according to St. Paul, may be an example to all in Doctrine and conversation, ́irreproachable, and well reported of them which are without.

The statutes relating to the Poor of the Hospital are, that they shall be out of the Shires of Denbigh and Flint, especially the Vale of Clwyd, and the Town of Ruthin, where the Founder was born, but, the chiefest respect to be had of the poorest, being honest, and of good report, and fallen to poverty, not wilfully through unthriftiness, or by their own default, but by other occasions, such as God sendeth, as by long sickness, losses by fire, and such like, and the Poor of the Founder's Kin, being so qualified as above to be preferred. The Electors of the Poor, are the Warden, the Heirs male of the Founder's elder Brother, Gawen, and of Edward Thelwall, of Plâs y Ward, being of thirty years of age, the Aldermen and Church Wardens of Ruthin, who shall present two to the President, and the one who he shall choose, shall be admitted. None of the Poor shall live by begging, or go from house to house. They shall be able to repeat the Belief, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in Welsh or English. They shall be fifty years of age, and single at the time of their admission, and so continue. The two women shall be sage Matrons, not suspected of any crime, as St. Paul doth wish, and to be ready with all charity, to look to the aged, sick, and impotent Poor of the said Hospital. They shall attend the public Worship of the Church regularly, and shall pray for the peace and quietness of the Church, for the good and prosperous state of the Queen's Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, my Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England, and his Children, and Children's Children, and for all those who have been or are Benefactors of the said Hospital.

To the President and Warden thus made a body Corporate, Dean Goodman subsequently, in the year 1595, obtained from the Crown the grant of one of the comportionate Rectories of Llanelidan, near Ruthin, for the support of a Schoolmaster and Usher of the Grammar School of Ruthin, which he founded this year. This School is free to all born in the Town of Ruthin and the Parish of Llanelidan, after the payment of a trifling Entrance Fee. A quarterly Stipend, as well as aṇ Entrance Fee, is payable by others, according to the worldly means of their parents. The Head Master is to be, by degree, Master of Arts, at least, and the Usher, Bachelor of Arts, and both of them Bachelors at the time of their admission. The

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Master is appointed by the President, and in default of his doing so within a month of a vacancy, then by the Warden, and during a vacancy of the See, by the Dean and Chapter of Bangor. All the foregoing particulars, and many others relating to discipline, are regulated by a body of School statutes, drawn up in very good Latin by the Founder, and said with great probability, to be similar to those of Westminster School. (Appendix F.) The Warden has a superintending power over the Masters of the School, and is to admit them to their office. The Rectorial Tithes which form the endowment, were, by the Founder's statutes, to be managed by the President and Warden, who were to pay two thirds to the Master and one third to the Usher, which are their respective proportions at present. In the year 1752, a decree of the Chancery of the Great Sessions of Denbighshire, made in consequence of an unjustifiable claim of the Warden, to a beneficial interest in these Tithes, directed that the Head Master should concur with the President and Warden in managing and letting the Tithes, and further, that a scheme should be presented to the Court, by the said parties, for raising a fund for the repairs of the School Buildings, which, it is to be regretted, has never yet been done. (Appendix G.) The Warden's claim just mentioned, originated in his holding the validity of certain additional statutes for the Hospital, which, though not signed by the Founder, bear marks of authenticity, and are in favour of the claim which was then rejected. They are supposed to be the rules by which Dean Goodman governed the Institution, as Visitor, during his life.

There have been thirteen Wardens of Ruthin, since their restoration by Dean Goodman:

First.-Eubule Thelwall, M. A., a relation of the Founder, who resigned in 1594. He became Principal of Jesus College, Oxon. The following account of this Person is extracted from "Woods History of the Colleges and Halls" in Oxford.

Principals of Jesus College.

"VII. Sir Eubule Thelwall, Knight, the fifth Son of John Thelwall, Esq., of Bathafarn Park, in Denbighshire, bred in Trinity College, Cambridge, till he was Bachelor of Arts, then coming to Oxford, was incorporated in the same degree, Anno 1579, afterwards Master of Arts of this University, and Student of - College,

Counsellor at Law, Master of the Alienation Office, and one of the Masters of the Chancery, was admitted Principal in the month of May, 1621. He procured from King James, a new Charter, in 1622, whereby Commissioners were appointed to make a perfect body of statutes. He was also a great Benefactor towards the Buildings. He died October 8th, 1630, aged 69, and was buried in the Chapel," where a Monument with a Latin inscription, is erected to his memory, by his Brother, Sir Bevis Thelwall, Knight. The above particulars are also given by Wood, in the Athence.* Second.-John Pryce, Clerk, who died 1599.

1606.

Third.-Jaspar Griffith, Chaplain to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, who died

These three were appointed by the Founder, who reserved the nomination to himself during his life.

* It is well known that Eccleciastics frequently held Lay Offices, and particularly in the Law department, before the Reformation; but this and Arch-bishop Williams, Lord Keeper, are the only instances in Protestant times, unless we are to add Sir Leoline Jenkins, Knight, Principal of this College, a celebrated political character, whom, Anthony Wood informs us, it was thought would have succeeded Arch-bishop Sheldon in the Primacy, in the year 1677. Sir Eubule obtained his Lay Preferments through the medinm of his Brother Ambrose, who, Mr. Pennant informs us, was so great a favourite with his Master, Sir Francis Bacon, that this Lord Keeper moved his Royal Master to Knight all the Masters in Chancery, for which Ambrose was to have a gratuity of a Hundred Pounds a man. The affair was done, and the money paid, except by Sir Eubule, to whom he remitted the fee. This Ambrose is buried in Llanrhydd Church, under a well executed Bust of whom is inscribed that he was in pension to King James, and Yeoman of the Robes to Prince Charles. His Brother, Sir Bevis, was Page of the Bedchamber to James I., and a great friend and associate in the schemes of his Countryman, Sir Hugh Myddelton.

There was another Eubule Thelwall, who was D. D. and Principal of Jesus College from the year 1625 to 1627, when he died. He was of this antient Family, and may have been the one who had been Warden of Ruthin, though the former is reputed as the man. Yet, as the latter must have been of the Plas y Ward Family, and therefore a relation of the Founder, it forms a presumption as to him in this particular. A curious old mural Monument to John Thelwall of Bathafarn, his Wife, ten Sons, (including Sir Eubule, Sir Bevis, and Ambrose), and four Daughters, is in Llanrhydd Church. This Family came into the Vale of Clwyd from Thelwall in Cheshire, and were imported by Lord Grey of Ruthin. The original John Thelwall, or Thelwall Hên, married Felice, Daughter and Heiress to Walter, or Ward, of Plás y Ward. The name branched into this Family of Bathafarn, the Thelwalls of Nantclwyd, now represented by the female line, by R. II. Kenrick, Esq., Ditto of Blaen Iâl, Plâs Côch, and Llanbedr. The name is at present continued solely in the Rev. Edward Thelwall, Rector of Efenechtyd, and his Brother, Bevis Thelwall, Esq., a Lieutenant in the R. N., Sons of the Llanbedr representative. Arms.-Gules, (a Fesse Or, on the Llanrhydd Monuments, but more correctly), a Chevron, between three Boars' Heads, coupled Argent. Crest.-A Stag, lodged upon a Mount, both proper.