The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . efn Mabley not least among lived in the time of the Civil War SirNicholas Kemeys, a soldier made of indomitablestuff, who held Chepstow Castle for the Kingand died rather than surrender it. A descendantof his, Colonel Kemeys-Tynte, has published sometales of the old house, which help to conjureit up, as such mirrors may do, with its soldiersgallery, ball-room and great table long as theoak-tree that went to make it. Well above Cefn Mabley stands Ruperra,another old seat connected with the Morganfamily. The wooded lawns around it we
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . efn Mabley not least among lived in the time of the Civil War SirNicholas Kemeys, a soldier made of indomitablestuff, who held Chepstow Castle for the Kingand died rather than surrender it. A descendantof his, Colonel Kemeys-Tynte, has published sometales of the old house, which help to conjureit up, as such mirrors may do, with its soldiersgallery, ball-room and great table long as theoak-tree that went to make it. Well above Cefn Mabley stands Ruperra,another old seat connected with the Morganfamily. The wooded lawns around it were, in FROM THE USK TO THE TAFF 61 July, 1645, stirred by the arrival of King Charlesthe First as the guest of Sir Philip is, with some show of tradition at least,claimed for an Inigo Jones house. It wasdesigned on large lines, with a commandingrelation to its spacious site. An entry in RichardSymonds Diary of the Kings stay in Wales afterNaseby runs :— Sunday, July 27, 1645.—His Matie lay at Ruperrie, afaire seate of Mr. A WEST MONMOUTHSHIBE COTTAGE. This was the time of the Kings dishearteningnegotiations with the Peaceable Army. Nextday he went on to Cardiff, but returned to SirPhilip Morgans roof and made it his headquartersfor a day or two longer. While there ill-newscontinued to arrive, and he heard of the burningof Abergavenny Castle—or the habitable part ofit. Intrigues were gathering head against him 62 THE SOUTH WALES COAST on every side in South Wales, and the squireswere becoming more and more disaffected. TheRhymney River makes a true Glamorgan curveas it circles to the north of Ruperra. It flowson then, serving as the boundary for the twoshires for over twenty miles of its course to itsnamesake village, and reaches the sea at one endof the sea-flat whose other end is now shapedand transformed into the Bute Docks—the marshmade into a huge geometrically planned har-bour. Approaching Cardiff from the east—and if byone of the higher r
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