Welsh Journals

there was a rood screen and a loft here at one time is quite possible, but the carved wood we. now see at the east end did not belong to it. The wood looks newer and the carving cruder than what we find in the screens which are usually to be assigned to the fifteenth century or beginning of the sixteenth. In the pulpit also is in- corporated some of the same carved wood. The initials H.G. represent Hugh Griffith who in 1699 (Parochialuti,67), owned Plas Isa, Caerwys (after his mother) and Caerwys Hall, whose coat of arms was argent a chevron between three Boars' heads sable (see T. Pennant, History of White ford and Holywell, p. 309 and plate XXII No. XIII) with which, on the pew door, are impaled those attributed to Owen Gwynedd, as used by many families of North Wales (e.g. the Wynns of Gwydir) vert 3 eagles displayed in perse or. I am indebted for this identification to Mr. W. J. Hemp, F.S.A. The other initials w may possibly represent the Wyns of Maes-y-Coed, Caerwys, the owner of which in 1699 (Parochalia i, 67) was Eubul Wyn. Included in the old oak pew used in the choir stalls are pew doors, one with the date 1684 and a coat of arms with the initials H.G. and the other bearing the date 1682 and the letters 'h^82 Another board or panel near the pulpit bears the same letters and date. The altar is dated 1620 and the font 1661, with the letters INIR representing presumably the initials of the churchwardens. The letters INIR could stand for k lesus Nazarenus ludaeorum Rex,' though INRI is always found over the cross where only they are appropriate. Bells. There are five altogether-four hung in the tower and a handbell 1. Inscribed CENWCH I'R ARGLWYDD GANIAD NEWYDD. 2. Inscribed CANTATE DOMINO CANTrCUM NOVUM. 3. W. Hughes, B.D., Rector. 4. + CAMPANA MiCHAELIS. Priest's Bell. 5. Handbell used in funeral processions, dated 1703, with initials of church- wardens R.F., W.T. The first two also bear W. & T. MEARS LATE LESTER PACK & CHAPMAN of London Fecit 1787. On the third is: MEARS & STAINBANK, FOUNDERS, LONDON, 1869. MEMORIALS. Mural tablets. On the north wall of the N. aisle is a fairly large tablet in memory of the Rev. John Lloyd, who was Rector of the parish from 1778 to 1793. He is best known perhaps as having been the companion of Thomas Pennant during his Welsh Tours. Of him Pennant writes in his Literary Life (p. 26) "To his great skill in the language and antiquities of our country I own myself much indebted, for without his assistance many things might have escaped me and many errors crept into my labors," The inscription runs Infra ex