

 Williams estates that 

 coalesced under the first 

 Sir Watkin ; to them 

 were added three Vaughan 

 properties, of which 

 Llangedwyn was one. 

 Probably built originally 

 under Elizabeth, when 

 it was known as Plas 

 Newydd, or the New 

 Hall, it was owned by 

 a family still Welsh 

 enough not to have 

 crystallised down to a 

 it was Moris ap Robert ap 

 and heiress married Owen 



Vaughan of Llwydiarth, High Sheriff of Montgomery- 

 shire, in 1601. Their great-grand-daughter, Mary 

 Purcell, married Edward Vaughan of Glanllyn, " Y e 



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surname, for 

 Moris whose 



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 daughter 



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