For anyone out there who is looking for information on Ralph Brereton of Iscoyd, the following information maybe of interest to you. I have seen an entry on someone's family tree stating that Ralph Brereton was from Bangor is coed ( beneath the wood). This information maybe misleading to your research as I believe that in fact he was from the area known as Iscoyd, a hamlet within the parish of Malpas, a completely different place from the village now known as Bangor Is y coed, or Bangor on Dee. The Iscoyd of the days of Ralph Brereton still exists, and in the seventeenth century was also the home of Thomas Brereton who lived at Wolvesacre of Iscoyd. There are several properties at Iscoyd with the name Wolvesacre, but there was once a Wolvesacre Hall, which I believe was taken over by the Iscoyd Park estate. There is a record of a will bequeathing something to Sir Thomas Brereton (High Sherriff of the county of Flinsthire in the 1600s), by one of the Jennings family of Iscoyd Park, a large estate in that area. Bangor on Dee was not known as Bangor is y coed until the 17th century, as it was previously known until then as Bangor Dunawd ( a saint of that area) or Bangor Monachorum, (Bangor of the monks ) because of the monastery based there at the time.