counties of Wales, with the exception of those, to which asterisks are affixed, and of which the Editor has not been able to procure any account. It is truly gratifying to notice upon this occasion, that in no part of the Principality were the offences of so atrocious a character, as to require the infliction of capital punishment. And it will also be seen, on a comparison of this report with those of the two preceding sessions*, that the offences have decreased in number as well as in enormity.

JUNE.-At Emlyn Cottage, Cardiganshire, Miss Mary Brigstocke, daughter of the late Capt. Brigstocke.-At Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Mrs. Susan Owen, aged 100. Her faculties remained to the last unimpaired.-24. At Oswestry Mrs. Davies, relict of the late Thomas Davies, Esq. of Lloran in the county of Denbigh.-JULY.-At the Wood, in the county of Radnor, Mrs. Connop, aged 82, a lady, whose benevolent and charitable disposition had endeared her throughout the neighbourhood of her residence. At Pant Howel, in the island of Anglesey, Mrs. Mary Vincent, aged 60.-13. Mr. Lawrence Weaver, of Montgomery, Master of the Free School in that town.-15. At Parkey Cottage, near Wrexham, Mrs. Edwards, wife of Major Edwards, of the Royal Maylor Cavalry.-21. Mrs. Williames, wife of Edward Wil

See CAMBRO-BRITON, Vol. i. pp. 78 and 358.

liames, Esq. of Welshpool, a lady, whose domestic virtues have rendered her untimely death an irreparable loss to her family.Id. Miss Jane Martin, of Holyhead.-23. At Ashford, in the county of Brecon, Jonathan Dixon, Esq. aged 73.-At Kenfig, Glamorganshire, the Rev. Mr. Morgan, a gentleman generally esteemed and regretted.-24th. Mr. Williams, of Pentre Mill, Montgomeryshire,-and, four days afterwards, his widow.-Id. At Littleton, in the county of Middlesex, Mrs. Wood, wife of Thomas Wood, Esq. of that place, and only daughter of Sir Edward Williams, Bart. of Gwerneffed in the county of Brecon.26th.Capt. Edward Barker, R. N. brother to Capt. James Barker, of Swansea.-AUGUST 4th. At Llwynygroes, Cardiganshire, H. B. J. Jenkins, Esq. aged 21, and on the day of his interment his only child, an infant of 9 months.-8th. Thomas Hobbes, Esq., M. D. of Swansea.-10th. At Mold, Flintshire, William Wynne, Esq. solicitor, of that town.-11th. At Golfftyn, Flintshire, Miss Jones, eldest daughter of the late Edward Jones, Esq. of Wepre Hall, in the same county.-16th. Miss C. Jones, sister of C. R. Jones, Esq. of Heathfield Lodge, Swansea.-19. At Aberystwith Mrs. Evans, wife of Mr. John Evans, late banker of that town.20. At Neath Maria, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Freeman, Esq.-26. At Cheltenham Mrs. Jones, widow of the late John Jones, Esq. of Derry Ormond, in the county of Cardigan-a lady distinguished by the affability and piety of her manners.27. Mrs. Mary Rowland, of the Island House, Swansea, aged 80. -29. At Neath Mrs. Morgan, a widow lady of the highest respectability, and the most amiable disposition.-At Wrexham, aged 60, Mr. E. Randles, Organist, long distinguished as one of the first performers on the harp in the kingdom. He had frequently the honour of performing Handel's Choruses on the Welsh harp before his late Majesty, and is the Lyrist mentioned by Miss Seward in her poem, called "Llangollen Vale.”

ERRORS CORRECTED.

No. 13 Pa. 3, 1. 6,, for "Dymciliant" read Dymgiliant.
16, 1.2, of the Note, for " Kennius" read Nennius.

- 19, 1. 9, for "the then" read then the.

THE

CAMBRO-BRITON.

NOVEMBER, 1820.

NULLI QUIDEM MIHI SATIS ERUDITI VIDENTUR, QUIBUS
NOSTRA IGNOTA SUNT.
CICERO de Legibus.

THE TRIADS.-No. XIII.

TRIADS OF THE ISLE OF BRITAIN*.

LVIII. THE three Overruling Counter-energies of the Isle of Britain. Hu the Mighty, leading the nation of the Cymry from the Summer country, which is called Defrobani, into the Isle of Britain; and Prydain, the son of Aedd the Great, establishing societyt and law over the Isle of Britain; and Rhitta Gawr, who made for himself a robe of the beards of kings, of whom he made slaves, because of their oppression and lawlessness.

[The path of the Cymry is marked out in the Triads as having been from the shores of the Euxine to Denmark; and the route was easy up the river Dnister, through Poland, to the sources of the Elbe, and down the latter river to its efflux. Ancient history, and the languages of the several people at this day, inhabiting the track so marked out, corroborate the Triads. For we identify the name of the Cymry in the Cimmerii of the Crimea, and in the Cimbri of the Cimbric Chersonesus, or Jutland. A comparison of the various dialects of the Sclavonic with the Welsh, will at once prove their affinity; but more especially the language spoken by the Wendi, in Lusatia, which has preserved its relationship to that of Wales so strongly, that the natives of both countries might almost converse together §. With respect to the first perArch. of Wales, vol. ii, p. 67. Tr. 54-56.

†The word in the original is Gwlad, a country.

The word Eillion means also shaved ones. Probably, this was the badge of slaves.

§ What led to the investigation of the affinity of the Welsh and the Wendish was an account given by a Prussian, that, in the seven years war of Frederick the Great, he and others were much surprised at seeing some Wendish soldiers talking to those, who were from England, but who, he was

sonage mentioned in this Triad, it is unnecessary to add any thing to the account given of him in the last number: and a notice of Prydain may be found in p. 282 of the first volume.]

LIX. The three Beneficial Harassers of the Isle of Britain: Prydain, the son of Aedd Mawr, harassing the dragon of oppression, being the oppression of devastation and lawlessness,' that was engendered in the Isle of Britain; and Caradawg, the son of Bran ab Llyr, harassing the tyranny of the Cæsarians; and Rhitta Gawr, harassing the tyranny and devastation of the lawless kings.

[The attributes of Caradawg have been exemplified and illustrated before in former Triads; but Rhitta Gawr, or Rhitta the Giant, appears only in this and the preceding Triads, so that we have no means for judging in what period of time or in what part of the world he existed. He is said, in the Mabinogion, to have fought for the beard of Arthur,—but to have been overcome. It is singular, that, in the old traditions of Poland, a similar memorial is preserved of a tyrannicide, as is here given of Rhitta Gawr, and who had the appellation of Rittagorus.]

LX. The three Benefactors of the Nation of the Cymry: Hu the Mighty, who first shewed the method of ploughing land to the nation of the Cymry, when they were in the Country of the Summer, being the place where Constantinople is at present, previously to their coming into the Isle of Britain; and Coll, the son of Collvrewi, who first brought wheat and barley into the Isle of Britain, where there were only oats and rye before that time; and Elltyd, the sainted knight, of the college of Theodosius, who improved the method, by which land was ploughed, and taught better than what was known before to the nation of the Cymry, giving them the system and art of cultivating land, that is at present; for previously to the time of Elltyd land was only tilled with a mattock and over-tread plough, after the manner of the Gwyddelians.

told on inquiry, were Welshmen; and, in consequence of this account, a correspondence was opened with Dr. Anton, of Gorlitz, in Lusatia, by which the connection between the Welsh and the Wendish was fully confirmed. The following phrase is given in the orthography of the Wendish Bible-" A wono bu nos," and which would be written in Welsh thus-" Ac yno bu nos"-And there was night. It is worthy of being noticed here, that, in a splendid Dutch Atlas, printed about the middle of the 17th century, HAMBURGH is put down TREVA, which, as a Welsh word, is a literal translation of Hamburgh, or Ham and Burgh.

[Coll, mentioned here, is, in other Triads, involved in mythology, and he is also made a magician, from which it may be inferred, that he was some naval adventurer, who introduced grain and animals not previously known in Britain. A full recital of the mythological or fabulous attributes, ascribed to him in the other Triads, may be found in the Cambrian Biography, p. 53, and wherein Mr. Owen Pughe expresses his opinion, that Coll may have been a Phoenician. The name of Coll occurs amongst the ancient deities of the Irish. Neither in the Triads nor in the Genealogy of the British Saints, is there any memorial of the origin of Elltyd, more than that he became the head of Cor Tewdws, or the college of Theodosius, in the vale of Glamorgan, which subsequently was named, after him, Bangor Elltyd, being the present Llan Elltyd Vawr, or St. Iltutus, and, whimsically, by the Englishry* Lantwit Major, and by which last appellation it is distinguished in our maps. There is also a church dedicated to this Elltyd on the river Maw, about two miles west of Dolgellau, in North Wales. He is said to have died about A. D. 480. The foregoing three Triads do not occur in the two other series.]

TRIADS OF WISDOM+.

CI. Three things that cannot be brought under the discipline of strict law or order: love, genius, and necessity.

CII. The three necessary accompaniments of wisdom: genius, learning, and deportment.

CIII. Three things that will fill emptiness: a foolish prattling in an empty head, the foolish laughter of an empty heart, and dirty mud in an empty spring; but wisdom will drive out the prattling, appropriate dignity will drive out laughter, and a clear stream of water will drive out the mud.

CIV. Three things that are honourable in a man: a taking courage in adversity, a moderating of one's self in prosperity, and the piously conducting of one's self in both the other two.

cv. The three primary teachers of man: a genius-loving exer tion, considerate reason, and a moral conscience; and without these there cannot be had a just knowledge of any thing; that is, they are the three natural teachers.

CVI. The three divine teachers of man: worldly calamity, bodily ailment, and unmerited enmity; and there is but through God alone a deliverance from them.

This is the name of a part of Pembrokeshire.-ED.

+ Arch. of Wales, vol. iii. p. 212.