'IN SEARCH OF WALES'

I bought two old books yesterday both by H V Morton. Their titles are 'In Search of Wales' and 'In Scotland Again'.

 

Here is a quote from the book about Wales regarding Conway castle:

'So the old castle at Conway stands with its grey feet in the ruthless story of ambition which is history.....

I went out into the lovely little town. In the church I found a remarkable gravestone, that of a man called 'Hookes of Conway. Gent'. He died in 1639. This stated that Hookes was the forty-first child of William Hookes, and that he himself had been the father of twenty-seven children!

This is surely one of the most remarkable boasts in the country.'

Next time I visit Conway I will go in search of this gravestone, I wonder if it is still there.

(My brother told me that H V Morton had mentioned the little church in Cornwall,mentioned in an earlier blog, in his book In Search of England. Unfortunatley, this book was not on offer at the bookshop yesterday).