of North Wales, and made a general mufter in the middle of the inland, under the command of Thomas lord Bulkeley. The parlement determined on their reduction, and made Conwy the place of rendezvous. General Mytton was the commanding officer; he landed at Cadnant, where Hugh Pennant was pofted, who, after undergoing a fevere fire from the rocks and hedges, being left unfupported, was obliged to retreat. Two captains pofted at Porth-aethwy, made fo fpeedy a flight, that it was faid that one of them at left had previously received the bribe of 50%. for his treachery. In the battle which foon after was fought near Beaumaris, Hugh Pennant charged the enemy with great fpirit, and was very near taking that brave officer colonel Lothian prifoner. Some others of the loyal officers conducted themselves with fpirit; but, in general, the islanders are allowed by their own hiftorian, a schoolmaster of Beaumaris, to have behaved very ill. An Anglefey captain was directed to keep the church: he pofted his men in it, locked them fafely up, and then ran away with the key in his pocket. The hiftorian tells us, that he was called Captain Church to his dying day. They certainly had great valor at diftant danger. As foon as the enemy appeared marching over Penmaen-mawr, at left four miles from Beaumaris, the Anglesey people began to buftle; drums beat, trumpets founded, and great vollies of small shot and great were discharged; at which the enemy, fays the fage pedagogue, took little or no notice. Major Pennant was probably taken in Beaumaris castle, with the royal army, to which place it had retired after the defeat. As foon as he obtained his liberty he refided at Bryn-fhone, in the parish of Tkiviog, where he died on March 10th, 1669, and was interred at Whiteford.

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He was married to Margaret Aungier, baronefs of Longford, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Cave, of Slimford, in the county of Northampton, knight. This lady had four husbands; she paid our country the compliment of beginning and ending with a Welshman: her first was Sir John Wynne, of Gwedir, junior, they lived unhappily together, which fent him on his travels into Italy, where he died at Lucca. She then took one of the Milesian race, for fhe married Sir Francis Aungier, master of the rolls in Ireland, afterwards created baron of Longford. Thirdly, fhe gave her hand to an Englishman, Sir Thomas Wenman, of Oxfordshire; and, finally, she resigned her antiquated charms to our valiant major, who in the year 1656 depofited her with his ancestors, in the church at Whiteford.

THE next is a fingle figure, a half-length of Pyers, fon of David PYERS PENNANT. Pennant, with long hair, a long laced cravat, and in a fingular gown. His wife is in another frame, a handfome woman, with her neck naked, and long treffes flowing on each fide. She was one of the celebrated feven fifters of the house of Gwyfanney, near to Mold, who were all married about the fame time, and all became widows, and of them only two of them renewed the nuptial vow. Thefe ladies being much talked of, even to this day, I add their names, and those of their spouses. Let me premise that they were daughters of Robert Davies, by Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Peter Mutton, knight, chief justice of North Wales, and owner of Llanerch, in the vale of Clwyd.

Anne, their first daughter, married John Thelwall, of Plafcoch.
Katherine,
Pyers Pennant, of Bychton.
Dorothy,

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PETER PENNANT.

Pyers Pennant, who occafioned this notice, died in 1623.

I CANNOT well afcertain the next portrait, which is of a handfome young man, in long hair, flowing and curling gracefully on his fhoulders. He is dreffed in the military drefs of the time, a laced turn-over, and an elegant buff coat, much ornamented, and a musket with an aukward old lock in his hand, and a fword by his fide. I fufpect him to have been a fon of Pyers Pennant, who was flain in the ill-conducted expedition to the isle Rhé, under the duke of Buckingham, in 1627. He probably was in the company of his neighbor captain Richard Moftyn, a younger fon of Moftyn, who fell in the fame spot.

THE portrait of my grandfather, Peter Pennant, represents, what I well remember him to have been, a fine perfon, and of a jovial complexion. He is dreffed in a white tye-wig, and a red coat. On the death of his first wife, Catherine, fecond daughter of the Wynnes, of Glynne, in Merionethshire, he went into the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and ferved at the fiege of Bruffels. Difgufted with his colonel, Sir Thomas Prendergast, after demanding fatisfaction, which Sir Thomas declined, he refigned, and paffed the remainder of his days at Bychton; where he lived in great hofpitality, and died in October 1736, aged 72.

OF CHELSEA.

His uncle, John Pennant, in a full brown wig, and brown JoHN PENNANT, gown. By his jolly rubicund face he appears to have been a thorough bon-vivant, yet with much the air of the gentleman. The original, a well painted picture, was given to us by John Wynne, of Coperleney, in this neighborhood, who, by the infcription on the back, feems to have taken as much pride in being thought the friend of John Pennant, as Sir Fulke Grevil did in being the friend of Sir Philip Sydney. Many a bottle had they emptied during their thirty years friendship. He refided at Chelfea, where my father often vifited him during the boyish holydays. My father told me he was frequently taken by him to the coffee-house, where he used to fee poor Richard Cromwell, a little and very neat old man, with a moft placid countenance, the effect of his innocent and unambitious life.

I IMAGINE that the coffee-houfe was Don Saltero's, to which he was a benefactor, and has the honor of having his name inferted in the catalogue. I have, when a boy, feen his gift to the great Saltero, which was a lignified hog. I fear that this matchlefs curiofity is loft, at left it is omitted in the last, or 47th edition of the catalogue.-What author of us can flatter himself with delivering his works down to posterity, in impreffions fo numerous as the labors of Don Saltero?

John Pennant died in 1709, aged 69, and was interred in the church-yard of Chelsea, and had a small monument to his memory erected against the wall of the church, by his wife, daughter to Mr. Parry, of Merton, a house and small eftate which we now poffefs, above a mile from Downing. Her affection pro

EPITAPH.

ROBERT PENNANT.

vided the following epitaph, which I give more on that account, than for the excellency of the compofition.

Near this place, under a ftone with his name on it, lies the body of John Pennant, gent. fecond fon of David Pennant, of Bichtan, in the county of Flint, efq; who departed this life the 5th of June, 1709, aged 69. In whofe memory this monument was erected, by his mournful widow, who defigns to be interred in the fame grave:

Had virtue in perfection power to fave

The best of men from the devouring grave,
Pennant had liv'd; but 'tis in vain to flie
The fatal stroke, where all are doom'd to die.
Farewel, lov'd fpoufe; fince want of words appears
T' exprefs my grief, I'll moan thy lofs with tears,
Which like Nile's cataracts fhall rumble down,
And with their briny floods my paffion drown.
Here may thy afhes undisturb'd remain,
Till thy wife's duft re-vifits thee again;

Then facred quiet, till the day of doom
Seal the enclosure of our catacomb.

His arms are thofe of the Pennants. Her's thofe of Edwyn, lord of Tegengle.

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ANOTHER of my kindred lies in Pancras church-yard. I may be excused for mentioning him, as his epitaph is far from inelegant. This youth, Robert Pennant, was fon to Pierce Pennant by Katherine, one of the feven fifters of Gwyfanney, and was fnatched away at the age of twenty-four, in the year 1639. He was attended to his grave, as was then the custom, by a most numerous fet of friends, among whom were the two bishops, and numbers of