Welsh Journals

152 Recorders in Wales (Page 29).—To the towns mentioned on page 127, must be added Ruthin in Denbighshire, for among the State Papers are the following grants :—8 March 1605, grant to Euble Thelwall of the offices of Steward and Re¬ corder of Ruthin, co. Denbigh, for life.—7 Feb. 1608, grant to John Thelwall, in reversion after his father, of the steward¬ ship of the lordship of Ruthin, co, Denbigh.—27 Feb. 1615, grant to Edward and Simon Thelwall of the office of Recorder of Ruthin, co. Denbigh; for life. In the Hist, of the Great Sessions there is also to be found the appointment dated 29 May 1658, of David Morgan as Deputy Recorder of Aber¬ gavenny, by John Haggatt who had been made " Recorder of Bergevenny " by Cromwell's Charter in 1657, and was the only Recorder that town ever possessed. John Owen Evans. Rev. Rice Rees (Page 60).—This accomplished scholar was the eldest son of David Rees, gentleman, by his wife Sarah, second daughter of Rice Rees of Llandovery, Caer- marthenshire, and was born at his father's house, Tonn, in the parish of Llandingad, near that town on 31 March 1804. His education having been commenced in such schools as his native district afforded, he removed in February 1819, to the licensed Grammar School of Lampeter, in Car¬ diganshire, then under the care of the Rev. Eliezer Williams, Vicar of the parish. His master dying before he had been long under his tuition, the Rev. John Williams, afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan, and warden of the Welsh Educa¬ tional Institution at Llandovery, succeeded to the school. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a commoner on 15 May 1822. aged 18, and held a scholarship from December 1825 to 1828, and a fellowship from December 1828 until his death (Foster's Alumni Oxon.) He took his degrees of B.A. on 25 May 1826, M.A. on 17 December 1828, and B.D. on 2 March 1837. He was ordained deacon at Oxford in 1827, and priest in 1828. When St. David's College, Lampeter, was opened, he was selected to fill the offices of Professor of Welsh, Classical Tutor, and Librarian of the Institution, and he accordingly commenced his official dutiec at the opening of the College on 1 March 1827. Shortly afterwards Professor Rees was appointed by his diocesan one of the Welsh Examiners, whose office was to ascertain the competency of those who were to officiate in parishes, where the Welsh language was spoken, and for the last two years of his life, an important part of the general examination