The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-19

LA MARQCISE DE FONTENOy
IN MOST fNt who has been APP
pointed BY King George 10 bear
the standard OF Wales al tn.
coronation ceremony in Westminster
Abbey on Thursday next. is the head
of one OF the most ancient and inustri-
Gus families of Wales, and holds III.
title or Vice Admiral of North Wiles
and OF Carnarvon. a frequent visitor
10 70 .h ,fa united States, he is thoroughly
most every year at the national Bardic
gathering known as the Eisteddfod.
and Is descended, like the Tudor Kings.
and consequently. like George ", from
Marchudd Ap Cynan. Lord of Aberge-
leu, contemporary OF Rhodri NIawr
| King OF Wales in the ninth century.
He still uses to-day as crest the
"Saracen's head erased at the neck.
arg, environed about the temples with
a wreath which was the principal
heraldic device of the founder OF his
house In the ninth century.
Lord Mostyn's chief country seat is
Aiost*n Hall. in Fiintshire. where the
family has resided since the hfteenth
century. and there is no ancestral
home in the United Kingdom more rich
in ancient manuscripts, especially those
affecting the history of Wales. Mostyn
liall may be said to have pa sscd into
bears through the plague. The lat
ter in 1ii3 killed within the Space OF
q week the owner of the castle. his
! wife and seven of his children, leav-
| Ing one daughter, Marjorie, as his sole
hciress. She married Hiwel .Ap Tevan
Vichan, OF Mostyn, and the castle and
estates have been owned by her de-
sccndants ever since.
Perhaps the antiquity OF Mostyn
Hall can best be realized when 1 men.
ton that Lord Mostyn Is still able to
show the window through which
Henry, Earl of Richmond afterwards
party II t fhseePen wesn 81 BY
III Henry Tudor was hiding at
| Mostyn. his object being 10 get his
Welsh kinsfolk. the Mostyns. 10 help
him 10 overthrow the .reiGninG house OF
hork, and ne mad Just Time to ge,
through the window, and TO thus es-
cape. ere his pursuers entered the
room. in which he was about to sit
down to his dinner. The then Lord
Aiostyn was subsequently, rewarded for
his fidelity 70 Henry VII. BY the lat
ter's gift of the sword and sword belt
| worn by that monarch at the battle
of Bosworth. and which are still pre-
| served a AIostyq Hall.
! The gem of the library at Mostyn Is
| 'Froissarts Chronicles" In two VOL
umes. exquisitely illuminated in gold
and water colors, dating from Frois-
sart's own lifetime, and bearing an
| inscription saying that it was pre-
| scented by the hrst Lord Buckhurst to
! Sir william Cecil.
| The Mostyn family has number OF
representatives in this country, among
| them being the widow of the late
| Berkeley Mostyn. a Welshman, who
made his home in New York. where
| he was connected with the admihistra-
ton OF the hstor estate. Mrs Mostyn.
! his widow, is a daughter of the late
| Octavius White. one of the best known
physicians OF his day in New York
Rycote, in oxfordshire, where Queen
| Elizabeth was imprisoned for a con-
| siderable time prior to her accession
| to the throne. by her sister Queen
II. and Queen Anne In turn resided,
has Just been sold by its owner, the
| Earl of Abingdon, with the consent OF
| the latter's eldest son. Lord Norreys,
which was necessary thereto, owing to
/ the fact that the Rycote property was
entailed, Rycote was at ono time the
4 principal country seat of the Earls OF
Abingdon, who have. however, for some
time past made their headquarters az
| Wytham Abbey, In Oxfordshire. near
| that town of Abingdon from which the
earl takes his title.
| Lord Abingdon has sold quite large
amount Of hisEformer very extensive
landed estates: and in one instance the
sale led 10 a curious lawsuit. 1t was
when he disposed of Gunner Hall to
| a Mr.. Scott Hall, who, after complnt :
ing the purchase and taking up his
residence al Cumnor Hall, went to
law to break his contract. because
! the ghost Of the place did not rnateri-
| ali%e. The ghost which was the cause
Of his suit was that of Amy Robsnrt,
4 the Inflated consort of Queen Eliza
beth's favorite, the Earl of Leicester
98It will be remembered by aliflthe
| readers OF Sir Walter SCOTS popular
] novel S{ TX enilworth." that Amy Rob-