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42 BYE-GONES. April. 5, 1905. sent to assist Che local miagiBtriates. The Mold Yeomaniry were on duty for twelve days, as the following shows: — We, the undersigned Magistrates, acting in and for the County of Flint, do hereby certify that the Mold Yeomanry were assembled in aid of the civil power on the 7th day of March, and that the said troops were actually vnd necessarily required by the Civil Authorities to remain on duty from that date until March 18th, 1826. "\ Magistrates for the T. H. Clough I County of Flint ' Chas. B. Trevor Roper I residing at Hope in J the said County. The enrolled strength in 1826 was 82 of all ranks, including 5 officers; being 1 Lieutenant, 1 Cornet, 1 Quartenmasiteir and 14 Privates; a total of 17 of all ranks short of the full establish¬ ment of 99. In Septeanlber, 1827, the Government allowed many Corps of Yeomanry to discontinue their services with a ■view of saving the public purse, and amongst those bodies who were released £rom their engagements was the Mold Corps of Flintshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Whitehall, Earl Grosvenor. 17 Sept., 1827. My Lord, I have laid before the King your Lordship's letter of the 12th instant, with its enclosure signifying the wish of Captain Rigby and the other members of the Mold Yeomanry Cavalry to discontinue its services, and I am to acquaint your Lordship that His Majesty is graciously pleased to approve that the services of their Corps be discontinued ac¬ cordingly. The arms, &c, of this Corps, if furnished by Government, are to be held at the disposal of the Board of Ordnance. I have the honour to be, etc, Lansdowne. Thus, after thirty years' Service, itihe Mold Yeomanry were disbanded, but three years later the Corps was revived in the Mold and Hawarden Troops of the Flintshire Yeomanry Cavalry*, a corps raised and commanded by Earl Grosvenor, to meet the growing disorder and unrest that had naturally followed from such an unwise re¬ duction of a Corps that had on more than one occasion effectively upheld the civil power. Benson F. M. Freeman. * An account of the Flintshire Yeomanry Cavalry will be found in the last vol. of Bye-Gones, pp. 329—333. APRIL 5, 1905. NOTES. WILSON, THE WELSH PAINTER.—1 think Peter Pindar's prediction as to the future value of Wilson's pictures has never ap¬ peared in Bye-Gones ; it occurs in his Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, where he calls the Welsh painter "Red-nosed Wilson": — But, honest William, never mind; Immortal praises thou shalt find, And for a dinner have no cause to fear. Thou start'st at my prophetic rhymes: Don't be impatient for those times; Wait till thou hast been dead a hundred year. w.o. A MONTGOMERYSHIRE CHARTER.— Before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire in 1866 Mr Morris C. Jones of Liverpool (afterwards of Welshpool) " exhibit¬ ed a photograph of an ancient charter in an unusually perfect state of preservation, dated in the year ' ab incarnatione domini, 1199' (being the first year of the reign of King John). It is a grant from' Wennunwen filius Owini' to the monks of ' Stradmarchel' of certain lands on the river (1) which is between Roswidaul & Barredin, which he had sold to them for five pounds and a half." The following are the comments on this in the Transactions:— Stradmarchel or Ystrad Marchel—better known by its Latin name " Strata Marcella "— was a Cistercian Monastery in Montgomeryshire, founded in 1170 by Owen Cyfeiliog, the father of the grantor Wennunwen. Wennunwen was usually known as Prince Gwenwynwyn, after whom the principality of Upper Powys was called Powys Gwenwynwyn: he is the "Gwenwyn" of Sir Walter Scott's novel, " The Betrothed." The places "Roswidaul" and "Barredin," notwith¬ standing the lapse of time, can still be identified, being now spelt " Rhesgwidol" and "Byrhedyn." They are situated in the western part of Mont¬ gomeryshire and are readily found upon the ord¬ nance map. The river mentioned in the Charter as running between those places forms, in that particular spot, the common boundary of the parishes of Penegoes and Darowen. The original Charter is in the possession of Miss Conway Griffiths, Carregllwyd, Anglesea, and the photo¬ graph was executed by Mr Keith, Liverpool. F. Greene. Allerton, nr. Liverpool. DIOCESAN BOUNDARIES.—It is curious to note in the present day how much history is preserved in boundaries of every kind. The stretch of poor land on the outskirts of a parish tells a tale of the village com¬ mon land, that belonged to no one in particular, but over which the whole community had rights. Our lanes and hedge¬ rows often by their unaccountable lines show where the strips of arable or the plots of meadow land were situated before fences were much in fashion, and every parish map con¬ tains a history on its face for those who can read it. The same may be said of boundaries of larger areas, especially of the old dioceses. In the early Saxon times, a diocese was co¬ terminous with a kingdom, and even when the great Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, in the 7th century sub¬ divided the huge unwieldy dioceses thus formed, he seems to have followed boundaries already existing. The See of Hereford was (1) The Crewi, joining the Diflas at Pant-felin-gerrig. —Ed.