confessed that nothing further is known of many of them than their genealogy and their churches. The question of the celebration of Easter, and other points, on which the Primitive Christians of Britain differed from the Romanists, have been ably discussed in other publications; the object of this treatise is, if possible, to add to the stock of information from materials which have been but partially investigated. To his predecessors, whose works have facilitated these researches, among whom may be named the authors of "Horæ Britannica" and "Hanes Crefydd yn Nghymru," the writer acknowledges his obligations; and though he has sometimes differed from their conclusions, he has done so with diffidence, and is aware that the same fate will in turn befal the present undertaking. Knowledge is the accumulation of past experience, and all that the best informed writer can expect to accomplish, is to contribute but a trifle to the general heap, leaving its amount to be estimated by his successor. St. David's College, Nov. 24, 1836. AN ESSAY, ETC. The establishment of parishes gradual Effects of the Law of Gavelkind Parent Churches not converted into Chapels GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON The Welsh SAINTS AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THOSE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Dedication to Saints, not the practice of the ancient Britons 57 Separation of the Britons from the Church of Rome First notice of a Church dedicated to St. Michael, A. D. 717 67 Third Class of Foundations 66 Lucius possibly the founder of a Church at Llandaff, said to have been the first in Britain Memorials of his Contemporaries AN EXAMINATION OF THE EARLY WELSH PedigreeS, WITH A VIEW TO ASCERTAIN THE PERIOD ABOUT WHICH THE COMMENCEMENT Inconsistencies in the Pedigree Descendants of Beli Mawr. Fabrication of Pedigrees which relate to the Roman- British Period Cadfrawd, a Saint and Bishop Mistakes, in the presumed Lineage of Bran ab Llyr, THE WELSH SAINTS FROM A. D. 300 TO A. D. 400. Alban, Amphibalus, Aaron, and Julius Constantine the Great, not a native of Britain. British Bishops at the Council of Arles A. D. 314 Councils of Sardica and Ariminum Settlement of Cynan Meiriadog in Armorica |