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HUGH MYDDELTON, GOLDSMITH, &c. 



TAUT II. 



since), in seekinge of coals for the town of Denbighe." l 

 Myddelton was most probably deceived by the slaty 

 appearance of the soil into the belief that coal w r as to be 

 found in the neighbourhood, and after spending a good 

 deal of money in the search, he finally gave it up ns ;i 

 hopeless undertaking. . 



1 The common story told of Myd- 

 delton' s subsequent execution of the 

 Xe\v River, is, that he was enabled to 

 carry out the works by means of the 

 large fortune he had realised by the 

 working of a " silver-mine in Wales." 

 This has been repeated by every 

 writer on the subject of Sir Hugh 



Myddelton's career from Stowe down- 

 wards; but it is alto-ether without 

 foundation, the only mining adven- 

 ture on which he entered previous to 

 the New River enterprise being that 

 at Denbigh, which proved a total 

 failure. 



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WHtTCHUHCH, OK ST. MARCELLUS, DENBIGH. 

 [By E. M. Wim peris, after an origical Sketch.] 



