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quoted, identifies with Slwch. "Crug gorseddawl,"* mentioned after the name of Elined in the Myvyrian Archaiology, has been taken for Wyddgrug or Mold in Flintshire; but it may be no more than a descriptive appellation of Slwch, on which there were lately some remains of a British Camp.† Cressy, speaking of St. Almedha, says "This devout virgin, rejecting the proposals of an earthly prince, who sought her in marriage, and espousing herself to the eternal king, consummated her life by a triumphant martyrdom. The day of her solemnity is celebrated every year on the first day of August.”

16. Ceindrych, or according to Bonedd y Saint, Ceindreg, lived at Caergodolaur, a place at present unknown; but the Cognacio states that Kerdech lived at Llandegwyn, which is the name of a church dedicated to another saint in Merionethshire.

17. Gwen, grand-daughter of Brychan, and wife of Llyr Merini, by whom she was the mother of Caradog Fraichfras. Llewelyn Offeiriad says she was buried at Talgarth, Brecknockshire, where according to the Truman MS. she was murdered by the Saxons. Ecton calls her St. Gwendeline.

18. Cenedlon, "a saint on the mountain of Cymorth." It does not appear where this mountain is situated, but from the association of Cenedlon, Cymorth, and their sister Clydai, it may be looked for in the neighbourhood of Newcastle in Emlyn.

19. Cymorth, from whom the mountain just mentioned derives its name, was a daughter of Brychan, and is said to have lived in Emlyn,‡ a district divided between the present counties of Carmarthen and Pembroke. In the Cambrian

* Crug gorseddawl-"the hill of judicature."-Dr. Pughe's Welsh Dictionary.

"Elyned in monte Gorsavael, quæ pro amore castitatis martyrizata est."-Cognacio, in Jones's Brecknockshire.

"Cymorth 'ch Brychan a'i chwaer Clydai gyda hi yn Emlyn." Myv. Archaiology, Vol. II. p. 35.

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Biography she is called Corth, and stated to have been the wife of Brynach Wyddel, by whom she was the mother of Gerwyn, already mentioned, together with his sisters, Mwynen, Gwennan, and Gwenlliw.

20. Clydai, the sister of Cymorth and Cenedlon, and the reputed founder of a church, called Clydai, in Emlyn. Her festival is Nov. 1.†

21. Dwynwen, the founder of a church in Anglesey called Llanddwynwen or Llanddwyn. By the Welsh bards she has been considered the patron saint of lovers. Her commemoration occurs on the twenty fifth of January.

22. Ceinwen, a saint to whom the churches of Llangeinwen and Cerrig Ceinwen in Anglesey are ascribed. As this and the preceding person are omitted in several of the lists of the children of Brychan, it may be presumed they were his granddaughters. The wake of Ceinwen was observed on the eighth of October, which is also the feast day of Ceneu, another member of this redoubtable family. Llangeinwen has one chapel, Llangaffo (St. Caffo.)

23. Tydfyl, a daughter of Brychan, is by some authorities confounded with Tanglwst already mentioned. She suffered martyrdom at a place, which from that circumstance has been called Merthyr Tydfyl. According to the Cambrian Biography, upon the authority of the Truman MS. she met her father, when he was an old man, attended by some of her brothers, whereupon they were beset by a party of Saxons and Gwyddyl Ffichti, and she, her father, and her brother Rhun Dremrudd, were murdered; but Nefydd the son of Rhun, then a youth, exerted himself in raising the force of the country, and afterwards put the enemy to flight. Such is the

* Voce Gerwyn.

+ The list in Bonedd y Saint is corrupt in this place, and omits Clydai, which is restored from a separate notice in the same record, thereby increasing the number of reputed children to fifty.

↑ Voce Tydfyl.

brief account; but it is remarkable that no memorials have been preserved of these early inroads of the Saxons into South Wales, except a few scattered notices in the Welsh genealogies. They appear to have been repeated at various intervals from about the year 460 to 500, during which time it is generally agreed that the Saxons and Picts were in alliance; and the former, whose piratical character is acknowledged, were not unlikely to land on the western coasts of the island, where the Gwyddyl Ffichti, or Irish Picts, would aid their progress into the interior. But this is merely a suggestion in support of accounts not inconsistent in themselves; and if it be too much to insist at once that the notices alluded to are authentic, the possibility of their truth is a subject worthy of investigation. The day of the commemoration of St. Tydfyl is the twenty third of August.

24. Enfail, a saint at Merthyr Enfail, which a writer in the Cambro Briton states is in Carmarthenshire; and if his assertion be correct, the place in question may be the church of Merthyr near Carmarthen.

25. Hawystl-lived at Caer Hawystl, supposed by the Historian of Brecknockshire to be Awst in the county of Glou

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26. Tybïe, a saint, of whom it is recorded that she was murdered by pagans at a place in Carmarthenshire, where there is a church still called Llandybïe. Her festival is January 30.

The last specified terminates the lengthy catalogue of the children of Brychan according to Bonedd y Saint. The Cognacio, however, mentions two names which cannot be identified with any of the preceding ;-" Keneython at Kidwelly on the mountain of Kyfor," and "Keurbreit at Caslog wr."* The first has reference to Llangynheiddon, an extinct chapel in the

"Keneython apud Kydwely in monte Kyfor, Keurbreit apud Caslogwr." Jones's Brecknockshire, Vol. I. p. 343.

parish of Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, near to which is a hill called Mynydd Cyfor; and the other is perhaps the saint of Lloughor, or, as it is vernacularly called, Casllwchwr, Glamorganshire, the church of which place is generally understood to be dedicated to St. Michael. Upon this authority they may both be regarded as belonging to the family of the Brecknockshire chieftain; and Llewelyn Offeiriad, who calls the former "Rhyneidon of Cydweli," says she was his daughter.

To such a length has the practice been carried of ranking all the members of this tribe as the immediate offspring of its founder, that in a short list of Saints, published in the Cambrian Register,* two sons, Gwynau and Gwynws, and two daughters, Callwen and Gwenfyl, are added to the number. It is quite enough to suppose they were descendants without enquiring into the degree of their descent. The festival of the first pair is Dec. 13, and that of the second Nov. 1. Gwynws is the saint of Llanwnws, Cardiganshire, and may be deemed its founder; a chapel, now extinct, subject to Llanddewi Brefi in the same county, bore the name of Gwenfyl; and another in the parish of Defynog, Brecknockshire, is dedicated to Callwen.

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Cressy, the Catholic writer, treats his readers with a wondrous tale of "St. Keyna the daughter of Braganus," evidently the same person as Ceneu, which appears in some of the lists, but her identity with Ceinwen already mentioned is doubtful. He relates that "when she came to ripe years, many nobles sought her in marriage, but she utterly refused that state; having consecrated her virginity to our Lord by a perpetual vow; for which cause she was afterwards by the Britons called Keyn wiri,† that is Keyna the virgin: at length she determined to forsake her country and find out some desert place, where she might attend to contemplation. Therefore

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directing her journey beyond Severn, and there meeting a woody place, she made her request to the prince of that country, that she might be permitted to serve God in that solitude. His answer was, that he was very willing to grant her request, but that the place did so swarm with serpents that neither man nor beast could inhabit it: but she constantly replied, that her firm trust was in the name and assistance of Almighty God to drive all that poisonous brood out of that region. Hereupon the place was granted to the holy virgin, who presently prostrating herself to God obtained of him to change the serpents and vipers into stones; and to this day, the stones in that region do resemble the windings of serpents through all the fields and villages, as if they had been framed so by the hand of the engraver."-From the appearance of the fossils, called by geologists, "Ammonites," Camden identifies the place with Keynsham in Somersetshire, and describes a specimen from that neighbourhood which he had seen.—It is related afterwards that "her nephew St. Cadoc, performing a pilgrimage to the Mount of St. Michael, met there with his blessed Aunt St. Keyna, at whose sight he being replenished with joy, and being desirous to bring her back to her own country, the inhabitants of that region would not permit him; but afterwards, by the admonition of an angel, the holy maid returned to the place of her nativity; where, on the top of a hillock, seated at the foot of a high mountain, she made a little habitation for herself, and by her prayers to God obtained a spring there to flow out of the earth, which by the merits of the holy virgin affordeth health to divers infirmities. She is said to have departed this life on the eighth day of the Ides of October, A. D. 490, and to have been buried in her own oratory by her nephew St. Cadoc."-The latter part of the story has reference to certain places on the borders of the Principality. The Mount of St. Michael is the name of a hill near Abergavenny, which still maintains its sacred character. In the same neighbourhood is the parish of Llangeneu, in

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