Welsh Journals

100 There politics and solid learning join. O, Claget, who can hear thee talk unmov'd ? Or who can leave thy table unimprov'd ? Where pow'r and interest meet with no regard, But personal merit has its due reward. THE SIN-EATER IN WALES. Some years ago, an account of the sin-cater ap¬ peared in a London periodical. The function of this person was to attend funerals, and eat the deceased's sins with cakes, swilled down with nut brown ale on the coffin. It was alleged that sin-eating took place at Llandebie in 1852. The Rev. Daniel Silvan Evans, the lexicographer, made enquiries and found there was no foundation to the story, and that the sin eater was a myth. I lived at Llandebie in that year, and never heard of such a superstitiou. Have any of your readers heard of this superstition in other parts of the country ? Cardiff. J. Rowland (Giraldus). CAERMARTHENSHIRE AND THE PUBLIC RECORDS. (Continued from p. 84^. We continue our extracts from the first volume of the Record Office reports relating to the county and county borough of Carmarthen :— The Records of the Great Sessions are not made up separately for these two counties ; the only difference is that there is a distinct heading in the rolls, where the county of the borough begins ; and its peculiar title is always set forth at the head of every document, if the subject-matter lay within its jurisdiction. They are, together with all other documents that remained in the office, at the death of the Prothonotary, * now in the custody of Edward Jones, Esq., Clerk of the Peace of Caermarthenshire ; whose dwelling and offices are at Llanymddyfri (Llandovery), about 25 miles distant from Caermarthen ; but his clerk or * Except the modern Assize Records, which are kept there for safety find convenience, in the custody of Richard Edward Jones, Esq., son of the late deputy prothonotary, who is clerk of the arraigns, and deputy clerk of assize in it'outh Wales.