Welsh Journals

May, 1877. BYE-GONES. 211 hotels. The question of the number to be printed of the Soci¬ ety's Transactions and Papers was also discussed, and it was re¬ solved that the limit should be four hundred. Two papers (by the Rev. W. A. Leighton, and the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott) have already been received for the first volume, and others are promised. MAY 9, 1877. NOTES. CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHESTER.—A corres¬ pondent of Notes and Queries, April 21st, 1877, writing about Judge Morton, who was buried beneath the Parish Church of Tackley, Oxfordshire, in 1780, says— In the reign of Henry VIII. judges were appointed to hold sessions twice every year in Wales, which was divided for that purpose into three districts of three counties each, and one of four, Cheshire being for this purpose reckoned as a Welsh county, and so associated with those of Denbigh, Flint, and Montgomery, each group having two permanent judges, who had not only the powers at Common Law of English judges, but an Equitable jurisdiction also during their circuits. They were not precluded from practising as barristers in England, nor from sitting in Parliament, for Morton sat at different times for Abingdon and for Wigan. The appointment of Chief Justice of Chester was lucrative, for Thomas Jervis, a relative of Lord St. Vincent, the last holder, was awarded, on the abolition of the office, a quarterly pension of £1,015 12s. The writer adds—" A generation has passed away since the office was abolished (against the opinion of the ex- Lord Chancellor Eldon) by the statute of 1 William IV., c. 70, on July 23, 1830." Nemo. QUERIES. THE RIVER PERRY.—What is the origin of the curious name of this little river, which crosses the road between Whittington and Ellesmere ? An ox. THE GOODMAN PEDIGREE.—This is traced down to the year 1733 in the life of Bishop Goodman by Archdeacon Newcome. The last mentioned there are Hannah and R. Goodman. Can any reader supply me with the pedigree down to the present time ? The above Hannah Goodman was baptized at Llanelidan near ■Ruthin. Ap John. DAVID SALISBURY'S GHOST.—There was an old Welsh tradition in vogue some fifty years ago, that one David Salisbury son to Harri Goch of Llanrhaiadr near Denbigh and grandson to Thomas Salusbury hen of Lleweni, had given considerable trouble to the living, long after his remains had been laid in the grave. A good old soul, Mr. Griffith, of Llandegla, averred that he had seen his ghost, mounted upon a white horse galloping over hedges and ditches in the dead of night, and had heard his terrible groans " which he concluded proceeded from the weight of sin troubling the unhappy soul, which had "Undergo these untimely and unpleasant antics. An old Welsh ballad entitled " Ysbryd Dafydd Salbri" pro¬ cessed to give the true account of the individual in question, but the careful search of many years has failed me in securing a copy of that horrible song. Can any of y°"r. readers inform me when and where it was printed, and if a copy of it can be seen in any of our Welsh col- WCtlOnS of Hlinb litai<afi<ii.a 9 flr\r>i\-KT\w Tuih tions of such literature ? Goronwy Ifan. REPLIES. ^THE BIRTHPLACE OF TALHAIARN (Apr. 4, W l iT~ any °* 70ur Saxon readers, not well up in Win- m,atters> refer to Owen's Cambrian Biography or Wtart88 Eminent Welshmen, to discover who Talhaiarn •"» they will be sorely led astray, if they wish to know more about Iago's hero, as they also would have been when "Cynddelw" died a couple of years ago. These are only the ancient names of famous Welsh bards revived by moderns whose fame will scarcely be handed down to posterity. The modern Talhaiarn many of your Oswestry readers will remember as Mr. John Jones, who was a sur¬ veyor in the employ of the late Mr. T. Penson. I have often heard the late Mr. Dicker, surgeon, repeat parodies "Tal." made on various occasions. One of these was in imitation of Moore's " Fly, fly from the world, dearest Bessie, with me," and commenced "Fly, fly to the Grapes, jolly Georgie,1. with me;" Georgie being a fellow- clerk, Mr. George Broughall, and the Grapes a house much frequented by Jones's set. Has any one preserved any of these local parodies ? Fitzoswald. WELSH AND BORDER PRESS. Wrexham— (May 2, 1877).—The following are copies of the Title-pages of books printed by R. Marsh :— 1.—An Ode on the Immortality of the Soul: occasioned by the opinions of Dr. Priestley; and Life an Elegy. By the Rev. John Walters, M.A, master of Ruthin School, and late fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. To which is added an Ode to Humanity, founded on the Story of Scipio. By the Rev. John Walters, sen., Rector of Landaugh, Glamorganshire. Wrexham, Printed by R. Marsh. Sold by J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, London, mdcclxxxvi. 2.—A Practical Treatise on Farriery ; Deduced from the Ex¬ perience of above Forty Years, in the Services of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart.; the present Earl Grosvenor, and the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. By William Grif¬ fiths, Groom at Wynnstay. Kind Sir, if you should lame your Tit, Peruse what's in these pages writ; The Blockhead Smith, you first may see Will swear he's lame above the knee, When (as this Treatise plain will shew), 'Tis ten to one he's lame Below. Wrexham, Printed by R. Marsh. Entered at Stationers' HalL The lines on the Title-page refer to a clever frontispiece designed by Henry Bunbury, Esq. There is no date on the title, but the dedication is dated Nov. 15, 1784. It is a quarto vol., and was once in great repute in the Wrexham district. Landwor. Mr. Allnutt, in his query on Mar. 21, mentions Thomas Payne, "who, perhaps, succeeded to Wickstead's business." I have before me a folio book, printed in London in 1723, inside the cover of which—in the place where the owner's book-plate usually goes—there is a label, about 3 inches by 2, with the following inscription on a copper-plate within a scroll:— Tho; Payne Bookseller in Wrexham, Sells Books in all Faculties, Bibles, Common Prayer Books, Shop Books, Pocket Books, Gilt and Plain Writing Paper, with all other sorts of Stationary Wares, at ye lowest Prices, and gives most Money for any Library or Parcel of Books. I have no means of knowing the date at which the book was purchased at Payne's shop, but written at the head of the title is the following, in a masculine hand :— Thomas Edwards His Book the gift of Mrs. Wynne of Rhos April 25th; 1778. And above the Dedication :— Dorothy Wynne, Senr. On a fly-leaf there is the following memorandum, all in similar hand-writing :— a map of the glebe in the parish of Llanbedr in the County of Denbigh in the Diocese of Bangor, the Rectory of the Rev. Mr. Green, Surveyed in Sept. 1777 by T. Edwards. The book itself is a translation by Edmund Stone, from the French of M. Biron, of " The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments." By the advertisement of Payne it does not appear that he was a printer. W.G.