Welsh Journals

362 BYE-GONES. May 7, 1890. generous supporter of the missionary movements made necessary by the great extension of the population of Wrexham and the district. In politics he was a progressive Conservative, and so popular was he as a member of the Denbighshire County Council, to which he was returned unopposed for Holt, that he was elected Chairman of the Finance Committee, a Committee whose proceedings he conducted with business-like care and precision, and whenever at meetings of the Council feeling ran high between the Liberal majority and the Con¬ servative minority, Sir Evan's intervention was always the more effectual because it was recognised that his was a nature incapable of entertaining unworthy sentiments in regard to an opponent, and that his main care was the public interest. He married the eldest daughter of the late Mr Thomas Rowland, twice Mayor of Wrexham, and leaves a family of one son and six daughters,with whom, and with Lady Morris, the keenest sympathy is felt. In 1887 Sir Evan purchased Roseneath, an imposing residence situated in Grove Park, and here he practised a generous hospitality,beingequally agreeable as a guest and as a host. Ill Wrexham, after the news of his death was received, outward tokens of mourning were displayed, and on many of the more prominent buildings of the town flags were erected at half mast. On Primrose Day the Conservative Club was duly decorated with primroses, but the balcony was draped with black. The funeral of the late Sir Evan Morris took place at the New Cemetery at Wrexham on Wednesday, amid universal signs of regret. MAY 7, 1890. NOTES. BALA BOOKBINDER'S MARK.—The other day, in examining the volumes of the original edition, in 3 vols., of " Myvyrian Archaeology," belonging to Harvard College Library, Cambridge, U.S.A., I noticed that all the volumes were loose in the covers, and on the back of each was neatly written in ink the following :— William Evans, Bookbinder, Bala, Merionethshire, North Wales, 1842. Evidently it was the custom of this bookbinder to so mark all his books before inserting them in their respective covers, and to leave on record that there was at least one Welsh bookbinder who believed in absolutely untrimmed edges. K.B.N.Y. A CURIOUS LETTER.—The following is a copy of letter found in the gallery of Llansilin Church during the restoration, in March, 1890. Llax. Sir,—Whereas I desired your and your Brother's good Companies to dinner on ffridaynext; I shall desire you will make choice of some other day to come and dine with mee, what day in the beeginnmge of the next weeke you please, In regard the next ffriday is our ffast day, which I was ignorant of when I envited you. I assure you vee shall bee most wellcome to mee at^ all times. I remaine Your affectionate ffriende John Watts Aug 6th 1045. For my very good ffriende Mr Jarvis, Minister of Llansillin, &c. ROGER SALUSBURY OF BOREYATE, HANTS.—I was asked by an American gentleman, in the year 1880, if I could give him some informa¬ tion about a Roger Salusbury, who dwelt in Hampshire at the close of the fifteenth century, and who was supposed to have been a grandson of old Thomas Salusbury of Lleweni. I found on enquiry that Henry Salusbury of Llanrhaiader, the second son of old Thomas, had a son named Roger, who was said to have been killed at the battle of Mortimer's Cross, when fighting there, on the Yorkist side, but there was nothing more said about him in any of the Salisbury pedigrees I had seen, and I could not, therefore, render my American friend much useful help. To-day, however, I have had put into my hands a document showing that Roger Salisbury, a Denbighshire man, was living at Boreyate, Hampshire, in the year 1483, and that Wynamer Forster, and John Bryggs, of that place, had granted to him, in that year, a messuage situate in that place ; and it is suggested to me that this is the gentleman enquired about in 1880. There is no doubt that Henry Salisbury, of Llanrhaiader, was a Yorkist, and had fought, as such, at Barnet in 1471, and I find this note in a book, now before me, relating to his son, Roger, " He was like his father, perverse : whilst they (his relations) fought and bled on one side in a quarrel, he fought and bled on the other," and it is not unlikely, therefore, that the Roger, who is said to have been killed at Mortimer's Cross, may have escaped with his life, and had then settled far away from his Denbighshire relations, who were almost without exception, Lancastrians. If any of your readers can throw further light upon this matter I shall be obliged to them. It appears that Roger Salusbury, of Boreyate, had a son William, who was living there in 1495, and to whom " John Ball of Lynford, on the 14th of February, in that year, undertook by a bond to pay annually 40d. during the life of Alice Creke." I refer to William Salisbury, who, if a grandson of Henry of Llanrhaiadr, may have had some connec¬ tion with a Sylvester Salisbury, of Catskill, in the State of New York, and about whom some en¬ quiries were made, some years ago, in Bye-Oones. It is necessary to refer to that incident, because Henry Salisbury's son, Roger, was his second son,