| 1 | D. Long Price, Arch. Combrensis, Vol. X, pp. 163-187 (1878). |
| 2 | Giraldus Cambrensis (d. 1223) describes it "in a rough and sterile spot, surrounded by woods on every side and beyond measure inaccessible and sufficiently meanly endowed" (Speculum Ecclesiae, written between 1200 and 1223). |
| 3 | Bull. of Board of Celtic Studies (Oxford), Vol. 24, pp 518-526 (1972) |
| 4 | Bull. of Board of Celtic Studies (Oxford), Vol. 25. pp 185-188 (1973) |
| 5 | The authors wish to thank the present owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, for kindly allowing them to examine the interior of the house in its present form. |
| 6 | F.S. Price, History of Talley and Talley Abbey, Swansea (1934). |
| 7 | For example, South Wales Evening Post, Swansea, 23rd December 1966. |
| 8 | For this and much other information from this period the authors are greatly indebted to Mr. D. Emrys Williams, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts and Records, National Library of Wales. |
| 9 | Lord Clermont, History of the Family of Fortescue. |
| 10 | "Reminiscences of Froodvale Academy" by "An Old Student", Y Tyst a'r Dydd, January 4, 1884, translated by Mr. D. Emrys Williams. |
| 11 | Major Francis Jones, "Journal of a Young Lady of Fashion", Carmarthenshire Historian, Vol. XI, pp. 3-54 (1974) and Vol. XII, pp. 22-54 (1975). |
| 12 | S.W. Williams, Arch. Cambrensis, Vol. XIV, pp.228-247 (1897). |
| 13 | The family has a water-colour of him leading a troop of 4th Light Dragoons across the Saxon's Ford (near Danyrallt) in pursuit of Rebecca rioters (1843). |
| 14 | L.E. Theakston, Some Family Records and Pedigrees of the Lloyds. |
| 15 | Rhodri himself claimed descent, for sound political reasons, from the poet Llywarch Hen and Coel Hen (fl. 5th c.), founder of one of the two ruling dynasties of the Gwyr y Gogledd, the "Men of the North". |