Welsh Journals

336 BYE-GONES. July 7, 1892. The Bishop of Lichfield has presented the Rev. C. E. L. Wightman, M.A., of Shrewsbury, to a prebendal stall in Lichfield Cathedral.—Feb. 24. The Rev J. R. D. Tompson, M.A., has been pre¬ sented to the Vicarage of Burrington, Ludlow.— March 9. The Bishop of St. Asaph has appointed the Rev S. Reed, rector of Llanerfyl, to be Kural Dean for the Deanery of Caereinion. The Bishop of St. Asaph has presented the Rev. John Evans to the vicarage of Glyndyfrdwy.— March 18. The rectory of Soham-Toney, Norfolk, has been conferred upon the Rev Ambrose Short, vicar of Bodicote, formerly Head Master of Oswestry School. The living is in the gift of New College, Oxford, of which Mr Short was once a Fellow.—March 23. The Bishop of .Bangor has appointed the Rev Henry Rees, vicar of Conway, to the precentorship of Bangor Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev Humphrey Hill, D.D.—April 27. The Bishop of St. Asaph has appointed the Rev. D. Grimaldi Davis, Vicar ot Welshpool, to be Rural Dean of Pool in succession to the late Rev. D. Phillips Lewis, rector of Llandrinio. The news of this preferment will be well received in the Deanery, where Mr Davis is popular with clergy and laity. The Rev. Hugh Roberts, vicar of Brymbo, has been appointed by the Bishop of St. Asaph to the cursal canonry of David ap^Howell in St. Asaph Cathedral. The Bishop of St. Asaph has appointed the Rev. Daniel Edwards, rector of Bala, to the Vicarage of Rhyl, vacant by the death of the Rev. Canon Howell Evans, M. A. The valuable living of Richard's Castle, near Ludlow, which has become vacant by the resig¬ nation of the Rev G. Maddison, late Archdeacon of Ludlow, has been offered by the Bishop of Worcester to the Venerable Archdeacon Walters, of Pershore. The Rev A. P. Holme, rector of Tattenhall, and rural dean of Malpas, has been presented to the Vicarage of Great Budworth; and the Rev F. C. Royds, rector of Coddington, Chester, has been appointed rural dean of Malpas. The Bishop of St. Asaph has appointed the Rev W. D. Owen, vicar of Gwernaffield, to be Rural Dean of Mold, in succession to the Rev Stephen Gladstone, who is retiring from the office. Mr Owen is well known and much respected amongst the clergy, and has considerable experience, hav¬ ing spent some eighteen years in the deanery. He is a moderate High Churchman and a suc¬ cessful parish clergyman. The Bishop of St. Asaph has presented the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas, Vicar of Meifod, to the Rectory of Llandrinio, vacant by the death of the Rev D. Phillips Lewis, Rural Dean. Crockford gives the value of the rectory of Llandrinio at £637 gross, and of the Vicarage of Meifod at £402 net and a house.—May 18. The Rev Joshua Jones has been appointed rector of Llangower, near Bala. The Ven. Archdeacon Walters has accepted the rectory of Richard's Castle, Ludlow. The Bishop of St. Asaph has appointed to the rectory of Llanycil-cum-Bala, the Rev Thomas Lloyd Lewis Williams, vicar choral of St. Asaph and canon missioner of the diocese. Mr Williams is a High Churchman with broad sympathies, and an excellent linguist. He graduated in honours at Jesus College, Oxford, where he was a scholar and exhibitioner, and was ordained to the curacy of Whittington.—June 1. The Rev D. C. Jones, of Llangollen, has been pre¬ ferred by the Lord Bishop of St Asaph to the living of Llangadfan in Montgomeryshire. The Rt Rev Sir L. T. Stamer, D.D., Bishop of Shrewsbury (Anglican), has been presented to the Vicarage of St Chad's, Shrewsbury.—June 29. JULY 6, 1892. NOTES. EASTER COMMUNICANTS IN THE LAST CENTURY.—The Rev T. H. Lloyd, vicar of Llansantffraid-yn-Mechain, lately discovered on an old disused Welsh Prayer-Book a list of com¬ municants in that church in the last century. A portion ef the cover to the prayer-book had pasted on its inside a letter which had on its back a record of the choir attendances in 1836. On partially dislodging this letter it was seen that the prayer- book had entries on the cover, and I copied a few of these as being curious evidences of the past history of the church in that parish. Thus, I find the following numbers of communicants in the following years in that parish :— 1757—Xmas 80. 1758—Ebrill 158. 1759—Easter Day 214. 1760—Easter Eve 53. Easter 140. I do not know what proportion these numbers bore to the then population, nor do I know the present number of communicants, but I send this note as a bit of Bye-Gone information. There is a strange mixture of languages in these entries, shewing that thus early English and Welsh were spoken in the parish. 8.0.