This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...mistress, to pay the adoration of passionate, but hopeless, love; came, and won the maiden's heart. This humble suitor was Will Hopkin, of Llangynwyd, a tiler and plasterer. The Parish Registers bear testimony that he was baptised on the 24th day of November, 170o, and was the son of Hopkin Thomas and Diana Harry; and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...mistress, to pay the adoration of passionate, but hopeless, love; came, and won the maiden's heart. This humble suitor was Will Hopkin, of Llangynwyd, a tiler and plasterer. The Parish Registers bear testimony that he was baptised on the 24th day of November, 170o, and was the son of Hopkin Thomas and Diana Harry; and was thus about three years the senior of the lovely Ann Thomas. Whether he was dark or fair, whether he had the advantage of unusual comeliness to recommend him to the regard of womankind, tradition fails to tell us; but it is said of him that he was a young man of ruddy health, of joyous heart, of ready speech, a bard too; and one, moreover, endowed in a high degree with the gift of "Awen band" (ready muse), a qualification all Welsh bards coveted. It seems natural that his bardic endowments should have been perfected by the ancient traditions and influence of his native parish. The mental atmosphere of Llangynwyd must have been in his days balmy with the breath of Welsh poetry; for, was it not the seat of a "Bardic Chair?" At that time bardic contests were part of the daily pastimes of the inhabitants, and Will Hopkin inherited the native gift above most of his contemporaries. Those who came after him to hold up the traditions and honour of the Chair of " Tir Iarll," and to whom his memory was dear, used to tell of his parentage, and trace his descent from Hopkin Thomas Phillip, of Gelli-fid, a poet who flourished between 1590 and 1630; and further still from Hopkin Thomas ap Einion, Priest of Llangyfelach, and Ynyt-tawe, who flourished about the year 1400. Lewys Hopkin, of Hendre-Ifan-Goch, and the Hopkins, of Coychurch, were of the same branch, viz., from Einion, Offeiriad. His more immediate ancestors had bee...
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