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304 BYE-GONES. Mar. 2, 1898. other. The Life of Twm Shon Catti contains a large amount of information on the old customs of the Welsh. Boxwm. Some years ago I bought a copy of Twm Shon Catti from a second hand stall in Edinburgh,and I have it still, though I have not read it. If Anglo-Saxon would like to read it, I will lend it on receipt of his name and address. Trimpley, Ellesmere. VV. Lloyd. CUB RENT NOTES. At Messrs Sotheby's rooms in London last week, a Charles I. Shrewsbury half-pound piece, 1642, was sold by auction for £5 7s 6d. With the exception of a very slight fall two or three weeks ago, the first snow of the winter came on Friday. Other falls have followed, with frost at night, and for the first time this winter the ground has been white with snow. The death occurred suddenly at Bath, on Mon¬ day week, of Dr. Eadson of Pontesbury. Dr. Eadson was highly esteemed in the neighbour¬ hood of Pontesbury, and a testimonial was being raised in the district for presentation to him. The death is announced of the Rev Shem Phillips, a well-known Welsh Congregational minister of Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Mr Phillips was among the first students trained at the Brecon Memorial College after the removal of that institution to Brecon. The death took place last week, at the age of 84, of the Rev Hugh Hughes of Gellidara, Pwllheli, senior minister of the Lleyn and Eifionydd Presbytery, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association. His son, Mr H. Ariander Hughes, is the secretary of the Blaenau Festiniog National Eisteddfod. Mr David Roberts, of Trawscoed House, Llan¬ dudno, died suddenly yesterday week at the age of 75. Mr Roberts, who was a retired builder and contractor, went to Llandudno over 50 years ago, and was among the first builders to erect lodging-houses there. He had been a member of the old Board of the Town Improvement Com¬ missioners. He was an ardent Liberal, a promi¬ nent member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, and a poet and hymn-writer, being known in Welsh bardic circles a3 " Boreufardd." He was the father-in-law of Mr Carleton Grant, of Oxford, the well-known artist. MARCH 2, 1893. NOTES. SOUTHEY TO LORD KENYON.- KENYON M8S. Continued (Feb. 16, 1898.) Robert Southey to Lord Kenion. 1836, September 21. Keswick.—" If no mishap should intervene, I hope to leave home on Mon¬ day, the 17th of October, and to reach Gredington on the Wednesday following; Frilay, to pay my respects to Mr Parker, and on Saturday to halt with my son-in-law's parents at Crickhowel (?). W e are bound for Bristol and the West of England. I wish to show my son what no one else can show him—the scenes of my childhood and youth, and to introduce him to a few old and dear friends, whom it is most likely I may never again visit in this world, and whom hereafter he will be glad to ha"e seen. To lay up stores for memory, is the next best thing to laying up treasures in heaven." Seal of Arms. Holograph. Ed. RICHARD BAXTER ON THE WREKIN. —Many Salopians must often think of the early ministry of Richard Baxter in Bridgnorth ; but even they may forget that by his birth he is one of the worthies of our county. " My father's name," his famous autobiography begins, " was Richard (theson of Richard) Baxter. His Habi¬ tation and Estate at a village called Easton- Constantine, a mile from the Wrekin-Hill." Then he tells how he was born at " Rowton, a village near High-Ercall, the Lord Newport's seat," and that he lived there with his grand¬ father for ten years, before he was taken home. We may associate Baxter with the Wrekin itself still more closely. In a treatise on "Patient Obedience," written as were all his 112 jvorks in his later years, after his deprivation, are these simple and touching words :— When I was young, I was wont to go up the Wrekin Hill with great pleasure (being near my dwelling) and to look down on the country before me and see the villages as little things ; but when I was weak with age and sickness the last time I went up, if I did but cast my eye downwards, my spirits failed, and I was ready to fall down in sud¬ den death. T.G. DOLUWCHEOGRYD, NEAR DOLGELLEY. Continued (Feb. 9, 1898).—There is one part of the old mansion more modern than the one that was built in 1596, on the front of which, and also on the stables, we find the following letters: — W. V. E*qr 1763 He was William Vaughan of Corsygedol, who married Catherine, daughter of Col. Hugh Nanney of Nannau, who was a grandson to Gruffydd Nannau, who built Doluwcheogryd in 1596. He represented the county in Parliament from 1734 up to 1768. His Welsh address to the electors in the year 1747, which appears in the Calendars of Owynedd, is most interesting. William Vaughan was highly respected by all Welshmen as the founder of the Welsh Society of Cymmrodorion. He was also the friend and supporter of the Morrisiaid o Fon, Goronwy Owen, &c. He built the Apollo, an ornamented