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Aug. 6, 1890. BYE-GONES. 429 were borne on the seal of Hawise, wife of Griffin ap Wenwynwyn, who was the grandson of Owen Cyfeiliog, the founder of Abbey Strata Marcella. She died 1310, and doubtless was a benefactor of the Abbey. Our operations on the site of the Abbey have given indications which encourage us to persevere to make a complete exploration of the site of the Abbey, by clearing away the depth of two or three feet of debris which now obscure its remains. It is intended to form a committee to conduct the more extensive and systematic operations that will be necessary, and the following gentlemen have signified their assent to act upon such committee :— The Ven. Archdeacon Thomas, F.S.A., the Rev. Grimaldi Davis, vicar of Welshpool, Mr VV. Forrester Addie, Dr Gill, and Mr C. E. Howell, and we invite all who are interested in such subjects to join the Committee, and give their assistance. It is thought that the expenditure of £100 would go far to effect the object in view, and an endeavour will be made to raise that sum, and as soon as we see our way to £50, to commence upon excavating and investigating the eastern end of the Abbey Church,where we may expect to make interesting discoveries. A gentleman (MrC. E. Twentyman of Castlecroft, Wolverhampton) has spontaneously offered £5 to the fund, and I am willing to give the like amount, as a commencement. Our week's work has necessarily left the surface of the ground in disorder, and we are under great obligation to the noble owner and the worthy ten¬ ant for their permission to make the trial. In re¬ turn fortheir kind consideration,we feel boundeither to commence our further operations with as little delay as possible, or to restore the surface to some¬ thing like its former state. Early communications will therefore be thankfully received by Morris C. Joxes. Gungrog, near Welshpool. AUGUST 6, 1890. NOTES. PRICES OF WELSH LITERATURE IN AMERICA.—In the magnificent collection of Americana, belonging to the late Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, of New York, which were sold by auction last February, and realized over £16,000, were the following items of Welsh inte¬ rest, with the prices they fetched:—Beatty's Journal of a Two Months' Tour, London, 1768, \t S" > C*1*"8 book contains a few particulars of Madoc's supposed discovery of America). Cotton's lhe Bloudy Tenent, toashed and made white in the -t/amfee, whereunto is added a reply to Mr [Roger] Williams' answer to Mr Cotton's Letter, London, 1647, £8. Morgan Edwards's Materials towards a History of the American Baptists in Pennsylvania and Jersey, 2 vols, Philadelphia, 1770-1792, £5 4s. IMorgan Edwards was born at Trevethin, Mon¬ mouthshire, May 9, 1722. His works on American Baptists are authorities and very scarce.) Arise Evans's The Bloudy Vision of John Farly, inter¬ preted by Arise Evans, printed in the year 1653, £2 8s. The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, by Wil¬ liam Wynne, 2 vols., folio, London, 1724, 8s. Publications of the Nanagansett Club [containing Roger Williams's writings], 6 vols. 4to., Provi¬ dence, 1866-74, £3. Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, New York, 1776, 2s. Prime's Muscipula Camoromyomachia, New York, 1840, 2s. Stiles's Bunding, its Origin, Pro¬ gress, and Decline in America, Albany, 1871, 18s. (In this work Mr Stiles draws largely on Wales for authorities.) William Vaughan's The Golden Fleece, London, 1626, £6. Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America, London, 1643, £32. Reprint, Providence, 1827, 8s. Roger Williams's The Bloudy Tenent yet More Bloudy, London, 1652, £44. Roger Williams's Experi¬ ments of Spiritual Life and Health, London, 1652, £28. Reprint, Providence, 1863, 8s. Romeo Elton's Life of Roger Williams, Providence, 1853, 2s. H.B.N.Y. QUERIES. COWRT SHET.—The following advertisement appeared in recent issues of the Oswestry and Border Cotmties Advertizer :—"Evan Morris will Show the Stray Sheep of the ' Cowrt Shet,' as usual, at Llanarmon D.C., on the Saturday after the Second Friday in July." What is meant by the term " Cowrt Shet "? T.H.J. DIC SPOT.—In the Rev. T. H. Evans's inter¬ esting " History of the Parish of Llanwddyn," published in the Montgomeryshire Collections, we are told that a very mischievous goblin named "Yspryd Cynon" was "put down by 'Die Spot,' and put in a quill, and placed under a large stone in the river." Is this " Die Spot" the cele¬ brated Shropshire conjuror, who died in 1793, and was buried at Oswestry ? M. PLACE NAMES.— LLYNCLYS.— In a paper on " Some Traditions Relating to the Submersion of Ancient Cities," by Bishop Thirl wall, published in his collected Essays, Speeches, &c, we read— " When the bishops Germanus and Lupus came over to combat the Pelagian heresy, they were re¬ sisted and reviled by a wealthy man in the neigh¬ bourhood of Oswestry. But shortly after his stately mansion was swallowed up in a pool, which preserves the record of the event in its name." In a note the Bishop refers to Theophilus Evans's Drych y Prif Oesoedd, p. 144. What have your readers to say of the suggestion that the pool in its name retains the record of the event ? Theophilus Evans is scarcely worthy of attention as a philologist, and I am surprised that Thirlwall should have quoted him, if, as I suppose, it is he who gives the derivation of the name. W.O.