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.
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