Welsh Journals

•284 CYMRU Fü. October 6th, 1888. allowed by the former Comtnittee until the said Commissioners for the county of Glamorgan sequestrated two-thirds parts tliereof as the estate of the said Anthony Turberville for his supposed Recusancy and 'did then forbear to suffer petitioner to enjoy the estate without an order from the Commissioners above which she now prayed for. The prayer was granted in a modified form—they directed the Glamorgan Committee to examine any witnesses petitioner could produce to prove lier titìe, to certify tho evidence and tlie the whole matter tobe referred to Mr. Reading (a Master in Chancery) to examine and report. The order bears date 14 October 1B52. (To be continued.) OCTOBER 6, 1888. NOTES. TRAVELL1NG IN WALES in 1820 (ante May 19, June 30, Aug. 25, Sept. 15, 1888). — MS. diary extracts concluded :— "Thursday, Oct.10.—Ät the Cardiff Arms—a very good, reasonable inn. Cardiff is a much larger and better town than-I expected. It is a mile from tlie sea, but a good many vessels are lying in the bay. The canal and river both pass close by one side of the town, the latter crossed by a hand- 8ome bridge, leading to Llandaff, distant two or three miles, but we did not understand it was worth going to see. The old Castle is the only' thing to see at Cardiff. It belongs to the M.irquess of Bute, who has erected a handsome castellated roansion on one side of the grounds, which are laid out very handsomely in a public walk, to which the townspeopie are at all times freely admitted till a certain hour in the evening, and then the gate is closed. The keep and theprincipalentrance are the only portions of the castle that remain. The former stands on a lofly mound directly opposite to the entrance, which is tolerably entire. From another mound on the town side, near the exterior wall, there is a fine view of the town, bay, and shipping. The tower of the church is very handsome, semething in the style of the tower of Taunton, but far less elaborately wrought, and not equal to the tower at Wrexham, which in richness and beauty is far superior to both. From Cardiff we went on to Newport by Caerphilly, 20 miles. . . . Caer- philly Cnstle covers an immense extent of ground, but is in utter ruin. There appears to have been a large oblon„ hall, with entrance by a gateway, and two round towers to the east and west. On the north are dead walls with loopholes, and on the south a rnost magnificent hall 70ft. by 30ft., nnd 17ft. high, but now without a roof. On the side next the court four magnitìcent Gothic win- dows.The south-east tower has a 8triking appearance, standing 'llft. out of its perpendicular, and resting only on one small portion of its south side. It is 70ft. or 80ft. in height. This, though a leaning tower, bears not the slightest resemblance to the leaning tower at Pisa, which is not a ruin, but a stupendous hollow pillar of regular architecture, with spiral gallery nll round to ascend by. The date of tlie Castle of Caerphilly ìs uncertain, tliough it is obvious, from the different styles of architec- ture in different parts, tliat it has notbeenthe work of any one single period. The town itself is a poor little place, separated from the castle by a little stream, which falls into the Rumney, a sh'ort distance below.....Newport, a respectable town with some good wide streets, and from the number of sliips to be seen it must be a place of considerable traffic. A steam vessel comes here every day from Bristol. The trees in tlie churchyard, from w'nich ttiere is a fine and extensive view in every diiection, are amongst the most superbpieces of timber I have ever seen, consisting of oaks, elms, ashes, and sycamores of really stupendous magnitude." Two days later the tourists returned to England, and the extracts conclude. The earlier portions of the diary, referring to North Wales, I may give on another occasion. GWENYNEN GWYNEDD. Wrexham. REPLIES. THE CAVE3 OF YSTRADFELLTE (Aug. 18, Sept.22, 1888).—Tlie traditional story mentioned by Mr. R. Powell, of a dog having been stripped of his hair in traversing the undergrour.d passages at Ystradfellte, reminds me that a similar tradi- tion exists in connection with the Hoyle's Mouth Cavern, near Tenby. It is said that a dog entered this particular cave and emerged in a hairless con- dition at the " Wogan," a cavern under Pembroke Castle, eight miles distant. I have also heard the same tale repeated in connection with a cavern here in Kent. Shooter's Hill. Geo. BUSSEY MANSEL, M.P. FOR CARDIFF (July 28, Sept. 8,1888).—" Beili Glas" is correct in his identification of Bussey Mansel who represented Cardiff from 1723 to 1734, and Glamorganshire from 1737 till he succeeded his brother in the Peerage as 4th Baron in 1744. But clearly he was of a much earlier generation than Bussey Mansel the friend of Cromwell who sat for either Cardiff or the County from the time of the Commonwealth till 1698. Sir Thomas Mansel, lst Baron, who died in 1631, is said by Burke to have had three sons, but only the eldest of these is named. The fìrst Bussey Mansel may have been one of these sons. Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. Pink. Y DERYN CORPH (March 17,1888).-In reply to your correspondent •« Enid," as to the preva-