Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1922

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Page 457 - the lid stones of these cists, and digging down about a foot, through fine mould, I came to charcoal, and soon after discovered urns of the rudest pottery, some particles of bones, and a quantity of black sea pebbles. I opened them all, and with a very trifling variation of their contents found them of the same character.
Page 67 - ... fide digna testimonia perhibentur, direximus oculos nostre mentis, quibus omnibus debita meditacione pensatis de persona tua nobis et eisdem fratribus nostris ob dictorum tuorum exigenciam meritorum acceptam.
Page 67 - ... ecclesie celerem et felicem de qua nullus preter nos hac vice se intromittere potuit sive potest reservacione et decreto obsistentibus supradictis ne ecclesia1 ipsa longe vacacionis exponeretur incommodis paternis et solicitis studiis intendentes, post deliberacionem quam de preficiendo eidem ecclesie personam utilem et eciam fructuosam cum fratribus nostris habuimus diligentem, demum ad te...
Page 216 - For the frysei we haue bought for eyght pens heretofore. And some saye the woule is bought ere it do growe, And the corne long before it come in the mowe.
Page 40 - The district in which men measured by carucates, and counted by twelves and sixes, was not the district which the Danes conquered, but the district which the Danes settled, the district of
Page 131 - It cannot be too often repeated that inquiries into the origin of local names are, in the first place, historical, and only in the second place, philological. To attempt an explanation of any name, without having first traced it back to the earliest form in which we can find it, is to set at defiance the plainest rules of the science of language as well as of the science of history. Even if the interpretation of a local name * Isaac Taylor, Words and Places,
Page 133 - Camden [Lhuyd] has given up the point) to attempt a guess at the age ; only must observe that it must have been previous to the reign of gross superstition among the Welsh, otherwise the sculptor would have employed his chizzel in striking out legendary stories, instead of the elegant knots and interlaced work that cover the stone.
Page 231 - Mon-ice daunce forth of the Parish of Broseley with six sword bearers and a rude companye of followers throwe ye whole bodie of this our said Parish being uninvited or desired by any one within the said Parish that wee doe know of.
Page 387 - Some family records and pedigrees of the Lloyds of Allt yr Odyn, Castell Hywel, Ffos y Bleiddiaid, Gilfach Wen, Llan Llyr and Waun Ifor.
Page 149 - THE following paper is an attempt to give a general account of the use and treatment of English words in the colloquial Welsh of the present day. Most of the statements here made are applicable to the whole of Welsh-speaking Wales; but the paper treats more particularly of the dialect spoken, with slight variations, in the Counties of Brecon, Caermarthen, and the greater part of Cardigan.

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