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Apl., 1876. BYE-GONES. 87 and blackened with smoke. There are various kinds of tiles, ornamented in different ways, some by paint¬ ing, and others by figures impressed upon them. A very elegant jug has been found in fragments; but the fragments have been collected, and joined very ingeniously by Mr E. H. Forrest, and the size and form and pattern of the j og are quite restored. The colour of the vessel is a rich brown, still fresh as ever, and the out¬ side is ornamented with a picture of a hunting party on horseback in yellow. Many hums, and fragment* of horns, aTe among the things found—thope of an ox, red deer, and an entire head of the roebuck. There are also large pieces of bog oak, having the marks of human workmanship. Mr J. Rhys writes to the Academy respecting the omis¬ sion of the inscribed stones in Wales (about seventy) from the Ancient Monuments Bill. He says—"About eighteen of them, in different parts of the country from Ruthin te Plymouth, are paitly written in Ogam, which greatly en¬ hances their importance. I am unwilling to believe that the peculiarity of the Bill I allude to is due to a cause which I had illustrated for me quite recently : * Do you really mean to say,' exclaimed a friend, * that these in¬ scribed stones exist ? I have never seen or heard anything of them in my tours in Wales and Cornwall.' Of course I felt unequal to the occasion, for such scepticism was not to be disposed of by my assuring: him that I had within the laet three years examined almost the entire number of them. . . Lastly, perhaps it would not be impertinent to suggest that Wales and Cornwall should be a little more adequately represented in the permanent body of commis¬ sioners. The list of persons at the head of the Cambrian Archaeological Association contains several names which would not look bad among those of the commissioners, and I venture to mention the following at random ; the presi¬ dent—the Bishop of St. David'B; the president-elect—Mr Freeman ; Lord Aberdare, Mr Beresford Hope, who is one of the vice-presidents, and a supporter of the Bill; Mr Barnwell, who is probably as well acquainted as any man living with the inarticulate monuments of the Principality; and lastly Professor Westwood, who is at this moment en- Raged in preparing for the press a most important work on the early inscribed stones of Wales and Cornwall." The 5th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts includes a notice of the collection of Mr Chol- mondeley of Condover Hall, Salop. Among the original letters owned by him are—•* A letter on vellum, signed by James I., to the Emperor of Japan ; and three letters by Charles I., of which one is to tell the Mayor of Chester to Endeavour to seize Hollis, Hampden. Pym, Hazelrigg, and Strode, accused of high treason and fled ; and a letter by Charles II.. in 1684. asking contributions for Chehea Hos¬ pital, in which he had already spent much money. Many letters to and by the Duke of Ormonde, and a few by the Duke of Albemarle. It appeals by a letter from Arlington to the Duke of Ormonde that James II. at. the beginning of his reign ordered the revival of an ancient service or allowance called All Night, which was to be served up in the Prince's Chamber. In 1689 a quondam Cook at Ox¬ ford is recommended by the Bishop of Winchester and the Duke of Ormonde to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, as a fit person to keep a billiard table in Oxford. A number of letters chiefly in 1642 and 1643 show the state of Gloucestershire during the Civil War. and a long letter dated from Youghal in August 1642. gives an account of lf'fighting in Ireland. A letter in 1706. by Mr Loup, tells °t the battle of Ramillies, and gives the contents of two witters by Captain ButUr. detailing the sieee and takingof Barcelona; and in another he gives the contents of a letter oy Butler, detailing the taking of Carthagena." The XXX Academy, in its notice of the report, from which this ex¬ tract is culled, also says—" Of literary interest in this col¬ lection will be found some letters addressed to William Cowper, of Chester, a physician of some literary attain¬ ments, who died in 1767. Pope's 'Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady' had been translated into Latin hexameters by Dr Cowper, and the poet's acknowledgment of the copy sent to him is very characteristic." Domesday Book, 1873.—A correspondent writes:—It may interest some of your rt-aiers to be informed that the area of Denbighshire, exclusive of coast foreshore and estuary of the River Dee, is, according to the recent Ord¬ nance Survey, 423,256 acres. I see that the new Domesday Book accounts for only 367,229 acres in Denbighshire. The Old House in The Cross.—Renovation is better than destruction, and as it was out of the question ti ex¬ pect to see this fine old building truthfully " restored," and preserved as a local museum, we are glad to see the next best thing done, in its preservation by Mr Stanley Leighton. The finest bit of work (the front of the second house) is lost to us, but the portions that do remain have been preserved with great taste by Mr Chaplin, and we congratulate the owner on his architect. — Oswestry Advertizer. DEATH OF THE DEAN OF BANGOR, The Dean of Bangor, the Rev. James Vincent Vincent, died at the deanery, Bangor, on Wednesday night, March 22, in his eighty-fouith year. The rev. gentleman suffered from no specific malady, the cause of death being decay of nature. He had long been incapacitated from the active discharge of his duties, and nearly three years have elapsed since he took part in the cathedral services. He was a son of Captain Jones, late of the 62nd regiment, who took the surname Vincent from his mother's family, which derives its descent from the same stock as the Anwyls of Park, the Corbets of Ynysymaengwyn, and the Parrys of Cefn. He was born at Bangor in October, 17^2, educated at Bangor and Oswestry Grammar Schools, and entered Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1815, and took master's degree three years later. He was ordained at Bangor in 1816. and his first charge was the curacy of Beaumaris. When rtctor of Llanfairfechan he was ap¬ pointed rural dean in 1842, and honorary canon of Bangor in 1851. In 1862 he succeeded Dean Cotton m the diacon- ate. His wife, who pre-deceased him, was the eldeRt daughter of Captain Crawley, of Gorddwg, by whom he had five sons, all of whom are dead. The appointment is worth £700 a year. _________April 5, 1876.__________ NOTES. PENCADAIR (Gwaith Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1837, p 272 1. 1.) -In a letter recently received by the Welsh bard Gwynionydd from Dewi Emlyn, in the State of Ohio, America, the latter has pointed out that the editors of the Poetical Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi mistook Pencadair for a common noun in the couplet— " Ban cad ceidwad ben cadair, Y cad pen dwywlad, neu dair;" whereas in reality it is the proper name of now a well- known place, being a railway station on the Carmarthen and Llandysil line. According to the explanation given by the editors at the foot of the page, coupled with Dewi Emlyn's version of the couplet, the author's meaning ia— " Pan y caed ceidwad Pencadair, Y caed pen dwywlad, neu dair;" 10