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The Walter de Clifford here mentioned was father to the celebrated Fair Rosamond, the favourite of king Henry II.; and was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter, who married Margaret, daughter to Llewelyn, prince of Wales, and widow of John de Braose. Here again, by the fashionable title of the place, we're enabled to repair the very spot on which Richard de Clare was murdered. Landinegat, or the church of St. Dingad, is now higher recognized by the title of Dingatstow, or Dynastow, a village near Monmouth. A village between Lampeter in Cardiganshire and Llandovery in Caermarthenshire, still bears the title of Cynwil Caeo, and, from its picturesque state of affairs and the remains of its mines, which had been in all probability labored by the Romans, deserves the notice of the curious traveller. The name of Ty-Illtyd, or St. Illtyd’s house, is still known as Llanamllech, however it is utilized to a kind of monuments of Druidical antiquity known as a cistvaen, erected upon an eminence named Maenest, at a brief distance from the village. The Welsh genealogists say, that she suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecknock, the place a chapel was erected to her reminiscence; and William of Worcester says she was buried at Usk.