CHAP. VI. SIR IK'fill M V! >] >Kl/r< >X'S MINING IN WALES. 141 



CHAPTEE VI. 



MINING ENTERPRISE IN WALES MYDDELTON'S DEATH. 



SIR HUGH continued to maintain his Parliamentary 

 connection with his native town of Denbigh, of which 

 he was still the representative. We do not find that he 

 took an active part in political questions. The name 

 of his brother, Sir Thomas, frequently appears in the 

 parliamentary debates of the time, and he was throughout 

 a strong opponent of the Court party ; but that of Sir 

 Hugh only occurs in connection with commercial topics 

 or schemes of internal improvement, on which he seems 

 to have been consulted as an authority. 



Sir Hugh's occasional visits to his constituents brought 

 him into connection with Welsh families, and made him 

 acquainted with the mining enterprises then on foot in 

 different parts of Wales so rich in ores of copper, lead, 

 and iron. It appears that the Governor and Company of 

 Mines Royal in Cardiganshire l were incorporated in the 

 year 1604, for the purpose of working the lead and silver 

 mines of that county. The principal were those at 

 Cwmsymlog and the Darren Hills, situated about mid- 

 way, as the crow flies, between Aberystwith and the 

 mountain of Plinlimmon, and at Tallybout, about mid- 

 way between Aberystwith and the estuary at the mouth 

 of the River Dovey. They were all situated in the town- 

 slii]> of Skibery Coed, in the northern part of the county 

 of Cardigan. For many years these mines (which were 



1 Meyrick, in his ' History of Car- 

 diganshire,' gives the names of the 

 t unity-two members who constituted 

 the original Company, under their 



Governor, Philip Earl of Pembroke; 

 but the name of Myddelton does not 

 appear amongst them. 



