ing to be such Bishop as aforesaid. And that the trust fund shall be transferred as occasion may require, so as to be always vested in the Bishops of the before-named sees for the time being.

Provided lastly that no trustee of these presents shall be answerable for the others of them, and by no means for involuntary losses; and that the receipt of any trustee for any sum of money payable under or by virtue hereof shall be a valid discharge for the same.

In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

C. (L.S.) BANGOR.

THOMAS VOWLER (L.S.) ST. ASAPH.

E. (L.S.) LLANDAFF.

C. (L.S.) ST. DAVID'S.

(L.S.) POWIS.

The public notice, which is required to be given three calendar months before an examination shall take place for a vacant exhibition, is in the following form:

] Exhibitions of the value of £60 a-year each, tenable at any College or Hall at either of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, are intended to be filled up before the next University examination of the Candidates, which will take place at

and will commence on the o'clock in the forenoon.

day of

Term after an

,

next, at

Candidates are requested to send their names, addresses, and certificates of baptism, with testimonials of conduct and character, 10 days at least before the commencement of the examination, endorsed "Powis Exhibitions," addressed to CHARLES SHAW, Esq., 55, Charing Cross, London.

Candidates must be natives of Wales or of one of the four Welsh dioceses, under 20 years of age upon the 10th of October next ensuing, acquainted with the Welsh language, members of the Church of England, and intending to become candidates for Holy Orders.

The Exhibitions will be tenable for four years, by persons who, at the time of their election, are not members of either University, and will date from their matriculation; and by persons who at the time of their election, are members of either University, till the close of the term in which the degree of Bachelor of Arts is due to the holder.

Those Candidates, who may fail in the first or Welsh part of the examination, will not be examined in Theology or Classics.

The Exhibitions will be awarded according to superiority in the second branch of the examination; but if two Candidates should be so nearly equal in the second branch, that the examiners are unable to adjudge the superiority in that branch to either, such Candidates will be classed according to their superiority in the first branch of the examination.

The subjects of examination are divided into two parts, and comprise1st, Welsh reading, composition, and speaking.

2nd, Theology and Classics.

The New Testament in Greek.

Homer's "Iliad", Xenophon's "Anabasis", Virgil's "Eneid", "Cicero de Officiis", and Latin composition in prose.

The examinations for Exhibitions have taken place at Birmingham, where the courtesy of the authorities of King Edward's School has afforded the means of meeting in the most central spot for the two divisions of the Principality.

ABERFFRYDLAN.

IN THE PARISH OF LLANWRYN, CO. MONTGOMERY.

WHEN a smaller estate, by descent or sale, is swallowed up in a greater, the mansion of the former is generally allowed to fall into decay, and at last is pulled down to make way for a modern farm-house. Such is not the case with Aberffrydlan, in the parish of Llanwryn, in Montgomeryshire, and it seems desirable to give an account of it, and of any other old mansions which may remain under like circumstances. Much of the old house, probably the greater part, is standing. The present kitchen, which seems to have been the hall, is a large room, with a very good old oak roof, of moulded beams and rafters, and the windows have their good solid oak mullions remaining. They are of the seventeenth century, probably early in the century. The original house door is as it was, and studded with large nails. There were two doors of entrance to the hallat the east end-both are in situ, but one is nailed up, and has its old hinges. The fireplace, now at the end, was originally in the centre of the north side of the room. It is walled up, but the original chimney remains. Many of the rooms, including those up and down stairs, have their chimney pieces and cornices, as they were in the days of the old possessors. On the staircase are portions of another mullioned window. On the barn, of brick, with some freestone quoins, not unlike a barn at Glanmachlas, in the parish of Llanegryn, formerly belonging to the same proprietor, is a slab of stone, with the following initials: I. B. W., 1762." (Jane, Viscountess Dowager Bulkeley, of Peniarth, who, after her second marriage with Edward Williams, Esq.,

always signed her name "Jane Bulkeley Williams.") In the entrance passage (on the right) is a doorway, with a "debased" seventeenth century arch. The hall opens out of this passage, on the left side.

Aberffrydlan was for many generations the property of a family of the name of Pughe, a branch of the great house of Mathavarn, in the same parish. By the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of йumphrey Pughe, Esq., with Richard Owen of Peniarth, Esq., who died in 1714, it passed into that family, and was sold, about the year 1827, by their descendant, the late Wm. Wynne, Esq., to the late Sir John Edwards, Bart. It now belongs to his only child and heiress, the Marchioness of Londonderry. May we express a hope that many other old mansions may be preserved as this has been.

W.