The Gwyneddion for 1832: Containing the Prize Poems, Etc., of the Beaumaris Eisteddfod and North Wales Literary Society

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William Jones
Hughes, 1839 - Anglesey (Wales) - 201 pages
 

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Page 85 - Henry, by the grace of God, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, To all to whom these present Letters shall come greeting; Know ye, that we...
Page 73 - Bangor, where we ferried pver into Anglesey, and then put my wife into the litter again ; for never was, or can come a coach into that part of the country ; and thus we came safe hither about three in the afternoon, God be praised, without any mischance to any of our company ; and here we are lodged at my Lord Bulkeley's, who makes very much of us, and entertains us most nobly.
Page 36 - ... counties; and for that purpose the Earl procured several commissions from the Queen, to inquire of encroachments and concealments of lands. The return of the jury in Anglesey, not being agreeable to the Earl's commissioners, they went in a rage to Carnarvon, forcibly entered the exchequer there, ransacked the records, and carried away what they pleased; but the Earl after making many attempts, to the great grievance of the...
Page xxxviii - I cannot look back without sorrow and shame to, I will not say the cold neglect, but the systematic and persevering hostility, of which, on the part of your English Rulers*, the Welsh Language was for many years the object.
Page xxxviii - But even if the language of the Cymry were less ancient, or its stores less valuable, yet so long as it is the living language of half a million of our fellow Christians, and fellow subjects, it must richly deserve, and abundantly repay whatever labour or encouragement may be bestowed on its cultivation...
Page 25 - Here lies by name the world's mother ; By nature my aunt, sister to my mother ; By law my grandmother, mother to my mother ; My great-grandmother, mother to my grandmother. All this may be without breach of consanguinity.
Page xxxvii - ON EISTEDDVODAU. On the celebration of the bardic meeting at Wrexham in the year 1820, Reginald Heber, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, made the following speech : " Sir Watkin and gentlemen,— As I am certainly taken a little by surprise, you will, I trust, excuse me if I express my gratitude less fluently . than you have been usually addressed on such occasions. I cannot, however, refrain from offering you my warmest thanks for the honour which you have been pleased to confer on me — an honour...
Page 88 - Borough ; and then, in that case, they may be brought according to the liberties approved and hitherto reasonably used in our city of Hereford : Wherefore, We will and firmly enjoin for us and our heirs, that our Town of...
Page 13 - Privy Council, the chief Justices of either Bench for the Time being, or three of them at the least, whereof the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord Treasurer, Lord President, or the Lord...
Page 73 - I mentioned in my last from thence; my wife in the litter, the rest of us on horseback (though I confess, for my own particular, I went on foot) passed over Penman Mawr, at the foot of which, on this side, I met my Lord Bulkeley's coach and servants, but they told us they had escaped very narrowly being cast away in coming over the ferry, and that the winds were so very high that it was not fit for us to attempt going that...

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