I do not recollect whether this officer succeeded in establishing the right; but the following account of a similar privilege in another part of the country is founded on fact, and may furnish amusement to some of your readers: About the latter end of the reign of Richard I., Randal Blundeville, Earl of Chester, was closely besieged by the Welsh in his Castle, in Flintshire.

Suppose that crooked cop had welshed on him!

Other European peoples pity the Poles or the Welsh for their violated borders; but Germans only pity themselves.

The civil war had violently interrupted the peaceful processes by which Henry I. sought to bring the Welsh under English law.

His language is a constant tongue; the northern speech differs from the south, Welsh from the Cornish; but canting is general, nor ever could be altered by conquest of the Saxon, Dane, or Norman.

[Footnote 1: 'Hoel:' from the Welsh of Aneurim, styled 'The Monarch of the Bards.'

OFFA'S DYKE, an entrenchment and rampart between England and Wales, 100 m. long, extending from Flintshire as far as the mouth of the Wye; said to have been thrown up by Offa, king of Mercia, about the year 780, to confine the marauding Welsh within their own territory.

She is not Welsh by birth, though she is so by marriage,she being united to one of the great iron-masters.

In the evening I preached in Welsh to about 70 people, in a small "upper room."

"He tried to do a welsh with it, and I caught him just as he was getting over the fence.

(1) In 710 King Ina of Wessex pushed the West Welsh beyond the Tone and erected a castle at Taunton as a barrier against their return.