archway, defended by a portcullis. Near this entrance is a long, narrow, advanced work, with a platform, called the Gunner's Wall, which was anciently carried over the moat by a lofty arch, still remaining, and near which is one of the iron mooring rings for shipping. The inner quadrangle is nineteen feet long and nearly the same broad, surrounded by the principal range of buildings, which are much loftier than those of the outer court, and defended by ten round towers. Within this quadrangle are the state apartments: on the north-west side is the great hall, seventy feet long and twenty-four feet wide, lighted by a noble range of five lofty traceried windows. To the east is the chapel, late Early English, and in good preservation, with a groined roof. The walls are embellished with twenty-one elegantly-canopied niches, between which are lancet windows of great beauty, and behind them are recesses gained in the thickness of the walls. A narrow corridor, much inferior to that of Caernarvon, formed within the walls, is carried nearly round the whole building except on the north-west side; there are some recesses within, with square apertures, supposed to have been for the trap-doors of the dungeons below. Within the inner court are a tennis court and bowling green." At the Eisteddfod, or congress of bards, held within the castle walls in August 1832, her Majesty (then Princess Victoria) and the Duchess of Kent were present; and her Majesty invested with her own hands the successful candidates with elegant silver medals, having the royal arms and an inscription engraved on them to commemorate the event. The castle was purchased from the crown in 1816, by Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., in whose hands it still remains.

Beaumaris, being the county town for Anglesey, is the resort, during the assize weeks and on various other public occasions, of the nobility and gentry of the surrounding neighbourhood. Near the castle are the shire hall and other appropriate offices, where the assizes are held. The town-hall comprises an elegant assembly-room and a suite of civic apartments. A custom-house and a national school are also among the public buildings.

Beaumaris is a chapelry, not in charge, to the rectory of Llandegvan. The church, formerly a chapel, is dedicated to St. Mary. It is situated on an eminence in the centre of the town, and consists

of a nave, aisle, and chancel. Within the towers are six bells, and the church has an organ. The chancel possesses a beautiful white alabaster monument, containing two recumbent figures on an altar tomb, representing Sir Richard Bulkeley in knightly armour, and his lady in a robe richly ornamented round the neck. This monument was brought to the church on the dissolution of the monastery at Llanvaes. To the left of the altar is a white marble monument, by Westmacott, in memory of Lord Bulkeley, who died in 1822. On a half-pillar is a bust of his lordship: his widow is represented at the foot of the pillar, in a forlorn attitude: a figure of faith leans over her, and points to the bust and to heaven. There is likewise a splendid monument, by Ternouth, of a female, kneeling in the attitude of prayer, to Charlotte Mary, first wife of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bart., and daughter of Lord Dinorben. There are other monuments and tablets, among which is one in memory of Sir William Jones, Chief Baron of England. In the vestry lie the remains of the Lady Beatrix, daughter of Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, but without any memorial; and in their solemn and for the most part undistinguishable graves in the churchyard, are interred the bodies of many of the unfortunate passengers who perished in the Rothsay Castle packet, on her voyage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, August 17, 1831. There were on board that ill-fated vessel 150 persons, of which number 128 perished. The Grammar School, erected in 1663, and almshouses, owe their existence to the beneficence of David Hughes, Esq. He left the island in a humble station, but, by prudence and propriety of conduct, made a handsome fortune.

EXCURSIONS FROM BEAUMARIS.

The neighbourhood of Beaumaris is abundant in objects of deep interest, which may well engage the attention of its visitors. Among these are the scanty remains of the Ancient Friary at Llanvaes.

A fragment of its walls, which are enclosed within a barn situated near to the new church, is all that is left of the monastery erected by Llywelyn ab Jorwerth, in the thirteenth century, as the resting-place of his wife, the Princess Joan, "whose pleasure it was," as the Welsh historian expresses it, "to be buried here." At the dissolu

tion, Henry VIII. sold the monastery and its possessions to one of his courtiers. [See ABER.] At that time there were eight Franciscan friars attached to it, two of them Welsh.

BARON HILL, the residence of the late Lord Bulkeley, and now occupied by his nephew, Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., we shall next notice, as it is connected with the interesting record of the Princess

Joan's interment in Llanvaes Monastery. At a short distance from the house, under a monumental recess, lies the stone coffin in which she was buried. At the dissolution of Llanvaes, the body of the princess, which had been buried for nearly three centuries, and over whose tomb propitiatory masses had been continually offered up, was disturbed. In the rage for reformation, the monastery was converted into a barn, and the stone coffin of the princess placed near a brook, where, for 250 years, this precious relic of antiquity was used as a watering-trough for the horses of an adjacent farm. In 1808 it was removed to Baron Hill by the late Lord Bulkeley, and the spot in which it was placed marked by the following inscription :-"A plain sarcophagus, once dignified as having contained the remains of Joan, daughter of King John, and consort of Llywelyn ab Jorwerth, Prince of North Wales, who died in the year 1237, having been conveyed from the friary of Llanfaes, and, alas used for many years as a horse watering - trough, was rescued from such indignity and placed here for preservation, as well as to excite serious meditation on the transitory nature of all sublunary distinctions, by Thomas James Warren

Bulkeley, Viscount Bulkeley, Oct. 1808." The following inscription

is also attached to it, in English, Welsh, and Latin :

"Bless'd be the man whose chaste and classic mind

This unassuming monument designed;
Rescued from vulgar use the sculptur'd stone,
To breathe a moral o'er thy ashes-Joan!

To show mankind how idle is the aim

To thirst for riches, or to strive for fame;

To teach them how to watch life's fleeting day,
Nor grasp at shadows which soon pass away;
For nature tells us, in angelic breath,

There's nothing certain in this world but death."

The carved coffin-lid, which bears an effigy of Joan, is one of the most elegant in existence. The delightful mansion at Baron Hill was principally built by the late Lord Bulkeley from designs by Mr. S. Wyatt. This princely residence is studded with scenic beauties, and the grounds are liberally thrown open to the public.

HENLLYS LODGE, the property of Capt. Lewis Hampton, near one end of Baron Hill, contains, amongst other curiosities, a bedstead of the renowned Owen Tudor. A short distance from this place is THE FRYARS, the residence of the late Lady Williams, relict of Sir Robert Williams, Bart., and mother of Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart.

PENMON AND THE PRIORY.

Penmon, three and a half miles from Beaumaris, is a parish, and the name implies the head, or extremity, of Mona, probably given to it on account of its situation on the Irish sea, as on the northern side there is a high limestone ridge, commanding an extensive view; the Isle of Man, in fine weather, being visible. It is a curacy, and the church is dedicated to Seiriol, the son of Owen Danwyn ab Einion ab Cunedda, a saint who lived in the beginning of the sixth century. The priory has always been an object of special attention, and indeed admiration, among the lovers of the picturesque, as well as antiquaries.

"Lleiniog," (close by,) notes Mr. Roscoe, "a small quadrangular fort, connected by a redoubt with the sea-shore by the Earls of Chester and Shrewsbury, when they conquered the island in the eleventh cen

tury, and the quiet Glen of Penmon, in which rest the ruins of the Priory, a place of great sanctity, whose favourite chief, Idwall, has

been described by the poets of the time as the sunshine of the country, are all rich in their peculiar scenic beauty, and their moral and historical associations." Mr. Cliffe furnishes an interesting notice of the Priory. "You feel touched," he 66 says, as you ascend a picturesque lane towards the venerable and ivy-mantled church, seen through old monkish trees, by the tranquil beauty of the scene. The church and conventual buildings 'originally formed three sides of a small court, approached by a flight of steps, open on the east side.' The cloister was probably on the north side-perhaps the overhanging limestone cliffs may have formed a natural cloister: 'and a walk underneath them may have led to the Holy Well, which still remains and bears marks of its former celebrity.' The chief existing remains: