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446 BYE-GONES. Oct. 7 1896. Church, which contains a fine fifteenth century rood-screen. Peniarth was next visitecb, where Mr Wynne kindly and thoughtfully invited the members to afternoon tea. The famous library was afterwards examined. In the evening the general meeting of the Association was held, the officers appointed for the following year, and the vacancies created on the Council by the retirement in rotation of three of its members filled by the election of Mr Egerton Phillimore, Mr T. Mansel Franklen, of St. Hilary, and the Rev Llewellyn Thomas, of Jesus College, Oxford. An appeal for funds towards the expenses incident to the publication of the great archaeological survey of Wales that the Associa¬ tion has undertaken met with the most gratify ing support, and the survey of Pembrokeshire will be proceeded with with the utmost despatch. Mr Henry Owen has expressed his readiness tc print the bibliography of the county which he has himself compiled, as an appendix to the sur¬ vey, at his own expense,so that the Association might be able to present a copy to every sub¬ scriber to the entire survey. It will also be solo to those who do not desire to possess the archaeo¬ logical portion ; but it is to be hoped everyone who can afford the expense will accept the well- intentioned advice to send in their names for the whole publication, which will become in¬ creasingly valuable as time goes on. It may be observed that the Pembrokeshire survey will far surpass every other county survey, not only in the larger scale upon which it will be produced, but in its completeness. The locale of the meeting for 1897 was fixed at Haverford¬ west. An accident that, happily, was attended with no serious consequences occurred during the drive from Llanegryn Church to Peniarth. The hind wheel of one of the carriages, in which were Mr F. Penrose, the president of the Society of British Architects, Mr J. E. Rogers of Aber- meurig, Colonel Morgan of Swansea, and two other gentlemen, came off when the vehicle was going down a steep declivity. The horse, fortun¬ ately, stood still, and the occupants escaped with no more than a severe shaking. The final excursion of the Society took place on Friday, Sept. 11, when the members skirted the shores of Cardigan Bay in a southerly direction. The weather was most unpropitious, so that some items of the programme had to be omitted. The churches visited were those of Llamantffraid, Llanddewi-Aberarth, and Llanrhystyd. The unfavourable weather made it impossible to take in Henfynyw, dedicated to Non, the mother of St David. Llanddewi-Aberarth has a fine tower of the type so common to the western parts of Wales, 'that lay open to tudden incursions. During its restoration, about forty years ago, a number of inscribed stones were discovered bu lfc into the walls, but they are, unfortunately, much mutilated. On3 fragment contains the letters cen, which from their context, Principal Rhys conjectures to be a portion of the personal name Concenn. The later form would be Cincen- Cyngen, and the Principal states that this spell¬ ing is first met with about ths year 815. It will be remembered that one side of the Cadvan Stone at Towyn bears the woids Cingen cehn,\vh.ei>..< oommemorative of an individual of the name of Cyngen, would make the whole of that inscrip tion of the ninth or tenth centuries, or even later. Llanrhystyd church, which has been subjected to drastic modern restoration, now possesses no fea¬ tures of particular interest. At the time of Leland's journey through the county the remain <> existed of considerable buildings which were sup¬ posed to have once been a nunnery, but no le- cords have been found to sustain the conjecture. Mention is made in the "Brut y Tywysogion,"' under the year 938, of a descent of the Danes upon this place, a visitation that must only havj been too common along the seaboard of Card gan- shire. In the evening the members of the As?ocia- tion attended a conversazione in the fine recep¬ tion room of the University College, on the invi¬ tation of the Mayor and Corporation. There was a large attendance, and the proceedings were enlivened by much pleasant conversation inter¬ spersed with music. The customary votes of thanks to those who had rendered service to the Association during the week were cordially passed, and brought the meeting of 1895 to a successful close. Special mention should be made of the untiring labours and never-failing eour- tesy of one of the honorary local secretaries, Mr David Samuel, M.A., upon whom fell the work of organising and carrying out the multifarious arrangements connected with the meetings. OCTOBER 7, 1896. NOTES. THE L'ESTRANGE FAMILY.—A writer in the Daily Mail, recently, describing the ancient village of Hunstanton, has the following interesting paragraph relating to this old Shrop¬ shire family : — Then there is the old Hall, dating from the end of the loth century, and built by Roger Le Strange, a scion of the L'Estrange family who have been dwellers here since the time of the Norman Conquest. According to local _ lore one of the Le Stranges was a competitor in a tournament appointed by that historical personage Peveril of the Peak. In the noble old church hard by are many memorials of the family, one tomb bearing the epitaph :— In terris peregrinus eram, nunc incola Cceli, which has been translated into— In heaven at home, O blessed change, Who while I ^ as on earth was Strange. W.B. OLD WILLS.— Continued (May 20, 1896).— In the year 1639, administration was granted on the personal estate of Evan Lloyd of Llandderfel to Margaretta Morris, alias Lloyd. This was Evan Lloyd of Pale. He died 8th July, 1639, and was buried at Llandderfel; his wife was Margaret, ^aughter and Bole heiress of Maurice (Lord of