1723, Nov. 5. To the Ducking Stool 9 lb. iron, 28. 9d." (Ib.)

"Bull-baiting continued to be a favourite amusement at Swansea till 1769, when it ceased to be patronized at the expense of the Corporation. In 1748 the Bullring was removed from Greenhill to the Town's-end, and again in 1754 to the Burrows. Every butcher who killed a bull without its having been baited was fined, and the fine varied from 38. 4d. to 18. according to the size of the animal." (p. 26.)

The town furnished the collars and ropes required for this essential preliminary to the enjoyment of tender rump steaks.

"The two oldest houses for public entertainment were said to have been the Golden Lion in the Market-place, and the Star in Wind Street; both of which were pulled down about twenty or thirty years ago. At the latter, the late Col. Llewelyn informed me, that when he was a boy (about 1770) the only postchaise in this part of Wales was kept; and Tom Diawle, whom many of us may remember, was said to have had the honour of being the first driver of any Swansea chaise." (Ib.)

We may here remark that the sign of the former inn was probably the Golden Lion of the arms of Braose of Gower, the ancient lords of the town.

In 1646, April 27, a Common Hall was held before " Philip Jones, Stew

art and Governor of the Town."

"His residence, in 1650, was in High Street, and in the accounts of 1657-8 he is called Philip Lord Jones. He must somehow have feathered his nest very comfortably; for, in Burton's Diary, with the date of January 1656-7, it is said that

Philip Jones, who has now 7000l. per annum, was born but to 81. or 101. a year,' and this might have been the value of Penywain; and from an old pedigree of Mr. Traherne's, he appears to have been the son of one David Philip John ap Rees, of Penywain, in the parish of Llangafelach." (p. 28.)

The Lord Philip Jones, one of the members of Cromwell's Upper House, was Comptroller of the Household to the Lord Protector, and some account of him will be found in Noble's Memoirs of the House of Cromwell, vol. i. p. 402, communicated by his descendant, the late celebrated Rev. W. Jones of Nayland in Suffolk.

Of another remarkable personage of this name, an interesting memorial appears in the frontispiece, and at p. 45 we find our last volume quoted (April, p. 416) with respect to the two remarkable letters of the Duke of York and Earl of Warwick, in which Sir Hugh Johnes was recommended as a suitor to Lady Elizabeth Wydville, afterwards the Queen of Edward the Fourth. (These letters, which were communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. Halliwell, have since been contributed by that gentleman to Miss Agnes Strickland's Memoirs of the Queens of England.) It appears that Sir Hugh Johnes lived at Landimore Castle, which is now in ruins, near the village of Cheriton ; his actual wife was Maud, daughter of Sir Rees Cradock, and they were buried in Swansea church, under a stone still adorned with their effigies in brass plate (of which an engraving is given by Mr. Dillwyn) and the following epitaph:

"Pray for the sowle of Sir Hugh Johnys knight, and dame Mawde his wife, holy sepulchre of our lord ih'u crist in which S Hugh was made Knight at the the city of Jerusalem the iiij day of August, the year of oure lord gode M'cccc xlj. And the said sir Hugh had cotynuyd in the werris ther long tyme byfore by the space of fyve yeres, that is to sey ageynst the Turkis and Sarsyns in the parts of troy, grecie, and turky stantynenople, and after that was marunder John yt tyme Emperowre of Con

chall of Frawnce under John duke of Somerset by the space of fyve yeres. And in likewise after that was knight marchall of Ingland under the good John duke of Norfolke, which John ygave unto hym the manor of landymo' to hym and his heyres for evermore, uppon whose soulles ih'u have mercy."

In the title page is a cut of the ancient seal of the Corporation of Swansea, in lieu of which one ensigned with the portcullis of the house of Beaufort has been used during the two last centuries. The old seal represents a castle and a shield of arms above it; a local herald has chosen to regard the whole design as the arms of the town, and has favoured the author with the following absurd "emblazonment :”

Gules, a Castle double towered argent, the portcullis half down or, on

each tower a banner of the last; above the Castle on a shield or, an eagle (or osprey) rising regardant with a fish (the tail end) in its mouth, both proper." We have met with other instances of this error of converting the whole designs of town seals into armorial bearings with ingenious tinctures, and we know that in some cases such a practice has been taken into established use: it may be excusable where there are no other arms; but here we have a shield, and its bearings are merely the bird and fish. The bird we suspect was not an eagle or osprey, but a swan, in allusion to the town's name; knowing how conìmon canting heraldry is, particularly on town seals. A still more remarkable adaptation has taken place at Liverpool, where an innocent dove with its olive-branch has been metamorphosed into the apocryphal lever.

An Inquiry into the History, Authenticity, and Characteristics of the Shakspere Portraits. By Abraham Wivell. Imp. 8vo.

THIS pamphlet is full of a number of minute and curious facts; but when the writer attempts any thing like argument or exact criticism, he is sadly deficient. Indeed, Mr. Wivell frequently leaves his meaning to be guessed at; as in his third sentence :

"We have, therefore, to regret that so much uncertainty should exist regarding the authenticity of any one of those portraits of the Bard which, it is asserted, were executed in his lifetime, and have been offered and vended as likenesses of him."

As we do not give Mr. Wivell credit for feeling regret that the authenticity of the forgeries "vended" as Shakspere portraits should be doubted, we presume his meaning must be that he regrets that even those pictures which have the best pretensions are attended with some uncertainty. Then, for a a logical deduction,

In p. 8, Mr. Wivell first says that "the only known picture by Burbage is of himself in the Dulwich gallery ;' and then that "with respect to the identical portrait of Shakspere painted by Burbage, there is no knowing which is the one." Afterwards, in p. 17, that "we may admit that Richard Burbage was the painter of the Chandos picture."

Again, at p. 30, of "Mr. Felton's portrait,' now in the possession of Mr. Nicol of Pall Mall (misnamed Nichol in p. 28,) Mr. Wivell informs us that he has ascertained that the letters scrawled at the back are not R.N. as stated by Mr. Steevens, but R.B. and "this circumstance alone is an inducement for me to credit the original assertion, that the player Richard Burbage was the painter of it." To this sage conclusion, however, after looking at the fac-similes, we feel confident to reply, that the scrawl is no more R.B. than R.N. and the whole writing is a modern forgery, whether the picture be so

or not.

This will suffice for a specimen of Mr. Wivell's arguments and deductions. His facts, as we remarked before, are curious; but what do they relate to? For the most part, to a string of deceptions, and whole generations of gulls. It appears that one wholesale and very successful forger of Shakspere portraits is a man named Zincke, who has grown grey in the service :

"Zincke's personal appearance is that of old Time, and he actually smokes his Shaksperes before he can turn them to a profitable account. And by this time I imagine, from the general supply of Shaksperes to pawnbrokers' shops and other venders, they must be as numerous as the Metropolitan police." (p. 44.)

With regard to the older prints of Shakspere, the first, it seems, engraved by Martin Droeshout (and eulogized in the lines of Ben Jonson), is not uncommon, being prefixed to the several folio editions of his works. W. Marshall's engraving, prefixed to the

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Poems in 1640, "is very scarce. never heard of more than two impressions, one of which was in the possession of T. Wilson, esq. in 1828." (p. 14.) Are we to understand from this that the print is not generally found in the existing copies of the book? We think there must here be a mistake in facts, and the same with W. Faithorne's engraving, prefixed to Tarquin and Lucrece" in 1655. Surely there are more than pies" of that book which are perfect in respect of the portrait ?

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It will be remembered that Mr. Wivell previously published an "Inquiry" on this subject, in the year 1827. That work was embellished by several well engraved plates, which may now be procured at the printsel

lers: two others are added in the present pamphlet, one taken from the print by Houbraken, and the other from a miniature attributed to N. Hilliard. There is sufficient merit in these prints, and curiosity in the whole collection, to make one regret that Mr. Wivell has not had some judicious assistance in his authorship, such as he might have received from his publisher, Mr. Charles Knight, whose discrimination and acumen have been so honourably manifested in his Pictorial edition of the great dramatist, but who appears to have tributed nothing to this publication but the sanction of his name "vender," and the reformed orthography of the Poet's name.

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