It was not for many years after that he appeared as Sir Alured Mogyns Smyth de Mogyns, with a genealogy found out for him by the Editor of 'Fluke's Peerage,' and which appears as follows in that work:--'De Mogyns .-- Sir Alured Mogyns Smyth, Second Baronet.

This gentleman is a representative of one of the most ancient families of Wales, who trace their descent until it is lost in the mists of antiquity.

A genealogical tree beginning with Shem is in the possession of the family, and is stated by a legend of many thousand years' date to have been drawn on papyrus by a grandson of the patriarch himself.

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.