Welsh Journals

AN APPRECIATION. "In the churchyard of Welshpool is a stcnc- the Mnen Llcg. It is shapeless, and is said formerly to have stood in the abbey of Strata Marcella, and on it the abbots were installed. After the Dissolution it was brought to St. Mary's Church, and those who had to do penance were required to stand on it in a white sheet with a candle in one hand. During the Commonwealth the Puritan Vavasour Powell turned it out of the church, as an object of superstition; but "in the graveyard it continued to be regarded with some respect, and was in request as a Wishing Stone. Those very ardently desiring something mounted it, and turning thrice sunways framed their wish; and so quitting Welshpool, I took care to mount it, turned the right t way about, and wished prosperity to this cheerful little town and to its Powys Land Club." BARING-GOULD (s) A Book of North Wales.