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June 3, 1891. BYE-GONES. 95 the old charter. Preaching in the parish church on Sunday, the Rector of Montgomery, the Rev F. W. Parker, made a suitable reference to Mr Lloyd's death, mentioning incidentally that in a little more than a third of the year the deaths in the parish had reached the average annual death rate. The remains were yesterday buried in the family vault on the east side of the parish church of Montgomery. JUNE 3, 1891. NOTES. MARK TREVOR OF BRYNKYNALT AND CROMWELL.—AN INCIDENT AT THE BAT¬ TLE OF MARSTON MOOR.—" Cromwell's own division was hotly charged in front and flank by Rupert's cavalry and driven back, and, though they returned to the attack, again were repulsed by Rupert's own Life-guards ; but the Ironsides and their fellow-men pressed hard and Rupert's soldiers were forced apart, when Orandison with his horse appeared in the gap, and once more severe fight¬ ing ensued. The struggle at this point was simply awful. The troopers on both sides first discharged their pistols and then, flinging them at each other's heads, fell to it with their swords. Cromwell himself got a wound in the neck which startled his men. 'A miss is as good as a mile,' he was heard to say, and onward he rode. It has hitherto been said that he was grazed by a pistol shot, but it ivas a sword-wound which he received, audit was inflicted by the hand of Mr Mark Trevor. Though at first Cromwell treated it with con¬ tempt, blood began to flow so freely that he fell sick and halted, and some one led him off the field to a house in Tockwith where the bleeding was staunched and his wound dressed, and where it would seem he rested awhile." " This Mark Trevor was of the family of Trevor of Brynkynalt, Esquires, and he was created by Charles II. Viscount of Dungannon and Baron of Rose Trevor, in Ireland, as a reward for his sevices at the battle of MarstonMoor " (Harl. MSS. 4, 181-58 L, fol. 20). The foregoing is an extract from an article on " The Battle of Marston Moor," in the 11th vol. of " The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal" (p. 287). It gives an account of the special services rendered by Col. Mark Trevor, which led to his being raised by Charles II. to the peerage, which we have not seen elsewhere. Y. FUNERAL CUSTOMS (May 27,1891).—LLAN- SANTFFRAID, MONTGOMERYSHIRE. — In past years funeral customs were very different from what they are now. In those good old times every head of a household would make an endeavour to attend a parishioner's funeral, and it was no unusual thing to see a hundred or more individuals present to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of a deceased inhabitant. It was invari¬ ably the custom, when the deceased was brought from the lower end of the village, or the other side of the river Vyrnwy, in Deytheur Hundred, for the funeral procession to wend its way up the field which is in front of the Vicarage. It was also usual until lately for one often to hear this field called by its original name, " Cae Cyrph," and the gate which then was at the entrance from the turnpike road was called " Llidiart y Corph." Through this gate the entrance was made, and the whole procession would sing psalms and hymns suitable to the occasion all the way up the field, the route being along a certain embankment of the field, plainly distinguishable to this day. I very well recollect the last funeral going this way. I also remember the members of the procession singing hymns on their way with the remains to their silent abode. I may mention that it was at the funeral of Mr Richard Jones of Yr Hen Ty Bont, and he expressed a wish that when his dissolution oc¬ curred the friends gathered together at his funeral would take his remains by that ancient pathway, which was duly fulfilled according to his wish. I see by inscriptions on some of the gravestones that several of the inhabitants lived to great ages,which speaks volumes for the healthfulness of the parish. I notice that two inhabitants died at the great age of 96 years, one at 94, one also at 93, one at 92, one at 91, two at 90 years. I may also mention an aged couple who lived together man and wife for the long space of sixty-five years, and very strange to narrate, both died in the same month—February— of the same year ; one was 90 years of age, and the other 89. The old gentleman's name was John Davies of Pen Capel, a good, old-fashioned, quiet inhabitant of the village for very many years. He used to be a bellringer at the Church, and his serviceswere often called into request in those good by-gone times. The old ringer in questien was the leader of his two comrades, and used to be delighted with his post. He used to give the signal to clam the bells together—" All around the Voil." ______ A.D. QUERIES. FOLK-LORE.—A man living in the neighbour¬ hood of Oswesbry said to me the other day—"Ah, I knew we should have snow in May, for it snowed on Good Friday." This is the first time I have heard this bit of folk-lore. Is it common in Shropshire or Wales ? B.H. CHURCH ARMOUR.—I shall be much obliged for the names of Churches where Crusaders' Hel mets are still to be seen, especially of any where the Helmets are still surmounted by their ancient Crests. Fanny Bulkeley-Owen. Tedsmore, West Felton, Oswestry. TRIBUTARIES OF THE SEVERN.—Between Welshpool and Newtown several tributaries fall into the Severn, some on each side, commencing at Welshpool, going up the valley. There is the Luggy, and the Kemlet, and the Bhiew, then the