"Three Memorials of the Bards of the Island of Britain,

Memorial of Tradition; Memorial of Song; and Memorial of Letters."

WELSH TRIAD.

London:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,

36, SOHO SQUARE.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

226. c.88.

PREFACE.

THIS little Work has

grown out of a collection for a Course of Lectures on "Ancient Britain and the Britons." If I have cast any new light on the subjects under hand, it has been by a careful use of my little knowledge of the British language, which I believe Antiquaries have too often neglected.

"To study tribes without their speech,

Is to grope for what our sight should teach."

W. BARNES.