Welsh Journals

Record Office, and as its location had not yet been fixed, they hoped the adage, No news, good news," might yet be verified. They also hoped that the promise of the President that Fons Tysilio should be seen to and cared for, had not been forgotten. Death had removed two of their members, Mrs. Lloyd-Verney, who presented to the Club the armorial blocks provided by her uncle, Chevalier Lloyd, for his "History of Powys Fadog," and Mrs. Arthur Pughe of Llanfyllin. They had new members in Lord Kenyon, the London Library, St. James's Square, S.W., and Mrs. Llewelyn Howell. Owing to the irregularity of the issue of the Collections of late it was proposed that instead of the annual guinea subscription it should be a guinea for each completed volume. The issue of the current part had ended in a race against time. It contained articles of interest on "Ihe Cistercian Nunnery of Llanllugan," by Edward Owen, F.S.A.; The Decayed and Decaying Industries of Mont- gomeryshire," by J. M. Pearson "A Survey of the Lordship of Halcetor in 1609," by E. A. Lewis Speed's Account of Montgomeryshire in 1611," History of the Parish of Main- stone," by E. S. Mostyn Pryce: "Some Early Montgomery- shire Wills," by W. A. Griffiths, and a further instalment of the Montgomeryshire Records," of which there was, happily, a good supply in hand. Miss M. N. Owen had sent in an interesting account of "Forden Union during the Napoleonic Wars in 1795 — 1816," which would appear in the next part, and Mr. Dugdale was busily engaged on a further History of Llanfyllin." The finances of the Club were in a satisfactory state. THE YEAR'S WORK. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the Report, said the location of the Welsh Records Office was a subject that concerned them very nearly. The reason nothing had been heard on the subject was that the Act of Parliament had not yet passed authorising a Welsh Record Office. The claims of Welshpool and other places, were, however, under consideration, and they hoped Welshpool's claim would be successful. Although they had to record the loss of two members, they had three new ones, and he was especially glad to have among them Lord Kenyon, who had taken such an active and prominent part in all matters