Five chiefs then will he Of the Gwyddyl Ffichti, Of a sinner’s disposition, Of the race of the knife. _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, vol. i. p. 432. And in one poem the epithet of _Anghyfiaeth_, that is, speaking a language different from the Cymric, is clearly applied to them (_ib_. p. 433 and note). Thus in the Triads of Arthur, which are genuine, they are included in the three foreign races called ‘Three oppressions came into this island, and did not go out of it.’ The second is ‘the oppression of the Gwyddyl Ffichti, and they did not again go out of it.’ The third was the oppression of the Saxons (_ib_., vol. ii. p. 465). In order to avoid the force of this, the term Gwyddyl Ffichti is usually translated Irish Picts, and supposed to refer to those in Ireland only; but the epithet Gwyddyl was certainly used in the larger sense of the race wherever found, and it is clear from all the passages that the same people are referred to who are known as the Picts of Britain. If they had been termed Cymry Ffichti, would this school of Welsh antiquarians have tolerated an assertion that they were not of the Cymric race? Footnote 118: Angles and Galwydel, Let them make their war.— _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, vol. i. p. 284. Footnote 119: Nemedius, inter posteros ejus McCailin Moir agus MacLeoid.—MS. 1467. See also _Ulster Archæological Journal_, vol. ix. p. 319. Footnote 120: They will be found in Lady Ferguson’s excellent little work, _The Story of the Irish before the Conquest_, and in Mr. Standish O’Grady’s interesting work just published, _The History of Ireland_, vol. i. _Heroic Period_. The interest of this latter work is, in the author’s opinion, greatly detracted from by his having unfortunately adopted a practice, which cannot be too strongly deprecated, of spelling Irish proper names phonetically. There is nothing gained by it, as the form of the name has quite as barbarous an appearance as when the proper orthography is retained, the identity of the persons meant is lost, it is misleading as there is no uniform pronunciation of these names by those who speak the vernacular Gaelic, and the travesty of the Irish names is equally offensive to good taste and to sound judgment. In other respects this little work has great merits. Footnote 121: _Chronicle of the Picts and Scots_, pp. 24, 45, 318, 322. Footnote 122: _Annals of the Four Masters_, vol. i. p. 49. Footnote 123: Genealach Corca Laidhe.—_Miscellany of the Celtic Society_, p. 10. Footnote 124: _Ranta on Athcliath cochele ittir Cond. c. Cathach agus Mogh Nuadhad_ cui nomen erat Eogan.—_Ad an._ 165. Footnote 125: Bede, _Ec. Hist._, lib. iii. cap. iii. Footnote 126: _Annals of the Four Masters_, vol. i. p. 113. Footnote 127: