Welsh Journals

414] BYE-GONES. Aug. 5, 1896. by Mr Herbert Lewis. In the whole of England and in five of the counties of Wales a qualification of £100 a year in land is re- Suisite for Commissioners of Land Tax, but in ardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Montgomery, Monmouth, Pembroke, and Radnor no property qualification is required. Why Anglesey, Brecknock, Carnarvon, Denbigh, and Flint should differ from the other counties of Wales, and why those other counties should be exempt, no one knows, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer can throw no light on the subject. It is an interesting archaeological ques¬ tion, and deserving of research. In reply to Mr Lewis, Sir M. Hicks-Beach said he did not pro¬ pose to abolish the qualification where it now existed. AUGUST 5, 1896. NOTES. OSWESTRY PUNISHMENT SIXTY YEARS AGO.—1 have just been speaking to a gentleman who was born in Oswestry in 1823, who has left the town very many years. He recalled as crossing the Bailey Head the fact that about the year 1832 he saw a man stripped and tied to the railings in front of the Guild Hall and flogged by the Town Crier. He could not recollect the offence of which the man had been convicted. He says that the late Dr. Cartwright, as medical officer, had to stand by to see that the punishment was properly inflicted. J. P.-J. SHROPSHIRE WORDS AND PHRASES (Oct. 9, 1895). Roble, a sorb of rake. Hartshorne says, "I never heard it in this sense but once, and then it was used at a mill, under the south side of the Wrekin, to describe an instrument with which oats are stirred in an oven." (Salopia Antigua, 1841, page 549). Widdershins.—Miss Burne heard from an in¬ formant at Gondover that if you see a magpie flying in the contrary direction to the sun you must throw something at it, and say " Bad luck to the bird that goes widdershins." She adds, " A single instance, so far as we know, of this word, in Shropshire." {Shropshire Folk Lore, 1883, page 223.) Sangered, suffused with blood. I have only heard this word in the extreme east of Shrop¬ shire, and should be glad to know of any other instances of its use. R.E.D. Shrewsbury. EARLY LEAVES IN THE MALLWYD PARISH REGISTERS Continued.—{July 1, 1896.)- Ano D'ni 1571. Item Jane Vergh Gruff ap Robert was christened the xxviijth day of M'rche. Item Hughe ap Richard ap David was christened the first day of April. Item Morice ap Thomas Vaughan & Will'm ap Thomas Vaughan was christened the xjth day of April. Item Morice ap R's wyn was buried the vjth day of May. Item Margarete vz Dauid ap Dauid was chris¬ tened the said day. Item Ieuan ap Dauid lloyd was buryed the xiijth day of May. Item Margarete vz leuan ap David bengrych was christened the said day and yere aboue sayd. Item y Teg ap ll'n ap R's was buried the xviijth day of May the yere aboue sayd. Item Howell ap R's ap Gyttonyn was christened the xxiiijth day of May the yere aboue said. Item Dauid ap Ieuan ap Dauid was christened the xvth day of June the yere aboue said. Item Alson vz David ap Morice was christened the said day. Item Ieuan ap Dauid lloyd ap Thomas was christened the xxvijth day of June. Item Hughe ap Morice ap Dauid Vych'n was christened the first day of July. Item Will'm ap John and Ellin vz Gruff ap R's was wedded the xxviijth day of July the yere aboue saide. Item Ieuan ap Robert ap howell ap Ynyr was christened the xixtu day of August. Item Mabley vz Thomas lloyd clerk vz person y Kemes was christened the second day of Sep¬ tember. Item John ap Thomas ap Owen Bedo & Katharine vz Dauid ap Ieuan ap Owen was wedded the xvth day of September. Item David ap Lewis ap Gl'm and Jane vz Gruff ap hughe was wedded the xxvijth day of September. Item James ap Morice ap Ieuan lloyd & Jonet vz Ieuan ap Ric' was wedded the sayd day. Item Robert ap Thomas ap hughe ap Ieuan Duy was christened the said day. Itm Humffrey ap David ap ll'n and Mary vz Owen Dd ap Owen waa wedded the xiijth day of October. Item Ellisey ap Lewes ap Ieuan ap Gruff & Mary vz Ieuan ap Jenkin was wedded the vjth day of October. Item Ieuan David ap Ellisey was christened the xxviijth day of October. Item Rees ap Ieuan ap Robert was christened the second day of November ao D'ni vt sup. Itm Ieuan Dauid & Agnes vz Dauid ap Rees was wedded the first day of December ao D'ni vt sup. Item Owen ap Dauid lloid ap David ap John was christened the xxvth day of December. Itm Ieuan ap Robert ap Howell Velyn was christened the xxvjth day of December. Item Ieuan lloyd ap Dauid ap Bedo was buried the xiijth day of January. Itm Richard ap Eliza ap Lewis wag christened the said day. Item Katharine vz humffrey ap Ieuan was christened the said day. Item Elizabeth vz Rees the wief of Owen Dauid ap Ric' was buried the xth day of January. Item Lowry vz Ieuan wief to Dauid ap Gruff was buryed the vij day of January.