Welsh Journals

Jan., 1883. BYE-GONES. 169 BYE-GONES FOR 1883. NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on ■subjects interesting to Wales and the Borders, must be addressed to " Askew Roberts, Croeswylan, uswestry." . Real names and addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only. JANUARY 3, 1883. ROOD LOFTS.—On Nov. 13 a query appeared on this subject which was not quite within the scope of Bye-gones. In reply a correspondent quotes from the Building Neios of Nov. 3, to say that the term "Hagioscope or Squint" was applied to "an oblique opening at the east side of the chancel arch, and was in¬ tended for the purpose of enabling persons in the transept or aisle to see the Elevation of the Host." He names some examples, but none in our district. NOTES. A WELSH PROPHET.—The following is taken from an old Broad Sheet preserved in the Brit. Mus. Library : "A True Copy of David Rowland the Welshman's Most Strange and Wonderful Prophesy Foretelling many things already past, now present, and which are to come, found in my Lord Powis's House being left there 60 years since, together with Dr. Wheatstone's Explanations thereof. " Tempus mutat omnia, <k nos mutamur in Wis. 'About the time that one shall be Joyned unto 2 times three, And four times ten with four times two, 1648 Amongst us shall be great ado ; A Lyon's head, that Time shall fall The young ones shall be scattered all; Then shall a cypher swell so great, His name an Hundred takes the seat; And shall do mighty Things before He is removed from the Shore; But 10 times four, and three times six, 1658 Doth in another world him fix ; Then quickly after you shall see The Lyon come from over sea ; He shall himself bedeck again Attended by his Father's train. Then Church and King & State agree And Alb—n's blest with monarchy Yet heavy times shall make men say Oft times Alack ! And Well-a-day I And wish that they a Death might find For something trouble sore their mind ; Till after all a cloud shall come Shall darken almost quite the sun, And at that time Actions shall be Chiefly carried on by Three : The Cross, the Surplice, and the Crown Strive which shall pull each other down. 1670 1674 1680 1684 Great treachery and bloodshed then Shall sweep away great store of men The Lion and the Blue Flower shall seek Quite to destroy the Heretic Sheep And E------d shall be hard bestred Before the Mitre hence be rid. " Begin again at one and six And ten times seven begins new tricks. And so a time shall last full sore Till you may number up one four And for four more it shall abate To welcome in a Happy State And better every day shall be Till eight times eight and 3 times three But he that Rules at Eighty-four Shall after that be King no more J.R. shall in the saddle slide Who headlong soon from Rome shall ride The Triple crown shall have a fall \ And never more perplex Whitehall \ Nor Britain's Isle again enthrall J Disdained shall lie that specious creature Like Rosamund whose charming feature All art surpassed so bright her nature Who only now for worms does cater. When he that chances to survive To see the year of Ninety-five Will see this land begin to thrive. False I------nd contrives our woe But zealous Scotland does not so Oh E------d ! Wonder that has never been Three Queens o'er Thee in the same time are seen. But first Two Dukes shall for thy crown contend Of which 'tis hard to speak who is thy Friend; B—ps shall fall into Contempt and tfcorn And G------1 A—Is shall the Church adorn. Soon after this no Ass but Horse Shall cut a Pr—ce off in his course Whose Seat and Race shall be supplied By a truly pious Virtuous Bride Whose Glorious Reign and Victories Shall raise her Fame above the Skies. This shall be when 1 to 7's joyn'd ; In 1 and 4 more Augusta is resigned Into the Hand of Fate, whose Virtuous Name Shall live always upon the Wings of Fame Her Death, if fair or not, I know not whither Nor shall I speak till God sends better Weather. When 5 and 1 Bhall seven and one increase The World shall seem inclinable to peace 1715 A Pr—ce shall on G------B—n's Throne be set Descended from the loins of J------s the great 23 1695 1701 1714