PRINTED BY J. COX, ABERYSTWYTH. Footnotes {3a} His wife’s name was Joan. {3b} The truth against the world. {4} The English pronunciation of Twm Shôn Catti, is Toom Shone Katty; instead of which the Londoners called it _Twim John Katty_, which seemed doubly ludicrous as the name of a tragedy hero. {5} Another cause assigned for the adoption of this name is, that a cat’s eye formed part of his armorial bearings. {6} A small cup, so called from its contents being able merely to damp the clay of a genuine toper. {56} It is a singular circumstance, that in the county of Cumberland is kept up among the peasantry a custom resembling this of the Welsh—voluntary contributions at weddings—which doubtless had its origin from the same source, and may be thus accounted for. When the Britons were driven by the Saxons from the valleys of England to the mountains of Wales, a considerable number of them separating from their countrymen, remained and settled in the North of England, among the Saxons, in a district thence called “Gwlad y Cymru,” i.e. _the land of the Cymru_, since corrupted to “_Cumberland_.” Adopting the language and manners of their conquerors, their own name as a people became entirely lost to their posterity, while this sole vestige (the contributions at weddings) alone remains, of their ancient customs. {57} In addition to the _Gwahoddwr’s_ address, there is another mode prevalent in the present day, of inviting to the Bidding, by a printed circular, which in some parts of the principality supersedes that merry personage altogether, a thing to be regretted, as it deprives the rural Welsh Wedding of one of its most pleasant features, and cuts off its alliance with romance, and the manners of _oulden tyme_. The following is a specimen of a Bidding circular. _October_ 5_th_, 182— As we intend to enter the matrimonial state, on Saturday, the 10th of November next, we are encouraged by our friends to make a Bidding on the occasion, the same day, at the young woman’s father’s house, called Tynant, at which place, the favor of your agreeable company is most respectfully solicited; and whatever donation you may be pleased to bestow on us then, will be thankfully received, and cheerfully repaid whenever called for on the like occasion. Your obedient Servants, A. B. C. D.