Welsh Journals

*95 reign, and was always a subject of great care and attention. In Sept. (?) following is found a petition, from Thos. Rawlins, (which appears to have been his correct name,) His Majesty's chief engraver, for payment for the silver and engraving of seals for Wales and Ireland, on the Restoration, Annexing, a Bill for six seals engraved by Thos. Rawlins, from July 30 to Sept. 24, 1660, total ^274 2s. 6d., and Copies of notes from Sec. Nicholas to Mr. Rawlins, from July 20 to Sept. 13, ordering the engraving of a privy seal and council seal for Ireland ; a judicial seal for cos. Denbigh, Flint, and Montgomery ; two for Anglesey, Carnarvon, and Merioneth ; one for Radnor, Brecknock, and Glamorgan, and one for Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Cardigan; also of receipts for the said seals. It would be interesting to know where any of these old judicial seals of Wales are to be found at the present day. (To be continued.) THE MANOR OF TALIvYN. Where Tallyn House, co. Brecon, formerly stood, is now difficult to say, and recent inquiries made on the spot to the rector of the parish of Llangasty Talyllyn, situate on the shores of Llangorse Lake, about five or six miles from Brecon, were unavailing to solve the problem. And yet it plainly existed thereabouts for many years, for Jones says that in this parish ■" there are two mansions, formerly of celebrity, Tallyn house and Thebinshwn. The first was the manor house, and for some centuries the residence of lhe lords of Llangasty tal y llyu, this manor or lordship,