With regard to the quotations which I have thought proper to introduce, I must here again draw upon the kind indulgence of my readers. Not having an extensive library at my command, I have sometimes been obliged to quote from memory. This will also, in some degree, account for omissions of which I may in places be deemed guilty.
I will now take leave of my friends, assuring them that, if I have not done all I might for their information and amusement, it must be attributed to any other cause rather than a want of desire and endeavour on my part. It would, indeed, be unpardonable in me to deserve such an imputation, after having received so many marks of attention from friends whom I have had occasion more than once to consult in the progress of my researches, and being furnished with information from quarters where I had not the least claim.
AUTHORITIES
REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK.
The Brut, or Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, contained in Collectanea Cambrica, vol. 1, by the Rev. P. Roberts, A.M. This title was taken from the Book of Basingwerke Abbey; which work the learned author has translated and collated with Brut Tyssillio, the Welch copy of the Chronicle Gruffudd ab Authur; Collations of the Brut in the Archialogy; Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Translation of the Brut; the Wynnstay MS. and the M.S. Chronicle of Mr. Jones, of Gelly Lyfde. These books are supposed by Mr. Roberts to contain the genuine epistle of Gildas, published A.D. 560.
Camden’s Britannia, Philemon Holland’s translation, A.D. 1610.
Caradoc of Lhancarvan’s History of Wales, first published A.D. 1150, translated by Dr. Powel, and augmented and improved by the Rev. W. Wynne, A.M. from whose octavo edition, published A.D. 1697, the quotations are made.
History of Wales, by the Rev. William Warrington, quarto edition.
Pennant’s Tour in Wales, two vols. quarto, 1784.
Report to the General Assembly of the Ellesmere Canal Proprietors.
The English Baronets, three vols. A.D. 1727.