MEYLLTYRN, or MELLTEYRN (MYLLTEYRN), a parish, in the union of PWLLHELI, partly in the hundred of GAFLOGION, and partly in
that of CoatmrrmAno, Lleyn division of the county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 9 miles (W. by S.) from Pwllheli; containing
248 inhabitants. This parish is divided by the stream Rhydhis into two nearly equal parts, of which the eastern division
is in the hundred of Gaflogion, and the western is that of Commitmaen; and is separated from the parish of Bottwnog by
the river Cofan, and from that of Brncroes, by the Avon Soch. The village is small, but is pleasantly situated on a narrow
plain; the lands in the vicinity are fertile, and the inhabit. ants are wholly employed in agriculture: the rateable
annual value is returned at £909. 16. 8. At Sara, a village in the parish, fairs for horned cattle and horses are held on
the 1 lth of April and 10th of October. The living is a discharged rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Bottwnog annexed,
rated in the king's books at £5. 15., and endowed with £200 royal bounty, which has been laid out in the purchase of land,
now attached to the glebe; present net in. come, £217 with a glebe-house; patron, Bishop of Bangor: the tithes have been
commuted for a rent. charge of £160. The church, dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula, is a small edifice in good repair: in
the churchyard is an ancient upright stone of large dimensions, without either sculpture or inscription. A Sunday school
is kept in the church. Dr. land bequeathed land for the maintenance of one poor widower of the parish in the almshouse at
Ban. gor; and there is a trifling bequest for the relief of the poor. Henry Rowland, afterwards Bishop of Bangor, and the
munificent founder of the grammar school at Bottwnog, was born in this parish, in 1551, at what was originally an old
mansion near the church, but which has been taken down, except a small part that is still remaining; he died in 1616, and
by his will ordered that the school should be built either in this his native village, or at Bottwnog.