Welsh Journals

source is N. Carlisle: A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales (1818). Of manuscript sources the original Charter is nearly illegible and its terms can be better read from the Preamble to the Act of 1760. Lord Taunton's Schools Inquiry Commission Report (1865) provided useful information on the school in the 19th century; as does the Report of the Committee appointed to Inquire into the Condition of Higher Education in Wales (1881) at a national level. The Bryce Report (1868) and the Arnold Report (1875), both to the Charity Commissioners give the background to the reforms needed in the 19th century. The Orders in Council outline the Charity Commissioner's Schemes of 1891 and 1910. Gwent County Records Office at Cwmbran has miscellaneous papers from 1632 to 1910; conveyances 1866-7 and accounts 1899-1919. The School's Foundation, of which a separate history could be written in itself has minute and account books from 1790+ and letters from 1869+. The Old Boys' Association magazine, The Gobannium (1928+) provides a fund of useful and useless information. There is an unpublished University of London thesis entitled, The History of Abergavenny Grammar School 1800-1900 by R. A. Owen. The records of Jesus College, Oxford illuminate the links between the College and the school, which have been published in an article by E. C. Thompson in the Jesus College Record (1966). The recently retired Headmaster Mr Russell Edwards, has researched his predecessors thoroughly and listed them in an article in The Gobannium (1975-6) and he has also kept together the few existing records left to the school, for which this author is grateful. Part I of this article appeared in Gwent Local History No. 59. Some "nicknames" rediscovered by Miss Primrose Hockey in the "Usk Gleaner" of 11th February, 1877. Abergavenny Bulldogs. Bristol Bugs or Hoggs. Builth Traitors. Blaenavon Tobacco Means tobacco is given away. Coleford Wide-a-wakers. Devonshire Dumplings. Dorset Hedge-the-Cuckoo. Glascoed Blacking Local name for mud. Goitre Dandies. Hereford White Faces. Monmouth Knives. Pirbright Savages. Pontypool Paved with gold. Trosnant Lined with silver. Pontymoile Doth stink with oil. Wiltshire Moonrakers. Usk Butterflies. Does any reader have more of these to add to the list? GLEANINGS