456 HISTORY Or THE COUNTV OF WESTCHESTER. 



maining in Monmouthshire, consisted of three brothers — Lewis, William 

 and Richard, 1 ' sons of Col. Lewis Morris. 



Lewis, the eldest son, who inherited the paternal estate of Tintern, 6 

 embarked for the West Indies as early as 1633, (according to the Eng- 

 lish State papers,) in the sen-ice of the New Providence Company. He 

 also commanded a troop of horse in the Parliament army against Charles 

 First for which the king afterwards confiscated his estates in Monmouth- 

 shire. In return for his losses Oliver Cromwell subsequently idemnified 

 him. At the attack upon Chepstow Castle, which was defended by Sir 

 Nicholas Kemys, "the king's general," Lew-is Morris was the second in 

 command. After an obstinate resistance the garrison was reduced by 

 cutting oil* the supply of water which ran through the estate of Peirce- 

 field c then owned by Col. Morris's son-in-law r , John W alters, and setting 

 fire to the castle. From this circumstance the family assumed as their 

 crest a castle in flames w;ith the following motto : " taiide?n vincitur? 

 at length he is conquered. 



It is a little curious that in the memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq., 

 an incident of the same character, and relating to a Morris, is said to 

 have taken place at Pomfret Castle : — 



•"This place was seized by some of the king's party, and was besieged by the 

 count r : by some of the army. Sir Hugh Cholmely commanding at the 



. but the arm}', finding little progress made therein, ordered Col. Rains- 

 f wees thither, appointing him to command in the room of bir 

 Hugh Cholmely. Whilst he was preparing for that service, being at Doncaster, 

 ten or twelve miles from Pomfret, with a considerable force in the town, a party 

 of horse dismounting at his quarters and going up as friends to his chamber, 

 under pretence of having business with him, seized him first, and upon his 

 refusal to g ) silently with them, murdered him. After his death, another com- 

 mander being appointed to carry on the siege, those in the castle were reduced 

 to such extremities that some of the most desperate of them resolved, together 

 with the governor, one Morris, who had been a page to the Earl of Stafford, to 

 endeavor the breaking through our forces on horseback, which they attempted ; 

 and, though most of them were beaten back to the castle by the besiegers, yet 

 this Morris made his way through, but was afterwards taken as he ; 

 through the country, in the disguise of a beggar, and earned to York, where he 

 was arraigned before Justice Thorpe, and, being found guilty of treason, was 



ited for the samc,"<* 



a Ace <>f the f unity of Morris by Valentino Morris, 1T90. 



b Tola property u »w i> Longs to John «..urrr, Esq., who obtained it iiy a marriage with a 

 Fielding, which family got it tromth'; Dukes of Beaufort, descendants 01 the Marquis oi Wor- 

 to Whom Charles First gave it, having taken it from old Lewis Morns under for- 

 feiture. 



■cefield, two miles west of Chepstow, was long the property of the Walters family till 



the rear it:^u whin it was sola to Colom l Morns, father of valentine Morris, K.sij., who after- 



;. isses» d i? aud to whose taste and Liberality it is Indebted for its chief art iiici;ii beau- 



•1 its long establish d celebrity.—" Beauties of England and Wales," by Rev. J. Evans 



. Briton, vol. 11., p. 134. 



Imnnd Ludlow. Esq . Load n printed f »r A. Miilar (pagj 73) and D. Brown, both in 

 Strand, and J. Ward 1 i C irnhill, MiJCCCI. 



