Welsh Journals

bought for £ 500 to be used for the militia stores, etc. It was used for this purpose until 1876, when the Radnorshire Militia was joined with the Breconshire Militia, the house being sold the following year to Beddoes Grammar School. The officers of the Militia were given permission in 1865 to use the Grand Jury Room at the Shire Hall for their mess during training. A curious incident occurred in 1855. Whent he Court opened on. 5th January only five jurymen were present. It was found that the summoning bailiff had forgotten to summon both the Grand and Petty Jurors. The Court had to adjourn for a week, and the bailiff was fined £ 5. The following list of Deputy Lieutenants of the County about the year 1835 includes the names of most of the best-known county families of that period :-Major James Barnes, Presteigne Sir Harford Jones Brydges, Bart., Boultibrook James Davies, Moorcourt, Leominster Lyndon Evelyn, Kinsham Court; Lord Harley Edward Jenkins, M.D., Nantygroes Thomas Frankland Lewis, Harpton Court (created a baronet in 1846) Peter Rickards Mynors, Evenjobb Court; The Earl of Oxford, Eywood Richard Price, Norton House John Cheesment Severn, Penybont Hall Ven. Richard Venables, D.D., Archdeacon of Carmarthen Sir John Benn Walsh, Bart., Cefnllys (afterwards first Lord Ormathwaite) Sir John James Garbett Walsham, Knill Court; John Whittaker, Newcastle Court. The following, among others, were County Magistrates about the year 1880 :­R. W. Banks, James Beavan, Sir Harford J. Jones Brydges, Bart., Edward Coates, G. A. Haig, Sir Gilbert Frankland Lewis, Bart., Herbert Frankland Lewis, Robert B. R. Mynors, T. B. Mynors, Lord Ormathwaite, Cecil Otway, G. H. Phillips, Sir Richard Green-Price, Bart., R. Dansey Green-Price, Charles Coltman Rogers, J. P. Severn, General J. R. Sladen, J. and W. Gwynne Vaughan, J. Williams Vaughan, Rev. R. L. Venables (Chairman), Hon. A. H. S. Walsh, J. W. Gibson Watt, S. C. Evans Williams, M.P. Rather later in the 'eighties, we come across the names of James Allgood Beebee, Walter de Winton, and Francis Lyndon Evelyn.