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It was translated into Welsh by " Caled- fryn " (William Williams, 1801-69), and has since been retranslated into English (appa- rently in ignorance of the original) by the Rev. E. O. Jones in his ' Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century ' (2nd ed., Newport, Mon., 1907). I have not found the Welsh version among Caledfryn's works, but from the English translation it would appear to have been very close. It is interesting to compare the final English version with the original poem :

Dear playmate of the verdant spring,

We greet thee and rejoice ; Nature with leaves thy pathway decks,

The woodlands need thy voice.

No sooner come the daisies fair

To fleck the meadows green Than thy untrammelled notes are heard

Rising the brakes between.

Hast thou some star in yonder heights

To guide thee on thy way, And warn thee of the changing years

And seasons, day by day ?

Fair visitant, the time of flowers

We welcome now with thee, When all the birds' unnumbered choir

Warbles from every tree.

The schoolboy on his truant quest

For flowers, wandering by, Leaps as he hears thy welcome note,

And echoes back thy cry.

To visit other lands afar

Thou soon wilt flying be ; Thou hast another spring than ours

To cheerly welcome thee.

For thee the hedgerows aye are green,

Thy skies are always clear ; There is no sorrow in thy song,

Nor winter in thy year !

H. I. B.

MEW OB MEWES FAMILIES. (See 6 S. xii. 369.) Dr. Peter Mew(s), Bishop of Bath and Wells 1673, and of Winchester 1684- 1706, born at Caundle Purse 25 March, 1618- 1619, was the son of Ellis Mew(s) by his marriage with a daughter of John Winniffe of Sherborne, and sister of Dr. Thomas Winniffe, sometime Bishop of Lincoln. His ancestry has not hitherto been traced. The following notes show three earlier genera- tions of Mews occurring in or in connexion with Dorsetshire.

I. John Mewis married Alice, daughter of John Buckler by his marriage with Agnes, daughter of John Barber of Maston, Somerset.

Peter Mewes married Jane, another daughter of John and Agnes Buckler (" Buckler of Causeway in Radipole," Visitation of Dorsetshire, 1565).

II. Peter Mewe of Caundle Purse died before 6 March, 1597/8, having had issue at least four sons.

James Mewe of Ditcheat, Somerset, made his nephew James Mewe of Caundle an over- seer of his will, dated 17 February, 1618/19,. proved P.C.C. (10 Soame) 11 February, 1619/20. He left a daughter Mary, married at Ditcheat, 25 July, 1608, to Henry Hannam.

William Mewe was an overseer of the will of John Whetcombe of Sherborne, dated 2 May, proved P.C.C. (76 Lewyn) 22 Sep- tember, 1598 ; and of that of Edmund Lane of Lillington, dated 13 August, proved P.C.C. (84 Harte) 26 November, 1604.

III. One of the elder sons of Peter Mewe of Caundle Purse was probably father of Ellis Mew(s) and grandfather of the bishop.

William Mewe, his fourth son, is men- tioned in the will dated 20 May, proved P.C.C. (62 Cobham) 20 June, 1597 of James Hannam of Hollwell, Somerset, a bencher of the Middle Temple, as "my servant." On 6 March, 1597/8, he was admitted to the Middle Temple ; and on 10 May, 1598, he was admitted, by assign- ment of Sir Francis Hastings and Mary his- wife, widow and executrix of James Hannam, to two chambers in Hannam's Buildings. He surrendered one of these chambers 12 February, 1608. It was resolved, 8 June, 1627, to admit another tenant to the other chamber, then described as "the ground chamber of the late Mr. Mewe, when he kept the office of the Clerk of the Warrants." It seems possible that the word " late " is here used carelessly of a late tenant, and not of one recently deceased, for on 11 June, 1627, and 12 May, 1629, this chamber is described as had by " surrender " of Mr. William Mewe ('Middle Temple Records/ vol. i. pp. 382, 383 ; vol. ii. pp. 488, 723, 748). If so, he may possibly be identified with William Mewe, a London lawyer who settled at Eastington, and was the ancestor of the Gloucestershire Mews, one of whom was appointed to two prebends by Bishop Mew(s). TEMPLAR.

TEMPLE BAB IN 1851. The obstruction to traffic caused by this narrow gateway in the middle of London was hardly felt to be serious until the summer of 1851, when all the world came to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, for the hitherto comparatively quiet streets of the metropolis then became for the first time inconveniently crowded. I well remember in that year sitting for twenty minutes on the top of an omnibuft