Welsh Journals

i englysshe the confessyon off the louer maad, and compyled by John Gower, squyer, born in Wales, etc. etc." Blore seems to think, because Thomas Berthelette, who issued the second edition of the Confessio (1532), and the third (1544), left out Caxton's reference to the poet's native country in those editions, that it had been discovered it was a mistake. Blore also refers to authorities that claim Stitenham, in Yorkshire, and Brabone, in Kent, as the poet's birth-place. Has this question been discussed by Welsh historians at all ? The name Gower topographically is so closely associated with Wales, as a form of Gwyr probably, that there would be a strong presumption for the personal name also to be associated with Wales, and when that presumption is strengthened by such old statements as the above borne in Walys,' does the presumption not become a probability ? Llysfaen Rectory. T. LLECHID JONES. Welsh Bibliographical Society. ANNUAL MEETING, 1926. THE Annual Meeting of the Society was held at St. Paul's Chapel, St. Helen's Road, Swansea, on August 5, 1926. The members were received at 5.0 p.m. by Mrs. Henry Folland of Llwynderw (" Lili'r Dyffryn "), who generously entertained her guests to an excellent tea. The thanks of the meeting were tendered to Mrs. Folland for her kindness, and she was unanimously elected a Vice-President of the Society. Among those who accepted invitations were Sir E. Vincent Evans, Sir John and Lady Morris Jones, Professor and Mrs. Henry Lewis, Mr. D. J. Jones (the Chaired Bard), Dr. Mary Williams, Dr. J. Arbour Stephens, Professor W. H. Harris, Principal Maurice Jones, the Vicar of Aber- pergwm, Mr. T. J. Evans, London Rev. and Mrs. D. Eurof Walters, Rev. M. H. Jones, Mr. Hugh Evans, Rev. W. A. Lewis of Liverpool, Mr. William Davies, Morriston; Rev. W. R. Watkin, Llanelly; Mr. Hugh Morris, Corwen Mr. John Williams, London Mr. W. Gilbert Williams, Rhostryfan Rev. Dr. Gwylfa Roberts, Miss Dillwyn Llewelyn, Penllergaer; Mrs. David Harris, Miss Watts, Mr. William Lewis, J.P., Miss A. J. Stepney Gulston, Derwydd; Mr. E. W. Cemlyn Jones, Miss Mag-