whereof Mr. Wm. Salusburie of Rûg was governor under hys majestie. God save the kinge and realme. God sende us peace in Christe Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Mem. That upon Thursdaie ye xvj of April ye town and castle of Denbigh were taken by the Parliament men, and the market upon the Wednesday afterwards was kept at the Elme tree in the bottom of the town, that is above or near the Lady Salisburys house in the lower end of Denbighe.

Mem. The gallon of butter was sold for xxs.

The following extracts are also from the same Regis

ter:

1615.-Upon Saturday in the morning of xxij of July, Hugh brother to Mr. Piers Pennant of Bychdan, Esq. died, having been hurt upon the head by one Piers Hughes upon the Monday before.

This brawl is mentioned by Pennant in his History of Whitford (p. 49), who had also access to, and made some use of, Peter or Pierce Roberts' memoranda. This Piers Pennant, who was the first of the Pennant family that served as sheriff (which he did in 1612), married into a family which Pennant mentions was not of a very peaceable character; and that from this marriage was inherited the pugnacious qualities of their descendants. His eldest son, Thomas, killed his miller, and was convicted of manslaughter, but pardoned by Charles I, 1625. (History of Whitford.)

1617.-Mem. Upon Tuesday beinge the first day of April, about viij of the clocke in ye morning, the Rt. Honble. Rafe L'd Eure, L'd President of the Marches, died in the Castle of Ludlow, and was buried at midnight following.

1626. By reporte, upon Saturday the 4th of November, about twilight, John ab Richard of Cwybyn, and Elizabeth dau. of Evan Llwyd of Wigvair, were married clandestinely in the Chapel of Ffynon Vair by John Williams, clarke (ancestor of Mr. George Griffiths of Garne, A. 41).

1630.-Pont Davyd Esgob, together with two little bridges between it and the cathedral, were set up of newe with stones, whereas before they were made of tymber, £151 being levied out of the whole county of Flint.

The above repairs, the same as those mentioned at p. 323, occupied from June to October.

The original Register of Pierce Roberts has vanished, but fortunately Miss Lloyd of Rhyl had previously made a transcript of it, and from which the above is extracted. It was given by the late Lord Mostyn to Lloyd, the author of Beaumaris Bay, and subsequently bequeathed to Miss Lloyd together with a large number of MSS.; but which, from the ignorance or neglect of the executor, never reached that lady. Pierce Roberts was an attorney, and the registrar of St. Asaph, and lived on his own estate of Bronwylfa. His son William had Pembedw Ucha, probably from his mother, an heiress; but on his father's death he resided at the paternal mansion of Bronwylfa, where his fourth and youngest son was born in 1645. According to this account the son must have continued the Register, unless the birth of his son in 1645, at Bronwylfa, happened from the accident of his wife's visiting her father-in-law at the time.

E. L. BARNWELL.

THE SMALL CROSS AT PENALLY.

PENALLY appears, from the early Christian remains discovered there, to have been a favourite spot with the artistic monks of the middle ages. In addition to the very beautiful cross here figured, which stands near the west end of the church, there is a curious, large, flat stone, ornamented with rude dragon-patterns, in the churchyard to the north side of the church; and two small but very interesting stones, one ornamented with an interlaced ribbon-pattern, inscribed "Hec est crux quam ædificavit Mail Domnc......" in Hiberno-Saxon minuscule letters; and the other covered with the peculiar Chinese-like pattern which is found in many of the oldest Irish and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, were found some years ago in the vestry of the church, and which ought to be affixed to the inner walls of the church itself for safer preservation.

The elegant cross in the churchyard, here drawn to a scale of one inch to a foot, is six feet and a half high, and is ornamented on both sides with interlaced ribbonpatterns of an ordinary character on the west side, the edges, and portion of the eastern side. The latter, however, is more elaborate than the western side, shewing that its present position, facing the western end of the church, is that for which it was designed. The slightly enlarged boss of the cross, on this eastern side, exhibits an unusual angulated and interlaced ornament; of which Mr. Petrie has given an example from Glendalough, in his work on the Round Towers, and others occur in the Scotch crosses; whilst in the upper part of the shaft the interlacement is carried up into a remarkable vegetable form, with leaves, berries, and intertwining stems.

The head of the cross is formed of four equal-sized arms, of the Maltese shape, ornamented with interlaced. ribbons, and having a boss in the centre, and the spaces between the arms are pierced. The whole of the cross has a narrow, raised line with oblique impressions along the outer margin. The peculiar, foliated ornamentation of this cross, united to the more ancient interlaced patterns, induces me to think that it is not of an earlier date than the twelfth century.

I. O. WESTWOOD.