Welsh Journals

Art of Stenographie,' by John Willis. The British Museum has a copy (anonymous) dated 1602. In the Eglington Bailey collection in the Manchester Reference Library there is a copy with an engraved title, dated 1628, but the imprint of this, the thirteenth, edition is 1644, and the work is said to be revised for this edition shortly before his death.' The title, a long one for so tiny a volume, begins: The Art of Stenographie Or, Short-Writing, by Spelling Characterie. Invented by John Willis, Bachelor in Divinitie.' A previous owner has precisely dated the book in writing 'Septemb. ye 13th, 1644.' NoTE.-The MS. here described is one of the treasures of the University College Library at Bangor (lately presented to it by Col. R. W. Williams Wynn, D.S.O., Plas-yn-Cefn, St. Asaph). The writer of the article, the Rev. Alex. Gordon, M.A., is not only an acknowledged authority on all religious developments in this country since the Reformation, but has also a very intimate know- ledge of the shorthand systems of the 17th century. We owe him many thanks for his contribution to the Journal. — Ed. A Puzzle or Two. From THE EDITOR. (i) William Hughes of Gray's Inn. There was published in London in 1641 a small book in quarto called The Parson's Law. The author was one William Hughes of Gray's Inn. The preface asserts it was examined by the then Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and approved by Archbishop Laud. Bishop Lucy of St. David's found it very useful in buttressing up charges against his brother of Gloucester, and to lay as a trump card before Archbishop Sheldon in 1666 (Bodl. Add. MS. c. 305, ff. 333-333 V). In the Catalogue of the Library of Gray's Inn (1906), a William Hughes is named as the author of other.books on law Commentaries upon Original Writs, 4lo, 1655. The Grand Abridgment of the Law, 3 vols., ^to, 1660­1662. Hughes's Quceries, 12MO, 1675.