Welsh Journals

234 BYE-GONES. June, 1877. this, and took the liberty of going to desire his protection. The justice was at the coffee-house, but I sent for him: the mob by this time had filled the street, and were roaring like lions. At length the justice came. He said, tell me who have hurt you, and I will send a warrant for them ; and after a little incoherent talk, fairly shoved me out of doors into the midst of the mob. Providence held them from striking, or a very few blows might have ended the business. I likewise kept on my feet, for if I had once been down, there is no likelihood I should have risen again. But I was covered with dirt from head to foot. All the filth they could scrape up was thrown, and when I attempted turning away my face on one side I met it on the other. Which way to go I knew not, nor indeed could I go any way, but just as my masters drove me. At length I heard some one cry out, "for shame, for shame;" this occasioned a quarrel amongst themselves. Mean time an honest man opened his door, so I slipt in, and went out by a back way, not much hurt, but dread¬ fully bedaubed, so that I really needed much washing. (See Arminian Magazine, 1780.) In the copy of the Magazine from which I take this some one has written on the margin the name of the justice referred to, but the volume has since been bound, by which process part of the writing has been cut away. Enough, however, remains to indicate that the name was Captain Elinchant. Puritan. [In the list of Mayors of Shrewsbury we have "John Kin- chant, 1766.'—Ed.] OUR VOLUNTEER ARMY IN 1806 (June 6, 1877).—The following is the Cheshire list I promised :— CHESHIRE. Ashton Mersey, inf., 84, Capt. John Moore, junr. West Cheshire, cav., 311, Lieut.-Col. Thos. Crewe Dod. Royal Chester, 1,457 Colonel Roger Barnston. Cragg Hall, inf., 55, Capt. Geo. Palfreyman. Delamere Forest, riflemen, 120, Capt. Thos. Cholmondeley. Doddington, inf., 113, Capt. H. D. Broughton. Loyal Frodsham, inf., 317, Major Daniel Ashley. Loyal Knutsford, inf., 334, Capt. Strethill Wright. Old Macclesfield, inf., 217, Capt. Jasper Hully. Loyal Macclesfield Foresters, inf., 386, Lieut-Col. D. Davenport. Norton, cav., 70, Capt. Major-General Heron. Poynton Worth, &c, inf., 168, Capt. Nathaniel Wright. Runcorn and Weston, inf., 147, Capt. James Adam. Loyal Sandbach, &c, inf., 414, Lieut.-Col. John Ford. Loyal Bolesworth, inf., 108, Capt. Thos. Tarleton. E. of Chester's Legion, 710, Col. Sir J. F. Leicester. Dukinfield, riflemen, 70, Capt. F. D. Astley. Loyal Middlewich, inf., 206, Major T. Trafford. Loyal Nantwich, inf., 416, Colonel John Crewe. Stockport, cav., 45, Capt. Robert Gee. Loyal Stockport, inf., 302, Lieut.-Col. Viscount Wm. Bulkeley. Do. Armed Association, 130, Captain William Radcliffe. This list will complete the counties within the scope of Bye-gones. C.L.C. QUERIES. SERGEANT DA VIES.—Is there any monument in the Church of St. Martins, near Oswestrj', to the memory of Thomas Davies, (a native of that village), who died in August 1820 ? Davies was the first man put in charge of Lord Hill's column at Shrewsbury, and was recommended to the post by his lordship. Was he buried at St. Martins or at Shrewsbury ? I have heard that Davies was buried with military honours, but my informant did not know where, bnt thought it was at St. Martins. H.B. SALTERS OF OSWESTRY.—Mr. Salisbury, in his Border Counties Worthies, mentions John Salter of Newport as a Salopian, and in an old cutting now before me I find that "some of the descendants of the Newport Salters have been long settled at Oswestry." Ben Starch and Jarco state in Bye-gones, Jan. 24th, 1877, that Robert Salter, the author of "The Modern Angler," was the eldest son of Joseph Salter, who was himself a printer at Oswestry; I conclude, therefore, that the son was born there. _ If I am correct in this, then he is clearly entitled to notice among our Salopian Worthies, and I should be glad if some of your readers could tell us when and where he was born, how many editions of the "Angler" he sent through the press, and when he died. Joseph Salter is mentioned by Rowlands as a printer, but he makes no allusion to him as a writer. Did he compile the '' Comic Songs" alluded to by "J. S. D." in Bye-gones, 31st Jan., 1877 ? It would be a curious contribution to our local information if someone supplied a list of all the books printed at Oswestry, with dates, short titles, and the printers' names; and, if possible, gave a short account of the authors and printers. Ednyfed. [Jarco stated that Jackson Salter, the brother of the Angler, was a printer, not that his father, Joseph Salter, was. Ben Starch was of opinion that the father set up the first press in Oswestry, but this would be for the son to work. The family of Salter is supposed to have been settled in Oswestry previous to the time of John Salter, of Newport, mentioned by Mr. Salisbury.—Ed.] REPLIES. SALE OF WELSH FLANNELS (June 6, 1877). —According to Price's History of Oswestry the trade in Welsh Flannels here died out about 1623, or seventy years before the date mentioned by the book quoted as an authority for Welshpool, being " well traded unto " for them. But we must not place too much dependence on these old dictionaries and gazetteers. They all more or less copy one another as is too much the case in the present day. I saw in the Shrewsbury Chronicle the other day that one of the very newest Guide Books out—The "Panoramic Railway Guide " I think it was called—states that Shrewsbury is supplied with coals by barges on the Severn ! And I believe the same book also says that Oswestry is still a place for the manufacture of Welsh Flannels ! Pennant states that in 1781, or thereabouts, 700.000 yards of Welsh cloth was annually brought to Shrewsbury, and that every Monday the Shrewsbury dealers went to Welshpool to buy flannel. In a news¬ paper of 1818 I have seen it stated that the day for the Welshpool market was changed, in that year, from Mon¬ day to Thursday, but when the market was finally abandoned there I cannot say. Perhaps some of your Newtown readers can inform us how long there has been a Flannel Market in that town ? And whether there have been any breaks in its continuance. Jarco. [See Reprint of Bye-gones, p.p., 225, 241, 247, 253, for 1871-3 also p.p. 203, 243, 277, for 1874-5.—Ed.] HILLS OF CARNAU IN CARDIGANSHIRE (May 16, 1877).—The worthy historian of the Princes of Wales must have been labouring under a misapprehension when he stated that the hills of Carnau, on which the battle of 1080 took place, are situated in Cardiganshire. Cam, which is the singular, and Carno the English mode of pronouncing the plural Carnau, are mentioned in the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogion as having been the scene of more than one battle. The instances re¬ corded are the following :— "728. Bellum montis Carno," the battle of mount Carnau. In Brut y Tywysogion for the same year it is stated, "bu frwydr yn mynydd Cam ; " there was a battle on Cam mountain. It was between Rhodri Molwynog, Prince of North Wales, and Ethelbald, King of Mercia. "948. Et bellum Carno," and the battleof Carnau. 949. Brut y Tywysogion has, "ynaybu waith Carno » then the action of Carnau took place. It was an m^0^? battle between the sons of Owain ab Hywel Dda and tne sons of ldwal Foel.