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(4) " Walks through London, including West- minster and the borough of Southwark, with the surrounding suburbs. By David Hughson, LL.D. 1817."

(5) " Multum in parvo, the privileges of South- wark. By David Hughson, LL.D. [1818]."

Hughson circulated in 1812 the pro- spectus of a work to be called ' The Chronicle of the Reign of George III.,' and to be issued in parts at intervals of two months, beginning on 1 March, 1812 ; but I cannot find that any part of it was published. He is also mentioned as the editor of ' The British Constitution Analyzed.'

David Pugh was a book-compiler, Edward Pugh was an artist. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1793 to 1808, in all 23 pictures, mostly portraits, and the de- scription of him given by Mr. Graves was that of " miniature painter." He obtained the second premium from the committee of Lloyd's which managed the Patriotic Fund for a design for a vase. The portrait which was contributed to the Academy in 1821 (No. 746) by Edward Pugh as an honorary exhibitor, was probably by him, and shown in that way as the work of a dead artist. In 1808 he exhibited at the British Institution a picture of ' Gay ton Wake,' illustrating it by a quotation from the poem of ' Gay ton Wake, or Mary Dod,' the com- position of his friend Richard Llwyd, which was printed at Chester in 1804. During most- of this period his address was in London, but in the Academy catalogue for 1800 Chester was given as his place of resi- dence.

The work by which Edward Pugh is remembered now is the "splendid" volume of " Cambria Depicta, a tour through North Wales, illustrated with picturesque views. By a native artist. London, 1816." The term " a native artist " was applied to him by the same Richard Llwyd in his anony- mous poem of ' Beaumaris Bay' (1800?), and Llwyd claimed to have supplied him with some interesting details for his volume (Life of Llwyd prefixed to his poetical works, 1837, p. Iv).

The preface to ' Cambria Depicta ' is signed Edward Pugh, and dated Ruthin, 10 May, 1813. It says that a chance con-

tversation for an hour with Alderman Boy- dell suggested the undertaking. He put it by for a time, but in the spring of 1804 the idea of "a combination of objects " forced itself upon him, and he determined upon carrying out the work. To execute it he travelled "as a pedestrian between

two and three thousand miles, over one of the roughest districts of Great Britain," and, like Oliver Goldsmith, supported him- self on his tour of eight months by playing the flute. He tells us in his narrative that he was a native of Ruthin, and that his mother was still alive, though aged/ A note at the end of the preface erroneously says that he died at Ruthin in June, 1813. It adds that Pugh " was ten years in com- pleting the drawings for this volume," and he claimed that they were "all of them new to the public."

The volume contained 71 coloured plates (including the frontispiece), by T. Cart- wright, R. Havell, and T. Bonnor (two being unsigned), from the drawings of Pugh. Miss Prideaux calls it " the best of all the books on Wales," but she qualifies this phrase by the assertion that " the views, pleasant and careful as they are, lack originality of treatment." They are often sold separately.

The date of Pugh's death is given in Sir Richard Phillips' s Monthly Magazine as in or about September, 1813, and the short notice of him states that he was " the draughtsman employed to make the views for the elegant volume called ' Modern London.' He was a very amiable man." Phillips in penning these words may have thought of some of his associates whom he could not characterize in this way, possibly even of George Borrow. The full title of this work was " Modern London, being the history and present state of the British Metropolis. Illustrated with numerous copper plates. London, printed for Richard Phillips, 1804," and it was. published at three guineas. The plates in the topo- graphical section were by Pugh. His name also appears on a volume entitled " Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales in 1797, with plates from Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, &c. (aquatinted by J. Hill). London, W. Wigstead, 1800." A view of Ruthin by him was printed separately in 1797, and dedicated to Lord Bagot. The little collec- tion of poems in the Welsh language by Edward Pugh, which was printed at Aber- tawe in 1816, is by a different person.

Through the kindness of the Rev. Lewis Pryce, Warden of Ruthin, I am now enabled to state that Edward Pugh died at Wall Street, Ruthin, aged 52, and was buried at Ruthin on 20 July, 1813, being described as " Limner." His parents, Edward Pugh and Elizabeth Maddocks, both of Ruthin, were married, after banns, in its parish church on 2 July, 1759 ; and Edward Pugh