Welsh Journals

[See Journal Vol. I, p. 51, for a note as to the purpose and scope of this section. — Editor], D.N.B.=The Dictionary of National Biography. JASPAR GRIFFITH (GRYFFYTH), WARDEN OF RUTHIN (d. 1614). (See Vol. I., pp. 168-70). Mr. W. Lloyd Davies, Bournemouth, has kindly supplied a reference to another important example of the autograph of Jaspar Griffith. It occurs on the title page of the copy of the Welsh Bible of 1588 which Bishop Morgan presented to the Library of West- minster Abbey. Mr. Davies refers to Charles Ashton: Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan, 1891, p. 138, for the text of the inscription which is attested by Jaspar Gruffydd. A facsimile of the title-page of this Bible, with the inscription recording the gift written and attested by Jaspar Gryffyd, faces page 10 of Thomas Powel Psalmau Dafydd .1896. E. D. JONES. JOHN BLACKWELL, Alun (1797-1840). (Gweler Cyf. I, t. 160.) Ysgrifenna Mr. Robert Roberts, Fflint, i gywiro'r dyddiad a roddwyd i farw Alun.' Dyfynna'r geiriau a ganlyn oddiar y maen ym Maenordeifi Obit xixmo die mensis maii A.D. MDCCCXL,' a chyfeiria at dystiolaeth Cymru (Owen Jones) ac Enwogion Cymru (Ffoulkes). Rhoes y Parch J. J. Jenkyns y dyfyniad hwn o lyfr claddu'r eglwys — Revd. John Blackwell buried May 26, 1840, aged 42 years.' Dywed fod elfen o aneglurder ynghylch y dydd o'r mis, ond yn ei farn ef 26 ydyw'r rhif ac nid 20. Ar y pedwerydd-ar- bymtheg, felly, y bu farw' Alun ac nid ar y pedwerydd-ar-ddeg fel y dywedir yn y D.N.B. ac, ar ei 61, yn y Cylchgrawn hwn. E. D. JONES. KATHERINE PHILIPS, THE Matchless Orinda,' (1631-1664. D.N.B. xlv, 177). KATHERINE PHILIPS, whose name was Fowler before her marriage in 1648 to James Philips! of The Priory, Cardigan, was born in London, January 1, 1631/2. One of the latest studies of the life and work of this minor poetess is the book by Philip Webster Souers, published in 193 at Cambridge, Mass., by the Harvard University Press under the title of The Matchless Orinda. As this book is so well-documented and the author appears to have been indefatigable in his examination of all kinds of material, it is rather surprising that he does not refer to N.L.W. MSS. 775-6, both of which contain autograph copies of her poems. The following poems in N.L.W. MSS. 775-6 do not appear in Poems: By the most I Her mother had already become a Philipps, her second husband being Sir Richard Philipps, Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire. Sir Richard's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Erasmus Dryden and aunt of John Dryden the poet,