comprehending the said five Shires, shall be and appear before You the said Day and Place to _shew_ their _Learnings_ accordingly: But also, that You, twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, or six of you, whereof You the said Sir Richard Bulkely, Sir Rees Griffith, Ellis Price, and William Mostyn, Esqs. or three or two of you, to be of the number; to repair to the said Place the Days aforesaid, and calling to you such _expert men_ in the said _Faculty_ of the _Welsh Music_ as to You shall be thought convenient, to proceed to the Execution of the Premises, and to admit such and so many, as by your Wisdoms and Knowledges you shall find _worthy_, into and under the _Degrees_ heretofore (_in Use_) in semblable Sort to _use_, _exercise_, and _follow_ the _Sciences_ and _Faculties_ of their _Professions_, in such decent Order as shall appertain to each of their Degrees, and as your Discretions and Wisdoms shall prescribe unto them: Giving streight Monition and Commandment in our Name and on our Behalf to the rest not worthy, that they return to some honest Labour, and due Exercise, such as they be most apt unto for Maintenance of their Living, upon Pain to be taken as sturdy and idle Vagabonds, and to be used according to the Laws and Statutes provided in that Behalf; letting You with our said Council look for Advertisement, by Certificate at your Hands, of your Doings in the Execution of the said Premises; foreseeing in any wise, that upon the said Assembly the Peace and good Order be observed and kept accordingly; ascertaining you that the said William Mostyn hath promised to see Furniture and Things necessary provided for that Assembly, at the Place aforesaid. “Given under our Signet at our City of Chester, the twenty third of October in the ninth Year of out Reign, 1567. “Signed Her Highness’s Counsail in the Marchesse of Wales.” “_N.B._ This Commission was copied exactly from the original now at Mostyn, A.D. 1693: where the _Silver Harp_ also is.” 3. _Since this Commission has been in the Press_, _the Author has had an opportunity to see the following Account of what has been done in consequence of such a Commission in the tenth Year of the Reign of Queen_ Elizabeth. _This is translated from the Original in_ Welsh.