Chapter IV: Conclusion

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._

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