maining in Monmouthshire, consisted ot' throe brothers -- Lev,-is, William and Richard," sons of Col. Lewis Morris.

Lewis, the eldest son, who inherited the paternal estate of Tintern,''^ embarked for the West Indies as early as 1633, (according to the English State papers,) in the service of the New Providence Company. He also commanded a troop of horse in the Parliament army against Charles First for which the king afterwards confiscated his estates in ?iIonmoutlishire. Li return for his losses Oliver Cromwell subsequently idemnified him. At the attack upon Chepstow Castle, which Avas defended by Sir Nicholas Kemys, " the king's general," Lewis Morris v.^as the second in command. After an obstinate resistance the garrison v.-as reduced by cutting o:t the supply of water v/hich ran through the estate of Peircefield'^ then owned by Col. Morris'"s son-in-law, John Walters, and setting fire to the castle. From this circumstance the family assumed as their crest a castle in flames with the following motto : " iunde?n vincitur^' at length he is conquered.

It is a little curious that in the memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq., an incident of the same character, and relating to a Morris, is said to have taken place at Pomfret Castle : --

'•Tliis place was seized by some of the king's party, and was besieged by the country, assisted by some of the army, Sir Hugli Cholniely comiiiandiiig at the siege : but tlic ar:iij', finding little progress made therein, ordered Col. Kaiusboio with more f)rces thither, appointing hlui to command in tlie room of Sir Hugh Cholmely. Wliilst he was preparing for that service, being at Doncaster, ten or twelve nules from Pomfret, with a considerable force in the town, a party of horse dismounting at liis quarters and going up as friends to his chaniber, under pretence of liaving business with him, seized lilm first, and upon his refusal to g ) silently with them, murdered him.