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Meirion Goch persuaded Gruffudd to go with a small guard to meet them, not knowing of the kidnapping plot by the earls, and was seized and carried off to Chester Castle.

[2] Colonel William Salusbury (1580–1660), affectionately known as Hen Hosanau Gleision "Old Blue Stockings", was a colourful character famed for his part as a Royalist in the defence of Denbigh Castle in the English Civil War.

In 1637 he had a private chapel built in collaboration with Bishop William Morgan, who was sympathetic to Salisbury's views and the first translator of the Bible into Welsh.

[[[William Morgan (Bible translator)#{{{section}}}|contradictory]]] The resulting chapel, dedicated to The Holy Trinity, is quite plain and unremarkable to external view.

Taking the stairs will afford the visitor a remarkable view of a church so ornate and richly adorned to be completely in contrast to the plain exterior.

The north wall bears a large painting of a memento mori, a recumbent skeleton designed to remind the congregation of their own mortality.

Apart from the altar itself and tiled sanctuary, installed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, all here is original despite the Protestant Reformation.

[6] Vaughan, in 1854, remodelled the exterior bell tower and windows yet left the interior virtually untouched despite the requirements of the recent restoration.