Welsh Journals

Mar., 1877. BYE-GONES. 191 the composition of a Welsh Chartist woman." Can any of the readers of Bye-gones inform us who the fan- Chartist poet was ? Ap Wnog. t CARNARVON CASTLE. — Amongst the great number of historical documents contained in the valuable collections of the late Rev. Dr. Raffles, now preserved by his son, T. Stamford Raffles, Esq., of Liverpool, is the fol¬ lowing curious document:— 3 May 1660. Agreement signed at Carnarvon for the demoli¬ tion of the Castle by the gentlemen of the county:—"We whose names are hereunto subscribed conceiveing it to be for the great advantage of ourselves and posterity to haue the Castle of Carnarvon and the strengthes thereof demolished, doe undertake for our selves and our tenantes respectively to vnder- goe and pay our and their due proportion of the charges that shall fall vppon the county of Carnarvon for the doeing thereof, not exceeding the summe of Fiue hundred pounds in the whole, <fec, &c. A large number of signatures of the leading gentry of the county are on the document, which was signed " att ye generall sessions of ye peace, held att Carnarvon vpon ye second of May 1660." The document exhibits two dis¬ cordant dates. Is there any printed account of the de¬ molition of the Castle ? J. REPLIES. BAILEY STREET, OSWESTRY (Nov. 5, 1873). On this date a correspondent wrote :— Bailey Head, or, as the common folk call it, " The Biley," is not very difficult to account for. The square going by this name in Oswestry was doubtless the original Ballium of the Castle. Bailey-hill, Mold, probably has a similar origin. In looking over some old deeds the other day, I find that about a hundred years ago in a lease of property in Bailey-street to my grandfather, Francis Jones, it is des¬ cribed as situate in "Bailey Street, otherwise Bailiffe Street." J.P.J. THREE TUNS, OSWESTRY (Feb. 7, 1877).— My grandfather's cousin, Joseph Parry, purchased this property in the year 1805 from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and. resold it immediately to my grandfather, Francis Jones. The house and shop now in the occupation of Mr. Lawless were then connected with the Three Tuns, it having originally formed one house. Shortly after my grandfather's purchase, the front was taken down and modernized. It had previously been very like that of the corner house in Bailey-street occupied by the Midland Bank. My grandfather understood that the entire pro¬ perty had been occupied by the ancestors of the Wynn family as their " Town House." J.P.J. THE SALESBURIES OF RUG (Feb. 14, 1877).— GLYNDWRDWY. 12 Feb. 11 Edw. I. Terra de Glyndoverdo ad requisitionem Johannis de Warrena Comitis Surrias concessa Griffino Vaghan nho Madoci. Rotuli WaUice. 2 Edw. (III. Griff: de Glyndoverdy pays a fine of 20 marks tor licence to enfeoffe Walter de Mutton and Walter Huse of his manors of Glyndoverde and Kenlleth. Originalia Rolls. a Edw. III. At a Session at Harlech, ,rGriffinus ap Madog <ionunus de Glendoverdwoe, qui habet diem ad istam sessionem, act ostendendum quo warranto clamat tenere terras suas per JDaroniam, et habere liberas furcas in eisdem terris suis, et °™umodas feras in eisdem terris capere et asportare quo vomerit—ad quam Sessionem non venit, ideo praecipitur vice- Resri " qUod ^P616' hbertates prsedictas in manus domini These were the ancestors of Owen Glyndwr. Though jfw??* Brogentyn owned Rug, and was Lord of Edernion, ne did not own the Lordship of Glyndwrdwy, nor was t „! ??y connection between the Salesburies and that lordship prior to the grant of Edw. VI. Powell's statement certainly does appear contrary b fact; perhaps by "the King" he intended not partictdarb to refer to Hen. IV., but the King when the purchas* was made, though certainly his words seem to^ imph Hen. IV.* By the way, there is an error in nearly all the pedigree! of Glyndwr as we have them. There was no such persoi as "Madoc Crupl," as can be shown by a contemporary inquisition. W. * Robert Salesbury, named in the Glyndwrdwy grant, died 28 Sept. 5 Edw. VI. His son John died in 1580, so his grandson Sir Robert Salesbury, who died 14 July, 1599, was the Lord ol Glyndyfrdwy to whom Powell refers, as "that now is." The Letters patent to Lord Graye of Wilton and Banaster are dated 5 August, 3 Edw. VI., and state that the lands granted were part of the possessions of Owen Glyndwr, attainted for rebellion. ____________________MARCH 7, 1877.____________________ THE BLACKSMITH'S EPITAPH (Feb. 21. 1877). — Our correspondent Eliola informs us that a similar Epitaph to the one in Aberystwyth Churchyard, may be found on an old Tombstone in Llanllwchaiarn Churchyard, near New town, but he does not remember the exact wording or the date. He adds:—This Epitaph on a blacksmith may be found in many Churchyards. The author was Thomas Collier, a schoolmaster and painter, a native of Rochdale, who under the pseudonym of " Tim Bobbin" wrote a number of Essays and Poems in the Lancashire dialect. The original was written thus :— " My hammer and my anvil's low reclin'd My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My last nail's driven, my work is done." It was composed on the death of one Sam Kershaw, a black¬ smith who is interred in Rochdale Churchyard. NOTES. THE HEILYNS OF PENTREHEILYN.—I have in my possession a volume—" The Life of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Peter Heylyn, Chaplain to Charles I. and Charles II., written by Rev. George Vernon. Printed and Published in London, 1682,"—from which I make the following extract with regard to his pedigree, as there may be some of his posterity still in Montgomeryshire :— He was the second son of Henry Heylyn, Gent., descended from the Ancient Family of the Heylyns of Pentre-Heylyn in Montgomeryshire, then part of Powis-land; from the Princes whereof they were derived, and unto whom they were Heredi¬ tary Cup-Bearers: For so the word Heylyn does signify in the Welsh or British Language. After which office they were in great authority with the Princes of North Wales as plainly ap¬ pears from Llewellyn the last Prince of that country who made choice of Grono-Ap-Heylyn to Treat with the Commissioners of Edward the First, King of England, for the concluding of a full and final Peace between them. And Pentre-Heylyn continued the seat of this Ancient Family till about the year 1637, at which time Rowland Heylyn, Alderman and Sheriff of London, and Cousin-German to our Doctor's Father, dying without issue male, the seat was transferred to another Family into which some of the Heireses were Married, but the Dr. design'd to repurchase it, and had infallibly effected it, had not Death prevented the ex¬ ecution of his purpose. Dolgelley. E. Griffith. ST. DAVID'S DAY (Feb. 28, 1872, Mar. 5, 1873, Mar. 3, 1875).—There is said to be an old pamphlet— probably of the 17th century—in the British Museum entitled "the Welshman's Jubilee, by T. Morgan, Gent.," from which it would appear that the Cambro-Britons in London were in the habit of celebrating St. David's Day before the establishment of the Society of Ancient Britons,