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HUGH MYDDELTON, GOLDSMITH AND 



II. 



the first member who sat in Parliament for Denbigh. 1 

 His wife was one Jane Dryhurst, the daughter of an 

 alderman of Denbigh, by whom he had a very nume- 

 rous family. He was buried, with his wife, in the parish 



FAG SIMILE OF THE MYDDELTON BRASS IN WHITCHUECH 'PORCH. 



church of Denbigh, called Whitchurch or St. Marcellus, 

 where a small monumental brass placed within the 

 porch, represents Richard Myddelton and Jane his wife, 

 with their sixteen children, all kneeling. Behind him 

 are nine sons, and behind her seven daughters. He died 

 in 1575 ; she in 1565. The tablet rehearses his virtues 

 in the quaint lines inscribed underneath. 2 



1 The privilege was first granted 33rd Henry VIII. But it is also pro- 

 about the year 1536, in the 27th bable that he represented the town in 

 Henry VIII. The first name in the the preceding Parliament, which sat 

 list of representatives of the borough only forty days. Williams's 'Records 

 which has been preserved, is that of Denbigh.' 

 of Richard Myddelton, 1542, in the 



2 In vayu we bragg and boast of blood, in vayne of sinne we vaunte, 

 Syth flesh and blood must lodge at last where nature did us graunte. 

 So where he lyeth that lyved of late with love and favour mm -lie, 

 To f'ynde his friend, to feel his foes, his country skante had suche. 

 Whose lyft'did well repoite his death, whose death hys lytt'doth tiye, 

 And poyntes with fyiiger what he was that here in claye doth lye. 

 His vertucs shall enroll his actes, histmnbe. shall tell his name, 

 His sonncs and daughters left Ix-hinde shall blaze on earth his fame. 

 Look under feete and you shall tindc, upon the stone y>\v stande, 

 The race he ranne, the lyft'he led, each with an upright hande. 



