Welsh Journals

472 BYE-GONES. Sep. 7, 1898. The death is announced of Mr Thomas Arch, of Great Abbey Farm, Strata Florida, cousin of Mr Joseph Arch, M.P. Mr Arch was one of the largestand most enterprising farmers in Cardigan¬ shire. He was for many years a member of the Tregaron Board of Guardians and of other public bodies in the district. The will of Emma Maria, Lady Forester, widow of the Rev Orlando Watkin Weld, Lord Forester of Willey Lodge, Tunbridge Wells, who died on June 24, was proved on August 11, the value of the estate being £13,053. The testatrix bequeaths £250 to Mr Deacon, and legacies to servants. The residue of her property she leaves to her son, the Hon. Orlando St. Maur Forester. A massive granite Celtic cross, with runic in¬ scriptions, has been placed on the grave of the late Sir G. Osborne Morgan, Bart., in Llan- tysilio Churchyard. The base of the monument is inscribed:—"George Osborne Morgan, member of the Privy Council, Queen's Counsel, for twenty- nine years member of Parliament for Denbigh¬ shire; born 1826, died 1897. Faithful unto death." News has been received of the death of Dr Pryce E. Davies, eldest son of Mr Pryce Davies, Tre- mynfa, Llanidloes, which took place on July 19, on board the sailing ship " Dardanus," on a voy¬ age to Japan. Dr Davies, who was thirty years of age, was educated at Towyn and Borth, completing his education at Taunton College. He obtained his degree in 1891, and was appointed house sur¬ geon and house physician at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. Twelve months later he was appointed surgeon on the S.S. Locksley Hall, on a voyage to India. The voyage was taken with the object of recruiting his health, and Dr Davies had been con¬ siderably benefitted by it. In J uly, 1893, Dr Davies was appointed house surgeon at the General In¬ firmary and Hospital for Children, Kidderminster, which appointment he held for four years, and which he was compelled on account of failing health, to relinquish in October last. The executor of the will of Mrs Jane Anne Pryce, of Maesmawr Hall, Caersws, widow, who died on the 5th January last, is the Bev John Allin, of Onibury Rectory, to whom probate has been granted, power being reserved to make a like grant to Mr Thomas Pugh Beddoes of Aber¬ ystwyth, surgeon, the other executor named in the will. The net value of the personal estate has been entered at £932 18s Id, and the gross value of the whole of her estate at £21,101 3s lOd. The testatrix desired to be buried with her own people at Llandinam Church, and that the re¬ mains of her husband, which were buried in Bettws Churchyard, should be removed and placed at her side in her own grave. She wished her trustees to have a stained-glass window placed in Llandinam Church in memory of herself, and to defray the cost of the removal of her husband's body and the window out of the estate. Mrs Pryce left to Mr Oftley Stuart Crewe-Read a legacy of £200; to Mr Ofiiey John Crewe-Read, £100; to Mr Herbert Davies, £100; to her servant, Sarah Walker, if in her service at her death, £50; to Mr Charles Joseph Davies, £25; to Clara Davies, £25; to Mr George Edwardes Jones, of 11, King's Bench Walk, Temple, £25; and to her executors £25 each if they should prove her will. She also gave an annuity of £13 to Mr Samuel Kinsey the younger, of Maesmawr Hall, and in the event of Mr Samuel Kinsey's father predeceasing the testatrix such annuity was to be increased to the extent of £26 in addition to the £13. The testatrix left her valuable collection of Brussels and guipure lace equally between Eliza Jane Pryce and Eliza Pryce, and all her wearing apparel to the said Sarah Walker, in addition to the legacy of £50. The residue of her estate she left in trust for Mr Herbert Davies. bEPriiMBJtJK 7, 1893. NOTES. SWINNERTON'S CHARITY, OSWESTRY. —The following extract from a manuscript report on Oswestry charities throws light upon the manner in which the charities were dealt with during the past century :— Sir John Swinnerton by will in 1616, charged his lands to pay £5 4s for bread, which by the sale of lands was increased to £7 4s per annum. In 1767 this was represented by £120 placed out on Turn¬ pike security. From the minutes entered in the Vestry Book, and from the accounts, it appears that in 1781 this money was called in for the pur¬ pose of enabling the town to purchase and repair certain premises adjoining the churchyard in¬ tended for a Workhouse. The money was pro¬ bably applied accordingly; but in 1808 the Work¬ house was sold for £280 by the Directors of the Oswestry House of Industry under the powers given to them by an Act of Parliament passed 31 Geo. III. We are informed, however, that the pro¬ duce of this sale was not added to the funds of the House of Industry, but was applied in obtain¬ ing an Act of Parliament for lighting and paving the town of Oswestry. From the preceding state¬ ment it appears that the inhabitants of the town of Oswestry have appropriated to their own use a sum of £120 applicable to charitable uses without making to the poor any compensation in lieu thereof. J. P.-J. A WONDERFUL OLD WOMAN OF LLAN- SILIN. Continued (Aug. 31, 1898) :— Her mother, Jane Lloyd, was married at twenty years of age to one Evan Morgan, an able Farmer's son, who was the activ'st and strong'st in his country at wrestling. But at a certain Tryal of skill, when he had foil'd all the Neighbours and strangers too, she put on Man's apparel, entered the round, and gave him three Falls, upon which She bore away the little Silver Bell that was the Conqueror's due. But upon enquiry who this valiant stranger was, the young man fell so deeply in love with her, that maugre all his Friends hee married her, and lived with her Forty-five years before she was mature for conception. About the sixty-sixth year of her Age she brought forth her first Born, a Daughter, who did not conceive till the Fifty-Fifth year of her age. Many Masculine and Heroick acts did this Virago Mother do and