Welsh Journals

Nov., 1880. BYE-GONES. 135 QUERIES. QUOLTING IN SALOP.—It is announced in the Salopian Journal for June 27, 1838, that "The Great Quoit Match at Uffington, between the Gentlemen of North and South Shropshire" would be played on the Bowling Green of that place on the following Friday. Was the game of quoits ever a general one in Shropshire and the Borders, and is it ever played now-a-days ? Tell. DR. LINDEN.—In a poem called Gayton Wake, by Richard Llwyd, published at Chester in 1804, two lines run as follows :— Dr. Linden also crossed the Dee, And brought his magic rods. To this the following note is added :—" A foreign adven¬ turer, who a few years ago resided for a long time in different parts of Flintshire, and imposed upon many by a pretence of discovering minerals by the Virgula Divina- toria." What does this refer to ? _ I presume Dr. Linden, who wrote so much about the mineral waters of Wales about the middle of last century, is meant ? Was he a quack? He is often quoted as an authority. G. G. REPLIES. CHURCH BELLS (Sep. 15, 1880.)—In the tower of the noble church of St. Lawrence at Ludlow is a melo¬ dious peal of eight bells, the inscriptions on which are thus given in Wright's History of Ludlow, 1852, page 469:— First.— Richard Perks, Town Clerk, A.R. 1732. Second.— Abraham Rudhall, of Gloucester, cast us, 1732. Third.—Rogers Phillips and William Bright, Church¬ wardens, 1732. Fourth.—Prosperity to the town and our benefactors. Fifth.—Prosperity to the town and parish. Sixth. -Prosperity to the Church of England, A.R. 1732. Seventh.— Somerset Jones, Esq. and Cse3ar Hawkins, Gent. Bailiffs. Eighth.—Tenor. The Rev. Richard Baugh, Rector, Mr. John Smith and Mr. John Smith, Churchwardens, 1823. May all whom I shall summon to the grave The blessings of a well spent life receive. Shrewsbury. R.E.D. WELL AT WOOLSTON (Sep. 22, 18S0).-The name connected with this well has been variously sug¬ gested as St. Wulston, St. Goustan, and St. Woollos. Mr. Anderson, in his Shropshire Antiquities, does not mention the Well, but he refers to the place as belonging to Meresete (now Oswestry) Hundred. " When the Con¬ queror's record was compiled, Rainald the Sheriff held all these different manors of the Norman earl." Woolston was one of them, and the following quotation is given by Mr. Anderson : " ' The same Rainald holds Osulvestune and a knight [holds the manor] of him. Uluric held it in King Edward's time with one berewick. Here i hide and a half. The land is for iii ox-teams. Here iiii Welsh have i team. It is worth 6s.' Domesday, fo. 255, a 1." Nemo. LOCAL " NOTES AND QUERIES " (Oct. 6,1880). On Sep. 15 I stated that the " Local Gleanings " in the Shrewsbury Chronicle, had either been given up or sus¬ pended. I am glad to see in the issue of that paper for Oct. 8, that the column in question has only been sus¬ pended, and after an interval of some months has been revived. I wish the editor could see his way to half a column every week, instead of nearly three columns once in as many months. The interest would be kept up and many of us would be on the look out. He has a splendid supply of material within his own doors ; and by throwing overboard one writer—who so far has filled the bulk of each instalment with somewhat stale matter—the Editor could profitably work his own mine, as he has done very partially in the last issue, for instance. I need scarcely say that by his "own mine "I mean the file of Shrewsbury Chronicles, beginning more than a century ago. A systematic search into the columns would bring to light many quaint events, and customs that interested the grandfathers of this generation, and would be none the less interesting to us. Jaeco. NOVEMBER 3, 1880. NOTES. THE LATE W. W. E. WYNNE OF PENIARTH. Having occasion to examine some old letters in my posses¬ sion, I came across the following one from my lamented friend Mr. Wynne, addressed to Richard Llwyd the Bard of Snowdon. The column which he so often graced with his pen when alive, is the most suitable tablet upon which to inscribe this memorial of him, now that he is dead ; and I send it to you accordingly. I have to return my thanks for your letter, and for the valu¬ able information that it contains as to the History and Armorial bearings of Oaburn Wyddell. My Pedigree of the Drenewydd family compiled from the Hail. MSS. and the authority of my friend Miss Angharad Llwyd differs in some respects from yours.'as will be seen by the follow¬ ing extract :— Edward Lloyd of=pElizabeth daughter and heiress of Richard Llwynymaen j Stanney of Oswestry. John Lloyd second son=pEllen daughter of John Rees. of Whittington I-------------------------------------- Edward Lloyd=pCatharine daughter of John Trevor Yychan I diweddar o Groes Oswallt. =Penelope daughter of Charles Goodman Marmaduke Lloyd==Penelope daugh Ob. 1670 of Glanharfln. Edward, Ob. 1715 Charles John Catharine All living 1676. So far from my Pedigree. From an extract of the Whittington Register I find a Catharine Lloyd of Trenewith was buried on the 9th of September, 1740. I suppose her to have been the wife of Edward Lloyd, who died without issue, but whose daughter she was I know not. Cer¬ tainly Catharine, the mother of Marmaduke Lloyd, could not have been alive at this period. If I may trouble you, I should feel obliged for some further particulars as to the matches of this family. I have little doubt that Charles Lloyd, who married Annabella Kingston, was the father of Annabella, heiress of Trenewydd, who was born in 1722, and who married in 1744 Richard Williams of Penbedw, my great-grandfather. I have every match from the third descendant from Hedd Molwynog down to Edward Lloyd of Llwynymaen, who married Elizabeth Stanney. Did you ever observe a paragraph in Mr. Pennant's Tour, as follows?—"After leaving the village (Whittington) on the road towards Oswestry, I ebserved on the left Tre-Newydd, a seat of Watkin Williams, Esq., in right of his mother, heiress of the place. Her grandfather, Edward Lloyd, Esq., who died in 1715, was eminent for his learning, and had prepared materials for the History of his native county." Edward Lloyd of Trenewydd, son of Marmaduke, certainly did die in 1715, but I think that Mr. Pennant, who is not always the best authority, has mistaken him for the well-known Edward Lloyd, a natural son of Llan- f orda, who died in 1707.