THEOPHILUS EVANS.
ON a slight eminence overlooking the fertile and well-wooded valley of the Teifi, about two milcs below Newcastle-Emlyn, and in the county of Cardigan, stiU stands the house of Penyw^enallt, the birthplace of Theophilus Evans. It would be a mansion of some pretensions two hundred years ago, and it was only within the past 40 years that the last traces disappeared of the beautiful mosaic panels of the old dining-room fireplace. These consisted of biblical subjects, such as Abraham sacrificing Isaac.
In the Civil War, Evan Griffîth Evans, grandfather of Theophilus Evans, was Captain in the King's Army, and proved himself such an ardent and active royalist that he earned for himself the sobriquet of "Captain Tory," "who," we are told, "for his king fought and bled." In this bitter strife between King and Parliament, Capt. Evans must have known Sir Francis Lloyd, of Plas Maesyfelin, Lampeter, who fought at St. Fagan's and elsewhere on the side of the King. We shall have occasion to refer to the Lloyds of Maesyfelin again below. After the execution of Charles I, Capt. Evans was imprisoned by Cromwell's command in Cardigan gaol. This, however, did not cool his ardour or modify his views, and the birth of a son gave the still incarcerated father an opportunity of shewing his continued devotion to the cause of the King. He ordered his boy to be christened Charles, after his royal liege.
Charles Evans succeeded to the estate of Penywenallt. He was married twice. From the
