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HISTORY Or THE YALE. I LLANTR'.THYO PLACE. I MEMORIES OF THE AUBREY FAMILY I AND A QUAINT OLD DAME. ARTICLE X. I (By Mr. T. M. PRICE, Late of Boverton). I Shortly after the death of Sir John Aubrey. I Bart., M.P., the sixth baronet, of Llantrithyd Place, in the year 1826, the grand, stately old Aubrey mansion was finally deserted, and sub- sequently gradually dismantled when his nephew and successor, Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey. Bart., came into possession of the. property. It may be here mentioned that Llantrithyd Place had. however, ceased to be a permanent residence of the Aubrey family I prior to the death of Sir John Aubrey, Bart.. M.P., but Sir John invariably paid brief periodical visits to his mansion at Llantrithyd until his death in 1826, 89 years ago. I I MALKIN, THE HISTORIAN'S, INTEREST- ING REFERENCES. Dr. Benjamin Heath Malkin, M.A., F.S.A., LL.D.. the eminent South Wales historian, who visited the historic old village of Llan- trithyd in 1803 and 1806, makes the follow- ing interestin references to the Aubrey family, of Llantrithyd Place, in his book. vol. 1, p. 17" :—" The Aubreys are one of the most ancient families in this country, and have been possessed of this estate for many ages. They were distinguished by their attachment to the Ryal Cause of King Charles I.. 1625- 49, and this place was one of the last retreats that welcomed the disconcerted Royal fugi- tives from every quarter of the island. Both the gentlemen of the county and the tenantry of the estate have to regret that Sir John Aubrey is only an occasional visitor amongst them. The property is very considerable, but Sir John has another large estate in Bucking- hamshire. in which he principally resides." I COLONEL RICHARD AUBREY. I ASH HALL. Colonel Richard Aubrey, who resided at Ash Hall. Ystradowen, near Cowbridge (now the residence of Mr. Tudor Owen, J.P.) was the third son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, the fifth baronet, of Llantrithyd Place, and a younger brother of Sir John Aubrey, M.P., the sixth baron Colonel Richard Aubrey, born 21st May, 1744, was a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxon. and Lieutenant-Colonel. Royal Glamor- gan Militia Regiments from 1795 until his death. He died at Taunton on 31st March, 1808, and was buried at St. Ultyd's Church, Llantrithyd, 9th April, 1S08. Colonel Rich- ard Aubrey married Frances, the second daughter of the Hon. Wristherly Digby, LL.D.. of Meriden, in the county of Warwick, and grand-daughter of Lord Digby, on 26th February, 1780. She died 12th December, 1782, and was buried at Llantrithyd Church 20th December, 1782, aged 31 years. Their family issue was: First, Thomas; second, Maria Martha, died October, 1781. aged three months; third. Julia, married Thomas Cart- right. of Aynhoe. Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire, and for many years Father" of the House of Commons. Lieut.- Colonel Richard Aubrey. of Ash Hall, was the last member of the Aubrey family buried at Llantrithyd Parish Church. Frances, his wife, and Maria Martha, their daughter, are laid to rest in the same vault. A beautiful memorial may be seen in the nave of Llantri- thyd Church, bearing the quaint epitaph, "Learn to live as she lived, and then you need not be afraid to die." SIR THOMAS DIGBY AUBREY, THE I LAST BARONET. Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey. the seventh and last baronet, of Llantrithyd Place, etc., was christened privately at Llanblethian Church on 2nd December, 1782. He was received into the congregation at St. Illtyd's Parish Church. Llantrithyd, on 3rd June, 1784. Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., was a nephew and heir of Sir John Aubrey, M.P.. the sixth baronet, who died in 1826. Sir Thomas was B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1802. M.A. 1809, Sheriff of Buck- inghamshire 1815, Lord of the Manor of Bour- stall. Oxon, and Brill, in the County of Buck- inghamshire. He married in December, 1813. Mary, daughter of Mr. Thomas Knight, of London, and niece of Mr. Robert Verney, of Claydon, Buckinghamshire. She died 27th March. 1817, aged 39 years, and was buried at Claydon Parish Church. Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey. Bart, died in the year 1850 without any family issue, and the baronetcy became extinct at his death. The Aubrey Estate afterwards passed to Elizabeth Sophia, first cousin of Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, and daughter of Major Thos. Aubrey. and final heiress of the manor and devisee of Dorton Manor House, of Ayles- bury, Buckinghamshire, and the unentailed estates of the sixth baronet (Sir. John Aubrey who died in 1826) with remainder of her heirs male. Elizabeth Sophia Aubrey married Captain Ricketts. R.N., and their family issue was: First, Charles Aubrey Ricketts; second, Thos. Gamble Ricketts; third, Aubrey Ricketts; fourth, Julia Anne Ricketts. Elizabeth Sophia Ricketts died in 1874, and was suc- ceeded by her son Charles Aubrey Ricketts, who assumed the surname of Aubrey. INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OR I IOAN TRITHYD." THE BARD. Mr. John Morgan ("loan Trithyd"), the I venerable bard and veteran agriculturist of the Vale of Glamorgan, who is now in the 85th year of his age. possesses a wonderfully vivid memory of interesting and important events in by-gone days. and his reminiscences <ar? most interesting and instructive. He remembers well over 80 years ago, and he re- collects the grand old Aubrey mansion in a fairly good state of preservation, about ten years or less after the Aubrey family had de- serted the venerable old fabric. KATE OR PLAS." A QUAINT OLD I I DAME." About 80 years ago. a very old woman, named Kate Tombs lived in a quaint old cot- tage close to the old Aubrey mansion. She was generally known as Kate or Plas." and the aged woman acted as custodian or care- taker of L'antrithyd Place, and was entrusted with the keys of the various entrance doors of the mansion. loan Trithyd, together with his elder brothers, paid frequent visits to this quaint old dame in their boyhood days, about 80 years ago. and old Kate or Plas often per- mitted them to play in the stately old rooms of the mansion, but she would not allow any other little boys to enter the mansion unless "Christopher Morgan's boys were with them." The old lady had a particular and striking affection for loan Trithyd's famil v. loan Trithyd and his brothers often spent many happy hours playing in the old man- sion. Sometimes they raced up and down the great oak staircase and stamped their feet on the oak flooring boards of the various depart- ments. just to annoy and tantalise the old dame. Kate would warn and threaten them, and finally chase them with a long stick and turn them speedily outside to play in the pic- turesque grounds adjacent to the mansion. !v.\t!' or P'as was well over 100 years old when she died, in her ancient and quaint old cottage close by the old mansion and the ven- erable Parish Churchyard of Llantrithyd. where she was laid to rest many years ago. Two or three more parties occupied the same old cottage after Kate or Plas ended her days. SHANI TYR EGLWYS. There were two very old cottages occupied as dwelling-houses near the church and man- sion. under the old School Loft. They were J both known by the name of Tyr Eglwys, and in one of them there lived another very old dame. The villagers called her "Shani Tyr Eglwys." She also lived to a great age, and was buried in the Churchyard at Llantrithyd. The village of LIantrithyd appears to be a very healthy, salubrious spot. according to the great age people attain here. loan Trithyd is probably one of the few links of the past remaining, who remembers Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., the last Aubrey Baronet, who died in the year 18.50- 65 years ago. loan Trithyd was 20 years of age when Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey passed away. He remembers Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey visiting Llantrithyd every year in the month of September, as the guest of the worthy and venerable Rector of Llantrithyd, the late Rev. Roper Trevor Tyler, M.A., the father of Major-General Trevor Bruce Tyler, J.P.. D.L., Llantrithyd Hcuse. Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., invariably came in the month of September, the time and season of the year in which they used to course and hunt the buck, which was a great day's sport at the ancient deer park at Llantrithyd. Nearly all the parishioners and tenants from the surrounding villages of Bonvilston, Pen- ] doylan, Llancarvan, St. Hilary, Welsh St. I Donats, Llantrithyd, etc., would be there when Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey arrived in his grand carriage with fine, spirited horses. A J great crowd of the villagers and people from i the surrounding district always met Sir Thomas on the road near the ancient village church, to give him a right royal welcome. Sir Thomas used to stop the carriage in order to shake hands with all the people who had come forth to welcome him-rich and poor alike, and the old village church bells rang a merry peal at the same time in honour of the auspicious event. After luncheon and refreshments—all the people adjourned to the deer park for some sports, including horse racing, etc., when Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey would present prizes among his tenants who were the lucky win- ners. Four or five bucks or deer were gener- ally killed each year at the annual chase, and the venison was sent to the home of Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey in Buckinghamshire, and other places on his estates in Oxfordshire and Glamorganshire. MR. CHARLES AUBREY AUBREY, I DORTOX HOUSE, AYLESBURY. After the death of Captain Ricketts' wife (nee Elizabeth Sophia Aubrey), in 1874, the Aubrey Estate at Llantrithyd passed to Mr. Charles Aubrey Ricketts, the eldest son of Captain Ricketts, R.N., and Elizabeth Sophia, his wife. He assumed the surname of Aubrey by Royal license in 1874, when he came into possession of the extensive estates at Llantrithyd and other places in the coun- ties of Glamorgan, Oxfordshire, and Bucking- hamshire. It was this gentleman who was known as Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey, of Dorton House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, who died December 9th, 1902, after having held the Aubrey Estate for 28 years. Dur- ing the long period that he possessed the Aubrey Estate at Llantrithyd, etc., it is a very remarkable fact that he never once visited it, but it may be said in very truth that Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey was always most considerate, kind-hearted and generous to all his tenants—rich and poor alike, with- out distinction of class, creed or party; and in this particular respect he truly upheld the noble traditions of the Aubrey family and his worthy ancestors, and he fulfilled to the high- est degree the duties of a landlord. Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey died without any family issue, and, as neither the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh and last baronets of Llan- trithyd Place had any descendants living, the Aubrey Estates passed to the lineal descen- dants of Elizabeth Aubrey, the daughter of the third Aubrey Baronet, of Llantrithyd Place, who had married Henry Lintot in the year 1712, and whose daughter Catherine had married Sir Henry Fletcher. of Clea Hall. The direct lineal descendant of this family was the late Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart.. M.P., who succeeded to the Aubrey Estates in 1902, on the death of Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey, of Dorton House, Aylesbury. It is interesting to note in passing that it was the late Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey who presented the beautiful stained-glass eastern window placed in the chancel of St. Illtyd's Parish Church at Llantrithyd, in the year 1875, as a. memorial to members of the Aubrey family who were laid to rest within that ancient village church ages ago. THE ESTATE PASSES TO THE I FLETCHER FAMILY. The late Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher came into possession of the Estates in 1902, after the death of Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey, and by Royal license, dated the 1st January. 1903, his Majesty the late King Edward VII., granted permission to the Right Hon. Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart., C.B., M.P., to assume the name and arms of Aubrey, as an addition to his own family name and arms. Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher has succeeded, under the will of Sir John Aubrey, M.P., who died in 1826, to the Aubrey Estates in the countries of Bucks, Oxon. and Glamorgan, and has taken the name and arms of Aubrey in accordance with the request contained in the will. BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SIR I HENRY AUBREY FLETCHER, BART. The late Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher, Bart., M.P., to whom, upon the death of the late Mr. Charles Aubrey Aubrey, the Aubrey Estates at Llantrithyd. etc., passed, in 1902, was a J.P., D.L.. Privy Councillor, and was created C.B. in 1900. He represented the Lewes Bivision of Sussex as a Conservative in the House of Commons from the General Elec- tion of 1886 until his death in May. 1910. Sir Henry was born in the year 1835, and was educated at Eton College, and succeeded his father in 1851. He became an Ensign in the 69th Regiment—now the Welsh—in 1853, and in 1855 became a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards Regiment. Four years later, in 1859, Sir Henry married Miss Agnes Wilson, daugh- ter of Sir J. M. Wilson, C.B. Sir Henry re- presented the Horsham Division of Sussex in Parliament from 1880 to 1885. and occupied j the post of Groom-in- Waiting from 1885 to 1886. It was during this time that Sir Henry had the honour of presenting Mabon. M.P.. the veteran miners' Parliamentary represen- tative, to the late Queen Victoria. Sir I Henry's military training as a young man stood him in excellent stead as a Volunteer officer, and he held the important and distin- guished appointment as Colonel-Commandant of the Sussex Field Infantry Brigade. His beautiful and charming country seat i was at Ham Manor, Augmering, in the j county of Sussex. Sir Henry was a promin- ent member of the Carlton and the Constitu- tional Clubs, London, W. The fact that Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher, M.P., was formerly in the 69th Regiment—now the Welsh Regi- ment—may possibly give rise to some miscon- ception or misunderstanding, so that it may be as well perhaps to explain that in the fifties when Sir Henry was a subaltern in the 69th I Regiment, that regiment was the South Lin- colnshire Regiment, and it was not until the year 1873, eight years prior to the introduc- tion of the Territorial system, that the 69th Regiment was linked with the 41st Regiment and became known thereafter as the 41st Re- giment. The late Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher, Bart., C.B., P.C., B.L., J.P., M.P.. who passed away on May 19th. 1910, was a very popular and generous gentleman. He was one of Nature's noblemen, and an ideal landlord. He was one of the most popular Members of the House of Commons during his long Par- liamentary career, which covered a period of 32 years, and rendered most useful service to his constituents and the community at large irrespective of class or creed or party. His passing away, in the year 1910, was an irre- parable loss to the people. The poor and needy found in him a true friend, and he dis- charged and fulfilled his duties as a landlord in the highest possible degree, and his familiar figure was much missed in the House of Com- mons by his numerous friends and oolleagues. (TO BE CONTINUES.)

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