Cylchgronau Cymru

June, 1880. BYE-GONES. 63 fully romantic scenery: Guide-General and magnificent ex¬ pounder of all the natural and artificial curiosities of North Wales; professor of grand and bombastical lexicographical wonts, Knight of the most anomalous, whimsical, yet perhaps happy, order of hair-brained inexplicables.' '' Poor Robin, with all his eccentricities, is now gathered to those fathers he so enthusiastically venerated. I remember him well, and am greatly indebted to him for many an hour's amusement during my boyish days : he was a famous story-teller, and abounded in all the traditionary tales known in Merioneth, and almost every other shire in North Wales ; the rehearsal of which afforded him great delight and gave full scope to the garulity and circumstantiality for which he was noted . . . Arrayed in his best suit, his head decorated with a large equilateral cocked-hat, and his diminutive person bestriding a poney as dwarfish as him¬ self, he proudly led the way ... He was a harmless, and, in his way, a very interesting personage, and his memory will not speedily be forgotten." The writer goes on to say that Edwards died in 1810 or 1811, and that his " address " quoted, was printed in 1806, when he was eighty-four years old. We are not told who wrote it. or whether it was done in joke or not. N.W.S. CURRENT NOTES. Mr. C. E. Williams, M.P.—Mr. Samuel Charles Evans Williams, of Bryntirion, Radnorshire, who has been [elected as a Liberal for the Radnor district of boroughs in the place of the Marquis of Hartington, is the eldest son of the late Rev. John Williams, of Bryn¬ tirion, formerly student and Censor of Christ Church, Oxford, by his marriage with Mary Charlotte, widow of Mr, John Patterson, of Devonshire. He was born in the year, 1812, and was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his bachelor's degree in 1864, and proceeded M. A. in 1877. He qualified to be called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1870. Mr. Williams is a magistrate for Radnorshire, and was ap¬ pointed High Sheriff of that county for the present year. He is also master of the Radnorshire Harriers, and chair¬ man of the Rhayader Highway Board. Mr. Williams, who has never before sat in the House of Commons, is the fourth new member returned to St. Stephen's since the commencement of the present Parliament. He married, in 18b7, Mary Caroline, daughter of the Rev. Henry William R. Luttman-Johuson (formerly Michell), of Biuderton House, Sussex. Victoria Reglna.—Amongst the oil paintings in the Royal Academy this year, and in Gallery No. 3, there is a picture by H. T. Wells, R.A., numbered 217 in the cata¬ logue, which was inspired by the following passage from the Diaries of a Lady of Quality, (Miss Frances Williams Wynn):—"On Tuesday, at 2J a.m., the scene closed Jdeath of William the Fourth at Windsor Castle], and in a very short time the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, the Chamberlain, set out to announce the event to their young sovereign. They reached Kensington Palace about five ; they knocked, they rang, they thumped tor a considerable time before they could rouse the porter at the gates ; they were again kept waiting in the Court¬ yard, then turned into one of the lower rooms, where they seemed forgotten by everybody. They ran? the bell, and desired that the attendant of the Princess Victoria might be sent to inform H. R. H. that they requested an audience on business of importance. After another delay and another ringing to enquire the cause, the attendant was summoned, who stated that the Princess was in such a sweet sleep, she could not venture to disturb her. Then they said, ' We are come to the Queen on business of State and even sleep must give way to that.' It did, and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but per¬ fectly collected and dignified." The lady whose diary is here quoted was the sister of the Right Hon. Charles W. Williams-Wynn, and consequently the aunt of the Miss Charlotte Williams-Wynn whose journal and correspond¬ ence have been more recently published. JUNE 2, 1880. NOTES. JUDICATURE IN WALES. — The following members of Parliament were appointed, in 1820, to en¬ quire into the Judicature of Wales :—Hon. John Frederick Campbell, Lord J. Russell, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr. Allen, Mr. Chetwynd, Sir W. W. Wynn, Mr. Berkeley Paget, Sir T. Mostyn, Col. Wood, Mr. C. W. Wynn, Mr. Henry Clive, Mr. Wilkins, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Attorney General, Sir James Nicholl, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. E. Barbara, Mr. Wrottesley, Sir John Owen, Mr. Davenport, Mr. W. Courtenay, Mr. J. Macdonald, Mr. P. Pryse, Mr. P. Corbet. " G.G. KYNASTON'S CAVE. The inhabitant of this cave, to whom it owes its name, was Humphrey Kynaston, usually called "The Wild"; son of Sir Roger Kynaston, Knight, of Hordley, by Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Grey, Earl of" Tan- kerville, his second wife. By his first wife (daughter of Lord Cobham and widow of Lord Strange) Sir Roger had a son who died without issue. During the life of his elder brother, Humphrey lived at Middle Castle. The character of the reign in which Humphrey was born and of that in which he suffered outlawry will fairly account for the bent of his, and the issue of his fortunes. His father was in favor in the time, and at the Court of Edward the 4th, and the son, though not quite a cotemporary with the young monarch, was a man of some fashion, and an imitator of the Court :— Now Edward was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. Adopting such manners and habits he would be splendid with little prudence, brave with little moderation; addicted to pleasure but capable of activity in great emergencies,— precisely the character to produce an outlaw of some emi¬ nence. ( Heartily attached to the Court of the House of York, in which he had enjoyed the pleasures of his youth ; and where he was a favourite through the honoured period of his early manhood. How far he had been imprudent in the time of the Impostor Lambert Simnel, in 1487, the second year of Henry 7th, is not known, but his outlawry took place in 1491; six years after the death of Edward the 4th; when Perkin Warbeck, the second Impostor, as¬ suming the character of the heir of the House of York, was supported in the Netherlands by the Duchess of Bur¬ gundy, mother-in-law of Henry the 7th ; who, besides the Flemish troops she sent over to Ireland, assisted Perkin to fit out a naval expedition, with a mixed collec¬ tion of outlaws, pirates, robbers, &c, of every description, to the number of about 600 :— Of all the unsettled humours of the land, Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries : Bearing their birthright proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes; In brief, a rasher choice of dauntless spirits Did never float upon the swelling tide. Whether debt was the real or pretended cause; it is not to be wondered at that a Prince so cautious as Henry