the proprietor of the mill. A rustic-looking
man stood in the mill-yard, who he said was the proprietor. The honest
miller went into the mill, and the rustic-looking proprietor greeted me
in Welsh, and asked me if I was come to buy hogs.

"No," said I; "I am come to see the birth-place of Gronwy Owen;" he
stared at me for a moment, then seemed to muse, and at last walked away
saying, "Ah! a great man."

The miller presently joined me, and we proceeded farther down the hill.
Our way lay between stone walls, and sometimes over them. The land was
moory and rocky, with nothing grand about it, and the miller described it
well when he said it was tir gwael--mean land. In about a quarter of an
hour we came to the churchyard into which we got, the gate being locked,
by clambering over the wall.

The church stands low down the descent, not far distant from the sea. A
little brook, called in the language of the country a frwd, washes its
yard-wall on the south. It is a small edifice with no spire, but to the
south-west there is a little stone erection rising from the roof, in
which hangs a bell--there is a small porch looking to the south. With
respect to its interior I can say nothing, the door being locked. It is
probably like the outside, simple enough. It seemed to be about two
hundred and fifty years old, and to be kept in tolerable repair. Simple
as the edifice was, I looked with great emotion upon it; and could I do
else, when I reflected that the greatest British poet of the last century
had worshipped God within it, with his poor father and mother, when a
boy?

I asked the miller whether he could point out to me any tombs or
grave-stones of Gronwy's family, but he told me that he was not aware of
any. On looking about I found the name of Owen in the inscription on the
slate slab of a respectable-looking modern tomb, on the north-east side
of the church. The inscription was as follows:

Er cof am JANE OWEN
Gwraig Edward Owen,
Monachlog Llanfair Mathafam eithaf,
A fu farw Chwefror 28 1842
Yn 51 Oed.

_i.e._ "To the memory of JANE OWEN Wife of Edward Owen, of the
monastery of St Mary of farther Mathafarn, who died February 28,
1842, aged fifty-one."

Whether the Edward Owen mentioned here was any relation to the great
Gronwy, I had no opportunity of learn