Welsh Journals

h Samuel Powell of Ivy House, Welshpool. J. P. Miss Joanna Cleaton of (iwenthro. Kerry. Rev. Thomas Powell1 of Montgomery. Richard Powell ot Newtown. Miss Blayney. Thomas Powell.3 Feeling unconvinced in spite of Mr. Thomas Powell's arguments that Cilgwrgan (which is in Llanmerewig Parish) was in seventeenth century deeds described as if in Dyffryn Llanfair (which is obviously either a part or the whole of Newtown Parish), I refrain from publishing the Deeds and Wills which he has so kindly lent me for inspection. ECCLESIASTICAL. The port of New Quay is situated in the p. 10G. Parish of Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire. Llanychaiarn, which was formerly also called Llanllwchaiarn, is two miles from Aberystwyth on the the left bank of Afon Ystwvth, Llanvchaiarn Church, having been restored in modern times, bears few traces of its past history. Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire, often pronounced wrongly as if it were Llanvchaiarn, is part of the Parliamentary Borough and Urban District of Newtown. Its Church, built in 1815, contains a few remains of an earlier edifice on the same site. The life of S. Llwchaiarn is contained in The Lives of British Saints, by the Revs. S. Baring-Gould, M.A., and John Fisher, BD, Vol. III. (1911); and the poem on S. Llwchaiarn, Cvwydd Llwchaiarn, is given in Vol. IV. (1913). The earlier Bonedds give Llwchaiarn's father's name as Hygarfael but this is shown to be a corruption of Caranfael I The Rev. Thomas Powell was Chaplain of Montgomery Gaol and Vicar of Forden, 1779 —1794 (vide Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol. XVI., p. 208). He was, my father said, tutor to the young Viscount Hereford, who presented him to a living in Pembrokeshire, but he preferred to reside at Montgomery. 3 This Richard Powell is said to have served in the American War of Independence and to have been wounded at Bunkers Hill. 3 Thomas Powell the Chartist (see Montgomeryshire Worthies).