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BYE-GONES FOR "1895-96. NEW SERIES. VOL. IV. NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on sub¬ jects interesting to Wales and the Borders, should be addressed to Editor, " Bye-Gones," Caxton Press, Oswestry. Beat names and addresses must be given in confidence, and MSS. must be written leyibly, on one side of the paper only. JANUARY 2, 1395. NOTE'S. HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.—it is interesting and useful to remind ourselves that history repeats itself, and that " perilous posi¬ tions " are not infrequent, in agriculture and other things. Looking through an old book of accounts and memoranda I chanced upon a por¬ tion of a circular. I give below all that remains of it, and it will be seen that agriculture was supposed to be in a perilous position, just as it is now, forty-five years ago. Shrawardine Castle, 6sh June, 1849. Sir, A special Meeting of the Montgomeryshire Farmers' Club will be held in the Club Room, Welch-Pool, at 1 o'clock on Monday the 18th inst., to take into consideration the present depressed state of the Agricultural Interest, with the view of laying before the Legislature the perilous posi¬ tion of the Farmers of the kingdom. W.O. LICENCES FOR SHROPSHIRE CHAPELS. —The following licences for Dissenting Chapels are in my possession. J. P.-J. Shropshire (to wit).—At the General Quarter Sessions of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King held at the Guildhall in Shrewsbury in and for the County of Salop on Tuesday in the week next after the Translation of Saint Thomas the Martyr (to wit) the tenth day of July ia the twenty fourth year of the Reigu of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord 1750 Before Sir Henry Edwardes and Sir Richard Corbett Baronets John W&lcot Richard Lyster Andrew Hill Esquires and others his Majesty's Justices assigned to keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and deter- VOL. I V.New Series [being Vol. 13th from the beginning.] mine divers Felonies and Trespasses and other Misdeeds in the said County done and committed and which are there to be heard m and determined. It is ordered by this Court that the new Chappel situate in Street Arthur in Oswestry in this County be recorded as a Place of religious Worship for his Majesty's protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England. By the Court. Richd. Baldwyn, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Salop. Shropshire.—At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King held at the Guildhall in Shrewsbury in and for the County of Salop on Tuesday in the Week next after the Translation of Saint Thomas the Martyr to wit the twelfth day of July in the twenty fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and eighty five Before Edward Pemberton, John Gardner, John Kynaston Esquires and others theire Fellow J ustices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misde¬ meanours in the same County done and com¬ mitted. Robert More Esquire Sheriff. Ordered that the Dwelling House of Richard Richards at Ruyton in this County be recorded as a Place of religious Worship for his Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England and it is here ordered accordingly. By the Court. J. Loxdale, -------- Dy.C.P. QUERIES. REMINISCENCES OF RODNEY IN SHROPSHIRE.—Can any of your readers state* the reason why the names of Rodney and other admirals of that time figure so prominently in this part of Shropshire ? At Baschurch we have the Admiral Duncan Inn, at Ruyton-of-the xi.-Towns the Admiral Benbow Inn, and ab Maesbury the Oddfellows' Lodge, established nearly seventy years ago, is named the Admiral Rodney Lodge. On the Breidden we have the