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Nowhere else, can we find such graphic, or sad accounts, of the 

 terrible miseries and privations, to which the Britons of our part 

 of the Severn Vale, and their allies, were reduced, or of the 

 absolute dominion, over the area indicated by the names of the 

 three captured cities, acquired at one strobe by the Saxons, as 

 recorded in this contemporaneous elegy. There are many other 

 passages in it, upon which I am almost tempted to dilate, which 

 throw a little light upon this obscure portion of our national 

 history, but I find that my paper is already much longer than I 

 intended to make it ; I therefore conclude, with the hope that I 

 may have interested some of my old colleagues, by bringing 

 tinder their notice, the oldest document known to me, as relating 

 to our county, since the Roman period,~this old British poem 

 of Lltwabch Hen. 



J. JONES. 



London, Sep. 24, 1875. 



