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bye-gonEs. #eb. 14, 1906, 1858 :—"A collier's wife recently applied to the sexton of Ruabon Church for ever so small a portion of a human skull for the purpose of grating it similar to ginger, to be afterwards added to some mixture, which she intended giving to her daughter as a remedy against fits, to which she was subject." The writer says this practice was declared to exisb more or less all over the country. Perhaps some correspondent could give other local instances of this supersti¬ tion? W.B. HOTEL BOOKS IN WALES. -Household Words (Nov. 25, 1899, p. 75), in an article en¬ titled " Humour of Visitors' Books," quotes the following :— In the visitors' book of a Welsh hotel a traveller left these lines, signed " Tennyson " :— Break, break, break, on thy cold grey stones, O sea, And drown with thy might the unhappy wight That stays at this hostel of D. The landlord's a rogue, The hostess a shrew, The extras are many, The comforts are few, And curs'd be this hostel at D. Oar next example comes from Llandudno :— Here you find, If you've a mind, Fleas and little order, High charge and soft sawder. The well-known lines on the weather in the boo at Bala, and those by Charles Kingsley, Tom Taylor and Thomas Hughes at Owen's Hotel, Pen-y-gwryd, are also given. X.Y.Z. JACK MYTTON.— The following particulars are taken from the Halston Register. J.E.A. 1798. Sept. 30. John, s. of John Mytton, Esq., & Sarah Harriet, was born on Fridav, 30th Sept., 1796, bapt. Oct. 3 by Wm. Davies, Clerk, & christened in Halston House, the 18th July, 1797, by John Robert Lloyd, Clerk. His Sponsors were Wm. Owen, Esq., of Woodhouse; John Corbett, Esq., Sundorn; Mrs Rebecca Mytton, his grand¬ mother. 1818. May 21, John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, & Emma Jone3, d. of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart., of Stanley Hall, co. Salop, mar. in St. George's Church, Hanover Sq., London, by lie, by William Douglas, Canon of Salisbury. 1819. April 25. Harriett Emma Charlotte, d. of John Mytton, Esq. & Harriet Emma, b. April 23rd ; bapt. 25th of that mo. by W. Wynn Owen ; & Christened in Halston Church, Dec. 21st, 1823, by W. Wynn Owen, Chaplain. 1820. July 12. Harriet Emma Jones, d. of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, & w. of John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, died at Cliffden, Somerset, on 2 July, 1820, & was bur. in Halston Chapel, on 12 July, 1820, by W. Wynn Owen, Chaplain. 1821. Oct. 29. John Mytton. Esq., of Halston, & Caroline Mallet Giffard, of Chillington, co. Stafford, were mar. by Banns, in the Parish Church of firewood in the co. of Stafford. 1822. Aug. 9. Barbara Augusta, d. of John & Caroline Mallet Mytton, b. at Halston, Aug. 9; bapt. on 18th of same month, 1822, by W. Wynn Owen, Chaplain, & Christ, in Halston Ch., Dec. 21, 1823. 1823. Nov. 20. John Fox Fitz-Giffard, s. of John & Caroline Mallet Mytton, b. at Halston, Nov. 20; & bapt. on 24th of same month by W. Wynn Owen, Chaplain ; & Christ, in Halston Ch. Dec. 21st, 1823. 1825. Jan. 9. Charles Orville, s. of John & Caroline Mallet Mytton, b. at Halston, Jan. 8th, and bapt. Jan. 9th by W. Wynh Owen, Chaplain. 1826. April 10. Euphrates Henry, s. of John & Caroline Mallet Mytton, b, at Halston, April 10, 1826, & bapt. 19th by Lloyd Fletcher, Minister of Overton. 1827. April 30. William Harper, s. of John Mytton, Esq., and Caroline Mallet his wife; born. 1834. April 9. John Mytton was bur. in the vault of Halston Chapel, aged 39; Edward Owen, Officiating Minister. 1834. July 27. Charles Orville Mytton, (died July 24) was bur. in the vault in Halston Chapel by C. A. A. Lloyd, Rector of Whittington. 1834. Aug. 28. Euphrates Henry Mytton (died Aug. 26) was bur. in the vault of Halston Chapel, by C. A. A, Lloyd, Rector of Whittington. 1841. Oct. 19. Caroline Mallet Mytton, wid. of the late John Mytton, buried in the vault in Halston Chapel, by C. A. A. Lloyd, Rector of Whittington, QUERIES. EISTEDDFOD AT TAFF'S WELL, NEAR CARDIFF.—Can any correspondent give me the date of an Eisteddfod at Taffs Well, at which the late Telynog won a prize for a Pryddest on " Yr Afon " ? D.M.R. SHROPSHIRE DIALECT (Jan. 31, 1900, et ante). Tetheroy.—A lady, who was born near Bridgnorth about the beginning of the century, told me that a strange practice prevailed in tho neighbourhood of Sidbury, in the days when excessive drinking was fashionable. When one of a convivial party was suspected of being tipsy, he would " dance Tetheroy," which was done by capering around a lighted candle placed upon a table. If he could keep hia balance, and avoid touching the light, he proved his sobriety, and triumphantly exclaimed— A man is neither drunk nor mad, If he can dance Tetheroy, Tetheroy. Did the practice exist elsewhere, and what is the etymology of the name ? Brown Clee. JOHN TREVOR OF OSWESTRY.—It is stated in a letter, dated the 12th of March, 1536, and addressed from Ludlow by Bishop Rowland Lee, the Lord President of the Council of Wales, to Mr Secretary Crumwell, that one "John Trevour of Oswestre, gentleman," had recently gone " to the wood, in felowshippe with Robert ap Morico, of late, in like maner, gone to the