Welsh Journals

June, 1877. BYE-GONES. 229 JUNE 6, 1877. NOTES. OUR VOLUNTEER ARMY IN 1806 (May 16, 1877).—The following is the South Wales List:— BRECKNOCK. Loval Brecknock, 1st Bn., 450, Lt.-Cl. Penry Williams. „ 2nd Bn., 430, Lt.-Cl. Henry Allen. „ 3rd Bn., 460, Lt.-Cl. Roderido Gwynne. Cardigan. Royal Clarence Inf., 715. Lt.-Cl. Owen Lloyd. Upper Tivy Inf., 702, Lt.-Cl. John Lloyd. Carmarthen. Carmarthenshire Cavalry, 189, Capt. Lord Dynevor. Do. Infantry, 1st Bn., 527, Lt.-Cl. Lord Dynevor. Do. 2nd Bn., 529, Maj. J. G. Philips. Do. 3rd Bn., 360, Lt.-Cl. Sir Wm. Paxton. Do. 4th Bn., 524, Lt.-Cl. Walter Williams. Do. 5th Bn., 532, Lt.-Cl. J. Wm. Hughes. Glamorgan. Fairwood Cav., 60, Capt. Sir Gabriel PowelL Forest Inf., 207, Major Thos. Lockwood. Glamorgan 1st Regt. do., 676, Lt.-Cl. John Llewelyn. „ 2nd Regt., 800, Lt.-Cl. John Price. „ Riflemen, 395, Lt.-Cl. Rowley Lascelles. Swansea Cav., 116, Capt. Edward Hughes. Cardiff Cav., 47, Capt. John Wood. Glamorgan Fusileers, 345, Lt.-Cl. Wm. Vaughan. Monmouth. Loyal Abergavenny Inf., 272, Major Thos. Morgan. Chepstow Cavalry, 80, Capt. Charles Lewis. Monmouthshire Bn., 628, Col. Chas. Morgan. Monmouth Inf., 300, Lt.-Cl. Thos. Molyneux. Usk Inf., 267, Major Thomas Jones. Loyal Chepstow Inf., 282, Capt. ZouchTurton. Monmouth Cav., 60, Capt. Richard Lewis. Pembroke. Castle Martin Cav., 94, Capt. John Adams. Dungheddy Troop, 66, Lt.-Cl. J. Roch. Fishguard Inf., 570, Lt.-Cl. Thomas Lloyd. Loyal Landicilio Inf., 132, Capt. John Harding. Milford Artillery, 90, Capt. Hon. C. F. Greville. Pembrokeshire Cav., 246, Lt.-Cl. Sir Hugh Owen, Bart. Loyal Pendersast Inf., Ill, Capt. John Mathias. Haverfordwest Fusileers, 67, Capt. W. H. Scourfleld. Pembrokeshire Inf., 1,053, Col. Lord Kensington. Pembroke Inf., 176, Capt. F. Mansell. Radnor. Radnorshire Bn., 850, Lt.-Cl. Richard Price. Another week I will give the Cheshire list. C.L.C. QUERIES. SALE OF WELSH FLANNELS.—Old Guide Books and Directories tell us of Oswestry and Shrewsbury being the mart for Welsh Flannels in bye-gone times. I have just come across a newspaper cutting which quotes an Historical Dictionary of England and Wales, published by Abel Roper, of The Mitre, near Temple Bar, London, in 1692, for the statement that Welchpool is "well inhabited, and well traded unto for Flannels, and hath a good market on Mondays. From London 125 miles (sic)." Does this statement go all fours with our local histories ? Blackpool. THE CLUN CONJUROR.—" The Wise Mon of Uodgistry" (Sept. 20, 1876) reminds me of a celebrated conjuror," who lived at Clun. I knew a Shropshire tanner, who lately died at an advanced age, who for many years, in the earlier part of his life, was afflicted with *>me strange inward malady, that baffled the skill of all we doctors whom he consulted. At last, finding that ordinary expedients were ineffectual, he resorted, in desperation, and with much shame, to the old conjuror at xxx Clun. In a short time he was permanently cured. I believe that charms were some of the means used, but I forget particulars. I should be glad of any information concerning the exploits of this personage, who had a great local reputation about a quarter of a century ago. Shrewsbury. E.E.D. SIR JOHN PRYCE OF NEWTOWN HALL.— Incidentally, and in a fragmentary manner, we have had several references to this worthy in Bye-gones. Will some one tell us all about him ? His letter to Bridget Bostock on the death of his third wife you gave May 30, 1877, and it was stated that he had his two former wives embalmed, and that he wrote an elegy on the second. (See Dec. 13, 1876). I have just met with another fragment on the sub¬ ject, in a short autobiography of Thomas Olivers, of Tregynon, near Newtown, who was born in 1725 and became a famous Methodist preacher. The writer says:— For four or five years I was greatly entangled with a fanner's daughter, whose sister was married to Sir J. P. of N—wt—n, in that county. What " strange reverse of human fates :" for one sister to be wooed by, and married to a baronet, who was es¬ teemed to be one of the finest men in the country. When she died, Sir J. was almost distracted. Presently after her funeral, he published an elegy on her of a thousand verses ! For some time he daily visited her in her vault, and at last took her up, and kept her in his bed-chamber for several years. On the other hand her sister, &c, &c. Olivers writes this many years after the events he refers to occurred, but we may gather from the context that he began to court the sister of Lady Pryce when he was not less than 20 years old, which would be 1745, so Sir John could not have kept his second wife in his bed-chamber for " several years," if he was a widower again in 1748, the date at which he writes to Bridget Bostock. It will be re¬ membered that the third wife refused to marry 'till the former spouse or spouses were interred. Puritan . REPLIES. MR. J. CRESSETTPELHAM (May 16, 1877).—In a Shrewsbury newspaper of Apr. 23, 1839, the following paragraph appeared :—"Some time ago it became our duty to state that an announcement of the death of a Mr. Pel- ham had appeared in the Asiatic Journal, and that we had reason to fear it referred to Mr. Cressett Pelham, so well known, and so deservedly respected as formerly the Representative in Parliament of Shrewsbury, and previously of the county of Salop. Yesterday a letter was received at a Banking House in this town, from a highly-respected East India Agency firm in London, dated Monday last, and containing the passage we now extract as follows :—' Our correspondent at Madras in¬ forms us of the death of Mr. Cressett Pelham, and re¬ quests us to find out who his representatives are.' This places the melancholy fact of Mr. Cressett Pelham's death beyond all doubt." Did Mr. Pelham turn up after this? Told. THE RIVER PERRY (May 9, 1877).—I venture to suggest that the name was originally Perwy—sweet or pure water ; and that in course of time the " w " has been dropped. Much the same as in the name Llugwy, by which several streams are known, and which has, in most cases, been corrupted into Luggy. Bonwm. The name of this river takes its origin from the Peveril Family (best known in connection with the Peak, in Derbyshire), who held the Castle at Whittington, I believe, about the time of William the Conqueror. O.M.F. 58