A regular feature of such old pedigrees recorded by monks was an attempt to link them with the genealogies of the Scriptures.
"Now we get a lot of 'em as got their money quick," he told me, holding forth from a folding chair in his tack room on the subject of rock stars and Internet millionaires who buy old, pedigreed, tumbledown houses in places like Gloucestershire and take up foxhunting.
One of the warriors was Cynon ap Clydno, whom Williams identifies with the Cynon ap Clydno Eiddin who is mentioned in old pedigrees.
For practical reasons, base populations are usually quite recent, because old pedigrees may not be available, or are rather incomplete, or because numerator relationships (A) reduce quickly over generations and Best Linear Unbiased Prediction of Breeding Values based on A (ABLUP-EBV) are not much affected by information from old ancestors.
However it turns out, though, a wonderful model, with a 150-year-old pedigree, is about to die as the maximum security prison replaces the crystal palace as the prototype of a global gateway.
However small the number of candidates may be, its demise is a tragedy for a noble academic discipline with a centuries-old pedigree, which feeds into so many cultural and economic endeavours, enriching and strengthening our nation.
Their newest set has an even older pedigree: the theme is Greek mythology -- the earthy Pans and satyrs of Bacchus facing off the amorous minions of Aphrodite.
Today there is even the rare newcomer Swiss luxury brand, which says a lot in a business where a centuries-old pedigree counts for everything.
But superheroes have an even older pedigree in Indian cinema, including Anil Kapoor's turn as Mr India in the 1987 cult film.
Mr. Finnerty — whose full name, Charles Russell Lowell Putnam Finnerty, reflects an old Yankee pedigree — once did painting restoration for the Italian government and lives in a house on the Vineyard that has been in his family for five generations.
