There was a large and fashionable gathering on Thursday, at the Brompton Oratory, when Miss Alice Catherine Trevor, daughter of Captain Griffith-Boscawen, was married to Mr George Taaffe of Swarmore Castle, County Louth, and Glen Keiran, County Meath, Captain 4th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Lieut. Col. George M'Corquodale, the Railway and Government printer, died at his residence on the Menai Straits yesterday week. Col. M'Corquodale, who was a self-made man, unsuccessfully contested the Newton Division of Lancashire as a Liberal in 1885. He afterwards became a Dissentient Liberal. The remains were interred at Llansadwrn Church on Saturday. THE LATE MR FITZ-HUGH OF PLAS POWER.Probate of the will has been granted and estate duty has been paid on £57,622 5s 3d, as the value of the personal estate of Mr Thomas Lloyd FitzHugh, of Stanhope-street, Mayfair, London, and Plaspower, Denbigh, J.P. and D.L., High Sheriff 1859, who died on the 15th January, aged seventy. six years. His will bears date November 22, 1890, with codicils of 8th September. 1892, 28th July, 1894, and 14th December, 1894. The executors are his nephew, Mr Frederick Thomas Green, of Nottingham, and Mr Henry John Birch, of Chester, to each of whom, for the executorship, the testator bequeaths £100; to his agent, Charles B. Beaumont, £100; to his nephew, Henry William Green, and his niece, Mary Green, 12,000 each; to his nephew, Rumley Godfrey, £2,000; to his nephew, Charles Godfrey, £3,000; to his nephew, William Fitz Hugh, £10,000; and to his wife's nephew, Aymer Powlett Lane £10,000. Mr Fitz-Hugh devises his real estate in the counties of Denbigh, Salop, and elsewhere, excepting his estate in Essex, Middlesex, and the City of London, upon trusts to pay his nephew, Frederick Thos. Green, £5,000 by yearly instalments of £1,000 each, and to pay to Mrs Fitz-Hugh, daughter of Mr G. Lucy, of Charlescott Park, Warwick, £3,000 a year for her life. Mrs Fitz-Hugh is to have the use and enjoyment of Plaspower during her life, and, subject to her life interest, the Denbigh, Salop, and other estates-excepting that in Essex, Middlesex,and London-are settled in favour of the testa tor's brother Godfrey for his life, with remainder to his eldest son Godfrey, and his first and other sons and other remainders, but the testator's said nephew Godfrey is to be deemed a minor until he entitled to possession of the Plaspower estate is attains the age of thirty years, and the person always to use the name of Fitz-Hugh only and The testator deto bear the arms of Fitz-Hugh. vises the remainder of his real estate in trust for Mrs Fitz-Hugh for her life, and on her death for his sister, Mrs Arabella Green, for her life, and, subject to her life interest, for his nephew, Frederick Thomas Green. He appoints from the trust funds of his marriage settlement £2,000 to Mrs Fitz-Hugh, and the income of the remainder to her with power of appointment thereof to her. All the residue of his personal estate Mr FitzHugh leaves in trust as to one-third for his sister, Mrs Arabella Green, and as to the remaining twothirds for his brother Godfrey or other his successor in the Plaspower estate. JULY 31, 1895. NOTES. MODERN SUPERSTITIONS.-A number of charms written by a person in the neighbourhood of Oswestry have been placed in my hands. They are interesting as evidence of the existence of gross superstition at the present time. One reads as follows : January 20, 1885, tould me if did not use him well I should nod live half the sumer. Witness mi hand January 20, 1885. W.M. PREBEND OF ROLAND LEE TO THOMAS CROMWELLECCLESALL. BISHOP The following is extracted from Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic (Vol. 13, Part i., 1538)). It is dated, as will be seen, from Bridgenorth, and it is addressed to "Lord Crumwell, | lord Privy Seal": I have by this bearer, my fellow More, received your letters desiring to have the "advocation" of a good prebend in my church. I have sent your Lordship, by the bearer, that of Ecclesall, 40 marks a year. I beg you be content "to I may help" my servants and my natural brother. Wales was never in better order; all old factions forgotten. Bryggenorthe, 9 Jan. ED. INSCRIPTIONS ON HOUSES, &c.-I think Inscriptions on Houses have appeared from time to time in BYE GONFS. The following, which may be seen on the Coedyglyn entrance to Erddig Park, may be welcome : Know ye who enter at this gate When in the meadows grown for hay Keep to the drive or right of way: Fright not the cattle on the lea, Nor damage flower, nor shrub,nor tree; And let no vestiges he found Of paper scattered o'er the ground. One more request will sure suffice, From carving any rude device; Refrain, and ch! let no one see Your name on post or bridge or tree; Such were the act of fool whose name We fear can ne'er descend to fame. Your olive branches with you take, And let them here their pastime make; These scenes will ever seem more fair When children's voices fill the air; Or bring as comrade in your stroll Your dog, if under due control. If to the gentle art inclin'd To throw a fly you have a mind, Send in your card and state your wish To throw a fly and catch a fish ; Or if the woodland to explore Pray seek permission at the door. Such boons are granted not quite free, Yet for a very moderate fee; Nor fear but what it is ordain'd That all the money thus obtained Shall to the fund be handed down For aid of sick of yonder town. The owner of this blest domain Himself to sojourn here is fain, And if by land or sea he roam Still loveth best his native home; Which for two centuries or near His ancestors have held so dear. Admiring well a graceful art Of Nature's hand in every part, Full well he knoweth how to prize This fair terrestrial paradise; And 'tis his wish, sincere and true, That others should enjoy it too. to the late J. Dovaston, Esq.,on natural history, botany, philosophy, and antiquities, are still preserved." These words were written eighty years ago. Are these letters still in existence? If so, and if their present custodian would give extracts in BYE-GONES as to any local matters, it would be interesting. EE. REPLIES. R.E.D. SHROPSHIRE WORDS (March 27, 1895).LAGS. I heard this word used the other day by an old man in the parish of Chetwynd on the Staffordshire side of Shropshire. He said "The beer swilkers about in the barrel for there's a lot leaked through the lags." I can only find it in Nodal and Milner's Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, which gives "LAGS, LAGGINS, the staves of a tub or cask." Shrewsbury. AVALANCHES IN WALES (April 3, 10, 1895.)-I heard my grandmother relating the following in connection with the avalanche about 1809 at Llandrillo. Her father and mother and the family had retired for the night, and on awakening in the morning and looking out through the window, were utterly bewildered, not knowing the locality they were in, and after looking around and finding the dwelling house and outbuildings to be the same, they all came to the conclusion that the fairies had carried their house to some strange place. On the neighbours from Llandrillo arriving, they found that an avalanche had taken the whole buildings and carried them down the slope of the mountain until they rested upon a flat surface, and with great difficulty they were rescued from their perilous position, not one having been disturbed the night, the avalanche having surrounded the buildings and carried them safely down. My grandmother's maiden name was Ffoulkes of Llandrillo. R.R. in Mr Joseph Lee of Heath-lane bridge, Whitchurch, bequeathed a legacy of £500 to the Chester General Infirmary, and the amount has been paid through Dr George, one of the executors. The marriage of Mr Trevor Chichele Plowden, Resident at Hyderabad, and Beatrice, eldest daughter of Mr Bazil Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Park, took place at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Swynnerton, on Wednesday. The memorial to Mr Randolph Caldecott by Mr Alfred Gilbert, R.A., has now been placed in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral close to the memorial of Mr Frank Holl. The inscription is to the following effect: "An artist whose sweet and dainty grace has not been in his kind surpassed; whose humour was as quaint as it was inexhaustible." The marriage of Mr Edwin Henry Egerton, C.B., son of the late Rev Thomas Egerton, rector of Middle, Salop, and cousin of Lord Egerton of Tatton, to Madame Olga Katkop, widow of M. Katkop, daughter of the late Prince Nicholas Lobanof, and niece of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, took place at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London, and at the church of the Russian Embassy in London yesterday week. The Condover Hall estate was offered for sale in London on Thursday. The property, which is situated near Shrewsbury, extends over some 4,118 acres and includes a mansion in the Elizabethan style, with grounds of about 387 acres, sixteen farms, village, and cottage property, the manor of Condover, the great tithes of the parish of Condover, and the advowson of the vicarage of Condover. Exclusive of any allowance for the mansion and grounds the estate produces about £5,600 per annum; while the timber, which was not included in the sale, was estimated at £10,000. Bidding started at £80,000, and rose slowly to £129,000, at which figure the property was with drawn. On Saturday the Right Rev Dr. Carroll, Bishop of Shrewsbury, received a telegram from the Vatican announcing that his Holiness Pope Leo XIII. had appointed the Rev Francis Mostyn, rector of Our Lady's Church, Birkenhead, as Vicar-apostolic of the Vicariate recently established over Wales. Father Mostyn, whe is an accomplished Welsh scholar, is about thirty-seven years old, and is the second son of the late Sir Piers and the Dowager Lady MosHe has been stationed at tyn of Talacre. Birkenhead for about five years, and during his ministry there has, by his zeal and devotion, secured the affection of his congregation and the respect of all with whom he has been brought in contact. Upon the formation of the School Board in Birkenhead, about two years ago, he was elected a member of that body, and his unobtrusive services on the Board have been highly appreciated by his colleagues. CENTENARY OF THE PONTCYSSYLLTAU AQUE DUCT.-The foundation stone of Ponteyssylltau The work was designed and carried out by Mr aqueduct was laid on July 25th, 1795. Thos. Telford, and completed in about ten years. The estimated cost of the work was over £47,000. The aqueduct consists of nineteen arches, and is 1,007 feet in length, and about 130 feet in height. The central arch bears the inscription :-"The nobility and gentry of the adjacent counties having united their efforts with the great commercial interests of this country, in creating an intercourse between England and North Wales by a navigable communication of the three rivers, Severn, Dee, and Mersey, for the mutual benefit of agriculture and trade, caused this stone to be laid on the 25th day of July, MDCCXCV., when Richard Myddelton of Chirk, Esq., one of the original patrons of the Ellesmere Canal, was Lord of the Manor, and in the reign of our Sovereign George the Third, when the Equity of the laws and the security of property promoted the general welfare of the nation, while the arts and sciences flourished by his patronage, and the conduct of civil life was improved by his example." Earl Carrington has just purchased from his cousin, the Earl of Ancaster, Gwydyr Castle and Park. The Castle forms a portion of the historic Gwydyr estate which was purchased and re- THE LATE MR PHILLIPS BUCHANAN.-The will stored in the 16th century by Meredith Wynne, (dated Sept. 20, 1891) of Mr Phillips Buchanan, great-grandfather of Sir John Wynne. It came J.P., of Hales Hall, Drayton in-Hales, who died on into the family of Earl Carrington's mother by April 10, was proved on June 24 by Edward Maltby the marriage of Mary, daughter and heiress of Wakeman, and Thomas Hinton Campbell, the exeSir Richard Wynne, to the first Duke of Ancas-cutors, the value of the personal estate amounting to £34,115. The testator states that he has already ter. The Castle is situated in the picturesque appointed £2,500 of the trust funds under his mar vale of Conway, and is bounded on one side by riage settlement to his daughter, Edith Mary the heights of Gwydyr Ucha and the old deer Wakeman, and now he appoints £2,500, the reforest. Many ancient relics are included in Earl maining part of the said trust funds, to his daugh Carrington's purchase, including the coronation ter, Jessie Marion Critchley-Salmonson. He bechairs of George II. and Queen Caroline, an an- queaths £2,000 as an educational trust fund for cient Woolsack of the House of Lords, and some the purpose of educating his grandson Ronald magnificent carving and tapestry. The Castle is Critchley-Salmonson at Eton, Winchester, or Charin much the same condition as it was in the time terhouse, and subject thereto for his said grandof Queen Elizabeth. The property also includes son; £2,000 New South Wales 4 per cent. stock about 100 acres of park land bounded by the been many years in his service, for life, and then for upon trust for Mary Harriet Williams, who has Conway and its salmon pools, his daughters; and legacies to grandchildren, nephews, sister-in-law, executors, and servants, including the said Mary Harriet Williams. As to the residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves one moiety to his daughter Mrs Wakeman and the other moiety upon trust for his daugh ter Mrs Critchley-Salmonson for life, and then for his grandson Ronald Critchley-Salmonson. Clee Hills. There were present Mrs Barnes, Mr How THE LATE MR. ST. LAWRANCE TIGHE.-Probate has been granted of the will, dated March 24, 1885, of Mr St. Lawrance Robert Morgan Tighe, of Ashgrove, Ruabon, D. L. for County Westmeath, who died on the 2nd April last, aged fifty-seven years, at the Hotel de Londres, San Remo. The testator bequeathed to his wife, the Honourable Laura Tighe, daughter of the third Baron Headley, his jewellery, furniture, and household effects, and the plate, which belonged to Mr Edward Eyre Newnham, and the use and enjoyment of all other the testator's plate, pietures, furniture, and household effects, which, subject to Mrs Tighe's use are to be in trust for his son, who shall first attain the age of twenty-one years. Mr Tighe devises and bequeaths his real estate in Westmeath, his leasehold estate in County Cork, his head rents in County Louth, and all the estate in the City and County of Cork, in Limerick, and Tipperary, which he inherited from Mr Edward Eyre Newnham, in trust to the use of Mrs Tighe during her life, and subject to Cader Ferwyn was made. Passing through a gate her life interest to the use of his son, Robert just beyond the outbuildings of the Waterfall Hugh Morgan Tighe, with power of appointment farm, and along a footpath, a stream was crossed, to him in favour of his children, or in the event and a footpath on the side of the hill on the right of failure of issue for the testator's daughter was taken, a good walk bringing the party to a Margaret and her issue; and the estate is charged small lake, Llyn Llyncaws. Leaving this on the with the payment of an annuity of £100 to the left, the walk was continued a little way, and the testator's said daughter. The residue of the party were brought face to face with the hill, testator's property is left in trust for Mrs Tighe which is very steep. Here several members gave and to her appointment, and the value of his up.. The majority (including two ladies), however, personal estate has been sworn for probate at decided to make the ascent, which, owing to the slippery nature of the turf and a very strong wind blowing across the face, was very difficult. In some parts all dignity had to be set aside, and a crawl on hands and knees resorted to, but when OFFA FIELD CLUB, OSWESTRY. On Thursday, July 11, this club made an excursion to Pistyll Rhaiadr. The excursion was originally arranged in conjunction with the Oswestry and many events taking place in the immediate neighWelshpool Naturalists' Society, but owing to so bourhood this was found impossible, and the party was much smaller than was anticipated. ever fourteen members of the Offa Club and several friends left Oswestry at 10 a.m., in a splendid four-in-hand turn out provided by Mr W. Davies, of the Cambrian Mews, and drove through Llangedwyn, where a short stay was made to visit the church-arriving at the Pistyll at 12.45 p.m., haying enjoyed a most charming drive of about eighthe members rambled about the fall. teen miles. While lunch was being prepared There was a fair volume of water coming down, and the sight a very pretty one, the trees on each side adding much to the beauty of the scene. £4,236. was After lunch a start for IN THE FIELDS AND LANES. OSWESTRY AND WELSHPOOL NATU-the summit was reached the view obtained was RALISTS' FIELD CLUB. The third excursion of 1895 took place on July 23. The party took train for Bridgnorth, and then drove along the riverside to Badger. Then by the kind permission of Colonel Capel Cure they walked through the Dingle. This is most picturesque, the natural beauties being enhanced by the planting of various trees and ferns, the enlargement of a stream into a lake, and paths being made so that the Dingle, which is more than a mile long, may be seen to the best advantage. The red sandstone rocks give a rich colour, and there is a very pretty waterfall. After leaving Badger they drove to Chesterton Camp, a fine earthwork in a strong position. It was probably originally Roman, and is very perfect. Thence they drove to Quatford, where Miss Jebb had kindly invited the party to tea. Her house stands on the side of the steep hill with a very pretty view of the Severn. The party then returned to Bridgnorth and took the train home. The drive was through very pretty country with beautiful views of the Wrekin and VOL. IV. New Series [being Vol. 18th from the beginning.] one not likely to be soon forgotten. The return was made along the ridge of the hill until Llyn Llyncaws was passed, when an easy descent was made. Just at this time a drizzling rain took the place of the fine and bright sunshine, and caused much discomfort. The falls were reached at 5-45, when a substantial tea was partaken of, and at 6-45 the homeward journey was begun in a downpour of rain, which lasted with very little abateAmongst the plants noticed were Cryptogramme ment until Oswestry was reached at 9:30 p.m. crispa (parsley fern) very abundant, Lycopodium Selago (fir club moss), Erica cinerea (fine-leaved heath), Calluna vulgaris (common ling) and a white variety, Vaccinium Myrtillus bilberry), Vaccinium Oxycoccos (cranberry), Pinguicula vulgaris (common butterwort), Echium vulgare (common viper's bugloss). THE GENERAL ELECTION, JULY, 1895. LOCAL POLLING RESULTS. SHROPSHIRE, Ludlow 1892 L U 3819 ... L. C. 18 1 |