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deposited in the Library, all contain several things by or relating to Humphreys (e.g. Bodewryd MSS. 8, 9, 11, 27, 29, 73, 75, 89, & 103, Bodewryd Document 535, and Sotheby Documents 606, 607, and 644 are typical examples. Bodewryd MS. 9 contains a bio- graphical account in the autograph of Edward Wynne of Bodewryd, Chancellor of Here- ford, who died in 1755). N.L.W. MS. 541 contains a letter in his autograph relating to the family of a predecessor, Robinson, in the see of Bangor (see also Bodewryd MS. 9), whilst N.L.W. MS. 13,186 is also of interest to the future biographer of the bishop. For the bookplate of the bishop see illustration facing page 134; see also Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (Bliss's edition, Vol. IV, 1820), for his arms. W. LL. DAVIES. THE REVEREND JOHN GRIFFITHS (? 1732-1825). JOHN GRIFFITHS of Y Fagwyrgoch Fawr, Morfil, Pembrokeshire, fourth child of Philip and Elizabeth Griffiths of Pencnwc, Llandysilio, originally an unbeneficed clergy- man, schoolmaster, and farmer, became subsequently curate of Llandysilio (1788) and vicar of Llanycefn (1799)1. Considerable information bearing on his life and activities is contained in two small volumes of his private memoranda, covering the periods 1759- 1778 and 1786-1795, which are in the custody of the incumbent of Llandysilio. They contain a list of christenings, weddings, and burials which he solemnized on behalf of pluralist parsons in over twenty parishes in North and Central Pembrokeshire; par- ticulars of offerings which he received and of sermons which he preached; a list of some of the scholars who attended his schools a catalogue of books in his library, some one thousand in number, and entries of loans issued to his neighbours and friends an account of his household and farming receipts and disbursements and of the labour which he employed and a collection of toasts, sentiments, and hob-nobs.' Extracts from these volumes were published by D. Pugh Evans in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Series V, Vol. XV, pp. 242 et seq., and by George Eyre Evans in The Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, Vol. I, pp. 190 et seq. A transcript of them and a short biography of John Griffiths, both by Edward Laws, and a few autograph letters relating thereto are contained in one of the manuscripts in the Henry Owen Collection in the Library (N.L.W. MS. 1372). B. G. OWENS. HUGH HOLLAND (?1563-1633; D.N.B. xxvii, 146). Some poems by Hugh Holland appear in the late Louise Imogen Guiney's Recusant Poets, 1, Saint Thomas More to Benjonson, London and New York Sheed & Ward, 1938. The poems are preceded by some biographical and bibliographical details concerning Holland. According to the D.N.B. the poet was a native of Denbigh, whence he pro- ceeded to Westminster School and afterwards, in 1590, to Trinity College, Cambridge. The first of Holland's poems reprinted in this volume is Widowhood Queen Katherine of Valois.' This is Katherine, daughter of King Charles VI of France, wife of King Henry V and mother of King Henry VI of England, and afterwards the wife of Owen Tudor of Penmynydd, Anglesey, and, therefore, grandmother of King Henry VII. Shakespearean scholars are familiar with the verses by Hugh Holland which follow some by Ben Jonson in the first folio, i.e. the 1623, edition of Shakespeare which are headed 4 Vpon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet, Master William Shakespeare.' 1 He resigned this living in 1818. See Historical Society of West Wales Transactions, Vol. II, p. 265.