Welsh Journals

226 BYE-GONES. Dec. 4, 1895. more to be divided equally among their children, four in number. To his workmen he lefb £5 and a suit of clothes each ; £10 to his apprentice, with his watch and gold chain ; £10 to poor members of his congregation ; £20 to foreign missions ; £5 to his landlady, with the chair in which he used to sit, his pictures, and his clothes chest; £5 and the royalty derivable frem " Straeon y Pentan " for forty years to a friend. The residue of the personalty goes to his three nieces. We regret to record the death of Lord De Tabley, which took plape on Friday. Lord De Tabley. who was the third baron, unsuccessfully contested Mid-Cheshire as a Liberal in 1868, and succeeded his father in the title in 1867. His sister, the Hon. Eleanor Leicester,married in Jan., 1864, Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Barfc.2 of Loton. Lord De Tabley, who was endowed with great poetic gifts, was the author of " Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical," and other works. He was unmarried, and he is succeeded in his baronetcy, which was created in 1671, by Mr Peter Fleming Frederic Leicester, son of the late Rev F. Leicester, nephew of the first Lord De Tabley. By the death of Mr Daniel Howell on November 7, at Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A., disappears the last member of a remarkable Montgomeryshire family, several members of which by their energy and enterprise did much for the commercial develop¬ ment of North Wales, particularly of their native county. Mr Howell was the youngest of the ten sons—the family also included two daughters —of Mr William Howell, of Bont, Dol- fidfan, Llanbrynmair, his better known rothers who both died at an advanced age, being Mr Abraham Howell of Rhiewport, Welshpool, and Mr David Howell of Aberdovey .and Machynlleth. Mr Daniel Howell was born on August 12, 1824, and was in early life articled to Mr Yates, a land surveyor at Whittington. He left this country for the United States at the age ef twenty-five. The remains were interred at Woodlawn, Toledo. NOTICES OF BOOKS. The current Part of Archceologia Gambrensis ©pens with Notes upon some Bronze and Stone Weapons discovered in Wales. Several of them belong to Colonel Lloyd Verney of Clochfaen, and were found on Caban Coch Common, near Rhayader ; another was discovered in 1884 at Llanfor, Bala. When shall we have a Welsh Museum, where, it may be hoped, many posses¬ sors of interesting antiquities like these would willingly deposit them ? The other papers are " Flintshire Genealogical Notes" (continued), *' Discovery of the tombstone of Vortipore, Prince of Demetia, at Llanfallteg," and "Goide- lic words in Brythonic," by Professor Rhys, which occupies forty pages. In the Archaeolo¬ gical Notes it is recorded that oyster shells were almost universally used as lamps in Gower until forty or fifty years ago. They were simply fcharged with fab, pig-fab by preference, and the wick was a split and plaited rush or a twisted oi folded rag. Wales for November (Wrexham : Hughes and Son) devotes a good deal of attention to tho new University. In the opening paper, " A New Power in Wales," the members of the Guild of Graduates are exhorted to make use of their opportunities to develop thought and culture in Wales. In time there will be graduates all over the Principality, and if the Guild begins to work at once, and begins well, it may, indeed, become a new power in Wales. As to its duties, the writer says they are these :—1st, to meet; 2nd, to criticize (the proceedings of the Council and Senate); 3rd, to encourage and guide individual efforb. " Lecture rooms will in time be as plentiful as chapels in Wales, and the love for secular education as strong as the love for reli¬ gious instruction is to-day." There is also a description of " The University Week," and the University Court is described "from the Press Table." Another noteworthy paper is the firsb of a series on " Three Ancient Welsh Drinking Vessels," the Cup of Nant Eos, the Hirlas Horn of Golden Grove, and the Hirlas Horn of Cloch¬ faen. Of the Nant Eos Cup, which is said to be made out of a piece of the True Cross, two illustrations are given, one of the vessel when ib was entire thirty years ago, the other as it is now, after pieces have been taken out to keep as relics. Mr John Jones (Ivori), writing in Ysten Sioned, states that he went with his mule all the way from Monmouthshire to Nant Eos to borrow the cup for a sick woman, and after some demur it was lent, a watch worth £7 being left in pledge. It is related that John Roberts the harper (who died about two years ago), when once at Nant Eos, which he often visited, jeered at the cup and its alleged virtues, but he spent so bad a night in remorse at his conduct, that next day he returned from Aberystwyth, and asked to handle the sacred vessel. After spending somo time in gazing at it he wrote, " This cup was handled by John Roberts, Telynor Gymru, on the 4th of May, 1887. Mind completely ab ease." The Memoranda kepb by the butler at Nant Eos, here printed, relate a num¬ ber of cases, subsequently to 1857, in which the cup was borrowed, and the patient was usually cured. As late as 1887 there was a "wonderful DECEMBER 4, 1895. NOTES. SOME WELSH NOTABILITIES OF THE 16th CENTURY. (I.) DR. DAVID POWELL, VICAR OF RUABON, 1570-1598. Continued (Nov. 20,1895).—The following is an Elegiac Ode, in the common Cywydd metre, by Lewys Dwnn, Herald-Bard, on the occasion of the death of Dr. Powell of Ruabon, whowasoneof his manyfriends and patrons. The language of the composition expresses proper feelings of emotion and sorrow,