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patrem sirum, et in ea periit." This 

 evidence doth persuade with me, 

 that Cadwalader went to Rome faf 

 before ann. 680. But if in ea perllt 

 be meant of Cadwalader, for king 

 Oswi ruled five or six years, unless 

 we grant that the plague endured 

 twelve yca:s,asonr Welsh historians 

 do aver, it mak:th such breach in 

 the history, that i (formyown part) 

 knew not how to repair it ; for, if 

 it be true thai Cadwalader died of 

 that plague, then he went not to 

 Rome J and to deny his going to 

 Rome is no less than to deny our 

 British and Welsh antiquities in 

 general. 



Therefore,! desire you will vouch- 

 safe not only to give me your sense 

 of Cadwalader's going to Rome, 

 and the time ( whereby I may rest 

 better satisfied than at present), but 

 also the loan of your best copy of 

 Nennius, with the tract before cited, 

 which is added to some copies tnere- 

 of. And, if I be not over-trouble- 

 some to your patience already, I 

 have anotherrequest unto you,which 

 is, that you will select all the notes 

 and histories that you have that treat 

 of the affairs of Wales, and princes 

 thereof, and that you will cauJidly 

 impart them unto me by degrees ; as 

 I shall have done with one piece, so 

 be pleased to send anotlier, and you 

 may commandany thing that J have, 

 or can come by ; for, it is not la- 

 bour, pains, or expence of money 

 (to my power), shall retard me in 

 your service. My love and zeal for 

 my poor country, and desire to know 

 the truthandcertainty of things past, 

 moves me sometimes to a passion, 

 when I call to mind the idle and 

 slothful life of my countrymen, who, 

 in the revolution of a thousand years, 

 almost afford but only Caradoc of 

 Lancarvan, and the continuance 



thereof, to register any thing to the 

 purpose of the acts of the princes of 

 Wales that I could come by or heaf 

 of (some few piecemeals excepted). 

 Dr. Powel, i his Latin History of 

 the Princes of Wales, c:teth Tho- 

 mas Maeloriiis de Regibus Gwy- 

 nethiae (North Wnles) ; but I could 

 not hitherto meet with that book, 

 ".nd 1 am persuaded he lived not 

 much before Henry the Vlth's time ; 

 peradventure you have seen it : and 

 1 do not remember that he citeth 

 any otherauthorof our countrymen i 

 it may be, tiiere are some extant 

 yet, though I had not the felicity 

 hitherto to see them. I hope, by 

 your good means hereafter, I shall 

 attain to some hidden knowledge of 

 antiquity. But I am too tedious ; 

 pardon me, I pray you, reverend 

 father; think of my request, and put 

 me not off with excuse any longer; 

 and my prayer shall be for your 

 health, peace, and prosperity, in 

 this world, and everlasting felicity 

 in the world to come. 



Your friend and servant, 



ROBEKT VaUGHAN. 



Heng'wrt, near Dolgelh-n, in the county 

 of Merioneth, j^pril 14, 165L- 



uln account of the game of Chess, as 

 played by the Chinese, in a letter 

 from Eyles Irwin, esq. to the 

 right honourable the earl of Charle- 

 mont, P. R. I, j4. from the Irish 

 Transactions. 



My lord, 



I Consider no apology necessary 

 for this intrusion on the pubhc 

 situation in which your talents and 

 reputation have placed you. What- 

 ever tends to the accession of know- 

 ledge, or the illustration of anti- 

 quity, 



