CHAP. II. 



MKIK'HANT ADVKNTUfKl!. 



Gwaenynog, Ystrad, and Galch-hill about the end of 

 the sixteenth century Robert, John, and Richard; 1 

 tin 1 last being the father of Sir Hugh Myddeltnn. the 

 subject of our present memoir. 



MYDDELTON'3 HOUSE AT GALCH-HILL, DENBIGH. 2 

 [By E. M. Wirnperis, after an original Sketch.] 



Richard Myddelton, of Galch-hill, was governor of 

 Denbigh Castle in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and 

 Elizabeth. He seems to have been a man eminent for 

 uprightness and integrity, and is supposed to have been 



1 Williaius's ' Ancient and Minimi 

 Denbigh.' From this book we take 

 tin- following incident relating to the 

 MyddeltOD tiunily in early times: 

 " David .Mvddelton, Heceiver of Den- 

 bigh in tlie 19th Edward IV., and 

 Valerius <'orona> in the 2nd Richard 

 III., paid his addresses to Klyn, 

 daughter of Sir John Donne, of Ut- 

 kintoii, in Cheshire, and gained the 

 lady's affections. But the parents ) .re- 

 ferred their relative, Hit-hard Donne, 

 of Croton. The marriage wa> accord- 

 ingly celebrated ; Imt David Myddel- 

 t-'H \\atehed the bridegroom leading 

 his bride out of church, killed him on 



the spot, carried away his widow, and 

 married her forthwith. So that she 

 was maid, widow, and a wife twice in 

 one day. From Ko^er, the eldest son 

 of this match, the Myddeltons of the 

 above branch are descended." 



2 The old-fashioned whitewashed 

 house, the back of which is repre- 

 sented in the above eni raving, is said 

 to have been the house in which Iluuh 

 Myddelton was born. It has, how- 

 ever, undergone numerous alteration* 

 since his time, though some portions 

 of it, on the lower story, are very an- 

 cient. 



