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We went to a chapel, built by Sir Lynch Cotton for his tenants. It is consecrated, and therefore, I suppose, endowed. It is neat and plain. The Communion plate is handsome. It has iron pales and gates of great elegance, brought from Lleweney, 'for Robert has laid all open .
Battologiam ab iteratione, recte distinguit Erasmus. Mod. Orandi Deum, p. 56-144 . Southwell's Thoughts of his own death . Baudius on Erasmus . The Bishop and much company dined at Lleweney. Talk of Greek and of the army . The Duke of Marlborough's officers useless. Read Phocylidis , distinguished the paragraphs. I looked in Leland: an unpleasant book of mere hints.
In the lawn at Lleweney is a spring of fine water, which rises above the surface into a stone basin, from which it runs to waste, in a continual stream, through a pipe. There are very large trees. The Hall at Lleweney is forty feet long, and twenty-eight broad. The Dining-parlours thirty-six feet long, and twenty-six broad. It is partly sashed, and partly has casements.
We then saw the Chapel of Lleweney, founded by one of the Salusburies: it is very compleat: the monumental stones lie in the ground. A chimney has been added to it, but it is otherwise not much injured, and might be easily repaired. We went to the parish Church of Denbigh, which, being near a mile from the town, is only used when the parish officers are chosen.
He could not disoblige his neighbours by sending them no venison. Piozzi Letters, ii. 326. This remark has reference to family conversation. Robert was the eldest son of Sir L.S. Cotton, and lived at Lleweney. Paradise Lost, book xi. v. 642. See Mrs. Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 323, for an anecdote of this walk. Lleweney Hall was the residence of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mrs. Thrale's cousin german.
The text was pronounced both in Welsh and English. The sound of the Welsh, in a continued discourse, is not unpleasant. The letter of Chrysostom, against transubstantiation. Erasmus to the Nuns, full of mystick notions and allegories. Imbecillitas genuum non sine aliquantulo doloris inter ambulandum quem a prandio magis sensi . We left Lleweney, and went forwards on our journey.
I recommended the republication of David ap Rhees's Welsh Grammar. Two sheets of Hebrides came to me for correction to-day, F.G. I corrected the two sheets. My sleep last night was disturbed. Washing at Chester and here, 5s. 1d. I did not read. I saw to-day more of the out-houses at Lleweney. It is, in the whole, a very spacious house. I was at Church at Bodfari.
The cloister is very solemn; over it are chambers in which the singing men live. In one part of the street was a subterranean arch, very strongly built; in another, what they called, I believe rightly, a Roman hypocaust. Chester has many curiosities. We entered Wales, dined at Mold, and came to Lleweney . We were at Lleweney.
Here Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson staid three weeks. DUPPA. Mrs. Piozzi wrote in 1817: 'Poor old Lleweney Hall! pulled down after standing 1000 years in possession of the Salusburys. Hayward's Piozzi, ii. 206. Johnson's name for Mrs. Thrale. Ante, i. 494. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
I hope the pretty little girl my people saw with her will pay her more tender attention. Three days later she wrote: 'Johnson's Diary is selling rapidly, though the contents are bien maigre, I must confess. Mr. Duppa has politely suppressed some sarcastic expressions about my family, the Cottons, whom we visited at Combermere, and at Lleweney. Hayward's Piozzi, ii. 176-9. Mr.
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