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Be this as it may, fome reafon for any mention being made of 

 this houfe, arifes from a poffibility of its having been defigned 

 by Inigo Jones, in his firft manner, before he had' been in Italy, 

 as this great architect was protected by Sir John Wynne. 



The name of Jones fufficiently proves him to have been of 

 Welfh extraction ; to which it may be added, that his caft of 

 features, as rep re fen ted in Hollar's engraving of his portrait, feems 

 to mew that he muft. have been an inhabitant of the Princi- 

 pality. 



All traditions have generally fome foundation, and it is com- 

 monly believed in the neighbourhood of Lfanrwrr, that Jones 

 was bom either at that town, or Dolwyddelan, which is equally 

 lituated near considerable eftates of the Gwedir family. The 1 tra- 

 dition is alfo fo circumstantial, as to fuppofe that he was 

 chriftened by the name of Tfiyr, which, after his travels into 

 Italy, he exchanged for Inigo as founding better '. It is part like- 

 wife of the fame tradition, that he was patronifedby the Wynnes 

 of Gwedir, and that he built Plafteg, belonging to the Trevor 

 family, on the road from Wrexham to Mold m « 



1 Thus Cooper (mailer for the Viol da Gamba to Charles the Firft); 

 after he had been in Italy, changed his name to Coperario. Hawkins's 

 Hiftory of Mufic, vol. IV. He alfo alteied his Chriftian name, ftiling 

 himfelf Giovanni inftead of John, ibid. vol. IV. p. 55. Thus likewife 

 Peter Philips, another mufician, who had been much in Italy, ftiled himr- 

 felf Pietro Philippi, ibid. v. III. p. 327. Jones was branded by Ben 

 Jonfon for his vanity, as one of the latter's epigrams is addrefled to> 

 Inigo Marquis would be. Jones indeed contrived the fcenes for Jonfon's 

 mafques, which being perhaps more admired than the poetry, excited 

 Jonfon's envy. It is remarkable alfo that one of thefe fcenes rep refents 

 Craig Eryri, or the rocks of Snowdon *, under which Jones was born, if a 

 native of Llanrwft. 



m 1 here is an engraving of the front of this houfe on the fide of a 

 large map of Penbighfhire and Flintlhire, which was publifhed about 

 forty or fifty years ago. 



* By Snowdon is here meant, what was anciently included in theforeft of that name. 



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