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which appears as follows in that work:--'De Mogyns.--Sir Alured Mogyns
Smyth, Second Baronet. This gentleman is a representative of one of the
most ancient families of Wales, who trace their descent until it is lost
in the mists of antiquity. A genealogical tree beginning with Shem is in
the possession of the family, and is stated by a legend of many thousand
years' date to have been drawn on papyrus by a grandson of the patriarch
himself. Be this as it may, there can be no doubt of the immense
antiquity of the race of Mogyns.

'In the time of Boadicea, Hogyn Mogyn, of the hundred Beeves, was a
suitor and a rival of Caractacus for the hand of that Princess. He was
a person gigantic in stature, and was slain by Suetonius in the battle
which terminated the liberties of Britain. From him descended directly
the Princes of Pontydwdlm, Mogyn of the Golden Harp (see the Mabinogion
of Lady Charlotte Guest,) Bogyn-Merodac-ap-Mogyn, (the black fiend son
of Mogyn,) and a long list of bards and warriors, celebrated both in
Wales and Armorica. The independent Princes of Mogyn long held out
against the ruthless Kings of England, until finally Gam Mogyns made his
submission to Prince Henry, son of Henry IV., and under the name of Sir
David Gam de Mogyns, was distinguished at the battle of Agincourt.

From him the present Baronet is descended. (And here the descent follows
in order until it comes to) Thomas Muggins, first Baronet of Pontydwdlm
Castle, for 23 years Member of Parliament for that borough, who had
issue, Alured Mogyns Smyth, the present Baronet, who married Marian,
daughter of the late general P. Flack, of Ballyflack, in the Kingdom of
Ireland of the Counts Flack of the H. R. Empire. Sir Alured has issue,
Alured Caradoc, born 1819, Marian, 1811, Blanche Adeliza, Emily Doria,
Adelaide Obleans, Katinka Rostopchin, Patrick Flack, died 1809.

'Arms--a mullion garbled, gules on a saltire reversed of the second.
Crest--a tom-tit rampant regardant. Motto--UNG ROY UNG MOGYNS.'

It was long before Lady de Mogyns shone as a star in the fashionable
world. At first, poor Muggins was the in the hands of the Flacks, the
Clancys, the Tooles, the Shanahans, his wife's Irish relations; and
whilst he was yet but heir-apparent, his house overflowed with claret
and the national nectar, for the benefit of Hibernian relatives. Tom
Tufto absolutely left the street in which they lived in London, because
he said 'it was infected with such