Crossword-Solution: ELLIN 5 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

May.--The 19th of this present month, about midnight, we weighed our anchors, set sail and departed from Dartmouth with two barques and a clincher, the one named the _Elizabeth_, of Dartmouth, the other the _Sunshine_, of London, and the clincher called the _Ellin_, of London; thus, in God's name, we set forwards with wind at north-east, a good fresh gale.

Before my grandfather left Wales he had married a distant cousin, Ellin Owen, and on her death, childless, he took to wife, many years later, her younger sister, Gainor [Footnote: Thus early we shed the English prejudice against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister.] for these Owens, our kinsmen, had also become Friends, and had followed my grandfather’s example in leaving their home in Merionethshire.

The back of it is one large panel carved with heavy flora and foliated decoration; on the cross-rail below the panel is carved in bold raised letters: 16 ELLIN RYLAND 94 The two arms are bountifully carved, and the carving terminates in a large Tudor rose forming a knob at the end of each arm.

Did Ellin order the chair from the cabinet-maker herself? I think not; perhaps her lover gave it her on her birthday, or her husband on their wedding-day.

The old chair is a better monument to Ellin Ryland’s memory than a stone slab in a damp churchyard, with her name graven on it in crumbling letters.