TO BANGOR IS€OED» l^^ 



Tysilio-. 



While I am fpeaking of the monaftery of BailgOr, 

 ^nd its eminent men, I ought by no means to leave 

 this writer unnoticed. Tyfilio was a Britifli bi(hop> 

 the fon of Brochwel Yfythroc, prince of Powis, and 

 was nearly contemporary with Nennius. He was 

 the author of a Britilh hiftory intitied Brut y Brer^- 

 Jj'inoedd, or the traditions of the Britifti bards. It 

 commences with the defcent of the Trojan colony, 

 and ends with the reign of Cadwaladr, the lad king 

 of the Britons. This hiftory, about the year 115Q, 

 fell into the hands of Galfrid Arthur, or Geoffry, 

 archdeacon of Monmouth, and afterwards bifhop of 

 .St. Afaph, who tranflated it into Latin, inferting in 

 his tranflation all the monkifh fables that he could 

 collect. In this ftate the work took the name of the 

 tranflator, and has fuffered the moft violent abufe 

 by all the Englifh, fince the time of Camden, that 

 have written on the Britifli hiftory, and by various 

 French and Dutch writers. This, however, has 

 been done without any acquaintance with the origi- 

 nal work in the Britifh language, which is eiTentiaiiy 

 different from the tranflation both in general matter, 

 and in the ftatement of fads. 



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