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Mar., 1881. BYE-GONES. 199 year be ascertained till towards the end of it, why Mr. Boxdel also has not made you any charge for the Adgist- ment of Cattle bought by you, & fed on your Farm for a time, and also why the law directs, that a verbal compo¬ sition for Tithes can only be from year to year : Please also to notice, that nothing is charged by Mr. B. for the three Foals you had last Spring ; notwithstanding ail these considerations, I have no objections to compounding with you, for the current and the next year, for the sum esti¬ mated by Mr. Boydel, to which, if you yet object, you will find an alternative above, as our only regular and legal means of settling the question. I remain, Sir, your obedt. servt., Wm, Hobson. P.S. As this was written before I received Mr. Boydel's valuation, which I requested in my Letter to him might be on a separate piece of paper, which I meant to enclose to you, this will account for the inaccuracies herein contained, he only in a Letter which you shall see, put your Tithes at £11 15s. and Mr. Menlove'3 also ac¬ cordingly, as the only Objectors to my offers of a compo¬ sition, & therefore only necessary to be valued ; notice also that his valuation is only for Cows, Calves, Sows, Potatoes, & Turnips as above, which were the only things I gave him an account of on your Farm, & to which I consented to his Tithing at any rate of valuation, high or low. All this only occurred half a century ago ; there is doubtless some one left in the district who "remembers all about it." ______ P. The Weather in 1793.—A newspaper published in Jan. 1796, stated that on the longest day of the previous year the thermometer stood at 33^deg.,in Shrewsbury, and on the shortest day at 52 deg. Scarcely what we now-a-days call " eld-fashioned weather "! Merionethshire Wreckers.—Somewhere in the month of Oct. 1S04, the "Princess of Wales" West-Indiaman was wrecked on Wicklow sand banks ; and fifty puncheons of rum, and other goods, floated ashore on the Welsh coast near Aberdovey. An exciting scene was the result: the whole was speedily seized, and carried away inland by the country people. TrxWelling Eighty Years Ago.—On the 16th Sep. 1804, Mr. J. Price of Llanfyllin was attacked on the Wrexham road near Belgrave, by two men on foot, who plundered him of Two-hundred guineas in cash ; and bills drawn at Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Dolgelley; making the amount altogether £690. Not content with this booty they also stripped him of his coat and waistcoat. A Shrewsbury School Boy.—Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Need of Fountain Dale, Blidworth, Notts, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard, upon whom the honour of knighthood has just been conferred, was educated at Shrewsbury School. Col. Need, who was in the 14th Hussars, saw considerable service in India, having been present during the whole of the siege operations against, and capture of, Mooitan, and also taking part in the action of Soorjkoond. He was present at the surrender of the fort and garrison of Cheniote, and at the battle of Goo- jerat. He served in the Persian expedition of 1857, and also with the Central India Field Force under Sir Hugh Rose in 1857-8. He was likewise present at the siege and capture of Rahutghur, the relief of Saugor, and the capture of Garrakota and the pursuit of the rebels across the Beas. He took part in forcing the Muddenpore Pass, in the battle of the Betwa, the siege and capture of the town and fortress of Jhansi, the battle of Koonch, and many subse¬ quent engagements. MARCH 2, 1881. NOTES. PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (Feb. 2, 1881).- List of Members for Denbighshire, continued. The first name is the Member for the County, and the second that for the Boroughs : — 1705 Sir Richard Myddelton, bart. William Robinson. Esq. 1708 Ditto. Sir William Williams, bart. 1710 Ditto. John Roberts, Esq. 1713 Ditto. John Wynne, Esq. 1714 Ditto. (1) Ditto. 1722 Watkin Williams Wynne, Esq. Robert Myddelton, Esq., of Chirk Castle. (2) 1727 Ditto. Ditto. (3) 1734 Ditto. (4) John Myddleton, Esq. 1741 Ditto. (5) John Wynne, Esq., of Melay. 1747 Ditto. (6) Richard Myddleton, Esq. (7) 1754 Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, bart. Ditto. 1761 Ditto. Ditto. 1768 Ditto. Ditto. 1774 Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, bart. Ditto. 1780 Ditto. ' ' Ditto. 1784 Ditto. (8) Ditto. (9) 1790 Robert Watkin Wynne, Esq. Richard Myddelton, jun., Esq. 1801 Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. [Thomas Jones, Esq.] (10) 1802 Ditto. Frederick West, Esq., Chirk Castle. (11) 1S06 Ditto. Robert Myddelton Biddulph, Esq., of Chirk Castle. 1807 Ditto. Ditto. 1812 Ditto. John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, commonly called Lord Viscount Kirkwall. (1) Watkin Williams, Esq., elected 30 June 1716, vice Sir R. Myddelton deceased. (2) Succeeded to the Chirk Castle estates on the death of his cousin, Sir William Middelton, in 1717. He contested the county against Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq., in 1722. — Williams' Denbigh. (3) John Myddelton, Esq., of Chirk Castle, elected, vice Robert Myddelton deceased, 27 Apr. 1723.— Blue Book. Brother and heir to the late member. Elected for the county in 1741 against Sir W. W. Wynn but unseated on petition — iVilliams' Denbigh. (I) Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, bart., re-elected 21 Dec. 1710. after appointment as steward of the lordships and manors of JBromfield and Yale, Co. Denbigh, (see Commons' Journals 25 Nov. 1740)—Blue Book. Re-elected (as Sir Watkin) having on the death of his father accepted the Stewardship.—Williams' Denbigh. (5) Return amended by Order of the House, dated 23 Feb. 1741-2, by erasing the name of John Myddelton, Esq., of Chirk Castle, and substituting that of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, bart.— Blue Book. This was the " Election Mawr," the great contest which established the victory of the family of Wynnstay over their rivals of Chirk Castle. (G) Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, bart., of Lleweny, elected 5 Dec. 1749, vice Sir W. W. Wynn, deceased. (7) Richard Myddelton, Esq., re-elected 27 Dec. 1749, after accepting the office of steward of the Lordships and Manors of Bromfield and Yale. -Blue Book. He was Recorder of Denbigh. (S) Robert Watkin Wynne, Esq., of Plasnewydd, elected 28 Aug. 1789, vice Sir W. W. Wynn, bart,, deceased. (9) Richard Myddelton, jun., Esq., of Chirk Castle, elected 20 May 178S, vice Richard Myddelton, jun. (qy. sen.) Esq. who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. (10) Thomas Jones, Esq., of Carreghova, elected 12 Jan. 1797, vice Richard Myddelton, Esq., deceased. The members under the date of 1801 in the Blue Book (the " First Parliament of the United Kingdom") include those elected in "The Parliament of Great Britain" 1796. (II) Williams gives him as the Hon. F. West