William, and made five campaigns, and was as brave and strict an officer as any of his time. Frances Godolphin died a child; Mary married the Rev. Dr. Godolphin, provost of King's College; Penelope married Francis Hoblin of Nant-swiden in Cornwall, Esq., and since Sir W. Pendarvis of Pendarvis, in the same county. She was a prudent woman, a good wife, a tender mother, and an exemplary Christian. She departed this life the 30th February, 1725, aged 76 years. Also Margaret Godolphin, obiit October 3rd, 1766.

On the right side of Rees Tanat, Esq., who is interred under the communion table in the burying-place of his ancestors, lieth the body of Margaret his wife, daughter of John Owen, Esq., and sister to the great loyalist, Sir John Owen of Clemeney. She departed this life October 29th, in the year of our Lord, 1670.

Between the body of Margaret Tanat and body of Rees Tanat, lieth the body of Ellen Tanat, spinster, eldest daughter of the aforesaid Rees Tanat, Esq., by Margaret his wife. She died 20th October, and was interred on the same day as her mother.

Per bend sinister ermine and erminois, a lion rampant or.

1 Willi'ms Penryn, gent., deput. (Peniarth list). He was probably the father of William Penrhyn of Rhysnant, sheriff in 1604.

THIS sheriff was probably Robert Lloyd of Plas is y Clawdd in the parish of Chirk in the county of Denbigh, the son and heir of David Lloyd of the same place, by Gwenhwyfar his wife. David Lloyd was a younger son of John Edwards of Plas Newydd, descended through Iorwerth Foel, Lord of Chirk, from Tudor Trefor.

Robert Lloyd married Catherine, daughter of Edward ap Rhys, and had issue. We have failed to assign him any family or landed interest whatever in connection with Montgomeryshire that could have prompted his selection for the office of sheriff. He also appears to have been non-resident, his name being omitted in the rolls of magistrates subsequent to his year of office, and in the grand jury lists of the county. The duties of his office were in all probability discharged by his deputy.

1572.-ROBERT PULESTON.

Deputy, Richard Griffiths.'

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THIS sheriff, as well as the preceding, was of a Denbighshire family unconnected either by family or estate with Montgomeryshire. He was probably of Havod werne1 in the parish of Wrexham, and the son of Sir John Puleston, knight constable of the castle of Carnarvon (ob. 1551), by his wife Gaynor, daughter of Robert ap Meredydd of Glynllifon in Carnarvonshire.

He was a cadet of the house of Emral in Flintshire, fourth in descent from Madog (second son) ap Robert Puleston of that house. He married Elin, daughter of William Vaughan of Kwchwillan, probably a sister of William Williams of that house, who married Barbara, the daughter of William, Lord Lumley.

The family derive their name from Puleston, in the parish of Newport, in Shropshire, where they were seated in the time of Henry III; but, in the following reign, they removed to Emral. They continued, however, till long afterwards, to possess property at Puleston. Sir Roger Puleston, knight, from whom Madog, our sheriff's ancestor was fifth in descent, was the first of his family, it is believed, who was seated at Emral, and is witness to a deed, dated there, 18th January, 22 Edward I (1294). He is said to have been slain by the Welsh in that year. His father, Roger de Puelesdon, was deputy sheriff in Shropshire in 1241. The family were employed in offices of great trust by Edward I.2

1 Lewys Dwnn, vol. ii, p. 359.
2 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 150, n. 8, 9.

Per bend sinister, ermine and erminois, a lion ramp. or. THIS sheriff is the third in succession of a Denbighshire family, and is distinctly designated in his appointment as of "Trevalyn" or " Allington" in the parish of Gresford, Denbighshire; and is doubtless the John Trevor of that house, who married Mary, the daughter of Sir John Bruges, knight, of London, where he died 15th July, 1589, and was buried at St. Bride's, Fleet Street. An account of this very distinguished family, abounding in interesting details relating to Denbighshire, is to be found in Burke's Landed Gentry (L. Dwnn, ii, 354). They are of the line of Tudor Trefor. The influence that the families of this, and the two preceding sheriffs, exercised in the adjoining county of Denbigh, and with the Council of the Marches, may have outweighed the ordinary requirements of estate and family connection possessed at that time by Montgomeryshire men, and which would have otherwise secured the local office of sheriff.

DAVID LLOYD AP JENKIN, was a member of an ancient local family, now extinct, settled for centuries at Berth Lloyd or Berth Llwyd, a residence pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Severn, about a mile below the town of Llanidloes, and within the limits of the parish of the same name. Respectable authorities, when treating of the early generations of this family, at a period anterior to its settlement within the limits of our county of Montgomery, differ as to its direct male descent; some deducing it from Tudor Trefor, others from Trahairn Goch, lord of Garthmyl, in Brecknockshire. A reconciliation of these diverse views may be found in the probability that, in the direct male line, the family was derived from Trahairn or his assumed ancestor, in the fifth ascending generation, Llewelyn Aurdorchog, i.e., Llewelyn of the golden chain, lord of Iâl, or Yale in Denbighshire, whose direct male descendant, Philip ap

"Ric'us Griffithes, gen." (Peniarth list).

2 Lewys Dwnn, vol. i, p. 311.

3 Ibid., vol. i, p. 111; Harl. MS., 15,017.