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inquiry, quoted for me the record of this graduate who turns out to have been an entirely different person, a son of Wm. Rowland, an attorney-at-law, from Boothby-Pagnel, Lincs. I am further informed by Mr. F. W. S. Bloxham that this is the only John Rowland of the eighteenth century known to the compilers of Alumni Cantab. The accidence master was probably a graduate of Oxford, though he has eluded Foster, and further search should be directed in the first instance towards the records of Christ Church. Foster notes his uncle Nathaniel (matric. 21 Feb., 1716/7), his younger brother, also Nathaniel (matric. 16 July, 1767), and his son William Gorsuch (matric. 23 Oct., 1786), as students of that college. Incidentally, Foster also stumbles over the subsequent career of John Rowlands, son of Owen Rowlands of Llanasaph, clerk, who matriculated at Christ Church 15 March, 1713/4. He did not become rector of Llangeitho and vicar of Nantcwnlle. The rector and vicar was John Rowland above described as father of the matriculant of 1767, and son of the Reverend Daniel Rowland, senior, rector of Llangeitho, 1697-1730, and vicar of Nantcwnlle, 1708-1731. The academic career of the matriculant at Jesus College in 1767 was short, his name being removed from the books on 5 Sept. of the same year. The Reverend David Worthington, in a table of pedigrees in his Cofiant y Parch. Daniel Rowland 1923, de- scribed this John Rowland as vicar of Mynyddislwyn. A John Rowlands, perpetual curate of Mynyddislwyn, officiated at weddings there between 1771 and 1812, and was buried there on 16 April, 1815, aged 73.2 If he was the matriculant of 1767, his age must have been incorrectly entered in the register of burials. A John Rowlands (possibly the same person) was rector of Penhow from 1791 to 1815.3 E. D. JONES. JASPAR GRIFFITH (GRYFFYTH), Warden of Ruthin (d. 1614). The name of Jaspar Griffith is associated with several important Welsh manuscripts. It is written in Hebrew characters in Peniarth MS. I (The Black Book of Carmarthen), p. 5, Peniarth MS. 44 (Brut y Brenhinedd), p. 7, and N.L.W. MS. 5266 (The Dingestow Brut), p. 5. On page 19 of Peniarth MS. 53 it is written in a legal hand in the form of Jaspar Griffins under the place-name Broughton,4 and a footnote by Jaspar Griffith on page 47 of the same manuscript testifies that Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (Peniarth MSS. 4 and 5) was then in his hands; he wrote many of the marginalia in the Llyfr Gwyn. A pedigree at the foot of the first page of the earliest manuscript of the Welsh Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan' (Peniarth MS. 17) is in his handwriting. Two manuscripts of the 1 Information kindly supplied by the Senior Tutor of Jesus College. 2 Information kindly supplied by the Reverend Canon B. Jones Evans, vicar of Mynyddislwyn. 3 Bradney A History of Monmouthshire, IV, 201. 4 Probably Broughton near Bishop's Castle. A Broughton family of this place had Welsh connections. Richard Brogdyn un or Kyngor o'r Marches' is named among owners of records who helped Lewys Dwnn, Heraldic Visitations (ed. Meyrick), I, p. 7. His brother Hugh was styled Rabbi Broughton for his eminence as a Hebrew scholar, Mont. Colts., XIV, p. 123.