The capture of Sphacteria: Thucydides, Book IV. Ch. 1-41

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Macmillan and Company, 1881 - Greece - 122 pages
 

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Page 80 - ... Glodded, in the parish of Eglwysrose, Carnarvonshire, the house of his kinswoman, Lady Mostyn. His body was removed for burial to the church of Llandegai, where his nephew and heir, Sir Griffith Williams, erected a monument to him, to which his former chaplain, Bishop Hacket, supplied the inscription. It is difficult to form a just estimate of the character of any individual who lived in the times during which Archbishop Williams flourished. Men's passions were so strong, their prejudices so...

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