Welsh Journals

Oct., 1876. BYE-GONE8. 121 RICHARDSON, Joshua, was a native of Shropshire, and son to a gentleman of the same name, who resided at Broughton, upon the borders of that county. He was for several years minister at Middle, in his native shire, and a very holy living, and serious-minded maD. He refused to subscribe the declaration required under the Act of Uniformity, and lost his place, upon which he removed to Alkington, near Whitchurch, where he continued for the rest of his life. He died in 1671. RICHMOND, Peteb, a native of Llandenny, Mon¬ mouthshire, has been esteemed worthy wf Mr Heath's ob¬ servation in one of his amusing pamphlets upon the beauties of this magnificent county. He was but a farmer's assistant, but like many another of hi.- ^vi0"" uilioL needs go a soldiering against the French, and thus became a hero,provinghiscourageunder fire, and receiving for reward a gun shot wound through the knee. He returned to his own country afterwards, and in the course of nature died, when his old neighbours placed an altar tomb over his re¬ mains, carving his effigy at full length upon it, dressed in regimentals, with his musquet resting upon his shoul ler, and, by direction of his patrons (which is the point of the story) a perforated hole, the size of a buVet, through the knee of the veteran I Smile as we may, at such proofs of weak¬ ness, the man who thus suffered and bled for his country, is as deserving of honourable mention as if he bad failed a high position in the, sosial scale, and we cannot but applaud the fine sentiment pervading the public mind, which insists that he who suffers for his country, is worthy of applause. RIDER, Henry, was born in the year 1562, at Car- rington, Cheshire, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. Very little is known about him, but having chosen the church for his profession, he was in 1612 made Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland. He wrote and published some works, and among them a Latin Dictionary, which at one time commanded notice. He died 1632. October 4, 1876. NOTES. NOTABILITIES IN SHROPSHIRE &C„ 1663. —In the Parliament which commenced Mav 8, 1661, and contirued with some breaks till the 27th July, 1362, "the faithful Commons" voted four subsidies to his Majesty Charles II, and in 1663 certain persons in each county and important town were appointed by virtue of the Act of Parliament then passed to be Commissioners " for the Rating and Taxing" of all persons within their several shires or boroughs. The names of the Commissioners for Shropshire and for the town of Shrewsbury will probably be of interest to your readers, as they are those of some of the most important persons in the couLty and town at that time, especially as the authority given them by virtue of this Act was one of no mean importance. They are as follows :— For the Countv of Salop —Andrew Newport, Esquire ; Sir Thomas Wolrich ; Sir William Whitmore ; Sir Henry Vernon, Sir Francis Lawley, Sir Walter Acton, Baronets; Sir Richard Prince, Sir John Weld, Sir Richard Oately, Sir Clement Throgmorton, Sir William Child, Sir Job Charlton, Sergeant at Law and Chief Justice of Chester, Knight Timothy Littleton Sergeant at Law, Sir Vincent Corbet; William Fowler, Timothy Turner, Philip Egton, Richard Screven, Richard Fowler, Francis Thames, James Lacon, Francis Charleton, Robert Sandford, Robert Leighten, Philip Prince, Robert Charleton, John Lacon, xxx Henry Goodrick, Samuel Winkfield, Thomas Whitmore, George Ludlow, Edward Latwich, Edward Baldwyn, Charles Baldwyn, Henry Barnard, Thomas Powis, Thomas Holland, John Coats, William Oakeley, Edmond Wareing, of Oldbury, Thomas Lloyd, Esquires, Captain Philip Jennings ; John Corbet, Richard Rydley, Somerset Fox, John Walcost, Thomas Crump, William Owen, of Perkington, Robert Owen, Thomas Lockies, John Newton, Vincent Edwards, Esqrs; Roger Gough, John Bawdwin, of Middlehope, Gent; Thomas Waltolt, Rowland Hill, Charles MaiDwairing, William Cotton, Andrew Hill, Francis Smith, Francis Forrester junior, Robert Cresset, Richard Lister, Esquires; Daniel Wicherley, Hnmpbrey Grove, Henry Griffiths, Richard .tsagott, Francis Walker, Alexander Middleton, John Baugh, Richard Walker, Gent; The Bayliffs of Bridg¬ north for the time being; The Baylifj of the Fran¬ chise of Wenbcke for the time being; The Bayliffs of Bishops Castle for the time being; The Bayliffs for Ludlow for the time being; Richard Davis Thomas Jones of Sheet, and William Bowdler, Gentlemen. For the Town of Shrewsbury.—-The Mayor tor the time being; Timothy Tournoar.—Recorder, Thomas Rocke Robert Leighton, Jonathan Langley, Adam Oateley, Thomas Bawdewin,_ Thomas Jones, Robert Corbert of the Hall of Hussey, Samuel Wing held, _ Richard Tayler, John Harding, Arthur Hinks, Richard Clarke, Samuel Lloyd, Andrew Vivers. •'The said Commissioners, for the Taxation of the said two first of the said four subsidies before the 10th day of September next coming and for the Taxation of the two last of the said four subsidies, shall before requisite) of the most substantial discreet and honest persons Inhabitants of and in the Hundreds, Parishes, &c, and to the Constables, Sub-constables, bailiffs, and other like officers and ministers of every of the said Hundreds, Towns, Parishes, &c. straitly by the said precept charging and commanding the said inhabitants, constables, and other officers, to whom such precept shall be so directed, to appear in their proper p-rsons before the said Commissioners at certain days or places by the said Commissioners appointed. And that then upon their appearance before the said Commissieners they shall be charged by all convenient ways and means (other than by corporal oath) to enquire of the value of the substance, after the usual manner, of every person dwell¬ ing and abiding within the limits of the places, that they shall be charged with .... and to certify before the said Commissioners the names and sernames and the sub¬ stance and values of every of them as well of lands, tene¬ ments, &c, as of good chattels, &c, and other things chargable by the same Act, without any concealment, love favour, affection, dread, or malice." J. P. Earwakeb, M.A., F.S.A. Withington, near Manchester. QUERIES. GEORGE YATES, OF OSWESTRY.-Who was this gentleman? I have a large engraving of Pontycvsyllte Aqueduct, drawn by him, engraved by Francis Eginton and published by Allen and Co., Birmingham : also a small copper-plate of Oswald's Well, drawn and sketched by George Yates. In Dovaston's Rhymes, published in 1811 there are a couple of odes to Mr Thomas Yates, and in the second edition, issued in 1825, there is an additional one addressed to Mrs Mary Yates. Mr Thomas Yates was one 31