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220 BYE-GONES. Nov. 15, 1893. tion of the Buildings, and subsequently entertained Lord Powis and a large number of other guests in the Powis HalL KEY PRESENTED TO THE EARL OE POWIS. NOVEMBER 15, 1893. NOTES. RECOLLECTIONS OF JACK MYTTON AT DINAS MAWDDWY, Continued (Sep. 27, 1893). —Mr Richard Edwards of Bridge House, Lither- land, near Liverpool, writes to me as follows :— I read, with great intertest. your notes in the Oswestry Advertiztr on " Jack " Mytton. The fol¬ lowing incident may be useful to you if you are collecting all you can concerning him :—When I was a little chap about 4 or 6 years old my parents lived at the Lion Inn, Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire. Mr Mytton always stayed there on his way to Dinas Mawddwy from Halston with his retinue of dogs and servants. My dear mother, who died about ten years ago, aged 77, has often told me that nothing delighted him more than to fill my then little fist with silver, which was to be all my own if I cursed and swore like a trooper. C.A. (To be Continued.) OSWESTRY.—I do not know whether the Act of Parliament removing Oswestry from Wales into England has ever been given in Bye-Qones. By an Act passed in the 27th year of the reign of Hen. VIIL (27 Hen. VIII., c. 26) the "hundred of Oswester" was " united, annexed, and joined to and with the county of Salop, as a member, part or parcel of the same." It was enacted by sec¬ tion 11 of this Act that the lordships of Oswester, Whetington, Masbrohe, and KnoMng, with their members, shall be taken, named, and known by the name of the hundred of Oswester in the county of Salop, and the inhabitants thereof shall be at¬ tendant and do every thing and things at every sessions, assize, and gaol-delivery to be holden within the county of Salop, as the inhabitants of all other hundreds do within the said county of Salop, according to the laws of this realm of England." Another Act passed seven years later (34 & 35 Hen. VIIL, c. 26) took away " the town or hamlet of Abertannad" from the county of Merioneth, and annexed it to the " county of Salop," and the " hundred of Oswestre" therein. T.E.M. A STORY OF TALHAIARN AND GWALLTER MECHAIN, — The following is a translation of part of a letter by Talhaiarn :— When I was about twenty-five years old, I trans¬ lated half-a-dozen lines of " Tarn O' Shanter," those lines beginning— " But pleasures are like poppies spread," and ending— " Vanishing amid the storm." I was then a clerk with Mr Penson, who was sur¬ veyor of the county bridges in Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire. Some work was carried out under my superintendence at Newtown, and in the new gaol at Montgomery, and some bridges over the Severn. I had a snug little pony, which carried me hundreds of times to survey the bridges in both counties. (I was in Mr Penson's service thirteen years.) __ It was at Montgomery that I made the translation, and I was proud of the work you can de¬ pend on it. Moreover, one evening I went on the pony through Berriew to Manafon, a distance of about ten miles, to ask the opinion of Gwallter Mechain, on my masterly work forsooth! I reached there about six in the evening, and rapped at the door. The servant girl answered. I asked if Mr Davies was at home. She answered " Yes, sir.' " Have the kindness to tell him that Mr Jones, Mr