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Oct., 1882. BYE-GONES. 127 faultes should openly before ye whole parooche of Bew- marish recante in writing and desier forgiveness of this offence, wch thinge they did ye Sundaye following, my chauncellor being present there purposely : whereby your wisdomes may consider yt I entended to have reformed this great breache of order according as I might come to ye knowleage there of. "And touching ye preacher yt was at Bewmarishe as his disturbance sore grieved me and yt also because by no meanes I colde Learne owt ye procurers thereof such is ye dissention there and no regarde of other in ye c'ntry ; so for his zele against grosse superstition for ye time of his passage into Ireland and at ye request of ye Mayer and others (who seemed desirouse to heare god's worde a verey strange thing in this c'ntrey) I did tolerate wth him ye winter when he came so yt yf he wold continew, he should ye beginning of ye Springe bring his testimonial and other writings wch he then wanted. But the' he left ye towne destitute, which notwithstanding according to your hon : advertizeme't I shall exhort and helpe to have some Learned man to supply yt towne. Thus ackno'leag- ing myselfe much more beholden to all your honours for ye singular care you have of me and my charge your godly admonitions and directions I desire ye Lord God continewally to assiste and sanctifie all your carefull travailes to ye increase of his blessed ghospell. From Bangor ye 24 of Maye 1570. Your honours to com- maunde in Christe. "N. Bangor." CURRENT NOTES. Not for the first time in its history, Winifred's Well has recently shown signs of diminishing. The flow of water, it is said, has decreased by more than one-half. Ap Ieuan, a bard, and the author of "The Unity of the Church," has died at Portmadoc at the age of eighty- one. The death of General Townshend of Trevalyn, Rossett, is announced. The deceased^ general, who was in his 87th year, took his ensign's commission in 1812. He saw active service in America in 1814, and marched with the Duke of Wellington's army to Paris in the following year. The financial result of the # National Eisteddfod of Wales, recently held in Denbigh, has been a deficit of between £350 and £400, although some of the principal prizes were withheld, on the score of want of merit in the compositions sent in. William Lewis, who is said to have attained the age of 101, was buried at New Radnor a few days ago. His three sons who attended the funeral were seventy, sixty-four, and fifty-nine. At the age of eighty-five William Lewis went to America, but he did not remain there long. At the age of ninety-five, it is said, he walked one day from New Radnor to Knighton and back, a distance of twenty miles. Two painted lancet windows have been placed in the north transept of Llanbadarn Church, on6 by Miss Anne Morris, Machynlleth, in memory of the late Mr and Mrs T. O. Morgan; and the other by Mr J. T. Morgan, Nantceirio Hall, in memory of his only son. The following inscrip¬ tions are placed on brass tablets underneath the windows: "In memory of Thomas Owen Morgan, J.P., D.L., Barrister-at-Law, died December 5th, 1878. Also of Jane his widow, who died at Aberystwyth, October 6th, 1881. This window is placed by her affectionate sister, Anne Morris of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire." "In loving remembrance of John Herbert Morgan, only son of John and Frances Morgan of Nantceirio, in this parish. Born February 12th, 1873 ; died October 30th, 1879." Mr. Evelyn Philip Shirley of Ettington Park, Stratford- on-Avon, who for many years represented South Warwick¬ shire in Parliament, died on the 19th September. Mr. Shirley was a well-known antiquary, and was probably the best authority on heraldry in England. Ho was the owner of large estates in Ireland and England. His death was dueto apoplexy, with which he was seized on Saturday. Mr. Shirley sent one or two contributions to Bye-gones. Mr. W. E. Beckwith writes to the papers:—" The Manx shearwater (Puffinus anglorum), a bird nearly allied to the petrels, is so seldom found inland, that its recent occurrence in this county seems worth recording. During the first week of September, no less than five specimens of this bird were sent to Messrs. Henry and John Shaw, Shrewsbury, for preservation; all of them, I believe, having been found in an exhausted condition, and unable to fly. Three of these birds were caught near Oswestry, one near Ludlow, and one near Cressage. They were in good plumage, and the Cressage bird, which was most kindly given to me by Mr. Pinckney, is an adult male. A few Manx shearwaters breed in Wales, but they so rarely leave the sea coast, that previously to the above date, only four examples had been known to have occurred in Shropshire. Of these two were caught, some years ago, near Shrewsbury, one at Weston Park, near Shifnal, and one near Coalport." The Powis Exhibition.—The Powis Exhibition of the value of £60 a year, tenable for four years at Oxford or Cambridge, was awarded by examination to Mr. D. M. Jones, at present a pupil in Llandovery School. Mr. James of Christ College, Brecon, was placed second, and Mr. Johnson of Clifton College, third in the examination. Mr. Jones has already gained an open classical scholarship at Worcester College, Oxford, as well as a Bangor exhi¬ bition of £25 a year. OCTOBER 4, 1882. NOTES. OSWESTRY TOLLS.—The removal of the Gate Pier in Beatrice-street—marking the spot where the Lords of Oswestry once demanded^ Tolls from passers by—will make the present a fitting time to give a report of a trial that has been more than once alluded to in Bye-gones, by which Lord Clive established bis right to the impost, which had been disputed by several of the farmers attend¬ ing the markets. The report is copied from the Salopian, Journal, and is evidently "inspired": probably it was supplied by one of the lawyers engaged for the prosecu¬ tion. Jarco. Shrewsbury Assizes, 9 Aug. 1819, before Mr. Justice Richardson : Lord Clive v. Rogers. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the pur¬ pose of asserting his right to certain tolls in the Borough of Oswestry, which had been enjoyed by his ancestors, and those from whom they derived their property, for several centuries back, and to which it appeared no tfe- sistance had been made until within these few years, in the course of which many persons have refused to pay, and consequently the tolls have very considerably decreased in value. In the present action the tolls claimed were for grain pitched by defendant in Oswestry Market on the 3rd, and for a waggon laden with barley coming into Oswestry on the 4th, of December last, at each of