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 "Hora 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. . Cells, Oratories, and Hermitages Use of the words "Llan, Capel, and Bettws" The establishment of parishes gradual Effects of the Law of Gavelkind Churches dedicated to St. Mary Their late origin proved from their situations historically 27 Churches dedicated to St. Michael More ancient than those dedicated to St. Mary; but Not so ancient as those ascribed to Welsh Saints Dedication to Saints, not the practice of the ancient Britons 57 The same mode used apparently by the Primitive Christians of Wales; its effects 80 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 Age of Cadfrawd, Coel Godebog, and Cynan Meiriadog |