Roger Walter of Pipton, aged 70; and a great company of both p'r'shes."

Henry Williams, of Scynllas, was the first person buried in this church; the date of his interment being July 30, 1665. He was the ancestor of a family which supplied several successive vicars to Glasbury, and became extinct in the male line about the middle of the eighteenth century. Their coat armour was argent, a wyvern displayed proper. One sister of the last male heir married Thomas Hughes, Esq., of the Neuadd, since called Glasbury House, in the county of Radnor, and was the mother of thirteen grown-up children, of whom only the eldest and youngest were daughters. The other sister of the last male heir of the Scynllas, Gwern, and other estates, bequeathed them to her eldest niece, Bridget Hughes, who was for many years the tenant of her eldest brother, the Rev. John Hughes, M.A., and subsequently of his youngest daughter and co-heiress Isabella, at Glasbury House.

The arms borne by the Hughes family of Crogen Iddon, Glyn, and Glasbury were sable, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis, or. Crest, a dexter hand and arm gauntleted proper, bearing a fleur-de-lis or.

Among the registrations of the parish the names of children and grandchildren of the Rev. Alexander Griffith frequently occur. "Ursula, the wife of John Blayney, and daughter to Alex. Griffith, was buryed 9th of January, 1672." "Gaynor Goodman, the wife of Alex. Griffith, clerk, Vicar of Glasebury, was buryed the 25 of February 1672 aged 77." The good vicar survived these family afflictions four years, and kept the parish books with his usual exactness and neatness until within a short time of his decease. "Alexander Griffith, Vicar of Glasebury, Rector of Llanelieu, Died the one and twentieth, Buried the four and twentieth of April 1676. "His successor in the Vicarage, Thomas Powell, was buried the last day of December, 1682."

Among the subsequent entries may be found some of considerable local interest, for instance :-"William

Davids of Talgarth commonly called Y Quaker Coch was found dead on the wayside in a place called Groscegir-(it is reported that he made himself away upon discontent because he should not marry his maide. The Lord of the Manor seized on his goods, and his body is in Glasbury Churchyard near the way as goes to Aberllyfni, where no good Xtians are buried). the 27th of November 1688."

Henry Somerset Duke of Beaufort, President and Lord-Lieutenant of Wales and the Marches, made a stately progress in the year 1684 throughout the territories under his government. Among his attendants on this occasion was Mr. Thomas Dineley, who has left an interesting record of the incidents, and a valuable description of the localities. He says:-"Glasbury Church between Hay and (within seven miles of) Brecknock neer the road hath these two tombstones in the chancell: Here lyeth the body of Gryffith Williams of Werne in the parish of Llanthew in the county of Brecon, Gent; who departed this life xiith day of June at the Skynlas in the county of radnor in 1683, aged LXXI. The other, Silence James Watkins of Tregoyd, etc., 1681."

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The church consecrated in 1665 consisted of a chancel, a nave, and a low square tower, having a sloping pyramidal roof covered, like the rest of the edifice, with tiles, and surmounted by a weather-vane. The tower contained six bells. The pulpit and desk were fixed close to the southern wall of the nave, a little westward of the chancel partition. The cloths were dark-blue, and that overhanging the pulpit bore in gold letters the date 1665. The royal arms were painted over the middle of the western side of the chancel partition. The ten commandments, the creed, the Lord's prayer, and various texts of Scripture decorated the walls in suitable places. A gallery of three or four large pews stood against the northern wall of the nave, and was approached by a broad oaken staircase. A gallery for the singers stood against the western wall and was ap

proached by a staircase from the tower.

There was a

door in the western wall of the tower, and a door in the southern wall of the chancel. The principal entrance was in the southern wall of the nave, near the tower, and protected by a porch having stone benches, and a wooden gate.

It would appear that the old materials used in the construction of this church conduced to its premature decay. It was capable of containing only three hundred and twenty persons, and in the spring of the year 1836 its dilapidated state and the increased population of the parish caused the Rev. Charles Bradley, vicar, and his principal parishioners to take measures preparatory to its immediate demolition, and the erection of a new structure.

JANE WILLIAMS.

CATALOGUE OF THE HENGWRT MSS. AT

PENIARTH.

(Continued from p. 100.)

335. VOCABULARIES in Latin, Welsh, and some English, transcribed, in 1606 and 1608, by Jones of Gellilyfdy. At the commencement is the following introduction : "Ir Darleyd-Anwyl darleyd y medweryd lyfyr Geiriyd ef syd yn amgyffred audurdodeu kasgledig o lau Rossier Morys alan o lyfyr Brud brenhined ynys Brydain, ar Groglit o lyfyr Siarlemain ar pumed lyfrau Geiryid a ysgrifennais ef alan o lau yr hen Risiart Langfford ar ladin ymlaen y Gymraeg a pob rann o ymadrod ar eu pennau eu hunain ar ladin ymlaen y Gymraeg a lawer o avvanegiadau erail gyd a hynny." 4to. See Nos. 277 and 336.

336. Alphabetical biography, in Welsh, in the autograph of the same Jones of Gellilyfdy. 4to, seventeenth century.

337. Another volume in the autograph of John Jones. It contains Aristotle's Advice to Alexander the Great; Natural History; the Day of Judgment; Miscellanies,

amongst them Triads attributed to Taliesin, p. 40; the History of the Ship of Madoc, son of Owen Gwynedd, p. 59; the legend, "Yr Oleu bendigedig a ddoeth i gyssegru brenhinoedd yr ynys honn," p. 105; old Proverbs; Biography of Philosophers. This MS. was written in, or in and about, the year 1611. 4to; all in Welsh.

338. Troilus and Cressida, a Welsh interlude, in the autograph of the same John Jones. This MS. was written in, or in and about, the years 1613 and 1622.

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339. The next MS., which Mr. Owen describes as Brud y Breninoedd, Genealogies, Triads, etc., vellum, Svo," is not numbered in his printed catalogue of these MSS., but in one of his manuscript catalogues it is numbered "339." I have been unable to identify it, but I suspect it to be the same as that which I have placed under No. 536.

340. Described by Mr. Aneurin Owen as "Poetry by Davydd ap Gwilym and Gruffydd Grug, and a Grammar. 8vo. I have not found, or have been unable to identify this MS. Probably it may yet be forthcoming.

341. The Primer of David Dhu of Hiraethog, the Vision of St. Paul, and a Calendar; all in Welsh, 12mo, vellum, fourteenth century. On a leaf at the end, in a hand of the fifteenth century, is a pedigree deducing the descent of Ieuan ap Ieuan, a descendant of Owen Keveilioc, from Adam! This volume is contemporary, or nearly so, with David Dhu, and may be in his hand. It is imperfect, and wants arranging and binding. See

433.

342. This MS. is described by Mr. Aneurin Owen as "Song of the Three Children in the Fire. Song of Zachariah. Svo." I have not been able to identify it with certainty; but I have little doubt that it is the same as that which I have placed under No. 433.

344. Vocabulary in the autograph of Jones of Gellilyfdy, 12mo, Sept. 1639. See No. 277.

345. Ditto, ditto. See No. 277.

346. Logic, Physica Universalis; from the Sebright collection. Folio, seventeenth century.

347. This MS. contains a transcript of three Dramas in the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall, which are preserved in the Bodleian Library: 1, Ordinale de Origine Mundi; 2, Passio Christi; 3, Resurrectio Domini. Folio, seventeenth century. From the Sebright collection. See No. 310.

348. Transcripts of Orders for the Administration of Justice in Wales, in the reign of Elizabeth, dated 8 July, 1561, 25 Nov. 1559, 25 June, 3rd of Elizabeth; an Inquisition relative to the boundaries of the townships of Lledwigan Llys and Bottenlly, in Anglesea, taken 10 Dec. 11th Elizabeth; and another Inquisition relative to the boundaries of the townships of Rosemanagh and Llysdulas, in the same county, taken 20 Aug. 10th of Elizabeth. The first of these transcripts wants the first leaf, and the last of them nearly the whole of the "Teste." Fol., 17th century; from the Sebright collection.

349. Laws of Howel Dda, 4to, fifteenth century, in Welsh; from the Sebright collection. This MS. was made use of by Wotton in editing his edition of the Welsh Laws, as appears by the following note, in his hand, at p. 160: "Folia duo casu quodam, nescio quo, desiderantur: ne mihi lacuna hæc imputetur, hoc hic loci monendum duxi. G. Wottonus. Sed ni fallor inveniuntur post pag. 168." This volume is slightly imperfect at the end. It wants less than occupies one column in the last page of Wotton's work; and after this deficiency occur several pages, which would seem to be displaced from some other part of the MS.

350. This MS., a miscellaneous collection, formerly in the library of the well known Edward Lhuyd, of the Ashmolean Museum, and afterwards of Sir Thomas Sebright, Bart., was purchased by Col. Salesbury of Rhûg, or his brother, Lieut.-Colonel Vaughan of Hengwrt, at the sale of the Sebright Library; and several of the notes, and I believe much of the text, are in Lhuyd's hand. The volume contains a summary of the "Liber Landavensis," in Latin; "Seith Doethion Rufein" (the seven wise men of Rome), by Llewelyn, the priest, in