Welsh Journals

LLANTWIT MAJOR, GLAMORGAN. 287 that it fell to Walter Vaughan, sister's son to Arnold Butler, the last of the Butlers that was owner thereof." Glover, at p. 52 of his Ordinary of Arms, gives no less than sixteen different families of this name who, by vary¬ ing the position, or changing the colours, enjoy a right to their " covered cups." S. 15, is a boss on which, within a circle, three shields are so designed as to join in the centre, and produce a very pleasing combination. In the upper one is carved what may be described as a fleur-de-lis, or an. anchor, but which to me looked more like " a merchant's mark ;" the next shield has a repetition of N. 8, a St. George's cross; and the third is enriched with two chevrons, a shield borne by a dozen different names in England, but to no one of which can I attach this very carving, in its unblazoned condition. The last coat to which I can draw attention is that of Voss, argent, on a bend sable, three lions rampant of the Anns of Voss. first, unfortunately absent from its place in the ceiling, but which is described in a MS. of Henry Tucker, the parish clerk, now before me, as there about the year 1812. This family held lands in the parish as late as 1731, and, m the time of Elizabeth, were people of importance in that part of the county. Mr. Tucker remarks further that,— " When Evan Voss sold the lands to Mr. William Humphreys ln 1731, they took to the burying-place in the church and the pew. Mr. H. died in 1751. There is a large freestone fixed in the wall of the church, which was defaced and turned inside with the inscriptions of the Vosses, and they filled up the other side with the Humphreys."