Welsh Journals

GUILS FIELD. AGAINST the external south wall of the tower is placed a slab with an heraldic shield, which was once the flat cover of an altar tomb, The inscription has been partly obliterated by time and weather but what remains reads as follows HIC (lAC')lT CORPVS LLOYD QVI EX DILECTISSIMA VXOKE 8EGLE ARMIGERI FILIA OCTO GEN V IT FILIOS OBIIT DNI 167 The inscription runs round the edge, and at one end is the armorial shield, bearing quarterly- 1. The three Nags' Heads of Brochwel Yscythrog. 2 & 3. A Pegasus apparently; but it may be the Griffin of Llawdden. 4. The Three Owls of Broughton. Unfortunately the Register for the period (1633 to 1696) is missing, so that it has not been possible to identify it from that source, but the EGLE of the in- scription appears to indicate EGLwYSEGLE in Llangollen, of which place the Pryces were the owners at that date, and in their notice of that family in Powys Fadog (iv, 176) we find two instances in which the Pryses and the Lloyds of Guilsfield intermarried, viz. (1) Edward Pryse of Eglwysegle, son of Rhys ap David of Trefnant, by his first wife, had four sons and six daughters, the youngest of whom Deilu married Edward Lloyd ap Thomas Lloyd of Cegidfa (Guils- field); and (2.) Three generations later, Richard Lloyd of Trefnant, descended from Ieuan ap Rhys, brother of the above Edward Pryse, married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Pryse of Y Glwysegl; and this we take to be the union indicated in the epitaph. DR.T.