Welsh Journals

142 BYE-GONES. July 7, 1897. Cashel Cathedral, and, after holding several i curacies in Ireland, he was appointed minor canon and succentor of Llandaff Cathedral. In 1832 he was presented by Bishop Oliphant, to whom he acted as private secretary, to the vicar¬ age of Llandy3sil, Montgomeryshire, and in 1890 he succeeded the Rev John Williams as rector of Newtown. It is a coincidence chat a former vicar of Gresford, Dr Narcissus Marsh, became Bishop of Fern3 and Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, Archbishop of Dublin in 1694, and Arch¬ bishop of Armagh in 1702. The Archdeaconry of "Wrexham, vacant by the preferment of Dean Howell to St David's, hai been offered to, and accepted by, the Rev Chau- cellor Richardson, rector of Corwen. The new archdeacon intends to resign the rectory of Cor¬ wen, in order that he may have all hie time and energies for his new work. Chancellor Richardson is one of the oldest clergymen in the diocese, hav¬ ing been ordained in 1853, and he is a Welshman by birth, language, and sympathies. He was pre¬ sented to the rectory of Corwen in 1866, ap¬ pointed domestic chaplain to Viscount Hill in 1875, rural dean of Edeyrnion in 1881, and canon of St. Asaph and prebendarv of Llannefydd in 1892. From 1880 to 1892 he represented the diocose as Proctor in Convocation. The new Archdeacon is popular with all sections of his parishioners in Corwen.—June 2. Mr Jasper More, M.P., has presented the Rav R. Rslbon, M.A., to the rectory of Hope, Minsterley, and the rectory of Shelve. The Bishop of St. Asaph has made the following appointments :—The Rev Bulkeley Owen Jones, M.A., warden and vicar of Ruthin, to the vacant canonry of Llannefydd and chancellorship of the cathedral, the Rev LI. Wynne-Jones, M.A., rector of Llanymynech, to the vacant canonry of Adam Bekensall, and the Rev Joseph Dobell, M.A., vicar of Gwer3yllt, to the vacant canonry of Arturi Bulkeley. The Bishop of St. Asaph has also appointed the Rev J. Sculthorpe Lewis, M.A., vicar of Guibfield, to the rectory of New¬ town, Montgomeryshire, and the Rev Thomas Lloyd Lewi3 Williatn3, M.A., vicar choral of St. Asaph, to the rectory of Conven. All are men of long standing in the diocese, and nearly all took honours at Oxford or Cambridge. The Rev Canon Fletcher was instituted to a residentiary canonry in the cathedral on Monday. —June 16. The Rev J. Payne Gallway, rector of Kirby Knowle, near Thirsk, has accepted the living of Worthenbury.—June 23. JULY 7, 1897. NOTES. PENNANT.—Dr Barton, who edited the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, says he corresponded with Mr Pennant for some years. He dedicates his second parb of Vol. I. to David Pennant, the son. He was a professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania. N.W.T. RHYMES ON PLACE-NAMES.—Meeting the other day with a Montgomeryshire man, who, during the fifties had resided in Berriew, he in¬ cidentally related to me the following couplet from a rhyme on place-names in that parish, which he had heard when there:— Stingwern Fach a Stingwern Fawr, Bryncaemeisir, a'r Ty Mavvr. Can any correspondent furnish more ? It will be observed that, by a very slight alteration, the above may be read in either English or Welsh ; barring the names, of course. T.H.J. HALSTON.—It may be interesting to place the following facts on record in Bye-Gones : — Mytton died March 29th, 1834. Halston was then empty for one year. Capt. Hinds was the next tenant, then Col. Loftus of the Grenadier Guards, from 1840 to 1845. It was then empty for two years, when it was bought by the late Mr Wright's father at the following prices :— Lot I. £95,000; Lot II., £26,000 ; Lob 1IL (timber), £11,000. Mr Edmund Wrighb wa3 living ab Tedsmore Hall, 1848-9, removing bo Halsbon in 1850. The chapel vaulb conbains two coffins and eleven boxes, which conbain remains. D. AN INTERESTING BOOK IN OSWESTRY TOWN LIBRARY.—Acopyof Lord Brougham's novel, Albert Lunel, or the Chateau of Languedoc (3 vols.) is in bhe Oswesbry Town Library. The bible page contains the name of Charles Knight, as bhe publisher, and bhe dabe, 1844, and it is there¬ fore apparently the fir3t edition, bub bhe " end papers" conbain adverbisemenbs of novels pub¬ lished by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, of laber dabe than 1844. Lord Brougham, I believe, endeavoured bo collecb and de3broy all bhe copies, excepb a dozen in his own possession, and bhis is probably one bhab escaped, and was kepb in sheebs, and bound laber. D. BRIEFS, DUDLESTON CHURCH.-I take bhe followingfrom bheDudlestonParish Magazine, which pursues bhe excellenb course of publishing bhe conbenbs of the ancient registers and other ecclesiasbical documents connecbed wibn the parish :— Ed. Extract from the list of Briefs for the Parish of Dudleston between the years 1709 and 1719. (The word Brief, in our Prayer Book, is the expression for the " letters patent" of the Sovereign, authorizing a collection for some chari¬ table purpose. Now-a-days they would be called Queen s letters. They are directed to be read among the notices after the Nicene Creed. They I were very general in the seventeenth and eigh-