“What craft shall we take?” said Manawyddan.... “Let us take to making shoes.”... So he bought the best cordwal ... and got the best goldsmith to make clasps ... and he was called one of the three makers of gold shoes.--_The Mabinogion_ (“Manawyddan,” twelfth century). =Three Robbers= (_The_). The three stars in Orion’s belt are said to be “three robbers climbing up to rob the Ranee’s silver bedstead.”--Miss Frere, _Old Deccan Days_, 28. =Three Stayers of Slaughter= (_The_): (1) Gwgawn Gleddyvrud; the name of his horse was Buchestom. (2) Morvran eil Tegid. (3) Gilbert mab Cadgyffro.--_Welsh Triads_, xxix. =Three Tailors of Tooley Street= (_The_), three worthies who held a meeting in Tooley Street, for the redress of popular grievances, and addressed a petition to the House of Commons, while Canning was prime minister, beginning, “We, the people of England.” =Three Tribe Herdsmen of Britain= (_The_): (1) Llawnrodded Varvawe, who tended the milch cows of Nudd Hael, son of Senyllt; (2) Bennren, who kept the herd of Caradawc, son of Brân, Glamorganshire; (3) Grwdion, son of Don, the enchanter, who kept the kine of Gwynedd, above the Conway. All these herds consisted of 21,000 milch cows.--_Welsh Triads_, lxxxv. =Three Tyrants of Athens= (_The_); Pisistrătos (B.C. 560-490), Hippias and Hipparchos (B.C. 527-490). (The two brothers reigned conjointly from 527-514, when the latter was murdered.) =Three Unprofessional Bards= (_The_), of the island of Britain: (1) Rhyawd, son of Morgant; (2) King Arthur; (3) Cadwallawn, son of Cadvan.--_Welsh Triads_, lxxxix, 113. =Three Weeks after Marriage=, a comedy by A. Murphy (1776). Sir Charles Racket has married the daughter of a rich London tradesman, and, three weeks of the honeymoon having expired, he comes on a visit to the lady’s father, Mr. Drugget. Old Drugget plumes himself on his aristocratic son-in-law, so far removed from the vulgar brawls of meaner folk. On the night of their arrival the bride and bridegroom quarrel about a game of whist; the lady maintained that Sir Charles ought to have played a diamond instead of a club. So angry is Sir Charles that he resolves to have a divorce; and, although the quarrel is patched up, Mr. Drugget has seen enough of the _beau monde_ to decline the alliance of Lovelace for his second daughter, whom he gives to a Mr. Woodley. =Three Writers= (_The_). The _Scriptores Tres_ are Richardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonĭcus and Nennius Banchorensis; three who wrote on _The Ancient History of the British Nation_, edited, etc., by Julius Bertram (1757). ⁂ The Five Writers, or _Scriptores Quinque_, are five English chronicles on the early history of England, edited by Thomas Gale (1691). The names of these chroniclers are: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Roger Hoveden, Ethelwerd, and Ingulphus of Croyland.