Welsh Journals

May, 1876. BYE-GONES. 53 annual income arising from it came to the handsome sum of £320. The objects of the charity having been clearly defined, with the increased rental derivable from the estate, the trustees have been compelled from time to time to capitalize a considerable portion of the revenue, and it is belived that the present nett income is very large, and that under the operation of some of our modern laws it might be appropriated to the increased advantage of the poor of Chester. OLIVEB, JOHN, was born at Stockport in 1732. He was a good lad and also a very bad one, suffering sometimes deeply un- derthe conviction of sin, and striving to do good, then falling back again to the most vicious practises, but in all his moods animated by one settled prejudice not to become a Methodist. It fell to his lot to hear one of the early preachers of that denomination preach, and in an hour the selfish youth had been crushed to the very earth. So early as 1748 did he become a member of society, and for a time he suffered cruel persecution, even from his father, who thought it best to be damned respectably than to be saved with a lot of Methodist villains. Time helped him, for his friends and neighbours learnt that there was some reality in the Christian life to which they had been strangers, and in the sufferings and holy demeanour of this poor boy, through whose suffering and zeal can be traced much of the early history of the Wesleyans in Cheshire. OLIVER, Philip, was a native of Chester, and had been designed for the Church from his childhood, but having embraced the religious sentiments of the celebrated Whit¬ field, he left the establishment, and preached to a congrega¬ tion of his friends and neighbours in a chapel which he had himself erected near his residence at Boughton, in the city of his birth. At his death he left this place of worship to his congregation, and it was afterwards attached to Lady Huntingdon's connexion, and was supplied by her ministers for many years. Mr Oliver was permitted to render great and useful service to the poor benighted people of Chester, who did not before attend churches or chapels, for he was able to preach the gospel without pay, and had ample means at his disposal to assist the pressing wants of the needy. ONSLOW, Humphrey, uncle to Speaker Onslow, and a very worthy Salopian, did not shine much in his day by any adventitious aids, that help to make up the scholar orator, or writer, but by his noble benefaction in re-edify¬ ing the church of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, in 1571, .he secured the respect of posterity. He left behind him the example of a pious disposition to make the house of God glorious. In this way be sustained the honours of his name, helped to provide a fitting meeting place for the poor, where they could in comfort partake of the blessings of the gospel, and gave back in this wise a share of th6 many mercies that had come to him, in token of his conviction" that the true source whence alone real riches could accrue, is to be found in the gospel message sent by God to man. ORDERICUS, the earliest Salopian historian, was bom at Atcham, near Shrewsbury, and was son of Odelerius Constantitus of Orleans, a Counsellor to Roger de Mont¬ gomery. He states in his great work, entitled an "Eccles¬ iastical History," but which is a record of the events of T07K0Wn time' that he was born on the 15fch February, Wo, and received the rudiments of his education under Seward the Priest, in the little church of St. Peter, Shrews¬ bury. The time of his death is unknown. ORLTON, Adam, was born in the city of Hereford, and Became in time Bishop of that see, and afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester. He is XXX best known for his answer to a question put to him as to the propriety of putting King Edward the second to death, " to kill King Edward you need not to fear it is good." A riddle so uncertain in its meaning that few have ever been able to find out its point. He died 1345. ORRED, Daniel, was born in Cheshire, and having been brought up to the profession of medicine, he settled at Chester, and carried on a lucrative practice there for upwards of half a century. In 1770 he was elected surgeon to the Chester Infirmary, and being a successful operator he amassed a large fortune, the bulk of which went to his nephew, a solicitor at Liverpool. He died in 1826, and his remains were interred at Bebbington, where he had pur¬ chased a considerable estate. ORTON, Job, an eminent Nonconformist divine, was a native of Shrewsbury, where he received part of his educa¬ tion, which was completed under Dr Doddridge, at North¬ ampton. On entering into the ministry he became pastor of a congregation at Kidderminster, and afterwards at Shrewsbury. Some years before his death he retired from ministerial duty, and died in 1783, aged sixty-six. Mr Orton wrote:—1, The life of Dr Doddridge, which is a very excellent piece of biography ; 2, Sermons to the Aged, 12mo.; 3, Sacramental Meditations, 12mo.; 4, Discourses on practical subjects, 8vo. After his death was printed his Practical Exposition of the Old Testament, 6 vols. 8vo., and Mr Stedman, a clergyman at Shrewsbury, published a volume of excellent letters, which show Mr Orton's piety and liberality of sentiment to great advantage; OTTLEY, Adam, son of Sir Richard Ottley, of Pitch- ford, Salop, was born at that place and received his education at Cambridge. In the year of 1694 he became minister of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and so continued till 1712, when he was appointed Bishop of St. David's. OTTLEY, Thomas, was born near Ellesmere, in Shrop¬ shire, the chief line of his family having been seated for generations at a place of their own name on the lake of that town. Thomas Ottley himself was brought up to trade, and was for many years an extensive merchant at Calais. He was twice married, first to Margaret, daughter of Sir Humphrey Blount, of Kinley, secondly to Anne, daughter of Robert Scriven, of Forderley, both of them Shropshire maidens. He was bailiff of Shrewsbury in 1439, and agaia in 1443, and in the following year he was alder¬ man of that town, Having purchased the manor and lord¬ ship of Pitchford, his family settled at that place, and have so continued through ten generations. __________May 3, 1876.__________ NOTES. CONTINUATION OF THE MYFYRIAN ARCHAIOLOGY.—When upwards of two years and a half ago the Society of the Cymmrodorion was revived, it was fully expected "by many literary Welshmen in the Principality, that one of the leading objects of that revival would be the extension of the Archaiology of Wales from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century, for which the Myfyrian MSS. in the British Museum would supply abundant store of materials. Such extension was in part the patriotic plan which the original collector of those MSS. had proposed to himself, but for lack of adequate support and encouragement it was not carried into effect. And the Cymmrodorion, since che re¬ vival of the Society, have not done anything towards ac¬ complishing the laudable object of the generous " Myfyr," nor does there appear to be any proximate intention of their 14