No longer Bards inspired, thy tables grace. Nor hospitable deeds adorn the place; No more the generous owner gives his gold To modest merit, as to Bards of old. In plaintive verse his IVOR—GWILYM moans, His Patron lost the pensive Poet groans; What mighty loss, that IVOR’S lofty hall, Should now with schreeching owls rehearse its fall! Attend, ye great, and hear the solemn sound, How short your greatness this proclaims around, Strange that such pride should fill the human breast, Yon mouldering walls the vanity attest. A Letter from Mr. Thomas Carte to the Rev. Evan Evans. DEAR SIR, I cannot sufficiently acknowledge Sir Thomas Mostyn’s kindness, in the trouble he has taken, of sending up the catalogue of his historical MSS. and in his obliging offer of communicating them to me. Those which I am desirous to see more than the rest, are these, viz.— “The Annals of the Abbey of Chester, to A.D. 1297. “Beda de Gestis Anglorum, if it be a different work from his Chronicon and Ecclesiastical History. It is the same. “History of England, from William the Conqueror to the 6th of Edward the 6th. “Annales Cambriæ ignoti autoris, et Chronica Cambriæ; both which seem to be in the same volume, which begins with a Welsh history of the Kings of the Britons and Saxons, and Princes of Wales, to the time of Edward 4th. “A chronology from Vortigern downwards, supposed to be collected by Robert Vaughan, of Hengwrt, Esquire, which seems to be in the volume beginning with Sir John Wynne’s pedigree of the family of Gwydir. “Treatises concerning the courts of wards and chancery.” As Sir Thomas proposes to come to town soon, I hope he will be so good as to bring those MSS. with him (as Sir W. W. Wynne will several others, that he has found at Llanvorda) because they will be very useful to me as I conceive, for my first volume.