Transcribed from the 1836 H. Hughes edition ,
BY
The Rev.ROBERT WILLIAMS, M.A.,
AUTHOR OF ANHISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CONWAY CASTLE.
(To whom the Cymmvodorion awarded aSilver Medal in 1831).
WITH AN ADDENDA,
CONTAININGMEMOIRS OF DR. WILLIAM OWEN PUGHE,
RICHARD LLWYD, THE ANTIQUARIAN, BARDDNANTGLYN,
BARDD CLOFF, AND SEVERAL OTHERS, DERIVEDFROM
VARIOUS AUTHENTICATED SOURCES.
LONDON:
H. HUGHES, 15, ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND.
1836.
p. iiMETCALFF,PRINTERS,
5 GROCERS’ HALL COURT,POULTRY.
The object of this little work, is, to show to the Englishreader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented anddistinguished individuals; and the publication might be greatlyextended, were it deemed prudent to add the names of thoselearned men who are still among us.
The publisher will feel obliged for any additional names,which will be inserted in a future edition.
Mr. Williams’s portion may behad printed in Welsh.
Price one shilling.
William Baxter was born in Wales in the year1650. In his eighteenth year he was sent to Harrow School,when he could speak no other language but Welsh; he, however,soon acquired English, and triumphantly overcame all thesedisadvantages, and at the age of twenty-nine he commenced author,with the publication of his “Analogia LinguæLatinæ.” He afterwards was appointed master ofthe Mercer’s School, in London. He soon made himselfknown as an excellent philologist and antiquary, by severallearned works, and more particularly his Horace and hisDictionary of British Antiquities, entitled “GlossariumAntiquitatum Britannicarum,” in which he attempted, fromhis knowledge of the British language, to determine geography byetymology. He died in 1723.
p. 2LewisBayly, an eminent prelate, was a native of Caermarthen, andstudied at Oxford. He was appointed chaplain to HenryPrince of Wales, son of James the First, to whom he dedicated areligious work, entitled the “Practice of Piety,”which has passed through a vast number of editions. He wasrector of St. Matthew’s church, in London, and afterwardsbishop of Bangor; and died in 1631. His son,
Thomas Bayly was educated for the church at Cambridge;and during the civil war he resided at Ragland Castle, aschaplain to the Marquis of Worcester; after the surrender ofwhich he travelled on the Continent; and on his return to Englandhe published his “Certamen Religiosum, or a Conferencebetween King Charles the First and Marquis of Worcester,conc