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102 ORIGIN OF THE NAME TREDEGAR. could remember, it has never been painted. It appears that some picture-frames were sent to Bristol, most probably to be regilt, and it is very likely that many pictures were then framed, as many of the frames of that date correspond in pattern. The great clock at the stables was put up in that year. The earlier clock was said to have struck the quarters by boys, like the old clock formerly at St. Dunstan's, near Temple Bar. On the sundial in the shrubbery at Tredegar is the inscription, " Latitude, 51 deg. 45 min., April 20th, 1698." The sundial stood at the head of the large piece of water, which was formed by Mr. Muckle about 1790, and must therefore have been brought from some other place. C. O. S. M. ORIGIN OF THE NAME TREDEGAR. The meaning and derivation of this name has been much disputed. Tredegar, in Monmouthshire, is the ancestral home of the Morgans, whose family, there is every reason to believe, was established there at the beginning of the twelfth century, as Bledri ap Cadivor Vawr, the direct lineal ancestor of the family, was witness to a charter of Roger de Berkerolles, who was then living and dwelt close by, which charter granted to the Abbey of Glastonbury the tithes of one division of the parish of Bassaleg, which was constituted at that time, and in which parish Tredegar is situate ; and as Bledri died in 1119, it must have been signed very early in the twelfth century. There have been many explanations and derivations of the name of Tredegar given by ingenious persons. One is a contraction of the Welsh words Troed-y-gaer, "the foot of the camp",because there is an ancient earth¬ work on a hill in the park opposite the house, called, as many Welsh forts are, "the Gaer". Another is Tre-