Welsh Journals

134 BYE-GONES. Nov., 1874. out of the natives (if it might be), or at least out of the in- habitants of the said parish of Llanfyllin, or other the said adjacent parishes, the children of the tenants of the family of Llwydiarth and Llangedwyn being always to be prefer- j red; aud that none of such thirty poor children should be admitted into the said school before the age of seven years, nor should continue therein after the age of fourteen years, and the said Mary Vaughan further directed that the said trustees should, once in every year, to wit, upon Tuesday in every Easter week, meet at the schoolhouse to examine into any neglects or irregularities of or in the said school¬ master and mistress or of the said thirty poor children, and to make such reasonable ordinances as to them should seem meet for the better management and promoting of the said charity, and it was thereby further declared that it should be lawful for the major part of the trustees, for any gross misconduct, to remove the schoolmaster and mistress, or to expel any of the said poor children; and the said Mary "Vaughan did further order that the said trustees should, after her death, elect the said twelve poor boys, to be tauejht within the said parish of Llanfihangel, out of the children born within the same parish, or at least one of the inhabitants of the same, and that as often as the number of trustees should be reduced by death to the number of five at least, the surviving trustees should convey the said lands and tenements se to be purchased to other trustees to the use of the surviving trustees and the new trustees and their heirs, subject to the trusts thereinbefore mentioned: and it was thereby de¬ clared, by the said Mary Vaughan, that every future Bishop of St. Asaph, and Dean of St. Asaph, and the minister of Llanfyllin, and their successors for the time being, should, for the time being, be three of the trustees of and for the said charity ; and it was thereby provided that, until such purchase or purchases as aforesaid should be made, the trustees might place out the said £1,116 10s. trust money upon security, at interest, or upon any parliamentary funds or public stocks, and that the interest and profits to arise therefrom should be paid and applied to the same uses as the rents and profits of said lands and tenements, when purchased, were to go and be paid. By indenture, bearing date the 10th May, 1736, made between Watkin Williams Wynne, of Wynnstay, in the county of Denbigh, Esq., and Ann his wife, therein described as the only surviving daughter and executrix of the above-named Marv Vaughan, deceased, of the first part, the Bishop of Bath "and Wells, William Powell, D.D., Dean of St. Asaph, and four others, who, with the said Watkin fWilliams Wynne and Ann his wife, were the sur¬ viving trustees appointed by the said Mary Vaughan for the management of the charity thereinafter mentioned, of the second part, and Robert Williams and William Owen, Esqs., of the third part, reciting the before recited deed of 20th April, 1720, and that the said Mary Vaughan, as well as several of her trustees therein named, were dead, where¬ by the number of trustees to whom the said annuities were to be assigned was reduced to seven, and reciting that the bishopric of St. Asaph had been for some time, and was then, vacant, and that the said L r Wm. Powell was since made Dean of St. A3aph, whereby he had become one of the trustees by virtue of the said deed, and reciting that the said Mary Vaughan made no assignment of the said annuity stock to the said trustees, pursuant to the covenant for that purpose, but that before her death, she made her will, and appointed Mary, the wife of Thomas Strang- ways, and the said Ann, the wife of the said Watkin Williams Wynne, her daughters, joint-executrixes thereof, and that the said Mary Strangways being since dead, the legal interest of and in the said annuity stock vested in the said Ann, as surviving executrix of the said Mary Vaughan, and further reciting that the said annuity stock had since been redeemed by Parliament, and the monies thereby secured had been paid off, and were then in the hands of the said Watkin Williams Wynne, who had paid interest for the same for the benefit of the said charity, and further reciting that the said Watkin Williams Wynne and Anne his wife, or one of them, being seized in fee simple of and in the messuage or tenement and lands thereinafter mentioned, being of the yeaily value of £19 10s. had agreed, for the benefit of the said charity, in consideration of the sum of £400, part of the said charity money, to settle and convey the same to and for the uses and purposes to which the said lottery stock was, by the before recited indenture, intended to be assigned, and, in order thereto, had, at the great sessions held in and for the county of Montgomery, in the month of March, in the year 1735, acknowledged and levied a fine, &c, unto the said Robert Williams and William Owen, and their heirs, of and upon a messuage or tenement, or farm, and several pieces or parcels of land situate in Llaeth- bwlch and Cadwnfa, in the parish of Llanfihangel, in the county of Montgomery, it is witnessed that, in considera¬ tion of the said sum of £400, the parties thereto did thereby declare and agree that the said fine so levied of the said messuage, lands, and premises should be and enure to the use and behoof of the said Bishop of Bath and Wells, and other parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, upon the trusts, and to and for the several charitable uses and purposes in the said indenture before recited men- tioned. (To be continued.) November 4, 1874. NOTES. FIFTH OF NOVEMBER IN WALES (Nov. 5, 1873).—At a Church in Wales the following was once given out as a hymn on the anniversary of " The Happy De¬ liverance," &c. :— This is the day that was the night That Papists did conspire, To blow up King and Parliament With dreadful gunpowder. G-YPT. QUERIES. PISTYLL RHAYADR.—In a little book, published in 1781, entitled A Gentleman's Tour in Wales, mention is made of a feature near this fall that I do not remember to have noticed. The writer says, "A little below [the fall] stands a craggy insulated column, close to the river's brink, which the frequent inundations from the Pistill Rhaidr have worn to that picturesque figure, by washing away the surrounding mould." Does this atone show itself to modern tourists ? D. REPLIES. GORONWY DDU O FON (Nov. 13, 1872).- A correspondent at Carnarvon, writing under this date, quoted four lines by the Rev. Goronw.v Owen, which indi¬ cated that his wife's name was Ellin. He also copied, from a letter written by Mr Owen, in 1752, a passage as follows: —" I was curate in the town of Oswestry for about three years, and there I married in August, 1747." In another part of the same letter, the poet refers to his wife's family, as " people of means." And the Carnarvon correspondent concludes by asking for a copy of the marriage register of Mr Owen. This, through the courtesy of the vicar of Os¬ westry, we now are able to give, from the Oswestry Parish