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ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND THE DYE INDUSTRY. The announcement of a re- organization of the colour chemistry and dyeing department of Leeds University, luiu'rly in order to win back and maintain an industry Germany long has made almost her own, will add interest to an advertise- ment more than two hundred years old which shows that this is not the first recognized effort to put German knowledge of dyeing materials to English advantage. In The London Gazette, March 13-17, 1678/9, was the statement :

"His Majesty having been pleased to Grant by His Letters Patents to Eustace Barnaby, or his Assigns, the sole Use and Art of Planting Safflower (for Dyers use) which he hath acquired by great pains and travel in Germany. These are to give Notice, That they that please, may have Seed and Licence for 25*. the Acre ; the Seed to Sowe at half-profit."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS, M.A., FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD. It is note- worthy that in a long list of 286 names of Fellows of this College, a list which extends from A.D. 1653 to 1898, which Hardy gives in his history of the College, only the name of the above Fellow is left without there being supplied the year both of his election to and of the cessation of his Fellowship. In this case only the year of election is given, thus : " 251. John Williams, 1783 - ? (Cam.)." This is regrettable, for the year of the cessation also appears to be obtainable The Rev. W. Hawker Hughes, the present Senior Bursar of the College, writes to me and says that the Register of Fellows, referring to the case under the year 1786, has this entry : " vac. 15 Dec. 1786."

Possibly the defect is due to the fact that this man is referred to sometimes as of Denbighshire and at other times as of Carnarvonshire, leading searchers to think that the name referred to two different men. Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' has : " Williams, John, H. John of Llanrwst, co. Denbigh, gent., Jesus Coll. matric. 15 Mar. 1777, aged 17, B.A. 1781." The list of Scholars of Jesus College, under year 1777, gives : " 11 June, Carnarvon, John Williams, 18, s. John, gent. Llanrwst," and the name appears in the list of Scholars every year until he took his M.A. It appears among the Fellows in 1783, continuing to do so every year until he vacates the Fellowship in December, 1786.

The town of Llanrwst, and most of the parish, is in the county of Denbigh. One township of the parish, however, that of Gwydyr, is in the county of Carnarvon. It

is more natural to connect Llanrwst with the- county of Denbigh, though the Gwydyr part of it is strictly in Carnarvonshire. Hence- the above discrepancy of connecting John William-> of Llanrwst with both counties.. He was from the township of Gwydyr, and so of Carnarvonshire. In Llanrwst C hureh there is a mural monument : " In | Memory | of" John Williams, Gent. | Agent of Gwydir j He was buried | Underneath | April 26, 176 He was probably ordained on his Fellowship.. He married Sarah Lloyd Dolben, of Rhi- waedog, Bala, Merioneth. In 1791 he- became Head Master of Llanrwst Grammar- School, and remained there till 1812, when he became Rector of Llanbedr, in the Conway Vale, where he died and was buried " on the 9th of Oct. 1826, aged 66." He was a noted scholar, a good musician, and a great collector of Welsh books. I wish I could find out more- about the family of his wife, Sarah Lloyd Dolben. T. LLECHID JONES.
 * Aged 48." This was the father of our man

Llysfaen Rectory, Colwyn Bay.

WE must request correspondents deshrhag in- formation on family matters of only private interest; bo affix their names and addresses to their queries^ in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

WILLIAM MONK OF BUCKING-HAM,. IN OLD- SHOREHAM, SUSSEX. Was he the son of John Monk, M.P. for New Shoreham in. 1688-9 ? His mother was Susanna, the- only daughter of William Blaker of Bucking- ham; He married Hannah, daughter of Stephen Stringer of Goudhurst, in Kent.. His memorial in Old Shoreham Church informs us that

"William Monk of Buckingham Esu. liesinterr'd in a vault at the foot of this wall. He died May 2nd 1714 in the 29th year of his age, whose prineiples of Honour & Justice Laid concealed by Reason of his- early Fate, tho long since Implanted, & which Shone out so Gloriously in one of His Illustrious family,. Generally Beloved & Esteemed while He lived and Lamented by all at his death."

The arms of Monk of Buckingham House in Old Shoreham were : Gu., a chevron between three lions' heads erased, arg., and these are given as the arms of Monk of Ashington and Hurston Place, Storrington,. Sussex. Can the connexion between these- various branches of the family be traced ? And to whom do the words, " which shone- out so gloriously in one of his illustrious family," refer ? Is it to General Monk, and what was the connexion ? H. CHEAL.

Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham, Sussex.