the beginning of the seventeenth century.  He received his education at Shrewsbury School, and Westminster, and was entered at the Middle Temple to study law.  His father’s family being large, his allowance was consequently very scanty, but his industry and ingenuity supplied all deficiencies.  On commencing his professional career, he was made a citizen of London through the interest of a relation; and he was subsequently chosen recorder of the corporation.  This high station recommended him to the notice of the court, and furthered his advancement.  He was appointed successively a Welsh Judge, and Chief Justice of Chester, and created a baronet.  Having been appointed Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, he was employed to prosecute the adherents of the Duke of Monmouth, which office he executed with great cruelty, and for his zeal in this service he was rewarded by the vindictive and cold-hearted James with the post of Lord High Chancellor.  It is acknowledged, however, that he showed himself an able and impartial judge in cases which were not connected with politics.  On the accession of William the Third, he was committed to the Tower, where he died in April, 1689.  He was succeeded in his title and estates by his only son, whose daughter was married to Earl Pomfret; and after his death, she presented the noble collection, known by the name of Pomfret marbles, to the University of Oxford.

William Lleyn was a very celebrated Welsh bard, and flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  He was a native of Llangain in Lleyn, in Caernarvonshire.  He excelled all the bards of his time in sublimity of thought and poetic fire, and was much admired for the sprightliness of his wit.  His compositions are remarkable for grave sentences, and maxims of policy and wisdom.  He had a poetical contest with Owain Gwynedd, a contemporary bard, which is still extant, besides several other pieces which have never been published.  He died at Oswestry.

David Jenkins was born at Hensol, in Glamorganshire, in 1586.  He was educated at Edmund Hall, Oxford, and entered at Gray’s Inn.  Being called to the bar, he was subsequently made a Welsh Judge, and continued in this office until he was taken prisoner by the parliamentary forces at Hereford, and imprisoned in the Tower of London.  Having rendered himself obnoxious to the parliament, in consequence of his having condemned, when judge, several who had taken arms against the King, he was brought before the House of Commons; whose authority he denied, and called the whole assembly a den of thieves; being provoked by this language, they voted him guilty of high treason, and sentenced him to be hanged; on which he undauntedly observed that he would suffer with the Bible under one arm and Magna Charta under the other.  He escaped however this punishment, but was fined 1,000l. for contempt, and his estates were confiscated.  He was committed to Newgate, where he remained until the Restoration; but it does not appear that he obtained any reward for his courage and fidelity from the forgetful Charles.  He died in 1667, at Cambridge.

Sir Leoline Jenkins, L.L.D., was born in 1623, at Llantrisaint, in the county of Glamorgan, and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford.  When the civil war broke out, he took arms for the King, and upon the failure of the royal cause he left the kingdom.  On the Restoration he returned to Jesus College, and was elected fellow, and in 1661, he became the principal.  He was afterwards admitted an advocate at Doctors’ Commons; and with other eminent civilians he was appointed to review the maritime laws, and to compile a body of rules for the adjudication of prizes, which became the standard of the Court of Admiralty.  He was made judge of the same court in 1665, and in 1668, of the Prerogative Court in Canterbury.  He was likewise sent on an embassy to the Dutch.  On his return he was chosen member for the University of Oxford, sworn of the privy council, and appointed secretary of state, which office he resigned in 1684.  On the accession of James, he was again elected member for Oxford, but was prevented by ill health from sitting in that parliament, and died in 1685.  His letters and papers were collected and published by W. Wynne, in two folio volumes; and all his estate was bequeathed by him for charitable uses, and chiefly to Jesus College.

Thomas Johnes was born of an ancient Welsh family in Ludlow, in 1748.  He was educated at Eton, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he proceeded to his Master’s degree.  He was the proprietor of the estate of Havod, in Cardiganshire, where he built a splendid mansion, and occupied himself there in planting trees, and otherwise improving his property.  He also devoted himself to literary pursuits, the fruits of which are elegant editions of the “Chronicles of Froissart and Monstrelet,” and several other works, all of which he himself translated from the French, and printed at his own establishment at Havod.  He first obtained a seat in parliament for the borough of Cardigan, and afterwards for the county of Radnor; he was likewise auditor for Wales, and colonel of the Caermarthenshire militia.  In 1807, his library, consisting of the finest typographical productions, and containing a number of valuable Welsh manuscripts, was burnt in a fire which nearly destroyed the whole house.  He died in 1816.

Edward Jones, D.D., was born near the town of Montgomery, and was educated at Westminster School, whence he was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow in 1667.  He became master of Kilkenny College, and dean of Lismore, in Ireland, and was made bishop of Cloyne, and in 1692 he was translated to the see of St. Asaph.  His translation to this diocese was entirely owing to his being a native of the country.  He died at Westminster in 1703.

[For an account of Edward Jones, Bardd y Brenin,—see Addenda.]

Owen Jones, the distinguished Welsh antiquary, whose name will be ever associated with the Welsh language, was born in Llanvihangel Glyn-y-myvyr, Denbighshire, in 1741.  In early life he removed to London, and entered the employment of an eminent furrier, whom he eventually succeeded.  Being enthusiastically interested in the antiquities of his native country, he devoted a great portion of his time to the collecting of Welsh manuscripts; and the result of his disinterested patriotism has been the publication of the “Archaiology of Wales,” in three volumes, entirely at his own expense.  He also procured transcripts of ancient Welsh poetry, amounting to fifty volumes, quarto, which invaluable collection is now deposited in the Cymmrodorion Library, in London.  He published the works of the famous poet, Davydd ap Gwilym, and also “Dihewyd y Cristion.”  In 1772, Mr. Jones, formed the Gwyneddigion Society, for the purpose of patronizing the Bards of Wales, and promoting the study of the Welsh language; and this excellent society annually offers prize medals, and other rewards for compositions on various subjects.  After a most useful and active life, this amiable man, whose zeal was only equalled by his private worth, died at his house in Thames-street, London, September, 1814, in the seventy-third year of his age.

Inigo Jones, whose proper name was Ynyr, which in his travels in Italy, he Italianized into Inigo, was born at Llanrwst, Denbighshire, about the year 1572.  Being originally destined for a mechanical employment, he emerged from obscurity by dint of talent, which recommended