CONTENTS. XI 



i/Glynckur. — The M^::sf.rs Of the ModP.kn IVEiiH.—Im- 

 pofitioiis Jomelimts praclifed on Engi'iJJj Travellers. — Jrafcil'tl'tty. 

 1 he Wel/b Cottages^- JVomen. — Curiofity. — Super ji'ttiOHS. — ^k- 

 Cfiiint of a fupp'tfed Kind of Aerial B.ingi called Knockers. — 

 Witches. — Coelcerth.— Tr Eryr, —Cantvyll Corph. — Offering of 

 Efiem'tes- — JVells of Saints. — Plygatn. — Leeks on St. Uavid^t 

 Day. — Ter'rning. — Ahde of Courtfljip called Bundling. — Cufloms 



lit Weddings. — Funerals.— Offering! at Funerals. — Jieafon for 

 not interring on the North ^ides of Churches. — Planting the 

 Qraves, r- - - . Page 244^ 



CHAP. XXIV. 



Essay oisf the Origin and Character or 

 THE Welsh Language. 



The Charader of the Language. — Of the Poetry. — Other Languages 

 JDialecis of the Wcjjh.— Analogy beliuixt the Hehreiv and Weljh. 

 Betwixt the Greek and WclJ)}. — The Weljb Letters, and their 

 Force. — Li/l and Explanation of fever al of the primitive Words. 

 • — Lt/i of Weljli Words in common Ufe. — The Saxon Alphabet 

 rnoji probably belonging to the Weljflo. — Prefenl State of the IVelJh 

 Language^ ----- 290 



CHAP. XXV. 



-Sketch of the History of the Welsh Bard* 

 AND Music. 



.Recount of the Druids ^ their Functions, Manners ^ and Cufloms. — 

 Their Extermination by the Rotnans. — The fubfequent State of 

 Poetry and Mufic. — The Reformation effefled by Griffith ap 

 Cynany in the Tiuelfih Century. — The Claffes of the Bards. — 

 The Eifleddfodt or l ricnnial Affcmbly. — The Degrees in Poetry 



Snd Mujic. — The Privileges and Revenues of the Bards, Their 



fuppofed Maffacre by Order of Edward L — Their Hiftory 

 continued from thence to the prefent Time. — Account of the Weljli 

 ^ufical Injlruments. — The Harp. — The Crivth.~The Pibcorn, 

 — Cbftrvation: on the Wcl/h Muff:. — Oljc^icns to the Laws of 



Counter* 



