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5 Richard Symonds, Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army, ed. C. E. Long, (London, 1859), pp. 216-17. 8 The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland, ed. L. T. Smith (London, 1906), pp. 22-3. 7 D. B. Hague saw here a short length of thick walling, possibly medieval, incorporated in later outbuildings, but the site has since been levelled as a lorry park for the Whitehall quarry. Glamorgan County History, vol. III (Cardiff, 1971), p. 447. 8 Wallston belonged to Morgan Nicholas, Archdeacon of Llandaff, in 1595, and remained in his family as late as 1662. The freehold subsequently came into the possession of the Joneses of Fonmon, lords of the manor of Wrinstone; the whole manor was sold by Robert Jones to Peter Birt of Wenvoe in 1778. G. O. Pierce, The Place-names of Dinas Powys Hundred (Cardiff, 1968), pp. 299, 301. 10 G. R. O. D/D We 1. 11 This estate had been acquired by the marriage of Edmund Thomas in 1655 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lewis Morgan ofRhiwperra. The main surviving archive of the Thomas family is included in the Tredegar Park Muniments in N.L.W., Box 78, as a result of the sale of Rhiwperra to the Morgans. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Verulam (London, 1906), p. 255. 13 G.R.O. D/D Xqg. 14 For an account of Sir Edmund's political career, see Sir Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament. The House of Commons, 1754-1790 (London, 1964), vol. III, p. 522. 18 South Glamorgan County Library, Cardiff MS. 4.877. 38 G.R.O. D/D We 2. 17 The earl of Warwick was lord of a moiety of the manor of Dinas Powis. 18 G. O. Pierce, op. cit., p. 315. 19 The facts of this paragraph are taken from R. G. Wilson, 'The Aire and Calder Navigation. Part III: The Navigation in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century', Bradford Antiquary, vol. 44 (1969), pp. 215-245. 20 G.R.O. D/D Wenvoe collection (uncatalogued). 21 Dorothy Stroud, Henry Holland (London, 1966), p. 57; J. B. Hilling, Cardiff and the Valleys (London, 1973), p. 32; Roy Strong et al., The Destruction of the Country House (London, 1974), no. 149. 22 Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, p. 937. 83 Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Adam plans, vol. 34, fol. 53-56. 24 N.L.W. MS. 20656 D. Photocopies of the letters are available in G.R.O., reference number D/D Xgc 34. 26 Cardiff MS. 4.877. 28 'Denibold' is almost certainly Roberts's version of the name Delabole, the famous Cornish slate quarry. Scantling is a technical term referring to the size of the slate. 27 The Torrington diaries, ed. C. B. Andrews (London, 1934), vol. I, p. 288. 28 J. B. Hilling, op. cit., pp. 32-3; there is a photograph of the stables from the east. Hilling's article in the, Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7 (1971), includes a photograph of the courtyard from the west, facing p. 105. 29 B. H. Malkin, The scenery, antiquities, and biography, of South Wales 2nd ed. (London, 1807), vol. I pp. 209-10.