Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven MilesSimpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
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Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles
Simpson, W. T. (Wilfrid Tord)
Llangollen (Wales)
I have thus completed the circuit I proposed at the commencement of my
labours. To hope the attainment of perfection in a work of this nature
would with justice be deemed presumptuous; but I trust any inaccuracy
will be treated with lenity, and that due allowance will be made for the
disadvantage under which verbal information is at all times collected by
a person who does not understand the native language. Thus far I can
with truth say, that, from a desire to combine correctness with
intelligence, I have in no case given that on hearsay, which might be
readily ascertained by ocular demonstration.
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.
_Cambrian Itinerary_, _&c._
LIST
OF
SUBSCRIBERS.
A.
AVONMORE, Lord Viscount, _four copies_
Adams, Mr. George, Ruthin
Allen, Joshua, Esq. Wenffrwd
Andrews, Mr. Wrexham
Androse, Miss
B.
BUTLER, the Right Hon. Lady Eleanor, and Miss Ponsonby, _twelve copies_
Besborough, the Earl of
Babbington, Miss, Oswestry, _two copies_
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