even the hearts of brave men are apt to fail them,—the

{ 3} "Social England," vol. i. p. 342.

{ 4} Published in the first instance in the "Transactions of the Cymmrodaian Society," and subsequently amplified and brought out in book form.

{ 5} Introduction to Borrow's "Wild Wales" in the Everyman Series.

{ 6} Geoffrey, who ended his life as Bishop of St. Asaph, was supposed to have found the material for his "History of the British Kings" in a Welsh book, containing a history of the Britons, which Waltor Colenius, Archdeacon of Oxford, picked up during a journey in Brittany.

{ 7} Walter Map, another Archdeacon of Oxford, was born in Glamorganshire, the son of a Norman knight by a Welsh mother. Inter alia he was the author of a Welsh work on agriculture.

{ 8} Green, "Hist. Eng. People," i. 172.

{ 9} "England under the Angevin Kings," vol. ii. 457.

{ 10} Project Gutenberg has released "The Description of Wales" as a separate eText - David Price.

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